Trout Adoption

We had a bit of excitement today at Lack. I received an email from Mr. Smith at Mt. View Elementary offering some trout for our tank. Mr. Smith has joined the TIC Program through our local sponsors-Penns Creek TIU. He was experiencing some difficulty maintaining the water quality due to having too many fish of significant size. Our sponsor shared that we had recently lost many fish and recommended maybe some of the fish could be transferred to our tank since a 55 gallon tank will only support around 100 fish without experiencing water quality issues. Our schools share the same principal so she volunteered to transport the trout from one school to the other today. The students were very excited to adopt the new fish! It was interesting to see the differences in size and color of the fish. The coloration of their fish was lighter and their fish were definitely larger. We did our best to involve all the students in the process allowing some students to observe the new fish before we placed them into the tank , some to participate in the actual transition from the bucket to the tank, and other students to feed the new fish . It will be interesting to see how the new fish adjust to our tank.