Journey Through A One Year Old Jar Ecosystem - Ecosphere 1 Year Update!
In this video we take a look at an ecosphere I built intended for Christmas Moss. The Moss eventually went extinct within the jar due to the Dwarf Amphipods overgrazing and eventually overpopulating the ecosphere.
A new plant species took it's place and grows to create canopies within the ecosphere. The Amphipods graze on the stems of the plants, which causes them to thin over time. Eventually they chew through the whole stem, causing the severed branch to sink to the bottom of the ecosphere. This severed branch can then grow roots and becomes it's own plant. This ensures the canopy is always changing.
Alongside the Dwarf Amphipods there are also Ostracods, Daphnia, Worms and a single Ramshorn Snail. The Daphnia and Ostracods have reproduced dramatically. They can be seen throughout the ecosphere and create an active and interesting ecosystem to spectate.
The Ramshorn snail however failed to ever produce offspring. This is due to the Amphipods eating their eggs and young. The Ramshorn snail is over a year old now and it looks as though it will never breed within this ecosphere. Ramshorn snails only live on average for a year so it's likely he'll die of old age before the next update video.
Extinctions have already occurred within this ecosphere. Both the Christmas Moss and the String Algae have died out completely due to the Amphipod population. The Ramshorn Snail will be the first animal species to go extinct.
To see this ecospheres full progression over the year click below:
• Creating a Christmas M...
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May the snail's last moments be his happiest 🐌
@ruka1804
3 жыл бұрын
Fiquei com dó
@MD-ug7qm
3 жыл бұрын
Uma loli qualquer
@taco_xd1725
3 жыл бұрын
Rip
@BrainFreezeMC
3 жыл бұрын
Wait was he dying
@awinski7988
2 жыл бұрын
@@BrainFreezeMC yes
That Ramshorn snail be like "I am the last of the giants."
The "pearling" from the plants was one of the coolest things I have seen in a while.
@flamedotfishing5475
3 жыл бұрын
Same
The amphipod really said "I'm taking this to go" and took a whole stem. 😂😂
@Brazil-loves-you
3 жыл бұрын
I want the flour terrarium update! It's been 6 month already! PLEEEEAAAASE post it as fast as you can❤️❤️
@cashee5260
3 жыл бұрын
At 1:28 it almost looks like he's driving it. Look at him push away from the other plant to avoid collision. CLASSIC!
@mariovalero3352
2 жыл бұрын
@@cashee5260 jbdg
The music seems proper; a beautiful scene, yet also the sad inevitable end of the last ramshorn snail. .... 🐌
@christopherstein2024
3 жыл бұрын
Honestly I don't really feel well after watching these videos because of the music.
@MikaelThas
3 жыл бұрын
The music is so soothing you actually get thinky, and to think a lot is not good. It's not the music's fault, it's our minds'.
A big, healthy dose of tranquility. Thank you my guy for these videos.
@Brazil-loves-you
3 жыл бұрын
I want the flour terrarium update! It's been 6 month already! PLEEEEAAAASE post it as fast as you can❤️❤️
can we get this guy to 500k before 2021 is over? Jartopia makes some great videos and i think he deserves more attention.
@mrsqueak4837
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this guy really deserves more attention. For how long it takes to make a single video and the filming and editing. And it's really interesting as well, to learn about these small creatures being able to live in such a small world.
@AD-ol3wv
3 жыл бұрын
True.
@AlanaBananaCanada
2 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it's a woman no?
@hell_march6652
2 жыл бұрын
@@AlanaBananaCanada Man or woman, their content is great. I find it both educational and relaxing.
@AlanaBananaCanada
2 жыл бұрын
@@hell_march6652 me too
1:25 it's like the critter is a passenger on the titanic lol
@apemant
3 жыл бұрын
Hehe yeah, I was imagining he was taking a very slow elevator down.
C'est dingue on voit tout à travers le daphnia it's crazy we see everything through the daphnia
i feel so at ease watching these. nothing more relaxing than watching microfauna live their lives
there's just something so peaceful and enjoyable about these videos
I’m so happy to see that the daphnia are still around. They’re my favorites.
Poor snail :( 💔😢🐌
Some of the best content on KZread
@smallweed1940
3 жыл бұрын
Without a doubt the best ecosphere creator.
I’m SO happy to have found your channel 🌱🐚🐌
Vastly underrated channel. Always fun to see the updates on these ecosystems.
I think we can all agree this jar is teeming with life. And the unborn daphnia? That's crazy! Odd people can't agree what is life inside the human womb.
This will never stop being cool.
Ive been making lots of ecospheres from different environments thanks to you! Having so much fun observing the native flora and fauna in the comfort of my home 😍
Wonderful video! How lovely it was to see you had posted this!
This series was amazingly calming and beautiful so far. Thank you
This is so beautiful and calming. I love your "work" and your videos so much! Thank you.
These videos are everything I need. The editing in this one especially is fantastic!
These videos are so well shot and put together. Relaxing too.
It's great fun observing nature, very therapeutic 🍀
How many interesting and fascinating things can fit in such a small space in such a large universe, thanks for sharing!
Always a pleasure to watch your videos ...this is like ikebana. Love it 🙏🙏
That's really neat. Sorta like a metroid feel with the theme playing along.
The music selection is always on point, so trippy, just like the lives of these mysterious creatures…
Its just so amazing how they grow and evolve love yr content its just so educational pls post more lovin it
Excellent video!!
A different and very attractive universe with a rhythm all of its own. Fascinating images!
@killakill6030
3 жыл бұрын
I feel like we all have God complex and want to create our own mini universe. I wsih we could fast forward
I'm thinking about trying to make one or two of these over the summer. I love the snails you keep getting in your jars, so hopefully I can get a couple.
this is.... beautiful
I had never heard about pearling before this video. Pretty amazing to see oxygen get created.
Amazing video, keep up the excellent work! 💛👌
this is so beautiful.
I love your video atmosphere.
Great shots and music
Such a cool hobby!
Great videos. Oxigen generation really is the highlight of the video for me
Scary yet facinating
Nature's perfection is astonishing.
Great, thanks for sharing the info
Thanks for sharing
I'm gonna cry all I want IN MY WHOLE LIFE right now is to watch the flour terrarium update❤️ Please do it! I BEG YOU🙏🙏🙏
the pearling of the plant looks so cool
I felt like Mushishi vibes. This is Masterpiece
Fantastic
I love how its a working ecosystem
thank you so much for this
scuds have decimated my ramshorn snails! those little guys are ravenous!
I've been following this channel for a few months now and always look forward to these uploads, I love watching these tiny worlds form. Just out of curiosity, what lens do you use to film these videos with? Every lifeform looks so sharp and detailed for being so small!
Thanks!
i love the ramshorns!! i have some in my tanks, they are so cute!! ❤️❤️
Wouah incrédible ... Wouah , incroyable
Liked and commented. It is good for the algorithm.
It's so beautiful and amazing seem a plant making Oxygen. We can see what make us alive being made! Amazing!
Thank you for the very relaxing update! What lens or focal length do you typically use for these close up videos?
Love the music you use! Feels like Minecraft or something.
Hi, first of all I adore your videos they are beautiful and I love that you give so much information on the different lifeforms present in each jar. But I wanted to ask how you get them to thrive so well? I tried to make one a week ago and it had some nice variety. I put old wood, stones and a variety of plants in there but a lot of the organism seem to have died. And now there is a layer of watermoss (?) at the top. Will it bounce back after some time to being more clear and thriving again? Or did I make a mistake? Ps: I also put it on a window, is that to much light?
Hi....the music and the videos are really calm. What camera do you use to observe the animals so well??? Bests, Víctor
Damn, now I'm sad for the snail... But great contents.
I'm really gonna have to go ahead and make one of these huh
Can you please show how you atore all these little worlds? do you care about different temperatures or light demands?
What a good camera! What kind of plant is that?
I have a question. Do you put the animals in the jar by yourself or were they happened to be there when you picked the soil?
@sansthedevil
3 жыл бұрын
The Second option
Cool to see how these amphipods increase the productivity of the ecosystem. Sad to see the loss of biodiversity tho. When something goes extinct in these ecospheres can u mention it more cause it can be a little confusing when u dont mention something. like did it die out or did you forget to film it.
Hi After watching your videos I’ve decided to make my own and I have a pond that has lots of shrimp in them so I’ve got them and much of the vegetation and a nice stick in there only problem is some of the shrimp stand still pointing up and I don’t know why?
🎉🎉🎉
Which camera do you use to record such magnified footage?
Hey i want to ask, what kind of light do you use to grow ? And do you still use day and night system to successfully grow the system? Thanks!
...und morgen wird der Eintopf warm gemacht , gibt Fruit de mer Suppe , lecker 😋
You have any tips of keeping a freshwater ecosphere alive? Mostly in terms of location. Like not near windows? Wheres too hot? Too cold? Ive made one already and it unfortunately died. Im about to make a second. Tips would be very welcome.
Please put another snail in. I can’t imagine how excruciating that kind of isolation must be.
@kican1n5cana87
3 жыл бұрын
Disturbing it, I think, isn't a good Idea.
Whenever I try to make an ecosphere the water smells like a swamp and eventually starts to ferment. How do you keep your ecospheres working so well and so nice while sealed? Thanks
@rinzler1120
3 жыл бұрын
Same
@Vyezene
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta have a good plant to substrate ratio, and also make sure you aren’t using a twist on jar lid cause those let out air and pickle the contents, if your jar has that kind of lid use silicone to seal it :)
@Brionkendo
3 жыл бұрын
@@Vyezene For a terrarium a twist on lid is ok right? That's only for an ecosphere that you need a solid seal correct? Thanks for your time.
@BrainFreezeMC
3 жыл бұрын
@@Vyezene what other lid is there besides twist on? That's the one I've been going to use
@Palach303
3 жыл бұрын
@@BrainFreezeMC those with that metal lever mechanism type thing... you can see it in the saltwater ecosphere video
i am going to buy Begärlig from ikea. that would make a huge environment for my first jar ecosystem
Lols snail's life too real
Great close ups.
Question: how do you prevent algae from growing on the glass? I’ve made my own aquatic ecosphere from my local river, and nearly a year later, I can barely see what’s inside. Any tips?
@martsy_pan5547
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I have a similar problem right now with my jars:D
@Mr_pai_pai
2 жыл бұрын
The snail
Hello! May we get an update on your oldest ecosystem?
@Jartopia
3 жыл бұрын
Hey. Planning to make that video later this year.
@christiangonzales6934
3 жыл бұрын
@@Jartopia yaaaaay! Thank you! Your videos are really relaxing and they actually tickle my curiosity as to how ecosystem works (eventhough I hate biology so much).
What kind of camera do you use? I’m trying to start filming my jars but haven’t been very successful
See oxygène ist just amazing 🤩
Hey! super! what are you shooting the video for?
Any tips on how to make sure the plants don't die?
How you made it and where it got that form of life?
Does anyone know what camera/similar camera is being used to record zoomed in so far?
Did this one ever get overgrown with algae at any point?
@Jartopia
3 жыл бұрын
It did once have a outbreak of string algae. The Dwarf Amphipods eventually ate it all.
@jakeyonkers3900
3 жыл бұрын
@@Jartopia ah, cause I made one from a slow stream near my house because I got inspired by you, but after about a month it turned black and there was bubbly brown algae on the top :(
@Naglfarlindar
3 жыл бұрын
@@jakeyonkers3900 I had something similar happen to my first ecosphere. The creatures didn't seem to mind (though the tubifex and worms died out). I eventually unsealed it and now keep a glass jar upside down over the nozzle as a loose seal. It cleared up over the course of a few weeks, doing fine several months later. Since had the water get somewhat cloudy but green which is dissipating again. I'm thinking the black phase was due to an overload in decaying plant matter. This creates ammonia (I think) which the system can't metabolize in such quantities.
@jakeyonkers3900
3 жыл бұрын
@@Naglfarlindar it also looked like all of the copapods and amphipods died out too...
@jakeyonkers3900
3 жыл бұрын
@@Naglfarlindar I'll try that method out and see what happens
So I have a thriving ecosphere right now but when I first got it about 3 1/2 months ago it died after 2 weeks. Water and half the dirt was completely black. And now just 3 weeks ago I saw a bunch of ostracods and grass that wasn't there originally started to grow. What happened? Why was it all black and dead for 2 months?
Omg post the flour terrarium update it's been 7 month! If you're not going to post it please tell me
Amphipod be like...’Coming through’
were the snail and other creatures placed inside the jar, or did they evolve inside or something, might be a dumb question but still lol
What are the odds that just the day before I watched the previous video on this biosphere
@Jartopia
3 жыл бұрын
Lucky! Some people may have waited a whole year!
Does anyone have a link to the original video of this ecospheres creation? Assuming there is one
@Jartopia
3 жыл бұрын
In the description :)
@Staticjokes
3 жыл бұрын
@@Jartopia oh oops! Thank you!
How did you manage to get those species?
How do you get all these organismes?
Do you have any merch I can buy? Or a patreon?
What kind of jars you use?
😁👍, дафния,катушка циприс..cipris..Спс.
How did a new plant species grow out of nowhere?!?! I need to know!
@AlanaBananaCanada
2 жыл бұрын
Update, I found out