We have Brook Trout in our tank again...

Hello Trout Fans.

It is true that we lost our initial  fish due to a (too early) release of our young fry into the tank.   Let sank to the bottom and that is where they stayed --- unfortunately.   It was sad and a bummer after we had maintained our tank and tested everyday.



We were lucky enough have Melissa Williams help us by letting us adopt around 15 for our tank for a release into the Mad River this month.

Pictures below are of Charlie and Madison placing the fish into our tank.

Words from Madison:  I think that the fish are going to live.

Words from Charlie: I hope the fish live but they are at the bottom so they cant eat so I don't know.

We will do the water testing starting tomorrow - the tank was clean and ready for our fish.

More tomorrow..

March 10, 2017

Feeding out fish 

Its been awhile since our last update:

Fish began hatching on Feb 26 

Swim started on February 28... Fish were hatching...   

Fish were fed most days over break other than the first weekend of March.  

Moretown's tank update.  After our break, which ended on Wednesday, we saw that many of our fish were near or within the bottom quarter of the tank.  We have been feeding them, but some are eating and others are not.  Today, we started to clean the tank and found that the fish that we thought were dead, suddenly came to life..  our chemical tests show us that are tank is healthy - our water temp is 55.  

We are curious as to why the fish seem not to want to eat?    

Madison and Charlie, Moretown Grade 6 TICers.  

January 12, 2017 - Taking care of our eggs..

Moretown's TIC team monitoring and caring for our eggs.









































DATA POINTS:
As of 1/12/17 our status;
*We have lost 5 eggs since getting our eggs on January 6, 2017.  Our water tests let us know that our aquarium is safe for our fish, but we need make sure we keep checking.

*Our water temp is 50.00 - we are bringing it up to 55 by the beginning of next week.

Our Thoughts:

 I think this experience has  fun and interesting. I am learning a lot about how to take care our  fish.   MY

My experience has been awesome.  Testing the water has been fun and interesting.    Also  putting the eggs in the nets was nerve racking because I did not want to hurt them.  

January 6th, 2017, the day our Trout Eggs arrived

We are very excited to receive our Trout Eggs today.
Number of Eggs received - about 200
Temperature of our Tank Water - 46.0
Next task - raise water temperature to 52 by next week.  one degree increase each day starting Monday, January 9.

Moretown's Grades K - 2 were there to greet our
new school members

The eggs were small - we needed to use a suction jar to
pick them up to place them in our tank

TIC students measuring
needed nutrients and chemicals
for our tank - Day 1 

 

Moretown TIC update December 20, 2016

December 20, 2016 update

Tank Update:  We are preparing our tank to receive our Brook Trout eggs

1.  Yesterday we filled our tank with 52 gallons of water.

2.  We added a water conditioner and a slime producer.

3.  The temperature of the water is 54 degrease our hope is to get our temp down to around 40 degrease.

4.  We are excited to get our little eggs..

Moretown TIC update December 10th

Preparing our Space

REFLECTION #1:

What did we do?
We put our tank together and our TIC helper named Shawn came to our school to help us.  

What was a challenge? and why?
One challenge was putting the rocks in the tank because we could not just drop the rocks in we had to put it in carefully.

What was a success?
A success was putting together all of the pieces - there were many pieces and it was a bit overwhelming....but we did it and it looks good.

What did we learn?
We learned a lot about the fish and about their habitat.

Why is this important work?
Our work with the TIC will help us understand and share the reasons why keeping our stream and rivers clean and alive helps our bigger community.  This is important work for everyone

Overall we felt great about the whole project and that it started.  It seemed like there was of planning before we got started - but now we are working.

The Moretown School sets up our Trout in the Classroom Tank

Charlie and Madison, our TIC 6th grade leaders

Preparing the river stones

Shawn Nailor helped us set up the tank.
He was an excellent teacher and mentor! 

preparing the tank 

Our tank - ready for our eggs..
decorations to come..