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03-11-2004, 01:04 PM
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Lab Monkey
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My Chromis likes to swim
My chromis in my tank at work really likes to swim. In fact, it only seems to stop at night. I thought it might be interesting to determine just how far it swims per day. It seems to swim in the same 3' circle most of the day. It takes it approximately 6 seconds to complete this circle (sometimes less). Assuming it does this for 12hrs a day, it swims just over 4 miles per day! Not too bad for a 1" fish. For comparison, I swam about 2 miles in an hour this morning and am pooped. If we compare body lengths per hour the chromis does 21,555 and I do a measly 1,760. Looks like I got some work to do! 
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03-11-2004, 01:33 PM
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Reef Freak
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Middleton, WI
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You gotta grow fins, turn an iridescent green color too 
I can only imagine what a large tang will do ... esp if given the space. Or one of the very active wrasses ... though a chromis might just challenge it. Would be an interesting study, informal or not.
Perhaps we could have a fish-olympics ... with jumping, swimming distances vs speed, etc measured. Well, maybe not, as jumping, swimming fast would require freaking the fish out - and that's no good. No fair when it requires total fear in the `athletes', I guess a pretty bad idea after all [my first bad idea ever]
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03-11-2004, 01:38 PM
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Lab Monkey
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Quote:
Originally posted by MiddletonMark
Well, maybe not, as jumping, swimming fast would require freaking the fish out - and that's no good.
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Don't worry, we'll just use the Fish Accelerator.
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03-11-2004, 01:41 PM
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Reef Freak
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Well, then we'd have to factor in how far you can swim with the `barryaccelerator'.
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03-11-2004, 01:47 PM
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Lab Monkey
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The fish accelerator is a real contraption that was once used by my boss to study what happens when you force fish to continue swimming beyond their aerobic limit. Basically a long tube with electrodes along its length that zap the fish and make its muscles continue to contract. Unfortunately for the fish, when it leaves the tube it gets plopped in liquid N2 for later enzyme study.
My accelerator is called using fins.
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03-11-2004, 01:55 PM
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Reef Freak
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Wow!
Learn something new and freakishly weird every day. Remind me to stay far, far away from people who study fish  |
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03-11-2004, 01:59 PM
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Lab Monkey
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You should see some of the stuff I find in this lab. lol Much of the stuff is older than I am.
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03-11-2004, 02:32 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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does somebody have to much time on their hands today.
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03-11-2004, 02:37 PM
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Lab Monkey
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I'm doing paperwork on the computer (I hate paperwork) so I thought I'd use the nifty calculator function for something useful.
Ok, you got me. The boss left early.
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03-11-2004, 02:43 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
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Dude! it is like almost one over there. left just a little early did he.
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03-11-2004, 02:48 PM
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Lab Monkey
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LOL It's very tempting to head out myself since it is over 80 outside today. But this paperwork's not going to get done by itself.
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03-11-2004, 03:06 PM
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Blacktip Shark
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Sure it is, that's what happens with my homework.....
Neat calculations, sounds like you need to drink redbull, i wonder if it gives you fins as well as wings?
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