Aquarium Life
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Do you live here?
Thursday was pretty much a standard a day. I was up for the community tank feed so I was happy ... I got to bond with cheeky as per ususal. He is so cute ... now for those who have forgotten Cheeky is our shortspine pufferfish ... named bacause if I ignore him he tends to spit at me. Now it usually works like this ... I get up at the back of the tank and start talking to them and the whole tank comes alive ... they know it's feeding time ... the last couple of weeks he has been swimming at the right front of the tank and because he is a little round he cant swim over the coral so he always swims around the outcrop right into the current that is being pumped ... all you see if little fins moving ... almost like he is going wait wait i'll be there in a second ... when he does finally reach you he starts making sucking noises asking for food so I usually give him a couple of shrimp before feeding the tank. I love my job ;o)
Wel like I said we now have baby rays in one of the tanks next to the pool ... they where moved into their own sanday tank on Thursday and the aquarists decided to put a hermit crab into the tank with them to contol the algae ... but being a new tank he was exploring and as soon as he walked over the smallest ray ... the ray freaked out and then the crab was following him around so we had to keep and eye on them to see that the crab doesn't harrass the rays ... on a side note have you ever noticed that as soon as you try to imagine a crab saying anything it is usually in a french accent ... thanks to the Little mermaid and Finding Nemo ;o) They did settle down eventually so all was good.
I was doing my last shirf at the ray pool when this family came to stand next to me ... mom, dad and a little girl. I was talking to the dad at one stage when the little girl turned to me and asked "do you life here?" ... I just had to smile ... no I said but I take care of the animals ... she looked at the fish and the rays then said "that's good because when it is dark and there is nobody here the fish will get scared" I thought that was so cute she just made my day.
Well enough for now untill next time.
L8r
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Wel like I said we now have baby rays in one of the tanks next to the pool ... they where moved into their own sanday tank on Thursday and the aquarists decided to put a hermit crab into the tank with them to contol the algae ... but being a new tank he was exploring and as soon as he walked over the smallest ray ... the ray freaked out and then the crab was following him around so we had to keep and eye on them to see that the crab doesn't harrass the rays ... on a side note have you ever noticed that as soon as you try to imagine a crab saying anything it is usually in a french accent ... thanks to the Little mermaid and Finding Nemo ;o) They did settle down eventually so all was good.
I was doing my last shirf at the ray pool when this family came to stand next to me ... mom, dad and a little girl. I was talking to the dad at one stage when the little girl turned to me and asked "do you life here?" ... I just had to smile ... no I said but I take care of the animals ... she looked at the fish and the rays then said "that's good because when it is dark and there is nobody here the fish will get scared" I thought that was so cute she just made my day.
Well enough for now untill next time.
L8r
P
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