General

• Nothing sits in a bucket for long

• Organisms > Physical Objects

• No soap

​Daily

• Check waterlines for flow

• Check airlines for flow

• Check for dead or morbid individuals

  • Remove or quarantine​

Weekly​ (or as needed)

• Monitor fouling, scrub and siphon when necessary

New Specimens

• Begin acclimation before doing anything else in lab

• Quarantine if necessary

• Collect well before experiment, give time to acclimate