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Tone123
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Biology help.

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I was wondering how could I create a controlled oxygen environment (for water or land, with no super expensive equipment) which insect larvae can live in for the course of 2-3 week? I was hoping to test different oxygen concentrations (21%-?) in the environment to view changes in growth rate and final size.
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hirop
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Re: Biology help.

Post by hirop »

I would recommend using an Oxygen tank, or if you are really handy you can make your own with an electrolyzer, you can build or make a very basic one especially if you would only be keeping the oxygen and not storing the hydrogen. The technology is fairly simple and NASA uses it on the ISS.


http://www.sci-supply.com/Brownlee-Elec ... fgodfdAO1w

very basic for under 30$. I would imagine you would want to measure the oxygen concentration given to the insect, I do not have the knowledge for that so a tank might be better and safer.
Tone123
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Re: Biology help.

Post by Tone123 »

Okay, I will look into that, thank you for your help!
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