How to Make a Shrimp Trap
Catching shrimp can be a time-consuming activity. You can sit by a water source all day with a net, waiting until you see one. You can keep scooping blindly with your net until you make a catch. If you don't have time to sit by the water and wait for shrimp all day, place this shrimp trap in water where shrimp are known to inhabit, leave it for several hours, and the shrimp will come to you. The shrimp remain unharmed in the trap.
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Instructions
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Wash the empty sports drink bottle thoroughly with hot water. A sports drink bottle, like Gatorade or Vitamin Water, works best because it is wider than other plastic bottles and has a tapered area about 1/3 of the way down the bottle.
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Using the knife, cut the bottle about 1/3 of the way down, at the tapered area of the bottle.
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Cut a hole in the lid of the sports drink bottle that is large enough for shrimp to get through, but not large enough for any other fish to get through.
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Place shrimp food inside the bottom of the bottle.
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Replace the lid on the top of the bottle. Flip the top half of the bottle upside down and interlock it inside of the bottom half of the bottle. The lid should now be about one inch from the bottom of the bottle, nested inside.
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Poke several small holes with a pin on the bottom of your bottle.
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Wait one to two hours and your shrimp should be collected in the bottom of the bottle.
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Tips & Warnings
Be careful removing the trap as water will come out of the pin holes.
If you do not place pin holes in the bottom of the trap, your shrimp may die from lack of oxygen if left in the trap for too long.
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very interesting
