there's another thread about this, but that's a cool article.
An MR trip down there would be fun.
I''m not so sure about the whale sharks though, when they grow it will be like keeping a full grown tang in a 120, lol.
"More than half of the animals come from aquaculture or fish farming. Most of the fish were flown from overseas farms via UPS or trucked from coastal Georgia and Florida to a warehouse where they underwent a 30-day quarantine before transfer to their permanent exhibits."
kind of like outr tanks.
"Most aquariums located on a coast don't use the water. It's usually too polluted," Swanagan explained. "Most have to use [the product] 'Instant Ocean,' you have to make the water."
I wonder if they used ro/di and how long it took to make 8 milion gallons of RO ?