#nothing super fancy research since im not writing a paper; but this is sort of pre-research!

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My study partner and I got to weigh our rainbow trout, and wow have they grown! They came to us weighing an average of 10 grams, and only in a month’s time even the smallest fish have doubled in weight! There were some very hefty guys too, from a randomly selected group of fish the biggest weighed 81 grams, a massive amount of growth considering how small they were before! We’re aiming for an average weight of 100-150 grams, so we’re well on our way there.

To weigh the fish, we put them under anaesthesia so they wouldn’t be too stressed about the situation or thrash around in the weighing bucket. Here’s a picture I took of some rainbow trouts still coming to from said anaesthesia, absolutely zonked:

You can see some drastic size differences between different rainbow trout individuals. Not to worry, every fish recovered and was swimming normally with their buddies after a few minutes!

#so far there has been only a singular fish death after one jumped out from the tank in the night but we solved that issue with a lid #besides that the rest of the ~100 fish have been doing mighty well! they swim actively and look healthy #its hard not to get attached to these little guys! i was greatly looking forward to seeing them again #hmm i should get a tag for my fish research #maybe just fish research? #yeah thats good #fish research #nothing super fancy research since im not writing a paper; but this is sort of pre-research! #perhaps its nicer to not have to handle the funding hell that is actual research to be honest