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Aquarist Forums => Freshwater General Discussions => Plants => Topic started by: charlie on March 18, 2015, 12:20:18 PM

Title: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: charlie on March 18, 2015, 12:20:18 PM
Greg , these guy`s have one over you  ;), come on don`t fail us  ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmQ3hTKajOA
Enjoy
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: zolta on March 18, 2015, 12:59:50 PM
Greg's is nicer!
Title: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: mm on March 18, 2015, 05:31:25 PM
It is 40 meters (160 000 liters) not 14! :)
The temporary exhibit opens April 22. I hope it is still on when i visit Portugal later this summer. If so, i will take some pics and share.

http://www.oceanario.pt/cms/1397/?news=1789
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: charlie on March 18, 2015, 06:44:47 PM
Quote from: mm on March 18, 2015, 05:31:25 PM
It is 40 meters (160 000 liters) not 14! :)
The temporary exhibit opens April 22. I hope it is still on when i visit Portugal later this summer. If so, i will take some pics and share.

http://www.oceanario.pt/cms/1397/?news=1789

Wow, definitely on my dream bucket list ;)
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: wolfiewill on March 18, 2015, 06:56:35 PM
Ok. I think I've been out done. That's a dream for some, a pipe dream for the rest of us. WOW. I'm going to Europe (hopefully) in 2016, so now how do I get Lisbon into the itinerary. I bet they have scuba divers to do their maintenance. I was in the Atlanta aquarium last week and saw them doing their weekly maintenance - scuba divers as you would expect but they use small sponges to clean the glass, just as we do, who knew! And the Ripley's in Toronto is just as good, by the way, except for the porpoise show.
Title: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: mm on March 18, 2015, 07:35:41 PM
Here is a photo of Lisbon oceanarium's global ocean tank that I took a couple of years ago. Compared to it Toronto's Ripley aquarium looks like an over priced fish bowl :).
(https://www.ovas.ca/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ftapatalk.imageshack.com%2Fv2%2F15%2F03%2F18%2F9c78640da19429c575b3ad19d3c087ec.jpg&hash=f65fcd550c1e5c0cbf569013eb558150bd259b98)
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: exv152 on March 18, 2015, 08:19:56 PM
That's a crazy tank, I don't envy those how have to do maintenance on it though, like trimming, glass cleaning etc. Here is a brand new video (as of 4 hrs ago) of that tank...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KgdIuWc6M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KgdIuWc6M)
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: wolfiewill on March 19, 2015, 06:56:49 PM
Quote from: zolta on March 18, 2015, 12:59:50 PM
Greg's is nicer!

Yah baby! Don't you know it's true.
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: bettabreeder on March 19, 2015, 08:14:45 PM
A couple Eheims on that bad boy eh?
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: daworldisblack on March 21, 2015, 12:51:33 AM
Man.. could get lost in that! Amazing! Maintenance is def a full time job!
Title: Re: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: neon1423 on May 01, 2015, 07:42:39 PM
Part 3 of the videos is up now. Other then a brief shot during the video, does anyone have a list of what plants and fish went into the tank? The videos are very good about the build but very vague on what went in I found.
Title: Worlds largest 14M nature aquarium
Post by: mm on May 01, 2015, 08:27:37 PM
https://youtu.be/SDxOqUZay9o
Opening day
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