KenLarson April 1, 2009 Share April 1, 2009 With a generous donation from a local company, my third grade class has been the lucky recipient of loads of coral, anemones, and five fish. Dave Lin spent many hours helping me set up the plumbing on the (also donated) tank, and sump. My students have delighted in the tank, and several have used it as a springboard to better use of their writing skills as well. Once the students settled in, I let them submit "what I like about our Tank..." or what is good/interesting/neat, etc about it. They worked fairly hard, and I selected (my criteria) the best 5 or so for snippets of audio over video of the tank. Most of it is of the ever popular eel. I promise, I hope all future podcasts will be shorter. It was our first, so bear with us, the authors are eight, some nine... http://fcps.blackboard.com/webapps/lobj-po...I=+/podcast.xml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wfoxfox April 1, 2009 Share April 1, 2009 "very cool" Keep up the good work Mr Larson!!!!!!! If you ever get near Purcellville, come on by for some frags Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLarson April 1, 2009 Author Share April 1, 2009 If you ever get near Purcellville, come on by for some frags Thanks! Are those the WW II "Pineapple" types? Or the more modern "baseball" ones? I love the 'idea' of Oceanography, and can relate my limited aquarium background on another, less late, evening. I have no idea what 'frags' are - but I'll find out what kind of offer you've made. Thanks! Always remember, and never forget... Dave Lin gave me a Tank. He dinna' give me knowledge of what's IN it yet. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L8 2 RISE April 1, 2009 Share April 1, 2009 Thanks! Are those the WW II "Pineapple" types? Or the more modern "baseball" ones? I love the 'idea' of Oceanography, and can relate my limited aquarium background on another, less late, evening. I have no idea what 'frags' are - but I'll find out what kind of offer you've made. Thanks! Always remember, and never forget... Dave Lin gave me a Tank. He dinna' give me knowledge of what's IN it yet. ;-) lol . Frags are just pieces of coral. So for example, you can break or cut a piece of coral off from in your tank (not as easy as that- some coral's require "special procedures") and it will grow into a coral of it's own... Nice looking tank BTW, and video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugar Magnolia April 1, 2009 Share April 1, 2009 Thanks for sharing! The kids seem to really be enjoying having the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamainva April 1, 2009 Share April 1, 2009 Nice meeting you this morning. I saw the tank this morning...looks good. Ask Dave for some of the softies that I brought in today.. :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenLarson April 2, 2009 Author Share April 2, 2009 Nice meeting you as well! How is a 'softie' different than the 'frags' that I have? BTW, the brain coral frag that Dave pointed out the tentacles on still had some of them out - maybe 2-3" when the kids came in and I pointed it out. They were thrilled! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bamainva April 2, 2009 Share April 2, 2009 I bet the kids loved seeing that. They could probably stare at the tank all day. I had some leathers that I dropped off this morning as well. If I am remember it correctly there were quite a few mushrooms in your set up. There was a nice pale yellow leather that was in a container. Also a bunch of xenia on the rock..that could just be cut off and put in the tank in your classroom. Thanks Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L8 2 RISE April 2, 2009 Share April 2, 2009 Nice meeting you as well! How is a 'softie' different than the 'frags' that I have? BTW, the brain coral frag that Dave pointed out the tentacles on still had some of them out - maybe 2-3" when the kids came in and I pointed it out. They were thrilled! A frag isn't a type of coral, it's a general term of a piece of a larger coral. The groups coral's tend to be separated into are: LPS (large polyp stony: brain corals, etc) SPS (small polyp stony: these are the one's that look kind of like a bunch of branches) Softies (toadstools, devil's hands, etc.) and polyps (mushrooms and zoanthids). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extreme_tooth_decay October 30, 2009 Share October 30, 2009 The groups coral's tend to be separated into are: LPS (large polyp stony: brain corals, etc) SPS (small polyp stony: these are the one's that look kind of like a bunch of branches) Softies (toadstools, devil's hands, etc.) and polyps (mushrooms and zoanthids). And bird-puke corals, don't forget them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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