Aquarium Life
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Mommy becomes a granny
I apologise to everyone for not blogging about the aquarium life last week but I managed to get a cold and was completely incapacitated over the weekend. So today was interesting ... my voice has been sounding horrible the whole week and I had to do the ray talk with the feed ... there wasn't that many people so it went ok but was sounding a bit croaky afterwards but it was ok.
I had a great rainforrest feed today ... we had a full feed so it included the piranas ... now the last couple of weeks they haven't been eating all that well so I was really happy when they actually went for the food. They didn't give me any hanging food for the Archer fish today so I decided to see if I could get them to jump for the seeweed ... and they did ;o) ... not happy that it wasn't meat though but they still put up a show so was kewl. The veggie piranas managed to splash everbody over the side of their tank today but to be fair I got completely soaked by the catfish ... they were really enjoying their fish today. The Malawi chiclids went a bit wild for their food today ... they are feisty little ones and they managed to bite right through my gloves.
The rays were really intertaining today as well ... I am pretty sure that they can gage which people they can take the piss out of. The do it regularly coming up and swimming just out of people's reach ... but today I had three girls who were really rediculous at first they refused outrightly to touch the rays claiming they they didn't want to smell fishy ... but eventually they decided to put their hands in afterall ... so one of our male thornbacks came up from the bottom but stopped about 5cm from their fingers hover there a moment then sink back down ... over and over again coming up to just beneath the depth that they were willing to stick their hands in all they had to do was to just stick their hands in a little deeper but no ... so in the end they didn't touch any of the rays and just left ... they know.
Another gentleman came up to me and asked me if I was going to ask the rays to come up to the surface so they could touch them ... I told him I could try but I dont know if they will listen ... so when I saw one of the female spotted rays looking like she was gonna come up I said loudly "hey lady are you going to come up and say hi", she did come up and he looked really amazed but i doubt it was because I asked ... but guess it's true what D says some people just like seeing us interact with the animals we know really well.
I'm going to sign off with this today ... we have baby rays in the back of the ray pool. They are so so cute ... and after Mario put them in Lizzy laughingly said so the mommy has become a grandma ;o)
L8r
P
I had a great rainforrest feed today ... we had a full feed so it included the piranas ... now the last couple of weeks they haven't been eating all that well so I was really happy when they actually went for the food. They didn't give me any hanging food for the Archer fish today so I decided to see if I could get them to jump for the seeweed ... and they did ;o) ... not happy that it wasn't meat though but they still put up a show so was kewl. The veggie piranas managed to splash everbody over the side of their tank today but to be fair I got completely soaked by the catfish ... they were really enjoying their fish today. The Malawi chiclids went a bit wild for their food today ... they are feisty little ones and they managed to bite right through my gloves.
The rays were really intertaining today as well ... I am pretty sure that they can gage which people they can take the piss out of. The do it regularly coming up and swimming just out of people's reach ... but today I had three girls who were really rediculous at first they refused outrightly to touch the rays claiming they they didn't want to smell fishy ... but eventually they decided to put their hands in afterall ... so one of our male thornbacks came up from the bottom but stopped about 5cm from their fingers hover there a moment then sink back down ... over and over again coming up to just beneath the depth that they were willing to stick their hands in all they had to do was to just stick their hands in a little deeper but no ... so in the end they didn't touch any of the rays and just left ... they know.
Another gentleman came up to me and asked me if I was going to ask the rays to come up to the surface so they could touch them ... I told him I could try but I dont know if they will listen ... so when I saw one of the female spotted rays looking like she was gonna come up I said loudly "hey lady are you going to come up and say hi", she did come up and he looked really amazed but i doubt it was because I asked ... but guess it's true what D says some people just like seeing us interact with the animals we know really well.
I'm going to sign off with this today ... we have baby rays in the back of the ray pool. They are so so cute ... and after Mario put them in Lizzy laughingly said so the mommy has become a grandma ;o)
L8r
P
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