Ooh, I guess, you know, my first inclination is I won’t give them advice unless asked, but the fact is that they have to be more global in their perspective. You know, a collection like Shedds is, you know, globally important anyway. But the bottom line is to be more… Read More
The level of technology, the level of expertise is greatly expanded since I was there, especially in the beginning days. To the point that you gotta be at least conversant with the record keeping system, for instance, or the stud book, various stud books that are appropriate to your collection… Read More
And I thought, wow, why did he go to that direction?… Read More
It seemed like he wasn’t getting any further ground with his activism or demands that we released the animals type of thing. So my sense, because you know, following the media and whatever, I, I just don’t hear about it as much as I used to. I think it’s probably… Read More
What would your advice be to these people today about what their job is and how they should be doing it?… Read More
You would, no, no, I’m, I’m, I’ll jump in the tank. I’m not gonna leave them. I said, you might be overcome by smoke, for instance. You know, I said, they’re in water, they’re probably gonna be okay. But he was adamant that he’s not gonna leave the animals. And… Read More
And it’s the, the, the many opportunities to learn and to care for this great variety of animals, to my mind is a huge reward. Yeah, I mean you see the future with animal activists for aquariums being less now or, or continuing to be more. And That’s, that’s a… Read More
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 issues caused you the most concerned during your career and how do you see the future regarding those concerns?… Read More
I would say bologna. If, if they happen to take the time to go to a current aquaquarium, they’re gonna see a tremendous amount of high class displays of animals you probably would not otherwise see. But also the fact that it’s giving a lot more information than they traditional… 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
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
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
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