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Breeding and toxins, my summer project.

Posted By: Nick <andrew_nj@wvwc.edu>
Date: Thursday, 1 June 2000, at 9:02 p.m.

Well hello folks, I havn't been on to much recently. I have been setting up the great breeding project for zebra danios. I have set up so many tanks for holding and many more for breeding purposes.

As for the details, we will be using a variety of toxins on the embryo's and we will monitor their development. I do not like the fact that we have to kill fish to accomplish our goals. But such is the ways of science, besides, these fish all come from scientific breeders for these types of experiments. I havn't got far enough in my reading yet, so I will not be able to identify specific toxins. There are a few toxins that tend to make mice develop without