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Fish & Invertebrate Husbandry |
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Department Function
Fish and Invertebrate aquarists feed and maintaining the exhibits and reserve holding tanks of the Aquarium's fish and invertebrate collection.
Daily Duties
- Food preparation
- Feeding of the fish and invertebrate collection.
- Maintenance of aquariums (algae scrubbing, water changes, water monitoring, filter maintenance, H2O chemical analysis etc.) under aquarist supervision.
- Cleaning of food-prep and other back-up areas.
- Assistance with new-exhibit construction and collection of specimens.
Recent Projects
- Analysis of trace elements in a live coral reef exhibit.
- Operant conditioning of an octopus, Octopus dofleini.
- The relationship between water temperature and food intake in mummichogs.
- The effects of temperature on embryonic development and egg-laying behavior in chain dogfish.
- Conditions inducing sex change in the bluehead wrasse.
- Early growth and development of horseshoe crabs.
- Beautiful stingers: new exhibit and husbandry of the lined sea nettle.
- The use of chemical decapsulation in the production of brine shrimp nauplii.
- Sea urchin bioassay using Arbacia punctulata.
- Courtship behaviors in the seahorse, Hippocampus abdomenalis.
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