My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
I was doing housecleaning in the 25K gal, blowing sediment out of the liner folds and saw something small dart out at one point. To my dismay it was a second crayfish! I've no idea how they survive surrounded by predators. Now that I took out most rocks, it decided to hide in the liner folds, I guess. So it has gone into Lucky's 240 gal for now. We'll call it Lucky2. The original Lucky was adopted by a family of friends and rules a 2 gal tank in style at their place.
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Hi Viktor,
Sorry for your recent losses. Did you dissect either of the pictus cats to see what is swollen? I associate swelling and bulging eyes with kidney failure due to bacterial infection.
Regards, Eric
Sorry for your recent losses. Did you dissect either of the pictus cats to see what is swollen? I associate swelling and bulging eyes with kidney failure due to bacterial infection.
Regards, Eric
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Thank you much Eric. We lost a dozen or two of pictus cats just like this. I'd not be surprised if the cause was bacterial. We have been introducing pathogens regularly with our rescues and acquisitions from the outdoors.
When I cut open a fish, I am only able to look for macro-parasites. I am not trained in fish dissection anatomy and diagnosis. I'd like to take a hands-on seminar and lab, maybe a course, on this sometime, to grow in the knowledge. University of Florida offers such opportunities.
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Ever since losing her eye, Hsieha has been swimming with a visible list to the side with the remaining eye. IDK if this list just gotten worse or something else has developed but now she spins around seemingly trying to maintain her balance and not float up on her side:
When I cut open a fish, I am only able to look for macro-parasites. I am not trained in fish dissection anatomy and diagnosis. I'd like to take a hands-on seminar and lab, maybe a course, on this sometime, to grow in the knowledge. University of Florida offers such opportunities.
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Ever since losing her eye, Hsieha has been swimming with a visible list to the side with the remaining eye. IDK if this list just gotten worse or something else has developed but now she spins around seemingly trying to maintain her balance and not float up on her side:
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Thanks for the answer Viktor. I appreciate the challenge and I'm no better at it. But always curiously
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Hello Viktor,
Fantastic news that your open by appointment! What a milestone to celebrate.
If someone wanted to visit, what is the process? How much notice is required? What amount of donation is encouraged? What to bring, how much time to allow? Would it be okay to bring a comfy chair, packed lunch and just chill out for a couple of hours in front of my favoured tank for example? Or take my kids for an exploratory walk through your gardens and dip net your ponds?
I suspect the formality of appointment may put potential visitors off so it would be great to describe what has been happening. I'd really like to see some reactions of visitors (if they are willing) besides the fish video updates. I'm sure visitors would get much better access and more of your precious time in the earlier stages of your enterprise. I can see you becoming very time poor when the place becomes popular.
Congratulations once more. A visit is on my wish list.
Fantastic news that your open by appointment! What a milestone to celebrate.
If someone wanted to visit, what is the process? How much notice is required? What amount of donation is encouraged? What to bring, how much time to allow? Would it be okay to bring a comfy chair, packed lunch and just chill out for a couple of hours in front of my favoured tank for example? Or take my kids for an exploratory walk through your gardens and dip net your ponds?
I suspect the formality of appointment may put potential visitors off so it would be great to describe what has been happening. I'd really like to see some reactions of visitors (if they are willing) besides the fish video updates. I'm sure visitors would get much better access and more of your precious time in the earlier stages of your enterprise. I can see you becoming very time poor when the place becomes popular.
Congratulations once more. A visit is on my wish list.
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Thank you greatly!
The details of visiting are on the home page of our website fish-story.com.
Usually a day to a couple hours notice has worked well so far, even some people that show up without an appointment we are usually able to accommodate.
We don't specify the donation amount but ask people to pay what the experience is worth to them. Average turns out about $10 per adult per hour.
There is nothing to bring and the usual fully guided tour with visitors engaging in feeding is 1 to 2 hours long. It can be improvised as needed.
Comfy chair is fine, or a lounge chair can be provided on premises. No food or drink are allowed in general but this can be overruled on a case by case basis.
Dip netting our ponds is too much liability with sharp and unstable rocky banks, abundant cottonmouth vipers, alligators, snapping turtles, etc.
Yes, the appointment puts off probably 9 of 10 potential visitors, but for now this suits us.
It's a great idea to film visitor reactions.
I imagine when/if we fully open, 9 of 10 visitors would take a self-guided tour.
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The details of visiting are on the home page of our website fish-story.com.
Usually a day to a couple hours notice has worked well so far, even some people that show up without an appointment we are usually able to accommodate.
We don't specify the donation amount but ask people to pay what the experience is worth to them. Average turns out about $10 per adult per hour.
There is nothing to bring and the usual fully guided tour with visitors engaging in feeding is 1 to 2 hours long. It can be improvised as needed.
Comfy chair is fine, or a lounge chair can be provided on premises. No food or drink are allowed in general but this can be overruled on a case by case basis.
Dip netting our ponds is too much liability with sharp and unstable rocky banks, abundant cottonmouth vipers, alligators, snapping turtles, etc.
Yes, the appointment puts off probably 9 of 10 potential visitors, but for now this suits us.
It's a great idea to film visitor reactions.
I imagine when/if we fully open, 9 of 10 visitors would take a self-guided tour.
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