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Meet The Support Animals
Finley
Finley started her journey with VCA in 2018 and has been supporting staff and students ever since. She is always ready to spend some time with students, especially when they need a little break or extra love. Otherwise, you can find her relaxing in her little tree watching everyone busy at work.
The VCA Aquarium
The VCA aquarium is a 20 gallon rectangular tank using LED lighting and external power filtering. The lights are on a timer, and an automatic feeder is used over breaks.
Endler’s Guppy (Poecilia wingei)
El Tigre Stream Venezuela
The El Tigre stream is not connected to Laguna Campoma so the El Tigre belong to their own distinct population. All El Tigre found in the hobby today are descended from those collected by Phil Voisin (Philderodez)
This fish is still threatened in the wild due to their main lake being polluted. Efforts by conservationists in the US and Venezuela have greatly helped the population recover. Mr. Appleton was part of this conservation effort.
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Celestial Pearl Danio (Danio margaritatus)
Celestial pearl danios are a small cyprinid from Myanmar and Northern Thailand. It has so far been found only in a very small area near Hopong east of Inle Lake, at an elevation of over 1,000 m (3,400 ft). Its habitat is part of the Salween basin, namely the Nam Lang and Nam Pawn Rivers. This fish grows to one inch in length, and is very peaceful
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Red Rill Shrimp (Neocaridina Davidi)
Neocaridina davidi is a freshwater shrimp originating from eastern China and northern Taiwan and introduced in the rest of Taiwan, Japan, and Hawaii, which is commonly kept in aquaria. The natural coloration of the shrimp is green-brown. There are a wide range of colors including red, yellow, orange, green, blue, violet, black, etc.; however, the red morph is more frequently sold.
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Ramshorn Snail
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Ramshorn snails have been bred for the aquarium trade and various color forms have been selected. The two species commonly found in aquariums are Planorbella duryi and Planorbarius corneus, both in the family Planorbidae.
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Crypto (Cryptocoryne Pontederiifolia)
Cryptocoryne is a genus of aquatic plants from the family Araceae. The genus is naturally distributed in tropical regions of India, Southeast Asia and New Guinea.[1]
The typical habitats of Cryptocoryne are mostly streams and rivers with not too rapidly flowing water, in the lowland forest. They also live in seasonally inundated forest pools or on river banks submerged only at high water. Although the proper scientific name of the genus is Cryptocoryne, they are commonly referred to as crypts.
Anubias Plant (Anubias Nana)
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Anubias is a genus of aquatic and semi-aquatic flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to tropical central and western Africa. They primarily grow in rivers and streams, but can also be found in marshes. They are characterized by broad, thick, dark leaves that come in many different forms.
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Duckweed
Lemnoideae is a subfamily of flowering aquatic plants, known as duckweeds, water lentils, or water lenses. They float on or just beneath the surface of still or slow-moving bodies of fresh water and wetlands. Also known as bayroot, they arose from within the arum or aroid family (Araceae),[1] so often are classified as the subfamily Lemnoideae within the family Araceae. Other classifications, particularly those created prior to the end of the twentieth century, place them as a separate family, Lemnaceae.