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Why did they just embark on this project when Biota! is set to open in a couple of years? Surely they can't beat competition like that.
 
Will be intresting to see if they keep the Sand Tigers or just get rid of them saying that they should not be kept in captivity.
 
zoogiraffe said:
Will be intresting to see if they keep the Sand Tigers or just get rid of them saying that they should not be kept in captivity.
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yeah, they had a big campaign about keeping them. so im guessing they will leave.
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
yeah, they had a big campaign about keeping them. so im guessing they will leave.
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Sorry tigerlemurguy, i think this campaign will now disappear, the other sea life centres in the group have never had tanks big enough for big sharks, now they have and i think this campaign will just go away.
 
kiang said:
Sorry tigerlemurguy, i think this campaign will now disappear, the other sea life centres in the group have never had tanks big enough for big sharks, now they have and i think this campaign will just go away.
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Got to admit thats my gut feeling as well may be they will admit why they got rid of them from the other centres now!!!
 
fair enough, i have only been to one sealife centre and i must say i wasnt impressed

blue reef portsmouth has a shark tank the size off my bedroom which is pretty shaming
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
fair enough, i have only been to one sealife centre and i must say i wasnt impressed

blue reef portsmouth has a shark tank the size off my bedroom which is pretty shaming
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Bluereef used to be a sealife centre,the only Sealife Centre that has a tank any where big enough for the larger Shark species is Blackpool and even thats smaller than,The Deep,National Marine Aquarium or Deep Sea World.
 
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zoogiraffe said:
Bluereef used to be a sealife centre.
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yes i know that, to be honest blue reef is ALOT better now its under new ownership, recently they added reptile and amphibian tanks along with several breeding triumphs, i will be keeping my eyes on the aquarium
 
Tigerlemurguy said:
yes i know that, to be honest blue reef is ALOT better now its under new ownership, recently they added reptile and amphibian tanks along with several breeding triumphs, i will be keeping my eyes on the aquarium
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i recently hered that they were going to aquier turtle
 
Interesting that have kept the sand tiger sharks. Went to Brighton Sealife a few days ago. I noted they also had signage saying dolphin keeping in the UK had been ban - which is not correct but I suspect that suits their current agenda. I also found their objectives of acquiring life stock through captive breeding amusing when I suspect at least 90% of the animals on display are wild caught. They really are the MacDonald's of the aquarium industry, I half expected to see Ronald McDonald in a wet suit.
 
Summer last year I've visited the Sealife Berlin with the enourmous coral reef tank with hundreds of coral fishe sin it, mostly species, whcih never have been bred in any aquarium of the world, you know, just a few speices of coral fishes can be bred in captivity. So I was curious, why Sealife is now keeping wild caught aimals and I wasa skinga Sealife female Employee, but she said"All the fishes in the big coral reef Tank ( that one with the elevator in it ) are born heer at the Sealife Berlin, all of them are born in the tank ...

Of course they are, ha,Ha,ha. The policy of Sealife is, to lie the visitors, thats the sad truth...Starnge, in the beginning of Sealife they ssiad not to keep coral fishes, becuase its impossible to breed them in captivity, but guess what happend after"Finding Nemo"....

All Sealifes are now keeping coral fishes, because all the other fishes are to boring to the visitors, and the only goal of Sealife is, to make money.

The big problem is, in germany we have just the Sealife Aquariums,( a few good zoo-Aquariums ) I've visted so many phantastic aquariums in the USA, so I could cry.....

I think, we will never get a Super-Aquarium in germany.
 
John Dineley said:
Interesting that have kept the sand tiger sharks. Went to Brighton Sealife a few days ago. I noted they also had signage saying dolphin keeping in the UK had been ban - which is not correct but I suspect that suits their current agenda.
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By chance I found this on an animal rights web site. It is a letter from Defra regrading the keeping of cetaceans in the UK:



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"Thank you for your letter of 20 October regarding cetaceans in captivity. I have been asked to reply.

As you are aware, there are currently no cetaceans being kept in captivity in the United Kingdom . It is not illegal to keep cetaceans in this country, and there is no legislation in force which prohibits the establishment of dolphinaria here. However, Defra considers that there is sufficient legislation already in place to ensure that the welfare requirements of the animals would be met if someone were intending to open any dolphinaria here. This includes the Zoo Licensing Act 1981 (as amended), the Animal Welfare Act 2006, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, along with stringent European Union (EU) controls on the import of cetaceans into the EU.

In view of the existing controls, Defra does not currently see a need to further restrict or indeed seek to ban the import of cetaceans into the United Kingdom . EU-wide measures are the only effective way of restricting such imports into the EU, and consequently into the UK . This is because the EU is a single trading market meaning a national ban could not prevent dolphins, for example, being imported via other Member States. There is little point in introducing a measure which could so easily be circumvented. "
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I have read they had gotten cuban crocs, instead of african dwarfs. Where in the centre are they housed? And more important, what has their exhibit replaced?
 
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