Waikiki Aquarium

LostMind · #1 01-09-2006, 05:52 AM

I was just there in november and I was a little dissappointed with the aquarium. A TON of nuisance algaes and a bunch of the tanks looked poorly maintained.

I didn't take any pics, forgot my camera for the whole trip

Ruth · #2 01-09-2006, 11:15 AM

Awesome pictures Sam - thanks for letting the rest of us enjoy them.

StirCrazy · #3 01-09-2006, 07:33 PM

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Originally Posted by LostMind

I was just there in november and I was a little dissappointed with the aquarium. A TON of nuisance algaes and a bunch of the tanks looked poorly maintained.

I didn't take any pics, forgot my camera for the whole trip

you had the same impression I had last summer when i was there. although it was impressive most of the displays were closed and it was a very small aquarium, took me an hour to see it all and I was moving slow. still for the 8 bucks it was cool to see as some of the stuff was amazing. I found there indor salt water tanks were way more colorfull then the out door ones also.

but all in all if you are there go see it but I would not say it is worth the airline ticket in anymeans to see it. there is a better place around the side of the island. can remember the name and it is pricy as it is a marine reaserch center and they do different kinds of tours. I would add that to my list of "to see" also.

Steve

Matt · #4 01-09-2006, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by StirCrazy

...took me an hour to see it all and I was moving slow. Steve

Wow... I can stare at my tiny reef for an hour and not get bored, and I see that every day!

Matthew

StirCrazy · #5 01-09-2006, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt

Wow... I can stare at my tiny reef for an hour and not get bored, and I see that every day!

Matthew

ya but the amount of people there makes it hard to just sit there and stare, but I will say I did spend about 1/2 my time in the ocean pond taking pics of the fish with my polerizing lenze.

Steve

Diana · #6 01-09-2006, 11:06 PM

I agree that the waikiki aquarium wasnt as great as I expected it to be, but nonetheless they had some neat stuff. I guess I'm just used to the Vancouver Aquarium which is pretty good. I loved that seahorse and thier cuttlefish were really neat too.

Nice pics tho... dont I wish I could have an outdoor reef tank like that!

-Diana

Funky_Fish14 · #7 01-10-2006, 02:39 AM

Thanks for posting the pics! Very nice!

That sea dragon is fairly impressive! (The sea dragon is the thing that looks like a seahorse with branches, lol) They also come with a fairly impressive price tag in the thousands(I've hears around 10 retail, might be lower from suppliers).

Chris