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Visitors to the Virginia Living Museum have several opportunities to see the fish and other animals being fed.
On Thursdays at 3 p.m. aquarists don scuba gear and enter the Noland Chesapeake Bay Aquarium to scrub algae off the exhibit features and wash the gravel.
At 11 a.m. Monday and Saturday herpetologists feed the turtles in the Cypress Swam. At 1 p.m. Sunday through Friday, the aquarium staff feeds the trout in the Mountain Cove or the catfish, longnose gar and other freshwater fish in the Cypress Swamp.
At 1:30 p.m. every day, it's the birds' turn in the outdoor Coastal Plain Aviary. They are hand-fed fish with vitamins.
At 2 p.m. on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, it's back inside to the Chesapeake Bay Aquarium where the drum, triggerfish, lookdown, spadefish and other large fish are fed.
The fish are fed a variety of cut-up fish enriched with vitamins. "We try to vary their diet and keep it as natural as possible to what they would eat in the wild," explains Aquarium Curator Lory Scott.
The last feeding of the day is at 4 p.m. when the horseshoe crabs are fed at the Touch Tank. |
