Setting Up

So for this week, I've been watering the Attriplex hortensis on their scheduled waterings, and have been mainly focused on adjusting the fish tanks for the shrimp to start growing in.

So for the Attriplx hortensis, I have been and will be watering the plants every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I've noticed that the hortensis has already started growing at a nice pace. Also this week, for the progression of the Attriplex hortensis experiment, Desiree and I went down to Marana on Thursday and set up a soil bed (in which more Attriplex hortensis will be planted.)

The rest of my week consisted more set up of fish tanks for both irrigation of the Attriplex hortensis and for the set up of tanks for the shrimp. For the greenhouse, we've set up a big fish tank filled with RO water, and Desiree and I have put in 20 baby Talapia fish (in which we have also weighed and measured for a growth analysis of the fish.) The big fish tank will be used to draw water from and irrigate a section of the Attriplex hortensis.

As for the shrimp tanks... The Vsep treatment had way to much precipitate in the water, so we've replaced the Vsep water with 3 ppt artificial salt water. Also the fish in the shrimp tanks are getting used to their new tanks -as they are swimming around and ramming their own reflections rather then just hiding behind the filters.

So far so good, and next week we will have baby shrimp in all the tanks (which shall be interesting.)