I always wondered why in aquariums the bigger fish aren't always constantly eating the smaller fish. After watching this the answer is obvious - the fish all well fed already, but sometimes one live fish does swallow another.
True. Over at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, all the fish, including the larger predators, are fed regularly. However, the small sardines in the tunnels do tend to slowly get picked off regardless.
I had snails eating the algea of my glass panels of my aquarium. I had a freshwater aquarium. Maybe there are simular salt water snails. Or they would get eaten by fish in this aquarium.
As long as the animals are happy and healthy, I have no problem with facilities like this. They are very well taken care of which make people happy to see them
I agree. I still don’t love the idea of keeping so many animals in such a small area (at least compared to their natural habitats), but like you said, they are very well taken care of.
Have been to quite a few aquariums in my lifetime and I have to say this is one of the best out there. If you are ever in Baltimore area definitely go visit.
I'm wondering the same as well. Not familiar with salt water aquariums, but I presume they will overload it with beneficial bacteria doses and throw in cheap fishes for cycling.
They can actually be cycled very fast. Like, cycles aren't what they're made to be. If you take a ton of media from other well established aquariums you can add fish instantly. If you're familiar with the show Tanked, that's how they added fish on delivery day.
@Michael Price it isn't about how fast you can cycle a tank. It's about how established the cycled tank is. A 2 month cycled tank is far different from a 2 year cycled tank in regards of beneficial bacteria colonies being established. Just curious with the size of the tank how long that period would actually take. Reproduction rate of nitrite and nitrates is about 36 hours for 1 single cell.
@@eegernades there was a CZcams that just did an interview of the main guy that owned the show and business. That's one of the things they talked about.
makes me appreciate how much operating costs the Georgia Aquarium has to run. Thank u Bernie Marcus for donating $250 million to allow the aquarium to be the largest in America.
Live corals need to deal with disease, bleaching, predation and can have algae grow on them. A lot of extra time and money would be needed to house corals in that big of an area.
The weirdest aquarium I have seen has to be the dry aquarium in Alexandria Egypt. I mean DRY!!! ALL the sea creatures are dry, stuffs, suspense inside the display which looks like an aquarium. Puffer fishes, lion 🐠🐟 etc. The tickets were cheap, by the harbor lighthouse. It was only after I left them I realized that the aquarium is dry!!!! I'll try to make a short video to share soon.😊
"Hi my name is Mummy of Ramses. Excuse the bandages. In this exhibit you have the deadly Stuffer Fish. The reef crabs below here are enjoying their filling meal of sawdust & desiccant. Wally the Walrus uses his glass eyes to scan the reef for the inevitable appearance of the Damien Hirst shark..."
It is a replicated coral reef system. So the coral are fake. They likely went this method as it is more work to raise and grow corals from frags. Or to source real corals from reefs all around the world.
@@pianobench6319 Exactly! Algae-eating invertebrates introduced to the tank would also likely be consumed by some of the larger carnivorous fish in the tank, like triggerfish, though I would assume the herbivorous fish, such as tangs would have some impact on the algal growth.
The Shedd Aquarium uses Instant Ocean, a similar synthetic seawater product to the one shown in the video. They do replace the water in their systems regularly. That said, they are a very water-conscious aquarium and I've heard they use a closed-loop saltwater system in the penguin enclosure!
Positive reinforcement followed by a clip of them bagging n wrapping the shark up because it panicked a little😂they held it down. Listen I’ve trained some puffer fish before, so I’m not a complete dum dum but I know restraint isn’t positive
They're probably trying to perform a checkup on the zebra shark. Positive reinforcement refers to using the stretcher as a location to feed the shark so that it does not solely associate it with checkups. Also, what puffer fish have you worked with?
I feel like if they stopped scrubbing the algae it wouldn’t grow as badly. The algae spores will just grow back after they settle and why don’t they add more algae eating things like urchins?
Because Duncan and his invertebrate-munching pals would love a taste of that uni. The ideal algae-eaters would be vertebraes like tangs and rabbitfish.
baffling to think that this budget could have also been spent on work concerning the rehabilitation of the environments that these fish would naturally just exist in and fight for policies against their destruction led by corporate giants…
"Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year." id say they're doing juuust fine
I'm surprised people are paying $50 to look at some fish, but with 1.3m visitors, they only need to make $35 per person to break even, so that's $15 per person profit, just from tickets. Presumably they sell food and merch too.
@@Niklez7 maybe they mean it in the sense that the aquarium provides business to other people and therefore supports their jobs. I’m sure a lot of their needs are very specific to the needs of an aquariums and even just to that aquarium, so there are very little vendors for these products and the national museum is their largest customer
Tell me more about this glutaraldehyde. I am a freshwater and saltwater aquarist and have never heard about this chemical (though as far as I am concerned, algaecides are generally frowned upon on both sides of the aquarium hobby).
Saying that cleaning is the first line of defense is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. Any aquarist knows that the most common algae is usually harmless aside from aesthetic purposes. Meanwhile, if those filtration systems give out all the living things risk an agonizing death if operations aren't immediately restored. Saying that is the "second defense" behind cleaning is a bit... lol
I feel like half the people in these comments didn’t watch the video lol ITS FAKE CORAL DUNKIN COULD DIE IF HE EATS IT Also real coral couldn’t be housed at this level it’d be insane maintence and they’d be stripping the ocean for it or waiting 20 plus years for growth this size
Interesting in many ways but so much work to maintain fake corals, it’s such a missed opportunity for live corals Also a lot of critters eat algae for you.
Exactly, like I understand live corals are not easy to maintain but I think it would be nice to see large tanks with actual corals, with suitable inverts (that play a role in clean up) and carefully curated fish stocks that wont eat one another as well as wont eat the inverts.
As beautiful as it sounds, for a tank this big it would be ripping thousands of coral out of their established reef or growing them for a year years waiting a decade for them to grow and take over. Definitely pricy and involved
The problem is that many of the eye-catching animals that appeal to visitors in "Blacktip Reef" are either too clumsy to avoid bumping into the coral, like the elasmobranchs, or would attempt to eat the coral and algae-eating invertebrates, like Duncan the pufferfish. Corals also require intensive lighting, various trace minerals, etc. which make them very time-consuming and expensive to care for, and yet they still grow rather slowly.
Real corals would require more care due to disease, bleaching and the same issues with encrusting algae, proper lighting for their internal algae as well as food for the coral, predation from the fish, and when they die you are left with a large white rock that needs to be removed.
Aquariums help to educate the public on the ocean and conservation. The National Aquarium, in particular, also leads conservation efforts and research.
So what if that $45mil went to ocean conservation where these animals actually belong?? Combine that across all aquariums. That’s a ally of money and much better for everyone in the long run. What’s the point of spending so much on an aquarium??
Aquariums both take care of their animals and do ocean conservation work. It’s not all or nothing. Besides, aquariums bring valuable education and awareness to the public. Without public support, ocean conservation efforts would be worse off.
@@lastmexicano Some, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) were born in captivity, but the vast majority of marine fish in public aquariums and the aquarium hobby are still caught from the wild.
They really tried to put a pufferfish in with fake coral 😂💀 that tells you everything you need to know about aquariums tbh. EVERYONE in the fish keeping community knows pufferfish eat coral. Anything with those type of teeth eats coral.. they dont know what theyre doing alot of the time honestly. Thats why these mf'ers gotta clean the tanks 3 TIMES PER WEEK?! So basically all that machinery in the back is all for show?!😂
Suction cups are the better solution here. They allow the divers more mobility to clean all the glass whereas a weight would just sink them and they’d have to drag it around.
@@dazedneptune You can inflate your diving jacket to the point that you basically neither sink due to weight, nor float. Then use the suction cups to navigate. Their struggle is apparent in the video.
We return the fish to the sea and we put huge 8k UUHD screens with a nice 1 month movie of the aquarium..we save money, environment, energy and reduce animal stress.....well yes, many people will lose their jobs..sorry
a. The multiple exhibits that have existed in the space Blacktip Reef currently resides within have exposed it to pathogens from all around the world. Returning its current inhabitants to the ocean would spread native and, more importantly, nonnative pathogens in the wild. b. People are primarily driven to visit aquariums to see live animals, not screens. c. Animal stress would be reduced in captivity due to a general lack of predators, need to find food, animal specialist care, etc.
Why? In captivity, fish do not need to worry about finding food, evading predators, etc. Captivity can be used to breed threatened species, rehabilitate injured organisms, etc.
Its a shame this will be useless once Florida bans Aquarium fish. New FWC proposals may restrict the total amount of species across all subsets of the pet hobby to as few as perhaps only 200 total species across the entirety of the pet trade.
These fish are under expert care, do not have to fight for food and other resources, and have little to no risk of predation (assuming everyone in the tank is fed properly). While adapting to captive life may take some difficulty, as mentioned in the video, overall, I would say that these animals are doing well in captivity or even better than their wild counterparts. Besides, aquariums bring knowledge of the ocean to the public and can serve as sanctuaries/breeding facilities for vulnerable species, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) seen in the video.
'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.' seems ok to me
Please tell me that this is a private aquarium that pays for itself. If it's running on public money, shut it down. Americans are becoming homeless, kids are skipping meals. It's insane to use tax money to keep a big fish bowl.
'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.'
The US government as a whole costs more money in one day then it costs to operate the aquarium for one year. Any money saved by not spending it on the aquarium is going to the military long before it goes to helping the needy.
Not unless you rent a boat half way across the world to Australia. And taxes should pay for such facilities like aquariums, zoos, national parks and so on. They are educational, inspirational, and they keep us in touch with nature. There is more to lie and being human then the pure manufactured rigid environments we confined ourselves to. After all, no one lives around such diversity of nature and wildlife from all over the world.
Free my man Duncan he ain’t done nothing wrong
for real, they had to put the guy in a all white room with a small tiny window??
Fr they should’ve known puffers are never truly well fed and will eat corals 😭
@@russthebuss5 bro got sent to the psych ward
I always wondered why in aquariums the bigger fish aren't always constantly eating the smaller fish. After watching this the answer is obvious - the fish all well fed already, but sometimes one live fish does swallow another.
you.... you needed this to know that???? do you have a drivers license? rights? they should be evoked
True. Over at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, all the fish, including the larger predators, are fed regularly. However, the small sardines in the tunnels do tend to slowly get picked off regardless.
I've been here and it's truly an amazing aquarium. Great to see how much work goes into maintaining this place
I had snails eating the algea of my glass panels of my aquarium.
I had a freshwater aquarium. Maybe there are simular salt water snails. Or they would get eaten by fish in this aquarium.
As long as the animals are happy and healthy, I have no problem with facilities like this. They are very well taken care of which make people happy to see them
thank GOD you approve
@@chasecharron4546 you’re welcome
you are nearly not as important as you think
the point was to make people happy to see them…
I agree. I still don’t love the idea of keeping so many animals in such a small area (at least compared to their natural habitats), but like you said, they are very well taken care of.
Have been to quite a few aquariums in my lifetime and I have to say this is one of the best out there. If you are ever in Baltimore area definitely go visit.
Duncan the pufferfish is that rebel that chews on a class set pencil that got sent to the corner because of misbehavior
I can only imagine how long it took to cycle this tank 😅
I'm wondering the same as well. Not familiar with salt water aquariums, but I presume they will overload it with beneficial bacteria doses and throw in cheap fishes for cycling.
They can actually be cycled very fast. Like, cycles aren't what they're made to be. If you take a ton of media from other well established aquariums you can add fish instantly. If you're familiar with the show Tanked, that's how they added fish on delivery day.
@Michael Price it isn't about how fast you can cycle a tank. It's about how established the cycled tank is. A 2 month cycled tank is far different from a 2 year cycled tank in regards of beneficial bacteria colonies being established. Just curious with the size of the tank how long that period would actually take. Reproduction rate of nitrite and nitrates is about 36 hours for 1 single cell.
@@michaelprice777 if you watch behind the scenes of tanked, it's not done that way and tank has been cycled already.
@@eegernades there was a CZcams that just did an interview of the main guy that owned the show and business. That's one of the things they talked about.
going to the national aquarium is always a fun, educational experience
Duncan when he sees plastic tank decorations: 👁👄👁
free my boy Duncan he ain't do nothing
makes me appreciate how much operating costs the Georgia Aquarium has to run. Thank u Bernie Marcus for donating $250 million to allow the aquarium to be the largest in America.
Great to see The American Political figure Bernie Sanders looking after the Caucasus
@@TheFalseShepphard wrong Bernie lol. I realize I forgot to put his last name Marcus
I wonder why they don’t add algae eating species in the reef to make their work load of cleaning the algae ridden tanks often
there are some, just not enough to keep up
I’ll adopt Duncan 😢 poor lil guy
Anyone ever visiting Baltimore has to visit this place. It's absolutely amazing.
I would def go here if I ever visit Baltimore
Duncan the puffer fish has limited days left. Sorry buddy, don't eat the $800,000 replicated coral!
FREE DUNCAN ✊ he has rights and needs representation.
i literally love zuri
Wait! The puffer was eating the coral!!? Like it would in its nature habitat?😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Wow! That’s shocking! 🙄
It was fake coral
Happy to be an ambassador here. Worth every penny.
That’s a large budget and good to see how the operating cost.
I can barely keep my Ember Tetras alive and these people are keeping 100's of different species alive!
ahhh man my boi duncan.
Please do a service to the coral reefs by changing the video graphic titles to "ARTIFICIAL aquarium coral." The reasons should be obvious.
Duncan the pufferfish didn’t seem to mind.
@@hypanusamericanus9058 lol
you... might be the most useless person here
anyone with 1/10th of a brain can see the difference
Love aquariums, everytime we travel my wife has to watch out in case there's an aquarium in the city and I insist on going.
And that is why you use real plants/coral vs fake stuff, much easier to maintain.
It's probably more difficult on a short timescale, where habitats are needed for fish in the exhibit as soon it opens.
Live corals need to deal with disease, bleaching, predation and can have algae grow on them. A lot of extra time and money would be needed to house corals in that big of an area.
in an exhibit this big you'd need to either take literal tons of coral out of the ocean, or wait a few decades for it to grow in
obviously never maintained either
Have you ever tried to maintain a reef aquarium?
The weirdest aquarium I have seen has to be the dry aquarium in Alexandria Egypt. I mean DRY!!! ALL the sea creatures are dry, stuffs, suspense inside the display which looks like an aquarium. Puffer fishes, lion 🐠🐟 etc. The tickets were cheap, by the harbor lighthouse. It was only after I left them I realized that the aquarium is dry!!!!
I'll try to make a short video to share soon.😊
yesss please make the video
If only Egypt wasn’t so harsh on tourists
"Hi my name is Mummy of Ramses. Excuse the bandages. In this exhibit you have the deadly Stuffer Fish. The reef crabs below here are enjoying their filling meal of sawdust & desiccant. Wally the Walrus uses his glass eyes to scan the reef for the inevitable appearance of the Damien Hirst shark..."
id hope its cheap with no overhead costs but lighting
Not to be rude, but why are they cleaning the coral? Coral doesn’t get cleaned like that in nature.
It is a replicated coral reef system. So the coral are fake. They likely went this method as it is more work to raise and grow corals from frags. Or to source real corals from reefs all around the world.
@@pianobench6319 Exactly! Algae-eating invertebrates introduced to the tank would also likely be consumed by some of the larger carnivorous fish in the tank, like triggerfish, though I would assume the herbivorous fish, such as tangs would have some impact on the algal growth.
It looks fantastic
Free Duncan till it’s backwards
They don't talk about all the volunteers who work for free. All those people feeding and cleaning work for free.
It’s BY FAR the best part of Baltimore 😂
The shed aquarium in Chicago shipped in sea water and never replaced I wonder how they did that and they have to replace theirs
The Shedd Aquarium uses Instant Ocean, a similar synthetic seawater product to the one shown in the video. They do replace the water in their systems regularly. That said, they are a very water-conscious aquarium and I've heard they use a closed-loop saltwater system in the penguin enclosure!
words are hard... try again?
"Ugh, oh, Pepe." 😆
Positive reinforcement followed by a clip of them bagging n wrapping the shark up because it panicked a little😂they held it down. Listen I’ve trained some puffer fish before, so I’m not a complete dum dum but I know restraint isn’t positive
They're probably trying to perform a checkup on the zebra shark. Positive reinforcement refers to using the stretcher as a location to feed the shark so that it does not solely associate it with checkups.
Also, what puffer fish have you worked with?
Tbh they probably live better in this aquarium than the ocean
Wait, where will Duncan go?
Thats why i only own freshwater aquariums lol
#Drones Seems like the perfect place for a underwater drone. Not trying to put divers out of work, but, I'm sure a helping hand could pay dividends..
They literally did the most, making HR, but for the fish 😂
David Attenborough isn’t impressed 🥵🥵
Poor Duncan 🥲😢
Can I put one of these in my $3500 motor home?
FREE MY BOY DUNCAN
Free Duncan!
FREE DUNCAN!
Also, what’s up with that redhead?
I feel like if they stopped scrubbing the algae it wouldn’t grow as badly. The algae spores will just grow back after they settle and why don’t they add more algae eating things like urchins?
Because Duncan and his invertebrate-munching pals would love a taste of that uni. The ideal algae-eaters would be vertebraes like tangs and rabbitfish.
#FreeDuncan
baffling to think that this budget could have also been spent on work concerning the rehabilitation of the environments that these fish would naturally just exist in and fight for policies against their destruction led by corporate giants…
That (conservation efforts and research) is exactly what the National Aquarium does with the money it earns.
the price for maintenance is unsustainable. aquarium tickets are $50!
"Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year."
id say they're doing juuust fine
I'm surprised people are paying $50 to look at some fish, but with 1.3m visitors, they only need to make $35 per person to break even, so that's $15 per person profit, just from tickets. Presumably they sell food and merch too.
@@pasta-and-heroin HOW can have 2.600 jobs per for just aquarium? im just so confused
@@Niklez7 maybe they mean it in the sense that the aquarium provides business to other people and therefore supports their jobs. I’m sure a lot of their needs are very specific to the needs of an aquariums and even just to that aquarium, so there are very little vendors for these products and the national museum is their largest customer
cant do math eh? grants and taxes dont help at alllllll either eh?
18lbs a day of food for 630 animals ? Doesnt seem right
Fish really don't eat that much
Within 12 days!
My aquarium! Its only 15 min from me my son loves it
In fresh water we put glutaraldehyde to kill algae, but idk if that s safe for marine aquarium.
Tell me more about this glutaraldehyde. I am a freshwater and saltwater aquarist and have never heard about this chemical (though as far as I am concerned, algaecides are generally frowned upon on both sides of the aquarium hobby).
@@hypanusamericanus9058 i actualy dont know alot abt it
$16 for a brush??? have they heard of Ali baba or Amazon?
exactly
Saying that cleaning is the first line of defense is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. Any aquarist knows that the most common algae is usually harmless aside from aesthetic purposes. Meanwhile, if those filtration systems give out all the living things risk an agonizing death if operations aren't immediately restored. Saying that is the "second defense" behind cleaning is a bit... lol
Dunkin just tryna do his own thing😢
DUNCAN!
FREE DUNCAN!!
Gahd dammit Duncan
3:59 "Oh Pepe" had me crack up a bit, sounded somewhat erotic.
its queensLAND not queensln
I feel like half the people in these comments didn’t watch the video lol ITS FAKE CORAL DUNKIN COULD DIE IF HE EATS IT
Also real coral couldn’t be housed at this level it’d be insane maintence and they’d be stripping the ocean for it or waiting 20 plus years for growth this size
Interesting in many ways but so much work to maintain fake corals, it’s such a missed opportunity for live corals
Also a lot of critters eat algae for you.
Exactly, like I understand live corals are not easy to maintain but I think it would be nice to see large tanks with actual corals, with suitable inverts (that play a role in clean up) and carefully curated fish stocks that wont eat one another as well as wont eat the inverts.
I would like to see them do real coral, but tbh, a lot of those fish in that tank will nip at or eat coral :/
As beautiful as it sounds, for a tank this big it would be ripping thousands of coral out of their established reef or growing them for a year years waiting a decade for them to grow and take over. Definitely pricy and involved
yes live corals require no work at all opposed to something that cannot change
The problem is that many of the eye-catching animals that appeal to visitors in "Blacktip Reef" are either too clumsy to avoid bumping into the coral, like the elasmobranchs, or would attempt to eat the coral and algae-eating invertebrates, like Duncan the pufferfish. Corals also require intensive lighting, various trace minerals, etc. which make them very time-consuming and expensive to care for, and yet they still grow rather slowly.
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Acrylic hand pads lol
But why not use real coral?
Real corals would require more care due to disease, bleaching and the same issues with encrusting algae, proper lighting for their internal algae as well as food for the coral, predation from the fish, and when they die you are left with a large white rock that needs to be removed.
Are such places really needed? Just to satiate want of human novelty and adventure?
Aquariums help to educate the public on the ocean and conservation. The National Aquarium, in particular, also leads conservation efforts and research.
Algae growth? To many nutrients... Reduce fish, put more macro algae and add stuff that eats the algae.
What did someone who knew nothing about basic reef keeping make this you don’t put triggers and puffers in a reef tank
So what if that $45mil went to ocean conservation where these animals actually belong?? Combine that across all aquariums. That’s a ally of money and much better for everyone in the long run. What’s the point of spending so much on an aquarium??
As a matter of fact, they do.
Aquariums both take care of their animals and do ocean conservation work. It’s not all or nothing. Besides, aquariums bring valuable education and awareness to the public. Without public support, ocean conservation efforts would be worse off.
16$ for a car pad 😂😂😂😂😂
how? they catch them from sea and put them in these aquarium
Probably bred
@@lastmexicano Some, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) were born in captivity, but the vast majority of marine fish in public aquariums and the aquarium hobby are still caught from the wild.
#FreeMyBoiDuncan
They really tried to put a pufferfish in with fake coral 😂💀 that tells you everything you need to know about aquariums tbh. EVERYONE in the fish keeping community knows pufferfish eat coral. Anything with those type of teeth eats coral.. they dont know what theyre doing alot of the time honestly. Thats why these mf'ers gotta clean the tanks 3 TIMES PER WEEK?! So basically all that machinery in the back is all for show?!😂
Poor Duncan all he did was eat and now he's in fishy jail
why dont they use weights when scuba diving instead of sunction cups? Are they serious?
Suction cups are the better solution here. They allow the divers more mobility to clean all the glass whereas a weight would just sink them and they’d have to drag it around.
@@dazedneptune You can inflate your diving jacket to the point that you basically neither sink due to weight, nor float. Then use the suction cups to navigate. Their struggle is apparent in the video.
i would rather spend the money on the real sea itself
It almost seems easier just to leave the fish in the ocean no?
What an insane waste of money. You would think Baltimore would have bigger fish to fry
They killed the sea turtle
Wow half of the world's population is starving...
Please don’t add the sea turtle 😢
Poor fish, and then they of course claim to be doing it for conservation like all the others do
We return the fish to the sea and we put huge 8k UUHD screens with a nice 1 month movie of the aquarium..we save money, environment, energy and reduce animal stress.....well yes, many people will lose their jobs..sorry
a. The multiple exhibits that have existed in the space Blacktip Reef currently resides within have exposed it to pathogens from all around the world. Returning its current inhabitants to the ocean would spread native and, more importantly, nonnative pathogens in the wild.
b. People are primarily driven to visit aquariums to see live animals, not screens.
c. Animal stress would be reduced in captivity due to a general lack of predators, need to find food, animal specialist care, etc.
12 million and the ocean does it all for free
Why not just grow real coral?
Humans have no right to abduct fish for this display. How ridiculous this is.
I'm an antiquarian i don't believe its morally right to keep fish in tanks. lol
Why? In captivity, fish do not need to worry about finding food, evading predators, etc. Captivity can be used to breed threatened species, rehabilitate injured organisms, etc.
water prison.
Little stress from predators, the need to find food, etc. I would not consider this a prison.
@@hypanusamericanus9058 you’re not a fish.
WASTE OF MONEY... are they bragging?
Its a shame this will be useless once Florida bans Aquarium fish. New FWC proposals may restrict the total amount of species across all subsets of the pet hobby to as few as perhaps only 200 total species across the entirety of the pet trade.
Sad they should all be in the ocean 😢it's so cruel
These fish are under expert care, do not have to fight for food and other resources, and have little to no risk of predation (assuming everyone in the tank is fed properly). While adapting to captive life may take some difficulty, as mentioned in the video, overall, I would say that these animals are doing well in captivity or even better than their wild counterparts. Besides, aquariums bring knowledge of the ocean to the public and can serve as sanctuaries/breeding facilities for vulnerable species, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) seen in the video.
@ANonYmLulz … What?
There's nothing cruel about it. Aquariums play a vital role in animal conservation. Without aquariums, a lot of these animals would go extinct.
poor things could have left all this in the wild but had to waste money and destroy a ecosystem to get it. what humans wont do for profit
not using real corals is a huge money saver.
WASTE of money
I don't think this is a good business model
agree fully
It isn't a business, it is a non-profit for educational purposes.
'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.' seems ok to me
Please tell me that this is a private aquarium that pays for itself.
If it's running on public money, shut it down. Americans are becoming homeless, kids are skipping meals.
It's insane to use tax money to keep a big fish bowl.
'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.'
The US government as a whole costs more money in one day then it costs to operate the aquarium for one year. Any money saved by not spending it on the aquarium is going to the military long before it goes to helping the needy.
As red knight alluded to I'd much rather spend money on an Aquarium than our corrupt military.
So sad to see all these animals taken from the wild for our amusement and profit…
I hope tax dollers dont go here. people can just rent a boat and see life
Not unless you rent a boat half way across the world to Australia.
And taxes should pay for such facilities like aquariums, zoos, national parks and so on. They are educational, inspirational, and they keep us in touch with nature.
There is more to lie and being human then the pure manufactured rigid environments we confined ourselves to. After all, no one lives around such diversity of nature and wildlife from all over the world.
rent a boat, and the time to search and see for each fish? and the scuba diving fees?, i think it'll be like 1k or so in expenses
Dumb take