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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