You wouldn’t see ’em commonly, but you did see them in like wholesalers, places we would most commonly keep, you could keep oc octopus vulgaris, which is very common, gets to be about that long. And the most recently, the giant Pacific octopus can, if you’ve got a big one,… Read More
We have since replaced with plastic pipes, so that’s not an issue. But the water chemistry has to be very good. The temperature is a tight requirement. They giant Pacific octopus need colder water. I think the maximum we held ’em with was 55 degrees Fahrenheit. And just to see… Read More
Like how did the pet trade get permission to sell these things to the public?… Read More
But I’m not aware of anyone that’s been able to exhibit those at all for any degree of time. I have heard of seal camps that have been brought to the surface. Their, their time at that level wasn’t long. Read More
It’s not like a permanent exhibit animal. So Is our octopus difficult to maintain in captivity and has the Shedd done it?… Read More
They are a challenge. And yes, we have been successful. We even had a little blue ring octopus that are highly venomous. I mean, arm to arm. They’re about that big. But they have beautiful, like iridescent blue rings on their body. They, they have a venom that if they… Read More
So there’s a lot of pressure there. I’m not sure that the animal will be able to survive at atmospheric pressure that we experience every day, perhaps, but we don’t know and difficult to obtain as well. The other one would be deep sea fishes. Those that are found at… Read More
I have a pencil drawing that the trainers had commissioned an artist to do of him. And in the frame is the she Aquarium ID of Bucky. He’s got his own employee id. So it was a great story and it was great to have him around and, you know,… Read More
Could be logistically difficult to obtain. It may not be able to survive at these atmospheres. When I say that, there’s two animal groups that I think of. One is a cila cat, which was thought to be extinct until like the late 1920s when it shows up in a… Read More
I’m like, oh yeah, it’s the breaker. It’s my dog. I explained why I brought him in. He says, oh, that’ll be fine, that’ll be fine. Just don’t let him up in the public area. So, oh, no, no, no, I, I promise he’s stay in my office. You know,… Read More
He goes, Hey Jim, you know whose dog this is?… Read More
I’m gonna try and sneak ’em in. So we used to come in through the loading dock and I would have to come in maybe a hundred feet, go up a flight of stairs and I’d be in my office. I thought if I could just get in there, get… Read More
And we come in, he’s trotting about 20 feet ahead of me and who’s the first person we walk into?… Read More
Bill Breaker, the director. I’m like, oh no. And Bucky goes walking up to him, tails Wagon and Breaker was a lover of dogs. He’s like, Hey buddy, hey, he is petting on me. Looks up. Read More
Ah, How did that happen?… Read More
Who knew You had a unique opportunity to bring your dog to work?… Read More
That was a fun story. I was single and I had this dog actually acquired him in California when I was working on the fish farm operation. And my friend and I each got a puppy from the same litter. So when I came back to Chicago and I got… Read More
But I thought, wow, interesting. I wonder why that is. And that’s, that was all I did. I never, you know, dissected the gills or anything to figure out what was the problem. But there are some fish species that are adapted to having to breathe atmospheric air as well… Read More
Why would they have to have to do that?… Read More
And I remember when I was taking i i theology in college, I was curious about that. So I had kissing Gus, which are the same way. They would come up and breathe air occasionally. And I thought, I wonder if I could deprive them from getting to the surface. Read More