Rethinking Jungle Bubble
Channel: dangerousfishbowl
Date: 16/09/2015

There is tremendous value in domesticating a volume of wilderness, if only a few gallons' worth, and if only in the corner of one's room, because doing so reinforces the bond between humanity and nature, which would otherwise atrophy with the technological ascendancy of civilization, ultimately to the point at which the great wild itself would be confined to museums or history books. If, instead, we gaze for a few minutes every day upon the tiny miracles that are otherwise so easily ignored, we might immunize ourselves against the shifting baseline of an ever declining environment, to which we erroneously recalibrate our definition of wildness, generation after generation. And that bowl, right there, can remind us that it was not always like this, for there was a time when everything was strictly organic.

Jungle Bubble: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9vkHe84xKk

Introduction to the Ecoquarium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYRAWyZtccw

Sources of large cylinders and bubble bowls: http://www.glassvasesdepot.com, http://www.reef-one.com, http://www.everythingbiorb.com, http://vasemarket.com

Sources of custom acrylic cylinders: http://glasscages.com, http://aquartaquariums.org