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...scientific voyeurism taught him little of practical value, and Dr. Fujinaga continued to spy on his prawns. After testing countless kinds of marine microorganisms, he found that during the first four days after hatching, larval kuruma prawns eat only microscopic Skeletonema costatum, a kind of diatom. When he learned how to grow his own Skeletonema in glass-covered tanks, his prawns survived their infancy. But Dr. Fujinaga could not manage to keep them alive longer than that...
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