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started back yesterday giving a Chemical Safety talk to the new staff...at least the kids arn't back until next week so I'm not too stressed out..need to ask a question. does anyonelses spiny leaf insect eggs go mouldy or have I been over zealous with the water? please tell me they will be OK as our...

Same here one accident and it was the first thing workcover asked for...as well as a buffer for insurance and lawsuits ....if its a prac. used for the first time we do a R.A on it. This is filed away and next time that experiment is done by the same teacher or another one they look over the document...

pommy you said that you are going to a course in bankstown on wed. is that the data logger one?...I am going to one in Btown on Wed too. It would be interesting to catch up with someone that I only read about in Chemtalk...if this is the course are you bringing a logger?...we dont own one yet but ar...

you guys must be relatives of the spiny leaf eating kind....hope my eggs don't take too long and i'll soon be a MUM...its like an IVF unit...we had a male too but he died 9 months after being bought...but its true if the male fertilises the eggs you get male and female and if you have no males they ...

thanks once again can't wait till the little blighters start hatching...i am keeping them with me over christmas so i will set up a tank and change the leaves every second day as i would if the adults were with them ..just in case..my daughter (11) is wrapped

lada thankyou so much for the eggs. a couple got squished in the post but a lot are great. you said that you put them under leaf litter...do you spray it to keep them moist or put them in a warm place....is the leaf litter composed of the leaves that you intend to feed them or do you just put them i...

me too loopy, sent the series to my brother in law for christmas last year....great show

would love it if you sent some eggs..please send them to my home address incase I need to look after them over Christmas...
24 barton drive
kiama downs
2533...will let you know when they hatch

thanks for your feedback it has been noted...I've looked at our droppings but I can't see any difference yet....maybe if we have no luck someone who has eggs can send me a few by mail...it would be appreciated....I shall keep on keeping on

Last year we bought 3 spiny leaf insects for school which have been a big hit with the kids. We got one male and two females. The male died a week ago and the females are really big now but we have had no success finding any eggs (the info. that came with them was sketchy). Has anyone out there had ...

Good luck trying to enforce this policy...my science teachers are the worse ones at locking doors....only today I had to remove chewing gum from our fish tank and I once lost all of my fish as I stored the salts in the fish tank cupboard and a kid emptied the whole mega jar into the tank....I knew t...

forgot to say thankyou so much to lorrae for your help muchly appreciated....lorraine

didn't get to go to St. Marys this year...they have sent me to a data logging class in Dec. instead...will miss meeting all the other labbies out there this is the only time I get to share and ask questions....love this site whoever set it up should be knighted...

I have a year 11 class that are trying to do an experiment on alchohol fermentation. The one that I sat up isn't working as well as we hoped has anyone out there got one that they have used and know for sure it works...thanks for your input....lorraine

havn't got the fax yet is it possible to write it on this site. he has done the first part of the task, creating the green goo with leaves and a mixture of acetone/meths now he needs to let it dry and then add another solvent (this is where the petroleum ether was supposed to be used) and the differ...

don't know about you but our computers are tempremental and web is not always accessible as in case of a fire and server being down. as chemical ohs person for our school i store a hard copy where chemicals are and another in the front office incase a fire or large spill occurs where the actual chem...

hope when you are printing out your mini msds they are just for quick references and not for legal rights. Safety says that you have to have a full msds for each chemical held on site. the mini ones are only for handing out with the chemicals to go into classroom. i print mine out on white paper put...

if you could fax the prac. to 0242570949 it would be very appreciated...i love this ite....thanks a bunch

i havn't used anything yet but there was a topic on it earlier on and someone mentioned the hexane/acetone stuff worked and i don't want to mess up his experiment with the worng stuff. have you use meths. with good results?

earlier someone was asking about petroleum ether to use in a year 12 prac. and they were given the solution hexane/acetone to use instead. could someone who has tried it with success tell me how much of each quantity to use cos i have a boy in year 12 that has to do this part before Monday 11th augu...