TIC Week 6

We just finished our first week of trout and its been its Been a fun experience and we learned a lot like reddish the fish and testing the water with multiple thing

-Heather Gray-Vause and Luke Scilovati


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Week 5 pic

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TIC Week 5

More of the fish are beginning to swim to the top of the tank. There are still about 2/3 of the fish hovering above the bottom. No fish have died this week and all systems are go.

- Marko Djurdjevic (Xnil), Katherine Stanton


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TIC Week Three

We have just completed the third week of TIC. After making sure all was "normal", we did the water tests. All seems to be normal and the fries are doing well. We did not have to take out any mortalities. So far TIC has been very interesting and it has been a great learning experience. We hope to have more time to work on TIC in the future.


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Location:TEMS

The Tremendous Trout

This week the eggs have hatched and now are in their second stage of life, known as fry. The fry are about the size of the diameter of a quarter and are black in color. Every egg hatched into a fry. Since the beginning of the week, there have been no mortalities.

Julia Weiss Ryan Bailey

Tic is intriguing

Shawn and I just completed the first week of tic.
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Location:TEMS

Overall Reflection on TIC

The day has come to bid our farewell to the brook trout. Our experience with them has been nothing but educational and we are sad to see that our time with them has come to an end. The TIC program teaches a sense of responsibility as well as how to care for a living animal.
This past Saturday, two anonymous students spent their time having fun with their 7th grade English teacher releasing as well as counting the brook trout we have raised inside of our classroom. They tallied a total of 124 surviving fish. When they arrived, they found a bucket full of the lively fish, who seemed to be as excited as they were. They chose to use either a plastic cup or a small net to help them out of the bucket. Next, the students pulled on their rain boots and braved the cold water as they scooped up two or three of the fish, counted them, and said goodbye as they watched them swim away. This went on for about ten minutes until they were down to the last few fish. These last ones seemed hard to catch and posed as a fun challenge, but the students said that "They felt a sense of relief as well as satisfaction that these trout are finally home."
The connection with the surroundings when the brook trout were released was one of a kind. The satisfaction they felt was one that only came with hard work and hours of dedication. And when the students finally packed up their bags and drove off in their car, only one question lingered in their minds "What next?"



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Location:East Branch of the Brandywine River