cyenna Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 I'm taking a writing intensive course for my major (microbiology) where we are supposed to learn how to write grant proposals and scientific papers. There's a big project due at the end of the term where we will have choosen some "environment" to take a sample of, we will have tested for bacteria and we will write a proposal. I think I'm going to do my reef tank but there are three questions that I need to be able to answer: 1. What is the question?/ proposal? 2. Why should the reader care? 3. How will the work/testing answer the question? Basically, I need a reason to test my fish tank and that reason has to be good enough so that some corporation or big money-rich entity will fund my research. If anyone has any ideas or can point me to some website, or whatever, that would be appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronjunior Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 The pit of a pleunum system could be interesting. How much bacteria really resides there and can it ever have too much/die off. Compared to deep sand bads? Not sure how you could sell it, other that making a point other long term filtration may be better without disturbing a substrate. Not to knock plenums, I just didn't find definitive data when thinking of doing one myself. Just throwing ideas out there. Better yet, fix Ich! Come up with a solution for that, you'll be rich! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JManrow Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 A possibility might be (a simplified)diagnosis and treatment of mycobacteria in the aquarium. This has long been an occasional problem with aquarium keeping, as it can be spread to humans. Not much technical information here, but it may be a good place to start. http://members.optushome.com.au/chelmon/Myco.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyenna Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 I don't know anything about pleunum but have seen a few times. Any good links? Mycobacteria would be very interesting! I would have to see what sort of tests I could perform to identify it in the sample? Would it be more likely in the sand or in the water? I'll do some research. Of course, curing ick would be like curing the common cold. A nobel prize winner I'm sure. At least in the fish community. (laugh) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Bacterial contamination from various frozen food sources? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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