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