I guess the biggest concern was the negative perception that predominantly animal activists try to paint about the collection we have. And the thing that really hit home for me was the accusation that we don’t care about the animals. We’re just in it for the money. Number one, shatter… Read More
What would you say to those who still believe that aquariums are nothing more than places where they keep fish and tanks?… Read More
And that might otherwise be difficult to access the common snapping turtle where we actually got it to crawl out onto a scale and get regular weights and if you need it, you get a jaw blood sample right then and there. I, I think those primarily were the, the… Read More
You found nothing. It’s like, I don’t know, it must be metabolic or you know, it’s missing something. We don’t know what. So, you know, back then it’s like, well, you know, take it out and we’ll put a fresh one in there and hope it does better. The, the… Read More
I go there first time I’m like, what am I doing here?… Read More
These are all veterinarians. But it was interesting, it was a great opportunity for me to meet some of the veterinarians in the field, but also to hear their areas of study. And there were people that were getting into the study of fish medicine in a big way. And… Read More
Certainly the husbandry has become much more sophisticated. Again, going back to the simple diets that we used to feed the fishes was, you know, when you first start out as an Aquarius, you feel, wow, they must know what they’re doing. You know, horse heart, cho chow smelt and… Read More
We need to diversify their diet. And we did as best we can in, in many areas today, again, all the food that that we buy is human quality. So shrimp, squid, mackerel, herring, smelt, capland, whatever we’re feeding these animals is the same thing you would eat if you… Read More
Yes, they got food, they got caloric value, but their colors wouldn’t be as vibrant or maybe their behavior’s off a little bit to the point that we said, you know what?… Read More
I said, it’s a stuffed animal. And I told her this story. So the whole weekend I like, oh man, I gotta go into the director Monday and come clean. I gotta tell him this story. And I went in there and I told him and he laughed. He goes,… Read More
So it’s unfortunate. But you find more and more aquariums are doing this. Yes, yes. I think not all of them, I’m thinking some of the major ones that have the resources to do this. I think, you know, again, it’s as you said, a trend that people want to… Read More
So What are some of the most dramatic or important changes that you’ve witnessed in animal management within the aquarium field?… Read More
And the soft doesn’t move much anyway. Right?… Read More
And I told my wife and she goes, oh wow, that looks great. Read More
I said, it’s not real. She said, what?… Read More
I remember being down in education this past week and somebody had a real life size looking stuffed animal of a sloth. Read More
I said, tongue in cheek. So sure enough, my wife and I come up to the opening of the exhibit and there’s the director and his wife and you know, I’m director of collections at that point. And he says, Hey, exhibit looks great. And man, that sloth is really… Read More
Why don’t you get that and put it in the exhibit?… Read More
He says, the guys can’t get the temperature right and the humidity’s too low on this and that. And kept going on and on. I said, you know what, if it’s not right, don’t put ’em on. Don’t worry about it. Most people wouldn’t notice it anyway, don’t worry about… Read More
So this sloth, if I may, we had a sloth and it was gonna go on a certain part of the exhibit and we were having a hard time adjusting the humidity and temperature because it was open to the gallery. The windows only came up partially and we just… Read More