上周我，杰克·亚当斯（Jake Adams）海洋水族馆作家，有难得的参观机会动物园Laboratories，爬行动物产品中最著名的品牌名称。有expected to see quite a spread of live reptiles, especially the turtles and tortoises that Zoo Med is known for breeding, something altogether different was really the main event, at least for me.
内置在动物园Med客户支持中心的墙壁上，是我见过的最精致的老式玻璃鱼碗画廊。As if it’s not even enough to have row after row of these beautiful antique aquarium glass wares, each of the fishbowls is supported by some kind of base, some kind of stand, and/or some kind of equally old adornment on the rim of the bowl or inside of it.
So to our incredulous surprise, we came to learn that Zoo Med founder Gary Bagnall is a die hard水族馆and he entertains a collection of vintage fishbowls that he documents and deals in on his website,Vintage Fishbowls。Slo Mermaid除了在这里和那里悬挂一些盈余的老式鱼碗外，还有一系列手绘水族馆装饰品的复制品，旨在使1920年的鱼碗感觉中的一些感觉。
我们最喜欢在动物园中展出的老式/古董鱼碗是具有绿色光芒的碗。我没想到会拜访爬行动物的人并在水族馆的历史上上学，但显然，在大萧条时期，用一些铀扔进玻璃很受欢迎，从而形成了绿色的绿色黄色玻璃凡士林玻璃。
这一特定的老式鱼碗用铀酸的凡士林玻璃制成，被近紫外线带照亮，这有助于使玻璃的荧光更加发光。即使在“几何”鱼碗的令人惊叹的例子中，北极熊窥视它的令人惊叹的例子，即使是鱼碗的形状也可能有所不同。
好像所有这些令人敬畏的古董水族馆管理不足以使您的脑海中的爬行动物产品公司震惊，实际的现场动物展示区还容纳了三个大型古董水族馆。这些古董水族馆中的每一个都构成了铜色的黄铜，并带有精美的华丽图案，这两个最大的是建立的Matson Navigation Company。
These antique framed aquariums may be old school in appearance but they are mostly powered with canister filters and sporting mostly old school freshwater plant species. The especially awesome part of seeing what basically amounts to a living aquarium museum is the meticulous care with which they are presented; excellent lighting and dust-proof casing for the fish bowls, and live displays in the older, larger aquariums.
With the aquarium hobby ever growing and expanding into more mainstream cultures around the world, it’s probably only a matter of time, even if it is decades, until we see an actual aquarium museum but in the meantime, it was a real treat to see what Zoo Med has secreted away within its own walls.
