A public aquarium ( pl. aquaria ) or public water zoo is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo , which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing. Most public aquariums feature tanks larger than those kept by home aquarists, as well as smaller tanks.
24-545: The Lakes Aquarium is an aquarium in the village of Lakeside on the southern shore of Windermere , Cumbria , England . It is one of the docking points of Windermere Lake Cruises and also at one end of the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway . It is the third most visited paying tourist attraction in Cumbria. It opened in 1997 as The Aquarium of the Lakes when the displays followed
48-558: A day, but gave greater emphasis to groundbreaking scientific research . The aquarium also captured other orcas, belugas , narwhals and dolphins . The Monterey Bay Aquarium was the first public aquarium to display a great white shark . Beginning in September 2004, the Outer Bay exhibit (now the Open Sea galleries) was the home to the first in a series of great white sharks. The shark was at
72-467: A huge aviary , with cages for mammals placed around it, was located on the second floor. The facility closed in 1910. The Artis aquarium at Amsterdam Zoo was constructed inside a Victorian building in 1882, and was renovated in 1997. At the end of the 19th century the Artis aquarium was considered state-of-the-art, as it was again at the end of the 20th century. Before its closing on 30 September 2013,
96-572: A multiple-story Atlantic Coral Reef. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a shallow tank filled with common types of rays which visitors are encouraged to touch. The South Carolina Aquarium lets visitors feed the rays in their Saltmarsh Aviary exhibit. The largest public aquarium is the Chimelong Ocean Kingdom theme park, opened in 2014 in Hengqin , Zhuhai , with a total of 48.75 million litres (12.87 million US gal) of water. The second largest
120-767: Is highly adapted to the intertidal zone as it can tolerate both high temperatures and desiccation. The anemone may also be found in regions of variable salinity such as estuaries . Beadlet anemones can live in solitary or in aggregations. Solitary beadlet anemones are found to be larger-sized than those that form clustered aggregation. Furthermore, larger sea anemones were found submerged in low tide, where they have greater access to food resources and are less subjected to harsh environmental exposures. The size of beadlet anemones may be connected to their physiological adaptation in regards to limited food resources and withstanding environmental conditions. Underwater, it displays up to 192 tentacles , arranged in six circles. Out of water,
144-491: Is the Marine Life Park in southern Singapore with a total of 45 million litres (12 million US gal) of water for more than 100,000 marine animals of over 800 species. Most public aquariums are located close to the ocean , for a steady supply of natural seawater. An inland pioneer was Chicago's Shedd Aquarium that received seawater shipped by rail in special tank cars. The early (1911) Philadelphia Aquarium , built in
168-599: The Florida Aquarium , have aquatic aviaries . Modern aquariums also include land animals and plants that spend time in or near the water. For marketing purposes, many aquariums promote special exhibits, in addition to their permanent collections. Some have aquatic versions of a petting zoo . The National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland houses several exhibits including the Upland Tropical Rain Forest and
192-633: The Vancouver Aquarium in Vancouver , British Columbia , is a centre for marine research, conservation, and marine animal rehabilitation, particularly for the ecosystem of the Pacific Northwest. In 1964, the Vancouver Aquarium became the second aquarium to capture an orca , Moby Doll . He survived in captivity for just under three months, and the aquarium put him on display to the public for
216-749: The Zoological Garden of Hamburg in Hamburg (1864), as well as aquariums in Berlin (1869) and Brighton (1872). The old Berlin Aquarium opened in 1869. The building site was to be Unter den Linden (along a major avenue), in the centre of town, not at the Berlin Zoo . The aquarium's first director, Alfred Brehm , former director of the Hamburg Zoo from 1863 to 1866, served until 1874. With its emphasis on education ,
240-628: The Charleston harbour. In January 1985, Kelly Tarlton began construction of the first aquarium to include a large transparent acrylic tunnel, Kelly Tarlton's Underwater World in Auckland , New Zealand. Construction took 10 months and cost NZ$ 3 million. The 110-metre (360 ft) tunnel was built from one- tonne (2,200-lb) slabs of German sheet plastic that were shaped locally in an oven. A moving walkway now transports visitors through, and groups of school children occasionally hold sleepovers there beneath
264-852: The Shedd Aquarium was the largest in the United States until the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta opened in 2005. Entertainment and aquatic circus exhibits were combined as themes in Philadelphia's Aquarama Aquarium Theater of the Sea (1962–1969) and Camden 's re-invented Adventure Aquarium 2005, formerly the New Jersey State Aquarium (1992). The first Japanese public aquarium, a small freshwater aquarium called " Uonozoki " (now Tokyo Sea Life Park),
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#1732844736278288-709: The aquarium for 198 days (the previous record was 16 days). The shark was released on 31 March 2005. The Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey has hippos . The Aquarium du Québec houses polar bears . Beadlet anemone The beadlet anemone ( Actinia equina ) is a common sea anemone found on rocky shores around all coasts of Western Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, and along the Atlantic coast of Africa as far south as South Africa and Australia. Actinia equina can be found both in exposed and sheltered situations. It
312-430: The city's disused water works , had to switch to treated city water when the nearby river became too contaminated. Similarly, the recently opened Georgia Aquarium filled its tanks with fresh water from the city water system and salinated its saltwater exhibits using the same commercial salt and mineral additives available to home aquarists. The South Carolina Aquarium pulls the salt water for their exhibits right out of
336-837: The first American aquarium as part of his established Barnum's American Museum , which was located on Broadway in New York City before it burned down. In 1859, the Aquarial Gardens were founded in Boston . A number of aquariums then opened in Europe, such as the Jardin d'Acclimatation in Paris and the Viennese Aquarium Salon (both founded 1860), the Marine Aquarium Temple as part of
360-557: The first public aquariums were built in the mid-19th century, they have become popular and their numbers have increased. Most modern accredited aquariums stress conservation issues and educating the public. The first public aquarium was opened in London Zoo in May 1853; the Fish House , as it came to be known, was constructed much like a greenhouse . P.T. Barnum quickly followed in 1856 with
384-486: The nematocysts. There is some evidence that the various colour forms may in fact be different species. Actinia equina is similar in form to the Waratah anemone ( Actinia tenebrosa ) of Australia and New Zealand. It is also similar in form to the strawberry anemone ( Actinia fragacea ) but is a uniform colour and is typically rather smaller. Actinia equina is viviparous , with up to one hundred embryos developing inside
408-696: The oldest American aquarium was the National Aquarium in Washington, D.C. , founded in 1873. This was followed by the opening of other public aquariums: San Francisco ( Woodward's Gardens , 1873–1890), Woods Hole ( Woods Hole Science Aquarium , 1885), New York City ( New York Aquarium , 1896–present), San Diego ( Scripps , 1903), Honolulu ( Waikiki Aquarium , 1904–present), Detroit ( Belle Isle Aquarium , 1904–2005, 2012–Present), Philadelphia ( Philadelphia Aquarium , 1911–1962), San Francisco ( Steinhart Aquarium , 1923), Chicago ( Shedd Aquarium , 1929). For many years,
432-422: The public aquarium was designed like a grotto, part of it made of natural rock. The Geologische Grotte depicted "the strata of the earth 's crust ". The grotto also featured birds and pools for seals . The Aquarium Unter den Linden was a three-story building. Machinery and water tanks were on the ground floor, and aquarium basins for the fish on the first floor. Because of Brehm's special interest in birds,
456-1680: The public. Bream , Perch , Golden orfe , Koi carp , Eurasian harvest mouse , Common toad , Red-eared terrapins . Oriental small-clawed otter Lake Malawi cichlids , bell hidgeback tortoise , elephantnose , upside-down catfish , convict cichlids . Angelfish , , blind cave fish , common plec , cory catfish , red-bellied piranha , rummy nosed tetra , lemon tetra , severum , axolotl . Arctic char , ballan wrasse , barbel , beadlet anemone , bib , Bloody Henry , bream tubercles , brill , brook trout , butterfish or gunnel , chub , cod , coley , common bream , common carp , common hermit crab , common pochard , common seahorse , common starfish , common sunstar , Connemara clingfish , crucian carp , cuckoo wrasse , dahlia anemone , diving ducks . edible crab , flatfish , flounder , European lobster , European sea sturgeon , European plaice , giant wels catfish , perch , roach , rudd , sea anemones , sea bream , seahorse , starfish , tench , tufted duck . chub , golden tench . beadlet anemone , butterfish , common hermit crab , common starfish , common sunstar , Connemara clingfish , goby , blenny , cushion starfish , cuckoo wrasse , dahlia anemone , snakelock anemone , peacock worms , lumpsuckers , spiny starfish European plaice , purple sunstar , big bellied seahorse Seabass , pollock , turbot , lesser spotted catashark , greater spotted cat shark , thornback ray , wrasse The Virtual Diving bell incorporates images of underwater scenes displayed on three two metre diameter semi-spherical CG graphics screens. Public aquarium Since
480-500: The story of the native and non native animals that can be found around the Lake District National Park. Captive breeding and research of the endangered White Clawed Crayfish constitute the conservation project for this area. It discusses the importance of not releasing animals from the pet trade, such as the terrapins, which can now be found surviving in the wild. All the terrapins in the aquarium were rehomed from members of
504-507: The swimming sharks and rays. According to Samantha Muka, creating new public aquariums is an expensive process, that can become so expensive as to render the project economically unsustainable, due to the logistical demands of creating environments in which aquatic animals can survive. Public aquariums are often affiliated with oceanographic research institutions or conduct their research programs, and sometimes specialise in species and ecosystems that can be found in local waters. For example,
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#1732844736278528-412: The tentacles retract and the anemone resembles a blob of red, brown, green or orange jelly, up to about 5 centimetres (2.0 in) across. It has bright blue beads (known as acrorhagi) located just beneath the tentacles, organised as an external ring containing stinging cells located at the top of the column that it uses to fight over territory. The acrorhagi contains the cnidocysts which themselves contain
552-470: The theme of a Lake District stream, flowing down into the lake and then on to Morecambe Bay . During 2008 it was re-branded as the Lakes Aquarium , with a theme of the lakes of the world. The attraction is now owned by Spanish leisure company Parques Reunidos , who own and operate 67 parks across the world. The Lakes Aquarium contains both freshwater and salt water aquatic animals. This area tells
576-519: Was opened at the Ueno Zoo in 1882. Modern aquarium tanks can hold millions of litres of water and can house large species, including dolphins , sharks or beluga whales . This is accomplished through thick, clear acrylic glass windows. Aquatic and semiaquatic mammals, including otters and seals are often cared for at aquariums. Some establishments, such as the Oregon Coast Aquarium or
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