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MagnaTank™

Behavior monitoring of groups of zebrafish larvae in petri dishes. MagnaTank was our first application of Remanent Imaging to zebrafish behavior, and it produced the larval tracking videos on this site. PiscisTrack™ software included.

Status

Patented prototype, not currently commercially available. We are concentrating our resources on CanaryTank for now. If larval monitoring matters to your work, we would like to hear from you.

Many larvae, several dishes, one camera

MagnaTank images zebrafish larvae in petri dishes under darkfield illumination. It was built in two configurations, with eight dishes or four. Small, transparent larvae are hard to see with conventional imaging; with Remanent Imaging they appear as bright, continuous trails.

Every movement of every larva is captured, so individual larvae can be tracked even in large groups.

FIG.4 petri dish zebrafish larval monitoring system.

VIDEOSixty zebrafish larvae tracked individually in one dish (played at 4× speed).

Individual tracking

Every larva, every movement

Each larva receives its own track, shown in color, with its activity summarized alongside.

PiscisTrack™, the software that runs MagnaTank, now also powers CanaryTank.

About PiscisTrack™

Intellectual property

Three granted US patents

US 11,388,889 (2022), US 11,723,345 (2023) and US 12,150,435 (2024): Systems and Methods for Aquatic Organism Imaging

Development was supported by NIH SBIR Phase I and Phase II awards. All patents →