Georgia Aquarium...Check It out!

[DjScibbity]

Check out this article all about the Georgia Aquarium. It is very interesting. Check out the Protein Skimmers...Insane!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/georgia-aquarium.htm

-JP

 

[clintrandall]

I was wondering who bought Fliger's old skimmer.

I wonder if everyone in Georgia got in on that group buy!

"Free shipping for orders over 1 beluga whale."

Clint

 

[CA]

We went there a couple months ago. Truly an amazing place. They did a great job on everything.

 

[dink43k]

I would love to go there sometime soon. It's interesting that they say the aquarium only uses about as much water per day as a supermarket. I think my main concern would be that it uses as much electricity per day as a small city

 

[CA]

The metal halide lighting units are...impressive.

 

[Frizz]

those are some nice photos. I am always fascinated by the jelly fish tanks. Does anyone here keep jellyfish or know anything about it? I wouldn't mind giving it a shot someday.
Frizz

 

[CA]

The jelly tanks were very cool. I could have done without the changing light colors, but it did illustrate just how transparent they are. There was a big crowd around them all the time.

 

[CA]

Hey, can anyone ID those little worm-like things in the first photo?

 

[jpslickorocks]

are they garden eels

 

[FishBait]

Yup

 

[CA]

Reef safe or safe with seahorses? Available in the trade? They're really cool.

 

[Luvabull]

We are going there in June. My brother lives in Atlanta and is getting married. We are also hitting 6 flags!! woo hooo!!!

 

[Luvabull]

Oh, and we're going to the Oregon Aquarium in a couple weeks. And Whale WATCHING!!!!! wooo hooooo!

 

[Avi]

CA...great photos...thanks for posting those.

 

[Stevens8978]

was that actually a whale shark?... holly freaking cow...

 

[CA]

Yes, they had a couple of of whale sharks, and I think five Belugas. The Belugas were particularly fascinating, as they had just learned a new game. One whale came up with it, and then taught two others. They'd pick up air from the surface and then blow a bubble ring downward into the water, and they'd follow it, nose at it, then finally burst it. Amazing. Here's a video, it was hard to capture anything good since it was very dark in their area.

It's 41MB, so dialup users beware.

http://www.cbr1100xx.org/temp/mar/beluga.mov