During this week Connor and I had made a lot of progress towards our project. After having set up the enclosure with the heat lamps and adding decorations to the environment we were finally ready to start transferring the animals from their isolated cages into the large enclosure. On Monday we had started with the crested geckos,as mentioned in the methods , and moving them into the enclosure first. As expected, there was some stress behaviors exhibited by the crested geckos when being transferred. On Tuesday, we had moved the green tree frogs into the vivarium. The frogs were slightly more difficult to transfer over due to their tendency to jump.as soon as they have an opening. Overall there was little to know problems when getting all 6 frogs into the vivarium. The following day we had moved the roaches into the enclosure. We had discussed with Ms. Kushiner the previous day had talking about how the hissing cockroaches can potential become a problem due to their high birth rate. To avoid this becoming a problem in the future we had only put in male hissing cockroaches. This will allow us to control the number of hissing cockroaches. The reason why we did males instead of females is because there would be a chance that we move a pregnant female into the vivarium. Today we had notice something alarming with the frogs. When originally putting them in we had we are sure that we had moved six green jumpers into the vivarium. After going down to lunch that day and came back to the class fourth period we were only able to count five out of the six frogs. This had pattern of only finding five frogs had continued till today. We had asked Ms.K about the problem of the missing frog and she had reassured us that it was most likely a really good hider like most frogs. We think that the frog hadn’t died but either escaped or truely is a really good hider. The reason we believe that the frog hadn’t pass is due to there not being a strong scent of death within the enclosure. For now we are going stay on the lookout for the missing frog. Tags: #Collaboration#Communication # Creativity & Innovation
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January 2019
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