Marana Project update

So far this week I've just been watering the remaining plants in the green house, as long as feeding the shrimp and fish everyday. I've noticed that the Lentiformis that I have been watering are finally starting to grow. However, the ones under the Vsep irrigation is not doing as well as the regular and RO irrigation. Also the Talapia in the green house are starting to stay more near the surface of the water more instead of all of them just hiding at the bottom the whole time, which shows that the fish are used to their new environment now.

For the irrigation experiment on the Lentiformis, we have decided to amp up the waterings to 1 full liter 3 times a week (as apposed to 500ml.) Also we had extra shrimp, so we are now running a long-term bio-assay on them using 10 gallon fish tanks in the lab (one with RO concentrate, one with 3 ppt artificial sea salt, one with Vsep brine, and one with 10 ppt artificial sea salt.)

Due to the lack of baby Talapia, we will probably not be doing experiments with the Talapia (apparently the babies were eaten by the bigger fish -how sad.) However, we did get some silver and black Mollies from the fish store, and set up a spawning tank within the green house. So later on we will have baby Mollies to work with (which are similar to Talapia, except that the Mollies are more popular for fish tanks rather than as food.)

I've also took some measurements using the light meter both inside and outside the greenhouse (to find the percentage of sunlight let into the greenhouse.) I also got to take some readings using a dissolved oxygen meter, which was easy.

Things seem to be going well so far, and I've also been offered a job as being a student assistant in some wet-land experiment. So if everything works out with that, that will be cool.