For some time now I have been taking up the hobby of trying to breed my fish. This past summer I got my first betta (fighting fish) and decided to try my hand at raising babies. On my fist few tries I successfully got little fry swimming around but they didn’t make it to adulthood. Since then my luck has gone down hill. I have been trying different methods and techniques and finally yesterday my fish mated! Bettas can lay up to 300 eggs so it can get pretty hectic, but it seems that my fish only decided to have about 50 (It was their first try). The eggs are just starting to hatch now and my little guy is getting his first chance at being a good dad.

My first Blog. I’d thought I’d give it a try.

Recently my Mom brought to my attention that people were asking about my design project. In one of my classes this semester, senior design, we try to fully design a project of our choosing. Usually, in other schools they get to actually build their projects as well as designing them but sadly we don’t. My group is building a Biodiesel reactor. It is not a motor, you can actually use biodiesel fuel in any diesel engine. The only thing you have to worry about is the fuel lines being eaten away because of the solvent characteristics of biodiesel. All you have to do then is simple replace them before changing to biodiesel from regular diesel. In any case, our device will turn used cooking oil into biodiesel fuel. This is actually a fairly simple process, but does involve some chemistry, so we are trying to eliminate the chemistry aspect and make the process one can do without any training of chemistry or how to make biodiesel.