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 enough people raising Tilapia and that the eggs would be easy enough to attain that we might be able to meet the fluids and compatibility test deadline. We continued to network.
One of the people that we contacted yesterday sent us an email indicating that a contact of theirs in Florida could arrange for us to obtain clown fish (NEMO) eggs for our experiment. Unfortunately, we had to turn down their offer of assistance. We had already submitted the final materials list at 10:00 am this morning. In addition, since clown fish (NEMO) are salt water fish, we felt it was really changing our experiment too much. We wanted to stay with freshwater fish.
We let our contact at Cornell Univeristy know that we still hadn’t heard from the contact in Santa Fe. He indicated that once we were able to connect, he was 99.9% sure they would be able to come through for us.
