We have a Great White
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Aquaguru
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I can't wait for the things your going to learn while the GWS is in captivity. I just watched the vidoe on it feeding and it is an amazing creature and can't wait for things we're going to learn about it
Also are you feeding it anything else to it other than salmon steaks. And do you have a schedule for its feeding times.
Also are you feeding it anything else to it other than salmon steaks. And do you have a schedule for its feeding times.
I went with Gatohoser last week and we got tons of pictures and videos of it swimming around. If I get time tomarrow I'll fiugre out how to post them all.
Also we got a cool behind the scenes tour of some of the aquarium. Went behind a random wall behind the jellyfish display and got to touch all the jellyfish swimming around.
Also we got a cool behind the scenes tour of some of the aquarium. Went behind a random wall behind the jellyfish display and got to touch all the jellyfish swimming around.
Aquaguru Right now we are just feeding salmon. I am sure that we will vary that a little bit as time passes. We have actaully gone to a third device to feed her. The first one, she bite off some bamboo, the second one that I didnt talk about goes like this. They made a noose and put part of the steak in the noose, only bad thing about this is when she ate the steak, she got the noose as well. Good thing it was a cotton based fiber and posed no threat to her at all, even if she had swallowed it. The new feeding poll if a combo of the two previous ideas, where now there is a little bit of a lead so she wont be so close to the poll.
nbd13 I didnt work today, but as of yesterday she was in perfect health. I would have gotten a call by now if she was taken off exhibit.
If you look at the tunabego, there are two small windows that are covered up by doors. The aquarium logo was right inbetween the two doos, before they scraped it off. The last picture is a good shot, you can still see where the "umbilical chord" was, right inbetween the front of the pectoral fins. Since we are all up on our fish anatomy
notice that there are no claspers, which makes it a female.
nbd13 I didnt work today, but as of yesterday she was in perfect health. I would have gotten a call by now if she was taken off exhibit.
If you look at the tunabego, there are two small windows that are covered up by doors. The aquarium logo was right inbetween the two doos, before they scraped it off. The last picture is a good shot, you can still see where the "umbilical chord" was, right inbetween the front of the pectoral fins. Since we are all up on our fish anatomy
notice that there are no claspers, which makes it a female.pmipunisher
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congrats but im dissapointed if only i went there about 3 weeks later i would have seen it now i need to go back up there i also have my eyes set on being in marine biology and am working toward that goal im in 10th grade now and taking the hardest and most advanced science and math classes i can right now any suggestions to help me out on my way???
pmipunisher I can offer the same words of encouragement that everyone else can offer. I am going back to school as well. It is hard after being out of high school for almost 10 years and now going back. The Marine Biology field is very competitive. People will find a great job in that field and never leave. Our senior marine biologist at the aquarium has been there since the place opened, he just retired about four months ago, but still volunteers. If you plan on coming back up, let me know.
toccata
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If I recall correclty didn't the Curator (forgot his name maybe scott) go on TV within the last 10 years on the Discovery Channel talking about a GWS the MBA had? If also recalled correctly didn't the exhibit have to be closed and the shark died? I will have to go back and try and research this, I just remember seeing this program.... How long does the MBA plan to hold the shark?
sjfishguy
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I think this is great, the only concern I may have is if you have success with this one specimen, and it is really just luck, not really care, other aquariums are going to reproduce your results probably at the expense of many small whites.
By the way, the widening before the tale (often called the shark's keel) is not a distinct characteristic of great whites, but rather a characteristic of sharks in the family, including makos and porbeagles (probeagles actually have two keels). The one true characteristic that distinguish a white from other members of the family is its triangular teeth. Others have more ragged teeth. Just thought I would add a little more.
By the way, the widening before the tale (often called the shark's keel) is not a distinct characteristic of great whites, but rather a characteristic of sharks in the family, including makos and porbeagles (probeagles actually have two keels). The one true characteristic that distinguish a white from other members of the family is its triangular teeth. Others have more ragged teeth. Just thought I would add a little more.
i really enjoy this thread and have one question. i know that itis natural seawater being pumped in but i am just really curious about the water parameters in the holding tank. i guess you guys already test for everything in that tank daily anyway and just wondering if you could post the results....
pmipunisher
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thanks for your encouragement i dont think ill be up there anytime soon because its about a 5 hour drive from here and last summer i made my mom drive me out there just to see it so ill beg her to take me this summer good luck with your white shark
toccata I am not sure, we have three curators, two men and one woman, none by the name of Scott. It was a very bad decission by the old curator to even bring in the GWS we had back in '84. We are/were definately more prepared for it this time around. The GWS that we had the first time around was in out Monterey Bay Habitats tank, about 335,000 gallons. It is actaully made a figure eight shape. I am not sure abot it closing down, I will dig around a little and find out what I can and let you know. Right now we are on a day to day basis with her. If her health goes south for any reason what so ever and we can not do anything for her, we go to So Cal, no questions asked. The health of this animal is of the untmost importance not only to her, but to us as well as she is helping us learn from her.
sjfishguy We can not control what other aquariums do. If they ask how it was done, we will be honest with them. We feel as a conservation group that if there is another organization out there that can crack a code that we can not, so be it. This is not a race of who ever does it first does it right, it is a race against a great animal being wiped out, mostly because of a movie. In ten years would we like to be the ones to say "we are the main reason the GWS is in better shape now that it was then"? SUre we would, but our is the best that we know, and we are modifying it pretty much every day. About the tapering, I ment to say in our exhibit. The other sharks in there taper to the fluke, so when she swims over head, you can see the shadow and it looks like no other shark in the exhibit. Thanks for the clarification.
blaze4300 Which holding tank as you refering to? If you are taking about the four millin gallon pen, that was right in the ocean. Water, small fish, plankton, etc, could flow right through it. If you are refering to the transport that brought her up from So Cal, she was only in there for about 8.5 hours. We sucks water out of the ocean, in she went and off we went. The "tunabego" has its own filter on it, and all parameters are sent into the cab of the truck wile it is moving. We actaully almost didnt make the trip because about 20 minutes before we were to leave, the camera crapped out on us. We had to make scheduled stops ever 30 minutes to make sure that she was doing ok. If she started looking bad, we would have turned around. If you are refering to the tank that she is in, it gets about 56 gallons a minute. We heat up the water coming from the bay (from 55-60 to about 68), and the excess flows back into the bay. We have a Great Tide Pool, that is always full of water, and no one knows why...our overflow.
Aquaguru We are encouraged ever day that we are allowed to have her. One really great pice of news is that on Friday (I think, maybe it was Thursday) she accepted makerel supplemented with vitamins. So we are already starting to mix up the diet a little bit. She doesnt seem to care.
sjfishguy We can not control what other aquariums do. If they ask how it was done, we will be honest with them. We feel as a conservation group that if there is another organization out there that can crack a code that we can not, so be it. This is not a race of who ever does it first does it right, it is a race against a great animal being wiped out, mostly because of a movie. In ten years would we like to be the ones to say "we are the main reason the GWS is in better shape now that it was then"? SUre we would, but our is the best that we know, and we are modifying it pretty much every day. About the tapering, I ment to say in our exhibit. The other sharks in there taper to the fluke, so when she swims over head, you can see the shadow and it looks like no other shark in the exhibit. Thanks for the clarification.
blaze4300 Which holding tank as you refering to? If you are taking about the four millin gallon pen, that was right in the ocean. Water, small fish, plankton, etc, could flow right through it. If you are refering to the transport that brought her up from So Cal, she was only in there for about 8.5 hours. We sucks water out of the ocean, in she went and off we went. The "tunabego" has its own filter on it, and all parameters are sent into the cab of the truck wile it is moving. We actaully almost didnt make the trip because about 20 minutes before we were to leave, the camera crapped out on us. We had to make scheduled stops ever 30 minutes to make sure that she was doing ok. If she started looking bad, we would have turned around. If you are refering to the tank that she is in, it gets about 56 gallons a minute. We heat up the water coming from the bay (from 55-60 to about 68), and the excess flows back into the bay. We have a Great Tide Pool, that is always full of water, and no one knows why...our overflow.
Aquaguru We are encouraged ever day that we are allowed to have her. One really great pice of news is that on Friday (I think, maybe it was Thursday) she accepted makerel supplemented with vitamins. So we are already starting to mix up the diet a little bit. She doesnt seem to care.
inkwachemis
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Hi,
I've been following this thread for awhile now and I just wanted to say I think this is great news. How long are you planning on keeping it for? I heard that you plan on releasing it in a couple of weeks even if it's in good health. Is this true? Or do you plan on keeping it much longer? thanks!
I've been following this thread for awhile now and I just wanted to say I think this is great news. How long are you planning on keeping it for? I heard that you plan on releasing it in a couple of weeks even if it's in good health. Is this true? Or do you plan on keeping it much longer? thanks!
