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You are here: Home / Science & Technology / Why Bother the Fish?

Why Bother the Fish?

by Michael D.|  December 6, 20079:13 am| 9 Comments

This post is in: Science & Technology

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Sign me up! PZ Myers Harderkid13, blogging at Pharyngula is conducting an experiment. He’s turning fish into alcoholics:

Over the past few days I have been running my trials for experiment that was oh so controversial last time I blogged about it. I have been placing two groups of six fish into two solutions containing 0.5% ethanol and 0.25% ethanol. […]

I am hoping to observe the development of alcoholic tolerance over the course of this experiment. Other studies that I have found doing this sort of thing exposed the fish to alcohol 24/7.

I’m not sure what the experiment hopes to accomplish, but I can certainly relate to the fish.

Update: It wasn’t PZ Myers, but rather, a guest blogger. Fixed.

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  1. 1.

    Snarkilicious

    December 6, 2007 at 9:29 am

    It’s not PZ, it’s a guest-blogger on his site.

    But I remember (from mumble-mumble years ago) high-school colleagues doing something similar, but a bit lower-tech.

    Alcohol + guppies, and observe the mating behavior. Allow me to summarize the results:

    some alcohol: mating
    more alcohol: more mating
    still more alcohol: dazed and confused fish, less mating
    even more alcohol: “floaters”

    A high-school kid can learn a lot from research like this!

  2. 2.

    Sensitive Pony Tailed Girly Man

    December 6, 2007 at 9:33 am

    I thought it was pretty obvious what he’s going for. Exactly how much alcohol will it take before a fish pins a flag to his/her dorsal fin and starts attacking any fish not wearing one. Inquiring minds do want to know, I just hope we get conclusive results before PETA gets wind of it.

  3. 3.

    Mark

    December 6, 2007 at 9:36 am

    The phrase “drinks like a fish” comes to mind.

  4. 4.

    skip

    December 6, 2007 at 9:44 am

    Hmm, they do always say the White House is something of a goldfish bowl.

  5. 5.

    Jon H

    December 6, 2007 at 10:16 am

    “It’s not PZ, it’s a guest-blogger on his site.”

    I believe it’s one of his students.

  6. 6.

    Grumpy Code Monkey

    December 6, 2007 at 12:30 pm

    I can see what he’s going for. Previous experiments measured development of alcohol tolerance, but never gave the fish a chance to detox. What this guy is doing is adding the detox cycle and seeing whether that makes a difference (does it take longer to develop a particular level of tolerance, do the fish ever reach the same level of tolerance, etc.).

  7. 7.

    Andrew

    December 6, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Fish, plus infinity!

  8. 8.

    Helena Montana

    December 6, 2007 at 1:55 pm

    I hate to sound all PETA-ish, but torturing fish that way is evil. Another power-mad Republican at work, obviously.

  9. 9.

    Epicanis

    December 6, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    The advantage of using fish for this kind of thing is that you can precisely control the blood-alcohol level of the fish without any special monitoring – whatever the alcohol level of the water is, that will be the blood alcohol level.

    See also the (sadly out of print) book “Drunken Goldfish and Other Irrelevant Research“…

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