COHO SALMON LIFE CYCLE

The coho salmon life cycle starts when the salmon are eggs. In about a few weeks the salmon start to hatch one by one. The salmon life cycle takes a while. STAGE ONE: The coho salmon are eggs,and later we saw them in their eggs and watched them wiggle and move side to side. STAGE TWO: They hatch with their yolk sac to feed on for the next few weeks. STAGE THREE: There yolk sacs disappeared and when the yolk sac disappeared one that had two heads died. STAGE FOUR: When we got back from winter break they had changed colors and they have stripes on their back they change colors because the light  reflects off the glass on the tank. STAGE FIVE: this stage is about the coho salmon now 1/28/15 they look like actual full grown salmon but very little.

                                                                      Salmon Stripes

                                    When we arrived at school after Winter break we were in for a big surprise! The salmon grew up! Most of them have lost their egg sacs. They look like they have zebra print on them, but not with the same colors.There are streaks of black and small dots on their body and their bodies are silver.These lines and dots covering their side are called Parr Marks. The salmon's Parr Marks help camouflage them. You can faintly see their fins. They've been swimming up to the top and sometimes they look like their climbing up the sides. Their growing up so fast!

NO FINS

There is a fish in the tank with no fins. The no fin fish tries to swim around like the others ,but just swims in circles. He doesn't have control over his swimming. He keeps swimming awkwardly. The no fin fish doesn't swim  to the top right now he is probably thinking'  ¨no fair you swim better than me.¨'He does flips and swims on his sides. Maybe he will grow out his fins someday.