One Year Ago I Built an Ecosystem, This Happened

Vampire Crabs, Mourning Geckos, and so much more! Over the past 12 months, this paludarium has found balance and evolved into a tightly-knit ecosystem. If you have any questions, please let me know!

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#ecosystem #paludarium #vivarium

[multifister]

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,

[jeffsaltzman]

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

[vanilla_badger]

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

[kahiauandkeeaola]

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.

[zaximusdecimusmeridius]

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.”

[motorbikeray]

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

[guywitcurlyhair]

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

[qWenzou]

This guy deserves a Netflix documentary

[miirami]

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!

[jameshenderson]

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

[simonfea]

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

[The_Horizon]

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

[anggaihza]

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

[lillianlg]

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

[caraj]

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.

[cameronjones]

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!

[AjeetSingh-xqyb]

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.

[jocogi]

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!

[shefilipina]

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

[legendmagnet]

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!