I Left Water Outside For 1.5 YEARS

I Left Water Outside For 1.5 YEARS - Aquatic Succession

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This video shows what happens when leaving an empty body of water outside for over a year, one and a half years to be exact. Due to the process of ecological succession, but in water, known as aquatic succession, this empty tub of water, the outside aquarium, turned into a thriving new ecosystem over the course of months, eventually turning into a young green and living freshwater habitat after just 1.5 years. This ecosystem includes a wide variety of microbes, but also macroscopic animals like mosquitos (no-see-ums), crustaceans (ostracods or seed shrimp) and springtails. There's even an aquatic plant in the form of duckweed.
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@gigachad2632

Can you drink it for 1 like

@eddiemudie952

Breeding mosquitoes should be legally classified as an act of biological warfare and punishable with life in prison.

@kainvancalcar585

The best thing to happen in 2024 so far

@alecity4877

malaria tank

@Dragonpsychologist

Never before have I mourned the loss of a plastic tub of dirty water

@doifhg

I salute your bravery, the amount of mosquitos I have to deal with without standing water is more than enough for me to never even attempt this

@WhiteCloudAffinity

Bros neighbours wondering why there are suddenly so much mosquitoes

@FunFindsYT

I felt a shiver down my spine when I saw all the mosquito larvae in the pond. I could never

@Aramarth

For the next time you could do two tubs, this will maybe show that even they are close by another, they might have different species and different development, which of course would be waaay coool

@DayrusBPB

Mosquitoes🦟: It's free real estate.

@OffYourTopic

this has inspired me to piss in a bucket and leave it on my front doorstep for 1.5 years in the name of science and ecology

@lepokebloc4198

You dripping your bare hands in the water makes my skin crawls everytime 😅

@unknowndude6381

the bird just wanted to hide the body

@prismaticat

I love the contrast between knowing the scientific name for a specific mosquito species and "i found... this stuff floating on top"

@BenignSteak2716

the development of these tiny ecosystems has always fascinated me, I've been considering a career in microbiology because of the fascination your channel awakened in me! That ending broke my heart though...

@bw4708

I literally exclaimed “ooh, a springtail” out loud when you first showed the video so you can take heart in knowing you have at least taught me to properly identify those 😂

@rallekralle11

i believe the "duckweed" you saw was in fact a random dicot seed germinating under water.

@nicholaskemp2246

Yaaaay! You're back.

@0hellow797

I made a teeny jar ecosystem awhile ago, and it was doing okay but died down for awhile. Then I looked recently, (almost exactly a year later by happenstance) and there were little dudes swimming around again!