A friend of mine and I are in this biology lab this quarter and our project for the quarter is to design an experiment.
My friend wants to do something tying to the goldfish maze that mythbusters created. If you never seen it, basically they were trying to bust the myth that goldfish have a 3 second memory. They created a maze out of clear plastic and placed it inside an aquarium, they dropped in goldfish and tried to make them swim the maze for food. Very similar to a rat maze. So my friend wants to do this for our group experiment. Only, we need to use more types of fish than goldfish. We have been thinking some danios maybe . . . and at others we are stumped.
So my questions are:
1) has anyone ever heard of any studies similar to this?
2) anyone have any ideas or suggestions on types of fish, how difficult to make the maze or anything else?
Thanks
My friend wants to do something tying to the goldfish maze that mythbusters created. If you never seen it, basically they were trying to bust the myth that goldfish have a 3 second memory. They created a maze out of clear plastic and placed it inside an aquarium, they dropped in goldfish and tried to make them swim the maze for food. Very similar to a rat maze. So my friend wants to do this for our group experiment. Only, we need to use more types of fish than goldfish. We have been thinking some danios maybe . . . and at others we are stumped.
So my questions are:
1) has anyone ever heard of any studies similar to this?
2) anyone have any ideas or suggestions on types of fish, how difficult to make the maze or anything else?
Thanks