My Weekend.

[Anonymous]

Step 1: Move 4 quarantined baby black tip reef sharks (Carcharias melanopterus) from our behind the scenes tank to a 10,000 g public display tank. While doing so, give them a physical (weighing, measuring, tagging, drawing blood) and take lots of pictures.

 

[Anonymous]

Step 2: Now that the 10,000 g QT tank is free, accquire new specimens. Five each of the Whitespotted and Brownbanded Bamboo Catshark (Chiloscyllium plagiosum, C. punctatum). These individuals were captive raised at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. Outfit a truck with one very large tank to transport them in, and off we go.

 

[Anonymous]

Step 3: While at the aquarium, run through and take pictures of all coral tanks. Try and keep drool off camera. (Note the Janss' pipefish and sunburst anthias. Lots of Dendrophyllia, Scleronephthya, Tubastraea in these azooxanthellate coral tanks.)

 

[Anonymous]

Nice, looks like fun. I did a water change tonight.

 

[Anonymous]

More of Step 3: Literally jogging through the aquarium at some points.

 

[Anonymous]

that is an awesome reef tank!

 

[Anonymous]

Step 4: Start moving these beasties! LA to SF is about a 7 hour trip not counting numerous stops to check on the sharks inside. To be on the safe side, we hooked up a strong battery operated air pump to a car battery. We also had small oxygen tanks hooked up to the venturi of a small powerhead so that we could inject O2 into the tank if necessary. On the right is our meter for reading DO, pH, and temperature. The temperature only varied about 0.2 degress F the entire 9 hour trip!

 

[Len]

Matt helped molest a shark!

 

[Anonymous]

Step 5: Find out what the nasty looking brown thing attached to the meter probe is......any guesses?

 

[Anonymous]

poo?

 

[Anonymous]

Step 6: Check on so-called "sea turtle" that is also being transported, this one from Sea World in San Diego, CA. 4 years old and born in captivity. With slight jealousy, anticipate enormous amount of attention, praise, possible ticker tape parade for people transporting said reptile upon arrival compared to transporters of relatively un-cute shark passengers.

 

[Anonymous]

Step 7: Smirk knowingly at previous prediction's inevitable manifestation.

 

[Anonymous]

Step 8: Pee after 9 hour drive.

 

[Anonymous]

Step 9: Give surprisingly interview-free physicals to newest sharks. Add to tank. Sleep like a baby.

 

[Anonymous]

poo?

That's an egg, brotha! One of the females laid another one after being in the tank for 24 hours.

 

[Anonymous]

I like you better than Dave Matt!

 

[Anonymous]

poo?

That's an egg, brotha! One of the females laid another one after being in the tank for 24 hours.

it was a guess

 

[Anonymous]

Who is the goofy looking red head in the first pic? :wink:

 

[Anonymous]

that is an awesome reef tank!

It is! They had some very neat setups there. I wish I had more time to look behind the scenes and take pictures but we had to get moving.

 

[Anonymous]

What a great idea to have those non photo corals in with the anthias and pipes. Looks great!