How Do You Make A Marine Ecosphere?
• Get a jar of your choice, like a canning or peanut butter jar.Make sure it’s transparent so that sunlight can pass through. • Wash your jar for 60 seconds with ONLY warm water as soap will kill the organisms. Then dry your jar using a towel. • Collect sand from either the playground, or a very clean beach. Then wash it with water for 70 seconds WITHOUT draining the sand. And dry it. • Add ocean water. It can be made by mixing dechlorinated water & ONLY ocean salt. Table salt is too poisonous to organisms in your “ocean”. • After you put sand in(about 1″ deep), fill you jar with seawater,leaving about 2″ of airspace on the top. Then add a small live sea rock which should have both phyto & zooplankton. Now add plants. Either buy live coral or grow algae with the sun. • Always include small sea shells. Not only it’ll stabilize pH levels, but also it stimulates the ocean floor. • Now add animals. Buy the following organisms listed below: • 1 peppermint shrimp • 5 small marine hermit crab
