thewire January 6, 2011 Share January 6, 2011 Very neat..Baltimore National Aquarium like a LFS compared to them...the national aquarium sucks anyway..the Australian display is a waste of space..rain forest is a waste of space (I pay to see aquatic life ..not some rainforest sloth) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Hind January 6, 2011 Share January 6, 2011 That is very impressive. Those divers have my dream job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 6, 2011 Share January 6, 2011 I've been here - on my return trip to Okinawa a few years ago. The thing is huge! Standing there at the base of the acrylic walls of this tank makes you feel really small. By the way, this aquarium is on the site of the world exposition, Expo '75. I was there for that, too, back when we were stationed there in '74-76. (The aquarium was not there, then, though. It was built later.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alieu07 January 6, 2011 Share January 6, 2011 So which is the 1st largest aquarium tank in the world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingumar January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I want to work there :'( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 So which is the 1st largest aquarium tank in the world? According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Churaumi_Aquarium), it's the Georgia Aquarium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Aquarium) by more than a factor of 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmatt56 January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_Churaumi_Aquarium), it's the Georgia Aquarium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Aquarium) by more than a factor of 4. The GA aquarium is incredible!!! I visited it shortly after it opened when in town for the Sugar Bowl (WVU/UGA game that the Mountaineers won!). Think big.....big enough for FOUR WHALE SHARKS...... It was awesome!!! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 The GA aquarium is incredible!!! I visited it shortly after it opened when in town for the Sugar Bowl (WVU/UGA game that the Mountaineers won!). I wonder how they maintain water quality there? At the Churaumi Aquarium (where the Kuroshio Sea tank is), they continuously exchange the water in the tank with sea water taken from 350 yards offshore. Can you imagine what a 10% water change would be like at GA? (Now, I'm positive that they don't do this, but let's just say they did.) Eight hundred thousand gallons of change water? At 75 gallons per day, my little RO/DI setup could produce that kind of water in ... let's see... 29 years! It would also take 5000 buckets of Instant Ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thewire January 7, 2011 Author Share January 7, 2011 i would imagine you don't water change that often since such a big volume of water and probably there is plenty behind the scene. Also you dont have much corals in there..so minerals are not a factor ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 i would imagine you don't water change that often since such a big volume of water and probably there is plenty behind the scene. Also you dont have much corals in there..so minerals are not a factor ... You've missed my point. It's not the need. It's the idea - the sheer magnitude of the water volume that's in this beast.. "Now, I'm positive that they don't do this, but let's just say they did." Plenty of water behind the scenes? This is an 8,000,000 gallon aquarium (system). I'd like to see the Rubbermaid Brute they use for this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coral Hind January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I wonder what kind of salt mix the large public aquariums use. Maybe they just use plain rock salt instead of buying a truck load of boxes of IO. Does any one know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Eye January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I've seen one ton pallets of io at the Mall of America's aquarium. It's still small compared to these tanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveoutlaw January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 You've missed my point. It's not the need. It's the idea - the sheer magnitude of the water that's in this beast.. "Now, I'm positive that they don't do this, but let's just say they did." Plenty of water behind the scenes? This is an 8,000,000 gallon aquarium. I'd like to see the Rubbermaid Brute they use for this one. H-E-double hockey sticks, I'd like to see the RODI that's filling the Brute! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbartco January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I wonder what kind of salt mix the large public aquariums use. Maybe they just use plain rock salt instead of buying a truck load of boxes of IO. Does any one know? It was IO. I have to search for the pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extreme_tooth_decay January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I took a trip to the Georgia Aquarium a couple years ago, it was great. They have a chunk of the acrylic used to build the viewing wall setting out to touch and look at, it is huge. This tank looks very similar, even similar inhabitants (capped off by the whale sharks) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 How about this one? http://www.911water.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Titan-40000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
extreme_tooth_decay January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 I saw a documentary a while back I'm pretty sure was Georgia Aquarium where they talked about the water changes. They showed using a forklift to move the containers of IO salt they mix up. One single container had about the volume of a car. They held it up with a forklift and opened it from the bottom and the salt all fell into what I presume was a mixing tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbartco January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 Almost two million pounds of Instant Ocean is used in the aquarium’s 6.2 million gallons of seawater. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 Almost two million pounds of Instant Ocean is used in the aquarium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad January 7, 2011 Share January 7, 2011 (edited) Wow, plus equals mega bucks!! Now, if it were a reef... imagine the calcium reactor that would feed it next! Edited January 7, 2011 by Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OUsnakebyte January 8, 2011 Share January 8, 2011 The filtration system on the whale shark tank at the GA aquarium can turn over the entire tank (6 million gallons?) in ~45 minutes - seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kristen9 January 8, 2011 Share January 8, 2011 I went a few times when I lived in Alabama... close proximity to Atlanta is probably the best part of living in Alabama!! They hold professional meetings in the ATL area all the time and will usually rent out the the aquarium for a night , with lots of free food and drinks, its pretty awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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