The first thing we did to start preparing the rocks for the accessory was we had to dry them so that the glue could stick the artificial plant on. We stuck them out in the sun. When they were dry, we hot glued the plant in a suitable hole that the plant could fit in and pushed it in. The next step was to put the completed rock with the plant back in your container. Now all you have to do is wait for shrimp to be delivered into your habitat!
The first thing that we did was we took some gravel infected with bacteria and we poured it into our habitat so the bacteria could take their place as the decomposers in the food chain. The next step was to pick a rock. I picked two tiny rocks for my habitat. The rocks were very important also because there was algae on the rocks and we needed that in the habitat. Now we move on to the next step: Mixing freshwater in with the salt. This step was to be the most complicated. First, we got a bucket and filled it with freshwater from a faucet. Then our teacher helper, Mr. David, poured salt into the freshwater. Then we measured how much salt there was. Turns out there wasn't enough freshwater! Mr. David had put too much salt! We had to keep putting in more freshwater until finally the water was even! The last step was to pour the water into our vases. This step was easy but at the end, we had a lot of water leftover! Then we took our vases and put them out int he garden.
So first what we did is we measured how much gravel we needed to pour and we poured it into glasses. Next, we poured all of our gravel into a bucket and we filled the bucket with some water in order to get rid of the small particles in the gravel. We washed the gravel 3 to 5 times and in between each time, we poured the water when it looked dirty and filled it up again to wash. When we were done, we took our vases and put the gravel back in the vase till we reached the point we had put our dirty gravel in. [Only this time, the gravel was clean!] After that, we went to a faucet and washed our hands and put some water in the vase to clear the gravel of the sides and then dumped the water out. Now we are done Preparing the gravel.
Wow! Those opae'ula sure do look hungry! They are getting together to eat, eat, eat! There are approximately 1,000 opae'ula in that tank! Wow! Imagine all those shrimp you would have to feed! I can't wait to start feeding the opae'ula myself! I find it pretty amazing that they were shipped all the way from the Big island! Look at how energetic they are! Some of them are even white which means they are in shock! I wonder what they are shocked about.... Anyways, I think that I will be feeding them Spirulina! Well, I didn't see all of the shrimp at the top so maybe they just aren't hungry or it could be that they are probably eating the algae on the rocks. Opae'ula just fascinate me! I can't wait to have some of my own!
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