CoelacanthChild Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 (edited) Hello! My name is Jenny, and I was born and raised in Provo, UT. I'm a secondary science teacher who's currently teaching 7th grade science, but I've also taught 8th grade science and high school earth systems. While my masters is in earth systems, my bachelors was in Biology with a minor in chemistry. I really like seeing how different subjects affect and lean into each other. My parents were never really into pets, but we did have the occasional fish growing up. Last year when the shutdown happened, I watched a lot of YouTube and came across this video from Foo the Flowerhorn and I was hooked! This hobby has tickled my chemistry bone, my biology bone, and my earth systems bone! My ember tetra had some babies earlier this year, and that was an amazing experience! I'm interested in breeding fish, but I'll need to go outside with ponds because we're renting a duplex at the moment and can't have very many or large tanks inside. Currently reading "The Tub Pond Handbook" by Ted Coletti since Cory mentioned him on an old livestream I was watching. I hope to be a lifelong hobbyist, and am so glad that I've found this forum! Photo credit -Wikipedia, Mt Timpanogos from Provo, UT Edited June 21, 2021 by CoelacanthChild added tags 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 On 6/20/2021 at 8:18 PM, CoelacanthChild said: Hello! My name is Jenny, and I was born and raised in Provo, UT. I'm a secondary science teacher who's currently teaching 7th grade science, but I've also taught 8th grade science and high school earth systems. While my masters is in earth systems, my bachelors was in Biology with a minor in chemistry. I really like seeing how different subjects affect and lean into each other. My parents were never really into pets, but we did have the occasional fish growing up. Last year when the shutdown happened, I watched a lot of YouTube and came across this video from Foo the Flowerhorn and I was hooked! This hobby has tickled my chemistry bone, my biology bone, and my earth systems bone! My ember tetra had some babies earlier this year, and that was an amazing experience! I'm interested in breeding fish, but I'll need to go outside with ponds because we're renting a duplex at the moment and can't have very many or large tanks inside. Currently reading "The Tub Pond Handbook" by Ted Coletti since Cory mentioned him on an old livestream I was watching. I hope to be a lifelong hobbyist, and am so glad that I've found this forum! Photo credit -Wikipedia, Mt Timpanogos from Provo, UT Welcome aboard! You’ve found the right place. Foo the Flowerhorn—excellent channel. Those tetras look great. Breeding fish is so much fun. You’ll find good help here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertFish Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Welcome! One of the best parts about aquariums is all the different sciences in one! Congrats on the baby tetras! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueAquarium Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Welcome! Hope your enjoy your stay! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Welcome, I look at Timp front on. We live in a nice place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 Welcome. I love Provo! The view of the Wasatch is incredible. A funny story, when we were there my my wife tried to order a beer in a restaurant. The poor waitress was very gracious and suggested a nice root beer instead. 🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted June 21, 2021 Share Posted June 21, 2021 welcome aboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Welcome to the herd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameCzar Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 (edited) Welcome to the forum! I love Foo the Flowerhorn vids, so peaceful 🙂 Edited June 22, 2021 by GameCzar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoelacanthChild Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/20/2021 at 7:11 PM, Ken said: Welcome, I look at Timp front on. We live in a nice place. We do! I love seeing Timp every day! 💗 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoelacanthChild Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 Thanks for the welcome! I really appreciate it. I haven't ever used a forum of this style before, and it's a little bit of a learning curve. I'm mostly used to facebook and instagram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.K.Luterman Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Utah is such a beautiful state. I lived in Cedar City for 8-ish years. I miss all the mountains. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyndi Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Welcome to the fishroom Jenny! I've found this forum to be a friendly, helpful place! And I think it's interesting that you are a science teacher interested in earth systems. I'm not exactly sure what that is, but an aquarium is certainly a closed system just like our Beautiful Blue Marble 🙂 So, I'm sure you'll find lots of overlap! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gucci Gourami Posted June 22, 2021 Share Posted June 22, 2021 Nice Fish!!! Welcome!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoelacanthChild Posted June 22, 2021 Author Share Posted June 22, 2021 On 6/22/2021 at 12:02 PM, Cyndi said: Welcome to the fishroom Jenny! I've found this forum to be a friendly, helpful place! And I think it's interesting that you are a science teacher interested in earth systems. I'm not exactly sure what that is, but an aquarium is certainly a closed system just like our Beautiful Blue Marble 🙂 So, I'm sure you'll find lots of overlap! Earth Systems goes into the different cycles on earth. Of course there's plate tectonics, geology, and earth's creation, but that's just one term out of four. There's also a term for astronomy and solar system creation / star life cycles; there's a term for earths ocean and freshwater systems/cycles; and last term we go into meteorology and cycles in the atmosphere. There is certainly LOTS of overlap. Especially talking about nutrients! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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