adventures in china

Okay, I promise – the next post will be about something other than frogs or work… maybe…

My experiment has begun! This past week was spent collecting eggs, setting up buckets to raise tadpoles in, and finally, today, introducing tadpoles to the buckets. On a smaller scale it’s a breeze. I’ve raised dozens, even hundreds of tadpoles on my own in the basement. But now thousands?! This is a whole different game. Hours (days) of water changes, bleaching buckets, never ending prune fingers, and mud everywhere, on everything, regardless of how often I sweep or mop my bedroom floor and porch. This is how it should be.

Also, I got a new (borrowed) computer and Skype – username devin.edmonds. I’ll keep it open when I’m not in the field or at the lab, so feel free to say hi. I can only handle interacting with academics for so much of each day!