I wish I could help more, but I'm just the idea guy lol
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Wow and I’m fresh out of ideasLots of room to make this quantitative.
I wish I could help more, but I'm just the idea guy lol
Love this. Doesn't even need to be tanks. You could do it in buckets and set up a bunch so that you can do replicates. Easily control for input by mixing up a big match of water with ammonia dosed directly.Something simpler and doesn't risk your corals: how does temperature, ph, or aeration impact nitrogen cycle.
Get a few tanks and start cycling them, each with a different control and diff variable. Should be relatively easy to implement and monitor
Even if they allow it make sure to submit the permits and paperwork for it as soon as possible. I remember that it can take 1+ months for the board of "whoever is in charge" to approve the use of animals, even invertebrates. I did mine in 11th grade on the effects of pond dyes on crayfish, and it took 1.5 months to get approval before I could even start.Yep, they allow it, I asked.
I think I have until December or January
Yea true, I do have spare tanks and equipment lying around so
Wow maybe it’s different here in Canada, but since due to COVID, we aren’t allowed to bring in what we experimented with this year, just make a poster/slides (and photos are needed for proof) and present it so that may be why it’s allowed not sureEven if they allow it make sure to submit the permits and paperwork for it as soon as possible. I remember that it can take 1+ months for the board of "whoever is in charge" to approve the use of animals, even invertebrates. I did mine in 11th grade on the effects of pond dyes on crayfish, and it took 1.5 months to get approval before I could even start.
Maybe even how surface area effects cycle, pounds of rock being the quantifiable variable.Something simpler and doesn't risk your corals: how does temperature, ph, or aeration impact nitrogen cycle.
Get a few tanks and start cycling them, each with a different control and diff variable. Should be relatively easy to implement and monitor
Most of these rules are related to animal welfare and have nothing to do with bringing animals to school. There are probably federal regulations that require experiments performed on animals to be approved by an animal care and use committee. When an institution doesn't have an internal animal care and use committee (as would be the case in a high school) it could be outsourced to a university that does have an iacuc, but this is all of we're talking about doing things "by the book.". I doubt your school cares if they have already given approval.Wow maybe it’s different here in Canada, but since due to COVID, we aren’t allowed to bring in what we experimented with this year, just make a poster/slides (and photos are needed for proof) and present it so that may be why it’s allowed not sure
Also, I know nothing about how this works in Canada.Most of these rules are related to animal welfare and have nothing to do with bringing animals to school. There are probably federal regulations that require experiments performed on animals to be approved by an animal care and use committee. When an institution doesn't have an internal animal care and use committee (as would be the case in a high school) it could be outsourced to a university that does have an iacuc, but this is all of we're talking about doing things "by the book.". I doubt your school cares if they have already given approval.
I'd try to normalize this: use x number of ceramic bio ball things and use the same number in each. Surface area of a complex shape like a rock is way too hard to measure.Maybe even how surface area effects cycle, pounds of rock being the quantifiable variable.
Duh. ThanksI'd try to normalize this: use x number of ceramic bio ball things and use the same number in each. Surface area of a complex shape like a rock is way too hard to measure.
I thought about how the actual surface area would be impossible to measure, but instead of thinking of a solution I went with a shortcut.I'd try to normalize this: use x number of ceramic bio ball things and use the same number in each. Surface area of a complex shape like a rock is way too hard to measure.
You could always do something around macro algae and growth rates depending on the available food.Alright thanks for all the inputs, anyone else have any other ideas? If not Ill go with either spectrum or the nitrogen cycle one that y’all have suggested.
if I end up doing the spectrum one
looks like the Seneye can measure spectrum and par which is nice
But uh how should I go about executing it, should I get like a 33 long and split it up?
Dang why haven’t I thought of that, basically a simpler version of doing it with coralsYou could always do something around macro algae and growth rates depending on the available food.
Nitrate and phosphate of different levels
dosing straight ammonia for another
Cheap to do and could be easily controlled.