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Fish in
the
News.
Each
week the
Bailey
Brothers
start
the Pet
Fish
Talk
Show
with
some fun
and
interesting
stories
about
fish in
the
news.
In
Malawi,
East
Africa,
African
Cichlid
Exporter,
Stuart
Grant,
Died.
Stuart Grant, the greatest exporter of African Cichlids from Lake Malawi in East Africa,
shown above on the right with Heiko Bleher on the left, died on October 11, 2007. Long ago The Bailey Brothers imported
fish from Mr. Grant. Click
here
to read
more.
One of the divers, who worked for Stuart Grant, is shown below using a large net to capture African Cichlids in Lake
Malawi. Also below is one of the African Cichlids, a Malawi Red Peacock, that Tom and Nevin imported long ago from
Stuart Grant.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada,
Baby Beluga Whale Born in Vancouver Aquarium.
Qila, shown above, gave birth to her first calf at 4:28 PM
Tuesday, June 10, 2008. Watch a video of the birth
on our YouTube Channel. This newborn beluga is:
1.35 meters long and weighs about 50 kilograms.
Slate grey she will gradually lighten as she matures.
Wrinkled for the first few weeks
Adorable
Making history shes the first calf in Canada to be born to an
aquarium-born beluga.
Qila, a first-time mom, was born at the Aquarium on July 23, 1995. Like any brand new mammal mom she
is still learning how to care for her baby.
Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to Robert in New Jersey for emailing us the link to this story.
At the
Churaumi
Aquarium
in
Okinawa,
Japan,
The
Fish
Tank
that is
so Big
!!
This is one of the world's biggest fish tanks - so big that it's even been named the Kuroshio Sea. The
enormous tank is some ten meters deep, 35 meters wide and 27 meters long. It holds a staggering 7,500 tons of water -
roughly equal to three Olympic-sized swimming pools. Eighty species live in the Kuroshio Sea tank, including yellow-fin
tuna, bonito (a type of large mackerel) and manta rays. But the daddy of them all is the world's biggest fish, the whale
shark, shown above, which can grow to be 12 meters long and needs a quarter of a ton of food every week. Only three
aquariums in the world have tanks large enough to house these giant creatures. Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to Robert in New Jersey for emailing us the link to this story.
In
Irvine,
California,
"Dr.
Bob"
Hildreth,
Fish
Surgeon.
Medical history is about to be made. "You might want to step back," says the surgeon, shown above,
wearing shorts and sneakers. "There's going to be some splashing!" With that, he lifts a 25-inch fish named "George W"
out of a tub of anesthetizing water and carries him into the X-ray room. Fish owner Don Chandler, a retired policeman,
assists while his wife, Brenda, looks on in obvious emotional pain. "I was afraid we lost him three weeks ago," she says
of the first attempt to remove an abscess from George W's swim bladder. "I'd never seen him bleed like that. I had to
leave the room." The problem here is trying to get George W to stand up straight in front of a fluoroscope, which
produces live X-rays necessary, to work on the abscess. Click
here
to read
more.
Special thanks to Robert in New Jersey for emailing us the link to this story.
At the
Aquarium
of the
Bay in
San
Francisco,
California,
Male
Bay
Pipefish
are the
Ultimate
Fathers.
They won't be opening any presents today - no neckties or cologne for them - but bay pipefish are
exemplary father figures whose paternal duties go way beyond what most dads manage to accomplish. These tiny aquatic
creatures carry the fertilized eggs of their future offspring, and deliver them as well. "Wouldn't it be a perfect world
if all males would give birth?" asked Melissa Chaney, an aquatic biologist at San Francisco's Aquarium of the Bay. She
takes care of the aquarium's collection of 150 or so bay pipefish, shown above, and will be giving two talks today about
their unusual fatherly features, which could be suited to Mother's Day as well. In a few months, the aquarium will start
an unprecedented study of their pipefish, which are about 8 months old and will be big enough to serve as research
subjects when they've reached the 1-year mark." We want to get a really good idea of how they live," Chaney said. Click
here
to read
more.
In
Virginia
Beach,
Virginia,
Spotted
Eagle
Rays are
New to
Aquarium.
For the entire 18-hour drive from the Florida Keys, someone had to ride in the back of the
tractor-trailer with the spotted eagle rays. The rays rode in 2,000-gallon, climate-controlled tanks, three to a tank,
and presumably they circled endlessly and gracefully all the way, just as they were doing when the truck pulled into the
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center's animal care center at 5 a.m. Friday. The humans were maybe not as
comfortable, but they were on time, to the minute, to deliver six rays, which together will become the centerpiece of
the new Red Sea Tunnel walk-through aquarium when it opens next year. Click
here
to read
more.
Special Thanks to Jourdan from Connecticut for emailing us the link to this story.
In
Ningaloo,
Western
Australia,
Secret
Life of
the
World's
Biggest
Fish
Revealed.
The strange bounding underwater "flight" of the mightiest fish in the oceans
has been revealed for the first time through a remarkable scientific collaboration. This secret life of the whale shark,
the world's biggest fish, was recently disclosed in a scientific world-first by two Laureates of the Rolex Awards for
Enterprise, Brad Norman, of Australia's Murdoch University, and Professor Rory Wilson, of Swansea University, in the
United Kingdom. In the Indian Ocean, off Ningaloo, on Australia's western coast, the team have equipped several whale
sharks with a unique electronic device known as a "daily diary" that records in minute detail (eight times a second) the
giant creatures' every action speed, depth, pitch, roll and heading, as well as every beat of the fish's tail. "For
the first time we have an insight into what it is that these magnificent creatures get up to when they are out of sight
of humans and it isn't what we expected." said Norman, who received a Rolex Award in 2006 for his project employing
"citizen scientists" worldwide to help study and protect whale sharks through an online global photo ID library, housed
on the website www.whaleshark.org. Click
here
to read
more.
Callers during this Show
Kevin from Irvine
in Orange County, California, called and talked about
Brazilian Freshwater Puffers and about his favorite pet fish
stores in Orange County.
Bonnie from Iowa
called and talked about the flooding in Iowa and the effect
of the rains on her backyard ponds.
Brad from Troy, Michigan
called and talked about ich and then about new fish for his
37-gallon aquarium that will be compatible with his two
killiefish.
Jay from Evansville, Indiana,
called and we talked about his trip to Piranha Realm near
St. Louis, Missouri, and about his wife. Then Jay confessed
to Tom that he'd accidentally left his canister filter
turned off for a few days! Finally Jay talked about the fish
he bought over the internet, including some Celestial Pearl
Danio and some Albino Bushy Mouth Plecos.
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