One Year Ago I Built an Ecosystem, This Happened 

20 years later: "...the wolves were taking over my tank ecosystem so I had to introduce a new top-level predator, the tiger."

70 years later, a new species suddenly appears and starts to make little terrariums of their own

I’ve rewatched this video countless times now, nature truly is amazing. Thank you for doing this for all of us strangers!

This eerily makes me think of how easily Earth could be a terrarium like this and has always been one from the start in some aliens room

150yrs later, the eco system was still thriving so I had to add another Apex predator. The top of the top. The one sitting at the top of the food chain. The predator that changed history forever. A human being.

Dude this is awesome.... I think I'm going to try to build one for my kids and let them see how nature and an ecosystem works

25 years later: as you see, the ecosystem has grown substantially. The redwood trees are coming along nicely. The beavers have built dams between two villages, and the humans have developed their own official currency. Wow,

That’s actually really cool to have it your room . It looks insanely professional compared to something I designed lol. That’s so cool you can put shrimp , and other animals like that .

It really inspired me! I built an open ecosystem and it's really tiny, I am keeping in some springtails, mites, snails and critters for now and planted some moss and plants. It's been days and weeks since I made it and I will keep it in my classroom, once it comes together completely established.

I've watched this so many times, and it's really amazing how beautiful nature really is. I hope humans can work together to protect it. Thanks for sharing and working on this, really helped me understand what the world really is like.

This is the first video of yours that I've seen and I'm absolutely blown away by this creation which far exceeds anything else I've seen on youtube. I also love that you present your own amazing work even though you have a speech impediment! My whole family is disabled (invisible ones) so it's great to see other people who can be at the top of their game and so confident in their work, even with challenges!

This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for putting in all of the time and effort, and for sharing!

30 years later, “I was definitely getting concerned when the mini humans I introduced discovered nuclear fission, and began to question if there was life outside of the terrarium.”

These videos are fascinating. They are a physical example of how an ecosystem works in real time. It is easy to get spatially lost in the details when thinking of larger ecosystems, such as an entire forest basin, for example. However, experiments like these really bring to light what just a few key ingredients (abiotic and biotic material, and energy) can lead to in just a few months to a year.

It’s quite inspiring that you can perfectly mimic an ecosystem , obviously not mimic , but make a functioning one , LOVE IT

I love everything about this tank and want to build something similar! I would love to know how you made the storm system! And is there a way to not have populations grow out of control? I don't want to have 10 tanks of all the baby crabs, lizards and shrimp haha Also, what are some of the other colorful plants you used? They were so cool!

I'm really enjoying the time lapse videos. It would be really cool to do a project where you explain how to build, and do a time lapse of its all over a long period like these videos. I love eco system builds and really wish I had the knowledge of how to build one

I would love to see like a full hour long video, going day by day on how each enclosure, of any nature, live and grow

I’ve worked in the aquarium industry for over 30 years and this tank is one of the best!

This is still my favorite tank. Not only the animals, i also love the plants. I hope you can make an update video.

The fact that it is not on something like natural geographic is insane

Wow, this really shows how ecosystems work and how animals use adaptations to survive!

This is amazing! So impressive the amount of effort you put into this, what an incredible project! 👏

I’m mind-blown and especially love the rainstorms. Seeing how the species relate to each other is fascinating.

Fantastic work man. Just incredible. Those crabs are amazing. This is the best video i have ever seen on TRvid.

I don't even have the slightest interest in these types of things, but the content you have shared was amazing and I watched it from the beginning till the end. great work

I am inspired. Once I am stable on my own, I will create my own ecosystem as well. Would love to hear tiny creatures that are usually out of sight, live, and thrive.

Wow, it's amazing to see how this paludarium has transformed into a self-sustaining ecosystem over the past year! The vampire crabs and mourning geckos are so interesting to watch, and it's clear that you've put a lot of effort and care into creating such a harmonious environment. It's great to see people taking an interest in building and maintaining ecosystems like this. Keep up the great work, and thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion with us!

Beautiful civilization my friend! Kudos!

This is such a good way to learn about ecosystems, predator-prey relationships and balance in these systems. This is the content I want to see.

This is the DOPEST thing I’ve ever seen in my whole entire life!!!!!!!!! I would totally pay this man thousands to come set one of these up in my house!!! ❤

I love watching your projects! It's so neat to see someone take such good care of the ecosystems they create.

This is so cool!!! The more rangy the plants became, the more natural it looked. Just beautiful!

This looks like an incredible project and I’ve always wanted to try something like it. Any ideas or resources for people to get started?

I love this setup, do you think you could put frogs in this setup instead of geckos? and if so which species would you get?

Not only the efforts he had put in building that thing ...we must also appreciate the camera works ...it felt like a full fledged documentary on NatGeo Great work man!

Oh my gosh! Absolutely the most fascinating thing I’ve ever seen! I had no clue this could be built. Beautiful!

Amazing simulation of this really good ecosystem. Interesting facts and Great Work!

how did he sustain the water so clean for months???? this is a real question and this is gonna be a huge tip for my tank!

I find these ecosystems beautiful and intriguing. I'd like to built one myself but I have limited time for maintenance. Can somebody expand on the required maintenance for these ecosystems?

This is quite interesting because I just learned about ecology and how the populations are balanced😮

Creating non-static equilibrium as in nature is a very hard task. You have shown great skill, knowledge and observational ability in mixing and multiplying these species together successfully. Congratulations!

2 years later: so I expanded the ecosystem to me and my neighbour's backyards and started remaking it from scratch, all the animals were happy about moving to a bigger tank. But a problem emerged. The geckos were overpopulating very quickly and the mini humans (who have grown into the size of an adult man) couldn't do anything about it, so I genetically modified and created new apex predators that'll chomp to the top of the food chain. The dinosaurs from the jurrasic park and world franchise.

Storms.! Wow. Ok I’m impressed! I was afraid for a while…..glad your ecosystem balanced. I am intrigued to see where this is going and subscribing.

It’s the first video I watch on this channel and all I can say, congrats for your work ❤

Would putting a red-eyed tree frog in this ecosystem instead of the other predators be a good idea? It would be really cool if you made a video of how to make a functional ecosystem.

Let us appreciate the fact he’s put in over a years work, however much money and a tonne of research, yet for us it’s a quick 8min video. Thanks for the video and best of luck with future endeavours.

Idea: Different tanks, different ecosystems, forest, underground, aquatic, etc later maybe after a week or so? Connect them to a larger tank than all of them and let them interact

Wow! this is incredible and beautiful. i don’t have the wherewithal to try this, but watching yours is so cool! your narration, videogrphy, and editing are superb!! did you learn all this stuff on your own or were you a bio person? :)

Kudos to you fella!.....Its just art❤

I showed my 5 yr old this video and now he is OBSESSED with making an ecosystem. I know what you do is on a larger scale, and it's BEAUTIFUL, but if you cN I would love to see maybe a mini ecosystem he could try to do himself ( with my help) from this g you can find outside and our very I expensive materials and small, SMALL animals.

I want an extended version of this sooooo bad

this guy's channel is growing faster than his homemade ecosystem

I dream of creating a massive ecosystem like this.

Your brain was so preoccupied on whether or not it could, that it forgot to stop and think about if it should. I'm glad you did. Amazing video ❤️❤️❤️

Love the video! super cool terrarium, keep up the good work. Love to see fellow terriumologists!!🎉❤😊

Very interesting experience. I wish I could have something like that. The rain is especially interesting. Where do you get all these species? Keep up the good work.

This was so dope too see. I want to build my own

This is not the kind of content I expect to see on TRvid but they clearly need more creator like you my friend. What a video

These videos are so cool, watching life bloom in a small terrarium, introducing predators and prey. Taking pets to the next level.

Amazing. I did not believe this could happen. I really love your videos. Youre doing a great job

I was wondering whether to make this paludarium or the desert one Which one do you think is easier to make ( price and attention to it ) also if you could, can you tell me hi hi animals would go well together in a tank this big or smaller

I just discovered your channel yesterday and I am fascinated. It is amazing and I need to show my kids. Thank you and pleeeease keep sharing 🥰

i could watch a 30 minute documentary about this, dude u gotta keep going this is S tier content

It would have been better if he did this on a larger area or a new full area ecosystem. 😂 Just imagine him doing it that way! Super

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I really want to make my own ecosystem just like this thank you for inspiring me

This is really cool! This inspired me to make a paludarium as a project!

As a Geo Ecology student with great interest for film and animation I’d love a project where you would film a nature documentary about small live in an ecosystem only to zoom out in the end to show the audience, that what they thought was an entire rain forest is actually the tank in this guys living room. Imagine the amazement over the video perspective, scientific study, ecological experiment and human craftsmanship!

1 minute felt like 20 in this video! If this was rateable, I would give it 5 stars!!

do you think at a certain point you'd be able to seal it off entirely and it would sustain itself? and even stop the misting system and let it condense on it's own?

I wonder what you do to keep the water fresh? When I had fish in an aquarium as a kid it was alot of work to change the water all the time.

I wish there were more videos like this

Only finding this video now. Amazing stuff. How would something like this sell for, considering how impressive it becomes?

"50 years later the ecosystem has Grown exponentially. As you can see, lizard sentient beings emerged and started creating Facebook. Truly wonderful"

Would love to see a tutorial on a beginner "budget" paludarium.

i love your videos, they taught me so much!

Splendid job mate!

Please make more videos and even add sequels to the ecosystem videos

The holes in the background for the plants, how do you prevent the water from staying in there so the roots don't rot with the water sprinklers active?

In a YT filled with reaction videos, false sensationalism and just plain junk, it is so awesome to see this type of high quality content. Congrats on a cool channel!

Very interesting you’ve taught me so much about an ecosystem of life, thank you for sharing. 💚🐙💚🦎💚🐌💚🦀💚🐞💚🐜💚

Your videos are outstanding! Would it be worth considering adding fish or is it not possible here?

You have an amazing skill for this project so beautiful well put together with truest care I really hope you do something amazing for these echo projects for example crabs or whatever they call them that are sold on beaches and you can buy shells that are painted on well little do people know it’s so dangerous for them to have paint shells no one cares about them they think a sponge of water is ok beaches stores just don’t care I hope one day it’s shut down to do that

This is such a tease. I NEED to do this. I NEED more tutorials.!!!

Protect this man at all costs

I was already impressed but the rain segment...god damn. So impressed with people who can create and manage these awesome creations. Incredible setup and ecosystem you've built here man.

Awesome, you doing a fantastic job.Your own little paradise right next to your bed.I have created a ecosystem in two of my tanks. Its balanced I don't need to introduce anything new.Takes a while but worth it.

Hello, is there any way to balance the ecosystem? For example, replace the geckos with another predator or add another predator?

Yo! how easily can you hold your geckos? Could they be as tame as leopard geckos if you work with them enough?

To everyone wondering what that palm tree plant is called, its name is Biophytum sensitivum, or commonly known as the "little tree plant"

I love the rainstorm. What a beautiful tank!

I had an aquarium with enough plants and aquatic life that I eventually didn't need to put food in anymore. It was self sustaining and the water was crystal clear. Was like a master level setup. Crazy what nature can do if you just add the right ingredients and leave it alone. I had to move out of state an unfortunately gave it to a guy who didn't realize what he had. I think about that aquarium all the time. 😭

This is really inspiring me to build a tank with my son and my girls son,

So beautiful and rejuvinating! Nature is just great! You did a great job!

WOW!! You're an awesomely amazing hobbyist! Is this high maintenance? P.S sorry, I'm a new subscriber. 🙂

I just love this video, I watch it time and time again and it never gets boring. Keep up the great content!

Please please please make more videos on how to 1) remake this more clearly for people to make one of their own with maybe some substitutions if they don’t have the same things you have 2) how to upkeep and where do you find the food to feed the animals? Very interested in the subject. Thank you.

This is so incredible, I would be so scared to try look after something like this though, I would be so worried about over-population 😅

Absolutely captivating. How do you simulate rain?