Welcome to our new blog about our touch tank, located in downtown Portsmouth! Our touch tank staff will be sharing more news throughout the summer, but I wanted to post some recent pictures. The new tank is sponsored in part by the Port Inn in Portsmouth, and is a great improvement over our old tank!
Our staff and interns are in the middle of converting the old tank into a model of Jeffreys Ledge, which is an important habitat about 20 miles off our coast, and the location of many whale sightings during the summer! Progress so far included taking most of the old piping out of the fiberglass tank, and painting it. Soon a layer of sand and plywood will be put in, then we'll be working on a foamcore model of the Ledge! Come visit the tank and see how things are going! 
Last week, Touch Tank Coordinator Katherine Lanzer held a staff training and we cleaned the tank - in the middle of a storm (nothing stops us from helping our critters!). Here are a couple pics showing one of the interns siphoning water, and the team effort of doing the water change!
1 comment:
I Love it. I am glad we survived the Winter.
Mike Martin
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