Aquarium Life
Friday, September 15, 2006
Tooth Fairies
sorry went out last night so this is what happened yesterday i.e. Thursday in the aquarium.
Yesterday was a day of sharks ... I had the opportunity to watch the aquarists feed the sharks ... it was fantastic. Neil showed us how they put medication for the sharks in the food ... only problem with that is that you have to make sure the right shark actually gets the food. He tried to get our bottom feeding sharks to come to the surface to give them some squid with extra iodine ... it was really kewl Bell and Ashley our two nurse sharks came up to the surface to get their squid. Mazawabe (our Zebra shark) however had no interest to come to the surface. They did all get their medication though ... I heard the divers took them some squid medicine today ;o)
Just afterwards I had half an hour to chat to visitors at the main Pacific window (or main shark window). A little boy came up to me ... I guess he was about four and he sked me 'How many teeth does a shark have' so I told him that nobody knows exactly how many teeth a shark has but they have five rows of teeth so if they loose one they can replace them ... so they never have to go to the dentist. He thought about this for a while then he said that he has a little box that he can put his teeth into when he looses a tooth he just puts it into his box and te next morning the fairies leave money under his pillow ... so his mom tells him that the sharks dont have fairies. It just made my day ... just imagine sharks would make a fortune.
I also got to do the coral reef feed yesterday ... we had a new volunteer starting yesterday so I was showing him how to do the coral reef feed and as per usual talking to them as I do ... the pufferfish came right up to me so I gave him some shrimp and ignored him while explaining to David how to do it and feeding the rest of the tank ... then the cheeky little bugger started spitting water at me ... he really doesn't like being ignored ... so since he didn't have a name we have now decided to call him cheeky.
Oh and Elizabeth suggested that I call my jumping archer fish Archy ... so there you go. More aqurium news about what happened today at aquarium ... including a murder mystery so stay tuned.
L8r
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Yesterday was a day of sharks ... I had the opportunity to watch the aquarists feed the sharks ... it was fantastic. Neil showed us how they put medication for the sharks in the food ... only problem with that is that you have to make sure the right shark actually gets the food. He tried to get our bottom feeding sharks to come to the surface to give them some squid with extra iodine ... it was really kewl Bell and Ashley our two nurse sharks came up to the surface to get their squid. Mazawabe (our Zebra shark) however had no interest to come to the surface. They did all get their medication though ... I heard the divers took them some squid medicine today ;o)
Just afterwards I had half an hour to chat to visitors at the main Pacific window (or main shark window). A little boy came up to me ... I guess he was about four and he sked me 'How many teeth does a shark have' so I told him that nobody knows exactly how many teeth a shark has but they have five rows of teeth so if they loose one they can replace them ... so they never have to go to the dentist. He thought about this for a while then he said that he has a little box that he can put his teeth into when he looses a tooth he just puts it into his box and te next morning the fairies leave money under his pillow ... so his mom tells him that the sharks dont have fairies. It just made my day ... just imagine sharks would make a fortune.
I also got to do the coral reef feed yesterday ... we had a new volunteer starting yesterday so I was showing him how to do the coral reef feed and as per usual talking to them as I do ... the pufferfish came right up to me so I gave him some shrimp and ignored him while explaining to David how to do it and feeding the rest of the tank ... then the cheeky little bugger started spitting water at me ... he really doesn't like being ignored ... so since he didn't have a name we have now decided to call him cheeky.
Oh and Elizabeth suggested that I call my jumping archer fish Archy ... so there you go. More aqurium news about what happened today at aquarium ... including a murder mystery so stay tuned.
L8r
P
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