It has live plants. It requires minimal hours of labor and it’s probably the least expensive program we’ve ever had. And there’s no reason why we should give it up because it’s not preventing us from doing anything else. Meanwhile, we established a hellbender breeding program for the state’s endangered Ozark hellbender which is now extinct in Arkansas and only found in southern Missouri. And the population in the wild is rapidly diminishing. I think it’s estimated there may only be a few hundred left in the wild. And with permission from the State of Missouri and the Fish and Wildlife Service, the St. Louis Zoo has collected adult hellbenders. We have two indoor raceways in the basement of the reptile house with refrigerated water, simulated environment as we did for the tuataras.
