Seeing What Lives Around Me By Making A Paludarium Ecosphere / Closed Ecosystem

I made a paludarium ecosphere out of an old aquarium. A paludarium is part land based and part water based, so part terrarium and part aquarium. This paludarium is closed and therefore a closed ecosystem. By watching what lives in the paludarium I can see what lives around me. All sorts of interesting stuff, including tubifex worms, hydra and even water boatmen.
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Me: clicks one video from this guy Me 5 hours later: frantically shoving dirt and water into a jar.

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Why is this so accurate

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Little guy's shredding it out there

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Well ducks do have very interesting reproductive organs

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[@TheWaterMarbler]

I have bladder snails in my aquarium too and they float and sink as a faster means of transport alot. I call it "parasnailing". 🙂

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I'm stealing that term. That's my term now. :)

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That's my new favorite word

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That's adorable!

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TheWaterMarbler I have bladder snails In my bladder

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We have mystery snails who do the same! Float on the air in their shells or drop themselves fast from the surface

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Nature is so interesting. Even simple and small things like this are filled with complexity. I thank you for being educational.

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Please explain

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@@benyere NOt much to explain if you examine anything in life or nature really closely youll see there are many moving parts happening at once.

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@BenJee Complexity in nature is the difference between this channel describing the many thriving organisms interacting with each other in an airtight ecosystem that somehow recycles itself continuously to sustain life, and someone else seeing only water and pond scum.

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Oof that's a long time

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After tough days in class this is what reaffirms the fact that I do love science and I do want to get my degree in biology. Thank you for reminding me of what it is that I love about the world around us!!

[@LifeinJars]

:)

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@@LifeinJars How do you prevent gathering mosquitoes? I would like to try this but am afraid that I would get an infestation in my house and perhaps even dengue fever.

[@louiechidwick6034]

Incredible work mate, this is just what I spent hours doing when I was young, you have re-kindled my love of pond life and I'll be building my own Paludarium very soon. Just a suggestion bro: See if you can rig up a microscope to show just how much life there is in a single drop of that water. I used to spend hours with my microscope watching Paramecium and Amoeba. Also looking at Cyclops, Hydra and Daphnia under magnification is so cool because you can see their insides and their means of locomotion. All the best mate. Respect. Louie

[@jkenny1]

The visual quality is much better with the proper aquarium, but I can suggest gluing a microscope slide to a jar lid if you want a better window for classic jars. I did that for my pond jar and laid it on its side, works pretty good for macro, but not good enough for microscopy sadly (glass is too thick).

[@LifeinJars]

Yeah that's what I'm afraid will happen as well. The glass being too thick.

[@jkenny1]

@@LifeinJars I also realized just now that a common DSLR camera filter is a low cost and is already round for an easier fit. I had to cut my microscope slide to fit my jar lid and it wasn't pretty...

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@@LifeinJars Even a hand-held lens of around 8x gives a good visual by eye as a lot of the micro-life tend to hug the glass of the vessel anyway

[@jkenny1]

I think I'll try to add a cover glass over a small hole in the next jar I make. They're very fragile but over a hole should still be ok to hold back a few inches of water pressure.

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U kinda just made me never go to rivers for a swim

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Well there's plenty of small crustaceans in the sea as well ;)

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This stuff is harmless, human pollution is far worse

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*Mike Stephano* those artificial rivers are typically called canals

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Made my own little terrarium because of your videos! Going on 6 weeks and the plants are thriving!!

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Awesome

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This man will soon be harnessing entire universes.

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except all the prisoners that died :)

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Weird

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Kind? He's trapping them inside a closed system to die lmao

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[@karenzitah]

05:36 "over there lurking in the distance there's a big fat Hydra, with a big fat butt" I just lost it 🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😂😂😂😂😂 LMFAO

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I live for the voice over commentary. And oh look...a pretty duck...a cow duck.

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*aggressive jazz*

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[@LifeinJars]

:)

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"oh look, a cow duck". made my day. i got an $80 tip today but cow duck is priceless

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Ik ben helemaal geen grote biologie/sciencefanaat, maar ik houd ontzettend van de natuur.. Deze video's vind ik zo mega interessant! Ik heb ze echt allemaal gekeken de afgelopen dagen, en was sip toen ik zag dat je al lang niet geupload had. En dan.. als klap op de vuurpijl deze video 😍😍!!

[@amaziness5024]

*To make the Paludarium I bought this aquarium* I think this is my favorite intro ever

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[@LifeinJars]

That's really nice to hear thank you!

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[@pikakip3792]

For your next video you should have 2 different ecosystems then after some time put them into a bigger jar and see what happens

[@LifeinJars]

Not bad

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A jar inside a jar inside a jar

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@@riswanda2620 jarjar jar

[@rigelflores8857]

Watching during quarantine. "Aqua Dirt" sounds like a Pokemon move lol.

[@ericsfishingadventures4433]

Coming from a person that keeps Saltwater Reef tanks yours looks completely natural and normal! Awesome job! There's a lot of things that go on in these ecosystems! Most people don't know what goes on around them in every day life.

[@thorren1633]

so excited to see this, feels like a great expansion of the original content of the channel. Always glad to see such awesome content in my sub feed.

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its literally 3:42 am and this is what i see instead of sleeping Im 13... I have school in 4 hours

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Purple Fleur I think we all are in the same boat

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Sleep well guys lol

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im 14 haha younglings

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This channel is absolutely amazing

[@clab5407]

I just started my own little ecosphere from stream water and watching your videos teaches me so much about all that I’ve captured!! Tubifex worms, daphnia, bladder snails and other “unidentified worms” have shown up so far

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No one: The Worms: They’re Groovin

[@janetteruiz9347]

Those bugs were so cute! And i didnt know that much life could live in stagnant water AMAZING

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your observations of the natural world are incredible. I can't wait for the update on what happens to the soil !

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these videos are always very wholesome and interesting. Glad to have found this channel! Keep up the good work, friend! :D

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You know the mission on the moon of Chang'e4 consists of an ecosystem with potato seeds, cotton, yeasts and fruit fly eggs. It would be interesting if you made one the same. Your Chanel Is awesome

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It wasn't really an ecosystem, it was more like a small hydrophonic garden. And from what I remember - it froze during the first night.

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Super excited for what comes next. Cant wait

[@pierson9728]

this is really cool! a closed paludarium is not a concept i’ve seen before, it really makes me want to try one. keep it up dude! can’t wait to see how it develops.

[@laikaVNSMK]

So cool as always! Thanks for the upload!

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks for watching

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You are one of my favorite channels i love when you upload its neat to see all of the tiny animals we take for granted !!!

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One of your most exciting videos yet!

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your videos are always so incredibly cool to watch! i love your channel, i'm so excited to see what this paludarium has in store :o. i remember i had to make a small terrarium project for elementary school and thought it was the most boring thing ever, but now i can see that i was sooo wrong about closed ecosystems! I'm interested in making my own now, and it'll be really cool to see life spring up from it if i do. love your videos, can't wait for the next update!

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i love it! cant wait to see updates

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I have found your channel only recently and I love it! I am coming to a sad conclusion now, though - from now on I actually need to wait all this long time to see updates, while in case of old videos I could watch "1 year" updates whenever I wanted to ;_; Cheers from masters biotechnology student!

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[@LifeinJars]

Thanks I will :)

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I love how creative it is. im exited for an update in a few months.

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I want to see more of these, Paludariums are definitely the coolest.

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These videos are so cheerful and entertaining and informative and I love it

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you got a pretty great soil sample to collect such an assortment of creatures. i sometimes collect things from the wild for my fish tanks and count myself lucky to have never gotten a hydra problem.

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Thanks for watching ;)

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Awesome! Every video I'm impressed for sure.

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This is some wholesome content and I’m so here for it

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Love your videos. Shown me a lot about our world and to make small ones for ourselfs to grow and enjoy.

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Best one yet.

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The music is very fitting and I enjoyed this video. Thank you.

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Enjoyed the Dirk Diggler theme and the entire cast of Boogie Jars 😚

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Very cool. So relaxing.

[@stirhaven1981]

You inspired me to make my own Ecosphere! it has a few lovely snails, a rediculous amount of extremely small worms, and some rather large (1/2 inch or so) worms that crawl like inchworms! Sadly, there is not as much variety of micro life in mine. There is a few Ostracods and crustaceans, but i don't see those all too often.

[@LifeinJars]

That's really cool

[@stirhaven1981]

@@LifeinJars thank you very much. I also saw one of the larger bladder snails try to slide over a large plenarian, which was amusing. Its a very fun and relaxing hobby!

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I made an ecosphere as well using rainwater and dirt from my garden, the only two creatures I spotted living in it yet are small reddish worms and small light-brownish worms

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Thx, nature is amazing in all it's forms🐌🐡🍃

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Haha wow

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I made one myself about a month ago and there were a lot of creatures that i didn't know what they were. This helped identify a lot of them. especially the Water Boatman and Pygmy Backswimmers. Hopefully there'll be more of them down the line.

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Looks like there is lots of things like daphnias and other things here,good work!

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I wish people did more videos like this about reef tanks! I know they do but they leave a lot to be desired about the information

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This guy's narration is the best thing ever.

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Another wholesome video! I love this guy's channel

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Thank you!

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Thank you!!

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The video’s interesting and you’re funny. I was feeling quite sad and this helps, thanks

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Yaaassss! You brought back the bladder snails 😍

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You find the best music for this stuff

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I've never seen hydra before, that's scary man. I've kept daphnia for few months. My betta and paradise fish loved them.

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I usually come on KZbin to watch gaming videos and high energy stuff... But this dude is chill as hell. I'm on Amazon now looking at glass jars!

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Your best video so far, keep up the good work! I'm thinking of doing a saltwater one, I live in an island and there's 360 degrees of sea