Platform collapses...People fall into shark tank!

Having worked at the Tennessee Aquarium, i can answer the corals bit. Any larger sized tank, say something with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of gallons, would be notoriously costly to house corals in. Those tanks are kept as fish only tanks because water quality does not have to be as high in a FO tank. You don't have to dose various trace elements or provide high intensity lighting or target feed anything if you don't have corals.

I'll take our own 88,000 gallon Gulf of Mexico tank as an example. The tank at its max depth is 15 feet deep. Without the aid of sunlight, lighting alone for that tank would be notoriously expensive. At the moment, that tanks primary filtration is two 8 feet high and 3 foot diameter protein skimmers. I don't even want to know how expensive those things were. With corals in a tank like that, you'd need even more powerful filtration.

So basicly, dosing, lighting, and filtration gets outlandishly expensive in "public aquarium" sized tanks.

And in that situation with the falling into the shark tank, I'd be more worried about drowning than a shark attack. Our sharks are fed via poles from out of the water, so the only thing they associate divers with is cleaning, since the fish in our shark tank are fed through a "flushing toilet" kind of system. Load food into a hopper and pull the plunger pretty much.

Oh great Stepho look what you made me do...you made me type a novel for a thread that was started when I was 12.

 

I don't know how I ended up doing that one... haha

Was my plan all along...

 

It's all good, I enjoyed reading it but started wondering why I had not heard about it elsewhere, then I noticed it was from 2002

 

Though at 10-feet long and 400 pounds the sharks may seem intimidating, they had already been fed and are generally docile, Lee said.


NOTICE HOW THEY SAID "they had already been fed" and are generally docile... what???????