So here are a couple of "science" pixs from the cruise -
A bucket full of anemones. This is the anemone "haul" for one of the trawls - six different species of anemones. I took little pieces of all these anemones for genetics, from some I dissected and took some inner pieces for TEM analysis and the rest of the pieces were put into formalin for histology when I get back to the lab.
One of my corals put in it's own little tank to see if it spawns babies. You can actually see one of the babies crawling out by the tentacles (bottom just right off center - pink blob amongst the orange tentacles).
One of the babies under the microscope - this larvae is around 1mm across, pretty tiny to make such large corals!
Another one of the baby corals - this one has settled on the bottom of the tank and is starting to make it's tentacles. You can just about see how the larvae is divided up into "pieces" with it's mouth in the center. The darker "blobs" all around the edges are where the tentacles will appear in just a few short days. This picture was taken about 2wks ago - now they have tentacles and are feeding, but I haven't brought them out to take photos of - I want to leave them alone mostly (except changing 1/2 the water everyday and feeding every 2 days) so that they don't get disturbed. No-one has built a skeleton yet, but they have 5 days to do it!
A bucket full of anemones. This is the anemone "haul" for one of the trawls - six different species of anemones. I took little pieces of all these anemones for genetics, from some I dissected and took some inner pieces for TEM analysis and the rest of the pieces were put into formalin for histology when I get back to the lab.
One of my corals put in it's own little tank to see if it spawns babies. You can actually see one of the babies crawling out by the tentacles (bottom just right off center - pink blob amongst the orange tentacles).
One of the babies under the microscope - this larvae is around 1mm across, pretty tiny to make such large corals!
Another one of the baby corals - this one has settled on the bottom of the tank and is starting to make it's tentacles. You can just about see how the larvae is divided up into "pieces" with it's mouth in the center. The darker "blobs" all around the edges are where the tentacles will appear in just a few short days. This picture was taken about 2wks ago - now they have tentacles and are feeding, but I haven't brought them out to take photos of - I want to leave them alone mostly (except changing 1/2 the water everyday and feeding every 2 days) so that they don't get disturbed. No-one has built a skeleton yet, but they have 5 days to do it!
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