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Post by signde on Sept 21, 2011 16:47:31 GMT -6
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Post by glenoweth on Sept 21, 2011 17:20:13 GMT -6
wow never heard of this place I need to go check it out.
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Post by oneyoda on Sept 21, 2011 18:21:45 GMT -6
Awesome Place!! Loved it growing up. Want to take kids there next time up. Brookfield Zoo also has a nice display. Did you try and meet-up with any GCCA members? I meet up with a couple last time we went. Fun!!
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Post by davidtcb1 on Sept 21, 2011 19:18:33 GMT -6
Have always wanted to go, but haven't gotten there yet. Shoot, haven't gotten to Atlanta yet lol...
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Post by signde on Sept 21, 2011 19:44:06 GMT -6
I've been to Ripley's Believe it or not in Gatlinburg, Tennessee Aquarium, Atlanta Aquarium, New Orleans, Florida, San Francisco, and now Chicago. The Atlanta aquarium is far and away the best of all those.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Sept 21, 2011 19:57:22 GMT -6
Wow, good list! I've been to Gatlinburg/Ripley's, Tennessee Aquarium, Monterey Bay (Florida) and Sea World a couple times, oh and Marineland in Florida. If you ever get a chance to go to the City Museum/World Aquarium in St. Louis, it's a great time. It's not just an aquarium, but an entire floor is aquariums, etc. Very interesting place in many many ways... www.worldaquarium.net/citymuseum.org/site/ |
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Post by jon carman on Sept 21, 2011 20:00:27 GMT -6
That looks like my type of place
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Post by davidtcb1 on Sept 21, 2011 20:04:45 GMT -6
Jon, the city museum you mean? It's basically just an old factory that this gazillionaire bought and turned it into his fun house. He goes out and just gets old scrap parts and pieces and starts welding and creating. The fish was just another interest I guess. There's not another place like it, I can promise you.
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Post by jon carman on Sept 21, 2011 20:11:39 GMT -6
the museum looks like a cool place. I like the place ryan went in chicago too. I can't hardly find an african display worth a crap anywhere. I went to atlanta a while back, and while I thought it was awesome, I just imagined what I could do with that african tank to make it 1000 times better. I would do an all male tank, one of everything in the hobby.
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Post by davidtcb1 on Sept 21, 2011 22:01:03 GMT -6
The Mbuna tank in Gatlinburg is pretty cool, but I think that's the only Africans they had in the whole place. I'm hoping to get to Atlanta soon.
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Post by signde on Sept 22, 2011 15:54:24 GMT -6
one thing that bothered me about the chicago african collection. they had a tang tank, a tropheus tank, a malawi hap tank, and a mbuna tank. all were segregated nicely with one exception - they had a male german red peacock in the mbuna tank. 1) its not even a pure species 2) it should have been in with the haps and not the mbuna.
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Post by ree123 on Sept 22, 2011 17:20:46 GMT -6
Ryan. Did you tell them about it ?
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Post by ree123 on Sept 22, 2011 17:25:55 GMT -6
What size is this big tank in Chicago ?
I have visited the Tennessee Aq. in Chatta.,the Ripley Aq. in Gatlinburg, the GA. Aq. In Atlanta, Seaworld in Orlando, and Disney"s Animal Kingdom in Orlando. They have all got really awesome African tank displays.
Never been to Shedd Aq. inChicago, but want to go. It is the oldest one in the U.S..
Has anybody been the one in Texas ( I think in Texas) that has a tunnel that juts out into the bay and one walks down the tunnel looking underwater into the actual Ocean ?
It has been written about in some of my monthly fish magazines and is said to be awesome as well.
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Post by ree123 on Sept 22, 2011 17:28:00 GMT -6
Speaking of the Shedd Aq., I am friends with the President of the Greater Chicago Cichlid Association, and I am hoping he will visit and be one of our key note speakers @ a future swap/meet. I will keep all posted if that ever materilizes.
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Post by signde on Sept 22, 2011 18:43:46 GMT -6
they didn't have any giant tanks in the shedd like they do in the atlanta aquarium from what i recall.
they had some giant oscars. biggest oscars i've ever seen. they kept them in with the red bellies, which was cool.
i didn't tell them about the german red in with the mbuna. i figured it would have got the typically petsmart response of someone saying something like "no my manager knows what he is talking about."
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