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
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
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
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
I said, it’s not real. She said, what?… Read More
And I told my wife and she goes, oh wow, that looks great. Read More
Why don’t you get that and put it in the exhibit?… 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
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
I said, it’s okay, it’s okay. And I said, you know what?… 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
How the heck do you live if the water comes up into the forest and goes for miles into the forest?… Read More
How do you live in that environment?… Read More
But the cool thing was being able to show so many different terrestrial animals that you wouldn’t expect to see it in aquarium. For sure. And I remember some of the classics were, we had bullet ants, a good story about a sloth I’ll share with you. But it was… Read More
Why is this trend popular? What’s the point?… Read More