Kate wrote:
How big would you guess the tank is?

George Patterson wrote on Tue, 28 Mar 2006:
"As you check in at the front desk, you'll be greeted by a 20,000-gallon
sal****er aquarium stocked with angelfish, pufferfish, tangs and other exotic
sea creatures - including 3 different kinds of sharks.
One of the most elaborate and technically advanced aquariums in the world,
the tank is 53 feet long, eight feet from top to bottom, and six feet from
front to back.

If I remember my last visit the to Mirage, the main tank behind reception is
a mixed community tank, which is this 20K gallon thing. But they've
partitioned off one end just for the clownfish. I suppose that one is also
8 feet high and 6 feet front to back. But I don't know how long: maybe just
6 feet long? Anyway, the huge number of clowns are definitely in a much
smaller tank than the giant 20K gallon community tank, and they're isolated
by themselves with no other fish.

The interior was carefully created to simulate an intricately
detailed, artificial coral reef. To preserve the living reefs in the ocean,
no live coral is used in the tank."

Yeah, I suspect that saves them on lighting costs, and probably maintenance
to scrape off the algae that grows so fast on the glass when you have bright
lights.

I like a reef tank (with live corals) better myself, but they've got a pretty
impressive fish tank there.

-- Don
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