Bummer for the Georgia Aquarium

[fatrip]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070613/ap_on_re_us/whale_shark_dies

man i wish i coud have a 6 million gallon aquarium too...lol...i wonder how big there skimmers are......30 foot wide???lol

 

[zanclus]

IMO fish like the Whale shark belong in the ocean not an aquaroim. What a waste of life.....

 

[Dave VG]

Could not agree more zanclus

 

[drbronx]

Ditto that! Where do you bury a whale shark anyway? Or perform an autopsy for that matter. You'd have to climb inside it. I'd love to see one of those in the wilds one day. Every divers dream.

 

[flar92]

I cant believe that they even considered keeping them they feed on planktyon

 

[fatrip]

well they seemed to have trived for some years now, so they mush have some kind of way to produe mass amounts of planktyon and krill...

 

[fatrip]

i dont want to sture up trouble but they have a 40 foot fish in 6 million gallons of water and we have .8 foot fish in 200 gallons, it seems like they have us beat. i know they need space to roam and swimm, but so donw tangs and other roaming fish. sorry just had to put another perspective on it.