Nearly all the fish had been accidentally killed in two of the biggest indoor tanks of the Texas State Aquarium, according to a spokesman.
On Tuesday, countless marine animals at the aquarium in Corpus Christi had died when a new medication had been introduced into the water in order to control a parasite that had been resistant to other treatments, according to a spokesman Richard E. Glover Jr.
Rob Vernon, spokesman for the Association of the Zoos and Aquariums has said that “Such an incident is extremely rare.”
According to Glover, “It appears to be a truly sad fluke. Considerable losses were sustained.”
He said mentioned that before the chemical had been introduced to the big tanks, the staffs did test in on smaller exhibit and did not find any sort of adverse reaction.
Four tanks had been affected by the chemicals; the largest of the tanks can hold 125,000 gallons and about 100 fish had been killed in them, according to Glover. The largest tanks had held an exhibit named Island of Steel. It has featured nurse sharks, green moral eels, amberjack, tarpon, spadefish, grouper and a sand tiger shark, according to information of the website of the aquarium.
Glover said that the creatures the aquarium was trying to kill were in the family “trematoda parasite.” The name of the chemical had not been specified by him, but the aquarium said in a statement that “it is commonly used by a lot of other aquariums in treating similar issues.”
“Nothing like this has ever happened before,” Glover said.
The staffers at the aquarium worked all through the night to save as many animals as they possibly could and tried figuring out what had actually gone wrong. The water samples had been sent to the laboratory for being tested.
Jorge Santana
