Full miniBIOTA enclosure with six living habitat chambers and four upper atmosphere-processing tanks

A living biosphere · Built by hand

A living world, close enough to watch how everything connects.

Inside the enclosure, six living habitats share the same air, weather, and seasonal rhythms. By bringing freshwater, land, and coastal ecosystems into one space, you can watch how soil builds, how water cleans itself, and how life balances out as the system grows.

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The complete six-chamber enclosure · studio view

The record Six biomes · three realms Latest entry July 13, 2026

A small world that makes relationships visible.

Six biomes across three realms house real organisms inside a system engineered largely from scratch.

The habitats connect in specific ways. They share atmosphere, humidity, and overhead light. Organisms and organic matter cross boundaries. Rain moves down the terrestrial slope through the Lakeshore into the Freshwater Lake. The saltwater side circulates separately and never mixes with the fresh.

Those are the kinds of links that hold a landscape together. This one is small enough to watch them work.

From the living system

A Bigger Batch of Hornwort Goes Into the Lake

After a small piece of hornwort added June 30, 2026 was grazed down quickly by the Slough Crayfish, Josue introduced a substantially larger amount from a multi-gallon culture on July 4, 2026, betting the larger standing…

A field notebook beside the miniBIOTA enclosure.
A closer look at what is changing inside miniBIOTA.
  1. 01 Hornwort
  2. 02 Slough Crayfish
  3. 03 Ghost Shrimp
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The system behind the habitats

Look closely at the machinery behind the weather.

Four vertical atmosphere processors were built to condense rising moisture against cooled surfaces and return it to the habitats as rain.

Sealed atmosphere tower with internal trays that condense and return rainwater
Condensation tower that transforms humidity into rainfall.
  1. 01

    The stacked internal shelves give moist air repeated surfaces for condensation during active cooling.

  2. 02

    During active cooling runs, condensate collecting on the chilled rear glass demonstrated the enclosure's closed rain cycle.

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Watch it change

Each of miniBIOTA’s six biomes is photographed straight on every day, building a visual record that stretches back years.

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Freshwater Lake

Quiet signals from the enclosure

Weather across the six biomes.

Live temperature and humidity readings reveal the different microclimates taking shape across the monitored biomes.

Not currently monitored

28.1°C · 100.0% RH

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28.5°C · 87.0% RH

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27.5°C · 37.8% RH

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27.0°C · 39.8% RH

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Not currently monitored

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