Thrusday VIII31

Morning:
0740h:
-arriving & plannify day
0800h
-Check f/LD50ivTv Mtt II/3
-Clean, water, humidify displays room.
-work on Texas venomous snake field guide
-Clean and extract venom to N. melanoleuca
~ 1045h:
-Clean room 102 (7) and 104 (13)

Afternoon:
1300h:
-setup room 115 (a) venom extraction group
-Make new venom container labels
-Attend Gonzo with C atrox venom issue.
-Extract venom to room 115(a) c atrox group (23).
-Mail Elda regarding with C atrox venom issue
-Calulate LD 50 ivTv Mtt II/3

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Morning:
0645h:.
-LD50 iv Tv Mtt II/3
-Elda came to inject close to 0745h
-Met elda regarding with Pentotal Sodium protocols.
08305h:
-Check f/LD50
-Clean, water, humidify & janitoiral displays
-Clean, water & janitoiral room 104 (27)
-Check for pentotal Sodium protocol -copy protocols for elda.
-set up Perez extraction group room 111(c).

Afternoon:
1300h:
-Bring venom gland protocol to elda
-finish set up perez extraction.
-Supervice / Attend Bruno & Juan during cleaning in room 115
-Work on Texas venom snakes field guide.
-Meet Perez & Elda regarding with venom glands protocol, correct calculus for protocol doses and new Lucy's assignment with Mark.
-Relocate extracted snakes to their proper room & help lucy with extraction room janitorial.
-Continuing working with snake guide.
-Continu

Tuesday viii29

Morning:
0715h:
-Calculus LD50 iv Tv C atrox 53 and copy to elda
-Search for pentotal-Na doses for reptiles
o830h:
-Check, clean, water and humidify displays. janitorial of hallway
-Clean room 102 (29) and janitorial
-Print and cut labels for juan in H-cr1 mice room control
1100h:
-set up room 111(b) group foro venom extraction
-Fix and make autopsy to Agkistrodon No.98 found dead

Afternoon:
1300h:
-bring LD 50 copy to elda.
-Finish to set up venom extraction
-Venom extraction of room group 111(b) (29)
-Help lucy to relocate snakes to room 111
1550H:
-Esteban call asking for a tour for a freshmen voluntier. Give the tour.
-Check e-mails

Monday VIII28

Morning:
0700h:
-organize work for the day
-Move LD 50 mice to be sacrified
-work on venom extractio protocol show case
-Lucy report room 102-103-104 105 are hot. Put a work order to A/C maintainence. Check for rooms temperatures. Air handler 1 was shutted off.

0824h Perez meeting

1000H back to serpentarium:
-Print copy of blue print of venoms snakes form texas field guide for elda and mark
-Attend Joe and Ruben in fixing A/C problem.
-Attend Shruti that came to perform experiment
-Work in texas venom snakes field guide

Afternnoon:
1300H NTRC:
-meet mark about images in the field guide.
-Leave elda and Mark blue prints copies.
- Bring four boxes of tag labels
-1330h:
- Pick up rabbits with lucy
-Change preserving solution to fixed snakes in collection (4)
-Clean, water, janitorial and humidify displays. Set up Agkistrodon piscivorus and C. horridus displays.
-work on show case blue print.
-Met lucy about elda's request regarding to laboratory protocols.
-Register rooms 102-103-104 and refrigerators temperatures.

Friday VIII25

Morning:
-0800h: work on Field Guide photo edit
-0900h: Check for LD 50 ivTv C atrox 53
-Check, clean and water for displays and rooms 102-103 (room 104 was checked by lucy beacause yesterday was fed).
-extract and process venom from Agkistrodon piscivorus leucostoma 449
-Work in venom extraction show case design

Afternoon:
-Up date notebook
-1330h: medicare (10 snakes ) and force feed (12 snakes) with Juan Salinas & Lucy assitance
-1545h: help Lucy with room 103 janitorial after medicare & force feed.
-Work on VEnom extraction show case design.
-Check for LD50 iv Tv C.atrox 53

Thursday VIII24

Morning
-0630H set up LD50 iv TV C.atrox 53 /1
-switch biohazard buckets in lab
-Print LD50 mice cages labels
-0800H:Complete LD50 notes
-work with snakes photofiles
-check f/LD50, recolcate rack and take notes
-Clean and water displays (5) and room 102 -103 (2)
-Print new snakes cage numbers (from 645 - 682) and put it on cages
-set up room 111 extraction

afternnon:
-finish set up extraction
-Tell Lucy , please to attend shruti in shaving another rabbit
-attend shruti and Paiboon about injecting rabbit - drug lon note book)
-1400H extract 30 snakes in room 111
-1530h: work on field guide photogallery
-work on venom extraction show case photogallery

Wednesday VIII23

Morning:
-Meet Juan Salinas & lucy regarding with Juan schoolarship issue
-Continuing with venom extraction show case blue print
-Reply Mail to elda about C atrox 53 venom and weight Naja pallida and C atrox 53 venoms

0930h:

- Check rooms 102-103-104 & displays

-Clean & waters displays (5) - janitorial

-Clean & water room 102 (5) - janitorial

1100:

-Set up Perez extraction room 102

Afternoon:

-Re-check for venom extraction set up

-Work on Texas Venomous snakes field guide and give Perez the first blue print of Biology of the snakes section.

-Work on Venom extraction protcol show case

-Work on serpentarium link renewing in NTRC web site.

1600H

-Relocate "new snakes" to their proper rooms with bruno & lucy assistence

-Continuing with new rotation extraction log organization

- Set up feeding list for tomorrow

-Up date venom extraction rotation log

Tuesday VIII22

Morning:
-Clean displays, water and janitoiral hallway (6)
-Check snakes in room 102
-Clean room 103 (12) water and janitoiral.
-Clean room 104 (7) , water and janitoiral.
-Put work order for pending faucet to be replaced in room 102 and for checking leaking pipe in bathroom.
-Attend people from maintainance that came to finish pending walls to be painted.
-set up room 102 extraction.

Afternnon:
-pick up new display hall poster in mark office
-Finish to set up extraction.
-Room 102 venom extraction assisted by Lucy and Bruno.
-attend two groups : 1) Luis Manuel, Lisa and esteban and 2) Shruti, Paiboon and Angelica that came to try venom test .
- Work on venom extraction show case blue print.

Monday VIII21

Morning
-Meet with lucy about this week
-Remind lucy to call to pick up Rabbits
-Began to clean & janitoiral the displays
-0900H elda called to Perez meeting. We met until 1100H
-Tour for Wildlife guests... until 1215H

Afternnon:
-Pick up new skull poster at Mark office.... He was setting up printing mode to improve final output.
-Continuing with Displays cleaning & water and janitorial
-clean and janitoiral 102 (14) and 104 (12) rooms.
-Attend Esteban, Lisa and Meli in teaching how to shave a Rabbit.
-Janitorial hallway until room 105

Friday VIII18

Morning:
-Check displays for water & clean.
-Check room 102 for water.
-Set up medicare day & force feed viperidae babies.
-Medicare & force feed with bruno, juan and Lucy assitence
-Work on extraction show case.

Thrusday VIII17

Morning:
-Check f/rooms 102-103-104
-Organize new extraction groops, according to each room.
-Put in together all same species in numerical order in the same rack.
- rooms 103/104.
-Fix Crotalus lepidus 121, found dead in cage.
-Put index card holder in remaining new arrived snakes, babies.
- Crotalus atrox 648 gave birth 11 babies...

Afternnon:
-Pick up doulbe side tape at Dona Norita's office before coming to serpentarium.
-Continuing putting index card holder in cages.
-Organize extraction groops, according to each room with bruno & lucy assistence.
-Rooms 102, 111.
-Begun to update snake data base with new arrived animals
-Assist lucy, bruno & juan in force feeding seven M.tener tener.
-Also make photography of Juan, Bruno & Lucy during feeding work.

Wednesday VIII16

Morning:
- Check/clean displays and rooms 102-103-104 (10)
-Attend mark with new snake and give him NTRC snakes photoproject ( 5 dvd's)
-make new arriving labes and put index card label holder on cages.
- Pick up index cards holders in twilight zone.
- ask Dona Nora to order extra doulbe side tape.
-Make corrections to skull information poster

Afternnon:
- set up perez extraction
-Attend people from general maintainece that came to continue fixing / painting the walls.
- call CIS for some trouble with internet service.
-Attend people from CIS. They suggest to to buy a anew UPS for distribution panel.
-Attend Silver from General Maintainence about vacuum cleaner power cord pending to be fixed.
-Attend voice message from people from university farm regarding with NO RABBITS until friday.
-make B&W photos to team during venom processing after extraction. This will photographies will be used in venom extraction show case..
-print and give mark, bruno & juan interesting review about concerns regarding with veomous snakes keepers... as profession and as hobby.
-Attend Lucy in regard with changes in skinny snakes and weekly feeding rotation

Tuesday VIII15

Morning:
-Clean displays and rooms 102/103 (23).
-Prepare to Juan Escobar tour.
-Meet w/lucy to planify /reorganize all team work to catch up on pending snakes/janitoiral.
-Check room 104.
-Janitorial of displays hallway and rooms 102-103-104.
-Setup venom extraction room 104.

Afternoon:
-NTRC: to ask for inkjet printer cartridges
-Attend justin about DVD burner and new memory for office PC
-Attend mark about picking up cage, gloove and tong for coral snake in corpus.
-Venom extraction room 104.
-Explain Lucy, Bruno & Juan how to keep drug log note book in order.
-Assist Lucy in bleeding opposum.
-Burn DVD's of NTRC snake photoproject

Monday VIII14

Morning:
-0715: meet Dona Nora f/ Perez meeting and rabbits
- Catch up on lucy about last three weeks.
- Ask lucy to call for rabbits.
- Organize materials in store room (106). syringes, needles, plastic tubes, avid numbers, gloves...
-Work order f/ vaccum cleaner cord. (remind to maintainence)
- Order color and black printer cartridges (DOna Nora).
- Make copies of an reptile magazine article for bruno, juan and Mark.

Afternnon:
-1300H: Pick up parafilm at NTRC
- clean and janitorial room 102 (19)
- clean and janitorial room 104 (21)
- Janitorial display hallway and main hallway until room 105
- Meet w/lucy to planify rotation of skinny snakes.

Friday VIII11

- Check f/fed snakes
- Medicare day f/pit inflated snakes w/bruno
- Force feed corals (5), new born C scutulatus & helleri babies (8) & mitchelli (1) w/bruno
- Attend Lisa that came to weight venom
- Recieve new M.tener from Ricardo.

Thrusday VIII10

Morning:
-clean room 115 ( 48 sankes) / janitorial.
- setup extraction.
- Attend Gonzo who came to inject rabbits
- Attend Shruti who came to pick up rabbit skin and 472 venom.
-Call mark about snake's photography resolution.

Afternnon:.
-Extraction (displays) w/ Juan & bruno
-Waiting for Coastal bend tour...NOT DONE.
-janitorial of main hallway/105/111.
-feed breeders & skinnies.
-scan slides

Wednesday VIII09

Morning:
- Clean room 111 (40 snakes) w/Bruno
- College Station tour at 1030h w/perez
- Another unexpected tour at 1120 h
- Set up perez extraction
-Scan slides

Afternnon:
-Perez extraction.
-Clean room 111 (19) & janitorial
-Shave a rabbit f/Gonzo-clean rabbit room
-Set up snake's feed f/ tomorrow
-scan slides

Tuesday VIII08

Morning:

arrived at 0717H
- Just scan slides... Neither, juan and (nor) bruno came in the morning...

Afternoon:
-Juan came at 1300H.
-Shruti came to inject rabbit.
- Clean both quarantine rooms and begun put new labels (38)
- Clean (6) at room 111.
- setup tomorrow perez extraction.

MOnday viii07

- Monday's Perez meeting ... not done.
- Water / clean and janitorial in displays and rooms 102/103 /104 and 111 with brunos' assistance
- Weight C. molossus venom for elda's requesting
-Assist Juan in fixing a C. helleri baby found dead.
- Santa Barraza tour.
- Assist Bruno in shaving a rabbit for Shruti.
-Scan snake slides.
- Put a order request to Mrs Nora

Thursday viii03

- Scan slides / work on texas venom snake fiel guide
- People from A/C came to check room 103 a/c leaking... (fixed)
- Feed, clean & water room 115, skinnies & babies.
- Water and clean displays
- Janitorial of hallway
- People from maintainence came to mount show cases on the walls.
- Put a work order for repair and paint walls on 102-103-104-105.

wednesday viiio2

-Scan snake slides (cxxxii)
-clean / water room 103
-set up perez extraction (room 115)
-People from biozahard came to pick up containers
-People from glass company came to switch room 103 window
--People from a/c came to attend leak of room 103 a/c
-prepare snake food f/room 115
-texas venomous snake field guide

Tuesday viii01

-Clean / water displays-102-104
-Pick up sample cups and scanner from DOna Nora's office
-Send Mark .ppt poster archive
-A/C guys came to fix clotted pipe in room 103
-COntinues with Texas venom snake fiel guide
-Designing new arrival snake index card
-New coral snake arrival
-Elda came to pick up C. atrox venom
-Scan NTRC snake photoproyect slides
-prepare biohazard box to be picked up