The Investigation:Grow Beasts are a small toys that, once placed in water, absorbs the water and "grow" by increasing in size over two to four days. This investigation seeks to understand how the rate of growth is affected by the presence of organic fish fertilizer. Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizer is a an organic fertilizer made from North Atlantic fish. Micro and macro nutrients, including nitrogen are chelated in this fertilizer, making them readily available for plant absorption. Plants are then able to assimilate this nitrogen in their cells to build nucleic acids and amino acids, forming DNA, RNA, and vital proteins. Plants using fertilizer show a significant increase in size. For germinating seeds, Neptune's Harvest recommends using one teaspoon of fertilizer for every cup of water. This investigation will explore whether or not Neptune's Harvest Fish Fertilizer will also help Grow Beasts increase in size.
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What's happening to my Grow Beasts? After 5 days of growing in enclosed containers, these fellas have moved past their growth spurt. As seen in the data, the Control t-rex was experiencing growing pains from day 1 until day 3. However, the Fish Fertilizer t-rex only had growing pains for a single day. The Fish Fertilizer t-rex is also showing a stunted front leg... it seems the fertilizer has a previously unknown growth stunting side effect for Grow Beasts.