3. Daphnia (Water flea) Wouldn’t it be great if someone else could get rid of your green aquarium water for you? If you are nodding your head, then get yourself some Daphnia. This tiny creature will happily eat the phytoplankton that is turning your water green. Buy them live either ...
White planaria are aggressive predators and are particularly dangerous to shrimp. Shrimp eggs and baby shrimp make a tasty meal. However, it is not unheard of for hungry white planaria to go after adult shrimp too. While brown and black planaria do not hunt shrimp, they are more than capa...
Have you been looking for a new pet that is easy to care for and yet incredibly beautiful to look at? Look no further than the guppy.Guppiesmake fantasticpetsand are good additions to the aquariums of both seasoned fish owners and novices. Guppies are a kind of tropical freshwater fish nat...
Animal foods demand agreater input of resources like water, fuel and land, and contribute to deforestation and biodiversity loss, than plant-based foods. For example, the carbon cost of beef is about20 times more per gram of protein than it is for beans. More sustainable land-use practices,...
Chen said the findings have implications in agriculture, where farmers are increasingly looking to grow more food on less land. For example, when crops are planted at high density, they compete for light, often growing taller at the expense of yield. ...
Causes of Ich– This is caused due to ich parasites in the water which attack stressed out goldfish that have a lowered immune systems so, anything that causes stress can make your goldfish susceptible to common goldfish diseases Ich Symptoms– The goldfish are covered with something the resembles...
Since cell size for a given tissue type tends to vary less within than among species, pre- dicted cell-size effects may be more difficult to detect within species because they are more easily obscured by the effects of other extraneous factors. However, intraspecific studies of temperature ...
This seems to be related to favorable conditions for zooplankton development and, thereby, profitable food conditions for vendace fry; in Lake Peipsi, Daphnia and Bosmina species are particularly positively affected by warm spring water temperatures [63]. Nyberg et al. [18] suggested possible match...
Use an eye dropper to feed your fish fry a few drops of water that are rich with the infusoria and watch them grow! Method 1 Culturing the Infusoria Download Article 1 Choose vegetables to make the infusoria starter. You can use canned or fresh vegetables as the base for the ...
"How can the energy in a black hole's rotation be extracted to make jets?" said Kyle Parfrey, who led the work on the simulations while he was an Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow affiliated with the Nuclear Science Division at Berkeley Lab. "This has been a question for a long time." ...