That's a Big Fishie Tank!

PetSugar — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:00:53 -0700

If you wanted to visit the world's largest fish tank, you'd have to go to Okinawa, Japan, home of the "Kuroshio Sea," otherwise known as the Churaumi Aquarium. Their fish tank is so humongous, it holds four whale sharks – the biggest fish alive!

Not only is the local sea life that's housed in the tank beautiful to look at, but the observation window at the Churaumi is a marvel on its own. The acrylic-resin window clocks in at 26 feet high by 73 feet wide, and almost two feet thick in order to hold the pressure of the water which is pumped in from 300 feet offshore. Don't the people in this picture look like fish food compared to these massive sea creatures!?

And I thought Aquatica was huge!

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So How Would One Transport the World's Largest Fish?

PetSugar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:19:36 -0700

Holy moly, look how big that Whale Shark is! In case you've forgotten, it's the same creature held in the world's biggest fish tank and is the largest living species of cartilaginous fish.
So how do you transport two (!) of these gigantic specimens? By jumbo jet, of course. The ones seen here weigh about 1,000 pounds - not fully grown - and found a new home in an aquarium in Qingdo, China earlier this month.

To see more pictures of the process, read more.

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