A Look Inside | The Amphi-Pod is 1 Year Old!

[@LifeinJars]

It's looking absolutely great! I'm impressed that the amphipods are doing so well. Congrats with one year!

[@TerraTinkering]

Thanks Life in Jars, we're hoping that they continue breeding and we get the population of them that we used to have again, but only time will tell!

[@jonathanhernandez2290]

my two favorite youtubers yay!

[@carrotburgers6364]

Jonathan Hernandez omg ikr

[@steph10names]

Wow that means ive been following you for a year! time flies

[@MultiTomtom23]

just wanted to write the same thing =P

[@TerraTinkering]

It's wild how fast this year has gone by! A year ago I wouldn't have ever dreamed we would have this many people interested in our projects. Thank you for sticking around and here's to another year of projects that I hope you enjoy ^_^

[@MultiTomtom23]

@@TerraTinkering you are welcome =) you earned it!! u know...we are not following your channel out of pity =P you are creating premium content!!!

[@steph10names]

@@TerraTinkering Thank you! I hope you have another successful year :)

[@TerraTinkering]

Thank you both! It's a relief to hear you genuinely like us =p. It's a nice reminder that I'm not just talking to a camera and that there's people enjoying what I'm doing. Especially with a long period away from making videos it can be a bit easy to forget that sometimes.

[@kchstudiophx9843]

This is one of the most beautiful, and interesting eco.s I've seen. THX

[@Timmpa1]

Glad to see you're doing better! Great content as always :)

[@TerraTinkering]

Thanks, we really wanted to release a video sooner but Travis got sick first, then I did and we both pretty much entirely lost our voices. Actually, Travis had a bit of an allergic reaction to the Strep Throat and his face started swelling up and it became pretty dangerous, so we were under the weather longer than we expected to be. I'm super happy to be back and able to chat with lovely people like you though in our comments again! Thanks for sticking around Tim, it really means a lot to both of us.

[@ecoxscape]

I really like the plants in this one! Looks like it is holding up well 😃

[@TerraTinkering]

There were more plants but unfortunately, some of them did die- the frog bit is still alive though and thriving. I'm glad the roots seem to have thinned out a bit because it was so dense it was causing major issues with us seeing into it before.

[@FieryCoal]

All of a sudden this week, everyone is making ecosphere videos, descato is going to make more vids, and Dustin made one

[@TerraTinkering]

Right! I feel like in the days leading up to this one I kept seeing more and more stuff pop up! It's exciting to see another surge in interest from others who make them here on YT. I'm excited to see how we all continue to try new ideas and builds with them.

[@melissap2633]

This would make a tranquil phone idle game. Building mini eco systems would be Entertaining and educational.

[@retromotion6349]

I’ve enjoyed your channel the whole way!

[@TerraTinkering]

I'm really glad to hear that!

[@ReefMimic]

The big shrimp like ones are anthropods . If you have them in a saltwater tank they’re super beneficial

[@triopster2189]

It's looking great! As for those snails, I believe I saw somewhere that amphipods will sometimes predate on snails, so they might be keeping the snail population down.

[@avonavians2860]

They probably predate the egg masses. I've never heard of amphipods killing and eating bladder snails, though.

[@druborup739]

amazing! thank you for sharing!

[@TerraTinkering]

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@DudeOutdoors]

Man i am late to the party, but oh boy this has to be my favorite ecosphere i've seen on KZbin so far!

[@TerraTinkering]

Aww thank you, I feel very special!

[@krazymuncher2288]

springtails? in a mostly aquatic ecosphere wow!

[@TerraTinkering]

Yep! We had Globular Springtails on the glass and on top of the plants in that ecosphere! I think they're pretty cute! Here's a photo of one: www.janvanduinen.nl/collembola022.jpg

[@kchstudiophx9843]

Thank you 👍

[@OutdoorsAndBotanical]

Wow! Your channel is growing so fast! Its hard to believe that in one year you have over 11k subscribers! How do you do it?! Haha. Keep it up

[@TerraTinkering]

Yeah, we weren't expecting to gain popularity so quickly either to be honest, but it's been one heck of a journey along the way!

[@MultiTomtom23]

spiders can life long periodes of time without eating or drinking....i personally dont think your theory is right, i rather think, the spider just starved....and couse they can take such long times without food....it starved slowly =P (sry for my english...as a said before...it is not my first language =D )

[@TerraTinkering]

That is a much more depressing theory, but to be honest we didn't notice the spider until 4 months in, I think I'd seen some webs here and there and wondered what they were from- and it is a pirate wolf spider which is commonly found around water, so I'd like to hope that it would be able to hunt from the water as well, but maybe it couldn't. We forgot to mention that we had a lot of hydra too early on and we don't see as much of the smaller life- probably due to them being consumed by the hydra. I suppose that's the circle of life though. Also, your English was easy to understand- no worries buddy!

[@scorchinggoat9589]

they probably ate flies that he mentioned seeing in the jar in another comment

[@kat369-mine]

I know it's impossible to accurately recreate the same conditions of the jar as it is now. But it would be interesting to see what would've happened if say you had 6-8inches of air space above the water. Would you have seen larvae grow into a flying insect. Even for a short life cycle. And if there were two....the circle of life. Every six weeks a couple more fly....

[@TerraTinkering]

We did see a few random flies in the container briefly at different times, but they did eventually die as they had nowhere to go or reproduce, that or they were eaten. We never saw any dead fly bodies though.

[@gabriel77111]

Less face more jar

[@zaman8032]

loved the video. good content.

[@TerraTinkering]

Thank you so much!

[@GatorLife57]

Thumbs up ! Wish you would do more vids ! GOD bless.

[@rhombifer566]

very cool

[@shngsam8777]

nice one! seems like everything is in balance. thankfully there are not much bladder snails inside, from my experience keeping them in bare bottom tank, they do shit a lot ..

[@TerraTinkering]

Yeah, they eat algae and they're beautiful but the amount of waste they produce along with how much they reproduce is off the charts.

[@FieryCoal]

🎂

[@TerraTinkering]

Yay Cole! We've missed you buddy! We need to make more videos to keep out chat in the comments up to a more regular basis haha.

[@FieryCoal]

Terra Tinkering no kidding, great job on the video too!

[@lifelabs3446]

Hello this Retro motion/life and Betta’s I have not uploaded any videos yet but I plan to make this channel a plant/ecosphere channel also I wanted to say I love your channel and I hope you continue it for a long time!

[@TerraTinkering]

Oh, that's awesome- well I'll give you a subscribe so I can see your videos whenever you start releasing them! Thanks for the kind words as well!

[@lifelabs3446]

I was wondering are you guys into plant growing including plants like vines,moss,succulents, and other plants?

[@TerraTinkering]

We do a bit of gardening here and there, we do actually have a decent number of succulents and pepper plants. We tend to go for plants that create a food or herb we can use. Most recently we grew a bunch of garlic which is now fermenting in a heated incubator. We're turning it into black garlic!

[@Niko-of5tl]

I love literally all of your projects theyre just so cool even the look of them all is amazing i wish i could do more ecospheres but there isnt any bodys of water around me but, keep enjoying the hobby you make very entertaining vids keep going guys 😁

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

I can't think of a video I haven't enjoyed from you. I'll look into sending you some soil and clay/mud from south Florida, but im not sure if I can ship anything that will keep more than microscopic life to you.

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

Checked link... Unfortunately i cant send anything. :( I live about 30min from tge everglades and they wont let us take soil and we still have that fruit fly bullshit going on.

[@TerraTinkering]

That's awesome to hear that you like the videos that much! What are some of your favorite parts overall? Always looking to see what people enjoy the most so it's nice to get feedback ^_^. Oh darn! Those fruit flies sure have made it difficult for us. A lot of people that can send soil can't without having to chisel up frozen blocks of it for our more northern audience, and then others who want to can't because of tiny little flies! It honestly does mean a lot to me knowing you would send some if you could though, I really appreciate that. We also just barely are inside of restricted areas for sending, so we couldn't help others with the same type of project without driving a bit first haha.

[@elmikeomysterio5496]

@@TerraTinkering I think my favorite bits are seeing you first set up the terrarium from random stuff and the initial updates after everything settles. Its like one of those mystery toys you used to get in the little eggs in the 80s-90s. Always neat to see what you get.

[@goddammitalana]

Great content! Subbed(:

[@quitlife9279]

What happened with the hydras that were inside?

[@magyarcsaszar2575]

I’ve been following you a whole year thenn

[@TerraTinkering]

That's super spiffy and amazing, I'm glad we've had a buddy like you sticking around this whole last year!

[@thegaminggamertgg6271]

Can you make more?

[@wednesday3240]

I'd put my last dollar on the theory that the spider died of old age. Many true spiders only live a summer season as full adults and your Amphi-Pod spider looked mature. Males live even shorter lives than females and even if spiders can go weeks without food, true (non tarantula) spiders can't go months. Half a year, no way. He or she had a nice life in a terrarium utopia!

[@TerraTinkering]

That's what we hope for sure, we never noticed it for a long while- at some point we noticed there were webs but it was pretty small so we didn't see it till shooting footage. If I'd seen it earlier I would have released it though.

[@metrikal1]

Go get that cray and put him back RIGHT NOW

[@TerraTinkering]

We rehomed it, and that was a year ago, but it definitely would not have survived as a predator in there so I'm glad we removed it.

[@metrikal1]

@@TerraTinkering I'm just kidding, good call, I'd love to see it work out, but definitely wouldn't want to watch it die. Great video, I can't wait to try one of these next year!

[@krazymuncher2288]

could the spider have eaten the springtails?

[@TerraTinkering]

It's definitely a possibility!

[@flynnbryant2589]

Can you keep it sealed?

[@TerraTinkering]

We definitely have no plans to open it, it's been sealed a whole year, the only time we opened it was in the very first week and we plan on leaving it sealed to continue and see how it does as time goes on!

[@GatorLife57]

How about one vid every two weeks is better than one a month ??? Ty

[@TerraTinkering]

Sorry about the delay between our videos lately, we didn't plan on it being this long. Life really threw a good set of twists our way especially hardly being able to talk from strep throat for both Erika and I over the last few weeks. We're getting back into the swing of things and hope to get much more consistent again with videos for you! Thanks for sticking it out while there weren't any videos and still coming back! We missed talking with you all in our comments too and look forward to that again. ^_^

[@GatorLife57]

@@TerraTinkering ...Hope you heal soon ! GOD bless.

[@TerraTinkering]

We think we're nearly all clear on being sick so if all goes well we should be good to go soon! Thanks for the well wishes!

[@retromotion6349]

Also my other account is life and Betta’s

[@TerraTinkering]

I think I've watched a number of your videos in the past!

[@ReefMimic]

Did ya give up on KZbin?

[@yohjokromwood2327]

lol what is this video YOU HAVE not showed the eco sphere

[@TerraTinkering]

I appreciate the feedback! It's been a little bit since we have made a video so we're a bit rusty on the filming side again. I'll try and make sure to get some more in depth footage of what i'm talking about rather than my own face haha. Sorry about that!

[@markdenison2006]

First

[@TerraTinkering]

Congratulations!

[@veganpajamas4211]

vegan?

[@TerraTinkering]

We are now, ironically we went vegan shortly before we moved and it's now been about 4 months, maybe 5.