As you may be aware college is out for Summer and all the animals can have a nice rest to get ready for the new intake of students in September. I know that some of the students are kindly volunteering over the summer to assist the technicians in looking after the animals so this is great work experience for them.
As I have already featured the Mammal and Exotics rooms it is now the turn of our other room "Aquatics"
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| "Aquatics Room" |
I really like the aquatics room as the sound of the bubbling water has a wonderful relaxing atmosphere to it. We have a great variety of species in this room and our technicians take great time and care in looking after all of the tanks and enclosures well. Aquatics can be quite technical and as a result we run Aquatic units for both L1 and L3 students which are very popular.
Species in the Aquatics room include:
A few Fan Tailed Gold Fish
Lots and lots of Guppies
About 8 Fire Bellied Toads
One Painted Turtle
One Common Map Turtle called "Rodney"
A Barking Tree Frog
A White Tree Frog
A Horned Frog which I call "MilliPede"
Two Clawed frogs among which is our oldest resident of them all. I hope to feature him soon.
A Tiger Salamander
An Axolotl (Featured in Animal of the Week some time ago)
Newts
A Crab (which I think is still around)
Several different varieties of fish - too many to name.
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| Fire Bellied Toad - "Who said Green and Orange clash?!" |
I totally agree with how you describe the sounds in the aquatics room as I always found the aquatics room calming due to its high sensory. The aquatics room was always my second favourite after the mammal room. I love following this now even more than before as it is a link to the college I miss so much. Natalie
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