Aquarium Life

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

I love my job

I just love my job ... I had a fairly interesting day today. Had my two feeds today, the rainforrest section and the Coral reef community tank ... really kewl.

Firstly the rainforrest section ... it wasn't as spectacular as last week, since the Archer fish didn't want to spit today ... but there is one specific one I have come to recognise that always lines up and jumps on my right side when we dangle the sandeels for them to illustrate their jumping abilities. He really made me feel better about that feed because he jumped higher out of the water than we thought he would and he came back three time to do the jump ... a real performer ... its gotten so that I know exctly when he is going to jump ... will have to think of a name for him.

The rest of the rainforrest section went fairly well ... the catfish proceeded to splash me as much as they could ... and then followed me around the tank, making it really difficult for me to rinse the glove a bit to make to be able to do the other feeds. The Arawana came up to ask for his shrimp ... was the first time I got to feed him and he is so cute.

The coral reef tank was just as kewl today, the pufferfish was out and about the tank and came up to me as soon as I reached the back of the tank and started talking to them ... before you go FREAK ... I talk to all the fish in the aquarium and they do all have their own personalities ... the correct term is not freak, but FISH GEEK. He was very cute and he and the picasso trigger fish actually push each other out of the way to get to the food ... guess its warented ... the trigger steals the puffers food if he's not fast enough. He came begging for more when all the food was gone ... staring at me with those big blue eyes ... unfortunately had to tell him no...

Overall a really good day ... tomorrow I'm helping with the shark feed ... yippeeeeee!!!
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posted by Panthera at 8:23 PM

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