{"id":21065,"date":"2012-01-20T10:17:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=21065"},"modified":"2012-01-20T10:17:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:17:55","slug":"blueiq-miniature-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/accessories\/blueiq-miniature-ecosystem\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUEiQ Miniature Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you like the idea of having a little ecosystem to look at in your home\/office\/classroom\/etc, but don&#8217;t want to dedicate a whole lot of time, this might be for you. The BLUEiQ has options- you choose which rocks, plants, livestock (shrimp\/snails), then just follow the instructions once it all arrives and you&#8217;ll have a miniature ecosystem that requires little upkeep- just top up the water when it evaporates.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BLUEiQ Miniature Ecosystem\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/blueiq-ecosystem-2.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also, if you&#8217;re not too fond of the angled top glass container, you can order items separately for your own container, just be aware that livestock won&#8217;t have the same warranty. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The BLUEiQ is a miniature ecosystem designed to be educational and beautiful. The goal of the BLUEiQ is to provide its owners with a better understanding of how ecosystems work and of the natural mechanisms that manage the balance of life within them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblueiq.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">BLUEiQ<\/a>. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, if you like the idea of having a little ecosystem to look at in your home\/office\/classroom\/etc, but don&#8217;t want to dedicate a whole lot of time, this might be for you. The BLUEiQ has options- you choose which rocks, plants, livestock (shrimp\/snails), then just follow the instructions once it all arrives and you&#8217;ll have [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[120,407],"tags":[140,448],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/blueiq-ecosystem-21.jpg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}