3 Month Update | Freshwater & Saltwater Enclosed Ecosphere

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[@starcasm8674]

Chris’s aquariums are so clear it looks like the fish are flying

[@chasememez2329]

Plot twist: THEY ARE FLYING

[@ihatemyneighbour226]

69 nice

[@elana4006]

@@ihatemyneighbour226 Not anymore >:)

[@ihatemyneighbour226]

@@elana4006 OnO

[@bulbasaurhimself8914]

I thought it was clear that they did fly

[@weevil8234]

ive kept many enclosed ecospheres before, and in my experience you have to allow a decent amount of space for air at the top! if its all or mostly water it seems to go anaerobic pretty quick and you end up with a jar of sludge, lol

[@zizzycompilations9729]

We're do u get the jars? Lol

[@cathrynsison5357]

@@zizzycompilations9729 u can reuse or get from a variety store

[@cathrynsison5357]

@@zizzycompilations9729 or dollar store

[@zizzycompilations9729]

@@cathrynsison5357 ok!

[@trevorrentfro1825]

I have also learned that making ecospheres, wish I knew it when I Started. Even though my first Terrarium/ecosphere was an ecosphere and I did leave a bit of air on the top. It's thriving to this day, but I did do it to many other ecospheres and learned not to that way. And now I think an air pocket at the top makes it look a bit better too.

[@IMaqua]

Mason jars are only hermetically closed if something hot (water, jam or whatever hot) is poured into it, because thats how the lid is designed. Obviously you will not make a boling ecosphere haha so thats a big NO for mason jars. I sugges you try FIDO jars, they are 100% sealed when the lid is closed. I did recently a project on my channel and the ecosphere is thriving with life and after 2 months water is crystal clear.

[@traviscowley4780]

I just watched your video, it was really good. subscribed my man. looking forward to seeing more

[@IMaqua]

@@traviscowley4780 Thanks travis I am glad you liked it.

[@ibnumubarokeib]

i want make that too... hope i can start this week..

[@IMaqua]

@@ibnumubarokeib all you need is a jar :)

[@ibnumubarokeib]

@@IMaqua no, thats not what i mean..

[@trerubinsy6250]

I don’t even wanna find out what’s in freshwater here. It’s so polluted that alone is frightening. >

[@drewzero1]

Tre Rubinsy I was thinking the same thing! It’s illegal to transport live animals away from the lake near my house because they might be carrying VHS (a disease that causes internal bleeding in fish). The thought of that getting into my tanks is enough to scare me away from collecting any local plants, rocks or anything.

[@trerubinsy6250]

Drew Knoll-Owen I live near philly. Any water way right near here is likely to have something growing extra appendages or be invasive. >

[@z.c8108]

i live in southern Ontario, Canada and the lakes here are Good

[@pollywu1956]

@@z.c8108 me too

[@takimolori5949]

@@z.c8108 Oh yah, lets go Canadian boi's. I live in Ontario by the South Nation river, and the fish be fine and tasty.

[@braedon5783]

Hey, just wanna say I really respect how you post videos about failures too. Mistakes and particularly learning from them is such a big part of the hobby, and it's really nice that you let us learn from yours as opposed to trying to save face. Thanks for that :)

[@jahmulugu4425]

Yes ty for this vid I learnt something I truly needed to know bout which jars to use n which not to. Also ty braedon too.

[@lenny710]

I’ve never been this early and I’m not even notif squad. This is so cool....

[@lenny710]

Wiggly worms 🥰

[@yoon-moon1189]

Join us in the notification squad

[@noah4569]

Join the notification squad that was disrespectful

[@yoon-moon1189]

xd_im_ adapted how?

[@SirDrasticG]

Join us brother

[@xxcomment4195]

People: How much Minecraft do you want? Chris: *yes*

[@oswaldcobblepot365]

Them snails are soooooo cutte!!! And that crab filter feeding is also strangely adorable

[@sabinegray1450]

Sometimes I imagine that we are all inside some sort of ecosphere and there’s some enormous being talking about what went wrong with the environment. “I may have let the capitalism run wild, check back next week to see what happens!” Humans for thought.

[@imaybestupid2045]

You just gave me my tenth existential crisis for today

[@rachellearthur4444]

God, showing our jar to some random people in heaven, pointing at stuff and trying to explain why its so weird that its there

[@word2believe]

Actually the bible says there's a firmament above the earth so yes we're pretty much like that. 👍

[@mem7806]

@@word2believe what

[@ati4cpasuccess]

@@word2believe mate, the Bible isnt entirely literal in its language you know?! (coming from a fellow Christian) That passage has been analyzed time and time again and almost noone came to that conclusion

[@TigressGraphics]

As someone that does canning, the type of jar/lid you use does not cause fermentation or pickling, that is caused by the contents you put in and processing of the jar. The one way air vacuum is only done when you do the heat treating process, and only if you finger tighten the ring so that when boiled, there is enough resistance to cause a seal, but let the steam out of the jar, then once cooled the vacuum starts, you may hear the lid pop, and you can then finish tightening the ring if you wish, or remove it all together. If you fully tighten the ring prior to cooking the jars, you will cut off all air and risk the jar actually exploding, but the coating itself is not an oxygen absorption/filtering material, else that would be kinda scary to boil your food with :| Fermentation can also cause jars to explode when the ring is tightened too much, and so most people that practice mason jar fermentation use special air-lock lids or kits, so air exchange/leaking was not your problem. The only reason I can imagine mason jars cause failed ecospheres is if the metal lid could be copper lined, but any namebrand canning lids should be coated with a non reactive material because what people mostly jar is acidic foods (you generally need a minimum amount of acid for proper food safety anyway when canning,) and they react poorly with copper and aluminum. And in your case, it could either have been a cheap lid, or the fact you pointed out about not enough light. I'm betting on a cheap lid by how discolored the saltwater turned out, reacting with the copper, which I have seen first hand as I too live near the ocean and collected salt water in the past to have it go black like that. Your latch style mason uses a silicone/rubber seal, which obviously has no metal involved for the internal contents, it is also a much larger vessal, which we all know is better when it comes to aquatic life in all situations. Hope little Sven is doing well! (I also take it none of her eggs survived as your last update did not state an explosion of shrimplits.)

[@Jampat19]

RIP something similar happened to my pond ecosphere Also hows your shrimp sealed ecosphere goin

[@FishForThought]

Is going okay will update later on!

[@lcfishing859]

OMEGA Tato19 Yeah I got a little baby sea slug and the ink the whole thing

[@mortitiaadams7946]

I can not wait to see your open ecosphere. i set up mine 10 weeks ago ande eeryone is stillliving and happy. i do small water changes once a week and feed them every second day because there is enough algea growing and ther plant material inside to feed the snails :)

[@raggy369]

It’s amazing how many little creatures you got from a scoop of sea water! Even better, you had an issue but already knew the solution! Great video 😎👍🏽

[@avrilmarine3098]

I like how you added the Minecraft music :) great video as always Edit: 3:49 it’s corona 👁👁

[@TheBazzterd]

3:50 obvious case of corona

[@pissboy1867]

if you ever get hungry Chris, just remember that you have a secret stash of pickled hornwort to munch on

[@hulkplate3100]

I recently got my first tank and its finally ready for fish.. Ill be getting the fish tomorrow and im way too excited:p

[@osiriswindsor1099]

Hulk Plate good luck!

[@hulkplate3100]

@@osiriswindsor1099 thanks!

[@Jampat19]

Great! What fish r u getting

[@aparnaeaswar5246]

Notification squad here! Edit: video:out 11 seconds ago Comment: out 24 seconds ago. Makes sense.

[@aparnaeaswar5246]

Hi

[@Cerinics]

The video won't update as your on it so it'll stay like that until you go on another video were as the comment will update

[@CicutaLupus]

The problem with Mason jars is you can't seal them properly without going through the canning process, which involves a large pot of boiling water that you have to soak them in. ^^

[@sunaymukherjee7576]

Ughhh Chris you'll hit 100K in like a week give my tank some time to grow out!! I can't just send some unfinished tank for a review 😣😣. Btw I NEED FRIDAY FIX !!!

[@ummjayden3632]

I need my tank to grow out too

[@sunaymukherjee7576]

@@ummjayden3632 it's pretty fun to see the plants grow in slowly isn't it ??

[@ummjayden3632]

Sunay Mukherjee Yeah it’s really fun, I have shrimp in my tank and I just sit there waiting for them to pop out of the plants

[@CallMeMark_]

Exactly what I needed to start my Friday : )

[@enderverse760]

Betta when they haven’t had a water change since god knows when: Where’d the other half of my house go? Their “caretaker”: Gone, reduced to atoms

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

I've watched a number of vids on closed ecospheres. I believe they would all work better if there were simply more air and less water. The success of any system depends on its creating an equilibrium. More air, maybe as much as 1/4 to 1/3 of the volume, just might do the trick.

[@SouDeePop]

And yes, very interested in your closed shrimp ecosphere! I wanna start growing aquatic plants to go with my land plants :^) and would LOVE to have something successful to do with all my flippy-lid, rubber-rimmed jars (whatever they're called; they look like your shrimp jar)

[@ollie8314]

Getting some real nice Life in Jars vibes here.

[@drshrutikakankariya1017]

The red worm looks like something that you're fish would love to eat .

[@newchinarestmn]

I like this Minecraft chill music, it fits very well

[@kisroka7806]

Just so you know, I've been binge watching your videos ever since I stumbled upon them; I got a beta recently, and even if I tried to prepare a nice tank for him (10 liters and dechlo water) I've realised that many things were wrong (no filter, no plants, no led, and your average disgustang blue pebbles). Today I couldn't bear it any more, and I went to buy a new decent home to my little friend (his name's Pumukli if you're curious enough). It wasn't easy, but I managed to create a nice little home for him; filter, led, substrate, plants, stones,... now I just have to wait for it to cycle properly. Can't wait to move my fish in here, he's gonna love it.

[@Kefffler]

That’s great! How’s he doing now? Assuming he’s alive o.o

[@TheMartos17]

"Mistakes are important" really hit different today. Thanks!

[@sparrlow]

This one was hella soothing to watch lol, loved it. Sad they both failed, but hey, now we all got to learn something!!!

[@catboyramsay448]

chris: "I'm not gonna eat it, I'm not that crazy" also chirs: *eats bloodworm toast for 20k special*

[@jmiejz4015]

Yeey finally early.. that poor crab 😅 well as we go we learn 🙂

[@fishypetkeeping]

I actually thought of trying out an ecosphere from my local lake. Good thing you said it didn't work with that lid 😄

[@kaylieghbell9462]

I've been waiting for this update!

[@setapartforHim]

That was really neat. Lets do it again!

[@omgfish8146]

0:57 thats a bloodworm rose would love that my hades absolutely loves those

[@raelynneva4654]

This calmed my soul.🌊

[@theothertiffany8728]

Does it need more plants too, perhaps? I wonder what the ratio is for everything to be in balance?

[@user-ri8uu8gq5g]

*I love how he used Minecraft music-*

[@terminalspines]

Legend has it Chris is going to chug both jars at 100k subs, let's keep up the pace people!

[@FishForThought]

[@alejandrojarvis832]

Can wait for the next enclosed ecosphere

[@imberrysandy]

Oh wow. I thought I was a dummy for not knowing how to close mason jars. Now I know the air leaks out. Thanks for the info!!

[@abdirashiid4896]

People: yeets fish bake to the wild like it will survive Chris: yeets the person who yeeted the fish back to wild

[@dannywalker6872]

By the time I finish this vie o it will be right before my first zoom lessom of the day. Works for me

[@unusualaquariumecosystems5805]

I made two ecospheres out of 1.5litre glass bottles. They had elodea densa plants and snails

[@stephendekoning802]

I just saw a snail etc on the glass alive in saltwater, when he tilted the jar, at end of vid.. so hopefully he dumped these jars full back where collected.

[@bakeface_]

I just found your videos yesterday and I’ve watched all of them.. now I’m early?! Damn, feels good man

[@bork7817]

3:49 Leaked coronavirus sigma variant

[@zafishguy5166]

I got the same translucent bacteria colony when I tried it too.

[@maha77]

You can buy plastic lids for mason jars that don't let air out. ON another note, I bought one of those 'BioSphere's in 2013 that had 4 shrimp, now almost 8 years later, 1 is still alive, he's been the sole survivor for 4-5 years. I sometimes feel bad that the poor guy is all by himself, do shrimp get lonely!?

[@jasperfergusson7147]

It's not quite an ecosphere but I have a large jar that I put all the hitchhiker snails from plants before I treat themand I was also inspired to put a shrimp in it by the video and it doing great

[@artisinalkarp5382]

He said “pickleing” and my immediate reaction was to laugh and say “this man pickled the ocean”

[@-longboardswordstyle701]

5:00 that is the absence of all color Chris does Sithis rule over that jar cuz that is the Void my boy lmao

[@Micahmancer]

Yeeess so cool!!!!

[@imcool21]

finally the ecosphere video

[@JB-ew1mu]

I bet those are gonna smell great when you open them 😵

[@julias1380]

I made a ecosphere of a stream in my backyard and there are cyclops, a hydra and a mystery worm in it the hydra is rly cool but it eats the cyclops so hopefully there’s enough plant matter and hiding places for the cyclops to keep reproducing and keep the hydras fed

[@crunchyjello9290]

I love the mine craft music in every video!!! Fits the vibe so well 👍💛

[@chasememez2329]

Nice aquascapes my guy

[@maggropaint1364]

I just found your channel and I love your content! I don't even own a tank but watching your videos really makes me want to get one in the future

[@SCARXL]

AHHH the crab is SO CUTE

[@christopherlanger3159]

The animals at the park are always free.

[@Kboy-bb5sk]

This minecraft music just hits different

[@johnbillings4111]

Haven’t even watched the whole thing but I know it’s going to be a good one

[@bwcritch]

6:28, yes you are special... but in a fantastic way, you are always smiling, always positive, and all around a very pleasant person to watch on youtube, and with everything going on and how angry people are in the world, having the attitude you have does make you special, and that is why I am subscribed and my facility and I watch your videos.

[@gar2yc]

Ooh Yeah! Ooh Yeah!

[@skrunkley_6734]

That Cyclops water flea do be *speed* tho

[@AuraKingSoCool]

Hi dad love content! You made me join this beautiful hobby and helped me😃😃 So this is a thank you.. ALL HAIL LORD OF FRESWATER FISH CHIRS

[@grey7083]

No one gonna talking about what happened to the crab

[@berzek6919]

Damn this salt water has the same type of gatorate. Thing in there as those 5 gallon goldfish tanks, NICE

[@SouDeePop]

Have you seen Life in Jars, the YT channel? Most of his videos make me wanna barf but he does loads of these enclosed ecospheres with some fun commentary as he observes the life in them. The life in them is what makes me wanna barf, just like the jar critters in this video :^) You can barf at something and still respect it

[@spoon9839]

Nature Chris showing us how to put things into jars

[@polyjelly5429]

Red worm does a wiggle

[@nikkibesana735]

Getting notified by your channel is one of the highlights of my day.

[@kaidencheesewright6467]

Drill holes in the top man 😂

[@katelynnleann1049]

hello! i was wondering where you kept your jars? what was the room temp at all times? did you give the jars natural window sunlight or use a lamp? did you move the jars from room to room? if you used a lamp, was there a special bulb you used and timing for it? please help me, thank you!

[@Follyful]

3:50 corona!!

[@christineaquino5555]

Rip to these jars

[@toastymctoastface7532]

Getting an Amano shrimp tomorrow to deal with algae

[@jacquelynw.6014]

Thanks for the upload churs. Edit: omg that typo was not intentional but I’ll leave that in

[@Spiderhead05]

I think the tiny white things are anchor worm lava

[@savetahcomeau6965]

Love your vids😁

[@jamesblankenship4292]

Yoooooo, more content like this please!

[@Augustus...]

Chris remember FTR that had like jar and 6 or 7 goldfish and owner was calling it ecosphere

[@FishForThought]

Yes hahaha that was horrendous

[@LakshmiSrinivas]

Hey, Chris.. Of course u r special 😊👍

[@khinthithikyaw7153]

I’m a new member on Patreon!

[@plantslut]

u gotcha self kombucha brah

[@mostlykickz8210]

Other people : I am the best at tank set ups!!! Chris : hold my mason jars...

[@isabelv9408]

Ohhh this is so cool! I’m currently binging your videos!! I’ve been interested in starting a closed ecosphere myself, have any tips?

[@xengyang5597]

That red worm is just a blood worm

[@sburge1989]

Killer Jar. Fun fact: The main presenter from top gear is related to the chap who invented that jar.

[@daphne1515]

So coolllll xD

[@bankrupt_batman]

Omg Canadian invertebrates are soadorible!! It may be only because I'm used to american ones, but still.

[@xiro333]

Just turned on notifications 😎

[@denka7292]

Was waiting for thiiiiiiss!! Omg so excited

[@sebby2378]

Chris be makin trips every intro xD

[@ericawalker7346]

100K subscriber special suggestion, pickled hornwort: will it toast?

[@DIRTYPLACCY]

You need some more aquatic plants to clean the water

[@siddharthrm6385]

Chris back it again.

[@ChannelRansomOfficial]

I’m leveled up!