"These could be parasites. Or not." A short time in university and we already see an academic here

“but if it’s not, it isn’t” this is the kind of high quality commentary i come to hear

"After 4 Months, the water turned this greenish, browish, orangiesh, beigeish, purpleish, Infra-redish" Can someone get me the RGB value on that?

“I left you... **childish giggle* in the dark” Love this channel

It's so interesting how small little worlds of animals exist everywhere and we don’t even think about it

I really enjoyed making this video, and talking about the biological aspects of constant light. Let me know if you liked the video!

I love that laugh after the dumb pun

next time u should make 2 near identical eco spheres (like from the same pond) and have one with the lights on all the time and the other with normal light. that way we can make better conclusions as to what the differences are. love the videos!

*jar is left alone for a year* worms: *straight groovin*

>Eight eyed blood hedgehog Aight I'm gonna stop you right there.

"If it's not, it isn't, and it might be something else" Truer words have never been said 😤😤

Watching this “lights” up my day.

I can’t wait for you to go into the field of biology and discover many more things. Like the sleep pattern of Boogie Worms, for example.

That ecosphere is lit bro

"Yeah baybee woo-hoo!" Love hearing you being excited about your passion. Keep up the great work!

*meanwhile in a tidally locked exoplanet with life, somewhere in the galaxy*

I can't stop saying this but your channel is completely, totally, absolutely utterly awesome.

Bro, soon this man is gonna make generation videos, and we’ll see some creepy humanoid creature

Please enable captions for your video, I have auditory processing issues and love your videos but have no idea what you are saying without captions! Edit: Thank you!

Imagine all the things in there think they have like 20 different suns and once a year or so they are like “guys guys it’s time, all the suns are about to all disappear “ like a solar eclipse 🤣

5:10 looks like a classic case of detritus worms, they thrive in low tech setups like that one. i have a setup (not an airtight ecosphere) and the worms love it. I think it’s because of the lack of filter, because they dont seem to enjoy high filter output. There’s so many actually, that i’ll feed them to my baby guppies. I haven’t seen brown ones, though, so maybe it is just a part of the algae like you said. ALSO, at 11:10 you mention that plants need darkness. This is true, but only because there’s a buildup of CO2 in darkness (since the plants are unable to uptake it without the presence of light). Diana Walstad covers this in her book. She did an experiment where she gave her plants a 4-hour “siesta,” or, period without light during the day, and the plants did exceptionally better due to that short period of darkness in which CO2 built up. cool stuff- check out her book! one more thing 😳 im sure this topic is far more vast than simply light and darkness, such as circadian rhythm, and probably much, much more. loved the video!

4:29 This snail is definitely a part of the Evergreen fleet!

My favourite type of unidentified things are the baguette shaped ones!

Fascinating how much life will tolerate the lack of a dark cycle. This is one busy ecosphere, with something happening everywhere you look. You just have to love those boogie worms, they always make me happy. I love your posts and updates, and am always pleased to see a new one. Thanks for thinking of us.🖤🇨🇦

I think it's due to this ecosphere getting more overall energy. Resulting in it being capable of sustaining more life.

I'd like to see a closed ecosystem made with a goal of keeping a specific complexish species alive, ex: it would've been cool to see the leech survive, or crab like in the salt water one

If the absence of darkness is the reason the night predator went extinct, I would find it interesting that it did not "get desperate" and attempt to hunt in the light. That's of course assuming the constant light didn't hamper its hunting abilities.

"Thank you very much and goodhi" That caught me off guard 😂

This is amazing, KZfaq's algorithm has blessed me once again

I have windowsills covered in jars of life because of you there all over a year old now, i saw my first green hydra and have hatched a albino bladder snail. I love your videos

I love the touches of humour in the video. Super interesting as well. Thanks for sharing your no-night ecosphere with us!

Just want to say that you inspired me to start my own ecosphere from my local river. Ive seen a lot of species including ones I didnt expect to see, thankyou.

Even though their whole world is bright, just imagine how "dark" it would be to always have the sun shining in your eyes. Even during your rest period.

The scan lines when the LEDs are on makes it seem extremely futuristic and I love the idea of scientists in the far far future, thousands of years away, discovering this jar.

I have a jar myself and it makes me so happy to look at it everyday and see all the little snails I have there.. people call them pest snails but I really like them 😊

Imagine what the organizims thoughts when the lights went away. "It was the begining of the dark times"

Fascinating it is still thriving after a year!

Glad I'm back watching you again man! Love your videos so much.

I always get so excited when he uploads lol

It's so funny seeing the boogie worms dancing, i imagine that they are listening music and enjoying their lives in that ecosistem, also the usaing bolt astracods haha, i love ur vids man. Pd:do you know why bogie worms dance like that, like are they eating or something?

I really enjoy watching your videos, you explain things that maybe I wouldn't find that interesting in a manner that makes it very captivating and entertaining!

Your big ecosphere updates are some of the best videos on KZfaq

Genuinely beautiful! Just found the channel pretty excited to check out the rest of the vids

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BOOGIE WORMS Your channel is amazing :D

It would be really cool if you added a way of inserting a pH and oxygenation probe, so we could see how this changed as the trial progressed.

This is the best birthday present 🎁

Really enjoyed the new video! Interesting theory at the end mentioning how movement of organsisms cause shadows. Keep it up!!

My ecosphere turns 1 year this month, just fine my update video, hugely inspired by your channel. It's sat in the same place all year round and looking great

Amazing how much life is inside of one jar. Love your narration also.

How did it take me so long to realize you had another video. Love these they give me life

very cool! will watch in a little bit very excited!

I really enjoy your work. And I always am looking forward to your next masterpiece

Wonderful. Loving these projects

so interesting seeing the different results things have on these ecospheres! Nice video :D

Great stuff with great music, Thnq again!

Excellent. I maintain several dirted, planted aquariums with 24hr light. Some for about 8 years. There is only string algae and stem plants thrive.

I only know your channel for like 2 years or so, but i've watched every single video minimum once, some twice.

Loving the videos! Many thanks

Your video production has gotten much better over the years.

Me: "I'm not sure if I'm interested in this video" Him: "EIGHT EYED BLOOD HEDGEHOG" Me: "Alright, you have my attention"

dit is meesterlijk dankjewel voor je video

This makes me weirdly self aware of how many tiny creatures might be crawling all over me right now...

Thanks for giving us the update!

Always glad to see a LIJ video.

Your sense of humor is the best

Love your videos! You have inspired me to make an ecosystem with my son! Hope you are well!!

if you ever plan to do something like this again, you should get two jars and use one as a control, so later on you can compare them :)

Watching this lights up my day

Outstanding! You have no idea what's happening or what you have living in there! So interesting to hear you say look at this, I just don't know anything about it

"If it's not, it isn't, and it might be something else". You crack me up :)

I've been watching these videos for years. I'm not sure why... I'm not a biologist nor do I normally care about microbes...but these videos are so cool

amazing vid keep it up!

I have all notifications turned on. I always love your content.

I love this. I learn so much from you. :) You make this fascinating to me. :D

I love this channel

This just gets me thinking about life and stuff

Oh and goodhi to you too buddy

Mine is doing ok as well!!! It’s been a bit over a year as well, life comes and goes, I opened it to add some seeds!

💚love this channel

Great video! Keep it up!

very en-lightening video

This is really really cool

I don't know why KZfaq suggested this to me, but 5 minutes in and I've already subscribed.

Excellent

That's really cool!

I love your commentary

I enjoy your content

i really like these kinds of experiments. imagine a closed ecosystem is like the beginning of life.

Thanks for the update. Always really interesting to watch your videos. Your closed little ecosystems show that life is so very resilient. After we humans are all dead and gone for whatever reason and the human driven mass extinction is over, life will just go on and after a few hundred million years only a strange, thin geological stratum will remain to show we were ever here. Life will be different but as abundant as ever. Who knows if there will be intelligent life to even understand the significance of our thin geological stratum. Probably not.

That’s awesome

Really like the video.

Very cool

From what I remember reading about sleep in insects, specifically ants, they do sleep, but they sleep for about 30 seconds every couple of minutes, so their sleep cycle has nothing to do with their current illumination. This is regardless of whether they are ants gathering outside the nest or ants who live their lives inside the nest where there is no light. I don't think these arthropods sleep during an inactive period of light or darkness. Instead, they enter torpor when they have to remain inactive for long periods (relative to their sleep cycle). Actual sleep for half a day in small arthropods would require too much energy to survive a night or day cycle. Its the same as how hummingbirds spend most of the night in torpor instead of sleep and how hibernating animals like (some) bears spend weeks in torpor. Sleep is so necessary though that animals who truly hibernate have to come out of torpor every couple of weeks, raising their body temperature and metabolism just so they can sleep, not waking, but returning to torpor afterwards.

Hi, everything is tickety- boo when Jar man uploads 🍀

Just realised He is playing Spore in real life. What a mad lad for being fan even now. :D

You looks like really having fun, Sir.

you should consider COB LEDs from Vera or cree and connect them to the top to simulate a light gradient in the jar. Thanks these are awesome we want more! Get a meanwell current controlled voltage source and a large passive cooler.

Imagine existing for your entire life not knowing what darkness is. Spooky

I would love to see what that closed ecosystem air chemistry would be after a year.

I knew you would shed some light on what happened