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Subject: OT or not OT...for sackrat

CrazyDawg opened this issue on Jan 11, 2005 ยท 19 posts


CrazyDawg posted Wed, 12 January 2005 at 8:46 AM

Sackrat here you go mate an image from one of the many books i have and some information on the Sea Monkeys(Brine Shrimp). Just over a centimeter in size, the adult brine shrimp Artemia is an extremely wellknown animal because of its importance as a food source for fish and crustaceans raised in home aquariums, aquaculture systems, and in laboratories. One can buy brine shrimp at practically any pet display. It looks like a powdery brown substance but in reality the substance is thousands of cystseggs surrounded by protective cases. When added to water, these cysts will hatch into shrimp nauplii within a few hours. Under magnification, the elongated shape and eleven pairs of limbs give this organism a shrimplike shape, but Artemia actually falls into an order of primitive crustaceans. Various pigments from the phytoplankton that the shrimp eats give hues of blue, green, and red to the otherwise transparent body.

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