An eco-sphere “is the world’s first totally enclosed ecosystem - a complete, self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass”. It demonstrates the interdependace of animal and plant life with Earth’s most precious element - water. It’s actually a science project initiated by NASA.
I just bought one online as a graduation present for a friend of mine that is going to work away from home and she’ll probably need to rebuild from scratch new human-ecosystem, a new human enviroment. I don’t doubt for one minute that she’s going to be ok.
I live in Europe, so I had to place the order with the european retailer ecosphere-europe. My beloved eco-sphere was shipped from Germany and it took just 5 days to be delivered in a nice securely wrapped package. It came with 4 well active and alive shrimps :) I didn’t expected it, but there was also a magnet inside to be moved with another one outside in order to clean the glass from the inside. The outside magned also came with a good looking ecosphere logo, nice!
Anyway, here’s how it actually work:
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