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Monday, December 9, 2024

Aquarium Water Testing Guide

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Now that your fish are producing waste... (uneaten food, dead fish, poop) the nitrogen cycle is at work converting that waste into safe and ...
Sunday, October 27, 2024

Hatchery Trip to Collect Brown Trout!

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As brown trout alevins make their new homes nestled in baskets in 16 school aquariums around the region, you might be wondering the behind-t...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Macroinvertebrates as Indicators of a Healthy Stream

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In April, we will be bringing live stream samples into your classroom filled with insects our trout would eat in the wild. We will focus on ...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Cannibalism happening in tanks across the region

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A bigger trout digesting a smaller trout in a tank at a Union Springs classroom in 2015 It seems every year, we hear of reports of cannibali...
Monday, March 4, 2024

March: A time to think about clean water and individual actions

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Spring is just around the corner! Which has us thinking about the upcoming trout releases. And as we begin planning for the releases, one bu...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

What would your trout would be doing in the wild right now?

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We've been observing our trout hunting and eating zooplankton in captivity, but what about all the baby trout in the wild? Will they hav...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Some Cool Facts About Daphnia!

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Daphnia are a  zoo plankton, meaning that they are animals (zoo) that live at the water's surface, drifting with the currents (plankton)...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

First Live Food Experiment!

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Our young trout have grown to a size of about 2 or 3 centimeters in their "parr" stage. Are they ready to hunt and eat living prey...
Monday, January 8, 2024

Trout Care Checklist

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Monday, December 11, 2023

How to know when your trout are ready to start feeding?

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If you are uncertain whether it is time to begin feeding starter food to your trout, watch for these behaviors below to determine if its fee...