Troot in the shed

spawning• Spawning is when the

mummy fish flaps her tail to make a hole in the gravel to lay her eggs after she's laid her eggs she covers the hole up with the gravel she dug up. Then swims away. While she's doing this the male does nothing.

redd

• Redd is the nest that the mummys spawn in.

eggs(ova)

• The ova is the eggs that the mummy made during spawning

The black dot in the middle of the egg is the

eye

Alevins• The alevins are the baby

brown troot that have just hatched out like our ones. All alevins have a yolk atached to them. They feed on it for a couple of weeks

fry• The fry is when the

troot have finished feeding on their yolks.

parr• The parr is the next step

from the fry. • A trout of less than one

year old is called a parr.• They start getting scales

that look like finger prints.

Adults

• They now have to make a decision to ethier be a smolt or a brown trout and stay in the burns , lochs and rivers.

Smolts

• Smolts are brown trout's that are getting ready to go into the sea.

• Young trout up to 1-3 years 5-7inches long will go through some physiological changes which is to be able to cope with salt water and change to a silver colour.

P6’s troot

• Our eggs have turned into alevins and we check up on them every day. They are all happy and swimming around.