Disgustingly messy and crusty sketch dump but I couldn't get my own terrible theory out of my head and ended up making a bunch of sketches about it. Also at the end a bonus dickbats and Damian doodle bc I was reading an issue of their Batman and Robin run (IDs in Alt)
Went out to a lfs to finally stock my 55 gallon yesterday! Got a small group of Glowlight Danios (8, before one promptly lodged itself behind the filter housing somehow??? Apparently this is a known issue with the Juwel Rio, I’m looking at ways to stop it.), enough Lampeye Killifish to bring my school up to 10 because I think they’re wonderful and then. A childhood dream animal I never thought I’d own because I’ve always kept tanks too small for them until this point.
My study partner and I got to weigh our rainbow trout, and wow have they grown! They came to us weighing an average of 10 grams, and only in a month’s time even the smallest fish have doubled in weight! There were some very hefty guys too, from a randomly selected group of fish the biggest weighed 81 grams, a massive amount of growth considering how small they were before! We’re aiming for an average weight of 100-150 grams, so we’re well on our way there.
To weigh the fish, we put them under anaesthesia so they wouldn’t be too stressed about the situation or thrash around in the weighing bucket. Here’s a picture I took of some rainbow trouts still coming to from said anaesthesia, absolutely zonked:
You can see some drastic size differences between different rainbow trout individuals. Not to worry, every fish recovered and was swimming normally with their buddies after a few minutes!