LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – A Chicago-based YouTube influencer was at Preuss Pets on Saturday visiting along with her followers.
Jamie Dalton began Aquarium Data throughout the COVID pandemic as a result of she was searching for a pastime. Her first video, creating a ten gallon aquarium for freshwater cherry shrimp, was designed to spotlight the aquascaping course of and to be soothing.
“Our first video did really, really well and I think during the pandemic a lot of people had an appetite for restorative therapeutic content,” she says. “So there wasn’t a script, there wasn’t any storytelling or talking.”
YouTube Influencer Jamie Dalton at Preuss Pets in Lansing (WLNS)
Preuss Pets Reptile Supervisor Sean Murphy, proprietor Kirbay Preuss and YouTube influencer Jamie Dalton take selfie. (WLNS)
YouTube influencer Jamie Dalton indicators an merchandise for a younger fan at Preuss Pets. (WLNS)
Since then she’s branched out from her authentic Fb submit to a YouTube channel the place she works to mix leisure with a household and kid-friendly flare and a dose of science.
“I do view aquarium info as the top of the funnel for kids to learn a bit more about science, technology and we do a lot of building — so engineering and math as well with what comes in building a fish tank stand, for example, where you house the fish tank itself,” she says. “So, we have a microscope that we use in a lot of the episodes to show the microscopy of the different organisms that live in freshwater or saltwater or different things we find in our fish tank while we’re cleaning a fish tank. So trying to show that having an animal — having a fish – is a lot of work, but it is also fun and there’s a lot of layers to it. So, there’s a lot to discover when you are fish-keeping or have a turtle, for example. So, trying to kind of educate but also entertain through our videos.”
Her imaginative and prescient has expanded since that first video as properly.
“So there has been an evolution from kind of just the initial aquascaping setup process to now building kind of some crazy, wacky ideas like a washing machine fish tank or piano fish tank or getting a bit more creative with the homes in which we create for our animals,” she says.
It didn’t cease with simply fish tanks both. After the success of turning the mattress on her mattress into an aquarium for a video, she took it the following step – turning her spare bed room into totally different ecosystems. In on video, her spare bed room was reworked right into a jungle. In one other, she says she lugged over 1000 kilos of sand up 4 flights of stairs to create a desert within the room.
She says whereas assembly the youngsters which have been touched and impressed by her work, she’s happiest assembly the dad and mom.
“It’s actually hearing from parents and a lot of parents come up to us and actually thank us for creating educational content,” she says.
Her work is getting seen too. She lately went to Los Angeles to create a 12-foot model of the SpongeBob Sq. Pants world for the Youngsters Selection Awards.
