None Of The Telescope Shiner YOY Made It

I came in this morning and the four young telescope shiners were all dead, as well as the little fantail darter. I think we handled them too roughly, not initially planning to keep any alive, and that shock along with being placed in even a well-aged aquarium was too much. Gad. We might go out again in the next several weeks, we'll have to plan any live captures with more care.

We're standardizing the measurement of telescope shiner brains from our digital images. Brittany has made a big head start on the June fish, and she sat down with James and Alexandra this morning so that they were all measuring fish the same way. I want all three to make independent measurements so that we can check for any error. Once we get through the June fish we'll move on to the May fish. And, of course, we now have very small fish from this year that we can hopefully measure too.