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• Written for the Aquaculture NSW and Qld syllabus topics, this workbook has 120 pages of projects and worksheets that teachers can use to introduce practical work into a school aquaculture unit.
• Projects are constructed from simple, inexpensive materials available in any hardware store
• There are 16 pages in full colour which show the projects and 104 pages of details in black and white.
  

Format

• 120 page, perfect bound book, colour cover
• Sample pages

Contents

• Introduction 
• Section 1 Making project equipment
  Project 1.1 Using poly pipe and fittings
  Project 1.2 Making an air filter for algal cultures
  Project 1.3 Making an algal growth container
  Project 1.4 Making a light cupboard
  Project 1.5 Making a small glass aquarium
  Project 1.6 Making a plastic tub aquarium
  Project 1.7 Making a crayfish tank
  Project 1.8 Making a flow through crayfish tank
  Project 1.9 Making an artemia hatchery
  Project 1.10 Making a larger grow out tank
• Section 2 Maintaining water quality
  Project 2.1 Making a turbidity tube
  Project 2.2 Testing water for turbidity
  Project 2.3 Making a Secchi Disc
  Project 2.4 Testing water for total dissolved solids
  Project 2.5 Making a salinity hydrometer
  Project 2.6 Testing water for Nitrates
  Project 2.7 Testing water for Nitrites
  Project 2.8 Testing water for Ammonia
  Project 2.9 Testing water for Dissolved oxygen
  Project 2.10 Testing water for pH
  Project 2.11 Making a biofilter
  Project 2.12 Making a sponge filter
  Project 2.13 Making an undergravel filter
  Project 2.14 Making an algal scrubber
  Project 2.15 Making a water sampler
  Project 2.16 Making a syphon
• Section 3 Livestock biology
  Project 3.1 What’s inside daphnia
  Project 3.2 What’s inside rotifers
  Project 3.3 What’s inside artemia
  Project 3.4 External features of a fish
  Project 3.5 Sea mullet dissection
  Project 3.6 External features of a crayfish
  Project 3.7 Making a fish measurer
  Project 3.8 Making a crayfish restrainer
  Project 3.9   Making a crayfish measurer
  Project 3.10 Squid dissection
  Project 3.11 Prawn dissection
• Section 4 Growing food for Aquaculture
  Project 4.1 Growing algae
  Project 4.2 Growing artemia
  Project 4.3 Growing rotifers
  Project 4.4 Growing daphnia
  Project 4.5 Growing worms Section 5 Breeding and feeding stock
  Project 5.1 Determining the sex of Artemia
  Project 5.2 Decapsulating artemia
  Project 5.3 Hatching artemia
  Project 5.4 Taking digital photographs
  Project 5.5 Determining the sex of crayfish
  Project 5.6 Breeding crayfish
  Project 5.7 Hatching crayfish and caring for young
  Project 5.8 Feeding algae to artemia
  Project 5.9 Feeding Daphnia to livestock
  Project 5.10 Feeding rotifers to livestock
  Project 5.11 Feeding and health check tables
  Project 5.12 Water quality monitoring tables
• Syllabus information (NSW)
• Syllabus information (Qld)
• Supplier details