The following is a message from my marine science class. If anyone is interested in participating, please respond and if you attend the frag swap I can bring the frags there...
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Hello, reef tank people! We are in the second class ever of Marine Science at Sequoia Middle School. We are doing a coral frag growing experiment and invite you to repeat it.
We are investigating if Montipora capricornis of different colors will grow and twist together and what it will look like if they grow at different rates. Class #1 thought of this experiment and we glued the frags. We call the combinations:
mc2 (squared) = purple and red
mc3 (cubed) = purple, red, and green
The green one grows the slowest for us. We glued frags of mc corals to bases and put them in our frag tank to protect them from urchins. Of course you can grow the frags however you like and change the positions! Our teacher said some people take frags off in case pests are on the base. If you want to repeat our experiment and try to make yours grow together, please try to take a picture in the future or tell us your results by our teacher Ms. Horne at hornem@mdusd.org or another way. We will grow them out in 2 tanks at school if you want to compare with us.
This is a slow kind of experiment. It might grow slowly and some of us will go to high school after this year, but some will be in 8th grade next year and will tell Class #3 how to keep the experiment going.
Our teacher will attach the photos we took of the mc corals and what the frags look like so you know what we are doing.
Thank you,
Marine Science Class #2
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Hello, reef tank people! We are in the second class ever of Marine Science at Sequoia Middle School. We are doing a coral frag growing experiment and invite you to repeat it.
We are investigating if Montipora capricornis of different colors will grow and twist together and what it will look like if they grow at different rates. Class #1 thought of this experiment and we glued the frags. We call the combinations:
mc2 (squared) = purple and red
mc3 (cubed) = purple, red, and green
The green one grows the slowest for us. We glued frags of mc corals to bases and put them in our frag tank to protect them from urchins. Of course you can grow the frags however you like and change the positions! Our teacher said some people take frags off in case pests are on the base. If you want to repeat our experiment and try to make yours grow together, please try to take a picture in the future or tell us your results by our teacher Ms. Horne at hornem@mdusd.org or another way. We will grow them out in 2 tanks at school if you want to compare with us.
This is a slow kind of experiment. It might grow slowly and some of us will go to high school after this year, but some will be in 8th grade next year and will tell Class #3 how to keep the experiment going.
Our teacher will attach the photos we took of the mc corals and what the frags look like so you know what we are doing.
Thank you,
Marine Science Class #2