KMH+ZF+Week+10

MONDAY 2/25/08 The fish were fed at 9, 12, and 2. Today, we set up a brine shrimp hatchery and tried out the new brine shrimp ice cubes. They worked great and are very efficient in conserving the brine shrimp. Also, I checked my email and the internet was still down! We then transferred the original male fish into their new tanks, addded to the fish from Clay. I found one little wild type boy that had a laceration on his head. We quarantined him in a little breeding tank, added an air tube, and crushed some Tetramin flakes for him to eat. He was swimming on his side and our hopes are not to high!

TUESDAY 2/26/08 The fish were fed Tetramin flakes at 9, 12, and 2. The brine shrimp have yet to hatch. The little wild type has recouperated! The swelling in his head has gone down and he is swimming normally again. We put him back into his original tank (Tank #1) where he only resides. We then started to fill up the resevoir bucket. Also, one of our tanks, we think tank #2, is leaking. So we added more water to that tank. Tomorrow morning, we are going to make up a breeding tank and breed 2 albino females and two male heterozygous zebrafish.

WEDNESDAY 2/27/08 Today the fish were fed with Tetramin flakes at 9, 12, and 2:15. This is beacuse very little brine shrimp was yielded and they6 are just beginning to hatch. I was also going to set up a breeding tank during 3rd period but we had penance so that plan also failed. I plan on setting one up during physics tomorrow.

THURSDAY 2/28/08 Today the fish were fed Tetramin flakes and some brine shrimp. Also, there was a hole in the brine shrimp tubing and so we corrected that problem by cutting a new piece off. During third period, I set up a breeding tank from the water in Tank #1. The male wildtype that was injured is back to full strength and will soon rejoin the heterozygous males in Tank #5. During tenth hour, we returned the breeding fish to their respective tanks and they had laid no eggs! Our first recent attempt at breeding had proved to be a failure. I then checked my email and uploaded some summarized chapters onto my summaries page. I had already typed up all but Chapter 6 of the summaires, and stupid me, only saved them onto a flash drive. My flash drive then broke! So, over the past week, I have been busy typing up new summaries for each one of the chapters! Ugh!

FRIDAY 2/29/08