bshumake
New member
Alright everyone. Heres the layout sofar. Saturday 4-22-06 at 1PM (or 12PM...whichever works easier for everyone coming) we'll meet up at St Jude. I'll make a run to Sams and get 2 trash cans that we'll wind up using for water storage/changes later. The B and C clinic's are closed on the weekends but the medicine room will be open and seeing patients. What does that mean? That means there will be kids but not as many as there would be normally. I can tell you right now, their a curious lot and will be "helping" us out with questions and such so prepare yourself. The patients CAN NOT TOUCH ANYTHING FROM THE TANKS!!! If people would like to show them the brand new stuff and how it works while we're working by all means let them see and touch and explain stuff to them. As long as its in a sealed package and opened up there in the room they can see it. They can't get anywhere near the back rooms or touch anything from the tanks (that was in there with water and fish). These kids are suseptable to all kinds of infections and fungi that our bodies don't even think twice about. Wranglers, this will be your jobs. keep them safe and entertained. We'll have some coloring books and crayons. If anyone wants to make up some game for them to play or better yet, find pictures of fish from Nemo and other pretty fish (reef safe please) and let them vote for and name the fish to be put in the tank. These will be the basic inhabitants but not the only ones.
Everyone else, we'll be cleaning out the tank, tossing out rock and orniments, and giving things the once over with a brillo scrubby to get the salt creep and funk off. The trash cans will be where we'll be tossing the garbage but they'll have tops so we're not aerosolizing anything. Whoever vacuums out the gravel with my shop vac will HAVE TO close the door to keep dust and funk out of the air. Then once this is done we can start getting the tank filled back up. Also, it would't be a bad idea to get the seams on the front glass (inside) hit with a bead of silicone. Again, aerosolizing is a major consideration!
Now the fun part; the fish. My contact at the zoo will provide coolers to move the fish but we'll have to catch them and transport them to the zoo. This might require me to be there. I'm not sure yet. So if you have aquagloves bring them. It might take two or three of us to get them. We'll have to drive them to the back enterance of the zoo off N. Parkway.
So I need a list of volunteers. If you're coming let me know. I have to let security know how many so they dont get all crazy with the tazers and cart people off to the pokey.
Everyone else, we'll be cleaning out the tank, tossing out rock and orniments, and giving things the once over with a brillo scrubby to get the salt creep and funk off. The trash cans will be where we'll be tossing the garbage but they'll have tops so we're not aerosolizing anything. Whoever vacuums out the gravel with my shop vac will HAVE TO close the door to keep dust and funk out of the air. Then once this is done we can start getting the tank filled back up. Also, it would't be a bad idea to get the seams on the front glass (inside) hit with a bead of silicone. Again, aerosolizing is a major consideration!
Now the fun part; the fish. My contact at the zoo will provide coolers to move the fish but we'll have to catch them and transport them to the zoo. This might require me to be there. I'm not sure yet. So if you have aquagloves bring them. It might take two or three of us to get them. We'll have to drive them to the back enterance of the zoo off N. Parkway.
So I need a list of volunteers. If you're coming let me know. I have to let security know how many so they dont get all crazy with the tazers and cart people off to the pokey.
