Re: [Killietalk] Killifish Research Projects?

[Anubias Design <anubiasdesign at yahoo_com>]

Jeremy,
  The first thing that comes to mind is sex ratios and how they're affected by water chemistry/temperature.  You could devise all sorts of experiments to look at that.
   
  We had a presentation by a college senior who had just done a project on the effects of atmospheric pressure in spawning behavior of Betta splendens at the Philadelphia Area Betta Society show this weekend.  He only worked with females, and it was pretty interesting.  There are lots of possibilities for him to expand that study.  There would certainly be a lot of other choices of species to do this type of research.  Corydoras in particular come to mind.
  Mark

Jeremy Adams <frogfood at mac_com> wrote:
  I was hoping to get a few ideas on some research projects that I 
could have some of my students work on at the high school level. 
These would be juniors and seniors and they would have 6 to 8 months 
to start and complete their projects. This is an open topic 
scientific research class, where most students lean towards physics 
or chemistry. I would like to boost the biology side of things, and I 
think killifish would be a great model specimen. I am trying to think 
of a few possible ideas that I could use to help get them started, 
then let them run with it.

If you would like to see some of the animals we keep in my room, take 
a look at our class website. We have a list of killies that we keep 
in the fish album, but we have not had the best luck at taking 
pictures of our fish.

http://web.mac.com/frogfood/Site/West_Salem_High_School_Zoo/ 
West_Salem_High_School_Zoo.html

Thanks for any input,
Jeremy




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