Tag Archives: light

Top 3 Animals and why?

Posted on January 14, 2012 by admin| 10 Comments

1. Angler fish, they are those really ugly fish at the bottom of the sea with the lights on their heads, they are bad ass, and use the light to get prey

2. Monkeys or any type of primate, I would love to have an orangutan to hug and play chess with, if you need any other reason to like monkeys, look at this:

3. Felines, but mainly house cats, I love their just apathetic and curious nature, it’s a lot like me, and plus cats can be used as fuzzy pillows.

Now you answer the question, and don’t contradict anyone else’s answer, because opinions are opinions and it’s pointless to try to start an argument or debate over it like “cats vs dogs”

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Baby triops help please?

Posted on February 27, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment

I got triops a week ago and did all the instructions perfect. I’m afraid something went wrong. I do have a lot of white things swimming around perhaps fairy shrimp. But I have the tank set to around 78F. Good light.

Are some of these baby triops? Or is it to late for ten and I’m just growing fairy shrimp :/

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I have an 8 year old sea monkey, for real. I was wondering if any other sea monkey has ever lived this long?? ?

Posted on February 23, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

I did a little searching and can’t really find much other than they only live up to 2 years. I got an “ecosphere” as a gift 8 years ago and it had about 5 sea monkeys (aka “brine shrimp”) in it, and they all died off after about 1-3 years except for 1, who is living forever (vampire sea monkey?! haha). I keep him in his ecosphere in the back of my open cabinet in the bathroom behind some figurines so it doesn’t get too much light. I saw if it gets too much light, the algae grows too much so he lives almost in the near-dark. It keeps the algae from overgrowing. I feel kinda bad for him…. Maybe I should try to get a world record or something?
Just to note: an ecosphere is a totally sealed glass egg shaped thing, about 80% filled with water, and little rocks at the bottom. Airtight, you can’t open it. The point is that it’s an entire ecosystem, with the sun feeding the algae, and the algae creating oxygen and food for the sea monkey’s, and so on. Anyone else have an old seamonkey, or ever heard of this?

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Posted in Brine Shrimp

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I bought an aquabreed 200 which is a brine shrimp hatchery that goes into the aquarium?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by admin| 2 Comments

and uses the heat from the aquarium and the light to hatch the shrimp. It states it takes 24-36 hours (not sure if that time frame is with lights on 24 hours a day – which of course they are not as that would upset the fish).
It has been about 32 hours. (They are decapsulated) Doesn’t seem they have hatched, how can I know for sure?
Also, what the hell is the smell about????
Got to be honest, not getting a lot (or any) helpful answers here people.

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Posted in Brine Shrimp

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Does an ocellus provide any directional information for an organism?

Posted on December 19, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment

An Ocellus is a simple eye in many invertebrates. Everywhere I research, it says that these eyes provide no information about the direction light is coming from. But I’ve tested this with larval brine shrimp (which supposedly only have ocelli) and they do seem to be able to orient themselves towards the light!

I’M STUMPED, HELP!

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