I think it would be better to provide him
with equipment than cash. I am sure we can find something amonst ourselves and
ask the rest of the club if they would be willing to donate items for a
elementary classroom fishtank. I don’t even use my air pump anymore so
they are welcome to it.
Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com
[mailto:gsas-board-bounces@thekrib.com] On
Behalf Of Bob and Judy Holmes
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005
3:09 PM
To: gsas-board@thekrib.com
Subject: [GSAS-board] Fwd: Re:
Senior project.
Thought I'd pass this message from Thai along. Maybe we can help him out.
Comments?
Bob
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 14:14:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Thai Huynh <thaichicken162004@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Senior project.
To: Bob and Judy Holmes <jbholmes@nwlink.com>
Dear Bob and Judy
I am so sorry that I did not get back to you until now. I was so caught up with
my senior paper along with college aps and other school work that I have not
been checking my email until today and therefore, did not see your reply.
To answer your questions, I've been keeping fish for about seven years now and
the fish that I have or have had includes oscars, parrots, gouramies, killies,
guppies, bettas, neons, cardinals, plecos, corys, goldfish, barbs, pristella
tetras, swordtails, platies, pretty much everything and currently, I'm keeping
a 100 gal discus tank, and a 45 gal oscar tank.
Since I enjoy having a community tank, I decided that it would be best to get
the fifth grade kids that I will teach (at Ardmore Elementary in Bellevue at
the end of Feb.) a community tank in their own classroom, both for recreational
and educational purposes. It would be boring just to learn about fish keeping
and not have a hands on learning experience.
I've talked to my old fifth grade teacher and we already have a 45 gal tank available, and the rest of the
setup will require:
Gravel
Air pump
Heater 150-200 watts
Plants
Filter
fish
and any other decorations like bog wood or rocks, etc.
For my other part of the project in which I will be breeding fish for pesonal
learning, I will be breeding bettas, guppies, purple cichlids, and some type of
killifish probably gardneries. So what I also need are:
2 small five or ten gallon tanks
sponge filters for the fry stage
and heaters preferably submersible since the water level will be low
and any floating plants.
Again I thank you for your help, and I'm really sorry that I did not get back
to you on time. Anything you can give me will help go towards the two hundred
dollars on fish and equipments I estimate the project will cost.
PS. My phone number is 425 861-7902 if you want to contact me for more
questions or I can call you if you give me your number. And thanks for the
website.
Thanks a lot
Thai
Bob and Judy Holmes
<jbholmes@nwlink.com> wrote:
Hello Thai.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Our club has
had to deal with some
urgent
issues recently.
At our last board meeting we talked about your
project. We would like to
get a few more details from you if we could. What
equipment and materials
would you need to set the tank up (size of tank, need
for a stand, etc.).
Have you arranged for a grade school class to work
with?
It sounds like you have some fishkeeping experience.
How long have you been
keeping fish, and what kind?
At this time I can't promise you any financial help
from the club because
that would be something we would have to vote on at a
board meeting and the
next one isn't until Jan. 20, and you probably want to
get started on your
project if you haven't started already. What I can do
is to solicit
donations of equipment, material (gravel, plants, fish
etc.) from members
for
your project.
Here's another idea. You could join the Greater
Seattle Aquarium Society,
which would give you access to our member chat email
list, where you could
explain what you're doing and ask for guidance and
advice from other
members. You would also have access to our club
library (we hope to have an
on-line list of our library books soon). Just go to
our website
(www.gsas.org)
and print out the application. Mail it to me (5420 49th AVE
SW
Seattle WA 98136). I'll kick in the $10 dues.
Hope
to hear from you soon
Bob
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