Aquatopia Antwerp-Antwerpen - Treasures of the Sea

Post by **luchtzak** » 13 Feb 2004, 17:37

Hi all,

just came back from an excellent visit to Aquatopia at Antwerp near the railway-station and the zoo! As some of you know my second passion is fish in aquariums

Really special is the aquarium filled with 320.000 liters of salty water! Incredibile!

So if you have a day that you are free and want to go shopping in Antwerpen you can make a few hours visit to Aquatopia, more information on www.aquatopia.be ! If you want to go by train it's even easier!

greetz,

Bart
:rock:

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 13 Feb 2004, 17:47

yes i visited it too a while ago! its really fantastic. Worth a visit for sure! and very easy to reach (right next to the metro, and if u come by train, just cross the place). ANd if u got some time left, u might consider a visit to the zoo

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 13 Feb 2004, 18:05

Antwerp Zoo is brilliant, I went there in 2002. Got some good video there, especially of the monkeys

I too used to keep tropical fish, and we also had coldwater fish in a garden pond. I wouldn't rush to visit an aquarium though, reminds me too much of the hateful degree course I spent three years doing. There were regular trips to the Sea Life Centre in Scarborough (the ultimate bimbo emporium) to see some geek throwing fish for the seals, standing watching the behaviour of fish in tanks for hours on end and other such boring stuff. I developed a serious aversion to anything remotely marine after all that.

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 13 Feb 2004, 18:30

ha, but have u visited the aquarium in London yet? Thats also superb, and different from what u describe there. the London Aquarium is similar to Aquatopia.

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 13 Feb 2004, 19:47

I have visited the London Aquarium, the year before I embarked on that dreadful degree course. I got some superb video footage in there, I wouldn't deny that the place is excellently set up.

But I wouldn't go there now, because I can guarantee that if I did, I would get marine animals rammed down my throat, and I really cannot stand to talk about marine biology because I hate it so much (putting it mildly

) I spent my life wanting to be a vet, or a surgeon, or an anaesthetist, and what do I end up with?
:censored: marine biology!!! :pukey: :pukey: :pukey: :pukey:

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:15

Marine Biology is fun, isnt it Bart?

yes im a biologist as u know ...... LOL

Post by **luchtzak** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:20

I am not a marine biologist but what I can is to set up an aquarium without the plants rotting away and the fishes die from starvation

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:31

well, to prevent them dieing from starvation, only one solution: feed them :jump2:

sab319 · Post by **sab319** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:39

I live quit close to Antwerp and I'm ashamed that I didn't visited the aqaurium yet. I used to have subscription on the zoo of Antwerp but I gave it up because I visited it too less. But it is actually vvery easy to reach from my house. I just have to take tramline 15 (my dad is a tramdriver and he always works on that line) or even closer to my house the buslines 14 and 16 ( they stop practiccally in my backyard and yes those are the lines serving ANR).

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:49

I am not disinterested in aquariums, I loved my old tropical one, and we had some weird fish (like the Banjo Catfish - really ugly little guy he is!

)

What I don't like is having to go to aquariums and spend ages watching the movements of something just to write a couple of thousand words about it, or timing how long the edible winkle spends inside its shell (yes, we really had to do that!). I find that marine biology is the most horrid, the most pointless and the most boring university subject there is.

Give me veterinary medicine any day!

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:52

but if u go for ur own pleasure, not for school, u can enjoy whetever u like most, and u can stand there as lon or as short as u wish urself

Post by **luchtzak** » 14 Feb 2004, 13:56

I think the oceans are still undiscovered, and our planet has a lot of water for sure! So marine biology should be supported!

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 14 Feb 2004, 15:54

Bart, u might be interested in the aquarium-part of my website!

Post by **luchtzak** » 14 Feb 2004, 16:06

killerwhale65 wrote:Bart, u might be interested in the aquarium-part of my website!

Interesting!

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 14 Feb 2004, 18:19

I remember telling my "lecturers" that marine biology was so boring, I would patent it as a cure for insomnia, and make millions by marketing it as the next surgical anaesthetic!

It would be the ideal deterrent to crime - sentence criminals to study marine biology - life study for serious offenders, fifty years for minor offences. Then they really would think twice before committing an offence!

Post by **sn26567** » 14 Feb 2004, 18:41

In 2000 I visited the aquarium of Monterey, California. Very interesting, and quite didactic.

The most interestinganimal though was not a fish or a mollusc, but the 'sea otter', a mammifer that was close to extinction.

killerwhale65 · Post by **killerwhale65** » 14 Feb 2004, 18:46

heheh, reminds me of it, i've even visited an aquarium in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominical Republic (where we went with Sobelair

)

Comet · Post by **Comet** » 14 Feb 2004, 18:53

Anyone who could regard molluscs as "interesting" wants their head examining.

They are only interesting in the context of vetereinary medicine when studied in regard to the fact that they are a host for the liver fluke.

VC10 · Post by **VC10** » 14 Feb 2004, 22:55

I've never studied Marine Biology, so I will not join that argument.

Bart, I imagine that the aquarium in Antwerp is super (as is the zoo) Comet is right though about the place we have here in Scarborough, it is pathetic!!

We have been to the London Aquarium, and it is brilliant, as is (or was) the Sea Life Centre near Oban in Scotland.

We also once visited an aquarium in Ostend, it was disgusting, smelt funny and the fish were kept in the vilest conditions.

VC10 · Post by **VC10** » 14 Feb 2004, 22:58

sn26567 wrote:In 2000 I visited the aquarium of Monterey, California. Very interesting, and quite didactic.

The most interestinganimal though was not a fish or a mollusc, but the 'sea otter', a mammifer that was close to extinction.

Sorry Andre, but I'm puzzled as to what a mammifer is, can you tell me please?