Biology Club Information
Faculty Advisor: Mr. Rinella

Biology Club meets every day before school anytime after 7:00AM in room 146.  Participants may come as often as they like but should attend at least once/week to get updated on club activities. 

Much of the activity of Biology Club is centered around the care of our 90 gallon salt water fish tank and our river tank.  The salt water tank needs constant attention and cleaning to maintain the proper chemistry, temperature, filtration, and lighting.  Biology Club students choose the species which inhabit the salt water tank but frequently we have a mixture of both vertebrates and invertebrates.  Clown fish, sea anemones, shrimp, puffer fish, sea cucumbers, snowflake moray eels, and damsel fish have been quite popular.  We do not house any venomous animals.

The river tank is designed to house a variety of animals and plants.  We usually have crayfish (even blue ones) goldfish and occasionally American chameleons (Anoles) and fresh water plants.  

Other Biology club activities:

Animal Skull Preparation - Club participants will have an opportunity to learn how to prepare animal skulls for display.  Students must acquire their own animal skulls (usually from hunters), and it takes about a week of consistent work to both prepare and properly bleach a skull for display.  Students have completed skulls as small as squirrels and as large as a 8 point white-tailed deer.

Animal Dissection - Club participants may have an opportunity to dissect animal specimens that may no longer be required for their Biology class which may include earthworms, frogs or fetal pigs.

Owl Pellets - Club participants will have an opportunity to dissect owl pellets; clean and bleach the skulls, and rearticulate the skull for display.

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