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Who here has been there and whats your fav part? I went last week and it was great. The south american setup they have is huge. Ive never seen a pacu or leporinus that big in my life not to mention alot of other fish i didnt even know got that big. The mesurements on this site for fish must be captive measurements cause some of the fish i saw were like twice the size of whats ive always read.

I've been once and would love to go again. The problem is that it's always so crowded.

Here's a link]http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/forums/Photo%20Booth/43131.html[/link] to some of the pictures I took. Did you happen to see the huge sailfin plec? There's a good pic of it [link=here.

Do you live in the area or were you just visiting?

Last edited by Theresa_M at 28-Apr-2005 08:51

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Awww I wish I'd know...then again last week I was dealing with class....

*must remember to renew my membership...it expires on saturday *

My fav ...it'd have to be the cichlid tank with all the fry although I could do without the kids screetching about the baby fish

This is my all time fav fish
he's not there anymore !

Wost part is the music going down thru the big SW tanks....sheesh even with headphones you cant block it out .

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Just visited the National Aquarium in the beginning of April. It was spectacular. Unforunately I went with family and I couldn't take as much time as I wanted to take at the exhibits.

A nic3e follow-up for me was seeing the fresh water aquarium maintained by the National Aquarium in the Barnes & Noble bookstore on the waterefront. Better Amazonia display of angelfish and discus than in the National Aquarium. I was particularly impressed that the discus were guarding eggs...

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Im from south jersey, so its about a 2 hour drive. I went with my family too so i didnt get much time to spend on each exhibit. And also i saw the aquarium in the barns and noble too Very nice, i want to put an in wall aquarium in my place when i buy a house, dont know what that would cost though

I'll bet that's a really cool place to visit. I haven't had the opportunity to visit any of the really large aquariums in the country, such as this and the Shedd Aquarium. However, if I ever retire, I plan on taking a 2 year RV trip around the country and one of my highlights is to visit as many large aquariums as possible - that will be great.

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how could I forget the B&N tank....not like I don't go there every weekend and find those squashy armchairs positioned stratigecally next to the photography section and with a semi acceptable view of the tank ....smell that coffee...ahhhh heaven ...now if only they'd kill the flouros.

Estimated measurements that we made when we went as a group were approx 15' long 5' high 5' deep

thats quite a few months old....they do change the stock a bit...noticed much larger schools of neons and rummies (doing nothing ) and fewer corys last time I was there.

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Baltimore is worth a vactaion, maybe like a 2-3 night stay, theres alot to do there beside the aquarium too. It has a small city feel that i like, im used to philly and nyc and they are way to populated and and you feel lost in them sometimes.

Plus we're the 4th most dangerous city in the nation, have a nice murder rate, and we're the city that reads!
Okay so I only work there...but yeah there's stuff to do in baltimore, specially if you've got younger members of the family along...
DC also has an aquarium ...supposedly ...I live closer to it but haven't gone yet ...it's supposed to be free too .

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Sounds pretty cool. I lived close to New Orleans, so i used to Aquarium of the Americas there. Was pretty darn nice.

I've been to a couple of aquariums (Baltimore, New England, Niagra, Ripley's, Sea World Orlando) and I can say that that out of all of them, the Baltimore definitely is definitely my favorite, or at least tied for first (although most of the others do have their own things that they have that give them their individualism and make them worthy of visiting). Of course, one reason is that it's much more extensive than most of the others in terms of fish... But I've been there so many times I could probably be a tour guide if I had any skill at public speaking. Really, a great aquarium. The Amazon set-up is quite amazing indeed; unfortunately, despite them being such a large aquarium, they didn't quite give themselves room to house an Arapaima...

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