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toronto zoo

Post by newshound » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:07 am

ran into someone who said that the zoo in the centre of the universe (hahahaha) has a great tank with huge clowns in it.
Ya all Tdot folk... is this true?
better yet is it worth seeing?
http://www.torontozoo.com/Animals/detai ... imalId=561
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Post by angelfish83 » Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:52 am

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this is their best tank and it speaks for itself. Every malawi cichlid there is, with absolutely no cover, in a big 8000 gallon cube tank, eating flake food, without a proper diet... Terrible water quality... uneducated staff...

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Deformed ratty fish everywhere...

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Post by Martin Thoene » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:33 am

newshound.....angelfish83 and I visited the Zoo late last year and met with the aquatics curator. Then we went round the exhibits by ourselves. We saw no Clowns.

I have a full report prepared which we wish to present to them sometime soon. There are some very serious issues there that need resolving. I would rather not discuss them here in a public domain until we have had a chance to present our opinions and given them time to react.

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Post by newshound » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:40 am

omg!!!!
that is alot of fish
I must print that out and post it to a wall for my cats :shock:
drain your pool!

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Post by brett_fishman » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:09 pm

angelfish: i heard that white fish with the lump got surgery to remove it..lots of visiters were complaining about the lump...

newshound: the vancouver aquarium here was a big (i forget, maybe 8x6') tank with a bunch of large clowns, i think there was a huge school of rasboras too..but its been 4 years since i was there...

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Post by angelfish83 » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:11 pm

brett_fishman wrote:angelfish: i heard that white fish with the lump got surgery to remove it..lots of visiters were complaining about the lump...

newshound: the vancouver aquarium here was a big (i forget, maybe 8x6') tank with a bunch of large clowns, i think there was a huge school of rasboras too..but its been 4 years since i was there...

-brett.
ROFLMAO surgery?

Guaranteed they killed the thing. 1: you could not perform that surgery on that small a fish and 2: even if you did it'd die

most importantly 3:

nobody there is even 1/1000th competent to pull that off.

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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:59 pm

The Vancouver Aquarium has a great big tank with great big clowns in it. But they also keep orcas and belugas, so depending on your tastes, you may not wish to visit.
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Post by Emma Turner » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:00 pm

Martin, I'd submit that report alone if I were you. :wink:

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