Hello Art student interested in science

[Isopod]

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Hi,

I'm an Fine Art student at university but I have also always been interested in science. Sometimes, I combine science & art together in my artistic practice and in my next upcoming project, I'm working on creating a robot arm sculpture and doing some ecosphere experiments. I thought it would be good to start getting more in the way of science advice (especially for my ecosphere ideas), so here I am.

Nice to meet you all and looking forward to learning from you ^_^ !

Isopod~

 

[BillTre]

Welcome.
Nice name.

 

[Isopod]

Hi BillTre, nice to meet you! I like the fish fry in your avatar, is it a Zebra Fish fry?

 

[BillTre]

Close, it's a fry of a zebrafish relative, Danio assamensis.

Very similar just a bit larger at this age.

 

[Isopod]

Close, it's a fry of a zebrafish relative, Danio assamensis.

Ah-ha, I thought it looked familiar.
(I actually once used to keep Pearl Danios as pets and one time they spawned and made a lot of fry which looked similar)

Why the fish fry in your avatar- do you just like fish?

 

[BillTre]

Yes, I like fish, but I used to work on zebrafish, among other fish, for many years in labs.

 

[Isopod]

Yes, I like fish, but I used to work on zebrafish, among other fish, for many years in labs.

Oh that's cool, what did you study through the Zebrafish?

 

[BillTre]

Mostly development, genetics, some physiology.
Also worked out a lot large scale of husbandry techniques.

 

[Isopod]

Mostly development, genetics, some physiology.
Also worked out a lot large scale of husbandry techniques.

What do you mean by large scale of husbandry techniques? Like how to look after certain animals on a large scale?

I chose the name Isopod because I'm doing an art project that (amongst other things) will involve a robot arm sculpture and a bunch of ecospheres. I really like looking at small lifeforms in aquatic ecosystems like this:



edit: BTW, if you can recommend me a microscope to buy, I'd really appreciate it https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...-money-and-takes-photos.1013632/#post-6614620