Need help(High school science fair project)

[boldtogether]

If you do this be sure to have masking panels to block the light from all but the top inch of the tank or bottle. Shine a light at the surface, from a side angle, and the newly hatched nauplii will be attracted towards the light and concentrate their numbers in the brightest area of the vessel. This makes them a bit easier to observe.

I have only hatched brine shrimp a couple of times and thought it was fascinating how long the eggs could remain dry and seemingly dead only to be hatched in like 24hr. The one thing I didn't do was grow them out...aparently they grow to a fairly substantial size...big enough to feed larger fish....

 

[Oddball]

If you don't want to have to deal with the brine water conditions, raise fairy shrimp. They're a freshwater shrimp similar to brine shrimp.

 

[kroxabp]

Yeah I'll be looking into it.. plus the big boys might get a meal out of it.

Oddball even easier thanks never heard of them

 

[convict360]

Oddball and boldtogether's ideas are great, I was gonna suggest something like breeding guppies; but I think the shrimp idea etc would be far better given the circumstances

 

[kroxabp]

thanks. appreciate your input Ithink the shrimp is the way to go. until i come across another plan. thanks people.

 

[Jamesrazel]

A terrarium would be pretty cool. She could go over the biology of the plants that she would manage to grow herself.

 

[kroxabp]

hhhhmmm i have done a living vivarium for crested geckos before that was pretty fun. but they are only 10 gallon tanks not a lot of grow room I want to try an avoid buying a whole bunch more. And she wants to keep it water related

 

[Jamesrazel]

hhhhmmm i have done a living vivarium for crested geckos before that was pretty fun. but they are only 10 gallon tanks not a lot of grow room I want to try an avoid buying a whole bunch more. And she wants to keep it water related

Well lets go uncle of the year go get her a 40br ;p

 

[kroxabp]

haha.. if i did that i might end up turning it into a growout for something else and forget about the project lol

 

[pelleeklund]

Not sure how you could display it but maybe you could base your idea on an aquarium cycling process. Nitrates, Nitrites and whatnot. You could use the master test set to show the different chemistry of the water.