Hello all,
Sorry to pull up an old post but it seems I never answered a question. I worked for the Aquarium as a special activities instructor meaning I catered to programs that people pre-registered for. Things such as canoe/kayak trips, crabbing, fishing, island excursions, invert, shark and reptile programs, birthdays, even sleepovers at the aquarium. It was a great job but the winters were hard as the programs disapear when the tourists leave. My fiance and I recently moved about two hours up the beach and I landed a job with one of the other of the three NC Aquariums. I am now an aquarist with the Pine Knoll Shores Aquarium(Atlantic Beach). We are currently closed for a 2 year/27 million dollar expansion. When we reopen we will have a 306,000 gallon tank in our line up, and yes, we will have octopus. All of our animals were released when the aquarium shut down last December. So now we are putting together new holding tanks and collecting new stock. We mostly have sea turtles, gators and venomous snakes right now but we are getting more fish each week. By the way, my old Aquarium at Fort Fisher is working on a new exotics exhibit to be finished next year. It will include lionfish, sea snakes and an exhibit devoted to Cuttles!!! You can check out our site at ncaquariums.com. Now, about that little squid I had, I caught several more through the summer, some as small as 1/2 inch. I didn't try to keep any more of them but they were plentiful this year. Later, John