Big Closed Terrarium - 1 Month Update

[@trulyinfamous]

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_co]

@Chuck Manson what's wrong with you.

[@tracefleemangarcia8816]

diabeetus

[@vincenzosobowl1030]

im your 117th like youre now master chief

[@stalkertexasstranger7180]

Neat

[@NoahLavineASP]

Make sure not to get drunk and take a swig off the wrong bottle (or pour if you're into that kinda thing).

[@wraitholme]

A day without a glimpse of a boogie worm is a day wasted.

[@carlv1379]

Indeed

[@comeanomalocaris8267]

Yup

[@Beyond_The_Odyssey]

You’re never to depressed to boogie

[@frogpalpeeper4249]

It is. It is. That's so true!

[@johnnguyen3899]

you can see some at 1:54

[@heykerryann]

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

[@Shalometh]

👏

[@LifeinJars]

That's awesome! How's it doing now?

[@heykerryann]

@@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 🤭

[@LifeinJars]

Happy July 4th USA viewers!

[@FatesxofxthexDead]

You too unofficially LIJ! Also possibly first in congrats!

[@joy_gantic]

Does the Netherlands have a similar national holiday?

[@blackguard5883]

Thanks d00d. Best of luck to you and yours man.

[@Bijlez]

Thank you!

[@gils1408]

If only I liked the 4th of July...

[@fabianovalli5469]

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

[@maddoxfitzgerald5472]

No same here, there my new comfort videos

[@HomemadeEcosystems]

his videos are just addictive 😅

[@mbunds]

I can’t believe how complex getting a good, sustainable balance of plants and animals can be! Great videos, thanks!

[@HomemadeEcosystems]

True, not easy to get a balance in your ecosystems

[@FieryCoal]

That’s some big plant growth.

[@LifeinJars]

Sure is

[@shi5369]

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.

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

I’m so glad I found this channel, this is so therapeutic and beautiful

[@richyket661]

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

[@graphictwitch-5355]

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!

[@h2squared]

This life in jars guy kinda reminds me of life in jars because they both do ecosphere things and they have similar voices

[@gils1408]

yeah... Maybe their twins?

[@h2squared]

@@gils1408 that is a possibility

[@doxscund8821]

"A human of which I am also one"

[@implausibleimpossiblehypot4006]

My brain is hurting from this comment I just keep reading it a reading it the wording without commas is a brain fuck

[@slavpepe6581]

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

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

I don't think all millipedes have poison, but it does seem too armoured.

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

@ㅤ beetle size to millipede size?

[@Pachurry14]

@ㅤ how much bigger was the bettle compared to the milipedes? i think was the question.

[@LifeinJars]

The rove beetle is about 12 mm and the millipide about 30 mm

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

@@Pachurry14 thanks

[@yickel]

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

[@Visionfox1]

Experience comes from experiment I guess :D

[@m0w0ss]

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

[@LifeinJars]

That's the faith of most closed terrariums. Probably this one as well... (Not the nettle part)

[@Pachurry14]

@@LifeinJars yes fungi are terrible. can control if you continue the ventilation i guess

[@MrJcalvino]

@@LifeinJars could you use organism that feed on fungi as way to control the growth?

[@Tower_Swagman]

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

[@m0w0ss]

@@Tower_Swagman i sealed off a jar with rocks that i filled with water and there's bacterial slimy goo around the rocks now

[@choerrytheworld3610]

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

[@ecospheremadness2982]

I love how you make and ecosphere out of anything

[@BrazenSolar]

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?"

[@LifeinJars]

Wow! How's it doing now?

[@BrazenSolar]

​@@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.

[@LifeinJars]

@Sam-kt1mi ah that's too bad, but great that you keep going!

[@GushOnline]

I would love to see an update on this terrarium. 😊

[@Beyond_The_Odyssey]

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 :)

[@snakewithapen5489]

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_Odyssey]

@@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 🤓

[@snakewithapen5489]

@@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_Odyssey]

@@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.

[@chowdhurywilddenindiabatanagar]

@@Beyond_The_Odyssey what fish he is?

[@luca920]

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!

[@Roerdompjesuf]

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.

[@MDestron2282]

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.

[@navykip]

Always a good day when we get another life in jars video.

[@HomemadeEcosystems]

true, I miss him, no new videos in a while now

[@veganpajamas4211]

“ very intensly at the mystery object in front of it..”haha how zen

[@bassybossy]

Another lovely little update. Great to see

[@joy_gantic]

I love these videos. Thank you for uploading them

[@LifeinJars]

Thank you for watching them!

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

Funny pfp. At first I thought it was a hawk with an iron for a body and was amused.

[@thebiologist8662]

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.

[@thebiologist8662]

@ㅤ They are, but most insects can eat sugar. Now, if you eat your weight in sugar, well...

[@ElliotLeon]

Hello Mr jars, nice to see you again

[@LifeinJars]

Hello there

[@yoBigWave]

digging the music.

[@peperando8733]

Just at the perfect moment when I was bored to death... NICE

[@youareloved4704]

I am obsessed with this channel, I would love to try to make a closed terrarium or ecosphere myself some day :)

[@LifeinJars]

You can do it!

[@rainy8702]

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.

[@NGRevenant]

I was obsessed with devil's coach horse beetles when I was a kid they're awesome looking insects

[@lordawesometony2764]

Philoscia: *creating Socratic dialogue with mystery object*

[@NoahLavineASP]

My dad calls me a, "jar-osexual" and I'm very proud

[@theguywhoasked4235]

Bruh

[@coltoncowan682]

Lgbtqiaj+

[@justinmajor9728]

One man one jar

[@thecrimsoncapsule3476]

I’m assuming the father is not

[@oneshotweeb5923]

Ah i see you are man of jar as well

[@bhutwheyttherismor86]

Philoscia muscorum (aka the fast woodlouse) is my favorite iso. Very nice pattern, good morph potential, and a lot of personality.

[@DannysAquariums]

New video, AWESOME! 🙌🤩

[@charlottesmom]

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.

[@Dansu18]

Loving the rouge beetle. :) Hope to see some updates on this one soon!

[@gusmcgrath9187]

When if first started watching you I thought your voice was computer generated, lol.

[@LifeinJars]

oof

[@Laremy]

Technically, it was.

[@DeoMachina]

No it is definitely a human voice I would know, because I am also a human

[@Pachurry14]

@@LifeinJars your voice is actually 10/10 maybe youre too monotone xD

[@Pachurry14]

@@DeoMachina yes youre human for sure hmmmmm

[@mr.d.rektorstudios]

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.rektorstudios]

@💋𝗙**𝗖𝗞 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗸 РR0FIL you’ve gotta get that fish out, they’re too big for ecospheres, it’s can’t handle them

[@Froggsroxx]

i've been waiting for thiiiiiis (happy 4rth of Jar-ly)

[@tamarrajames3590]

That is a wild little world you have there.🖤🇨🇦

[@samfroggeh]

Oooh - a new video, always exciting to see these jars again :D

[@brutusaurelius2114]

Every time I see one of your videos I get excited thinking about making a terrarium of my own

[@jic1]

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.

[@a.harrington1634]

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.

[@EngineerRat16_YT]

How much jars do you have filled with life?

[@matthewbarry983]

I love these videos dude you've a great voice x 🇮🇪💯

[@Zer-db1bp]

I’d say this one was a pretty big success.

[@yeye6840]

The King has returned once again

[@JohnPaul-yf9xd]

Have you ever thought of growing fungi? The micilium connect plants as if they communicate. Please research and consider. Love your work!

[@DrSpychology]

That millipede is so cool to look at, I'm jealous!

[@obieobrien5883]

Interesting assortment of insects!

[@petrolheadpower1607]

You should do either an update on saltwater jar or make another one! Its was so dope

[@evelynpayne5995]

i’d love to see an update on this one!

[@mostamazingtop6]

That's cool, i have access to some woods that my grandpa owns, it will make a few from resources in that area.

[@JK-zv2dl]

I swear I have the same millipedes in my closed woodland terrarium

[@JK-zv2dl]

I just checked, it is the same species. Mine have also reproduced and they are the cutest inhabitants of the terrarium

[@AlyxGlide]

A millipede! So pretty 🐛

[@atlasprophet]

A rotating base below the jar would be great for you to rotate them easier

[@kevinpowell7948]

Glorious indeed 🍀

[@BroBurg445]

Thank you for the new adjective, "suculous".

[@draftsatmatts1476]

How do you know what is too much moisture to close it permanently? Asking for my own jar.

[@shi5369]

if the condensation is completely covering the jar and not just partially, it might be best to open it up a bit. You'll be able to tell there's too much if your plants are suffering from leaf rot. Good luck!

[@drapoorv]

Loved the explanation of this terrarium

[@clinical_caliber]

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

[@KiaraClaw]

Suggestion: make a forest terrarium that has a small body of water

[@croquemaster314]

No

[@axjagfilms]

Life In Jars: (mentions isopods) Me: *LETS GOOO HE DID IT AGAIN*

[@commissaryarrick9670]

i have found the bob ross of terrariums , awesome

[@attieschutte7116]

Dankie dit was nou leersaam, ek gaan iets soortgelyks probeer.

[@willbedford8381]

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?

[@westjordan8686]

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?

[@jadeanfe9336]

noice work man......such a unique content!

[@mothballjim]

Where is the update on this one? 🙌🏻

[@yoBigWave]

New video HYPE!!

[@chadsimon7221]

Nice videos my dude.

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks!

[@PhotosyntheticVibes]

1:05 The intense staring contestant could be a lace bug, they live much like aphids

[@killerluuk]

His house must smell so funky

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

But the jars are all closed

[@chikenwing]

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

[@ajaxrosso1]

YEAH DO SOME MASSIVE ONES!

[@nikleiser5888]

Where do you get these monsterjars and how much did they cost ?

[@LifeinJars]

I bought a bunch of them second hand. New they'll cost about $40. That is, if you can find them.

[@nikleiser5888]

@@LifeinJars I tried to find some in Germany but they are really expensive if available. How big are your jars (in Liter)?

[@LifeinJars]

10L

[@noodlechrist]

do you have an idea why the snail likes to go on the lid? is it because that is where condensation gathers?

[@samthepigman4069]

I told my mom I wanted a millipede and she was like "you want a what? If I see one of those discusting bugs in the house I will goddamn dissown you"

[@noelvalenzarro]

Throw that one out and get a new mom

[@barbhelle5481]

This was very nice, thank you.

[@T.K.Wellington1996]

Would it be enough to put a small uv-led (may be 5 watt/12h a day) on top of the jar to substitute the real sunlight?

[@theiathegondia7349]

How long will it take until there are new species in these jars that don't exist outside?

[@boom3863]

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.

[@spankylmao3762]

I didn’t change. You perceived me differently.

[@brenarosethorn8219]

Be Careful with clovers though. They grow like crazy and some clovers grow from bulbs not seeds. Whenever i wanted to fill up part of my yard i would put clovers or Morning Glorys because they do grow like crazy and get out of control.

[@Ghajlalalala]

How do you identify the organisms? I have tons of lil guys in mine but don’t really know exactly what they are.

[@Shad0wBoxxer]

How did i get here…. Subbed!

[@muppen74]

How do you know if there is too much water/moisture or not? And what will be the problem? Mold?

[@afrotheafrovenator318]

Hope the jumping spider is not dead !

[@goatnicholson]

ahh, yes these videos are very relaxing

[@Icecoldmilk69420]

Waking up to a LIJ vid? Nice

[@AceOfSpadesX]

How do you know how to identify so many of the species?

[@willkraemer2144]

Does anyone have any recommendations for types of plants or animals that would be especially Hardy. I'm looking for stuff that would be especially difficult for me to kill through my inexperience XD

[@rlcatman]

For plants mosses and grasses grow everywhere and are hardy. And millipedes and isopods don't need much care even in a jar without a lid. (I breed them for a living. 😹)

[@georgecarmack6813]

Ive been trying to create my own closed terrarium, but so far everytime I've attempted it, almost everything dies quickly. Any advice on what things I should be doing?

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

You should probably describe how it's dying/ what's dying first, among other things.

[@georgecarmack6813]

@@blizzard2508-k7n well, some more obvious than others, the insects die within a week more than often and then the plants begin to wilt. I'm not exactly sure if it was a temperature thing? My household cant make up their mind on whether they want the house warm of straight up freezing 😒

[@blizzard2508-k7n]

@@georgecarmack6813 it would be best to be more specific about the temperature range, but that doesn't sound like the problem. I'd imagine the plants and animals would die at the same time, if temperature is to blame. If you do think temperature is a problem, adding a thermometer (to check) and insulating the jar could help. If you can't insulate it all, cover the soil. Ground changes temperature slowly and is likely used to hide in if it gets cold. There are a lot of other factors (moisture, chemicals/chlorinated water, oxygen/CO2, light, biodiversity) but I'm not too knowledgeable on this.

[@dustinstump4475]

Interested in seeing in how big the beetle gets

[@HaibaneRakka]

Can that beetle really take on a millipede that large? They're pretty armored no?

[@Tortoiseneckx100]

I have been waiting so long for a vid I'm so pumped

[@Pachurry14]

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!