Hello, need help with classroom fish

I really would love to bring in stuff to try and help them but I don't have any of it and my parents don't wish to help out either. Sorry

Melinda,
I'm still willing to help out. If you are interested, you can PM me and I'll give you my phone number. I can talk to your parents first so they can OK it.

Laura

Thank you all for helping me to try and figure things out with the mummichogs. In the classroom it seems as they have stabled themselves out and gone back to chasing one another around the tanks again. They are quite funny now. I still don't know what caused them to make themselves sick like that and not eat but we can only hope that it won't happen again any time soon. Or at least that is what I hope.

I do not know what grade you are in and it doesn't matter and I do not need to know. I do not want you to get in trouble but can you have some container of water somewhere that you can let sit to equalize the temp. of the mumichog water "treated as others have said". If so do a water change when the teacher goes to the principals office or when he is not around. I mean you are just taking care of fish that was placed in your care as I see it since you said you were on teams. So why not let your team be the leader of the pack in learning and teaching others including the teacher. Do not be shy. As I say everyone has a boss. Now I say this again I do not want you in trouble but there are tactful ways at going around your teacher like talking to other teachers that have more love of life than just looking at it die. As for the salt, pickling and canning salt is the best non pet store bought stuff. You find it in the baking or canning section in you grocery store. It says just that " Pickeling and Canning salt" may say kosher also. It has no anti caking agents and iodine like table salt does, that is why the warning to not use table salt the others have mentioned, and it is dirt cheap. Well good luck and don't get in trouble. But what I have said I think is very reasonable. When ever one of my children come to me and they say, so and so said I could not do this unless I did or have this and it makes no sense at all to them. I always tell them everyone has a boss. Go over you teachers head. Do not advertise this but just respectufully ask another teacher that has love of life. Then maybe you can get a team "against" sounds kind of bad but lets say "for" the education of your class and teacher.

I do not for the life of me understand why your teacher has taken under his care life from the outdoors and then tells you it is not important cause they are so small. He probably eats fish. Well those fish started with little fish eating small crustation, invertabrates, inscects, then those little fish got eaten by bigger fish so on so forth. You know the story. Well if that "little fish" is not important he would not be enjoyoing his bigger fish at the table. Every thing in nature has a purpose and a place. And when taken out of nature their whole world has changed and they are relying on the person/people that took them out of nature to reproduce as close as possible the environment in which they came from and maintaining that environment. Maybe do a write up and put down on paper what you have learned here and not tell the teacher what you sources were or tell him makes no difference I suppose. Then hand it in and ask if you can get extra credit for your "team" project. Then maybe when he reads some of this stuff he may be enlighented so to speak and come around to your side. Just a thought. Again do not get in trouble. But sometimes it takes one to stand up for what he believes is right and true and stick his neck out and take a leap. So again good luck in takeing care of those fish.

Thank you all for helping me to try and figure things out with the mummichogs. In the classroom it seems as they have stabled themselves out and gone back to chasing one another around the tanks again. They are quite funny now. I still don't know what caused them to make themselves sick like that and not eat but we can only hope that it won't happen again any time soon. Or at least that is what I hope.

Given time and keeping the same practices up your fish WILL DIE. They need at the very least partical water changes and considering the species, lots of salt in the water.

Thank you all for helping me to try and figure things out with the mummichogs. In the classroom it seems as they have stabled themselves out and gone back to chasing one another around the tanks again. They are quite funny now. I still don't know what caused them to make themselves sick like that and not eat but we can only hope that it won't happen again any time soon. Or at least that is what I hope.

Given an address of your school I can send you a package of stuff you will need no problem. I would send it to you C/O your school. If that does not work I am willing to send you stuff any where you want to recieve it. What will happen to these fish when school is out which is soon if not already? Are you going to be allowed to take them home. Again I do not know how old you are or what grade you are in so if you are very young I would want your parents permission to recieve your address sent to me via snail mail first and signed by them both. Just want to help. After that we can communicate e-mail style.

Daniel