LGS+Week+9+(Mar+10-14)

Monday

Today, we fed the fish breakfast, lunch, and meal #3. Because it's Monday and back from a weekend, we had no brine shrimp hatchery ready so they are stuck with the flakes for today. Yum! Katie and I checked out the Project BioEyes set up in the full lab that ours is attached to. They have a great set up! There are swell microscopes and a really great zebrafish diagram up front. Our posterboard from our QuarkNet summer is set up in the front which is really awesome. There are incubators set up on timers on the back lab benches. I noticed that the timers that they are using are the same timers we have. I also noticed the egg water in the back. BABIES!! We also started a new brine shrimp hatchery.

Tuesday

The fish were fed meals 1, 2, and 3 with a combination of brine shrimp and tetramin flakes. Katie and I spent the remainder of the period in the computer lab after checking out the progress of Project BioEyes. I worked on my finishing up my chapter summaries (finally) but couldn't get two of them uploaded from an e-mail I sent myself. They failed to upload when I was accessing wikispaces from home so I tried in the lab downstairs. Failure again. But giving up is for wimps so I will succeed!

Wedneday

Today I came right up to the lab and worked from here. I don't know if Katie is here today because I haven't seen her but she may just be working from the computers in the art wing lab. If she is here, I'm sure she fed the fish breakfast (she never misses!) and I fed them meal #2 abd #3. Again, I fed them with a combination of brine shrimp. The concentration of brine shrimp in a dropper full is often not enough for a feeding and I don't want to be squirting too much salt water into the tanks. Project BioEyes is doing splendidly! They have atteched a microscope to a camera and television screen. The microscope is focused on a single zebrafish egg. It's absolutely amazing! I can clearly watch the fry growing inside the egg. It's like a blast from summer! I watched the development for about 10 minutes today, nonstop. It's fascinating. I think our class should come up to the lab and see the great things that are happening!

Thursday

Fed fish. Spent period in computers lab taking pre-test.

Friday MASTERCLASS!!