005.1 千呼萬喚始出來, 新科寶貝豐年蝦 - 自己動手作

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動手做主題:  孵豐年蝦
動手做的詳細步驟及材料: 請見內文
所需時間:約2星期
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(附上的影片是我們第一部Youtube影片, YA!按字幕有中文說明)

這個養豐年蝦的故事是怎麼開始的呢?  就是有一天, 小企鵝養了鬥魚, 結果企鵝爸和小企鵝兩個興致勃勃的計劃要孵小鬥魚, (三豬: 聽起來就是不可能的任務啊!) 可是小企鵝已經大方的跟同學說, 等小鬥魚孵出來要贈送給他們.  

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如果小鬥魚孵出來, 要餵它吃什麼呢? 答案就是豐年蝦, 為了準備良好的、優質的"鬥魚育嬰"環境, 我們要先準備好豐年蝦. 企鵝爸嘗試養豐年蝦, 從蛋開始, 失敗几次 (失敗原因包括: 小獵豹把後院的養蝦盆, 當家家酒玩掉了), 最後連鬥魚也年老掛了. 當然囉! 一隻小鬥魚也沒孵出來. (三豬: 有那麼容易的話, 竉物店早關門了.)

終於兩年後, 最近成功了. 企鵝爸每天都要早點名、晚點名他的蝦兵蝦將. 今天和小企鵝為了我們的新科寶貝 - 豐年蝦, 作了有史以來第一部Youtube 影片 (三豬: 沒想到這麼簡單). 影片是在顯微鏡下看豐年蝦, 像在跳舞, 很有趣. 

小企鵝不會寫中文, 只好請大家看英文筆記. 
內容是描述養豐年蝦要如何準備及我們失敗的過程. 現在我們養到第二代蝦子, 希望你的蝦子也可以長大, 如果你也養的話. 

                        Raising brine shrimp
                                                  By: Penguin

Before I got Honey (my hamster), my dad got this crazy idea to raise brine shrimp. Despite their name, they're these teeny, tiny shrimp that you usually wouldn't want to eat. My dad got the eggs from a friend, but if you want to raise brine shrimp, you can buy the eggs on Ebay or specialized aquarium stores. You'll also need:

• water
• a big container or aquarium
• aquarium salt (available at pet stores or aquarium stores) 
• a source of brine shrimp food (they sell brine shrimp food, but yeast works well for the first couple days, and algae works too)
• An aquarium pump

My dad used a plastic container for the container, since Honey already was using the aquarium. He filled the cashew container with water, and added the aquarium salt. We used 1.5 quart of water, and added 51 grams of aquarium salt. He attached the pump and poured some eggs in the water, which was already a couple thousands. Supposedly, the eggs should have hatched in two days, but some take a longer time. So if your eggs don't hatch in two days, don't get discouraged. 

We had tried to breed brine shrimp when I was seven. They hatched but my brother thought it was just a bowl of water with specks of brown stuff, so he mixed it up, pretending to be a master chef, and also, my dad used table salt instead of aquarium salt. Of course, the brine shrimp died. This time, when the brine shrimp grew two eyes, my dad acted like it was the best thing anybody could achieve. He called everybody we knew (or at least a lot of people) and told them about the news. 

Brine shrimps are easy to care for and hatch, but hard to raise them up, like how my dad was so happy when the brine shrimp grew two eyes.  Thanks and hope you enjoyed this!

  

P.S. This is how we looked at them, they became too fast to catch up with them using a microscope! Check out our brine shrimp swimming on;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4EUMyCT3Ls