Monday, January 25, 2010

A few swimming to the top!

When students were doing water quality tests today, they noticed a few alevin swimming to the top. So, we seized the moment and put a pinch of size zero food in. Sure enough, four fish swam to the top and started to feed!

Friday, January 15, 2010

1 week


Our eggs started to hatch on Thursday! We have pulled 11 white, cloudy eggs from the plastic hatching basket, and none from the mesh basket. The students are wondering why... This is a picture of the alevin at 1 day. Most have hatched.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Eggs Are HERE!

What an exciting day! Today, a little before noon, Mr. Dinkel arrived with the eggs. They were slowly tempered, then poured into the hatching baskets. Our job now is to continue to test water quality and wait for them to hatch. Check out this video of the eggs in the two hatching baskets!