I got a lot of questions about how to create a terrarium so figured I'd make a video on the process. Thank you all for 50K+ subscribers! I absolutely love making these videos and it's fantastic that people across the world enjoy what I do. I feel like I'm building a great community on this channel and can't wait to see what the future holds. Hope you guys enjoy the video. Plenty more on the way!
You actually inspired me to get started on a terrarium, I’ve always been interested in this kind of stuff, and after seeing the great community and help for it I’ve decided to go for it. Thank you so much man! Keep up the great work
Amazing video, so helpful! I’ve tried making terrariums before but none of them survived for that long, do you have any key advice especially in making a forest floor one like this?
This is the reason that I’m here. Homeschooling my guy for 5th grade next year. Hope to create a terrarium with him when we visit our local trail in fall.
We did it in 6th grade class called earth science…this was late 60s early 70s. We were lucky as we graduated before all the cutbacks and defunding of schools in the USA.
I have an anxiety disorder an I approve, it reminds me when I was a kid, watching insects in the garden of my parents. Nothing to worry about, just having fun watching spiders eating some stuff
i can't believe that there's that much animal life in one or two scoops of dirt boggles the mind makes me think how i've never noticed them when digging in dirt as a kid
I have a massive colony (do you call it that way?) in my front yard. It seems they change both color and size sometimes. Is this because of breeding with other species or food related? I'm a newbie so I don't know. But it's nice to see. Sadly my garden is the only paradise for insects on the whole street.
It's amazing how much life there is all around us! By doing this you have allowed us the opportunity to observe these species with which we take for granted. How magnificent thank you!
@@bron0726 You will get some centipedes, woodlouse and earth worms most likely if you were to scoop up a good amount of moist soil alone, for Harvestmen you can just find them hanging out behind any dark crevices in the garden, these all apply to most UK Gardens
How much water did you add? You didn't show... Also, do you think it will be possible for you to create a bigger ecosphere that has both land and water? That would be so cool! I don't think you can do that with a jar, but maybe with some sort of a terrarium.
Uhm, you do know that a terrarium is for terrestrial life, as in things that live on land. I'm pretty sure you don't add water to that. Also, that would be pretty cool to see, but probably even more work. Let's hope he does.
@@mrsqueak4837 Well something that size. I don't even know how he would separate land and water anyway. Maybe he'd need to use a bowl or something although that would be far from ideal.
So, an ecosphere containing both land and water biomes is called a Paludarium. It is possible to do this in a jar but the hard part is separating land and water for drainage, so aquarium tanks generally work better. As for how much water - I have a terrarium (closed and sealed) where all my isopods just keeled over an died in one night, and I assume it is because they ran out of water to filter through their gills... Getting water right is hard as you need both dry and damp places I a terrestrial ecosystem with animals, but my strategy now is basically to keep adding water every now and then until my plants are bigger and most of the wood etc. Which soaks up water has rotted down. Really, so long as there isn't too much water, your plants and animals should be fine.
I think it's so cool that an organism seemingly as simple as a beetle will have a "home" that it returns to. Absolutely incredible. These ecosystems seem so interesting! It might be fun to try making one of my own sometime.
I’m from California soon to be moving too Tennessee planning on making one of these when I get up there! These videos inspire me everytime I see them thank you for making my day better everytime you upload
I love your videos they help us appreciate the smallest parts of life we seem to forget, Earth is heaven we must not take advantage of it, even when the sun doesn't shine there is always a new day where it beams ever so bright.
*Jartopia casually mentions having an apex predator in their house.* Friend: "What! How can you be so nonchalant saying that!?" Jar: "...it is a beetle."
Yeah, haha. When we hear the words apex predator we usually think tiger, lion, polar bear or Tyrannosaurus Rex, when in reality, even a predatory mite can be the apex predator in certain environments.
I just saw this for the first time. What an absolutely beautiful thing to see and even watch for hours and hours. I'm going to build one for myself this weekend. Thank you so very much for such a wonderful idea and fantastic video. Now I'm going to sit and watch them all.
what happens if there was an earthquake/tornado/tsunami/hurricane where you live lol? I want to this, but I live in texas. so I'm afraid of a hurricane or tornado happening.
I might be wrong, but these larger predators if they cannot reproduce they will die withing weeks, so its kinda self-balancing, the minor species will struggle within the first weeks and thrive after.
I have something like this on a larger scale. It's important to have predators - this maintains the natural balance. My isopods, if left unchecked, would eat all of the leaves and plants. However, I have a group of centipedes in there for population control (plus they're interesting to watch) which helps to maintain a healthy population.
Leave it to RU-vid to drop a random terrarium video in my recommended that sparks a desire to get big jars and fill them with dirt and plants from local forest preserves Your vids are great, dude and they seriously inspired me to go out and do this myself Thank you for making content like this
I'm really excited after seeing these videos and decided i want to create my own. One question i still have after watching some videos is on how you get the animals inside:) Any tips are helpfull!!
I find it amazing how all of these insects can end up together in this jar just by grabbing all of the other materials. It reveals how much life is blossoming around us without always fully presenting itself. I've never done this and I was waiting for the part where you collect the insects but then it turns out its just luck of the draw lol.
Terrariums have made me appreciate God's creations more from small critters to small plants that often get overlooked and ignored, there's beauty in it and i love the Lord and appreciate his creations more deeply, the glass jar also helped me understand the firmament more, praise the Lord for such wonderful things, i just pray humans stop filling their minds with sin, hatred and corruption over power and focused more on God and all the wonderful things he made for us to do and enjoy. Thanks for the video👍, Jesus bless you. 🙏
You are like David Attenborough. (I hope i spelled it right) in the smaller scale. Amazing amount of knowledge is passed here through little jars, its mind bogging how a handful piece of soil can contain a whole world for these tiny creatures. Hats off. I love it.
Garlic snail = awesome. Your macro shots are really well done!! Any reason you didn’t include a barrier (like plastic or mesh) between the gravel and substrate in this build?
Very cool video. Did all those insects and creatures just happen to be in the stuff you put in the jar, or did you collect them to be added? Could they also survive for a long time and maybe reproduce? I would like to try this myself, although I think the centipedes are pretty gross :)
Wow this looks amazing. Thanks for sharing. Few questions though: 1- What and how many animal species were added by you? 2- How much water was initially added? 3- Where do you usually keep it? 4- How much sunlight per day?
Mesmerising to watch, very informative and the music is just perfect. Even tho I am not a fan of beasties I truly appreciate their vital roles in life and nature. Thank you again.
When you bring it home to do just lightly soak the substrate and then close the lid and leave it like that? I'd love to make one of these as it looks so incredibly awesome.. How often does a terrarium like this need to be watered or is it pretty self sustaining?
Since i am new to this channel I have a question. Do all ecosystems need to have a light above them or daylight works. Also if a light is needed then is any light fine?
Sunlight will cause the glass contents to overheat, killing the organisms. Light is needed however, to allow the plants to photosynthesize to generate oxygen for the animals.
