I've done jars with pond scum before, and they are very interesting and entertaining. before you know it, you just stared into a jar with dirty water for hours 😂
@@LifeinJarsSodium vapour lamp, only shines one specific frequency of light, and they used to use them for streetlights so they should be easy to find secondhand
Great idea. And I think green light would be the most interesting as it's the least utilized light frequency. Will there be some uncommon red algae that take over?
@@LifeinJars The further north you go the more people are enamoured with the Black Death of candiy, luckily it's just a little bit toxic and you have to eat a lot of it to poison yourself. The Finns barely hide the secret underlaying deathwish with their Salmiakki concoctions, "Let's take this tar candy and make it super salty and maybe a spicy extra hot variant too!, it's like eating molten aspalt!"
The worm looks so alien, i cant imagine what life would look like on other planets if earth can produce things that look straight out of a science fiction movie.
I was thinking about adding watching a bladder snail crawl over a limpet snail to my morning routine and with the release of this video I can finally take that step. It’ll really help me rise and grind, thank you for everything you do, LifeinJars
It would be awesome to do something like this but with a slow, constant supply of hydrogen sulfide. You'd want to keep it closed with a filter on it, since hydrogen sulfide is both toxic and it stinks, but microbes can and will feed on it. There's a cave with a whole ecosystem based on chemotrophs(Movile cave). It's a rather flush ecosystem too. Also, hydrothermal vents in the deep sea are built upon those hydrogen sulfide leaking vents.
@@Mr_42. There is however one more interesting anaerobic organism potentially available to us: Pelomyxa palustris. It's an amoeba that can reach up to 5mm diameter, and lives in anoxic pond sediment. That's even larger than the few anaerobic multi-cellular lifeforms we know of, which stay under 1 mm. Setting up a system that's actually anoxic at the bottom, yet provides foodstuff (organic matter) for the amoebae to eat would be an interesting challenge though.
Freshwater Limpets are AMAZING at cleaning the algae from aquarium glass! There's only one place I have been able to buy them from a store near me in Toronto, Canada. I highly recommend you get some more and eventually add them to your aquarium.
I just wanted to say you inspired me to take up this hobby. So far i haven’t had a lot of luck, but I do have one jar that is still alive after almost a year. There are no visible critters, but the plant is thriving and growing so it has to have microorganisms doing their thing. Its from a creek in my home town. At the end of the month i’ll be driving across the US and my daughter and I are going to try and collect materials from the Mississippi river.
I enjoy your content! Entertaining and educational! Just wanted to mention that the red larvae you called a mosquito larvae is a midge (family Chironomidae) which is a non-biting insect. The mosquito larvae is from family Culicidae. It has a larger head, thorax and lives more freely in the water column.
Sometimes I just can't help but project thoughts & feelings onto the inhabitants of these jars: LIJ: Here we have a big diatom.. Diatom: *I* come from an _amazing_ line of prime specimens 😁 LIJ: In fact's it's the greatest I've ever seen.. Diatom: *Yeess!* I am THE ALPHA! My line will outlast _everyone_ else! 😎 LIJ: Unfortunately diatoms tend not to do well without sunlight.. Diatom: _huh.. wait_ WUT?! LIJ: I'm going to keep this jar in absolute darkness in my closet for a week.. Diatom: 😱 [One Week Later] LIJ: _Unfortunately I have not seen the diatom.._
I'm enjoying my ostrocod jars with algae and duckweed still. They can't be closed entirely because they are too small and require a tiny bit of air flow. But the pin sized holes also helps most the evaporation to a minimum. Thanks for encouraging me to do this, I've always wanted to! I've make many off shoots from the mother jar over the years. 6 years going now!
I have a jar that looks like a hellskape, with hundreds of sewageworms as the only bigger lifeform. My other jar on the other hand has crustacuans , snails and planaria and the water is crystal clear! Fascinating how this ecosystems take different evelutionary paths.
this is truly the kingdom hearts of life in jars videos. as always i’m excited for updates whenever they end up happening! also, i love those mysterious worms!
Can you combine two ecosystems via a thin pipe and have one receive a lot more light while the other having more nutrients? Will the two jars have local ecosystems? How much will they mix?
I accidentally created a bunch of enclosed dark ecosystems that got to sit for about half a year. When I finally remembered their existence and opened them up they were still quite lively! The organism that survived was mostly different Oligochaeta and Chironomidae but also, surprisingly, a lot of Hydrachnidae. In one of my jars they were almost only Hydrachnidae, and a lot of them
Something that would be really interesting is to get the genomes sequenced of the things living in the jars and see what changes have happened, if any, over so many generations? I wonder if any evolution has taken place?
Love these experiments! I wonder if you had a closed ecosystem where one part was in darkness and one part was in light whether enough oxygen could be generated to support life in both.
10:03 “Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”
I love your channel. You helped me get my first few terrariums going and one of them lasted 2 years and was beautiful every spring. Keep it up as long as you're loving it cause we're loving it.
I don’t own a terrarium (and probably never will) but it’s always very interesting to see people like you pour their time and effort into this type of hobby
you should do some other ones where fuck with the light cycle to see how it effects the plant and animal life. like make some twinscapes with a 12/12 control, then more rapid cycles lke 6/6, 3/3, 1/1
I’m not sure if that was as dark as u think it was! I know for instance that growing plants in a cabinet, when you want to switch from ‘lots of light’, imitating spring/summer (so the plant can’t grow as much as possible) .. to lessening light, late summer/autumn (to make the plant switch to fruit/seed producing) .. you have to make sure all the cracks & seams are taped so that no light can get in, or it confuses the plant still
I remember subbing back when you had had around 1k subscribers. I was blown away back then. You have come so far from then! So happy every time you post a new video! Congratulations my boy!!!!!
You want to be inside my head? Okay, the moment you said that I was having the chicken and egg debate with myself. Why? Well you made the "every egg is a product of an egg" comment and that's how my brain works.
okay i have also an idea for a video What would happen if you froze a jar over a month and then unfreeze it and check what survived a week after the unfreeze
OH NO! I want to see you compare it to another jar of the exact same stuff that is given a regular cycle of day and night light and compare it to the total darkness one! It seems a shame to kill off all those creatures and diatoms!
How are you handling evaporation? Not just of water but other waste compounds that may be made by the organisms in the jar? Once those leave they can't come back unless you add them in
i love the idea of playing god inside a jar, theres so many possibilities, especially if you dont interact with these jars for years on end. keep it up
This was a really interesting episode! I want to see any closed jar ecosystem that you want to make. I found all the new creatures in this ecosystem very exciting. I hope they all make it and I think they'd be interesting characters in even an aquarium! I hope you're still feeding the birds.
Crazy that many of those creatures had never seen until you finally took the jar out, they probably would've laughed at their older compatriots when hearing of sunlights
Oh, I've seen a worm like that. Freshwater polychaete worm, I beleive. That, or an oligaechaete worm with a lot of congruent evolution. Regardless, its basically just a less prolific, more graceful tubifex.
I just wonder, what if you film them somehow without having to put them in darkness? Nightvision camera maybe? Although those are quite pricey... I just think that some of the organisms used to darkness may change their behaviour or even get sick when brought to light.
It should be very interesting to see how this ecosystem responds to no light, I'd imagine that pond sediment already is fairly low light so it might tolerate it better than most but only time will tell
Hey I’m curious if you still breed guppies? I’m interested in the combination between the Moscow blue and tequila sunset cross. What did the other generations look like? Did you get any yellow body but blue pigment guppies?
can any one recommend a good wireless microscope with over 1k digital zoom? I like to look at insects and plants, so something versatile but not one of those complete handheld units as I can't get a stable picture? ❤
this channel certainly has gotten more quirky as of late uwU i quite enjoy it :3 glad it seems like your having more fun being yoruself making videosss i wish this channel even greater success ^W^
Him: "I've evolved my own new species of isopod in this jar. Once they get passed their stone age, they'll be ready for agriculture!" Me: "I've got a jar of dirt! I've got a jar of dirt!"
Day 1 of watching this video every day🙌
You’re gonna watch your own video every day?
How the hell did you post this comment 16 hours before the video came out?
Day 0 of watching this video every day🙌
@@sirultim8643💀
5:08 i think it is a Branchiodrilus sp. (Naidinae, Naididae)
*scoops random dirt and water*
*has more biodiversity than any biology book*
The world around you is filled of life that you couldn't percieve. Those little pools and ponds are a spectacular parade of biodiversity.
I've done jars with pond scum before, and they are very interesting and entertaining. before you know it, you just stared into a jar with dirty water for hours 😂
It would be interesting if you expose the jar only to a specific spectrum of light, such as a red bulb in a photographic darkroom
Interesting....
@@LifeinJarsSodium vapour lamp, only shines one specific frequency of light, and they used to use them for streetlights so they should be easy to find secondhand
@@bytesabreBeware of the high UV content! It may cost your eye.
@@tiborfutotablet Sorry, to clarify I meant low pressure sodium lamps not high pressure
Great idea. And I think green light would be the most interesting as it's the least utilized light frequency. Will there be some uncommon red algae that take over?
I just love how he puts licorice alongside with loneliness, sadness and dead puppies
And cast iron 😂
It's a good description of how it tastes
Call me crazy, but as a Dutchman I actually love licorice
@@LifeinJars The further north you go the more people are enamoured with the Black Death of candiy, luckily it's just a little bit toxic and you have to eat a lot of it to poison yourself. The Finns barely hide the secret underlaying deathwish with their Salmiakki concoctions, "Let's take this tar candy and make it super salty and maybe a spicy extra hot variant too!, it's like eating molten aspalt!"
@@LifeinJarsTHANK YOU
The worm looks so alien, i cant imagine what life would look like on other planets if earth can produce things that look straight out of a science fiction movie.
I know right!
reminds me of the ghost leviathan from subnautica
as they say... life wins over fiction
The way it wiggles its little tentacles in the water.....*shivers*
Tubifex worms I see them in my ecospheres too they’re eating poo
1 hour of sunlight followed by 168 hours of nighttime. Sounds like a nice place to live!
"habitable" exoplanets be like
welcome to Scandinavia
@tahmidt You can welcome me to Scandinavia any time.
@@tahmidt or northeast Siberia. It's crazy to see the sun circling around the horizon.
I was thinking about adding watching a bladder snail crawl over a limpet snail to my morning routine and with the release of this video I can finally take that step. It’ll really help me rise and grind, thank you for everything you do, LifeinJars
So glad to have been of help!
I’m sorry for your presumably filled with future mosquitoes cabinet
The mosquito would probably die
You merely adopted the dark, I was Born in it.. molded by it..
10:01 Those crustaceans can relate
This has got to be the most unique content on youtube
Thank you!
i agree! this is the content youtube was made for
It would be awesome to do something like this but with a slow, constant supply of hydrogen sulfide. You'd want to keep it closed with a filter on it, since hydrogen sulfide is both toxic and it stinks, but microbes can and will feed on it. There's a cave with a whole ecosystem based on chemotrophs(Movile cave). It's a rather flush ecosystem too. Also, hydrothermal vents in the deep sea are built upon those hydrogen sulfide leaking vents.
I would love to see an anaerobic ecosystem
Most anaerobic organisms are simple bacteria, so it probably won’t be very cool🤷♂️
Balancing stuff would be cool though, but very complicated
We call those pickle jars 😉
Have you considered a Yoga Studio?
If he has a 1000x oil lense on the microscope it would be interesting
@@Mr_42. There is however one more interesting anaerobic organism potentially available to us: Pelomyxa palustris. It's an amoeba that can reach up to 5mm diameter, and lives in anoxic pond sediment. That's even larger than the few anaerobic multi-cellular lifeforms we know of, which stay under 1 mm.
Setting up a system that's actually anoxic at the bottom, yet provides foodstuff (organic matter) for the amoebae to eat would be an interesting challenge though.
11:20 "Jerry it's MOVING the jar...no, worms don't do that...where was i..."
casual Zefrank shoutout
Hello darkness my old friend
😂
Fun to hear other biology youtubers say behbehs
Zfrank intensifies
Your dry sense of humour is simply the best! Love your vids.. 💚
Thanks ;)
please never stop making these videos and being you, these videos brighten my day
Freshwater Limpets are AMAZING at cleaning the algae from aquarium glass! There's only one place I have been able to buy them from a store near me in Toronto, Canada. I highly recommend you get some more and eventually add them to your aquarium.
I have them in my aquarium already! They're great, and cute I think
0:00 JARSCARE WARNING
I just wanted to say you inspired me to take up this hobby. So far i haven’t had a lot of luck, but I do have one jar that is still alive after almost a year. There are no visible critters, but the plant is thriving and growing so it has to have microorganisms doing their thing. Its from a creek in my home town.
At the end of the month i’ll be driving across the US and my daughter and I are going to try and collect materials from the Mississippi river.
That sounds nice! Good luck and have fun.
those bird noises in the background adds such a perfect vibe to this video
I'm glad you like it
He was so focused on if he could, he never asked if he should!!!
It’s nice that the “jar guy” healed and went on to do this
Different jar guy :o
@@LifeinJars woah, really? are you related??
Amazing that he went to work that day
The green screen work is done brilliantly ❤❤
I'm 58 and finding this very interesting. I can still hear my mother's voice, "NOT IN THE HOUSE!"
I enjoy your content! Entertaining and educational! Just wanted to mention that the red larvae you called a mosquito larvae is a midge (family Chironomidae) which is a non-biting insect. The mosquito larvae is from family Culicidae. It has a larger head, thorax and lives more freely in the water column.
this is my favorite channel on RUclips, nay the entire internet.
Sometimes I just can't help but project thoughts & feelings onto the inhabitants of these jars:
LIJ: Here we have a big diatom..
Diatom: *I* come from an _amazing_ line of prime specimens 😁
LIJ: In fact's it's the greatest I've ever seen..
Diatom: *Yeess!* I am THE ALPHA! My line will outlast _everyone_ else! 😎
LIJ: Unfortunately diatoms tend not to do well without sunlight..
Diatom: _huh.. wait_ WUT?!
LIJ: I'm going to keep this jar in absolute darkness in my closet for a week..
Diatom: 😱
[One Week Later]
LIJ: _Unfortunately I have not seen the diatom.._
I'm enjoying my ostrocod jars with algae and duckweed still. They can't be closed entirely because they are too small and require a tiny bit of air flow. But the pin sized holes also helps most the evaporation to a minimum. Thanks for encouraging me to do this, I've always wanted to! I've make many off shoots from the mother jar over the years. 6 years going now!
I have a jar that looks like a hellskape, with hundreds of sewageworms as the only bigger lifeform. My other jar on the other hand has crustacuans , snails and planaria and the water is crystal clear! Fascinating how this ecosystems take different evelutionary paths.
this is truly the kingdom hearts of life in jars videos. as always i’m excited for updates whenever they end up happening! also, i love those mysterious worms!
i REALLy like where you are taking this channel, nice content as always
Thank you!
The transparent mosquito larvae is in fact a worm, an oligochaete. But I don't remember the name. I also got some from a pond
Can you combine two ecosystems via a thin pipe and have one receive a lot more light while the other having more nutrients? Will the two jars have local ecosystems? How much will they mix?
5:08 i think it is a Branchiodrilus sp. (Naidinae, Naididae)
Tubifex tubifex
Branchiodrilus Hortensis
@@DrFLANKENSTEIN_Official Yes but cf without molecular id
I still think it's an Eldritch God Offspring
I love seeing how over time your editing style/comments have gotten more and more chaotic lol. Love it.
At the end of the year you should combine all the jars together and see what survives
I accidentally created a bunch of enclosed dark ecosystems that got to sit for about half a year. When I finally remembered their existence and opened them up they were still quite lively! The organism that survived was mostly different Oligochaeta and Chironomidae but also, surprisingly, a lot of Hydrachnidae. In one of my jars they were almost only Hydrachnidae, and a lot of them
Something that would be really interesting is to get the genomes sequenced of the things living in the jars and see what changes have happened, if any, over so many generations? I wonder if any evolution has taken place?
Love these experiments!
I wonder if you had a closed ecosystem where one part was in darkness and one part was in light whether enough oxygen could be generated to support life in both.
I wonder how many mosquitoes will come from this jar.
I love that intro, I love that jar, I LOVE THOSE WORMS!
Wacky waving aquatic tentacle tubifex worm :)
wow, I love your tongue twister! but what about "Wishy-Washy Wacky Wiggling Aquatic Acrobat Tentacled Tubular Tubifex Worm"?
10:03 “Ah you think darkness is your ally? You merely adopted the dark. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the light until I was already a man, by then it was nothing to me but blinding!”
I love your channel. You helped me get my first few terrariums going and one of them lasted 2 years and was beautiful every spring. Keep it up as long as you're loving it cause we're loving it.
Entropy is real, it will wind down. Maybe it could have a hot spot, say an aquarium heater in the mud.
Very cool, especially those worms! I also love the scuds. Would love to see month, 6 months, and year updates!
I don’t own a terrarium (and probably never will) but it’s always very interesting to see people like you pour their time and effort into this type of hobby
gotta say, I've been watching for a while, and I love your new format. Awesome videos man, keep it up, love all your content!
i am here for little things in water but your charm and sillyness are a huge bonus
I am here for thr same thing. i already watch "Journey to the Microcosmos" and "Ants Canada" but omg i found another one guys
When topping off the water, pour it into a spoon that's just at the water surface. That will disturb the sediment less.
you should do some other ones where fuck with the light cycle to see how it effects the plant and animal life. like make some twinscapes with a 12/12 control, then more rapid cycles lke 6/6, 3/3, 1/1
Sounds cool
@@LifeinJars thanks
I’m not sure if that was as dark as u think it was! I know for instance that growing plants in a cabinet, when you want to switch from ‘lots of light’, imitating spring/summer (so the plant can’t grow as much as possible) .. to lessening light, late summer/autumn (to make the plant switch to fruit/seed producing) .. you have to make sure all the cracks & seams are taped so that no light can get in, or it confuses the plant still
glad to see you back on youtube with your amazing content.
what would the external energy input be keeping the jar alive? in this case is it additional oxygen? since there is no sunlight
I remember subbing back when you had had around 1k subscribers. I was blown away back then. You have come so far from then! So happy every time you post a new video! Congratulations my boy!!!!!
Thank you :)
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, good times, and good looks with us. You're the best!
You want to be inside my head? Okay, the moment you said that I was having the chicken and egg debate with myself. Why? Well you made the "every egg is a product of an egg" comment and that's how my brain works.
15:01 bros trying to reach a word count on an essay
Experimental experiment as all experiments are
okay i have also an idea for a video
What would happen if you froze a jar over a month and then unfreeze it and check what survived a week after the unfreeze
That tentacled worm looked like some sort of final boss
OH NO! I want to see you compare it to another jar of the exact same stuff that is given a regular cycle of day and night light and compare it to the total darkness one! It seems a shame to kill off all those creatures and diatoms!
are you making sure the water you top off with is sufficiently clean and pure to avoid introducing new nutrients and, perhaps, species?
Hello Jarness my old friend.
How are you handling evaporation? Not just of water but other waste compounds that may be made by the organisms in the jar? Once those leave they can't come back unless you add them in
i love the idea of playing god inside a jar, theres so many possibilities, especially if you dont interact with these jars for years on end. keep it up
Oh no I'm having an existential crisis!
Came for the jars stayed for the sense of humor
Ditto Dude
does it have to be air sealed at all times, or do i have to open it from time to time to let oxigen in?
This was a really interesting episode! I want to see any closed jar ecosystem that you want to make. I found all the new creatures in this ecosystem very exciting. I hope they all make it and I think they'd be interesting characters in even an aquarium! I hope you're still feeding the birds.
Crazy that many of those creatures had never seen until you finally took the jar out, they probably would've laughed at their older compatriots when hearing of sunlights
Complex topics are broken down so easily. Everything is made so understandable.
1:51 It might be a Tubifex Worm or maybe it's a polychaete?
He he, the little microbes zooming around was so funny.
Have you considered adding a bubbler to increase oxygen further? I know it’s an investment but I’m curious
ik ben blij dat je weer regelmatig videos post :)
Dankjewel verse driewieler
Can you do this with a blacklight?
Oh, I've seen a worm like that. Freshwater polychaete worm, I beleive. That, or an oligaechaete worm with a lot of congruent evolution. Regardless, its basically just a less prolific, more graceful tubifex.
I just wonder, what if you film them somehow without having to put them in darkness? Nightvision camera maybe? Although those are quite pricey...
I just think that some of the organisms used to darkness may change their behaviour or even get sick when brought to light.
It should be very interesting to see how this ecosystem responds to no light, I'd imagine that pond sediment already is fairly low light so it might tolerate it better than most but only time will tell
What do you do to compensate for evaporation?
He did top it off with fresh water in this video already
Top it off every once in a while
Could it be a Branchiodrilus sp.?
It might be!
Could it be a Syllid worm? Looks similar I feel
Really love your new vids, it's awesome to watch, just seeing how life adapts. It's also cool that you're showing your face more often too
I find myself wondering how long until this jar succumbs to thermodynamics!
This is going to be a fun experiment. Can't wait for the future!
I would like to see a jar with the limpets separately or the other species like with the copepods video
2:47 What species of worm is it?
Does anybody have a clue what that worm is?
The scan also called a seed shrimp there's little shrimp that have like clam like shells over their bodies?
I didn’t expect worms to have tentacles
experimental experiments are the best!
What microscope do you use?
A Zeiss microscope from the 70s, it doesn't have a model name (that I could find at least)
Hey I’m curious if you still breed guppies? I’m interested in the combination between the Moscow blue and tequila sunset cross. What did the other generations look like? Did you get any yellow body but blue pigment guppies?
At some point I put them all in a large mutt-guppy tank, so I don't really know what happened unfortunately...
Love this video. You speak to my soul; so funny and informational at the same time! Thank you!
can any one recommend a good wireless microscope with over 1k digital zoom? I like to look at insects and plants, so something versatile but not one of those complete handheld units as I can't get a stable picture? ❤
liked it, yo also im thinking on starting a close ecosistem in a jar, any tips on how to start pretty please?
this channel certainly has gotten more quirky as of late uwU i quite enjoy it :3 glad it seems like your having more fun being yoruself making videosss i wish this channel even greater success ^W^
Thanks!
Him: "I've evolved my own new species of isopod in this jar. Once they get passed their stone age, they'll be ready for agriculture!"
Me: "I've got a jar of dirt! I've got a jar of dirt!"
That worm may be branchiura sowerbyi, it’s invasive in some areas.
I was an egg once. then the egg cracked.
Based
🤨🏳️⚧️?
@@alur_chip8271 yes