![]() ![]() The aquariums were years in the making even before the building opened in 2017. And the freshwater tank features numerous plants and unusual fish, including the department’s very own spirited “ram cichlid.” Diving in The smaller saltwater tank is being groomed as a seahorse tank. The largest saltwater tank is built around the theme of a coral reef. Specifically, Robison is curating the aquariums, which consist of a 1,300-gallon saltwater tank, a 400-gallon saltwater tank and an 850-gallon freshwater tank, to showcase distinct aquatic communities. Like wild ecosystems, these cultivated environments offer lessons large and small to experts and novices alike. And the building’s large tanks are especially well suited to fostering interactions like these, which are often absent from smaller tanks. “I would like people to see natural behaviors of fish,” she said. “I’ve always been interested in fish,” said Robison, who obtained undergraduate degrees in music education and jazz studies at Long Island University in New York before coming to Colorado State University to get her biological science bachelors – which led into a masters.Īfter studying and caring for fish for more than two decades, she has a large-scale arena in which to help create beautiful and thriving ecosystems for the public that are also instructive – complementing the goals of the other displays in the new building. ![]() Now Porsche Robison, a master’s student in the Department of Biology, is the lead caretaker for the Biology Building’s three massive lobby aquariums – as well as other tanks throughout the building. ![]()
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