world's second largest aquarium

[justinl]

Originally Posted by StirCrazy

I think rock and sand would be totaly unnatural.. by the look of the fish that were in there they are all open water types.. so a good chance they have never seen the bottom of the ocean. we always try to put our view of how the tank should look and forget about the inportant thing, trying to make it look as natural as we can for the inhabatants.

Steve

there's a mix in there. As well as some that venture into shallow seas and out again.

[Veng68]

I would hate to be the guy who had to clean the sand in that tanks.......... must be a couple million gallons.

[Snaz]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

Too bad their whale sharks keep dying.

I agree whale sharks have no place in an aquarium. But I thought this was the one aquarium that has successfully kept these fish and no one knows why these large fish have lived so long in this aquarium where other tanks the whale sharks perish within 10 months?

[justinl]

snaz, I believe you are thinking of the Georgia aquarium. Georgia has had had three die on them I believe, but if I recall correctly, they have a better track record than okinawa. At the very least it's a bigger and prettier display. their whale sharks are also fishery bycatch, not targeted for collection; I do not know if okinawa followed the same protocol.

[Snappy]

You can get a good scale of the tank by the two scuba divers inside doing maintanence, it's massive. I like the whale sharks not to mention Manta rays, they are awesome. There is certainly a big wow factor for me. Thanks for sharing.

[danny zubot]

It's definately spectacular to see all of those different types of fish in one small tank. I wonder what feeding time looks like in there?