hobogato
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ok, so after some long thoughts about how to make my classroom setup and practices more environmentally friendly, i have decided to make it a captive breeding setup.
in case you have not seen it, here is a link to the setup. in years past, student groups would be responsible for populating (using their own money for livestock) a tank, maintaining the tank and its livestock all year, and selling that livestock at the end of the year. this process proved environmentally (and economically) unfriendly. therefore, we will be shifting gears and trying something new.
we (the students and i) will be incorporating live food cultures like pyto, artemia, rotifers, and possibly mysis as well as a grass shrimp colony in the large sump/fuge.
all of the large predator fish remaining in the large display tank will likely be donated to the SA zoo so we can establish a reef and start propagating corals as well.
so far on the list of propagation and breeding are the following
various soft corals and possibly stonies eventually
cuttlefish (S. bandensis)
seahorses (not sure, lots of research to do here)
clownfish
bangai cardinals
we have space for several more species, but have not researched what else we attempt.
in case you have not seen it, here is a link to the setup. in years past, student groups would be responsible for populating (using their own money for livestock) a tank, maintaining the tank and its livestock all year, and selling that livestock at the end of the year. this process proved environmentally (and economically) unfriendly. therefore, we will be shifting gears and trying something new.
we (the students and i) will be incorporating live food cultures like pyto, artemia, rotifers, and possibly mysis as well as a grass shrimp colony in the large sump/fuge.
all of the large predator fish remaining in the large display tank will likely be donated to the SA zoo so we can establish a reef and start propagating corals as well.
so far on the list of propagation and breeding are the following
various soft corals and possibly stonies eventually
cuttlefish (S. bandensis)
seahorses (not sure, lots of research to do here)
clownfish
bangai cardinals
we have space for several more species, but have not researched what else we attempt.