IPRO Day

Big presentations today for the IIT team. IPRO (Inter-Professional Research Opportunity) day is when about forty groups at the Illinois Institute of Technology show off the labors of their semester. I think the students did a great job, and so did the judges, and I can’t wait to jump back in this January with a (somewhat) new group.

Down in the basement at Bubbly, water is burbling through growing beds, plants are reaching toward the lights and the system only leaks a little bit! After one month of bacteria growth and water quality monitoring, the first batch of tilapia will be introduced. Zack, from IIT, has found a breeder whose has developed “super males” which, when paired with certain females, only produce male offspring. It’s important not to mix genders to avoid overpopulating your system. After around eight months those fingerlings will reach maturity, but I plan to start eating them much sooner.