Thursday, February 10, 2011

Coex Acquarium

For one of our outings we went to the Coex Acquarium. It wasn't at all what I expected, but it was so cool. I was expecting big tanks of flashy, exotic fish. But instead, their venue was in creative fish tanks.
Outside the Acquarium
A tank that was always 'leaking' into the grass under it:
This was a tank full of those 'pedicure' fish. They are attracted to the dead skin on your fingers when you put your hand in and will eat your fingers. Emmaline was brave enough to put her hand in but got worried when the fish actually swam toward her. It was pretty cute. (That tank was inside of a bathtub...)
A 'gold fish' tank... get it? Lol!
This was one of the more interesting. They actually had fish inside the traffic light! You can see the little guys swimming toward the bottom of the tanks.
Some other interesting tank ideas: There was a fish tank made out of a fire extinguisher, a vending machine, a clock, a lamp post, and a headboard. Every tank was so unique and really fun to look at!
They also had section of the acquarium for turtles, crocadiles, etc. This turtle had two heads! The sign said something about it being lucky to see a two headed turtle (more Korean superstution!) There were some really cool starfish all over this tank and you could reach in and touch them. I thought that Emmaline would be very anti-touching but she went right up and felt those star fish! THAT was cool to see.

1 comment:

Laura said...

I'm pretty sure I saw a whole special about his aquarium on the History Channel. Sweet.

And that turtle is weird looking. Ick.