Georgia Aquarium

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devlyyn;1597856; said:
I went a couple weeks ago too and I have to say I was really disappointed with the freshwater collection. I don't know what happened, but I went through twice and I didn't see ANY pacu, arapaimas, arowanas, rays or anything! Such a bummer! The only freshwater I saw was the super-stocked cichlid tank, the gar tank, catfish from below, amazon with tetras, angels and discus. Then they had some otters, the electric eels, some elephant nose fish and maybe a few others but no real MONSTERS.

I went to the ripley's aquarium in Tennessee back in January and they had some nice freshwater fish. They had one big tank with a couple 24"-36" Pacu, a big arapaima and some large oscars/other cichlids. I mean they didn't even have any large silver dollars or rays or anything at the Georgia aquarium...

I was very impressed with the large reef display at the Georgia Aquarium though. It had a really cool wave effect that I liked. The other large marine displays were impressive, but seemed to be lacking too. There were many large groupers and other shoals of "plain" fish. I think the balugas and whale sharks are the highlights of the place in my opinion.
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Great Pictures by the way, As for the Georgia Aquarium, I was there as it was being built and it is a great aquarium with a few problems. We did the coral gallery so thanks for the comments on the coral and Gatlinburg (also did all of the design and construction of Ripley's in Gatlinburg).

The main coral tank is 45' long and 18' deep. It is the deepest live coral tank and takes a tremendous amount of light load. I think Steinhart is San Fran will have a live coral tank that is bigger soon. The tank is a combination live and artificial coral tank with the live rock on the flat surfaces and artificial on the vertical surfaces.

I am attaching a couple of my pictures of the gallery and a couple of shots above the tank showing the educational area as well as the wave bucket.

I also am attaching one of the shots from Gatlingburg.


Dave

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Why does every public aquarium have Pacus? ARGH!
 
dmanwarren;1603298; said:
I think Steinhart is San Fran will have a live coral tank that is bigger soon.
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You are correct Dave. After talking to them out there, I REEEEEALLY want to see it when they open in Sept. (Assuming I don't get there sooner.)

The dump bucket set up at GA is great. I like how it's timed with the music downstairs (though few notice). When I was there last time, they were adding another bank of lights above it.
 
I have been several times, including this past Tuesday in the evening... No children and free alchohol everywhere! I was attending a conference this week and they had a party there.

The large SA tank now has alligators. They have a warehouse that is holding most of the fish that used to be there. It sucks, because you can drive 15 minutes down the road to the zoo and see alligators.

I believe there are now 3 whale sharks, but I'm not sure. I was pretty wasted and wasn't listening.

I am normally disapointed with the GA aquarium, but this time was worse. The longnose gars all had cloudy if not WHITE eyes. The piranhas looked worse than normal.

I had never been in the ballroom before, but it has a window to the belugas and to the ocean voyager. The ov window is higher in the water and IMO has a much better view of the fish near it. The whale sharks don't come near the big window at the bottom, but they were right in front of my face in the ball room.. There were a lot of smaller fish that were close to the window also.. They looked like they had pretty bad hith. A lot of them looked really bad.
 
Outstanding display of pics! Thanks for sharing. I will have to get down to that aquarium, it looks awesome. I bet that was a good time. Very impressive. Thanks for the preview. :popcorn:
 
If pacus stayed the same color as babies and didnt break tanks id have them in a heart beat!
 
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