So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

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So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Gerwin » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:44 am

I took lots of pics. wish I would have taken more.

I will post some up for sure,

Was it worth the time and money? cost 30.00 and yes, it takes about 2 hours to see everything and 6 hours to get there so UNLIKE US, I would not drive just to see it and come home! but time is not on my side so we made a fast trip. that being said I did pay the extra 50 dollars each to get the 1 hour tour behind the scenes, so that made 3 hours of attraction for my 12 hours of round trip driving...it was worth it on that fact alone!! but I was glad we did it, as hobbyists if you go, DO THE TOUR behind the scenes. Prepay online and save some money I think it was 67 per ticket for both.
High points was the largest tank in the world at 6million 3 hundred thousand gallons, it was packed with fish! including 4 FOUR Whale Sharks, Huge Manta Rays , Groupers and stuff you fisherman would love to see!
Also the Reef tank, I have been to 4 aquariums now and this is the largest by far, the display is bigger than the pet store and I mean the thing was packed with fish, the corals? meh they were there but the overall beauty, design and life of the fish (tangs, wrasses, butterflies, angels, balck tip SHARKS!) made it hard to look at the basic corals we all have in our tanks already. Does that make sense?
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to put things in perspective notice girl touching and tapping acrylic (rotten kid), kinda gives you a idea of the size of the tank......its a good thing Deb took that photo as apparently Roger and I were in such aw that we did not even take any pictures up close.... :lol: :lol: :lol: and :cry: , I guess we will have to go back next year.
that pretty much gives you a top to bottom idea, but the length...oh I'd say that about 1/2 the overall length of the tank or LESS. I got pics of the wave making device and will get some of those up to see, notice top of tank and water surge

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Doug » Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:24 am

I'm a charter member of The Aquarium of the Americas. I once went to Chicago to a pet industry trade show, and a bunch of us wanted to go to The Shedd. I went to the members desk and asked if they had any reciprocal discount agreements with other big aquariums. I showed them my charter member card, and they let us in for free-- all 10 of us.

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Sandy » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:59 pm

Very cool. Can't wait to see the pics.

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Gerwin » Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:23 pm



here is the Reef tank from above(160,000 gallons), I kinda pan'd around from the wave maker (dumped 6000 gallons every 30sec approx) to skimmer ( x 5) to skylights to halides (60,000 wts total)

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Gz28 » Fri Nov 13, 2009 6:26 pm

That is awesome!! not to mention the total expenses of the trip it is a tax write off since it is a business trip....hummm maybe around tax time you guys could take a few of your coolest, and most awesome customers with you ...nudge,nudge.poke,poke!!! :-) not only could you write that off too, but im sure that would inspire us to do more stuff to our tanks...;-) haha, glad you guys enjoyed it. ive been wanting to go scuba dive a natural reef take some pics and try to recreate one of the pics in my tank.

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Gerwin » Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:26 am

tax write off , hmmmmm. Wish I was smart enough to even think of that. Oh well...it was more a family get away. And they actually let you dive these things for extra money!

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Redfish » Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:43 am

Looks like you weren't the only one to take a road trip

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... ?t=1741434

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Re: So we took a road trip to the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta ..

Post by Gerwin » Wed Nov 18, 2009 7:00 am

that tank is way nicer in corals but is a midget in comparison to size and fish population. But it is beautiful for sure

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