Tank room overview 2024

[@naturalaquariums76]

What a great idea for a school class. I would recommend to get some hygrophila corymbosa stricta plants 🌱 for the freshwater tanks, they tolerate relatively low light and low temperatures in my experience. You could get guppy fish🐟 and neocardinina shrimp 🦐. Both are relatively low maintenance and reproduce multiple times per year - this way, students could experience 1-2 generations of the animals in their class. Looking forward to the update. Greetings from Germany 😊

[@dmc3489]

IMHO raising different strains of phytoplankton is a great building block for any aquatic venture

[@garethrasmussen6186]

This would have been a dream class for me.

[@ultralord7027]

Hey! Really cool! How about doing a "workshop" with the students and setting up walstad / dirted tanks with Neocaridina shrimp? Would be great as an "ecosystem" lesson & they could see their own work develop. Most of the things could be collected outside & they withstand the temperatures. From there you could add coldwater fish such as white cloud minnows and maybe even breed them :)

[@tomsgreengallery]

I WISH I was in a class like this growing up. Quick idea for you brother. Those tanks in the middle, I think with the heat mat underneath you could keep some neo shrimp. They breed readily, come in many different colors, and are fairly cheap. Kids would probably love them, as well. Had a fun time with those for a few years, they do require some perimeters to be in check but it’s worth researching, they also do well with most community fish.

[@falcon_inthwoods]

This is a amazing and I definitely would have been a student of this class. I think more schools across the planet need to adapt things like this in the everyday education. If possible I think one of your projects could be about the Lake Victoria Basin African Cichlids. Study the environmental and ecological changes which lead to the extinction of around 40% of the cichlids.

[@Sarahthegreatt]

A lot of bait, I’m hooked - more plz

[@Potato-fo1zq]

Eel tail catfish would be good even in colder weathers. They grow quite big like silver perch and barramundi as well. We’ve got them in our dam. You could keep them in your aquaponic systems as they produce enough waste to sustain the plants. This is what I’m planning to do this summer period. Though be careful of their barbs, may not be easy to handle as they point up their barbs on their top dorsal fin and their two side fins when you try to pick them up

[@matspets7039]

Super cool, wish I had such a project going in my school when I was a student! (I'm actually a biology/technical subjects teacher in Belgium now). Safety suggestion: install easy to reach plugs/switches to be able to turn of all equipment before putting their hands in a tank. A malfunctioning heater e.g. can cause electrocution. Subject suggestion: try to focus on actual current challenges going on in the world right now and in the future, and finding sollutions. Changing climate, which species will adapt best? Food sourcing, what setup is most efficiënt in growing the most and best food? Waste reduction, how can we use nature to solve waste problems? Pandemic: how to cure a sick population? Just some ideas. Working together with other teachers to focus on parts of the project can be a goal as well (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) Switchting between following a tutorial/recepy for a project, and writing their own research Good luck!

[@Cupajellio]

My number one rec here is making food cultures such as brine shrimp, daphnia, vinegar eels, black worms, etc would make for a huge addition for an educational environment. Wild fish obviously don't get flakes, so showing the students the hierarchy of aquatic life would be a huge section you might be missing out on. Pretty sure you could do groups per culture, projects about each one, benefits and so on. It'll be good for baby fish that get bred and i think you'll also reduce the 'student dumped too much flakes into this tank' mishaps. I think you mentioned lighting, and i would agree that, especially for the aquaponics system it is lacking the appropriate light. Inversely low light plants like susswassertang or mosses would help out while waiting to get the lights. Lastly ill mention LRB aquatics for low tech fish tank 'philosophy'. KeepingFishSimple, would also be a great resource in general. And, get on r/aquariums if you aren't already.

[@RebelCowboysRVs]

You said you have pipes around the room to supply water, but a second one for air would clean up all those small hoses. A third down lot for siphoning tank water out as well. Projects? You have a guppy tank. Have them design an build a system to automatically skim off the babies an put them in a grow tank. Have them build a small tank over a big one that fills an dumps making random waves. The back of a toilet is a good place to look for ideas how. Those little crustaceans that look like horseshoe crabs, but live in freshwater pools that dry up, they need their eggs to dry out then get wet again before they will hatch. Set a tank of them up an challenge them to find a way to get those eggs out of the gravel, dried an returned to the water to keep a population going indefinitely. Not hard to do by hand with a filter on a gravel vacuum. But when they figure that out, have them find a way to automate it. Have them build their own filter system. Have them build a sand waterfall.

[@igotboredfkit]

So Lowes/homedepot sells 2-inch pots of houseplants for $5. They're mostly things like ferns, pothos, and ivy in that section. If there's a garden center near you that does something similar, you could have the kids go get one each to use for the hydroponic system. Then you could have the kids study why some did better than others and some didn't survive at all. You've got 2 arowana native to you. Keeping one in the hydroponic system would be cool, and I think educational. I've seen a lot of people suggest shrimp, but those are expensive in australia, aren't they? Look into line breeding guppies that would be a good project they could do in 9th and 10th grade since they breed so fast. Those little tanks you have would be perfect for it. I didn't see any safety concerns.

[@porkyswelding]

does it get cold down there? i wouldn't think you'd even need a heater.

[@mexicalifishkeeper]

Hello I just watched your video and i shared with some people who might be able to help out. What would be the best way for them to contact you.

[@zalan4643]

You coud try rice fish if its legale there

[@garethrasmussen6186]

look at native fish that you can breed, that way they can tolerate the temperature. And if you can breed some fish you don't need to catch more fish.

[@benlarge9027]

If you would be interested i can give you a heap of different african cichlids and australian natives to get you started