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YAY so far there has been no resistance, only concerns expressed, which i fully understand this is the email i sent to the Science Department Head :D sound good? i hope so, but she is out of town and wont be back for SIX DAYS!!!

Well first of all i feel very alone in this thred second of all i would like to get a list of equipment that i should have/need Tank for one some sorta lights prolly end up with t-5 HOB skimmer? Overflow box? sump??? stand power heads if sump then return pump then live stock i was just thinking easy corals or what ever corals i can get a hold of plus an anemone w/ clowns and a goby/pistol shrimp pair to show symbiosis etc maybe one other fish.. hehe i will prolly wriet something up to present to them in the 6days i have to wait for an email return (out of town)

http://www.wamas.org/forums/index.php?show...mp;#entry170400 my thred documenting my steps and process for the school tank

OK so i got the approval from an administrator at North Bethesda Middle School. He said i just had to talk it over with the Head of the Science department to see which curriculum it would go along best with. (I'm thinking 6thgraders because they do the whole outdoor education and adaption unit... has to do with biology! thats how im connecting it haha) ANYWAY his main concern was maintanence I figure if i come up with a well organized proposal type thing, i can get starteed on this.... once i get the equiptment :D -Sara PS Dave i will call you! i just wanted to get some things sorted first

So here im going to hopefully document my Sorta senior project or internship project, depending on if i take the "senior project" class My plan is to Set up a salt water tank in a school near me and accompany it with a "mini unit" OK so I got the "OK " from people at my school to authorize the project Now i need to find a school to host the project today im gonna ask at my Middle school just cuz im gonna be there But just a question: Should i do a Middle School or an Elementary school? Also with the tank i'm going to write a lesson about the reefs/oceans/conservation/cycles the tank goes through either/or/all. I personally think with the lesson plan it would be easier to work with a Middle School? maybe? -Thanks! Sara

got it to work here is my pic

LOVE THIS GAME! haha ppl at school play it instead of doing work when we are in the computer labs.. any highschool teachers please pretend you didnt hear that you need tonot have a spazzy computer to get a good score, the progeam doesnt work so well on mine,

Just for funsies Heres the only thing i got thus far. Submitters: Sara, toastiireefs Location: My 10gl Dwarf Seahorse tank Camera Used: Sony Cybershot Subject: The snail that could ok well image isnt uploading... nvmd?

thats not an invertebrate... ? at least the last time i checked fish had spines...

i have a crab, that i finally captured... accidently... he was in a rock i was taking out of my tank to scrub, and i saw him and im like "ooh SUMP FOR YOU!" weell i put the whole rock in the sump but thats ok! i dont know what it is though i think gorilla, or hairy, but idk

not a bad idea i plan to!!! now the tough part begins

YAY! obstical one accomplished!

hahaha thats how i tell people which house is mine if they are navegating at night! "my house is the one with the blue!"

haha dont worry and yea sure i can give you a call! just PM me your number and i'll call hmm.. would it be better to get the ok before or after i'm filled in. I might also (if its at the elementry school) want to try and work in a 3day -5day unit on the ocean and reefs.... or maybe i should do that for the middle schoolers... hmmm this would have to be thought about and planned... well i mean is for my senior project if it all works out!! :D haha im rambling

I was just curious how school tanks work, how are they taken care of, etc. because i was thinking about setting a tank up in the middle or elementry school (my school is under renovation) for my senior project if i get the OK. I think school tanks are great! especially if they were for younger kids (i fear what the highschoolers would do to the poor little fishies), i think it is very educational for them, because a lot of people have never been to an aquarium, or know about the wonders of the sea, (I know people who live in california who didnt think seahorses truely exsisted!! CALIFORNIA! with all their beautiful aquariums!) Anyways i feel like im going off on a tangent, But thanks in advance for any advice/ comments/ explainations! -Sara

wow that looks beautiful!

Is that blue xenia? or regular. i cant tell the first couple pics it looked blue

strawberry anemones are sooooo cute, that would be awsome we have a rock of them at the zoo in the Cold Pacific tank (cold reef tank) you can hardly see them though since they are so small and the tank is so big

again again! looks great a little traffic for you! that nem is INCREDIBLE!!!! so beautiful!

thanks!! im still debating if i want to do this because my tank is kinda sorta established and i dont want to ruin all that.. hmm

thats funny!! haha

k he is green in the top region not all over all other fish seem good though anyway i came home and he was swimming around fine and "happy" but i'll do a water change anyway

soooo i got my clownfish umm two weeks ago, a week and a half ago ish and everything was going along fine, and i noticed one of my clowns started turning greenish, or more dull, and not as orange. then last night and this morning it has stayed up in the corner of my tank, kinda on its side but its a live, and it swims a bit in the corner but doesnt leave it do u think the color is related? and is there anything i can do for these clowns, they were captive bred! it had been playing with the other clown up to last night wen it just went to the corner and stayed there -any suggestions? ideas?

the solution to polution is dilution? i got that from tamie at the zoo. but i dont know where she got it from

i think youre a closeted mammal lover grreat pics mike!!!! that octopus is incredible!!!!