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9 Coolest Aquariums
Published on 1/2/2008
1 AquaDom: world's largest cylindrical aquarium
Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters
high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled
with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of
56 species.
Combined with a vast amount of sandblasted glass, the giant AquaDom
gives a transparent-like feeling to the lobby. Guests and visitors are
able to travel through the aquarium in a glass-enclosed elevator to
reach a sightseeing point and restaurant under the glass roof. Two
full-time divers are responsible for the care and feeding of the fish
and maintenance of the aquarium. The AquaDom was opened in December
2003. It cost about 12.8 million euros.
2 iPond = iPod + Aquarium
The iPond is an iPod accessory the combines a speaker with a tiny
aquarium. A single fish lives in about 650 millilitres of water. It's
all the rage in Australia, but some consider it animal cruelty.
RSPCA spokesman Hugh Wirth said despite the fighting fish's ability to
breathe air from the surface, the tank was far too small for it to
receive adequate oxygen. The small volume of water would lead to rapid
temperature change and this meant the tropical fish would not live
long, he said. "The iPond should be banned", Dr Wirth said.
3 Aquarium Toilet
Teach a man to fish, and you have fed him for a lifetime. Put some
fish in a man's toilet, and he will never have a boring trip to the
pot again. This is the clever thinking behind the Fish 'n Flush.
Fish 'n Flush is a patented, two-piece aquarium toilet tank, designed
by AquaOne Technologies, Inc., an innovator of water-management
systems. The aquarium has a 2.2-gallon capacity. When you flush, it
looks like all the water is draining out of the tank and the fish are
going down, but it's an optical illusion: the fish are actually safe
in an outer aquarium made of high-polished plastic. What you see
draining is the toilet water in a separate tank behind the aquarium.
4 Car Aquarium
At the Siam Ocean World in the Siam Paragon shopping center in
Bangkok, there is a fabulous car there that cannot be driven. Why?
Because it is filled to the top with water!
Dozens of fish call this extremely modified vehicle their home. And
just so you know, the doors to this car are welded shut just in case
any mischievous person thinks it funny to release that much water and
fish onto the mall floor.
5 Phone Booth Aquarium
Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino turned a phone booth into an
France.
6 TV Aquarium
Ever wondered what to do with that ancient 26" wooden TV set laying
around in yours or your grandparent's garage? Here's a perfect
destination for it! Even if you don't have the old TV, it shouldn't be
too hard to buy one for almost nothing, and in no time you can have
your favorite program broadcasting all day long, with no commercials.
7 Artistic Aquarium
Takashi Amano is a designer, photographer and Aquarist(a person who
maintains or owns an aquarium). He has opened a company called Aqua
Design Amano where he introduced Japanese gardening concepts (similar
to bonzai) into the aquascaping hobby. A form of art that changes your
normal aquarium into an art of nature.
8 Jellyfish Aquarium
A huge hit in Japan, the Aquapict Jellyfish aquarium shows beautiful
color-changing jellyfish swimming as they do in the deep sea, but none
of them are real.
Made with highly-realistic silicone, the Aquapict jellyfish swim and
change color subtly with the five-color LED lighting system (red,
yellow, green, blue, and purple). They move by a slow current created
in the tank that does not have an obvious flow or bubbles that make it
look fake. It looks unbelievably real and beautiful.
9 Restroom built into the side of a giant aquarium
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