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Published: 2013-12-04 12:39:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 5028; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 5
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Science can be art, yes? I decided to take a bit of a break from my digital work and rekindled an old hobby. This is my attempt of making a closed ecosphere. It’s a large 5000ml boiling flask that my highschool chemistry teacher gave to me. Think terrarium, but with aquatic plants instead of normal moss and shrubs. If I balance things correctly, I should be able to seal this up and have it regulate its own nitrogen cycle so that all I need to provide it is light.
So far I have a rapidly growing Anacharis plant to provide the oxygen and a dozen or so Red Cherry shrimp to keep the algae down and CO2 up. We'll see how well it fares in a few weeks. =]
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Very cool, but you might wish to rethink the "sealed and self sustaining" thing. Those so-called closed ecospheres are a slow disabling death to the animal occupants, and not much better on the plants.
Still the potential to be a really cool display, you could even put a bare 3 watt LED into a test tube or something and submerged it down into the throat - your light source would be totally underwater and the whole thing would glow.
Come on over and hang out at www.plantedtank.net/forums/ind… - lots of us over there! -Jbrady33
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