Every time running between QMRI & Chancellor, I was always stopped by questions like ”what’s in your hand ”. So today I am gonna talk about, hush, be quiet, I don’t think my supervisor would like to hear my possessing that personally. Although I haven’t been in charge of any line, I bet everybody would say my dear after seeing them.
Actually these little guys are not easy to deal with. They have three meals per day, twice Artemia, one kind of live bugs, once dry food. We rotate to feed them every day, sometimes even when I am hungry, have to make sure they get food on time first. But watching them chasing Artemia is quite an enjoyable experience. Good Artemia is transparent when splashing into water, at this moment those fish would gather around the food hole, waving their fins to dance with those crystal like Artemia. They also love jumping, seemingly willing to get out of the tanks. But silly kids, don’t they know this would kill themselves?
We tried various ways to make them happy, music, talking or changing water. I ever tried to train them Chinese listening, however, they only turned to be more sensitive to the food. All of these is actually to make them lay more eggs for the experimental use. Sometimes it works, others may not. In that case we have to create as many one night loves as possible to push them. A little bit cruel, isn’t it? But among them, I also found a super couple who can lay tons of high quality eggs every week, which I believe there is definite some true love between them. See, in animal world it proves again true love is unusual stuff so once you come across, just hold it as tightly as possible.
Our fish are different in they can express fluorescent proteins. So under the microscope, it appears to be a distinct world.
