WLACE Release 2012

May, 25, 2012

Students from Duck Creek released approximately 45-60 salmon par averaging 3-5 inches in length.  In addition to releasing the fish, students were involved in water quality activities.  The fish were released near Baldwin, MI in the Pere Marquette River.



Salmon fry

Does the water look murky or clear? Well, the water is really clear. The temperature of the tank is about 50 degrees. The ph Level of the water is at 7.6, which is really good. The physical features of the salmon are that they are very big and colorful. The salmon are eating really well;  the majority of the salmon eat from the surface, sub-surface, and the bottom. The average size of the salmon is a about an inch and a half. There are about 85 to 90 salmon left in the tank. The special features I have seen are the Siamese twins, they are still alive which is great and really surprising. 

Written By: Ben Greene

2/10/2012

MY Opinion on the Salmon Fry in the Classroom 

My opinion on the Salmon Fry, well I love learning new things and so I took this class and it is fun and I have learned a lot about the salmon. When I started this class I thought it was going to be boring, but I got into it and now I love it and I don’t want to stop learning about salmon. This class is such an adventure so much to explore and learn. Well, we have had the fish for about five months now and we had them since they were eggs and now they are fish, which is sweet watching them get bigger.  Feeding them is the best because they are so jumpy and happy for the food. We started off with about 300 fish and now we have about 100 fish and they are doing well. We have the first Siamese fish that have survived after being hatched. The temperature of the fish tank is always at 49 or 50 degrees because the salmon are fresh water fish and they are cold blooded.  We clean the fish tank about once or twice a week. The tank has to be clean or the fish will die off. We do PH levels, which are the measurements of the acidic level or basic quality of water. PH scales ranges from a value of 0 (very acidic) to 14 (very basic), with 7 being neutral. Our tank is at a PH level of 7.4 which is really good.

Witten by: Ben Greene

Update: 2/7/2012

Salmon Fry Week #4

The water is slightly murky. The temperature of the water is 49 degrees and the pH level is 7.3, which is getting closer to a normal range. Most of the salmon are that light algae green color with light gray stripes, but there are still a few with the dark forest green color with black stripes. They are eating off the surface of the tank. We have changed the size of the fish food; it is about the size of pellets now. There are about 140 salmon in the tank; we lost a few when we changed the water last week. Most of the fish are swimming normal, but there are still a few swimming sideways. The Siamese twins are still living, but we have not been able to find them.  So we think they are hiding on the bottom of the tank.

Megan Anderson & Caitlin Kohler

Update: 2/2/2012

Salmon Fry in the Classroom

The quality of the water is slightly murky. The temperature of the water is 49 degrees and the PH level is 7.6, which is great on the PH scale. The physical features of the salmon; they are still a dark forest green color on the top, and a bright silver color on the bottom with black stripes. All of the salmon are eating off the surface which is great because that means they are learning that they can’t just wait for the food to fall to the bottom of the tank. The current size of the food is a little bigger than coffee grains. There are about 125 salmon fish left in the tank. The salmon are swimming fast and normal and the twin salmon are still alive.

By: Ben Greene& Caitlynn Kohler

Top view from tank

Update: 1/30/2012

Salmon Fry week #3

The quality of the water is clear today, we changed out some of the water today. The temperature of the water is 50 degrees and the pH level of the water is 7.3, which it means that it’s getting to a more normal range on the pH scale. My teacher Eric and I noticed that some of the salmon are a light algae green color with light gray stripes and some of the other salmon are still that dark forest green color with dark black stripes. We deiced that the light algae green color salmon are developing more than the dark forest green color salmon. The light algae color fish are a lot fatter than the dark forest color fish, the dark forest ones are a lot thinner too. They are still eating off the surface of the tank. The current size of the fish food is the size of pop-rocks. Some of the salmon started to swim sideways or upside down again. The Siamese twins are still living, but they swim on the bottom of the tank most of the time. There are still about 150 salmon living in the tank.

Written by: Megan Anderson.

Lighter algae green vs. darker forest green! 

Notice the difference in colors of the Fry

Update: 1/27/2012

Salmon Fry

The water looks slightly murky. The temperature is 49 degrees and the pH level is 7.4, which is normal on the pH scale. They are about  1 ½ inches long. They are still a dark forest green color on the top half and a bright sliver color on the bottom half, plus they have black stripes on their sides. They are all eating off the surface now. The current size of the fish food has changed to the size of pop-rocks now. There are still about 150 fish in the tank. We let the Siamese twins out of the basket and let them swim in the tank.

Written By: Megan Anderson

1/24/2012

Salmon Fry

          The quality of the water is slightly murky. The temperature of the water is 50 degrees and the pH level of the water is 7.4, which is normal on the pH scale. The physical features of the salmon; they are still a dark forest green color and a bright sliver color and the bottom half has black stripes on the bottom half. They are an 1 ½ inch long. Almost all of the salmon are eating on the surface, but there are still a few eating sub-surface. The current size of the fish food is still the size of coffee grounds. There are about 150 fish still in the tank. Almost all of the fish are swimming normal now but a few of them are still swimming sideways or upside down. The Siamese twins are still living.

Written by Megan Anderson and Caitlynn Kohler

Fry Update: 1/20/2012

The Salmon Fry

Does the water look clear or murky? The quality of the water is clear today. The temperature of the water is 49 degrees; the PH levels of the water are 7.6, which is really good we want it at that level. The Salmon are getting bigger, the size of the Salmon are approximately an inch and a half long. They have a bigger body structure than before because they are eating now. The Salmon are eating mostly off the surface of the fish tank, that’s good because that means they are learning fast. The fish food still looks like ground up coffee because they are at an early age and still are adapting to their surroundings and they can’t eat big chunks of food because their bodies can’t handle it. The approximate number of fish left in the tank is about 130 fish still in the tank. Any special features noticed about the fish, or environment? Yes, the fish are more hyper and fast, and they are learning to adapt to the environment.

By: Ben Greene

Update: 1/17/2012

Salmon Fry

The quality of the water this week is still clear, temperature of the water is 50 degrees. The pH level of the water is about 7.5 which is neutral on the pH scale, example of neutral would be the constancy of milk. The salmon are still ¼ inches. They are a dark forest green color on the top half and a bright sliver color on the bottom half. More than half of the fish are eating off the surface. There are still some of the fish eating at sub-surface or at the bottom of the tank. The current size of the fish food is still the size of coffee grounds. Most of the fish are swimming normal now, but a few of the fish are still swimming sideways or straight up. We also have lost about 10 to 15 fish over the weekend. Overall, we estimate to be around 150-175 fry remaining.

Written by Megan Anderson and Caitlynn Kohler

WLACE Salmon in the Classroom 2012

Salmon Fry

The overall quality of the water is very clear and clean with no bacteria. The temperature of the water is 50 degrees, and the pH level of the water is about 7.4 and that is in the neutral range of the pH scale. Physical features of the Salmon are that they are about an inch and a quarter long. They are a green color on the top half with stripes and sliver on the bottom half. Most of the Salmon eat the food when it is sub-surfaced, and the others eat the food when the food is at the bottom of the tank. The salmon that eat off the top are more developed than the ones who eat off the bottom of the tank. The current size of the fish food is like coffee grounds. We started off with 300 fish eggs in the tank, and now there are about 150 salmon left. A lot of the fish are swimming upside down and sideways. There’s also a Siamese twin salmon in a small net in the tank.

Written by Megan Anderson and Ben Greene WLACE Students

Megan and Ben WLACE SIC 2012

1st WLACE Siamese Salmon Fry! 

WLACE Siamese Fry!

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