National Aquarium in DC To Close
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Heard about it this morning as well its a sad day, they had a good amazonian exibit 
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Heard about it this morning as well its a sad day, they had a good amazonian exibit
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Are you talking about the amazon exzibit at the zoo, the aquarium in dc is very small in the basement of a office building.
[video=youtube;ZsibSLzDlm4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsibSLzDlm4[/video] this is the one thats closing.
Heard about it this morning as well its a sad day, they had a good amazonian exibit
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The big Amazonia exhibit is at the National Zoo and will remain open.
The closing of an 80 year old aquarium catches even international news attention.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25410913
I last visited it about 6 months ago and took some videos for memory. It still had an impressive Amazonian tank. It used to have a Frontosa colony tank with huge hump giants. In the last two decades, I have visited it at least 10 times. I like it even more than the National Aquarium in Balitmore because it has more fresh water fish collection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25410913
I last visited it about 6 months ago and took some videos for memory. It still had an impressive Amazonian tank. It used to have a Frontosa colony tank with huge hump giants. In the last two decades, I have visited it at least 10 times. I like it even more than the National Aquarium in Balitmore because it has more fresh water fish collection.
National aquarium: Moving 2,500 underwater creatures to a new home
30 December 2013 Last updated at 01:01 GMT
Moving house is always an exhausting and stressful experience - but imagine if the property is an aquarium and 2,500 underwater creatures need to be packed up.
That was the task faced by staff at the National Aquarium in Washington DC when it closed to the public on 30 September after more than 80 years at the same site.
During the past three months 1,700 animals - from sharks and an octopus to turtles and alligator - have been removed from tanks and transported to the aquarium almost 40 miles (64km) away in Baltimore. The rest have gone to a variety of other facilities in the US.
Jay Bradley, the curator who helped build many of the exhibits, showed the BBC how hard it can be to catch a fish in a tank - and what protection you need to handle an electric eel.
Produced by the BBC's Thomas Sparrow, Markus Zeffler and Bill McKenna
30 December 2013 Last updated at 01:01 GMT
Moving house is always an exhausting and stressful experience - but imagine if the property is an aquarium and 2,500 underwater creatures need to be packed up.
That was the task faced by staff at the National Aquarium in Washington DC when it closed to the public on 30 September after more than 80 years at the same site.
During the past three months 1,700 animals - from sharks and an octopus to turtles and alligator - have been removed from tanks and transported to the aquarium almost 40 miles (64km) away in Baltimore. The rest have gone to a variety of other facilities in the US.
Jay Bradley, the curator who helped build many of the exhibits, showed the BBC how hard it can be to catch a fish in a tank - and what protection you need to handle an electric eel.
Produced by the BBC's Thomas Sparrow, Markus Zeffler and Bill McKenna