Aquarium Reserch Paper
Aquarium Research Paper
Abstract:
Fresh water tanks are the most common aquariums in houses and schools, many times people that have had a fresh water aquarium move on into a challenge by having a salt water aquarium. Fresh and salt water aquariums have something in common, they teach you how salt and fresh water fishes live and how they interact with other organisms. While taking care of a salt and a fresh water tank in this experiment my data showed that taking care of a salt water tank was definitely more challenging, but while it was more challenging it was also more educational since it provided a small look at what life in the ocean was like. The main idea behind this experiment was to see which aquarium would be the hardest to take care of (Salt water) and which aquarium would demonstrate a quicker population growth through the mating of the fishes, but no evidence was ever gather from that because neither fishes in those aquariums ever had an offspring. After that a better question followed the experiment: Which aquarium can explain the way fishes interact in their normal habitat? While both aquariums showed how fishes acted, the salt water tank in many ways showed a better image of what life was like in the ocean unlike the fresh water tank that didn’t quite gave an image at all.
Purpose:
The purpose of this experiment was to educate students about how fishes live and interact like in their normal habitats (ocean or lakes) and what it takes for an aquarium to get to the level of the fish normal ecosystem (A community of organisms and their environment.) Also the purpose of this lab was to understand how temperature, PH, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, anomia and salinity levels affect fish behaviors and their life span.
Background information & Bibliography:
Salt water Fish Backgrounds:
Chocolate Chip Starfish (Protoreastor nodosus):
Diet: Flake, Pellet, or Meaty.
Origin: Indian Ocean.
Temperature: 72 – 78º F pH 8.1-8.4
Salinity
Abstract:
Fresh water tanks are the most common aquariums in houses and schools, many times people that have had a fresh water aquarium move on into a challenge by having a salt water aquarium. Fresh and salt water aquariums have something in common, they teach you how salt and fresh water fishes live and how they interact with other organisms. While taking care of a salt and a fresh water tank in this experiment my data showed that taking care of a salt water tank was definitely more challenging, but while it was more challenging it was also more educational since it provided a small look at what life in the ocean was like. The main idea behind this experiment was to see which aquarium would be the hardest to take care of (Salt water) and which aquarium would demonstrate a quicker population growth through the mating of the fishes, but no evidence was ever gather from that because neither fishes in those aquariums ever had an offspring. After that a better question followed the experiment: Which aquarium can explain the way fishes interact in their normal habitat? While both aquariums showed how fishes acted, the salt water tank in many ways showed a better image of what life was like in the ocean unlike the fresh water tank that didn’t quite gave an image at all.
Purpose:
The purpose of this experiment was to educate students about how fishes live and interact like in their normal habitats (ocean or lakes) and what it takes for an aquarium to get to the level of the fish normal ecosystem (A community of organisms and their environment.) Also the purpose of this lab was to understand how temperature, PH, nitrate, dissolved oxygen, anomia and salinity levels affect fish behaviors and their life span.
Background information & Bibliography:
Salt water Fish Backgrounds:
Chocolate Chip Starfish (Protoreastor nodosus):
Diet: Flake, Pellet, or Meaty.
Origin: Indian Ocean.
Temperature: 72 – 78º F pH 8.1-8.4
Salinity