Photo Credit: Scott Floyd
1600 trout eggs (brothers and sisters to these) will be headed to the Guadalupe River to begin a new life in the wild. They will have a homes in a Whitlock-Vibert boxes for the rest of their egg and fry life spans. We hope to video record this process once the eggs arrive so students can see it. We will discuss the different survival statistics between the hatchery style setting like we have and the natural “wild” setting most eggs end up in. You will be surprised how much of an affect we can have on the life of the trout and other river species through projects like ours.
Keep an eye on this blog and the webcams listed in the Links and Pages section to monitor along with us. We will be posting our daily findings of water quality in the Aquarium Data Observations spreadsheet linked to the right of this blog as well.
Feel free to leave us questions in the comment section for us to answer for you. Comments require approval by the teachers in charge before they show up on the blog, but we will get to them as soon as we can. Thanks so much for being a part of this project with us.