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cornellwright on June 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A sealed bottle garden thriving after 40 years wit...

I have an Ecosphere that's around 18 years old. There are still a couple shrimp (well I'm guessing offspring of the originals) alive. It's pretty cool.

qq66 on June 7, 2014 [–]

That's really amazing. Has it stayed relatively undisturbed? Where is it relative to light?

Your shrimp are new shrimp made out of the same molecules as their ancestor shrimp.

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