Loading ...Ripley’s has announced plans for an aquairum at the base of the CN tower in Toronto. Hopefully it fares better than recent attempts at public aquariums in the big smoke.
Hopefully the aquarium is stocked with healthy, um, fish.
From the article:
The shark tunnel, the top-drawing exhibit at Ripley’s aquariums in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and Gatlinburg, Tenn., will probably be a major part of the proposed aquarium at the base of the CN Tower, Ripley employees say.
“I guarantee it will have a shark tunnel. And I guarantee it will be bigger than ours,” said Karl Thomas, director of marketing at Gatlinburg’s Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies. The Shark Lagoon there consists of a 100-metre moving sidewalk – almost the length of a Canadian football field – surrounded by the glass of a 2.6-million-litre tank.
The tank itself is a diverse borough of marine life, with everything from grunts and sawfish to stingrays and sharks. Big sharks.
And the money quote:
“The fact that the largest city in Canada doesn’t have an aquarium yet is just bizarre.”
In the hobby since 2001, and has seen all kinds of fads come and go. As he gets older, Jeff is developing more and more of a conscience towards environmental concerns, especially towards reefs. Currently, he writes from Ontario, Canada, but would rather be snorkeling on a reef.
Oh yeah ~~ I love Mermaids, the more the better