Biosphere 4: This time, a guy built it in his garage.

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Ran across this recently and thought people here might find it interesting. I've been watching a lot of "sealed biosphere" videos on YouTube, recently, where someone takes pond water or dirt and plants and puts them into a terrarium, then never opens the jar. It's kind of interesting to see how species like ostrocods or springtails handle living in isolation.

This is probably the biggest and most complicated set-up I've seen, though. I've got a bit of mixed feelings regarding having a fish or a hermit crab in there... but also he's apparently still going to remove or add species as needed, and they've apparently done well so far.

He's got a website set up about the project, and apparently one day it'll have details about the set-up and live cameras for watching the environments.