Yeah, the, to go back to the, the early days, and I experienced that I was probably coming in on the end of the early days, but it was laughingly called the Stacked Rock exhibit, where you literally would take a certain type of rock and try to create some kind of environment for the animals. And basically it meant just stacking rocks in a 1200 gallon aquarium. And yeah, you wanna have a little hiding places for them and maybe try and make it look a little bit like a mud bank. Whatever the reality is, it was just very unattractive, very simple. It was accepted at that time and you put a group of fishes in there and hope they could do well. My philosophy, and it’s not mine alone, but the zoo aquarium community is going to more an accurate representation of a natural habitat as best you can, you know, open ocean animals would be a challenge. You can’t create an exhibit that large, but if you’re doing something on say, the Illinois River or the Great Lakes, you know, there are components of their environment that you can replicate in an aquarium enclosure. One of the ones I took great pride in when I was still an Aquarius is we had a little fish called Darters.
