Georgia Aquarium Georgia Aquarium Expansion

Are you serious ?

I think, 5 Millionen Gallons are little bit too much for a Guppy-Tank, but why not a big tank with a high number of little fishes, Guppies or Red Neon ? Red Neon are only really spectacular in big numbers...

So why no South amercian Section for the Georgia Aquarium, with a big red Neon tank, and Mantee Exhibit with Tunnel and an Amazon River Exhibit with Tunnel, for pacu,Catfish,Stingrays, arapaima, and if the vistors get back to the surface, they enter the Rainforest with free flying birds, a caiman exhibit,anconda, a big Pirania tank and surface viwes of teh manatee exhibit ?

I think, the prefect aquarium in the USA would be a combination of the Georgia Aquarium and Baltimore Aquarium.
 
Hey,

Like everyone else I was a little disapointed with GA's choice of bottlenose dolphins, considering there are quite a few places now around the US with them....but hey! I can totally understand why they did it, and how other species would be too hard to import, not to mention collect from the wild (out of the question in this day & age in my opinion).

There are so many places in Japan however with common, white-sided, striped, spotted etc dolphins, and even a few different species around the US. I even think Mote Marine Lab have a few spotted or pantropical or something?? They would be interesting...

ANYWAYS! I was wondering if anyone has seen any rendering photos, exhibit design blueprints etc of the inside of the building?? Not just the photo of the outside I see everywhere? I'm really REALLY hoping GA go for a naturalistic look (Shedd Oceanarium, Vancouver Aquarium, Sea World Australia), rather than a comical flipper-style exhibit (Miami Seaquarium, Sea World etc). The Beluga exhibit is great with all the rockery and darker color schemes, so I'm hoping they dont just go for typical sterile blue pools most bottlenose dolphins seem to live in in the US. Saying that though, Sea World should be credited for more natural designs in recent years, with their petting pools etc.

So yeah? Does anyone have any images of the INSIDE or the design? or maybe even some construction photos that show what the pools will look like? I'm interested :)

Thanks,
Ollie

So far only images I've found:
http://southeast.construction.com/slideshows/TopProject09/images/13.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2484/3748454457_949a7327cc.jpg (Grandstand/seating for dolphin show??)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edgewatermedia/3613957314/" (can anyone else see the giant circular pool??
 
I know they will do the bottlenose dolphin exibit naturalistic in in a similar style as like as their beluga pool, someone told it to my duriung my visit to teh GA in june. Its one of their philosophies to do ALL exhibits as naturlastic as tehy can do. I've seen one concept drawinig int he public area of the aquarium of the dolphin exhibit and I've done a pitcure of it, do you want I post it in the GA Aquarium Gallery ?
 
right, why is seaworlds pool flipper like, it's very natual, close up and interactive.

Why do you like the GA Beluga Pool so much??? Many members (and i agree) say that it is far too small, especially compared to the fact that they had a massive pool in the New York Aquarium.

This is Seaworld Orlandos Beluga Exhibit, Huge, natural and there whales (not saying GA are not given) Loads of enrichment. They even have huge ice caves for them to swim around in!

Here is a photo

http://www.zoochat.com/607/beluga-whale-sea-world-orlando-44091/

And here is Dolphin Cove, not naturalist?

http://www.zoochat.com/607/dolphin-cove-51573/
 
Cat-Man said:
right, why is seaworlds pool flipper like, it's very natual, close up and interactive.

Why do you like the GA Beluga Pool so much??? Many members (and i agree) say that it is far too small, especially compared to the fact that they had a massive pool in the New York Aquarium.

This is Seaworld Orlandos Beluga Exhibit, Huge, natural and there whales (not saying GA are not given) Loads of enrichment. They even have huge ice caves for them to swim around in!

Here is a photo

http://www.zoochat.com/607/beluga-whale-sea-world-orlando-44091/

And here is Dolphin Cove, not naturalist?

http://www.zoochat.com/607/dolphin-cove-51573/
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The NY Aquarium pool for belugas was the smallest and most sterile I've ever seen. It was a relief to see the animals moved to a comparatively larger space in Georgia. Perhaps you are thinking of the beluga pool at the Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, which is both expansive and brilliantly naturalistic?
 
i've not seen pictures of the pool at NY aquarium or The MA. I was going by what others have said
 
Zebraduiker: YES! That would be PERFECT!!! :D


Cat-Man:I I didnt think the NY beluga pool was very big? like the GA Beluga habitat, just because (to me) it looks realistic? or what I immagine belugas to live in in the wild (ie. darker rocks, darker lighting, deeper?)

By the flipper-like Sea World pool I meant this:

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Totally un-naturalistic, blue pools with no rockery/sand etc.

The petting pools dont look too bad to me, they have fake coral, rocks, sand, and a few beaches and trees surrounding them.

seaworld-dolphin-cove-1b.jpg
 
Umm....Dolphin Cove at Orlando? No, it's not...sorry. The pools at the back of the main stadium are circular, and are where the dolphins and false-killer whales live after/inbetween and before shows. It's in a seperate location in the park to Dolphin Cove.

Quote:
Dolphin Cove was designed to reflect a natural ecosystem and has a underwater viewing area underneath it where the visitors can watch the dolphins while listening to relaxing music[2]. Additionally, visitors are even able listening to the dolphin's communications[3].

The Dolphin Cove habitat is one of the largest dolphin pools in existence, on which the visitor can directly interact with the dolphins and features, approximately, two foot high waves, a sandy beach and a naturalistic imitating coral reef.

I think the sandy beach,reef, and waves are also part of the naturalistic-ness I previously stated.

My sources:
Dolphin Cove at SeaWorld Orlando

Dolphin Cove, SeaWorld® Orlando, SeaWorld® tickets - information and reviews

Dolphin Cove (Seaworld) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
Yeah I hate the Sea-World maps, but then I remember...it's Sea World :P

Dolphin Cove to me looks great! Obviously Cat-Man is a little confused???
 
ollielloyd said:
Yeah I hate the Sea-World maps, but then I remember...it's Sea World :P

Dolphin Cove to me looks great! Obviously Cat-Man is a little confused???
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look just listen, i've been to seaworld many times, keepers tell me that the dolphins live in the coves, and are moved via underwater tunnels to the stadium for the shows
 
Cat-Man said:
look just listen, i've been to seaworld many times, keepers tell me that the dolphins live in the coves, and are moved via underwater tunnels to the stadium for the shows
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Which Seaworld have you been to many times?
 
Cat-Man said:
look just listen, i've been to seaworld many times, keepers tell me that the dolphins live in the coves, and are moved via underwater tunnels to the stadium for the shows
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Catman, sorry to burst your bubble, but the distance between the Dolphin Stadium, and Dolphin Cove, is over 130 feet.

a) There would be no logical sense building a tunnel this distance, considering the architectual work that would need to be done creating a tunnel, when dolphins can simply be transported with slings (which is how they are infact transported)

b) A dolphin is a mammal, that needs air to breathe. Underground tunnels of this length, are incredibly dangeorus. Trainers have enough trouble with "gating" - teaching dolphins to use the gates between pools. Trying to make a dolphin swim through a tunnel 130 feet in length, would be crazy. And what is something went wrong in there???

c) The dolphins at the stadium, and at dolphin cove are completely different. Usually at the stadiums they keep all females, or all males, and they perform, and have done for years. The dolphins at dolphin cove are usually dolphins that arn't great performers, or are too old to perform.

I know several trainers at Sea World in both Orlando and San Diego. You must have mis-heard, or have been lied to, because a underground tunnel connecting 2 pools 130 feet apart from each other, is not in existence.

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Aerial shot of Dolphin & Whale Stadium and Dolphin Cove Interaction Exhibit at Sea World Orlando.
 
Yeah, we just got sidetracked talking about the Dolphin Exhibit :P Do you have the photos of the drawings of the exhibit you said you took? I'd LOVE to see them! Upload,upload!! :)
 
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