Rainbow Trout Eggs!

The students are so excited to see our Rainbow Trout eggs hatching!! Currently we have 5 hatched eggs! Rival sponsored the materials needed for Fox Creek School to participate in the Fish In Schools (or FinS) program that is run by the Alberta government in partnership with BOW Habitat Station in Calgary. Rival's donation allowed the school to purchase the required materials to care for the rainbow trout including our tank, filter, water chiller, gravel and other equipment we need to care for the fish from eggs to fry. The fish will eventually be released into a local body of water in May. The BOW Habitat station sent us 65 rainbow trout eggs which we moved from the travel thermos into our floating fish hatchery. They have been resting in the hatchery for the past week and we now have 5 alevin (baby fish)! The tank is located in the Library Learning Commons (LLC) and when students visit the LLC weekly, they get a chance to check on the growing eggs. We are learning some facts about the fish and about the life cycle of rainbow trout. Stay tuned for more updates as our fish continue to grow!