KMH+ZF+Week+4

MONDAY 1/14/08 Today, we went traveled to my house to collect our fish. With the permission of Mr. Harshman, we were able to successfully bring the zebrafish back to St. Joe after I had cared for them over the long winter break. I was able to keep them all alive and to keep the environment relatively stable. To bring them back to St. Joe, I had to drive very slowly and Lesley held a firm grip on the tanks. We wrapped the tanks in towels and kept the car warm so the temperature in the tanks would not drop too much. Once we carried each tank up three flights of stairs (a grueling task), we plugged the heaters back in, trasported the fish to cleaner tanks and called it a day! Exhausting!!!!!

TUESDAY 1/15/08 Compared to yesterday, today was a breeze. We came up to the lab and cleaned up what we so hastily threw all over the room. We fed the fish and made sure the temperature in the tanks were stable. We cracked open the blinds and made a new brine shrimp hatchery. The fry that I had brought to my house un fortunately died, I assume because our house is only kept at 70 degrees, because my dad likes it cold, that this was the reason for its death.

WEDNESDAY 1/16/08 We fed the fish and then ventured down into the computer lab. We did this because our computer was down. We had several discussions with classmates about their projects and where those projects were heading and we discussed political candidates. Finally, we checked our email and called it a day, too excited to move on in our work and began to discuss the opening night for the musical.

THURSDAY 1/17/08 Lesley and I were both absent, due to our performances in the musical "Annie".

FRIDAY 1/18/08 Today, Lesley and I both came in during 4th period and so the fish were not fed breakfast and Lesley fed them at noon. After checking in tenth period, we journeyed up to the ZF lab. We cleaned several plastic 1000mL containers and fed the fish. When we did this, we found that there was several brine shrimp that were of an unusual size. They are FIVE TIMES bigger than the normal brine shrimp! WE took one out and examined it closely under the microscope. IT was very peculiar, as it seemed to exhibit more flagellum that the typical brine shrimp. hmmmm....very interesting!