100's of Little Surprises in Our Ocean Tank!

Hello everyone,

We want to share some  exciting news with you all!  Campers from the July camps will remember the jelly-like fingers of squid eggs, also known as ''squeggs,'' from the cottage's ocean tank.  Well, our squeggs finally hatched after two months in the tank!   Scott has moved the squid over into their very own Squid Tank and they seemed to be doing fine, but what do you feed tiny little squid, (Just 2 mm long!) you might ask? Well, we’re very luck here in the Halifax area, for we have lots of marine biologists eager to help us out with our questions.  Scott contacted Dr. Ron O’Dor at Dalhousie University, who is a squid expert. Dr. O’Dor suggested that we feed the squid live plankton. Even baby squid like to chase down their food, he said, so the “dead plankton” soup mix we have for the scallops and sea anemones won’t do. So off we went in the boat at dusk to collect live plankton for the baby squid to eat. We chose dusk because this is when plankton come to the surface from the deep to feed. Towing a special fine meshed net behind the boat, we collected lots of zooplankton for the squid and brought them back up to the cottage. Once we placed them in with the baby squid tank, we watched these little squid chase down the plankton with their tiny tentacles and eat their live plankton soup.  They seemed to find it as yummy as the staff find Scott's epic spaghetti dinner! J

100’s of rice-sized predators pursuing 1000’s of pepper-sized prey!

See all you Camp 3 campers tomorrow!

Peace, Love, and Jellies
-The IPYNC Staff