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The lower floor houses a lot of smaller tanks, as well as the lower viewing windows for the five big main ones. Residents include (but are not limited to) a couple of cuttlefish, a group of garden eels, leafy sea dragons, some amphibians, and a whole lot of corals.
The central tank is surrounded by four other main display areas, one in each corner of the building, focussing on different oceanic regions: in order, the North Atlantic, with a huge aviary housing puffins and guillemots; the Southern Ocean with Magellanic penguins and free-flying inca terns; the north Pacific with a pair of sea otters; and the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean. Each area also includes large display tanks that you can look into from the lower floor of the building as well as the upper walkways.
The sea otters were fun to watch, but difficult to get good photos of. They swam around their tank so quickly that those were the only ones I got that were even vaguely in focus.
‘River of Fish’ stair runner by The Rug Company. Designed by Barber & Osgerby.
There’s a little aquarium at the south end of the loch. Here’s a fish that I’m pretty sure was designed by Tove Jansson.
Things In Jars! Morbid? Possibly. Interesting? Yes.
I’m pretty sure this fish is gonna tell me a ghost story.
put it back and lets pretend this never existed
Don’t put it back, its an aggressive invasive species
Christ
That’s a lot of nuggets right there
can u imagine going noodlin and this chomps down on you oh my god
Duuuuude!! Catfish grow to the amount of food there is which means the river these guys came from must be plentiful as fuck, or it’s eating the native species. PSA: do NOT catch and release catfish. The fuckers will screw with the rivers ecosystem if they’re not native to the area. These are the sort of size fish that WILL have a go at eating people as well, they will probs chock but yeah. Catfish have little to no sight, since they’re bottom feeders they scout for food mostly using their feelers, and just swallow whatever they think can fit in their mouths. I watch a lot of Jeremy Wades River Monsters when I’m bored. The shit he films is ridiculous and I love it.
Edit: Cat fish are also cannibals if there’s no other food source.
When I saw the first pic I thought he was being jokey with a novelty sleeping bag
That’s going to take a lot of cornmeal and oil….
Suddenly that one scene in The Sharing Knife is a lot scarier.
buzzy little boxfish has errands to do and places to be.
i hear jetson car noises when i watch this
