From BOOM to BUST, The SURVIVORS of the Amphipod APOCALYPSE │Woodland Stream Ecosphere 1 Year Update

[@Cyberdragunz]

I love how these miniature ecosystems can still balance themselves out and create natural population cycles. It's amazing how resilient plants and small animals are.

[@alphaomega8373]

humans too.

[@Cyberdragunz]

@@alphaomega8373 We're resilient, but we don't adapt to nature, we force nature to adapt to us

[@ungratefulingrate1268]

@@Cyberdragunz we started from scratch like any other animal, humans are have amazing qualities

[@captainhook1178]

@@Cyberdragunz We used to....at least our ancestors do. But when we advanced we lost that ability and now we just shape things to our convenience. 😔

[@joshjames582]

@@captainhook1178 Major human civilizations have failed at multiple times during history and prehistory, and the survivors always managed to relearn and reorganize.

[@KorporalNoobs]

*Content* Observing cannibalistic survivers of mass starvation event. *Mood* _•°♢Tranquility°☆○_

[@Frivolous23]

it's crazy to think that something like this is even achievable in such a small area

[@SiriusZiriux]

It's All a matter of Perspective My Friend...The World that We inhabit; isn't as Big as Perceived either. 🖖🏻👽👍🏻

[@kayliep9071]

Its awe inspiring to see how fast this ecosystem can balance itself again. Love these videos! Keep it up!! ❤

[@ichrised]

In mine there were two big predators that that ate all the scuds, a big ol nymph and a water scorpion. Now there's only snails and they had the last laugh

[@WaterMelon-rp9xg]

The hunger games!?😂

[@elgenerico5453]

Man, the character development within this ecosystem is more then it ever deserved to be. I love it

[@kevinpowell7948]

The title says it all. The micro world is terrific and terrifying. 🌎😱🍀

[@DRagnMastrN7]

Man, I just found your channel. I didn't know I needed this until I saw It.

[@Amber-Phantom]

This channel is so therapeutic. I've fallen in love with your videos.

[@ArzneiPrediger]

do you illuminate this glasses with a daylight lamp or do you just put em near to a window so they get sunlight and night cycle ? I would really like to know how u store all the ecosystems and make sure they dont die. Best regards

[@morganbutleriv9213]

I, too, would love to know exactly what kind of lighting is given to the ecosphere.

[@kaptinkrybaby6741]

I third want to know!

[@Jon-jv8er]

I don't know what Jartopia does, but other people I have watched just place their jar in a window. After all it's supposed to mimic a natural habitat and normal daylight cycles are a part of that.

[@nicolaspozo9502]

That's a very good question. Would also like to know how you film these videos, they are amazing.

[@nesalonso76]

Anyone knows about the lightning?

[@EFantasic]

These videos are always so soothing to watch.

[@BadBame962]

Ecosystem: **doesn’t have any Amphipod predators** Amphipods: fine, I’ll do it myself

[@kungfuchimp5788]

In closed ecosphere's like this, do the boom and bust cycle fluctuations ever slow down enough to finally reach a stable state, or does it just continue in perpetuity? I'm assuming that they just continue, but I really don't know.

[@WebertHest]

Such boom-and-bust cycles are abundant in open-er systems too. If you look up "Lotka-Volterra" models and equation systems, you can see many real life examples.

[@kungfuchimp5788]

@@WebertHest Thank you. I'll be doing some reading tonight. 👍

[@alphaomega8373]

@@WebertHest Lotka-Volterr... Learn something today thank you.

[@afkfromawake]

Well we will know next bust cycle. If there are more amphipods then last time then we'll know they have adapted ever so slightly to survive more. Or that the enviorment has adapted to the amphipods presence enough to support a larger minimum.

[@roach7616]

@@WebertHest how do you even know that? i’m impressed

[@pisiollechapau1604]

What a beautiful and calming life cycle. This is an art!🙏😢

[@ferds30]

The real ASMR Experience.

[@abigailbaldwin4224]

I absolutely love these videos! I stumbled on this channel yesterday and now I'm absolutely fascinated, it's really neat to watch these mini ecosystems develop!

[@anszfr4079]

Thank you. This calms me

[@romulus_rex]

"Ok, bro it's 2 am, tomorrow you have a test, you need to sle- OH SHIT THE FUN JAR" *proceed to watch 30 minutes of mini echosystems in jars* "... shit..."

[@dominusetdeus060644]

I absolutely love this channel. Best find this year.

[@JuuJuuism]

I really love your channel! It's completely fascinating how a simple idea can yield such amazing images. Please keep going! Thanks for your work :)🙏❤❤

[@jpshawcross]

Stunning footage! I’d love to know what sort of camera equipment you use to get such incredible close-ups of these minuscule creatures!

[@jestercat7465]

Another great video as always! I have you to thank for starting an ecosphere of my own!!

[@PeppersnGlowworms]

At least they did not split into Morlocks and Eloi... The jar looks great even after a year!

[@kingsKayden]

My favorite ecosystem you have so far :)

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Absolutely love your videos- gives me a warm feeling about Creation...

[@MarcusD4444]

This is awesome as always. You have inspired me to attempt to create my own in the near future

[@stevew6138]

I never get tired of seeing these wonderful ecosphere's. Thanx so much for sharing with us.

[@mollyOS420]

I haven't watched the first one, but it feeks so weird watching the survivors of a near-extinction event for everything from something that was (supposedly, again, havent watched the og) booming with life. The music helps with that vjbe, too.

[@plenskiX]

Wow, it's so clear after a year. Interesting video!

[@Miguel-gf7sq]

Man its so nice how you create true mini eccossystems inside a jar, the mankind need more people like you, create eccossystems not destroy

[@trascendentalsunset]

Is not like he is creating life, he is just observing how life develops, if all he pulled out a bunch of life out of their natural habitat and put them into a mass genocide situation, but the beautiful thing is that nature doesnt care about life or destruction, it just keeps moving on.

[@alphaomega8373]

@@trascendentalsunset Smoke more reef.

[@mrmissalot8311]

I think I found your channel with the first vid on this, you had about 30 or so subs, wowzers 😀

[@Cguy212]

what camera do you use, it looks so good!

[@glennk.7348]

Yes! Please tell us how you get such nice magnified footage! How would I go about viewing my tiny world if I were to make one?

[@pokeitwithastick7869]

Great footage; what camera is used? and lens for the close ups?

[@Wojtek378]

Excelente vídeo muchas gracias bendiciones😎👌🏽🇨🇷

[@abigaildoucette2655]

what camera is he using? i need that camera

[@alphaomega8373]

go pro.

[@EduardoSVA]

It's amazing how the water became cristal clear, comparing to the previous video. It seens to me that this eco system works. Thanks for sharing this experience, nice to see and understand. Greetings from Brazil!

Hello. What camera do you use to be able to record those beautiful images. Thanks for them

[@aliendropzz8950]

I like the videos keep it up you got a new subscriber 👍🏽

[@MisterGames]

Do you know how those original three different large critters got in? In the soil you first placed or floating in the water you added?

[@suel5690]

beautiful photography...love this

[@AD-ol3wv]

This is awesome!

[@FlowerBoyWorld]

i was wondering how you handle the ecospheres, do you keep them inside all the time, don't they need winter dormancy, do you use grow lights or just keep them on a window sill, what sizes of jars do you recommend, that kind of stuff … maybe you could do a meta-video on these things sometimes :)

[@michaelfruetel273]

I love how after a year in the jar the general appearance is very aquarium-like. The ostracods probably helped with that, but the appearance is just so pristine.

[@tiredman99]

I'm going to have to try making an Ecosphere now. I'm beyond intrigued, I'll have to wait till late spring/early summer

[@baylorbear6566]

I'm curious as to how you store these. Are they on a shelf with natural sunlight, or do you use artificial lights/full spectrum bulbs for plant growth. Would love to start some of these. Thanks!

[@trexwithashotgun5333]

What type of camera do you use to film these videos?

[@justmythought7658]

Beautiful.

[@balorex709]

I have a question that may be stupid, but when you set up an ecosphere, do you put the different species inside or are they just there, growing from small organisms?

[@ToxicSonata]

their eggs are carried in from soil, or on plants you may find or purchase at a store!

[@afifbrian2540]

The soil, plant, water, rock all have animals egg in it

[@balorex709]

Fascinating, thanks!

[@harryme472]

Walstad tank update please , or did it fail ?

[@kingkoy5871]

What camera did you used?, it did capture the micro world💪💪💪

[@11sjv]

cool

[@user-qr8dz5nu4v]

Yes

[@11sjv]

hello there

[@user-qr8dz5nu4v]

@@11sjv General Kenobi

[@kruxez]

How long this kind of ecosystem can last? It looks so cool that i want to try and make one for me.

[@jaimeleschats5543]

Forever.

[@bsb3339]

Depends. But they can definitely survive for many years if they are stable!

[@zdenekhruska1873]

You should definitely try it! It is easy and it is fun! I have two jars from last October and it was a great time to watch them during winter!

[@NrgaardBording]

how do you store the ecosphere ? in light or shade? Room temperature?

[@caltincooper7481]

This is so cool

[@nazreenshah5846]

Beautiful, just curious the water do you change or it just clear up? I'm new to this and wanna try one for myself someday

[@Jartopia]

You never change the water. It's an ecosphere. You never open ecospheres.

[@nazreenshah5846]

@@Jartopia thanks for tip!😊

[@ape_on_rhino8467]

Wow I love this channel.

[@TiberiusRex182]

What bulbs are you using?

[@novamax145]

Which camera u use, could you pls do a review of your favourite cameras to record this animals?

[@autoauto2000]

did u clean the glas?

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

Very soothing.

[@ZeeThird]

How does the glass remain so clean? Back in my aquarium years, it was very hard to keep it clean, despite all the effort. Too much ligh, too little light, too many oxigen, too few oxigen, etc. all end up in some algae

[@afifbrian2540]

The glass is clean because he never clean it. The jar is like a mini ecosystem with the organism inside balancing itself. Aquarium is not a natural ecosystem so it always need your attention

[@Brazil-loves-you]

I want the flour terrarium update! It's been 6 month already! PLEEEEAAAASE post it as fast as you can❤️❤️

[@welshwizzard8209]

Crazy to think, they all live within these jars unaware of the big outside world around them, puts into perspective that we could all be in one huge ecosphere and we would be oblivious, perhaps the earth is an alien ecosphere..........deep

[@kitte1750]

I was wondering what kind of lights do you need to keep ecospheres alive? Do you leave them under your lamps 24/7? Or do I leave my ecosphere in the window seal? Or do I give indirect sunlight,

[@HeEde.]

So insanely cool

[@alphaomega8373]

How are you fertilizing the plants?

[@timmythetechpriest5177]

So to summarise, lack of predation resulted in overpopulation and a lack of food. This caused a collapse. Give it a million years, and this jar will have unique predators

[@timmythetechpriest5177]

@sosy1178 just doing my duty

[@Kuwagumo]

@sosy1178 ...what?

[@timmythetechpriest5177]

@sosy1178 ok, appeaser actively making people content in the existence of fascists, allowing them to claim power, actively making the world a worse place

[@Kuwagumo]

Well, due to how the generations rapidly succeed, if this ecossystem survives for long enough, it coul have unique sepcies in hunderds of thousands, not millions of years. Truly fascinating, IMO

[@timmythetechpriest5177]

@@Kuwagumo there is however the risk of inbreeding due to the small size of the jar. But chances are animal life will get smaller and smaller smaller and smaller

[@Knowinq1000]

Hello! I’m starting to get into enclosed ecosystem and was curious i have no knowledge of how to identify the things I’m finding. I’m having no luck on google. Would you be able to provide some references or tools you use to identify the things you find?

[@dtemp132]

Do these jars ever need to be “burped”? Is there any other maintenance they need? Or do you just sit it in front of a window and leave it be?

[@Jartopia]

There is absolutely no maintenance involved. They're just meant to look after themselves.

[@raam1.06]

pretty cool, who tf dislikes this video?? like ?????

[@Gimwald1802]

I noticed that too. Someone has nothing better to do than hate on this peaceful channel.

[@HiAdrian]

@@Gimwald1802 I only see 2 dislikes here, which is within statistical noise. Practically no video with likes in the triple digits has 0 dislikes.

[@RustMonsterMilk]

I can't believe how clean and clear that glass is.

[@kuvirakuvira]

Wow

[@joeyhinds6216]

It's been really fun to watch this jar develop. Do you think that if you had an airstone the trichoptera would have survived? I'm thinking of trying this

[@Brazil-loves-you]

I want the flour terrarium update! It's been 6 month already

[@JeanMAllen]

Is there a How To video????

[@stumpfafas2053]

Do you ever open your ecospheres?

[@guiihff6825]

Eu tenho um terrário:) ele tá crescendo ainda falta eu colocar umas espécies nele para manter o equilíbrio

[@JustPlainDeb]

How many hours of artificial light do you give your ecosphere each day?

[@Ry77x]

My son and I started one 6 moths ago. It’s still thriving and we have a baby and momma snail and the top layer of water is completely full of small Lilly pads or whatever they are called.

[@tobiassrensen8378]

Is the light always on ? and if it is why ?

[@fangirlingover9000]

definitely my favorite channel on yt (人 •͈ᴗ•͈) which camera and lens do you have?

[@tinyGrim1]

Awww, this one for me is kinda sad. Still very cool. 👍 Just so ya all knows !!!

[@smileysatanson3404]

ok, these ecospheres gotta be the coolest and easiest pets imo, you dont have to clean, you dont have to feed, they do fine on their own and you never know what you'll get, you just, make it and observe

[@krebgappa]

Love these videos. but does anyone else feel a lil itchy?

[@regnbuetorsk]

damn, i want to start my own jar now

[@unusualaquariumecosystems5805]

Your zoom is really good.

[@madsharkz8640]

How do these amphipods even get there in the first place?

[@raffykock5545]

what happened to the algae??

[@riverside321]

What was mentioned of the light regime

[@FunerealObsession]

Are the flatworms nearly annihilated?

[@daebarron5022]

I can’t wait to get my own apartment and do this

[@mattymerr701]

Late night youtube recomendations be wild

[@DMXIII]

It's a pos - apocalyptic mini World! How cool and terrifying! Wow

[@Papag53]

Another planet 🌏

[@renagornquickblade997]

Amphipod apocalypse, an Amphipocalypse, if you will.

[@apateon18]

I wonder why the jar cleared up. It was a bit murky and has a lot of algae before.

[@shmuleshadows2292]

have you ever though about putting a small fish in one of these water ecosystems

[@Chris-mm1tv]

I set up a chalk stream ecosphere after watching this channel. I’m amazed at just how many species are present. Also have watercress flourishing in the ecosphere which I’m amazed at.

[@bjn230]

what name animal ?

[@LegioCorvus.]

I just started with this ecosystems and now i wait for my plants to root (it’s a small terrarium )