Sea Monkies are, as I understand it, genetically modified varients of brine shrimp. Brine shrimp are found in the Great Salt Lake, and Sea Monkies have been ...
What kind of the shrimps does Ecosphere use?<br>Where can we get them?<br>Is brine shrimp same as key-monkey?<br>This will be a brand new hobby for me and I...
Wow - not even close. It is 9/23, just 5 or 6 days later, and all the freshwater shrimp are dead.<br><br>Hmmm - they were obviously missing something vital, or...
Hi all:<br><br>I started a freshwater biosphere today (9/17/00), with some algae and 6 Ghost Shrimp. Ghost shrimp look like they have great potential as a ...
My 4 new biospheres, capped 8/28, are doing fine. I've got young-uns in all but the 4X one... browsers of my homepage will recall that my longest-lived ...
Last night 8/28, I capped my 4 new biospheres. I'm trying various salinity levels, 1X, 1.5X, 2.5X and 4X ocean salinity levels. I'm trying to solve the lack of...
OK, after months of dragging my feet, I finally picked up some more Sea Monkies. I have some bottled h2o airing out, in a couple of days I'll start ...
I decided to see what I had left in the lab where my class was last semester. No one had cleaned up yet. The one surviving ecosystem I refered to in the ...
Now that my class is over, I don't have any Daphnia/Schenedesmus ecosystems going and may not have a chance to play with them again in the future. However, I...
The Sea Monkies all died out! Bum batch or bum water... don't know, can't tell, and it really doesn't matter. I'll get some new ones & try it again.<br><br>The...
The Deluxe Sea Monkey kit arrived in the mail. It contains everything the usual kit does (eggs, food, "purifier") - but I get a 4th packet ominously titles...
I've posted the results of the second set of Daphnia/algae experiments now. <br><br><a href=http://WWW.Biology.Vanderbilt.EDU/BioWWW/BIO101/round-two.htm...
Should be interesting to see what happens.<br><br>The Daphnia we used in our freshwater ecosystem did not seem to have any problem reproducing. There is a ...
I set up the bottles this evening. They ended up with salinities of 1X, 1.5X, 2.5X, and 4X (X = ocean salinity) due to the fact that my teaspoon-measure was ...
OK, before I go wild on Carolina, a quick experiment. My initial set of biospheres lived for months - they just never reproduced.<br><br>An email I got (and ...
Carolina sells spring water. However, since I was too cheap and in to much of a hurry to order it, I went to the grocery store and bought spring water there. I...
Hmmm - according to a couple of things I've read, the distilled water suggestion won't work. Evidentally there are enough vital minerals dissolved in "normal"...
I ordered them from Carolina Biological Supply (www.carolina.com - I think they'll do credit card orders). Here's why I chose those species. Their catalog said...
Interesting! Where did you obtain the Triops and Daphnia? Or even your algae, for that matter? Great web page, thanks for the link.<br><br>We have a freshwater...
Hi. I'm teaching a class called Fundamentals of Biology here at Vanderbilt. The students of the class are future K-8 teachers. One of our lab projects is to...
Here's my current sources:<br><br>1) Shrimp. You can buy a small vial of brine shrimp eggs at a pet store, or use the slightly larger and more hardy ones that...
1). There are a lot of things to consider for a biosphere. Light source, indoor-outdoor, earth to water ratio, internal structure, mass balance... It is my ...
Any info on freshwater biospheres? All the ones I've seen are salt. We have a small stream and pond near by, perhaps in the spring I'll see what lives down...
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