Help is apreciated

[panza]

Hello,

well i dont know if this site helps out with this kind of thing but any help i will like. Ok so heres whats going down im in 8th grade right now and the science fair is coming up soon and i want to do a project on some kind of fish related thing. the topic has to be a question kind of hard to explain like it could be what un eaten fish food makes the most algae. or some kind of question im a little stuck and need a topic thx. oh yeah on a budget so not to expensive... XD

 

[OniTweak]

You would have to actually test that out seeing as algae grows differently in different water, lighting and environment. Your best bet is to just give it a try yourself.

 

[pat8you]

What about testing the memory of fish. See if you can "train" them so to speak. I read an article today about a guy who trained one of his fish to carry a small frisbee across a 6' tank. Use food as a stimulus and see what kind of things you can teach a fish to do. Or maybe have a few small fish and see which ones learn the best. The whole pavlov's dog experiment.

 

[panza]

ha ha thatd be a good idea but i dont think i can afford to set up another tank to test its memory i was more thinking on the line of algae growth but i dont know how i could measure the growth of algae

 

[HoCkEyGmC]

Something involving the nitrogen cycle would be a cool...

 

[Innovator]

Exactly what is the time frame you have to work on a project?

 

[panza]

Something involving the nitrogen cycle would be a cool...

lol i have no clue what that is you gotta explain what that is ha ha

 

[panza]

Exactly what is the time frame you have to work on a project?

due date is march 19

 

[OniTweak]

You know that month long waiting period you are supposed to wait before adding a fish to a tank. Thats called a Nitrogen cycle.

 

[buddha_red]

http://www.aquariumadvice.com/articles/articles/24/1/Nitrogen-Cycle-/Page1.html

here's an article about the nitrogen cycle.

 

[panza]

ok heres what i want to do which un eaten fish food brand creates the most algae.... so the plan would be that once a day i would put some food in once a day and see how much algae is growing more in then the other.... but the only problome is that i need to figure out a way on how to measure the amount of algae. any ideas? like does the algae have enough mass to wiegh? or by inches? anything?

 

[Innovator]

You'd also have to compare and contrast the "makeup" of each flake food used.

 

[panza]

oh yeah that shouldnt be to hard but any ideas to measure the algae growth!!

 

[OniTweak]

Just use pictures. Everyone loves pictures and I'm sure your science project will as well.