dissident
22nd Aug 2005, 06:06 AM
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago IL, USA
Opened in 1929, it is one of the oldest public aquariums in the world.
Some friends and myself took a trip down to this great aquarium. There is so much there it really needs 2 days if you really enjoy aquariums which i believe most of us do.
They have displays ranging from Caribbean coral reefs, Amazon, Pacific coasts, local biotopes, and a lot more.
Some of the exhibits were just to dark and hard to photograph all the movement, I really wanted to get some good photos of their 400,000gal shark exhibit. They have more than 20,000 aquatic animals including: fishes, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and invertebrates of approximately 1,500 different species are on display.
Hard to say how much they have there, but from what I was able to read the Ocenarium was ~3million gallons, reefs were 840,000gal, the shark exhibit was 400,000 gallons. They still have a porpoise display that has to be around 500,000gal and a dolphin room that has to be around 1million gallons where they do shows. I couldn’t find anywhere that listed the total volume of water they have there. I couldn’t guess on their freshwater volume, or on the numerous reef tanks, but some were upwards of 1000gallons. The building is around 422,000 square feet.
I know a lot of the members here are from all over the world and my never get to see it, so I want to share some of the unique displays.
Here are some images:
There are a few more in my user gallery.
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260049.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260055.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260072.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260041.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260043.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260024.jpg
Opened in 1929, it is one of the oldest public aquariums in the world.
Some friends and myself took a trip down to this great aquarium. There is so much there it really needs 2 days if you really enjoy aquariums which i believe most of us do.
They have displays ranging from Caribbean coral reefs, Amazon, Pacific coasts, local biotopes, and a lot more.
Some of the exhibits were just to dark and hard to photograph all the movement, I really wanted to get some good photos of their 400,000gal shark exhibit. They have more than 20,000 aquatic animals including: fishes, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and invertebrates of approximately 1,500 different species are on display.
Hard to say how much they have there, but from what I was able to read the Ocenarium was ~3million gallons, reefs were 840,000gal, the shark exhibit was 400,000 gallons. They still have a porpoise display that has to be around 500,000gal and a dolphin room that has to be around 1million gallons where they do shows. I couldn’t find anywhere that listed the total volume of water they have there. I couldn’t guess on their freshwater volume, or on the numerous reef tanks, but some were upwards of 1000gallons. The building is around 422,000 square feet.
I know a lot of the members here are from all over the world and my never get to see it, so I want to share some of the unique displays.
Here are some images:
There are a few more in my user gallery.
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260049.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260055.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260072.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260041.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260043.jpg
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/4/1/P1260024.jpg