Of Crayfishes and TTC
so yeah the newest lab that shall grace this blog has been accomplished today... No No we're poking at Rats today, instead we're sticking needles into crayfishes...
LOL its so funny watching the poor fella's being prostrated on their back with their legs flailing in the air.... eh yeah i'm getting a little ahead.. So what the lab was about hmm... Basically we're extracting the fluids that are the equivalent of blood for these little fella's, and testing it to see its blood sugar/glucose levels, and injecting some of them with chemicals to see if it has an effect on the blood sugar or not.
So thats where the crayfish on their back comes into place, the lab technician basically fishes them out of the water for us, and rubber bands them onto a wooden block (execution anyone?), and then using a needle we "pierce" the crayfish under one of the their legs and extract the fluid. If the crayfish in question is not the control then we injected other "stuff into them". Well sounds easy right?? Well not when these guys are alive, and that we don't nesecarilly get the sample on the first shot... my partner became so frustrated and kept poking the poor thing over and over and over again (i even tried with that one and to the same result). I took care of the injecting part. Anyways this ended having to be repeated again for a total of 3 times on the first part of the experiment, and another round of extarcts taken after 90 minutes, so a total of 6 extractions.
You could tell my partner was pissed, as he just let the needle go in as far as he wanted (might have hit vital organs), and extracted ALOT more fluid then we needed (they didn't have much to begin with too...)
And pretty much after that experiemtn i went straight unto the TTC. and after the train moves for less then a min we stop, and the classic "sorry for the inconvience, blah blah blah... essentially delays occur because of the snow messing everything up for ttc). To make a VERY VERY long story short...
It took me 2 hours to get home, when it usually takes 1 hour...
ah thats enough for today... oh i do relaise that some of my friends are frequenting their (and friends) blogs less and less these days...
LOL its so funny watching the poor fella's being prostrated on their back with their legs flailing in the air.... eh yeah i'm getting a little ahead.. So what the lab was about hmm... Basically we're extracting the fluids that are the equivalent of blood for these little fella's, and testing it to see its blood sugar/glucose levels, and injecting some of them with chemicals to see if it has an effect on the blood sugar or not.
So thats where the crayfish on their back comes into place, the lab technician basically fishes them out of the water for us, and rubber bands them onto a wooden block (execution anyone?), and then using a needle we "pierce" the crayfish under one of the their legs and extract the fluid. If the crayfish in question is not the control then we injected other "stuff into them". Well sounds easy right?? Well not when these guys are alive, and that we don't nesecarilly get the sample on the first shot... my partner became so frustrated and kept poking the poor thing over and over and over again (i even tried with that one and to the same result). I took care of the injecting part. Anyways this ended having to be repeated again for a total of 3 times on the first part of the experiment, and another round of extarcts taken after 90 minutes, so a total of 6 extractions.
You could tell my partner was pissed, as he just let the needle go in as far as he wanted (might have hit vital organs), and extracted ALOT more fluid then we needed (they didn't have much to begin with too...)
And pretty much after that experiemtn i went straight unto the TTC. and after the train moves for less then a min we stop, and the classic "sorry for the inconvience, blah blah blah... essentially delays occur because of the snow messing everything up for ttc). To make a VERY VERY long story short...
It took me 2 hours to get home, when it usually takes 1 hour...
ah thats enough for today... oh i do relaise that some of my friends are frequenting their (and friends) blogs less and less these days...
posted by dragonlord at 2:15 AM
3 Comments:
yeah that's true the blog fad is dying
O_O poor crayfish...stupid man and their experiments >.<
what do crayfish look like? their name is so cool, it's only a letter away from being crazyfish
I feel sorry for all these animals you're working with...
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