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MONDAY 2/18/08 Today I fed the fish at 9 and 2:15. I then made more salt water and cleaned up the spill in the lab, one of the tanks were leaking. I then came down to the lab and tried to upload my summaries that I have been working on at home onto the computer through the use of a flash drive. This attempt was unsuccessful becuase it said that it was unformatted to work on my computer :( boo. I then started to retype my summaries! ugh! I completed Chapter One. Hoefully I will have more success with this endeavor tomorrow!

TUESDAY 2/19/08 Lesley is on the sophomore retreat today. I fed the fish a 9, 12, and 2:15. At the beginning of the class, I fed the fish, added more water to each of the tanks, salinized a gallon of filtered water, and I set up a brine shrimp hatchery. Much to my dismay, my computer deleted my chapter summaries and the only source that I had them saved on (a flash drive) is currently not working. I therefore am working to rewrite my chapter summaries until I can get my flash drive to work again. For the remainder of the class period I worked on my summary for Chapter Two!!!!

WEDNESDAY 2/20/08 Lesley is again away on the sophomore retreat today. I once again fed the fish brine shrimp at 9, 12, and 2:15. Today, I looked up articles about new research being done on zebrafish today, and once again it was inconclusive. Also, I worked on uploading a slide show of pictures to my wikispace main page through slideshare.net.

THURSDAY 2/21/08 Today was a very busy day! James brought us lots of new fish! IN Tank #1 our original male zebrafish reside. In Tank #2, our new albino females reside. In Tank #3, our albino males reside. In Tank #4, our original females reside. In Tank #5, our new heterozygous males reside. And finally, in Tank #6, our heterozygous females reside. He also brought us frozen ice cubes of dead brine shrimp that can be used for feeding! We were also given a large tub to store water for when we need it.

FRIDAY 2/22/08 Today after saying hello to our classmates, we headed straight to the lab. We then fed all six tanks and refilled each with the appropriate amount of water. Tank #4 that had been very murky before cleared up nicely! Also, we are in need of more filter pads which James is bringing us sometime next week. Also, we have no casualties from the harsh conditions that James put our fish through yesterday. Yippee! ha. To conclude the day, we tidied up the lab and began to fill the storage container with water to reserve for a neccessary situation.