800 gallon classroom build
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jnarowe
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10746298#post10746298 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by hobogato
very generous offer, we are gonna need lots of snails and hermits
Contact Brian Plankis at Project DIBS and ask him if you can get some inverts. I would direct your class to that site as well for an excellent source of information regarding captive reef appropriate inverts. Tell him that I have offered to donate DIBS snails (columbellid sp., DIBS Turbo sp.) and find out what the process will be.
Once you have his approval, you can PM me and I will get a shipment together for you.
buttons buster
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Any new updates, THanks
doryarlin955
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Holy cow, I wish my highschool had a class like that, the closest I can get is AP Biology.
jnarowe
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I started the collection process and have quite a few columbellids already. Also found a mini-brittle so I hope I can re-catch it in the grow-out tank and send it along too. I was quite surprised (and so was it) that I found it in my overflow teeth. That is a sign that they are breeding in my system.
I am having a hard time coming up with DIBS Turbos though. It appears that I had a mass die-off of them when the Mexican Turbos kicked late last month. I have been finding a lot of extremely small babies, but they are very difficult to handle. We'll see what happens.
I am having a hard time coming up with DIBS Turbos though. It appears that I had a mass die-off of them when the Mexican Turbos kicked late last month. I have been finding a lot of extremely small babies, but they are very difficult to handle. We'll see what happens.
trmiv
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Wow, so cool. This almost makes me want to get out of IT and become a teacher if I could teach something like this. I say almost because my wife is a high school English teacher, so I hear daily about the perils of teaching. I don't have half her patience so I don't think I could hang. 
Great job though, looking forward to updates.
Great job though, looking forward to updates.
jnarowe
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I know I couldn't do it. So many rewards, so little thanks, and man, I would get bent every day. I have a lot of respect for people who teach, particularly guys like Ace, who could do something else really well, but choose to teach as a lifestyle. I loved when I was in charge of all the taks at my high school, and back then we didn't have any SW tanks.
hobogato
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cant wait jonathon - the students were very happy when i told them that they didnt have to use their money for clean up crew critters.
im gonna try to get ahold of a bunch of tiny blue leg hermits for them as well.
the students have picked their organisms and i will be collecting money next week and ordering the beginning of the following week. they are sooooo excited (me too )
im gonna try to get ahold of a bunch of tiny blue leg hermits for them as well.
the students have picked their organisms and i will be collecting money next week and ordering the beginning of the following week. they are sooooo excited (me too
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purebullet417
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what will you be getting may i ask
hobogato
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the list of species (including alternate choices) is 103 species. most of them are fish that fit the 30 gallons or smaller profile. i am allowing fish that will eventually outgrow these tanks with a couple of stipulations.
1. since they will have to find new homes for all of the fish at the end of the school year, i will be ordering the smallest available, and they probably will not outgrow the tanks before then. however, if at any point i decide that the fish needs a bigger home, it is required that the students find it a bigger home.
2. also, on the information tag that is displayed above the tank, it will be noted by the students that that specific fish normally requires a larger tank etc.
1. since they will have to find new homes for all of the fish at the end of the school year, i will be ordering the smallest available, and they probably will not outgrow the tanks before then. however, if at any point i decide that the fish needs a bigger home, it is required that the students find it a bigger home.
2. also, on the information tag that is displayed above the tank, it will be noted by the students that that specific fish normally requires a larger tank etc.
pdfb55
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Thats pretty cool. My older brother was able to take a marine bio course in highschool and i always thought it sounded like fun. I wish my school had something like this. Well i got an aquarium club up and running this year at my school, maybe if theres enough interest within the club we could get the school to make a class.
purebullet417
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to bad you cant find a way to leave the system running over the summer. it would be cool for students to come back and see how everything has changed. my marine bio class has no tanks at all lol
Cheekymonkey
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Not to be a PITA, but what do the students learn about maintaining the tanks when it is one big system, obviously they can't deal with their own issues with the cycling and what not
hobogato
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got in a shipment of donated snails, stomatella, limpets, and a shrimp from jonathan in WA. all of them made it thru acclimation and into the tanks it was enough snails for 12 of the 27 student tanks thanks again for the donation!
the package
just before letting them out of the bags to acclimate
dripping our tank water in (for 3 hours)
the unknown shrimp - gonna be a good ID contest for the students (if you know the id, you can pm it to me but please dont post it)
couple of close-ups of some more donations in the 135 gallon tank - thanks Sherri!
thanks again for the donation!the package
just before letting them out of the bags to acclimate
dripping our tank water in (for 3 hours)
the unknown shrimp - gonna be a good ID contest for the students (if you know the id, you can pm it to me but please dont post it)
couple of close-ups of some more donations in the 135 gallon tank - thanks Sherri!
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