I don’t think that we would ever have the collection that we have at chat aquaquarium without working with dealers. Many of those individuals have sought and some have attained, I not sure what the proper term is now. It used to be a commercial affiliate of a ZA. The… Read More
Yes. Dealers in the aquatic world are kind of few and far between, but you know, through the, the brotherhood of the aquariums, we identify this guy is great at collecting nurse sharks or this guy’s great at reef fishes or a specific type of fish. There were several individuals… Read More
Yeah, again, you know, going back to creating the natural habitat and then part of that and something that I was always hopeful for and it never happened while I was at the aquaquarium, although maybe with the redesign it will happen now. I always wanted to create a larger… Read More
Did the aquarium profession and did the Shedd depend on dealers for acquiring fish or unique species?… Read More
So there’s a lot of rock work in place. There’s a lot of locations that they know they’re gonna put coral, little coral colonies there to the point that eventually they’ll propagate and create a beautiful coral wall. And then associated with that, you’re gonna have fishes that are not… Read More
You talked a little about landscape immersion, but what, what are your thoughts on the trends in the last quarter century?… Read More
You’ve mentioned drastic reduction of animal species in the collections. Read More
Can you gimme your thoughts on new trends in aquariums in the last quarter of a century?… Read More
And I think, you know, it’s, it’s an interesting challenge with zoos for instance, if you get larger animals and you have a, a much greater yard or you know, three dimensional aspects to it. We have three dimensional aspects to an aquarium, but it’s just not as large. But… Read More
They’re, eh, two to three inches long and they live in little shallow stream areas. They need a current going across them. So you could put ’em in a 400 gallon aquarium, but they didn’t have the stimulation of that water flowing past them. They, they actually orient up into… Read More
What was your approach to exhibit design and and how did you develop that approach?… Read More
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… Read More
So it’s, it’s, it’s an important component of, I think today’s zoo aquarium world. You, you talked about exhibits at the She aquarium. Read More
But a challenge is in some cases not developing an overabundance of that species to the point that, well, what do we do with them now?… Read More
Africa has a tremendous diversity of sick lids. Matter of fact, they’re called the, the aquatic version of Darwin’s finches type of thing in their diversification to fill various niches in Lake Victoria. We’ve had great success in breeding all kinds of cyclics. The problem is the the lake is… Read More
So I would say yes, you know, breeding, if nothing else is a sign of success in your husbandry program, you know, the animals are doing well enough that they’re reproducing. Read More
That’s all ultimately my biggest concern. We were years ago, and I think the zoo aquarium community, a ZA is still propagating portilla snails, tiny snail found in South Pacific islands. One island specifically that is that natural population’s been all but decimated by an introduced larger snail. The largest… Read More
Great question. To answer the second part, is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More
Our efforts in education, were all over the board as is in azu or aquarium. And matter of fact, it’s, it’s, it’s got its own section in the accreditation inspection about your educational efforts and the type of programs you have. I think it’s incumbent upon us that if we… Read More
Yeah, you talked about breeding, but can any aquarium animals, can they be reintroduced in, in the wild and is there a wild out there to do it?… Read More