Catching Minnows

Teo, February 16, 2015

Our dad is working in a lab that studies electric fish.  He brought an electric fish home on the bus because over the weekend he wanted to so some experiments.  Javy and I a couple of days later went to the little stream by our house to catch some flavorful minnows to feed our electric fish.

This is the little stream that we caught our minnows in.

We got the idea of making a little trap from some boys we met over by the farm where we worked in January.  You can go back and read about us meeting those boys, number 8 of Javy's favorite things at Ecoparque.  They took a Gatorade bottle and cut a hole and put some cracker bits into it so the fish would come in but couldn't get out.  So we tried it with a water jug.  We cut a hole and put some little cookie bits in, and we rode our bikes over to the stream.  

This is the little trap that we made.

We put the jug in the water and waited about two minutes, and we had at least fifty fish when we looked again.  Javy ran back to the house and got a bucket.  We poured all the fish into the bucket and we got two fish out.  

Javy holding some very wiggly minnows

Javy and I put them in the electric fish's tank.  They are swimming around right now, not suspecting anything.  The electric fish is just sitting there, but during the night, he will probably strike.  

This is our tank, and you can't really see the fish because it's in its tube, but you can see the tail poking out of the end.