06 April 2022

Heatwave

Danielle started the sixth day of the heatwave period for the corals to to experience a diel fluctuation in the heated treatement of 29.4 °C to 30.1 °C.

Daily measurements

Danielle recorded bleaching score and survivorship for the fragments and colonies and completed 2 daily measurements of light, temperature, salinity and pH. She also cleaned the tanks.

Data tracking

All daily measurements, bleaching score, and survivorship tracking for the colonies and fragments can be found on the Heatwave Google Drive and Gametogenesis GitHub.

Symbiont counts

Lauren completed twelve symbiont counts from TP2 which can be found on the Heatwave Google Drive. She also cleaned tanks with Danielle and fed the feeding experiment corals for 30 minutes starting at 17:30.