Aquarium Life
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Hey that's my finger!!
It's been a really good while since the last time I updated. So what is new? Well the ray pool has been interesting ... we have a female undulate ray who always "attacks" the crabs when we feed them ... to get their food ... she is quite distinct so we know it's the same one ... now her attacks involve jumping on top of the crab and waiting till it moves off to get its food and last Thursday one decided ... to here and no farther ... he grabbed her by the fins and then tried too grab her tail. Since then she's been behaving. Today however they all went nuts ... I gave a thornback ray some squid and the next minute one of the crabs grabs the thornback to get the squid ... pandemonium ... the crabs were fighting each other ... the rays were going nuts ... but they quieted down after a while.
I had a rain forest feed today ... I haven't really done them in a while D was giving me time to deal with my fall from the last time ... but I must admit it is one of my favorite feeds. The piranhas were fairly uneventful and we moved on to the archer fish in the mangrove tank. As a side note we always wear gloves in this section since we are handling fairly stinking fish and the ciclids tend to scratch you if you don't ... but I was glad about mine today. I was sorting through the food and taking out the hanging food we use to show how the archer fish jump ... when all of a sudden I got spit in the eye ... ok the food has not even been put out yet but ok ... so I was dangling some sand eels over the tank to show how they jump and they were doing quite well with the jumping ... then one jumped up right from under the sand eel and took it and Sabrina was saying how it was a funny jump ... so sand eel again and the next minute the same archer fish jumps out and instead of grabbing the sand eel it grabs my glove finger ... ok so now I've already dropped the sand eel and I'm trying to shake off this fish hanging off my hand so it finally lets go drops back into the water then he came back a second time so I hoped for the sand eel ... nope glove again. It was bizarre they have never done it before. Got splashed by the catfish again but nothing new there ... no falls so was a good day.
I'm still doing shark talks and enjoying it tremendously. I was very flattered on Monday when one of the ladies that had been listening to my talk said that it was one of the best talks she has ever heard and she has been to the aquarium a couple of times ... yeah me ... I even got an applause today.
So it was a a good day
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Panthera
I had a rain forest feed today ... I haven't really done them in a while D was giving me time to deal with my fall from the last time ... but I must admit it is one of my favorite feeds. The piranhas were fairly uneventful and we moved on to the archer fish in the mangrove tank. As a side note we always wear gloves in this section since we are handling fairly stinking fish and the ciclids tend to scratch you if you don't ... but I was glad about mine today. I was sorting through the food and taking out the hanging food we use to show how the archer fish jump ... when all of a sudden I got spit in the eye ... ok the food has not even been put out yet but ok ... so I was dangling some sand eels over the tank to show how they jump and they were doing quite well with the jumping ... then one jumped up right from under the sand eel and took it and Sabrina was saying how it was a funny jump ... so sand eel again and the next minute the same archer fish jumps out and instead of grabbing the sand eel it grabs my glove finger ... ok so now I've already dropped the sand eel and I'm trying to shake off this fish hanging off my hand so it finally lets go drops back into the water then he came back a second time so I hoped for the sand eel ... nope glove again. It was bizarre they have never done it before. Got splashed by the catfish again but nothing new there ... no falls so was a good day.
I'm still doing shark talks and enjoying it tremendously. I was very flattered on Monday when one of the ladies that had been listening to my talk said that it was one of the best talks she has ever heard and she has been to the aquarium a couple of times ... yeah me ... I even got an applause today.
So it was a a good day
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Panthera
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