SuperTank in Berlin (big pictures!!)

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 14 Apr 2004, 14:17

Hi!

This is a seawater tank but the sight is just amazing. We visited it last weekend in Berlin. Its free standing acrylic tube built in a hotel lobby. Capacity is 1.000.000 litres the lift within takes 7 minutes and fits 47 people.

Post by **corybreed** » 14 Apr 2004, 15:03

Thats remarkable. How tall is the tank?
Mark

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 14 Apr 2004, 15:20

Hi!

its 25 meters high and 11.5 meters wide, the acrylic part of the tank itself is 14 meters high

bigward · Post by **bigward** » 14 Apr 2004, 15:23

That is a monster of a tank ............................. I want one

Suckermouth · Post by **Suckermouth** » 14 Apr 2004, 17:40

I personally wouldn't want one. It'd be murder doing maintenance without any SCUBA knowledge!

Post by **Rusty** » 14 Apr 2004, 21:30

It'd probably be cheaper to buy a small compressor and use it to surface supply air. Much cheaper and easier than SCUBA

Rusty

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 14 Apr 2004, 22:35

Hi!

They have 2 divers checking/cleaning the tank daily. When i saw the tv documentation about building it they always used scuba gear

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 15 Apr 2004, 00:11

Caol_ila wrote:This is a seawater tank but the sight is just amazing. We visited it last weekend in Berlin. Its free standing acrylic tube built in a hotel lobby. Capacity is 1.000.000 litres the lift within takes 7 minutes and fits 47 people.

This installation was put in place by ICM (International Concept Management). I remember seeing the first plans for it, someone I've been drunk with on several occasions went over to be Curator of the display. I've had meetings with ICM about redoing things at Bolton, but I think we would be a very small projects by their standards....

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 15 Apr 2004, 00:21

Hi!

mentioning the curatur what we both (my non fishaholic girl and me) realized after doing the 7 minute trip is how "empty" the tank seems. Dunno how many fish were in there but you can see on the last pic that i appears understocked...but 7 minutes is a very short time to take a good look. I wonder how much a hotel room with "sea" view would cost...

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 15 Apr 2004, 09:06

Caol_ila wrote:mentioning the curatur what we both (my non fishaholic girl and me) realized after doing the 7 minute trip is how "empty" the tank seems. Dunno how many fish were in there but you can see on the last pic that i appears understocked

Right now there are 30 Indo-Pacific Tarpon sat waiting here in Bolton to go out there! (M. cyprinoides doesn't get anything like as big as the Atlantic Tarpon, only about 1m max)

Caol_ila · Post by **Caol_ila** » 15 Apr 2004, 13:20

Again interesting...
The biggest fish so far in there is a thing they called "Napoleon" fish...
My favourites were the Balistids and the batfish. They also had a shoal of a freaky looking silverish thing with a huge lower jaw. (I really have no clue of seawater fishes)

coelacanth · Post by **coelacanth** » 15 Apr 2004, 13:37

Caol_ila wrote: The biggest fish so far in there is a thing they called "Napoleon" fish...

That's the Napoleon Wrasse (Cheilinus). They actually had them spawning back in March, but all the eggs were snaffled by the other fish. They get MUCH bigger than the ones they have, they're only youngsters yet.

certan · Post by **certan** » 15 Apr 2004, 19:40

Caol_ila wrote:...Dunno how many fish were in there but...

I have read somewhere that there were 2500 fish in that tank.

SuperTank in Berlin (big pictures!!)

SuperTank in Berlin (big pictures!!)

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