Animal Handling News

We are always excited when we learn that our devices are used for alternative applications.

We are excited to share with you video footage of our gloves being used to handle a HUGE Croc Monitor

We are happy to see that the Caowan Turtle at Nausicaa has been safely transferred

The first Leopard Sharks born in Europe, being moved with our Rubber Landing Net.

Curator Steph and her team at Skegness Aquarium move Cownose Rays with the help of our Venom Defender Gloves and Rubber Landing Nets

Handling Tiger Cubs with Venom Defender Gloves at Chester Zoo

We are excited to share with you our talk, presented at the 11th International Aquarium Conference in October 2022.

An unusual set of visitors has taken temporary refuge at Louvre Abu Dhabi — rehabilitated turtles who are almost ready to go back to the wild.

Jeff Dubosc writes... Trapped in a net, a turtle is saved - then released at the Amédée lighthouse

We are delighted to share some amazing footage of the arrival of 2 Sand Tiger sharks at The National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth

We are excited to see how our Large Ray Tray can be used in so many creative ways

We are VERY proud to see that Aquarium des Lagons has received assistance from a group of schoolkids when releasing a Sea Turtle

We are well impressed by these wonderful pictures from Lewis at The National Aquarium in Abu Dhabi.

We are pleased to see that Márton and Lilian are using our specialist products when medically treating one of the Leopoldi stingrays

We are very grateful to our dear friends Lilian and Marci of the Acropora Zoo & Aquarium in Budapest, Hungary Zoo for sharing these wonderful photographs

It is with so much joy that we learn how easy to use one of our go-to carriers has been for our dear friends at Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands!

We are pleased to share photos showing Assistant Curator Lewis Cocks using one of our newly launched products

We are excited to share with you photographs of a project we have been working on with David Garcia at Sealife konstanz, Germany.

We are proud of the fact that we have successfully created our very first XXL Ray Tray and delivered it to Georgia Aquarium

(Or rather, how do you stay EXTRA safe when catching a Sand Tiger with the TAV Shark Bag?)

We are proud to have provided Paul Hamilton and his team with the marine animal carriers to prepare for the big launch.

It is always a pleasure to see how quality companies from around the world team up to deliver only the best!

We have mentioned many times how impressed we are about the improvisation skills of aquarists around the world. And here we have a perfect example which is testament to this fact.

We are once again happily surprised as we learn of new applications for which our protective products offer an extra layer of defence against.

A new and innovative Marine Animal Isolation Device (MAID)
... but this time redesigned for Spider Crabs!

We are excited to have retrieved one of the earliest videos in which we demonstrated that our specialist gloves are well suited for a lot more than just snakes and lizards!

We at 1-2-1 are always mesmerised at the high level of creativity you, aquarists around the world, truly are blessed with.

Our new Flat Ray Nets are used successfully in preparation for the grand opening of The National Aquarium in Abu Dhabi.

We were extremely happy to have received a wonderful report from Scott Hadley and his team at Sealife Blankeberge in Belgium.

Sadness all around.. as desperate attempts did not result in saving a stranded dolphin.

We are so very proud to see our Ray Tray successfully used by the National Aquarium in Baltimore, USA!
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We are well pleased to have received such a nice message from our dear friends Katrina and Rob from the Aquarium Vet company (theaquariumvet.com). They visited Audubon Aquarium of the Americas and were introduced to Mydas, the Green Sea Turtle.

Super happy to receive a 'SEAL' of approval for our Shark Carrier. Or.. in other words; the diversity of applications for our carriers.

We are always excited to see wonderful stories of animals being taken back to where they were born. In this instance we are well proud that the Océanopolis team has managed to move their 130 kilo Loggerhead Turtle successfully.

We are extremely pleased to have received some wonderful footage from the team at Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.

We are grateful to Becky Ellsworth and her team for sharing with us the news that our Sea Turtle Carrier has been of such great use.

We are delighted to have received this lovely video footage from Amanda Foltz (Curator of Mammals & Reptiles) at Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium.

We are once again honoured to be asked to present to you a great article written by Joe Lavery.



We are very excited to see yet another application for our specialist animal handling gloves.

As the World´s Covid-19 pandemic raging on, we strongly felt the need to contribute towards reducing the daily problems we face.

We, at 1-2-1, have certainly not been sitting still during the Corona Virus lockdown, but instead have worked hard on creating new devices for you guys! And today we are excited to present to you a device which we designed together with Graham Hill at the Deep in Hull, UK.

We are well chuffed to see that Georgia Aquarium is utilising our Rubber Landing Net to move a stingray for Xray purposes.

Beautiful pictures of baby Ghila Monsters from Luke Harding - Curator for Lower Vertebrates and Invertebrates at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park.

We were super chuffed to have received a great snapshot of a wonderful application for our Venom Defender Animal Handling Gloves!

We are delighted to see that the crazy guys at Flying Sharks have created a wonderful promotional video.

We are pleased to share an interesting article written by Joe Lavery, who is a Public Aquarium Specialist. He gives his advice on how to cut costs efficiently in order to help us get through these difficult times.

Parc Zoologique de Paris utilizes 1-2-1 products for successful Fresh Water Ray Procedure.

We are always excited when our treasured customers tell us in which novel ways our carriers and products are being used.

Thanks to group curator Oliver Buttling for sharing these photos and video of their marine animals being moved in order to facilitate the refurbishment at Oceanarium Bournemouth.

We are grateful to Marie Bournonville and her team at Aquarium-Muséum de l'Université de Liège for sharing these photos of them moving a big Grouper with the help of our Shark Carrier.

Thanks to Lilian and her team at Budapest Zoo and Botanical Garden's Aquarium for sharing these photos of them performing health checks on the marine animals with the help of our products.

It was a lovely surprise to receive some incredible footage from our good friend and Aquatic Vet Márton Hoitsy from Hungary.

We are very excited, proud and fulfilled that the use of our products has helped Lilian and her team to move all marine animals into their new home.

We are very proud to have had the privilege to exhibit our products at the EUAC conference hosted at Nausicaa, Boulogne sur la Mer in France.

We are pleased to see that our Large Ray Tray has been utilised to conduct an ultrasound on a female pregnant blacktip reef shark at Gardaland.

Upon our return from the Elasmo Meeting at Sosto Zoo, we were surprised to find we made it onto the NEWS!

We were blessed to be invited to attend, and offer a presentation at the Elasmo Meeting 2019 @ Sosto Zoo in Hungary.

We are excited to see film footage of two Green Sea Turtles which were rescued with our Ray Tray and taken to Sealife Nagoya (Legoland Japan).

We are proud to be exhibiting at the RAW 2019 @ the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

We are excited to see the Sealife Michigan team using our Small Ray Tray to conduct the annual physicals on their stingrays.

We are well pleased to see that The Blue Planet in Denmark is using our Rubber Landing Net to retrieve fish from their ocean tank.

The blue Planet team has provided a beautiful video showing the retrieval of Venomous Sea Snake baby.

We are well chuffed to see the Houston Zoo team utilising our Rubber Landing Nets and 'Venom Defender' Animal Handling Gloves to conduct medical examinations of their Stingrays.

We are grateful to The Blue Planet team for sharing their experience of medically treating a Large Stingray.

We are proud to have received beautiful footage from The Deep in Hull, UK, of our Marine Animal Isolation Device (MAID) being used to isolate Sea Turtles.

We are proud to be exhibiting at the 10th International Aquarium Congress in Japan in Fukushima, Japan.

James Wright, Marcus Williams and their team have created a beautiful video of a recent arrival of 2 Sandbar Sharks.

Thanks to Lewis Cocks for sharing these photos showing our Rubber Landing Nets in use at Flying Sharks.

We are extremely pleased to have received wonderful video footage from our friends at the Florida Aquarium. It shows a Sand Tiger shark being caught with The Aquarium Vet Shark Bag and then subjected to a medical examination.

One of the biggest and oldest giant green sea turtles in Britain has arrived at the National SEA LIFE Centre Birmingham in Birmingham - say hello to 78-year-old Gulliver!

Once again we are excited to see that Rebecca Bray and her team at Mystic Aquarium are using our Venom Defender Animal Handling Gloves to safely conduct a routine physical examination for a Wobbegong Shark.

Recently we were asked by the Sealife group to design a Japanese Spider Crab Carrier.

We are very proud to see that Rebecca Bray and her team at Mystic Aquarium have used our Venom Defender Animal Handling Gloves to safely conduct a health check up of a Green Moray Eel.

Five baby otters have been given their first ever health check-ups at Chester Zoo with the help of our Animal Handling Gloves.

We're proud to see that Chester Zoo's hit TV series has been nominated for a BAFTA TV Award.

We are proud to have supplied each of the 51 PDSA hospitals in the UK with our Venom Defender Gloves.

We are pleased to have received footage of two 32 year old Lemon Sharks being transported from Emmen Zoo to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth.

From almost-tragedy to a thriving second chance - see how these rescued stingrays are doing at their new home.

We are pleased to be presented with these photos of James Robson and his team at Sealife London handling a Giant Lobster with our Venom Defender gloves.

We're delighted to have received this report from Lewis Cocks in which he explains how The Aquarium Vet Shark Bag has been helping them to move Moray Eels.

We are exhibiting at the 2018 Regional Aquatics Workshop in Tampa, Florida, hosted by the Florida Aquarium.

We are exhibiting at the 2017 conference of the European Union of Aquarium Curators (EUAC) at Royal Burgers’ Zoo, Arnhem, The Netherlands from Monday October 23rd - to Friday October 27th.

We are very happy to have received these photos from Dingle Oceanworld after they used our Extra Strong/Large Sea Turtle Carrier to inspect a 140kg Loggerhead Turtle!

We are extremely proud to see our products being used by Sealife London during a TV documentary on the Discovery Channel.

Jeffrey de Pauw has sent us a beautiful video of a delivery made by De Jong Marine Life to Aquarium de Biarritz in France.

Great to see our flagship product featured on Channel 4's Secret Life of the Zoo!

Curator Terese Österberg has so kindly presented us with photographs of our Small Ray Tray in use at UNIVERSEUM in Sweden.

Chris Brown at Sealife inspects a Giant Lobster with the help of our Venom Defender Gloves.

We are delighted to have received this video from Jeffrey De Pauw at De Jong Marine Life. It shows the ease of use and versatility of our Feeding Grippers when offering food to Rhina ancylostoma & big black tips.

We are exhibiting at the 2017 Regional Aquarium Workshop in Boston, USA and welcome you to visit out booth.

We are proud to have received great feedback from Lewis Cocks at Issham Aquatics after they used our Large Shark Carrier to move their Nurse Shark.

We are exhibiting at the 2016 International Aquarium Conference in Vancouver from 25th - 30th September.

Sealife Sydney Aquarium recently needed to move a 200k g Short tail Stingray (Dasyatis brevicaudata) to Manly Sea-Life Sanctuary across the bay.

We are proud to see our ‘Venom Defender’ Leg Guards used again by James Robson and his team at Sealife Birmingham whilst working with their Otters.

Tim Rowlands and his team at Chester Zoo conduct a Bat stock take...

We are pleased to have received these photos from Jeff Beals at Wildlife World Zoo and Aquarium in Arizona.

After successfully launching our animal handling gloves as protection against the bites and scratches of cats at the London Vet Show, we are excited to have received photographs from Megan at Wood Street Veterinary Hospital.

At the end of last year Curator of Aquarium at ZSL London Zoo Brian Zimmerman’s team performed an ultrasound on one of their Potamotrygon hystrix stingrays.

We are delighted to see the team at the National Marine Aquarium successfully moving Lemon Sharks with the help of our Shark Carrier.

1-2-1 (Animal Handling) Products Ltd is proud to present footage from the BBC2 program 'Penguins on a plane: Great Animal Moves'.

We are proud to announce that Suzana Matyasova and her team at ZSL London Zoo are now using our Arm Guards as protection against the pecks from penguins.

We are proud to announce that our RayTray has been used to successfully move six black tipped reef sharks from Sea Life Weymouth to Sea Life Manchester.

Learn how our Ray Tray helped the Weymouth Sea Life team rescue a pregnant Smooth-hound shark that had become trapped in a storm drain in Dorset.

At Sealife in Birmingham, a new otter enclosure was built, and staff were provided with our Protective Leg Guards to try out.

We are proud to have recently helped Sealife - Jesolo, Italy transport a Sea Turtle using our Sea Turtle Carrier.

In this news feature we head to Manchester where displays curator Lucy Handel and the team at Sealife are preparing for opening and introducing the new Marine animals.

As well as providing strong and safe rubber landing nets to help with the catching and transporting of marine animals, we now also offer a repair / upgrade service.

We're back at London Zoo - this time with Zuzana Matyasova who is in charge of the penguins to see how our Animal Handling Gloves protect against their beaks.

In this news feature we join Kevin Palmer at Reaseheath College in Nantwich, Cheshire to see how the Venom Defender Animal Handling Gloves are helping to care for the Bat Eared Foxes.

We are proud to announce that Sealife Birmingham has been using our specialized rubber landing nets successfully.

We are proud to announce that Sealife in Birmingham has been using our newly designed Feeding Gripper to feed a Giant Sea Turtle.

Back on January 31st, Chester Zoo in the UK welcomed two new Asian Small-Clawed Otter pups to their family.

In this news feature we're back at Chester Zoo where curator of lower vertebrates & invertebrates Gerardo Garcia and his team are inspecting some new arrivals - 2 Caiman Lizards.

In this news feature we visit Fruit Bat Forest at Chester Zoo to hear learn how the Venom Defender animal handling gloves have helped staff prepare for a BBC documentary.

In this news feature we're at Chester Zoo where keepers are inspecting the Dwarf Mongoose with the help of our Animal Handling Gloves.

In this news feature we take a look at how our Animal Handling Gloves and the Ray Tray have been used at Sealife in Weymouth to overcome the challenges faced when moving Sharks and Stingrays.

We were delighted to see how our Ray Tray has helped James Robs on and his team move a Bowmouth Guitar Fish at Sealife in Birmingham.

In this news feature we visit Sealife in Blackpool as they take on the challenge of transporting Sharks from their tanks in Blackpool to London.

Andy Laister, who lives in Jakarta Indonesia, sent us photographs of himself handling a stray Fruit Bat whilst wearing Venom Defender Animal Handling Gloves.

A shark has been transported more than 120 miles across England in a bid to encourage him to breed.

We're back from a fantastic NAC in Liverpool where we had the pleasure of meeting and chatting to many interesting people in the business.

Fiona Smith and her team at Sealife in Weymouth, UK recently gave the Humboldt Penguins a health check with the help of our Protective Arm Guards.

We are proud to find that one of our flagship products has been instrumental during the rescue of marine animals during the recent storms on the East Coast of the UK.