Week 5 - FSC Millport
This week we have been getting the Aquarium ready to open to the public. On Monday we went to White Bay to collect shells for the Hermit crab tank, seaweed for most of the other tanks, rocks with gutweed on them for the sand tank and rocks with live Barnacles on them for the Barnacle Tank. Cork have done a few trawls in our boat and brought up some animals to go in our Aquarium such as a Hermit Crab, some Squat Lobsters, Harbour Crabs, Shore Crabs, Velvet swimming Crabs, Flat Fish, Spiny starfish and common starfish, deadmans fingers, Scampii, Sea mouse etc. We also released the animals we decided not to keep using the centres marine lowering device on the pier, which consists of a large fish box attached to rope and a winch. On Tuesday we did more arranging of the Aquarium and office jobs such as creating spreadsheets for recording the species in each tank and their in and out dates as we try not to keep things for more than a month. Luke and I also did a beach clean at Farland Poin...