1 Month Update | Shrimp ENCLOSED ECOSPHERE

all right so it's been a whole month since we started this enclosed ecosphere [Music] it's my first time doing an enclosed ecosphere where i use aquarium fish tank plants from the hobby and fluidal stratum and also where i put live invertebrates into the tank on purpose so there's sven the saddled shrimp against my better judgment that i put into here she is a pioneer of sorts paving the way to the future of my ecosphere adventures then we got alfred the little pawn snail i put in there to keep sven company or i don't know emergency food anyway we sealed it up and here's what happened in a month [Music] okay i'm pretty sure i did not put another pawn snail in this enclosure alfred blew the heck up like he got jacked he put on the gains bro i don't know what to say sven is actually still alive so i'm still a good human being for putting her in there no guilty conscience keeping me awake at night yet this vents just chomping away i imagine there's a lot of new bacteria growth and maybe even some algae spores good stuff we got some funky business up in the java moss area the heck is this it has the color of bacteria but the texture reminds me of some algae i can't say i've ever seen this before here you can see sven slowly beginning to realize that this is her whole life now and that she's stuck with alfred for the foreseeable future she's going through a depressive phase where she chooses not to eat as much i just made all that up actually she's just resting or maybe i don't know she really might be thinking that who knows here's alfred not giving an f why is he so big now [Music] all right guys i didn't expect this but seems like a ram's horn snail hitch hiked into our little experiment that's okay though more friends for sven [Music] also a lot of cyclops have hatched they're little buggies that don't hurt nobody oh no sven no i'm just kidding shouldn't have done that to you guys that's just sven's shed it's actually a very good sign that cement is healthy and thriving because they shrimp only sheds when they have enough nutrients to outgrow their exoskeleton yay goes fan now remember how i put some floaters right before we close this baby up well now look at them they've covered the top and i still don't really know if this is a good thing i know for sure they have drastically helped in detoxifying our enclosed environment they've also limited and control the lighting effects on the whole system as well so that lg is kept at bay and the rest of the plants can thrive still i have yet to determine if that's a blessing or a curse i'm getting slightly worried that they're growing way too much and way too fast to be sustainable but they sure do look cool [Music] there's alfred and here's sven [Music] wow the pearl weed is really reaching for the stars all right a whole month has passed here's our ramshorn didn't grow too much from the last week not a heavyweight champ like alfred the pro wheat is only growing taller i'm a little worried they will not know to start carpeting unless they are trimmed a few times which of course can't happen because the laws of the universe dictate that an enclosed ecosphere is not to be opened ever they are growing quite well though i'm very impressed by the other plants as well they've all been growing quite nicely it seems i've somehow hit a balance straight away with this tank as there wasn't even any bacteria bloom or algae bloom or new tank syndrome i believe that's largely due to adding these albania and duckweed they continue to cover the top of the tank and grow more and more they're definitely taking lots of light from the other plants but in turn they keep their growth balanced and keep algae at bay i'm wondering if that's a good thing or not because it means less food for sven and his buddies but this also means oxygen production is quite efficient and should be plentiful which is very assuring is doing great i haven't really kept an eye on her that much but she seems to be a little less active this behavioral change could be due to her slowly realizing that there is less and less food accessible and her instincts may have kicked in to reduce energy expenditure accordingly which is pretty darn cool in my books but yeah the java moss is also doing great the limnophyllus asylum flora is doing great the rotala rotundifolia is being a bit shy perhaps unable to keep up their competition with the limnophila and other plants and getting outshaded but that's okay we don't really need them anyway and yeah that pretty much sums up our first enclosed ecosphere with shrimp experience after a month i'd say things are going very smoothly especially for my first time nothing bad has actually happened yet knock on wood but i'm famous for my famous last words so we'll keep an eye on it and i'll be continuing these updates for you guys in the future make sure to give this video a like if you liked it and subscribe if you haven't already so you can catch all the new content 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Length: 6min 37sec (397 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 14 2020