Monthly Archives: December 2010

Ms. Irwin received a phone call from NCESSE at 8:00 pm yesterday.  Earlier that afternoon, ITA informed NCESSE that the climate control in their laboratory failed.  They don’t know if the failure was due to the snow storm this week, but because of … Continue reading →

We received word at 1:30 pm today that our eggs arrived at ITA at 9:30 am.  We met the deadline for the samples to arrive at ITA for the fluids and compatibility test.  Yeah!  We are hearing a possibility that … Continue reading →

We received three phone calls from Americulture today as they pulled 100,000 eggs two days early so that they could ship roughly 50 eggs to ITA for our fluids and compatibility test.  We are so appreciative of all of their … Continue reading →

Dana, Kate, and Jordyn collected the sample of water from the fish tank in Ms. Otten’s room so that it could be shipped to ITA for the fluids and compatibility test.

ITA changed the schedule from starting the test on 12/30 to starting the test on 12/29.  The samples now have to arrive by the end of the day on 12/28.  They have agreed to make an exemption for our eggs … Continue reading →

We received word that the materials for fluids and compatibility test need to be at ITA by December 29th, not the 27th.  AmeriCulture feels much better about meeting this deadline.  They are going to pull the eggs from one of … Continue reading →

AmeriCulture in Santa Fe, NM  said that they would be able to provide Tilapia eggs for us for both the fluids and compatibility test as well as the actual experiment.  We are so excited.  At the same time we also … Continue reading →

We received a voice message from the contact that Cornell University provided us in Santa Fe, NM.  Were were really hopeful about this possibility.  It was too late to call today but we would definitely call tomorrow.

We received an email response from Tilapia Farming at Home.  Edgar would have helped but he was in the process of moving his Tilapia Farm.

We were able to connect with the USDA contact in Florida.  He was able to provide two contacts for people that might be able to provide Tilapia eggs.  He also at least provided us with the feeling that there were … Continue reading →