I typically shy away from posting on the BOI but I called this guy out, in a thread, not too long ago and never received a reply.
This guy doesn't have red flags all around him, he's waving numerous, giant red BANNERS. Giant, red BANNERS, with Sea Port Aquarium printed on them.
I hope to God that no one donates or accepts his low ball offers.
I don't even need to reiterate about the bad reviews that this so called "aquarium" has gotten and which I pointed out, in the thread I posted in...you guys have done a great job already.
Having, at one point, worked in one of the premier public aquariums, in the United States, I can be 100% certain when I say that no self respecting aquarium has any need to go onto a classified website and ask for donations or hand outs. An "aquarium" is just that...emphasis on aquatic life...not reptiles. Sure, public aquariums have some measure of reptile displays, but it's very, very minimal. Sure, they'll have a wide selection of aquatic turtles, etc. They may have one Green Anaconda (of course, because of the aquatic nature of the animal), or one Reticulated Python and one Burmese Python (and that's a stretch), but everything else is going to be very minimal.
Another thing I'm wondering is this...
He was asking for purple reitcs,albino bat-eaters,albino sunfires, albino suntigers, and albino golden childs.He stressed the last one very much.
Public zoos and aquaria almost strictly shy away from color morphs and mutations, in animals. They will show the natural, normal morphology of an animal and not deal with the numerous (sometimes hundreds) different color morphs of animals. When's the last time you went to your public zoo/aquarium and saw that they had a high end, genetic moprh, such as an Albino Golden Child or Albino Sunfire. I've been to zoos and aquarium all over the world (Europe, South America, Australia, Southeast Asia) and can count, on one hand, how many times I've seen an albino Retic or Burm.
Realistically, are you going to sit down and explain such high end color morphs to your customers? "Well, little Timmy...this is an Albino Golden Child. The original Golden Child was a wild caught animal, imported by a company called New England Reptile Distributors. It was then bred to a female retic and we learned that the genetics were a passable gene.What's a passable gene, you ask?...Then, they bred one of those to an albino reticulated python..." and half an hour later, get to the jist of the story? I think not. Little Timmy was running down the hallway, bored, 20 minutes ago.
Sounds to me like someone is fishing for high end animals, to turn around and sell and make a hefty profit off of. This guy is using the guise of a "family public aquarium" to pull the wool over peoples eyes and aquire some high end animals.
And, last but not least...what kind of aquarium has the excuse of "season has not kicked into high gear yet, so I can't post pictures"? Last time I checked, animals have to be taken care of, on a daily basis...not just when "season is in high gear". The enclosures and habitats of said animals should look exactly the same, whether it's the slow time of year or your busiest time of year.
I will happily post some pics when we open this season & offer free admission to any poster on this BOI that would like see for themselves just have ID and I will personally check all posts leading up to this one and if the name matches the posters your in free. Sorry I had to limit the offer but we do have an aquarium to run and specimens to care for and we cant be giving handouts all summer
Everyone is so curious about me?
