tigerlover
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This place is awesome, all of you guys should check it out. It's beautiful, educational, and large enough to house the animals in my opinion. they have something for everyone, pacu, piranna, peacock bass, cichlids, huge catfish, fw rays, dart frogs, four-eyed fish, mudskippers; a large tank(and yes, i do mean LARGE, surpassed only by the largest exhibits, sharks and rays) with tangs, angels, clowns, damsels, and more; Then there's the shark tunnel, with all kinds of fish and sharks(yes i know sharks are fish) :happyfish and then an educational center with many more exhibits and facts, including a place to pick up horseshoe crabs(it's so much more fun when you think about them being related to spiders and ticks for all you evolutionists out there) then there are open sea exhibits, a live coral exhibit, octopus, cuttlefish that won't stop changing color, a pirate exhibit, japanese spider crabs(5 ft. crab legs anyone? Me? No, I'm a veg.) :joy: lionfish, jellies, seahorses, and much more. The last exhibit is touch a ray bay, which is exactly what it sounds like, with added bonnetheads(lil' hammerheads) and leopard sharks, of course, you weren't supposed to touch them
The rays were actually really soft to me, even though they claim they felt like sandpaper, and I learned that fw rays can supposedly grow to 20ft(pretty big,esp. considering largest fw fish only grows to about 15ft. in most outstanding circumstances)
Anyways, this place is great. If aquarium standards of care were set by this place and not other aquariums and bare minimum tanks(not even the ocean, because it doesn't need the plumbing, and besides, for captive fish, the size is just a tad impractical, perhaps if we all lived on the seashore and let our fish frolic about the waves...) then I believe that people could see something in our fish that they rarely see in captive fish, something that, I believe, could be happiness; the animals seem so soulful in these surroundings, as if they understand that it could be worse, because the brightness in their eyes, that alone is worth the price of admission to see.
If you've been here or just have something to add (another aquarium, perhaps) please do.
Anyways, this place is great. If aquarium standards of care were set by this place and not other aquariums and bare minimum tanks(not even the ocean, because it doesn't need the plumbing, and besides, for captive fish, the size is just a tad impractical, perhaps if we all lived on the seashore and let our fish frolic about the waves...) then I believe that people could see something in our fish that they rarely see in captive fish, something that, I believe, could be happiness; the animals seem so soulful in these surroundings, as if they understand that it could be worse, because the brightness in their eyes, that alone is worth the price of admission to see.
If you've been here or just have something to add (another aquarium, perhaps) please do.
