Youtube- How The Georgia Aquarium Works

[papawoody]

awesome ! i been to atlanta so many times for work but never had time to go . next time i'll try for an extra day there , gotta be worth it .

 

[marauders30]

its pretty cool to see even big aquariums use the same exact concepts as our tanks at home. just way bigger ha

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

holy crap, that's awesome.

I NEED to go there next time we drive to florida

They don't have the whale sharks anymore, right?

i was there this summer and they had 3

 

[redtailshark1]

its great big aquariums use the same exact concepts as our tanks at home i agree its great.
imagine the wet dry or the diy overflow.

 

[CHOMPERS]

I'd imagine it was hard to feed considering they're filter feeders.

They eat krill, shrimp, and small fish. They are fed several times daily by hand out of a bucket from inflatable boats that are pulled back and forth across the tank.

Intersting... 10 millions gallons of water and the 18 pumps move 261,000 GPM means they only get 15.6 Million gallons of water per hour or 1.5x turnover on the volume.

I know what you are thinking. They aren't wrong, we are. They pay top dollar for good science and research. We are like the blind leading the blind. We have no clue, so we ask each other and repeat what everyone else had said. Some how that makes it right.

its pretty cool to see even big aquariums use the same exact concepts as our tanks at home. just way bigger ha

Ummm...actually it isn't anything like a freshwater tank. It is better compared to a hybrid of a commercial swimming pool with a saltwater tank. The sand filters are for mechanical filtration and the skimmers are large versions of those on reef/SW tanks. They use live rock and live sand for bio-filtration.

 

[benzjamin13]

Impressive

 

[arowfan]

I work for the martha stewart show, and we did a field piece on the georgia aquarium last year- check out the video:
(for those of you who don't want to watch martha, lol, the piece starts at 2:05)

http://www.marthastewart.com/show/the-martha-stewart-show/the-atlanta-show

and also, to the right, there is a thumbnail of the 2nd video clip

enjoy!

 

[kevincao]

I work for the martha stewart show, and we did a field piece on the georgia aquarium last year- check out the video:
(for those of you who don't want to watch martha, lol, the piece starts at 2:05)

http://www.marthastewart.com/show/the-martha-stewart-show/the-atlanta-show

and also, to the right, there is a thumbnail of the 2nd video clip

enjoy!

awesome! very educational so it turns out to be 8 million gallon, not 10 million :O

 

[Aridd]

those belugas are so awesome!

 

[arowfan]

thanks kevin...yeah, we make great tv I guess you can say! for those of you interested in the whale sharks-theres some info at the end of 2nd video clip...

ohhh yeah...we did a piece of atlantas I believe 2 years ago, gotta find where that is and make a new post perhaps...that was a great show as well-went in depth on their aquarium setup as well, it too was very impressive!