#aquarium work

[c4i-r0]

ATTENTION: AQUARIUM WORKERS

i have a writing project idea that i wish to place in an aquarium (job setting/main setting)

can you help a guy out since i have no clue how the job actually works and i would really like to know (also like how it is working with coworkers, the jobs you can do inside an aqaurium, etc.)

i also want to be a marine biologist as a career so this will help me in two ways lmao

#aquarium job #fishblr #marine biology #marine bio #marine science #marinebiologist #aquarium work #aquarium worker

[montereybayaquarium]

Whistling through the week with our radiant red knots, weaving whimsical waves of winged wonder!

Look closely and you may be able to see each bird’s unique leg band, which is used to identify them in our Aviary exhibit. Each bird has a unique backstory, with many of joining us after being rescued and deemed non-releasable. 

#monterey bay aquarium #when hearts are high the birds will fly #whistle while you work #knot your average bird

[beatriceportinari]

Origami jellyfish, one square sheet of elephant hide paper. Colors are inspired by Thysanostoma loriferum. Zoom in to see the glitter!

#mine #origami #jellyfish #that was what the hexagons were for did you guess ? :) #original model is by Beth Johnson and only the bell/umbrella is in one single sheet (hexagonal) #the tentacles are all added separately #I wanted to see if I could do it all with one sheet of paper so I used the exact same hexagon CP for the bell and simply placed it #at the center of a bigger square of paper #pretty glad of how it came out #tentacles would need some cleanup if I ever fold this again and I could workshop a frillier edge for the bell as well #still really nice this is the most elaborate modification of an existing model I've made #if you want to see the original model it's in origami aquarium by Makoto Yamaguchi p.200 #it looks so cute... teensy jelly #I used elephant hide paper (my enemy) to use up this roll i've had #i thought it'd at least be nice to collapse the hexagon tessellation which it was but that's really the only nice part asdfgh #if I fold this again I'll use smth thinner so the tentacles aren't as bulky #and to hell with the cleanliness of the hexagons #honestly the paper tension works in your favor for thoses #they get tightened when you round out the umbrella instead of flattened out as I feared #so the elephant hide really isn't needed... as usual! #anyway enjoy :3

[why-animals-do-the-thing]

Okay, this is super preliminary, but since we've been talking about zoo accessibility I wanted to launch a project I've been planning for a couple months.

One of the hardest things about visiting zoological facilities when disabled is the lack of knowledge ahead of time, right? Often the information on the zoo's website about accessibility doesn't contain everything folk need to know to plan a visit. I think we can probably help fix that, even if it's with just crowd-sourced knowledge!

This is a google spreadsheet for recording accessibility information for various zoos. It is super unfinished right now, FYI. That's partially because I need to fill in more of it from my own experiences, and partially because there are things I didn't note or experience - which I'd love for y'all to chime in about.

Categories for the spreadsheet so far include rentable assistance options, service dog information, accessible bathroom locations, mobility, vision, auditory and sensory issues (or accommodations), food allergy options, and general notes. I'm also including the information each zoo website provides, and guest assistance phone numbers, so all the information is in one place.

To add to this crowd-sourced zoo accessibility resource:

Send an ask to the blog, or comment on the appropriate cel on the spreadsheet (if the facility you want to comment on is already listed).

Provide the name of the zoo/aquarium/sanctuary and the approximate date you visited.

Tell me your experiences / information, and what categories they belong in.

Feel free to submit photos, if that's useful info! I'm going to see if I can find a way to host them and link in the spreadsheet.

I'll take information as it's submitted and integrate it into the sheet. If the zoo you've visited isn't on the list yet, I still want to add it! This resource is going to stay US-based, however. (I just don't have the capacity to manage an international one).

Obviously, I can't personally verify everything people submit, so this is very much a resource and not a definitive guide. Date stamps are crucial important for keeping track of what's recent and what might have been updated since someone visited.

Let's make zoo, aquarium, and sanctuary visits more accessible for everyone!

#zoo accessibility #crowdsourcing #crowdsourced accessibility #I don't know if this experiment will work long term but I want to try it #this covers all zoological facilities like zoos sanctuaries and aquariums #also safari parks and the like

[prettyinaccurate]

mmmmmmm............... drawing fish

(in order: asian arowana, apistogramma macmasteri, black spotted topminnow, juvenile madagascar rainbowfish, alaskan silver coho salmon)

#reminder that ive worked at an aquarium supply store for over a year #and have four fish tanks #and that i fucking love fish and have a fish tattoo #having to put together an actual portfolio has been so humbling #all my work... and so little that fits in a professional context

[oobbbear]

I finished the mersun moon room designs!!!

The two live in the fake pirate shipwreck inside their tank, Moon got the left half and the little crowsnest cause he thinks it’s cool, n’ sunny got the other half

Sunny’s room:

He’s room is very bright and colorful

He doodles everywhere and have a lot of jellyfish lamps

Moon’s room:

He loves pirate stuff so he got a pirate flag carpet (which was a prop hanging on the shipwreck he just ripped it off) a treasure chest and a sea monster poster y/n gave him

He doesn’t like lights so he covered all the doors and windows with cloth

Some additional doodles:

(about the tally marks on moon’s wall)

#aquarium au #mermay 2022 #mermay #fnaf sb #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #sundrop #moondrop #fish #(?) #I worked on this post for too long… #and I like how it turned out! #i feel bad for moon since I made Sun’s room all sunshine rainbow and made his very depressed #sorry moon #oh almost forgot #y/n #self insert #ALSO #I know there’s no way the two room look connected in the middle there’s a length problem I don’t know how to fix- #so #ignore that #or #spongebob logic #my art

[aka-indulgence]

Hello @llamagoddessofficial :> Wrote another fanfic fanfic for you! I really love the good zoo siren au as someone who does some marine biologies, and I had a burst of inspiration so I wrote the first day working at the aquarium :D I loved writing the parallels hehee

—————

You were a janitor in the Ebott aquarium!!

Which, when you say out loud, does sound underwhelming. But you didn’t mind it. You had come to them in the hopes of becoming an intern, a volunteer, or a staff if things went your way. The lady at the information desk (who was very helpful), had looked quite apologetic when you asked her.

“I’m sorry… but we’re not looking for anymore creature carers at the moment.”

It was quite disappointing, but you weren’t expecting to get accepted straight away, anyway. And you’d already bought a ticket anyway, so you still had an aquarium day all to yourself, not like you were wasting your day. And you had a great day! If you weren’t caring for the animals directly, you were reassured by the fact that your payment is going to contribute to their care.

The day became even better when the lady recognized you on the way out and stopped you.

“We don’t have positions for carers right now, but… how would you like to be a cleaner? I’ll keep you up to date if there are any spots open.”

Naturally, you took it. It wasn’t like you had anything pressing for your schedule right now. As soon as a position opens- whatever it is- you were going to take it by the throat.

It was your first day. You were blasted with warmth as soon as you went in, having to quickly shed your winter clothes for the janitor uniform. It had little fish on the sleeves, which was a cute touch. It wasn’t the most glamorous job, of course. You spent more of your hours in the toilet than you did in the exhibit rooms. But any agitation you got from coming into a stall, only to see tissues strewn about on the floor like someone just blew up a roll after you had just cleaned; was quickly washed away when you went out, to the cool blues, the dancing lights cast in the darkened rooms. Even when you had to excuse yourself in front of the guests to wipe a drink spill in front of the giant ‘Pacific Bay’ aquarium, the music calmed your soul.

It wasn’t very quiet in the afternoon, what with the families and their 300 toddlers running about and crying babies. But when the day waned and the water glimmers dimmed, the one’s left were adults, couples. Then of course, the aquarium closed.

You worked up a sweat that clung to your uniform uncomfortably, after you scrubbed a mysterious stain on the floor leading to the gift shop that seemed to seep into the shiny tile, somehow.

“Hey, Julia?” You called; the lovely information lady that allowed you to have this opportunity in the first place; wandering about the empty entrance to check out. It felt like a bit of a ghost town all of a sudden, as you roamed the aquariums for any management-type people you could ask for help.

“I’m done, right? What should I…”

You stop when you walk by a doorway, into a room that was always darker than the rest, even when the sun was still up in the sky.

… You could walk back into the dinky staff room in the back of the building where they just gave up on aesthetics, a ‘modern’ and unsightly concrete structure. But… you could also just… say that you didn’t find anyone… right? And just… ‘got lost’... in the Deep Seas room…

Looking around, holding a cloth to your heart as if someone was going to chastise you if you hadn’t, you snuck into the room. It was hard to pass up on an opportunity like this.

Ebott aquarium was special, after all. They were one of the few aquariums in the world that had sirens. Three, to be in fact. One orca siren, one shark siren, and a deep sea cecaelia. A spectacular cast, to be sure- it wasn’t a surprise how they won so many awards over the years.

This room in particular was the cecaelia’s, the most reclusive of all the sirens.

You walked past the languid isopods, the floating nautilus, the sparkling comb jellies, to a giant opening in the room where the ceiling extended so you could see the entire tank in all its glory.

It usually looked empty, of course, but the few chances you get to see the cecaelia, it would be a shame to be unable to see him.

Though, as it was now, the tank looked uninhabited, as it usually was. This siren in particular was ‘shy’, though shy wasn’t the right word. It was more that he didn’t like being looked at, as to be expected with deep sea specieses.

Which is why this was the perfect opportunity for you. Julia told you about him- that he was more likely to emerge during after hours. They had cameras in the viewing room, for the purpose of recording his activity whenever he does something interesting to show visitors that he is in fact real, and they aren’t just displaying an empty tank for fun.

The TV display is off now, but you remember the video they posted online, where the most exciting thing that happened was him shooting out of the cave to grab the food they lowered into his tank, before quickly retreating back into the cave. There were screams of children and adults alike going wild.

You read the information board next to the TV.

Skull, Deep Sea Cecaelia

Sirenus cecaelia aequor

Ebott’s most recently acquired siren, Skull was found floating near the surface, a sign of disease or weakness in deep sea sirens. It is our belief that Skull recently acquired the crack in his skull. This may have caused him to grow uncontrollably, though our researchers argue that it might as well be due to deep sea gigantism.

Not much is known of deep sea cecaelias as of now, as they are the rarest encountered sirens in human history, and extensive observation we do have is in captivity, like Skull. 

They are as enigmatic as they are beautiful, deep sea cecaelias are believed to live a mostly solitary life……

Your eyes scan through the text- having read most of it from the other day visit. Your sight is caught on the plaque  next to the board, under the TV. You hadn’t noticed it before, with how full the room was. Boarded with wood and written on a golden plate, it reads:

In memory of Henry Freeman.

1975-20XX

Your squint when the gold plating starts shimmering a pinkish hue. And, did it get darker?

You follow the direction of the light to see…

“Whoa-lly shit!” You staggered.

Right there, against the glass, was Skull. He was big, you knew that, his size was listed right there on the board with a human outline next to his to show scale, and you’ve seen the videos of course- but that didn’t prepare you to see him in person.

Just his skeletal upper body dwarfed yours, bones thick and marred with scars of unknown battles deep below, where sunlight couldn’t reach. His pitch black tentacles waved around him like deep shadows in the darkness of the tank, suckers sticking and popping off the glass in tandem. At its base, a single tentacle was thicker than you were.

You held a hand up to your chest. Your heart had jumped at the giant shadow, that glowing red eye of his, the size of your fist, zeroing on you, and a great big smile full of characteristically sharp deep-sea teeth. It must’ve been instinctual fear, having a great predator looking at you, so close, only separated by a couple inches of glass.

The tips of his front tentacles were poking and tapping on the glass.

The initial adrenaline of fear quickly turned to curiosity and awe. You’ve never seen him with your own two eyes before, let alone so close- why was he out? Did he notice the empty room, and the lone ‘prey’ turned away from him and just lunged..?

“Hahahah, am I lucky to be on this side of the glass,” you joked, approaching the glass.

His eye stayed trained on you as you approached, his smile widening. He even lowered his head a little, like he was trying to get on eye level with you.

“Can’t tell if you’re curious about me or if you just really really want to eat me,” you giggle, at the way he was focused on you.

You pressed your hand to the glass, and practically squished your nose to it as you took him in. You could imagine the sounds those great big tentacles were as they moved like midnight waves.

You pull your head back in time to see his eye on your open palm against the glass. A great finger pointed to it, scratching the glass. Then… he presses his hand to the glass, right in front of yours.

Your mouth opens. Your hand just barely fits into his palm. You looked back to the cecaelia. This close, you could see all the little shift in his eyelight, flitting here and there, like he was paying close attention to the details in your face.

His eyelight cast a soft red on your face, your cheeks. A small glimmer in your eyes.

“This is…”

“Eeeeeee!”

You startle at the squeal, sounding like if a squeaky toy could get excited. When you turned around, you see a woman standing at the end of a hallway, in a white coat and white turtleneck,  looking very ready to walk in the cold.

“U-uh,”

“How did you,” she strode over to you, long blond hair bouncing as she did, “how did you get him to do that?”

“I’m- sorry?” you sputter. Looking behind you, Skull had retreated a few paces to the back of the glass. “I was just… just…” you shrug, making a face when you remember you’re still holding the cleaning cloth, hiding it behind your back.

“Magnificent!” she stood next to you, one hand on the glass. “We’ve never seen him so interested in a human before. You had him against the glass!”

Skull was swimming around, darting from one corner to the other, keeping his eye on the both of you.

“He’s never done that?”

“Never!” she turns to you, conviction in her voice. “Skull doesn’t like being looked at, he usually hides in his cave when someone walks into the room, not… approach and give them a greeting. The only reason he isn’t rushing back is because he recognizes my face as ‘someone who gives the food’. And like you see now, he doesn’t give me any special greetings. Just having him out and about while someone is in view is stunning, let alone…”

“Oh, so do you feed him?” you ask. Hopefully you weren’t going to get chewed out for dawdling in the aquarium when you’re supposed to be clocked out 30 minutes ago.

“I do help with the feedings.” She says, then extends a hand to you. “Call me Mildred. I’m the head of the aquarium.”

“The… the head?!” Your eyes widen as you shook her hand. “I’m… I’m (Y/n), it’s an honor! To meet you!”

“Oh, please, I’m much more interested in you!” She smiles, the lines around her lips wrinkled with age, evidence of a lively woman. “Say… are you the new cleaning service Julia picked up?”

“Y-yeah! I mean. Yes,” You corrected yourself. You were talking to the big boss here, and you were a little bashful to find that she knows about you.

“You said you wanted experience in animal and magical creature care, right?”

“Absolutely,”

She presses a finger to her lips, as if thinking for a moment. She casts her eyes to the exhibit, where Skull was still circling above. Then she looks at you with a playful smile.

“... How would you like to come into the siren care team?”

Your heart rate spikes, and you sputter.

“I… wh… hhhhhreally?!”

#not gonna write a long fic!!!!!!! #probably #i might get inspo to write other scenes with the other Bones #im an aquarium enthusiast?? maybe??? #i like good aquarium :> #heehee #aka writing #fanfic fanfic #fun fact: i have in fact worked in an aquarium! a small one but still! #good zoo siren au

[ccatskies]

i still can’t get over the fact that baek hyun woo proposed to hong haein in the most desi way possible.

#talking abt the umbrella scene #not the official aquarium one #we have 35 cows my family is well respected i always wanted my wife to work but for u i accept being the sole breadwinner #bc i like u #TAKE THIS UMBRELLA (she literally has a driver) #but yeah hes so cute #queen of tears

[high-quality-tiktoks]

It’s always a great day with them.🦦💙

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #cute #funny #lmao #job #jobs #work #animal #animals #otter #otters #aquarium #aquariums #georgiaaquarium

[hraugur]

@qtreesfanstuff how dare you be funnier than me in the TAGS

#hraugarts #hilarious imagery thank you #wednesday #yoko tanaka #divina #yokovina #yoko enters the aquarium blasting britney spears holding a wad of cash YA BETTA WORK BITCH #tumblr stop compressing my doodles challenge 2023 (IMPOSSIBLE) #qtreesfanstuff

[buwheal]

1 2

#Ik you guys been waiting for this one #only one ask bc im working on the aquarium trip too :-P #holy SHIT these were good?? i love the comet tail one especially!!!! ty guys #[you've got mail!] #spamton #spamton g spamton #deltarune #deltarune chapter 2 #it feels so weird seeing him not squint?? i had to add a little bit of his eyelids it was freakin me out /nsrs #also no he doesnt understand theyre mirroring him

[desertpups]

the_austin_aquarium: introducing the young sharks to hozier

#hozier #andrew hozier byrne #austin aquarium #sharks #work song #they love it lol

[stardust948]

[Adventures at the Aquarium]

Coworker, talking about ATLA: The show is really good except the end. Personally I think Katara and Zuko should have ended up together.

Me from across the room: YES!

Brain: Can you say that like you DON'T run an entire blog and written over 50 fanfics about them?!

Me: *clears throat* I completely agree.

#i found an zutaraian in the wild #there is hope #atla #zutara #irl #work #adventures at the aquarium #zutara is my hyperfixation ok

[plaguedocboi]

Since I have people who have followed me mainly for Aquarium Content, I must make an Official Announcement:

My six-month job is ending this week. I am leaving Maine next Friday and moving back home for the winter

However, I will be coming back to the aquarium next spring (and we will almost definitely be having a grand opening next summer. Finally)

But, for the next few months I’ll be in Pennsylvania and, as such, won’t be able to update much on cute flounders and colorful lobsters and gloopy snails

I am actually quite sad about leaving. I wish I could just stay over the winter but the job was only for six months and unfortunately my time is up. Next spring, though, I’ll be back in business and getting that damn aquarium open.

#best fishes #it’s a huge bummer that I have to leave #I love Maine and I love working at the aquarium but alas. temporary jobs much succumb to the passage of time #*must

[dr-wormman]

It looks like they are having an important meeting maybe I should leave them alone

#fish #neocaridina #shrimp #betta fish #fishblr #aquarium #IGNORE THE GARGANTUAN HAIR ALGAE PROBLEM PLEASSSSEE #IM WORKING ON IT #also yes that is an empty shell

[graedari]

Indulgent doodle page of Fin-Tastic Aquarium :)

#graedari doodles #dishonored #dh #Fin-tastic Aquarium AU #daud (dishonored) #thomas the whaler #custis pendleton #morgan pendleton #aramis stilton #grim alex #alexandria hypatia #emily kaldwin #corvo attano #digital art #ipad #apple pen #procreate #there are so many layers to the first two drawings ashdoaha im sorry anyone who wants context #custy im gaykissing you for endearing me to the twins and opening my third eye to how funny they are <3333 #hydria gaykissing you for endearing me to alex and hypatia and vasco i will draw vasco soon enough for you to rb too prommy <333 #the aquarium/modern au ive made can be so important to me #don't worry about the drastic difference in how i draw daud now #i did a face study and realized i was drawing his entire face shape wrong asdkasjdals #but ask me about the fin-tastic aquarium au #your fav probably has a spot in it somewhere #im working through most of the cast now that ive played quite a bit of dh2 #graedari dh #graedari loves queue