Great Day!

Despite the very, very awful couple of days I've had in my personal life, my day at the lab today was fantastic. I'm still going to be here for a few more hours, I'm spawning some anemones that won't be ready until about 10 PM tonight... but so far today has been amazing here. Ate lunch with my best friend Vicky and then came back to the lab to take some time lapse/photos of one of my polyps... and it came out great!!

As you can see, he is HUGE!! This picture makes him kind of look like a catfish... He was extremely friendly, and was cracking me up for the 2 hours I was taking pictures of him.

His tentacles are growing bigger which is a great sign!

Doesn't he look like a puppy? They melt my heart, for something microscopic this anemone is one of the cutest things I have ever seen.


The pictures below are when I started dying of laughter.


Poor baby actually scared himself so bad that he retracted all his tentacles inside his body! It was so adorable- since he's so young he's still not in complete control of his motor functions so he was testing out his reflexes and actually scared himself so bad he tried to hide. One of the funniest things I've ever seen, I even got some time lapses that are sure to give you a good laugh.


I've been super busy but I am having a good time, it's hard work but it's a lot of fun. Enjoy all these photos and videos!! Next week is when I start shooting embryos with the gene gun... Then the anemones will be bright orange!! Exciting stuff!!