Spring Affects the Closed Paludarium Ecosystem - Strawberry Bonanza!

In this video we take a look at how springtime effects the life inside the paludarium ecosphere. Due to longer days and higher temperatures the wild strawberry plants started growing like crazy, as well as the spider plants and an aquatic plant. The seasonal change also effects the life in the aquarium part.
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[@LifeinJars]

A lot of you pointed out that this looks more like creeping charlie/ ground ivy and not wild strawberry. At first I was living in denial, but you guys are right. It's quite obvious now that I see it. I can still see the strawberry in the paludarium, but it hasn't been growing that much. Thanks for pointing it out!

[@astronxmial442]

Omg your channel grew so much when I first watched you you were at around 4-5k

[@IdiotWithEducation]

I love you're vids dude!, also check my comment, I feel that you would like some information on ways to make you're microscopy adventure more fun!

[@clarkmason7219]

I believe it is Centella asiatica.

[@IdiotWithEducation]

@@clarkmason7219 Maybe. . . I don't think this plant could be it, it's not native, and doesn't seem to be invasive, also it isn't used for much medicinally or culinary

[@bobjones6269]

Unrelated, but when making a new ecosphere, why do you wait until the water clears to put the lid on. Another question i have is, if my water is taking a long time to settle (several days), should i still put the lid on after 24 hours?

[@llamaism1328]

What are you talking about, we LOVED it last time :D

[@LifeinJars]

Maybe I'll do it again sometime ;)

[@elliswatanabe]

no WE didn't

[@dearmrfantasy3225]

@@elliswatanabe yes WE DID

[@elliswatanabe]

yes we didn't

[@dearmrfantasy3225]

@@elliswatanabe I'm sorry you're unable to enjoy the good things about life :(

[@LifeinJars]

I've gotten quite some fanart over the past few years and I never really knew what to do with it, I felt somewhat guilty about that. So from now on I'll sometimes add fanart on top of the intro. In this week's edition: Tracy from Los Angeles!

[@kingkoopah3968]

You should update your logo and background with fanart.

[@Im.A1ex]

OHHE- aw

[@RH-vh7el]

Have you ever thought about using a magnet cleaner to make some viewing areas on the glass ? would make it a lot easier to film

[@Pixiesfairiedust]

R H idk he would have to be very careful, there’s bugs and stuff on each walls, it might no be a good idea.

[@ruiciaran3614]

It’s a closed ecosystem so he won’t do anything to it

[@xan8133]

love getting updates like this! keep it up!!

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks!

[@adventuredenali]

Good grief, your channel is fantastic. Thank you for sharing all this incredibly interesting information. Enjoy the close ups and your sense of humor as well. ;)

[@mage9564]

I've now found myself wanting to start an Isopod terrarium due to your videos. I will actually look into proper care of them!

[@j.chiphowell5650]

Isopods are really fun and easy to care for. I've never raised them in a closed environment, though. You've just inspired me.

[@sierraalexis9825]

Oooo a new intro art fancy! Are you planning on opening it up to eat the strawberries if they develop? Little worms are totally worth seeing so no big deal you broke that promise to yourself.

[@LifeinJars]

Nope I won't open it up. I doubt there will be strawberries though because I don't see how they'll be fertilized

[@Asdayasman]

"Oh heeeeee-" YES HE'S DOING IT "-nope, they didn't like it last time" D:!!!

[@danielkosta3134]

That isn't a strawberry. Its creeping Charlie. Glechoma hederacea. It's a common weed here in the USA. It seems to be everywhere in my garden. Originally imported here to be a ground cover. It does that all too well Let me know if you want more.

[@jamesshawcross3656]

Thank you! I just built an ecosphere and have some of this in it. In the first two days it has already grown inches of new roots and has begun flowering. Like Life in Jars, I too thought it was wild strawberry at first.

[@bottlegaming6726]

Me: This looks interesting. Me upon making one of these: C'mon, do something.

[@mechdonald7848]

any updates from your ecosphere?

[@bottlegaming6726]

@@mechdonald7848 still nothing

[@mechdonald7848]

seriously? 😂 can you try again and give me an update?

[@RowanWinch]

@@bottlegaming6726 how about now?

[@syoxsk]

Seems like this is the perfect time to be inside and look at life from the outside in a jar. 👍

[@mage9564]

Life in Jars has so many friends to keep him happy during the pandemic, lucky!

[@joelstock94]

Great video, as always :) Also, the music is so groovy! :)

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks!

[@Grove332]

You should do a soil and water pH indicator test before sealing each ecosystem!

[@ATasteOfLife]

Curious about this. What would be the ideal pH?

[@Raiffjr]

I found your channel last night and i gotta say i was inspired. Started a salt water and a fresh water ecosphere today and they are both so fascinating! Thank you for sharing everything with us!

[@user-gc6my9jg2c]

*affects Your videos are great! Very inspirational. So green.

[@LifeinJars]

Oh haha whoops thanks

[@DeoMachina]

Fun fact: Strawberries are enjoyed by humans (of which I am one)

[@sawyere2496]

Yes!

[@bariton3779]

i do enjoy the strawberry as i too am a homosapien!

[@damienkachadoorian8876]

Just say happy little strawberries sometimes and your the Bob Ross of ecospheres.

[@kamoroso94]

This channel popped into my recommended feed after like a year since I discovered your channel. You have such interesting videos, and the funky music just made me subscribe 🤩

[@babbelfisch42]

the microbes might be something like stentor coeruleus. Some kind of heterotrichs of the class of ciliates.

[@CMZneu]

Idk, the shape they have kinda reminds me of rotifers.

[@felpshehe]

Not stentor. They dont have the characteristic trumpet shape. Also, the shape and movement patterns are very animal-like. Rotifers of some sort.

[@LaraCM1]

@@CMZneu I agree, definitely rotifer kzbin.info/www/bejne/poS7naJum9qrsMk

[@EnglishLad]

They look more to me, judging by the way they behave, like the offspring of the enchytraetus worm. Perhaps the milky/gelatinous blob surrounding them is their egg fluid? But I'm no expert by any means...

[@ChimpFromSpace]

I think the little micro organisms @4:55 are rotifers.

[@freshboy3968]

3:25 ooo, that's sum funky music

[@carsetc1794]

Your camera work/equipment is getting better and so are you. Great video!

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks!

[@kambamkingbammy5141]

Lifeinjars I like how you are calm and cool and informational you make me happy when you upload

[@mrbanda-fp4dd]

broo i remember back when u had barely any subs, love the content keep it up 🔥✊

[@lennartgimm]

So isn't the Aquarium part going to slowly drain until both parts have about the same amount of water? If the water mostly evaporates from there but condenses above both parts, then that'll drain the Aquarium, right? But great update! So exited to see what happens in there next

[@LifeinJars]

The aquarium covers the largest area where it can 'rain' back to. I also think there's a little more condensation right above the aquarium. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out though!

[@missalanaroxx]

You have the best voice and your narration is fantastic!

[@petertaylor4647]

Life on Mars by David bowie but life in jars

[@SeafoodandHC]

Do you think anyone looks down on us - the way he looks down on these creatures. OH WAIT! PARTYMUSIC!!!!

[@jem5636]

As always, an awesome and informative video! Thank you for the spring update, it's cool to see how everything reacts to the change in seasons.

[@DannysAquariums]

That’s amazing! Everyone loves spring! My ecosphere in jar looked dead for some time, no plants were alive. Just saw a few snails and algae on the glass. Now, duckweed is starting to grow! So cool to see. Keep it up!

[@memawscheesetiddies]

Maaaan ain’t nothing like coming home from a long day, heating up some mac and cheese and hearing that jazzy intro 😌

[@gafrers]

Love the update videos

[@dXXPacmanXXb]

omg the strawberries, that is amazing

[@Universal.G]

Its wonderful to see this channel get all these views/support. I've been sub'd since you only had around a few thousand people. Thanks for this great content! Keep it up.

[@victoriahoglund5401]

Awesome videos!

[@lenoretalon9958]

Beautiful. I am trying one in a jar. I think I did it at wrong time of year. Will be watching your videos on that again. Much love💗🕊

[@chillnacho]

This is my favorite ecosphere you have made so far. :)

[@duetsinatimeloop]

How’s lockdown going? Oh, just watching worms groove in tubes to groovy tunes, you?

[@DaDoodyDan]

I love your vids! Your vids inspired me to make closed ecospheres.

[@chickenman5477]

Been a while since I've been to ur channel happy to be back! Still love the voice dude. Keep it up.

[@mickmickymick6927]

Ok, I found the actual music song, sorry for posting the wrong name before. It's 'Feel the Funk' by Jimmy Fontanez/Media Right Productions. kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWXdpqiBrdOkeZY I found it on the KZbin Library so it should be correct. It still leaves open the question though, why you don't post the names of the songs, people are often very eager to find them.

[@kat-jj5xj]

Music for this one was killer my guy. Keep it up

[@viniciuslescura3361]

Im from Brazil and I aways watch your videos and I really like them, keep doing

[@aubryellaotero1064]

Awe cute new logo!

[@tamekahill2826]

Love love these videos.

[@LifeinJars]

Thanks!

[@mlgsans6085]

i can see that he is very passionate with the ecosystems, it happens that im also very interested with the ecosystems

[@robertdeal410]

Gotta say your channel is pretty dam good brother.

[@BroBurg445]

Great to see some clear stereo microscope footage!

[@twainpeters7735]

Inspired by these videos keep it up 👍

[@LifeinJars]

Awesome!

[@andersschmich8600]

Your videos are always so great. I love keeping vivariums, I have a a salt water aquarium, and fire bellied toads, I really want to scoop up some dirt and keep in a glass container to see whats in it.

[@vibebasket2634]

I choked when you said "ramet". Subscribed

[@janicemorelock5791]

I am always so surprised at the amount of negative comments you get. I love your videos and I hope you keep them coming.

[@FieryCoal]

A fan art in the intro! What is this! I’m wondering if the evaporation will over water the soil? I forgot if there was a way for water too get from the soil to the water? Like through the rocks into water feature through holes? My memory is garbage lol

[@sirultim8643]

Imagine if wallE happens at this time, the robots that look for plants wouldn’t take long xD

[@LifeinJars]

It would ruin the plot!

[@sirultim8643]

Life in Jars? Guess it would! *blushes cuz actually got reply*

[@stanvanr7149]

Hi, love your videos. The strawberry isn't the plant that's grown so much, that appears to be a Glechoma hederacea (ground-ivy) that was growing in roughly the same spot as the strawberry. The strawberry has the more serrated leaves.

[@lucyholmes9627]

New logo 💕👍

[@Ayahuasca98]

Really interesting

[@LifeinJars]

Thank you

[@Ayahuasca98]

Life in Jars? No prob always loving these updates ^_^

[@LifeinJars]

:)

[@antoniogabriel4089]

oh yeah

[@IdiotWithEducation]

What species of strawberry is that? Usually they have 3 leaves, clover formation but these, I think are duchensa mock strawberries, white flowers mean real strawberry, and yellow is mock. Also, to make a crude darkfield microscope, get something non-opaque, and slowly move it around the top of the light source, look it up on KZbin. Anyways, love you're vids, sorry for the essay of a comment!

[@Davesothoth]

The leaves don't match any kind of strawberry I've seen

[@kingkoopah3968]

I for one think that your microscope is awesome and I like when you use it.

[@dearmrfantasy3225]

this video was so interesting I didn't even notice it was only six min long

[@jakobmorris1483]

Love u fam

[@alimatououattara1743]

New vid lets go

[@LifeinJars]

yes

[@tamarrajames3590]

This is fascinating to watch the changes progress through the seasons. You can use the microscope as often as you want to give us close-ups, it would be nice to know what the rate of magnification is though. Keep on sharing your fun with us.🖤🇨🇦

[@eliteguard1381]

Can you please do an update on your terrariums as I have been supporting the channel for a while and I would like to see them in an update please.

[@BoxOfComics]

It depends on the magnification you are using with your microscope, (looks like 20x?) but I’m pretty sure those are bdelloid rotifers! You can tell by the inching motion they use. In my samples they like to hold on to algae like they are doing in your slide. You can see some similar ones in my most recent video!

[@JonLordDread]

Use a small powerful rare earth magnet with a small section of felt to clear small sections of algae.

[@doge_ram7234]

Your videos are amazing, do you have any plans to try mushroom based ecosystems?

[@slavpepe6581]

It's always weird to hear him say his outro because it's the same thing the slingshot channel says

[@SouthBayLA1310]

Wait im high wym?

[@slavpepe6581]

@@SouthBayLA1310 they both say "thanks and bye bye"

[@Vanisic]

Slav Pepe I LOVE JÖRG

[@TheDeadMeme27]

I guess because they live in neighbouring countries, Jörg is german and life in jars is dutch

[@slavpepe6581]

@@TheDeadMeme27 those are really far apart but I get what you're saying

[@monty9986]

btw somethign that might be good if you close and can clean glass for you to put a magnet and sponge configuration

[@danielle_dufault]

I love your videos, can you tell me what you use as a microscope? I'm interesting in stating an ecosphere but I want to document it for fun!

[@Zeisaurus]

great video pal! how's your ant colony doing btw?

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

I hope the leeches thrive, they are really cool

[@LifeinJars]

They're doing well so far

[@xX_wiLLiam_Xx]

@@LifeinJars thats nice to hear

[@Hapeeed]

Hi LIG, any chance you could tell me the name of the music? loving your channel.

[@koolfulms.v2497]

Hey life in jars!! Please join our ecosphere discord server! It's really helpful for identifying certain creatures and is overall a nice server.

[@koolfulms.v2497]

discord.gg/5VPyHcG

[@Amaling]

@@koolfulms.v2497 I ain't LIJ but can I join too? I just made my first ecosphere a few weeks ago to have some more nature indoors for the quarantined and I think I got a really good food chain set up, I'd like to learn some more

[@koolfulms.v2497]

@@Amaling of course

[@scottaw1981]

nice intro music

[@nathanmaynard686]

Hey everyone, I've been getting into making my own jar ecospheres but none of the jars I've found work well. Any advice? Also how do you capture these creatures with a microscope through glass?

[@daryasgarden]

I'm working on a really big paludarium now

[@LifeinJars]

That's awesome

[@SmolPotatowo]

4:20 (ayy lmao) "I promised myself I wouldn't use the microscope in this video..." Use it as much as you like! Always love the footage you get from it, really shows a new perspective.

[@savannahlevy97]

It was probably more a promise he made to himself for production purposes and not because of his watchers.

[@SmolPotatowo]

@@savannahlevy97 Fair. Either way I love the microscope shots.

[@danking9936]

I think those tiny things near the worm might be rotifers

[@user-sk6wt5dr2v]

Hello, Life in Jars and fellow jar people, after watching this channel and the associated ones, I am super interested in doing this activity for myself. I was wondering, if you had any tips or anything at all you could tell me about this? It seems rather simple, grab a jar, sterelize it, put soil, plants and water from random source and wait. I'm especially curious as to what types of critters will be /spawned into my jar-world. Should it be in direct sunlight or light from the window? Any type of plants? These are my main question, but I welcome any sort of info, hope to hear from you fellas soon, thanks

[@felpshehe]

The little things by the 5 minute mark look kinda like rotifers, microscopic animals, ciliated filter feeders.

[@sunberryflower]

I love seeing updates on the Paludarium. Btw, how can I send you fanart? 👀

[@LifeinJars]

You can send an email

[@BaronVonOtt2508]

The little animals look like rotifers.

[@rndmavis]

I wonder how dense the strawberries will get

[@thegregorypenis]

Joerg, is that you?

[@TheMastertbc]

5:13 Im guessing those tiny creatures are Rotifers

[@sagivn.s2237]

hey man i dont know if youll see this, but today i followed in your footsteps and made my first seacosphere, but im worried because all i have inside is a single piece of brown sea lettuce i found on the shore, the jar looks like its empty of life, no small animals or nothing. i was thinking of starting over with something greener ,could you give me some tips?

[@RaycuSwift]

What music did you use during the microscope bit?

[@Jouniii]

Can you do new video about your isopod colony

[@ivygarcia6878]

Strawberry? Like the fruit? 🤔 Never been this early before 😁

[@LifeinJars]

Yes. But wild

[@ivygarcia6878]

@@tomatotortilla I am aware of that but sometimes things have similar names yet aren't the same thing, I wasn't sure.

[@ivygarcia6878]

@@LifeinJars that is so cool! I'd like to see if they blossom then produce fruit

[@sayian1_998]

Hey Mate I had a question regarding the jars. I am trying to do this with my kids and what type of jars would we use. Do they have to be air tight sealed jars

[@LifeinJars]

Yeah they have to be airtight to make a closed ecosystem

[@wertyujh1]

Hi, i have a question. I made my own closed ecosystem by scooping up water from my nearby 'slootje'. Its been standing for a week now in a large (~3 liter) closed jar. It has become clear, but no animals or any life other than plants are visible. The plants are making o2, because I see a lot of bubbels. Is there a way to get life in there? Or should i try again from another 'slootje'? The water i took from now is not flowing, but is connected to a lot of water. I live in Utrecht.

[@karis2298]

hi! i need some help. i appear to have some kind of larvae that has wrapped itself in the vegetation in one of my ecospheres. any idea what kind of thing would do that and what this could be? i’ve never seen anything like it :/

[@itsjustalf7747]

Hay question, won’t this jar eventually have like most of its life go extinct sense the oxygen will be expelled but nothing to breath out carben(or somthing I forgot) or is the thing just close but not air tight?

[@lordwickham8034]

Hey Life In Jars, i have a closed exosphere form a swamp near were i live. At first, there were a crazy amount of organisms. But on day 2, all smaller organisms have dispersed. Day 2, all my snails died. And Day 3, all worms and algae has died. It is a now a baren wasteland, but a second ecosphere i had previously is still alive and thriving. What could have goon wrong? Edit: For location purposes, i live in Helena Montana

[@zombmomandrea6014]

Love your videos but wanted to suggest the plant you call a strawberry looks like Glechoma hederacea aka ground ivy😊 in your earlier video it did look like you had some type of wild strawberry in there but maybe the ivy took it over?

[@LifeinJars]

Ground ivy grows quite a lot differently

[@rndmavis]

@@LifeinJars I read this comment in your voice

[@ClaireFulmerAnyaHeirkoya]

I came here to say this! Ground ivy can grow several different ways. Take a look. pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Glechoma+hederacea

[@ClaireFulmerAnyaHeirkoya]

But I also wanted to say I love this video and this channel! ❤️