This is a guest post by Nikki of Reef'd Up Aquatics. Gatlinburg, Tennessee in the U.S. offers a bit of something for everyone: hiking, live shows, and most importantly for an aquarist, visiting Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies. TripAdvisor.com recently rated it the #1 U.S. Aquarium through traveler popularity and editor reviews. A glide-path shark exhibit, … [Read more...] about Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies
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Takashi Amano At Work
Takashi Amano is famous for his aquascapes (see previous post: Takashi Amano - Photographer and eXtreme Aquarist). Here is a video of him in action so you can see how he creates these amazing works of art and aquatic life. … [Read more...] about Takashi Amano At Work
Waterslide Through a Shark Tank
The Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada is home to The Tank—a $30 million dollar complex with: a shark tank, a 3-story waterslide, and swimming pool. The last few feet of the water slide takes you right into and through the middle of a 200,000 gallon shark tank. … [Read more...] about Waterslide Through a Shark Tank
UK’s largest private aquarium
Jack Heathcote is an eXtreme Aquarist. He converted the basement of his home into an enormous 4,800 gallon freshwater aquarium. The Daily Mail interviewed Jack, here's a small excerpt from that article: It is so large - arguably the largest privately owned aquarium in Britain - that Jack has to dive in himself once a fortnight to clean it. And the salsa teacher has … [Read more...] about UK’s largest private aquarium
The 25 Most Extreme Aquariums in the World
The owner of List 25 is a good friend of mine and I volunteered to put together a list of the 25 most extreme aquariums that I could find. Here are five of my favorites from that list: #1 Takashi Amano, Aquascaping #2 Pieter van Suijlekom's Reef Aquarium #3 Zero Edge Aquarium #4 Jellyfish Aquarium #5 Hotel Atlantis in Dubai, United … [Read more...] about The 25 Most Extreme Aquariums in the World
