*Enjoy the content? Don't forget to like and subscribe!* P.s. what do you guys think of the Firebrats? Pretty cool huh?

@hjalfi

3 жыл бұрын

I have a firebrat culture I used to feed my spiders. I always feel bad because they essentially live on fish food in an ice cream tub. I do, however, have a spare terrarium, so I think I'll set one of these up and turn them into a feature...

@GeorgeNoiseless

3 жыл бұрын

I knew a bit about silverfish before, but not firebats -- except for the silvery scales they seem to look pretty similar! I wonder if they have a similar courting process to silverfish, where apparently males show off their speed to impress a potential mate.

@lifeuncovered6188

3 жыл бұрын

U are big epic

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

@@GeorgeNoiseless I heard Firebrats do little mating dances, but I've not seen it yet.

@mage6184

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jartopia How about something even bigger? That is, for example, a forest environment in an aquarium with a capacity of, for example, 100 liters. I am sure that many would be surprised and many would like to see it and I know that you could do it, I am also curious how such an environment with small mammals would look like but it would have to be an even larger aquarium to put mammals there and I am not asking for it.

Me, absolutely uneducated about any of the species mentioned : Ah yes. They are close relatives to this other insect, makes sense! Love the content. Not sure why it ended up in my recommended, but I’m glad it did.

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

Aha tbh not many people know about silverfish other than Minecraft players and people who have had them as pests.

@crakelhead5876

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jartopia yeah i have seen silverfishes in minecraft they destroyed my house in minecraft 😅😂

@crakelhead5876

3 жыл бұрын

@Acroselorator yeah its wall were of stone i made it in creative it was a lava house but when i turned on the survival 100s of silverfishes spwaned there lol😂😂

@handleisntfkinavailable

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jartopia they are annoying

6:22 Slipped on his friend like he was a banana peel

@royalethalyia2383

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I see it lmao

This man is the god of many worlds

@cosmobane6995

3 жыл бұрын

@LouLou NiChosgaire Jartopia's a girl?

@delong8998

3 жыл бұрын

Does look like a woman's hands, guessing it is, so a goddess.

@vihaankhatri8416

3 жыл бұрын

she is beautiful woman i will marry her some day ❤️ ❤️❤️

@matheus_francesco

3 жыл бұрын

Creator*

@MarinesMalevolentRule69

3 жыл бұрын

@@cosmobane6995 No?

Fascinating Jartopia always shine a light onto organisms that I don't know existed

@Kiiieeechiii

3 жыл бұрын

These are basically just silverfish lol they’re all bristletails

@matheus_francesco

3 жыл бұрын

@@Kiiieeechiii stop taking the fun out of the video

@myrinsk

3 жыл бұрын

@@matheus_francesco what do you mean?

@matheus_francesco

3 жыл бұрын

@@myrinsk idk

@LOL-bs1hg

Жыл бұрын

literally, because he shines a UV light onto it

This content makes me feel so Zen, this is top tier KZread.

Impeccable music choice, so relaxing to watch you do your work!

I am so happy to discover your channel. The 12yo terrarium vid almost made me cry. Because just to know I am not the only one to be mesmerized by a 'wild' terrarium and life in it. Many don't realize how deep this can be. I love the way you do your vid.. and have a few questions, can you tell me how do you record the video with such a good quality? Cheers Jartopia

@penelopelenaerts

3 жыл бұрын

I almost cried too, it’s so beautiful 😭

I am so happy for discovering your channel! It's really relaxing, entertaining and educational at the same time :D

Firebrats are cool, inside the jar, please be vigilant with lid. Scape, simple and artistic. 🍀

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah vigilance is really important with this one! I had an issue with escapees the first day I added them to the setup. 😅

Very cool. I've heard the name before but always assumed they were the same as silverfish. I even tried looking up if anybody's done a vid on them in terrariums but found nothing. I figured it's because they're a pest species and who the hell would intentionally keep and breed a nuisance animal lol. Hope to see a follow up vid to this.

Thank you for what you do. Thoroughly enjoyable, calming content. Easy to forget the small things in our world. Watching your videos leaves me with the same feeling of a nice chill hike on a nature trail. Keep it up!

Watching you videos always warms my heart ❤️ such peace.. such.. serenity.

I love seeing the sheer variety of life that's usually unseen under our feet! Love your content.

Nice bro

Picked up a nice jar with a wire tension snap lid today at a restaurant supply store. Cost a buck eighty nine. You can also get gallon sized pickle jars but they cost about 9 bucks and then you have a lot of pickles to eat, so have a party or something. I think the main thing to keep in mind when building a pod is don’t go crazy with it and jam too much stuff in. Also, don’t drown things by adding a lot of water. Use some dampish forest soil over the gravel and try to find some moss, it’s everywhere in my area NE PA, USA. Just look around your environment and think local. Keep the jar out of direct sunlight or it’ll overheat, and be patient. Observe it every day and notice the small changes. Watching things grow and live out their lives is a good way to learn that our species isn’t the most important on the planet by a long shot. Oh, and also consider someday liberating the community you’ve learned from. Have fun and good luck.

I've been fascinated by their relatives, silverfish, for years. Yeh I know they're eating my stuff but they look amazing. I've thought of setting up an enclosure for them but I know I'll not likely see them as they don't like light. I already have isopods I love but have to "spy" on.

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they are afraid of light which is why I decided to go with Firebrats. They're still cool insects though! Thanks for stopping by!

Another great build 🙂 can't wait to see how it develops!

Oh wow the photos of the plants you chose were great nice job. What a cool scientific journey these little jars all are

Your style of both well done education and entertainment has really gone far to make this content so enjoyable for me! When I move into the near by state park ima be doing this

Just discovered your videos yesterday night. I find them amazing and relaxing a lot :)

Well. If you actually knew me you would be as suprised as I am that I subscribed. Loved watching this vid for some reason. Maybe it's because that little world can't see the big picture like we do. I found that to be extremely calming. Probably going to start one or two of my own. Thank you!! :)

Incredible video as always.

Found this channel the other day, so fascinating!!!!

Wow. It's beautiful, a little ecosystem inside of a jar

Once you hit enough subs, you should show us what _your_ terrarium looks like.

Truly fascinating! I don't usually subscribe to these channeld, but you've got a lot of potential!

Firebrats: "we have landed in a strange new planet, we shall call it it... home."

@p0elaha566

3 жыл бұрын

More like: New Brats lol

You are my favorite youtuber!

I really enjoy your videos.

Such a wonderful video

I love firebrats! Such smol little beans

I love your videos!

nice. those firebrats looks huge.

I'm new to this channel but instantly HOOKED

I like your content mate

favourite youtube channel

Great way to start the week by watching a new video of Jartopia!

this is awesome!

Just i think about what is in the firebrats heads?... like... Firebrat1: wait... where am i? Firebrat2: we are... outside? *pokes the glass* But... why i can't leave it? Firebrat3: *bite a plant* this looks real... *bites another plant* looks real too... Firebrat1: why is that human staring us? Firebrat3: i don't know... now let's make babies... have so much plants here to be eated and we need more of us to do it!

amazing channel

Beautiful

I live for these videos now, these videos are the pride and joy of the internet. Good work Jartopia.

Cuz of u now I have a bunch of jars in my house lol

I've recently, before pandemic panic, restore springs Creating holes with a shovel There was no more water than a 5 cm large constant flow when i started I use the dead wood and the moss around with the peat to make a 70 m3 water place with 4 holes created around the roots of the living trees Above 0.5 to 0.7 meters profound, and paths between The water is stored by the strength of one living tree, a sallow that was already fallen but yet alive When the water as filled the holes, i got the idea of living bridge So i take more dead wood and some cutting of living branches on each side This works very well I've already dig under and there is now more than 100 m3 of fresh spring water, with all endemic insects, batrachians, and now wild animals witch seems to really appreciate I've conserve all the ferns, and place some new endemic plant species that are really in danger of extinction Some plants i try to collect and multiplied since 20 years Instead of a dangerous sorcerer swamp, it looks now as a fairy place :-)

@paramecia2697

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, it seems to be amazing! Congrats for making this, now you can enjoy it ^^

Can you make a tutorial on how to make one of these ecosystems? For instance what lamps to use, or how many times it should be watered.

@somerandom7998

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not an expert(and native english speaker), but you don't have to have a lamp - you can put this on windowsill and it will have a great day-night cycle. Watering also isn't necessery - if you're going to make a isolated ecosphere than after you get great portion of water (walls aren't to dry, but also doesn't have big amount of water drops) you don't have to add or get of water.

The creation is the coolest part.

i wanted to make a terrarium for firebrats and when i searched up how to do that i only saw people use firebrats for food but after a while i found this masterpiece

THE TINY BUGS ARE SO CUTE!!!!!

hi, thank you for inspiring me to make a native mixed terrarium a few weeks ago. It is doing really well and it's amazing to have my own ecosystem. These videos are what youtube is made for. PS: you got 1 new subscriber ;)

I'm curious on what kind of education you have ? Great videos, relaxing and informative. Good job !!!

Interesting now I wanna try

What do you use for recording and zooming? Some of those shots are amazing!

great vid loved it !! where did u get the green lamp that is next to the jar...peace out

Do you need to periodically clean the glass when you have slugs and snails? How long do you typically keep your terrariums before you re-do them?

I want to see your Forest Pond and 12 year old Terrariums again 😔☺️

I LOVE INSECTS OF ALL TYPES EVEN THE ONES PEOPLE CONSIDER TO BE PESTS. HAVING A SMALL JAR OF THEM IS SO AWSOME I CAN ONLY FIND THE ODD ONE HERE AND THERE OR I WOULD ALSO KEEP SOME.

Can this work on smaller jars? I have a lot of glass coffe jars and i don't want to throw them away, i would love to give them a use

how do you get all the different species of mites and worms? do you collect a sample of every species of insect in the terrarium?

where could I get some firebrats? and where did you get yours from? love all the videos and they inspire me to make more terrariums!

@ChrisAegrim

Жыл бұрын

So this is a year late, but if you're still interested, I'd check local reptile shops, they may have them as feeder insects. Got a store like that here before and have bought them as food for my jumping spider

These seem like my taste into fascination but what would be a good beginning ecosys

how did these do? I've heard firebrats are prone to suddenly dying off in captivity

Add some leaf litter as food for the insects and detritivores. Whole or crushed up, both are useful.

Yes. He uploaded.

I made my first ecosphere three days ago and so much stuff. I do have a question tho. I see this stuff that looks like a spider web around the ecosphere. Is that normal?

@rigidjellyfish

3 жыл бұрын

Probably mould, I'm no expert on whether that's good or not tho

@michakrupa5963

3 жыл бұрын

I think it somewhat helps the soil as the friend replie im not an expert either

@sfall616

3 жыл бұрын

Could be Mold also could be Bacteria.

@Solobish1013

3 жыл бұрын

@@rigidjellyfish thank you!

@Solobish1013

3 жыл бұрын

@@michakrupa5963 thank you

@Jartopia One of your videos popped up in my recommended feed a few days ago and I'm fascinated with these miniature worlds. I immediately went to the store and bought a few 2gal glass jars, then got home and realized I live in North Dakota and it's January. Do you have any suggestions for getting a local terrarium going during the cold months? Or do I need to wait till spring/summer to get something going? Thanks again for the content! Keep it coming!

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

Spring is the best time to go. Gather at ponds for best yield

Do you open the jar every now and then for air, or just leave it closed and it sort itself out?

Where do people get bugs like these. Firebrats isopod breeds and all those other things. Yes I know a lot of things come from oitside but where do you get the specific creatures

Firebrats don't need high temperatures too succefully breed. They just like them, so when its possible its better to give them heating cable or whatever. They don't need them, but they love them

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

If this is true then I'm happy, but also annoyed. I was told by the person who supplied them that they require hot temps to reproduce. I also read this information online. Do you own your own colony?

@attustheant

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jartopia my friend does.

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

@@attustheant OK thank you for the info. I will monitor my colony and see what happens.

@attustheant

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jartopia Its mostly about the colony so if yours colony will not like cold temperatures inform me if its possible, because I'm collecting info about them

How long have you been making terrariums? You seem very knowledgeable about the content in them. 🧐

Does anyone know where buy this kind of amazing jar ? I’ve been searching for ages...

@Th3CanMan

3 жыл бұрын

Hobby Lobby & Walmart

@John-zd7fh

3 жыл бұрын

@@Th3CanMan I live in Switzerland so I was thinking more of a website... but thank you ! :)

@quint3570

3 жыл бұрын

@@John-zd7fh IKEA does here in uk

@John-zd7fh

3 жыл бұрын

@@quint3570 I found a perfect jar a month ago :)

where do you keep these jars? are they somewhere inside in room temperature or outside in a shed or in the cellar? also how much light do they get, is that lamp switched on 0-24 or are they kept in darkness? sorry for all these questions but i'm very nervous to start one of my own and you don't specify these things in the video/description. thank you in advance!

@Alialun2

3 жыл бұрын

They experience normal day-night cycle and cannot be under direct sunlight since jar works as a greenhouse and the temperature would rise too much. The lamp is only for KZread recording purposes.

what kind of camera is this? I wana use it for up close in my terrarium

Did you purposely introduce each of the species you highlighted in the video? ...or did some of them come unexpected from the contents of your original terrarium setup?

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

Everything in there got there on their own apart from the firebrats. If I add things I'll show in the video.

What capacity do your jars have? you inspired me, I wish you the best luck!!! ((:

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

I would say 0.5-3 gallons is a good size

is the plant life going to be sustainable for all those insects? because the firebrats reproduce really quick

@odin_191

3 жыл бұрын

I imagine they've considered the possibility the firebrats might consume all the plant life and starve to death and allow another species in the jar to become dominant - one of the risks of making a closed-off ecosystem. it will be interesting to see what happens in any event though

Do you water your terrariums like this? Just wondering if these are a completely closed ecosystem

Where did you learn to make sealed ecosystems?

Are the firebrats effective against zerglings?

I have so many questions is there any way I can dm you on Instagram or something? I have been watching your videos for a week and I'm very interested in this and am going to try it very soon. One question I have now I hope you can answer is. I keep seeing online that you should have charcoal for toxins but would that harm any insects or living creatures? And is it necessary. Also I'm planning on doing a self sustaining closed terrarium

I have a few of these in some of mine

How does life sustain/begin here without water? Did you provide some? Or how did it create itself if you didnt?

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

The water cannot escape if the ecosystem is closed.

Where do you get your big jars from ?

I'm also curious as to what light you use? Is it a special light or does a normal LED light work?

@shriihanmukherjee6502

3 жыл бұрын

Normal LED works.

What kind of lighting do you use?

I want the flour terrarium update! It's been 6 month already

How many ecosystems have you made throughout the years and witch is your favorite

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

Over 20 i think. My favorite is hard to pinpoint, but it's probs the first ecosphere i ever made. I made it in 2013.

suggestion. Add some charcoal and sphagnum moss to your soil. The charcoal will help clean the water as it cycles in the terrarium, and he sphagnum moss will help hold moisture in the soil plus act as food for isopods and springtails. add a layer of window screen cut to fit the jar to keep dirt from mixing in to the drainage layer, place the sphagnum moss and charcoal or aquarium carbon .on top of the screen layer

@Jartopia

3 жыл бұрын

I've never had issues with needing "clean" water in my terrariums. Also sphagnum moss would create an incredibly humid environment. I am using sandy substrate for good drainage and succulents that can't handle wet conditions. I've never really needed a barrier between the substrate or drainage layer either.

How do the other organisms get in?

hi, can you please make a tutorial about how to keep alive the insects? I feel really bad because I have 4 terrariums and all of them have failed, I would really love to know how to do this properly:(

@Shanker420

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure you're using the proper nutrient rich soil, and using plants that can grow to provide a possible food source. Algae growth can also act as a food source.

Where did you find so much firebrats

What sort of maintenance will this terrarium, in particular, require to be sustained?

@FieryCoal

3 жыл бұрын

Hopefully zero

@shriihanmukherjee6502

3 жыл бұрын

The only "maintenance" it needs is to turn the light on and off. If you're keeping it somewhere like a windowsill, you don't even need to do that.

"Skip the creation process" dude who does this?

do you leave the lamp on 24/7?

No screen between gravel and sub?

I really wanna make a terrarium but the problem is i dont see alot of moss at the place i live plus most of the moss are wall moss, but i do see alot of small plant species, and also all of our jars are occupied 😑

5:41 And 'Lo God poured us from the sky into our land of milk and honey.

How do these guys breathe? Are there air holes or do the plants produce the oxygen

@john.d.rockefeller2538

3 жыл бұрын

Plants produce oxygen.

Yt reads minds... watching another video thinking... I wonder if they've done anything with firebrats... and what do you know but the next recommendation is this

So do these species just appear? How do multiple different things get in if its sealed?

@ArDeeMee

2 жыл бұрын

A good old shovel of dirt is teeming with life. Just go to a local park and get some!