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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New technology at the Virginia Aquarium allows visitors to get more information on fish in an exhibit besides just asking “what fish is that?” A new exhibit called “Fish and Chips” uses microchips and an antenna to flash details and information on fish to visitors Read More

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Long Island’s Atlantis Marine World just announced plans for a major expansion to the facility giving visitors a better look beneath the waves and beyond the ocean. This 97,498-square-foot, $24 million expansion, along with the 100 room, 70,000-square-foot hotel already in construction, continues the aquariums goal to maintain a unique and evolving destination for visitors Read More

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William E. Kelley Jr., the man behind the creation of Instant Ocean salt and the founding president of the Connecticut’s Mystic Aquarium & Institute for Exploration, passed away earlier this month at the age of 93 and was buried yesterday in Arizona with military honors. Kelley, a former director of The Cleveland Aquarium, founded Aquarium Read More

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Advances in Coral Husbandry in Public Aquariums is a different kind of coral reefing book. Instead of being produced by an aquarium hobbyist author, this new Coral Husbandry book was put together by some of the best public aquarists in the world. In May 2007, the Burger’s Zoo hosted the Coral Husbandry conference which brought Read More

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Large-scale exhibits at public aquariums are always impressive, especially when you have the humongously graceful Whale Shark as part of the show. In case you haven’t been to the Georgia Aquarium, one crafty reader of the website BoingBoing put together this sweet little 3D video of the exhibit. Sure its not Avatar or Tron but you can Read More

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A Japanese aquarium is going eco-friendly with its Christmas display — harnessing the output of an electric eel to illuminate the lights on the holiday tree. A pair of aluminum panels capture the energy every time the eel moves with enough juice to light up a 2-meter tall tree in intermittent flashes. For the last Read More

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Another week under our belts and felt it was time for another fun rundown of some funs morsels we uncovered online. This Friday’s theme is all things underwater. Starting off we have this amazing display of art being displayed to captivate and also serve as an artificial reef. The exhibition entitled “The Silent Evolution,” is Read More

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Abnormal growths and tumors can lead to the demise of most fish but Ocean Park, a theme-park style aquarium in Hong Kong, recently performed a surgery to remove a large, possibly cancerous tumor from the eye of a clownfish. Ocean Park is home to over 2,500 different species and it is interesting to see this Read More

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Europe’s largest privately-owned aquarium was recently delivered to London’s upcoming Heron Tower giving this new development quite a bit of eye candy in the lobby. The aquarium will hold 70,000l (approx. 18,492 gallons) of water and measures in at 12m long, 2m wide and 4m high with 230mm (approx. 9 in.) walls and will be Read More

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