Maybe Alex you should print all these messages and give them to the heads
and they could see that the public is not as dumb as they want us to be.
Roy Hunter
Co-Chairman
ANGFA of North America
visit our website at:
http://www.angfa.org
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> From: James E. Capelle <jcapelle at gte.net>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [RML] Display Suggestions
> Date: Wednesday, February 26, 1997 10:15 AM
>
> maybe they were right with plants from all over the world for a USA
> setting Boi-type. Come to Florida and check out some of the feral
> plants around here not mention fish. But maybe someone in that area
> should work with the S.A. and help them get it right. I think we may
> know someone on this list trying it somewhere else(Roy you there?). Jim
> C.
>
> rhondawi at sprynet.com wrote:
> >
> > Since the conversation has been on public displays in zoos and
> > aquariums not being representitive of natural habitats, I thought I'd
> > put my 2-bits in.
> >
> > I went to Chicago last year and went to the Shedd Aqurium there and
> > honestly was really dissapointed. There was a lot of algae, the plants
> > in the tanks that were supposed to be representitive of certain
> > biotypes were really wrong. For example they had South American
> > terrestrials, and Asian aqautic plants in the tanks that were supposed
> > to represent North American waters. Why do they do this? It seems that
> > if your going to try to educate the public you should at least be
> > giving them the right information. Is it that they themselves don't
> > know? And if they don't how in the world do they get these jobs?
> >
> > Rhonda