I started a little ecosphere in a whiskey bottle about a month back. I used soil and water from the sizable pond at my house. It definitely still has life in it. I'm planning on making a few more, and one with river water and soil.
@frowner_and_co2 жыл бұрын
@Chuck Manson what's wrong with you.
@tracefleemangarcia88162 жыл бұрын
diabeetus
@vincenzosobowl10302 жыл бұрын
im your 117th like youre now master chief
@stalkertexasstranger71802 жыл бұрын
Neat
@NoahLavineASP2 жыл бұрын
Make sure not to get drunk and take a swig off the wrong bottle (or pour if you're into that kinda thing).
@wraitholme2 жыл бұрын
A day without a glimpse of a boogie worm is a day wasted.
@carlv13792 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@comeanomalocaris82672 жыл бұрын
Yup
@Beyond_The_Odyssey2 жыл бұрын
You’re never to depressed to boogie
@frogpalpeeper42492 жыл бұрын
It is. It is. That's so true!
@johnnguyen38992 жыл бұрын
you can see some at 1:54
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
Happy July 4th USA viewers!
@FatesxofxthexDead2 жыл бұрын
You too unofficially LIJ! Also possibly first in congrats!
@jcon56982 жыл бұрын
Does the Netherlands have a similar national holiday?
@blackguard58832 жыл бұрын
Thanks d00d. Best of luck to you and yours man.
@Bijlez2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@gils14082 жыл бұрын
If only I liked the 4th of July...
@heykerryann2 жыл бұрын
Your channel has changed the way I look at my backyard. So much lichen and moss! Last year I dug up a small patch of clover and hastily put it an ill fitting pot. Honestly I’m not even sure why I did, but I brought it down to the basement when the snow was too much but other than that, I left it alone. This year it’s beautiful! Tall and it flowered! I need to find a nice pot even though he’s an outside cat because it’s too big and proud for the icky vessel it’s living in now. ✌️🤟 Edit: repotted the beast today and I could hear him roar. Clover blossoms smell right purty
@Shalometh2 жыл бұрын
👏
@LifeinJars2 ай бұрын
That's awesome! How's it doing now?
@heykerryann2 ай бұрын
@@LifeinJars it’s been living in a big garden bed I made out of an old door frame when it got too big. It’s a big beautiful weed that I’m very attached to ☺️ but It’s very winter here atm so hopefully enjoying a cozy sleep under a pile of straw and snow, just like the stray cats. Soon my babies. Soon 🤭
@fabianovalli54692 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say that i have no idea how i end up here but I’ve watched like 10 of his videos in a row lol peace
@maddoxfitzgerald54722 жыл бұрын
No same here, there my new comfort videos
@HomemadeEcosystems2 жыл бұрын
his videos are just addictive 😅
@FieryCoal2 жыл бұрын
That’s some big plant growth.
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
Sure is
@NoahLavineASP2 жыл бұрын
My dad calls me a, "jar-osexual" and I'm very proud
@theguywhoasked42352 жыл бұрын
Bruh
@coltoncowan6822 жыл бұрын
Lgbtqiaj+
@justinmajor97282 жыл бұрын
One man one jar
@thecrimsoncapsule34762 жыл бұрын
I’m assuming the father is not
@oneshotweeb59232 жыл бұрын
Ah i see you are man of jar as well
@h2squared2 жыл бұрын
This life in jars guy kinda reminds me of life in jars because they both do ecosphere things and they have similar voices
@gils14082 жыл бұрын
yeah... Maybe their twins?
@h2squared2 жыл бұрын
@@gils1408 that is a possibility
@doxscund88212 жыл бұрын
"A human of which I am also one"
@implausibleimpossiblehypot40062 жыл бұрын
My brain is hurting from this comment I just keep reading it a reading it the wording without commas is a brain fuck
@slavpepe65812 жыл бұрын
I don't think the beetle would be able to eat the more adult millipedes, since they'd be toxic and probably too heavily armored to be eaten
@blizzardkiehn25082 жыл бұрын
I don't think all millipedes have poison, but it does seem too armoured.
@blizzardkiehn25082 жыл бұрын
@ㅤ beetle size to millipede size?
@Pachurry142 жыл бұрын
@ㅤ how much bigger was the bettle compared to the milipedes? i think was the question.
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
The rove beetle is about 12 mm and the millipide about 30 mm
@blizzardkiehn25082 жыл бұрын
@@Pachurry14 thanks
@mbunds2 жыл бұрын
I can’t believe how complex getting a good, sustainable balance of plants and animals can be! Great videos, thanks!
@HomemadeEcosystems2 жыл бұрын
True, not easy to get a balance in your ecosystems
@m0w0ss2 жыл бұрын
I wish my closed terrarium did this well! I had a sudden wave of stinging nettle growing, followed by death of everything inside it, and a lot of white fluffy fungi
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
That's the faith of most closed terrariums. Probably this one as well... (Not the nettle part)
@Pachurry142 жыл бұрын
@@LifeinJars yes fungi are terrible. can control if you continue the ventilation i guess
@MrJcalvino2 жыл бұрын
@@LifeinJars could you use organism that feed on fungi as way to control the growth?
@Tower_Swagman2 жыл бұрын
Well, you must know a lot about ecology to be able to grow a successful terrarium or make a tub of water have unicellular organisms
@m0w0ss2 жыл бұрын
@@Tower_Swagman i sealed off a jar with rocks that i filled with water and there's bacterial slimy goo around the rocks now
@richyket6612 жыл бұрын
You have enough videos on this channel to write a whole PHD thesis on your niche hobby! Keep up the great work I love your videos
@yickel2 жыл бұрын
I always wanted to do something like this as a kid but didn't have the know-how. I finally made a proper terrarium a few months ago. Love your content man, keep it up
@Visionfox12 жыл бұрын
Experience comes from experiment I guess :D
@shi53692 жыл бұрын
Ayy! I ended up making a terrarium following some of your advice and others after your first video. I guess this makes it my 1 month too. The ecosystem is doing pretty good, but I have been tending to it every so often. We have millipedes, slugs, worms and various small backyard plants including wild strawberry.
@choerrytheworld36102 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel today and im obssessed. Been in a hyperfixation with stuff like this and i am not complaining, definitely makes my day better
@jcon56982 жыл бұрын
I love these videos. Thank you for uploading them
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching them!
@blizzardkiehn25082 жыл бұрын
Funny pfp. At first I thought it was a hawk with an iron for a body and was amused.
@graphictwitch-53552 жыл бұрын
In the area around my house, id always try to search for insects(including basically all invertebrates) with my friend so seeing the devils coach-horse again was very nice. Keep up the excellent content!
@Beyond_The_Odyssey2 жыл бұрын
I love your channel so much. I started my own eco jars and even managed to have a fish egg (didn’t know I snagged it with some plants) hatch inside! Doing very well too! He’s about 4 weeks old now :)
@snakewithapen54892 жыл бұрын
When the fry gets bigger, you can try feeding it brine shrimp or Daphnia, and then maybe earthworms if it runs out of food in the ecosphere! If it's a native species, you can release it where you found it once it gets big enough to not be eaten immediately. Unless you want to keep it I suppose lol, it wouldn't be damaging the adult breeding population if you did since it hatched in your jar.
@Beyond_The_Odyssey2 жыл бұрын
@@snakewithapen5489 since he’s been in the jar I’m going to keep him. I’ll get him some friends when he’s older. I’m going to my LFS on Wednesday to pick him up his own 10gal for when he’s past the fry stage. I grind up fish flakes into dust and he loves it! The jar itself is full of daphnia and copepods. It had hydra but I think I accidentally froze them out. I left my ac unit on by accident and came home to Antarctica 🤓
@snakewithapen54892 жыл бұрын
@@Beyond_The_Odyssey ah okay that's cool! Sounds like you're preparing lol. If it is a schooling fish since most freshwater river or pond fish are, I would definitely recommend getting some more fish of the same species for it to school with, if you can find the species at a pet store at least. (Once he gets old enough for you to identify it anyway, and for him to be safe with other fish!) It's probably fine for you to keep him since you're raising him in the jar already, I think it's only an issue when people take adult fish that could have been breeding out of the wild population to keep as pets.
@Beyond_The_Odyssey2 жыл бұрын
@@snakewithapen5489 I plan on getting him some buddies once I can ID him :) I’m hoping to record the process of building his tank too! If he is something I can’t find buddies of I’ll release him where I got him.
@chowdhurywilddenindiabatan947 Жыл бұрын
@@Beyond_The_Odyssey what fish he is?
@lavasharkandboygirl97162 жыл бұрын
I’m so glad I found this channel, this is so therapeutic and beautiful
@navykip2 жыл бұрын
Always a good day when we get another life in jars video.
@HomemadeEcosystems2 жыл бұрын
true, I miss him, no new videos in a while now
@yoBigWave2 жыл бұрын
digging the music.
@Sam-kt1mi2 жыл бұрын
Your channel inspired me to make a river estuary ecosystem jar that to me is very cool - it has bristleworms and snails even after 6 months :). My family say: "Why do you have a jar of dirty water on your windowsill?"
@LifeinJars2 ай бұрын
Wow! How's it doing now?
@Sam-kt1mi2 ай бұрын
@@LifeinJarsSadly I think the temperature change was too much for it when we had a warm summer - it all went brown and sludgy and nothing survived. But I still try to create or collect ecosystem jars, most recently a mossy terrestrial one. I should head down to the river again though, that was cool.
@LifeinJars2 ай бұрын
@Sam-kt1mi ah that's too bad, but great that you keep going!
@veganpajamas42112 жыл бұрын
“ very intensly at the mystery object in front of it..”haha how zen
@bassybossy2 жыл бұрын
Another lovely little update. Great to see
@lordawesometony27642 жыл бұрын
Philoscia: *creating Socratic dialogue with mystery object*
@ecospheremadness29822 жыл бұрын
I love how you make and ecosphere out of anything
@MDestron22822 жыл бұрын
It's really looking great a month later. Unless there is some kinda of crash or breakdown in the ecosystem I think this one might thrive for quite a while.
@luca9202 жыл бұрын
A year ago I had an idea. We share the same hobby btw, love your stuff. But you know what would be interesting? Set up vivariums with different climates (light, water, humidity etc.) and then asking foreign people, if they could send you soil samples from their countries. Imagine a friend in Brazil that has access to Amazonian rainforest soil, he collects 500 g of top soil from different places, packages it (insulated with heat packs!) and sends it to you, where you put it in the vivarium and see what will happen! With all the spores, seeds, micro- and macroorganism, eggs etc. that would be a surprise egg like no other!
@GushOnline2 жыл бұрын
I would love to see an update on this terrarium. 😊
@peperando87332 жыл бұрын
Just at the perfect moment when I was bored to death... NICE
@Froggsroxx2 жыл бұрын
i've been waiting for thiiiiiis (happy 4rth of Jar-ly)
@samfroggeh2 жыл бұрын
Oooh - a new video, always exciting to see these jars again :D
@Dansu182 жыл бұрын
Loving the rouge beetle. :) Hope to see some updates on this one soon!
@youareloved47042 жыл бұрын
I am obsessed with this channel, I would love to try to make a closed terrarium or ecosphere myself some day :)
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
You can do it!
@rainy87022 жыл бұрын
The aquatic ones are actually really simple to make. Just take a pickle jar or whatever you happen to have around, scoop up some water (preferably from a body of water like a pond or river, but you can get it from basically anywhere) and you're golden. Just make sure you give it some time for algae to grow before you seal it, though. Otherwise the creatures inside may suffocate.
@NGRevenant2 жыл бұрын
I was obsessed with devil's coach horse beetles when I was a kid they're awesome looking insects
@tamarrajames35902 жыл бұрын
That is a wild little world you have there.🖤🇨🇦
@bhutwheyttherismor862 жыл бұрын
Philoscia muscorum (aka the fast woodlouse) is my favorite iso. Very nice pattern, good morph potential, and a lot of personality.
@yeye68402 жыл бұрын
The King has returned once again
@drapoorv2 жыл бұрын
Loved the explanation of this terrarium
@gusmcgrath91872 жыл бұрын
When if first started watching you I thought your voice was computer generated, lol.
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
oof
@Laremy2 жыл бұрын
Technically, it was.
@DeoMachina2 жыл бұрын
No it is definitely a human voice I would know, because I am also a human
@Pachurry142 жыл бұрын
@@LifeinJars your voice is actually 10/10 maybe youre too monotone xD
@Pachurry142 жыл бұрын
@@DeoMachina yes youre human for sure hmmmmm
@JerreBaas2 жыл бұрын
Yes rove-beetles are awesome. I saw one yesterday and I was so happy. Haven't seen them in a while but I was working in the local butterfly garden and I saw something crawling where there was a pile of mowed grass. It was one of the ocypus spec. Around 3cm. Very cool. I knew them from my childhood when I turned rocks and tiles to see what is underneath them. I put it in my hand and I put it down somewhere else. When I pulled of the glove the rove-beetle started doing the scorpion thing with the back of its tail. I am wondering if ocypus is able to eat all the other animals in the jar. Would be interesting.
@brutusaurelius21142 жыл бұрын
Every time I see one of your videos I get excited thinking about making a terrarium of my own
@matthewbarry9832 жыл бұрын
I love these videos dude you've a great voice x 🇮🇪💯
@DannysAquariums2 жыл бұрын
New video, AWESOME! 🙌🤩
@kevinpowell79482 жыл бұрын
Glorious indeed 🍀
@thebiologist86622 жыл бұрын
Curiously enough, the other day I found a rover beetle hiding under my boot at the botanical garden I work at. I wanted to put it in a terrarium. So, first I put it on a petri dish and left a candy inside. The next day, it had eaten the whole candy, which was larger than it, and died. Soooo, they are voracious.
@thebiologist86622 жыл бұрын
@ㅤ They are, but most insects can eat sugar. Now, if you eat your weight in sugar, well...
@DrSpychology2 жыл бұрын
That millipede is so cool to look at, I'm jealous!
@peterdafox2 жыл бұрын
I love your content, keep up the great work!
@a.harrington16342 жыл бұрын
My students and I kept a few snails in ecojars this year, and our snails always slept in the lid l, too. It's always fun being able to look into the lid and find them; the students like knowing the fauna are alive.
@obieobrien58832 жыл бұрын
Interesting assortment of insects!
@mr.d.rektorstudios2 жыл бұрын
You channel made me start two aquatic ecospheres, and I'm very tempted to make space so I can build a new terrarium.
@mr.d.rektorstudios2 жыл бұрын
@💋𝗙**𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 РR0FIL you’ve gotta get that fish out, they’re too big for ecospheres, it’s can’t handle them
@knowitallgamer_12 жыл бұрын
love your content man!
@ElliotLeon2 жыл бұрын
Hello Mr jars, nice to see you again
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
Hello there
@jadeanfe9336 Жыл бұрын
noice work man......such a unique content!
@barbhelle54812 жыл бұрын
This was very nice, thank you.
@jic12 жыл бұрын
I used to find Devil's Coach Horse beetles in my house a lot, haven't seen one for a long time. They have a threat posture where they curl their abdomen forward, like a scorpion's tail.
@Tortoiseneckx1002 жыл бұрын
I have been waiting so long for a vid I'm so pumped
@evelynpayne5995 Жыл бұрын
i’d love to see an update on this one!
@petrolheadpower16072 жыл бұрын
You should do either an update on saltwater jar or make another one! Its was so dope
@mostamazingtop62 жыл бұрын
That's cool, i have access to some woods that my grandpa owns, it will make a few from resources in that area.
@AlyxGlide2 жыл бұрын
A millipede! So pretty 🐛
@JohnPaul-yf9xd2 жыл бұрын
Have you ever thought of growing fungi? The micilium connect plants as if they communicate. Please research and consider. Love your work!
@charlottesmom Жыл бұрын
My biggest is a two gallon jar, it holds my wild collected isopods, a slug (I named Sally), an earthworm I see on occasion and my jumping spider (who recently passed on, he was at least a year old) all live peacefully in. I have 2 smaller ones, one has three millipedes who I rarely ever see, a bunch of isopods and I think a centipede (yikes!!). Another one is only isopods, they are fed fruits occasionally so I do open their jar.
@clinical_caliber2 жыл бұрын
i live in ohio and i got a jar of ocean water from the gulf of mexico when i was in panama city beach. pretty nice gig
@westjordan86862 жыл бұрын
Super cool update! I wonder how a closed ecosphere would do inside of a closed terrarium, I remember your ecosphere in an ecosphere couldn’t be seen because of the algae and I wonder if that would help solve the issue?
@goatnicholson2 жыл бұрын
ahh, yes these videos are very relaxing
@whattheshit4936 Жыл бұрын
I made one of these in my last apartment and left it on the windowsill as winter started. Everything died. Whoops, def gonna try again tho! Learned that lesson quickly though haha
@Sticks_And_Glue2 жыл бұрын
Incredible
@chadsimon72212 жыл бұрын
Nice videos my dude.
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@iisokea2 жыл бұрын
Epic!!
@yoBigWave2 жыл бұрын
New video HYPE!!
@JK-zv2dl2 жыл бұрын
I swear I have the same millipedes in my closed woodland terrarium
@JK-zv2dl2 жыл бұрын
I just checked, it is the same species. Mine have also reproduced and they are the cutest inhabitants of the terrarium
@ajaxrosso12 жыл бұрын
YEAH DO SOME MASSIVE ONES!
@mothballjim2 жыл бұрын
Where is the update on this one? 🙌🏻
@Zer-db1bp2 жыл бұрын
I’d say this one was a pretty big success.
@MusicRainfield2 жыл бұрын
I got a notification!!! Woo! 🥳🎉🎊
@LifeinJars2 жыл бұрын
That's great news!
@ethan-loves2 жыл бұрын
I love this :)
@attieschutte71162 жыл бұрын
Dankie dit was nou leersaam, ek gaan iets soortgelyks probeer.
@atlasprophet2 жыл бұрын
A rotating base below the jar would be great for you to rotate them easier
@cockmaster3142 жыл бұрын
Your voice is nice.
@wataehebro15432 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, it's time to see another of your awesome videos, and if the close ecosistem has die like mine did...
@EngineerRat16_YT2 жыл бұрын
How much jars do you have filled with life?
@BroBurg4452 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the new adjective, "suculous".
@clippyclippy40842 жыл бұрын
I love this
@clippyclippy40842 жыл бұрын
@Louise 22 y.o - check my vidéó maybe they could try to eat under the shell with the softer parts are if they are smart
@Pachurry142 жыл бұрын
That bettle looks badass AF Subscribing btw really good and educational content question are you studying biology of something like that? you seem to know a LOT!
@lizardswithhats2 жыл бұрын
Could you make a TikTok it would be really interesting to watch lots of mini updates
@dustinstump44752 жыл бұрын
Interested in seeing in how big the beetle gets
@willbedford83812 жыл бұрын
Could you make an all plant closed ecosystem and pump CO2 into it and seal it to eventually create prehistoric conditions with all the oxygen they create?
@Shad0wBoxxer2 жыл бұрын
How did i get here…. Subbed!
@axjagfilms Жыл бұрын
Life In Jars: (mentions isopods) Me: *LETS GOOO HE DID IT AGAIN*
@spankylmao37622 жыл бұрын
I didn’t change. You perceived me differently.
@blank30972 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah rove beetle 🤘🏼
@blank30972 жыл бұрын
Or maybe devils horseman?
@blank30972 жыл бұрын
@ㅤ my bad. You’re right. I think it’s devils coachman. Sounds better anyway. (I can never remember. Totally why I always say rove beeetle)
@boom38632 жыл бұрын
This is probably a really stupid question LIJ, when doing a fresh water jar for the first time can I use whatever greenery etc? Grass from the garden weeds etc? I want to try it.
@TalsBadKidney2 жыл бұрын
He's back! Yeeeeeeeeee
@commissaryarrick96702 жыл бұрын
i have found the bob ross of terrariums , awesome
@bigsarge2085 Жыл бұрын
👍👍
@chikenwing Жыл бұрын
It be cool if someone made a full paluderium and it was in big tank and it was full of life and it were to have them huge fish and stuff
@zaclennon35152 жыл бұрын
Waking up to a LIJ vid? Nice
@muppen74 Жыл бұрын
How do you know if there is too much water/moisture or not? And what will be the problem? Mold?
@lucasgiraldo9791 Жыл бұрын
Are some isopods expected to dye because mine are not doing too well in my close jar