making ecosphere from cucumber brine in jar, day 1
i put dirt in there, pieces of meat and rotten tomato. also i left one piece of meat on street to rot, tomorrow I'll put it in. someday i want to go to some lake and take seaweed and life from it to the jar
Please don’t catch any invertebrates to put in there. Freshwater plants and animals are pretty much guaranteed to immediately die, so it would be cruel. A solution of salt and vinegar is quite hostile to life, which is exactly why it is used as a brine for pickles – keeps any organisms from growing. (Assuming this isn’t a joke post?)
fl0pi3
Thats going to be the most disgusting aweful putrid smelling jar. Vinegar and salt are antimicrobial at those levels, its going to sterilize pretty much everything except maybe a small pop of acidophiles which you’d need a microscope to view. If you put anything live into this it will just be torturing them to death.
Someone on here did this super guide to making an ecosphere, not sure if its pinned or not. Im on mobile so dont want to back out and look
Edit to add: completely agree with the other commenter. To reiterate dont do this
Dynamitella
Hint: The eco in ecosphere should support life. You’re creating a hostile environment meant for death.
You can get a microscope and look at what you created, but don’t add anything alive please.
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Please don’t catch any invertebrates to put in there. Freshwater plants and animals are pretty much guaranteed to immediately die, so it would be cruel. A solution of salt and vinegar is quite hostile to life, which is exactly why it is used as a brine for pickles – keeps any organisms from growing. (Assuming this isn’t a joke post?)
Thats going to be the most disgusting aweful putrid smelling jar. Vinegar and salt are antimicrobial at those levels, its going to sterilize pretty much everything except maybe a small pop of acidophiles which you’d need a microscope to view. If you put anything live into this it will just be torturing them to death.
Someone on here did this super guide to making an ecosphere, not sure if its pinned or not. Im on mobile so dont want to back out and look
Edit to add: completely agree with the other commenter. To reiterate dont do this
Hint: The eco in ecosphere should support life. You’re creating a hostile environment meant for death.
You can get a microscope and look at what you created, but don’t add anything alive please.