Tenelen
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Hey all,
So I moved to Houston about 4 yrs ago from Northern California, and no I am not a hippie
. I have loved fish keeping and going to aquariums all my life. I spent my younger years back home during the summer in Monterey going to the aquarium and learning as much as I could. I have also studied a lot about marine and freshwater life. So when I moved to Houston which is one of the largest cities in the country I was saddened to learn that we didn’t have a large world class aquarium. So since then I have been doing some sleuthing and I currently may have some finical backers interested in a project of this scale, but I wanted to see what the response to the local community would be.
Here are a few key points that would help push this project though.
1. A world class educational aquarium would be beneficial to the marine biology field here in TX
2. It would add and attract more tourism to our city
3. It would help drive business at our LFS as people would visit and want to have a piece of the aquarium in their homes.
4. It could function like many other aquariums in the world where there are a large percent of volunteer’s vs staff keeping overhead low.
Ect……
Anyways I personally think it would be a great addition to our city and the fish community as a whole. Please chime in with your thoughts.
So I moved to Houston about 4 yrs ago from Northern California, and no I am not a hippie
. I have loved fish keeping and going to aquariums all my life. I spent my younger years back home during the summer in Monterey going to the aquarium and learning as much as I could. I have also studied a lot about marine and freshwater life. So when I moved to Houston which is one of the largest cities in the country I was saddened to learn that we didn’t have a large world class aquarium. So since then I have been doing some sleuthing and I currently may have some finical backers interested in a project of this scale, but I wanted to see what the response to the local community would be.Here are a few key points that would help push this project though.
1. A world class educational aquarium would be beneficial to the marine biology field here in TX
2. It would add and attract more tourism to our city
3. It would help drive business at our LFS as people would visit and want to have a piece of the aquarium in their homes.
4. It could function like many other aquariums in the world where there are a large percent of volunteer’s vs staff keeping overhead low.
Ect……
Anyways I personally think it would be a great addition to our city and the fish community as a whole. Please chime in with your thoughts.
