The other facilities around the country have been fantastic. We couldn't have hoped for a better response. But we've been working with some of these people for decades, so it was not really surprising they would offer their assistance.

It was a total domino effect.

Some of these collections have taken years to accumulate. We had five species of freshwater stingray. We had dozens of breeding projects over the last 15 years. We had a jellyfish gallery 10 years in the making. All that's gone.