A large aquarium at a mall in Shanghai, China, burst and injured 15 people the other day. The 7-meter-long, 3-meter high aquarium was on the first floor of a mall that replaced a window between the inside and outside. The tank weighed in at 33.5 tons with 15 cm thick acrylic panes Read More

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One thing that seems to mark the holiday season here at Reef Builders is us finding a cool story about an electric eel powering a Christmas tree. This year is no different except now we found one at an aquarium in the US. The Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy, Utah, took the idea we’ve seen Read More

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Resort World Sentosa is an entertainment playground in Singapore which recently opened the world’s largest public aquarium. The sprawling aquatic life compound at S.E.A. Aquarium spans ten different zones with all manner of habitats for large sharks, zebra sharks, manta rays and every major notable maritime eco-region being represented. The crowning jewel of Resort World Read More

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Sometimes it doesn’t take much to dampen all the fun, and all it took this weekend was a crack in a 13,000 gallon aquarium to cause Gulfstream Racing and Casino Park in Miami to shutdown the casino over this holiday weekend washing away plans for thousands of patrons over the busy holiday weekend. The crack caused most Read More

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Penguins are birds, have wings but cannot fly, right? Well one aquarium in Tokyo is giving penguins the chance to fly — or at least appear to. The Sunshine Aquarium in the Ikebukuro area has a rooftop aqua ring that usually allows seals to swim circles above the crowd with the sky as a backdrop but Read More

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The staff at the Loch Lomond Sea Life aquarium in Scotland is getting a helping hand — or tentacle — when Jock, one of its octopuses on display, began helping clean the aquarium glass. Known to be pretty intelligent creatures, this Giant Pacific octopus started to grab the inside cloth when staffers would clean the tank’s glass Read More

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The Monterey Bay Aquarium recently opened its transformed “Open Sea Gallery” giving visitors some of the old familiar favorites along with new exhibits and perspectives and this great video showcases the exhibit exquisitely. On Vimeo, producer Yasmin Mawaz-Khan shared a great video The Open Sea Gallery showcasing the amazing renovation. The million gallon aquarium is still the focal point but new additions Read More

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The following is a guest post by Noah Greenberg who wanted to share with us a cool new tool for comparing different public aqiuariums around the world It’s wintertime again, and for those of us that love marine life, the options are slightly limited. Snorkeling conditions are less than optimal, the whale watching season hasn’t Read More

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We wrote about the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands exhibit at the Waikiki Aquarium earlier this year and it finally opened in August. As the first major display in nearly six years at the aquarium, the NWHI exhibit features fish and 200 coral frags highlighting the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. All were collected from the Papahanaumokuakea Marine Read More

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Some of you may already know of Tom Lang for his work keeping the Breeder’s Registry going but what you don’t know is that for the past few years, Tom Lang has been forging ahead with the Aquarius Aquarium Institute in an attempt to bring a new public aquarium to Fresno, California.  The project received Read More

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