Executed plan for today

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I put three mussels in the big tank outside of the gear locker (lab 7), half way around the tank from three water pumps stacked vertically. Here’s a bird’s eye view:

The black circle is the tank drain, the box next to it is the top pump, and the mussels are experiencing different levels of flow, denoted by different length arrows.

Injection again

I anesthetized 5 mussels with 50 g/L, and they were in for almost 24 hours. Only one mussel didn’t open. I injected the distal part of the feet with a 30 gauge needle.

I didn’t see leakage of proteins this time, so that’s good. Seems like that needle worked better. I put them all in the small flume after at some setting between 60 and 80.

13 and 14 were the only ones that weren’t injected. I forget the numbers of which ones I injected, but they are closest to the oncoming flow in the flume.

Quote of the day

“Born to flop, forced to slay”