The Fish Are In!!!

This morning we woke up with grand plans.  Get the fish...  My wife, daughter, son, and mother-in-law, took a trip to the operation facilities of Blue Beyond Fisheries in Palm Desert, CA in hopes of obtaining our Tilapia fish.  Blue Beyond Fisheries raises mostly strains of the red and gray Oreochromis mossambicus. 

Here is my daughter giving us her fish pose before we go.

Here we are at a gate in Palm Desert hoping this is the farm???

 All of those little dots in the tank are Tilapia fingerlings.

My son checking out one of the many holding tanks.

Observing one of the breeding tanks.

At home.  Fish need to acclimate to the new tank first.

My daughter taking her scientific recording duties very seriously.

Recording the number and size of each fish.

 My daughter's data sheet with number and length of each fish.  :)

Final Notes:  

Water Temperature:  78.5 degrees F.

Dissolved Oxygen:  1.75 mg/l

Time: 4:30pm

Pump.  The pump from the grow bed is turned off so I do not have to heat up that water also.  I will turn this on once I get the temperature to a level I know it can sustain.  Then I will turn on the full system again.

Observation: Fish appeared to take to the tank very well.  We will see tomorrow.