I was still allowed to take photographs of the animals, I just had someone accompanying me for most of my visit. To be more specific, I made it about 1/3-1/2 of the way through the aquarium and was making a point to mainly photograph the horrible "exhibits", but when I reached a certain area a member of staff spotted me doing so and immediately started asking if I had any questions. Soon after, a second member of staff approached me and asked if I needed anything. Both times I had none apart from one question about the contents of a tank that was unlabeled. The whole time I was in the area at least one of the two employees kept their eyes on me. Not long after, I attempted to photograph a row of small mammal/reptile enclosures when a woman approached me claiming to be the "manager of birds and reptiles" or something to that effect. She asked me if I needed any help, but then stuck with me after I said no, instead asking me questions about my visit so far and my interests as a person. I'm pretty sure they thought I was a zoo-anti, which kind of says a lot about them that they suspect anyone photographing their facility to be an anti and have a system in check to vet them. I stuck around the area for a while because there was a lot I wanted to photograph and I figured she'd eventually leave me alone but she never did, so eventually I tried moving on and she followed me through the aquarium. I tried ending our conversation multiple times but she always started it back up again. She spent much of her time telling about how great SeaQuest were. She pointed out a couple animals they claimed they rescued and she claimed they were better than traditional institutes because they allow people to get closer to the animals and give them a lot more room to roam than zoos do (they literally have multiple goats and wallabies in pens so small they can't take two steps in any direction, and they had a kookaburra in a small parrot cage). At one point she even claimed that their aquarium was better than Bronx (I was wearing a Bronx shirt at the time), saying that Bronx was bad because they keep a Jaguar in a small cage (Bronx doesn't have any Jaguars atm and there haven't been any big cat cages at the zoo since before I was born). Towards the end I started just blatantly showing that I like zoos and that I'm knowledgeable on animals, even more so than her on several instances, which eventually convinced her I was safe and she went off to do her duties. I did go back and walk around the place one more time, but was much more careful about my photography and decided not to stay too long as I didn't want to get confronted again.
