Cynthia O'Rourke

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Has anyone successfully sham fed a cichlid?

I'm trying to get cichlids to either strike at either food that they can't get to or eat something that looks like food but which they will spit out rather than swallow. Has anyone pulled this...

07 November 2014 1,241 4 View

Most/least reliable sliding-door fridge brands?

Do you have any exceptionally positive or negative experiences with a given make of sliding-door fridge in your lab? We're shopping around and this is a bit too much of a niche item to rely on...

28 August 2014 451 2 View

Are highly cross-adsorbed antibodies worth the extra cost?

We're running a number of multi-labeling fluorescent IHC projects in our lab, and we're having trouble with bleed-through and/or non-specific labeling by the secondaries. I'm considering bumping...

14 August 2014 1,922 9 View

Does anyone have experience or advice on the use of security cameras and multi-channel DVRs for 24-hour monitoring of aquarium fish behavior?

Our lab is considering investing in a security camera system that would enable us to remotely observe the behaviors of cichlids (~2-13 cm standard length) in a varying subset of our aquariums. In...

02 August 2014 1,645 4 View