Brine Shrimp Ecosphere | Part 2

[@nicholasgames1660]

Huh ur cats are just laying around

[@TerraTinkering]

Cats? You mean our unpaid interns? Yeah, since there's no financial compensation they're a bit lazy but it's hard finding a good free intern.

[@MissChelle]

Is there a part 3? I can’t find it. Great content, I’m enjoying your videos. New subscriber from Australia ❤️🇦🇺

[@PoeticMisfortune]

I had to watch this two times. After the first time, I realized I didn't actually watch the video, I watched the cat sleeping in the patch of sunlight. lol.

[@spikerslittleworlds8156]

Kitties! Yay!!! Looks like the one was trying to make their own kitty ecosphere in that shoebox 😺

[@vergil1088]

your videos are always so educational, interesting, and even soothing to see! your passion for making ecospheres/terrariums is as evident as your appreciation of nature. i'm always looking forward to your videos terra, keep doing your thing!

[@TerraTinkering]

It's comments like yours that really motivates us and makes our day! Thank you so much! Also- just want to give you an update- this project as much as we wanted it to work didn't, I believe the levels of salt in the water we gathered just wasn't right. We're going to have to mix up our own saltwater with some marine aquarium salt I think next time. It's a little bit of a bummer because we really loved the idea of using water sourced locally, but that's ok. Thanks again for the wonderful comment!

[@samueltonnesson691]

Love the natural lighting

[@TerraTinkering]

Yeah, it looks really nice- though we do have some studio lights as well that are on the natural lighting looks much nicer. We were able to turn the ISO down a bit in this video without any issues.

[@FieryCoal]

You know you have enough cats when they just lay around in your videos

[@TerraTinkering]

It's just the two, haha- but all two were present for this video. They like being in the same room as us and tend to follow us around the house.

[@Shaden0040]

Good tip on the air pump. You can also buy reverse flow vavle, which, when put in line of the air tubing the correct way, prevent water from back flowing to the air pump. Well worth the cost to have one on each pumps' air tubing.

[@TerraTinkering]

Yup, those are definitely nice, we might have one somewhere but we were having trouble finding it from when we moved everything around before, so we just are setting the pump higher than the water level for now, but that's definitely a good thing for just about anyone to go buy. I imagine we'll get one pretty soon as well next time we visit a fish store.

[@Skulexander]

some ecospheres you could maybe try are triops, fairy shrimp, and clam shrimp

[@TerraTinkering]

For sure, we've definitely considered those as well though I think we'd want other varieties of life in it as well not just the one species.

[@Shaden0040]

You coul try Red tailed fairy shrimps which are a fresh water brine shrimp relative. You can order them online as eggs. You could also try other fresh water Arthropds like Daphnia, Cyclops (copopods), Triops, Seed Shrimps, all of which you can get their eggs online. To feed the hatchlings you can use dried yeast, wetted and mixed with water and mix in powdered spirulina and put in enough to make the tank's water milky cloudy. Feed again a day after the tank water becomes clear.

[@Shaden0040]

Rachel O'Leary has a video on feeding Daphnia with yeast and spirulina. You can find it on KZbin.

[@someguy3186]

The problem with fairy shrimp and triops is that they lay eggs that need to be dried out and then submerged in water again as their natural habitat are vernal pools. Doesn’t work for a sealed ecosystem. Daphnia might work though, and I’m currently trying an ecosphere with daphnia, copepods, seed shrimp, and Malaysian trumpet snails.

[@antsandecospheres5808]

For brine shrimp they should have high salinity water not just brackish water or saltwater aquarium water.

[@jamesroc2350]

I love echosphere! :-)

[@Hsz5ui]

5:06 Cat is just like who tf are you talking to?

[@mariakoth]

i was thinking about a light source for the backet in the previous video..dont brine shrimp eat microalgae that need light?

[@TerraTinkering]

They do indeed, though the first few days of hatching they won't consume much since the casing on the eggs they're born from actually contain a decent bit of the nutrients and food they need to survive. We did have a light on them before as well, I don't remember if we showed that in the last video.

[@mariakoth]

my question was answered

[@FieryCoal]

Yay!

[@MoreChannelNoise]

I think some of the other creatures in the natural water would be eating the baby brine shrimp

[@TerraTinkering]

We haven't seen anything in the water that is carnivorous, well- specifically in what we gathered. I'm sure there were fish that could consume them but the issue we're having with the eggs hatching is more likely with the percentage of salt in the water, which we can't control gathering from nature like this. I was hoping though it'd work well and contain other smaller life forms so there'd be more variety than just brine shrimp. We had a lot of daphnia but not much else natively in this water.

[@deletingsoon.3790]

How are the brine shrimp doing?

[@TheSweettooth95]

Use a stick, dried Moss and charcoal and use a little baking soda and it should be successful. Like mine is.

[@TerraTinkering]

I don't think I could continuously provide dried moss once it's sealed up so that might not be an option for us- but I am curious on the precise measurement of baking soda you add per gallon of water or whatever ratio you use. I did see some people have used it to help with PH- which we don't know if that's an issue really, but we do have a PH test kit to check. What we won't be able to check at home though is the specific salinity of the water we gathered, so it'd be neat to take that in and find out. It's possible it's a bit high or low for the optimal hatching levels.

[@TheSweettooth95]

Terra Tinkering I use 1 liter 2 table spoons of no iodized sea salt and 1 1/4th table spoon baking soda and never change out the dried moss

[@TheSweettooth95]

Terra Tinkering I use all 3 a stick, dried Moss and charcoal and using all 3 of them. I think is mane reason mine are successful.

[@TheSweettooth95]

Terra Tinkering and I used water from a natural spring.

[@TerraTinkering]

Ah ok, that's interesting. The water we collected is already brine water, so we'll have to see what our local water is like, I wouldn't want to add more without knowing. Do you feed anything aside from the dried moss?

[@destroya.5868]

Copa, copakapods, the only things living in the bucket.. (Has to be sung to Barry Manilow's Copacabana to make it humorous and not some crazy stuff from an insane KZbin commenter ) Them felines gotta chillax a bit! They were making me nervous! Lol just kidding! I love yer cats!! They add a facet to your work ! Great vid! Well except I've now watched 4 of your vids and they have led me to one question.. Do any of your vids have an ending or are you just messing with us? I started with the dirt in a cube, then watched your personally recommended experiment in the back of your truck.. I think that was just a way for you to get out of cleaning your truck from your wife.. Great idea! And now both of alleged dirt and saltwater in a bucket... I now how to Put an unregulated air hose in a bucket to make slurping or let's be honest, farting sounds.. I got excited at one point cuz I thought you were going to shoot that glass of saltwater and those creepy little life forms.. Lol Guess I'll have to stick around and wait foe some kind of closure.. Lol dig your work brudda! Don't know why but.. Hmm maybe it's the cats... Lol

[@TerraTinkering]

You should write musical pieces for our videos! I think you're really on to something, haha. As for our cats, they're the true stars, if they decide they're going to be in the video- we don't argue with them. The truck doesn't run, but my wife was actually the one who suggested we do this video because it's sort of the origin story for the Plantless Terrarium we did, haha. A lot of our projects are just weekly things we work on and record, the brine shrimp in the locally sourced water didn't do too hot, so there's no part 3 because I think the salinity just wasn't the proper amount for them that we gathered, which we did know could happen but we were hoping to have all kinds of different life from the actual water not just from the eggs we were hatching in it. The copepods did pretty well but the brine shrimp themselves didn't work well. We have endings on a lot of our videos, just some of the projects like these aren't a cut and dry finished project in a week because it takes time for plants to grow or eggs to hatch. I'm glad you enjoy the videos, even if it's just for our cats. Personally if you want to see a cool finished project check out the DIY Lamp Terrarium though. It hasn't gotten as much love as I had hoped but I'm really proud of how it turned out.

[@ilovebuttcheeks1225]

Can you update us on this video please

[@brittkicks1741]

If I made my ecosphere how much Pink rock salt and Ph and how to jump start my alge

[@brittkicks1741]

I left spring water outside for a month and there was like 2 air bubbles

[@eddy-readysteady-go9001]

All you had to do was ad a valve to slow the air pressure

[@onyxi.x5777]

Triops?

[@TerraTinkering]

Triops are carnivorous, so we're not aiming for them in an ecosphere- at least at the moment. It would require having a reliable source of food breeding within the ecosphere along with them.

[@Dr._Spamy]

Hard enough to grow brine shrimp anyway. No need to make a closed ecosphere.

[@kenthecoolguy7779]

hey terra remember me

[@TerraTinkering]

Yes! But I think the real question here is- do you remember us remembering you?

[@jacoblm]

Get rid of the cats please they aren't brine shrimps