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Obří akvárium Hradec Králové
 
     
  The Giant Aquarium  
  THE GIANT AQUARIUM in the centre of tne town of Hradec Králové can offer close contact with the tropical nature and help to make time for leisure and sports more pleasant to the general public.
■  Its rise was initiated by the love for nature, for the town Hradec Králové and for the beautiful things. The building which was build during the years 1997 - 98 welcomed its first visitor at the half of September 1998. Its putting into operation was a reward for all persons that had taken part in its rise - both by their ideas or by their work. We hope that the visit in our Envi House makes you to think about the Nature around us and about out behaviour to our environment.

EXPOSITION WITH THE GIANT AQUARIUM
■  You have the unique possibility to see the part of a tropical flora and fauna of the South and Middle America.

■  In the first part you can see an exhibition bringing the various parts of our home planet, the Earth, nearer to you, this exhibition is being constantly changed. Also the stellar skies located in the part of the lifeless part of nature attract your attention.

■  During the second part of your visit you will stop yourself on a tropical footbridge in the rainy forest where you can yourself feel what the stay in the tropical climate can be, i. e. combination of hot with a humidity reaching 85 - 90%. Here you can be delighted in beauty of various plants in their variety of shapes and colours. Various kinds of orchids and bromelias, and thilandsias growing on the trees and the creeping lianas as well must be mentioned. There are also fems, fig-trees and a lot of special tropical plants growing. Our miniaturized ecological world is completed by the waterfalls and when the sun is shining you can see the smaller kinds of lizards, esp. geckos, and others. These lizards ensure ecological protection against harmful insects.

■  After you have seen the flora, you find oneself on the bottom of fresh-water tropical lagoon with the company of fish from the South- and Middle America. Forty kinds of fish with the total number of about 500 pieces live here together (both carnivorous and herbivorous). Some of these fish you can know from your aquarium - the other are belonging to the real rarity. Most of the fish belong to the family Cichlidae. These predatory fish live in pairs and take care of their descendant together. The fry is successfully grown even in our reservoir.
    Further you can see sizeable suction carapaced animals and big shoals of sociable herbivorous piranhas. You also cannot miss fish of Colossoma Serrasalmidae kind being 80 cm long. These kinds belong to the family of piranhas and in nature they nourish on water vegetation and on fruits fallen from the trees. For this reason the water plants cannot be located in our aquarium. For future, Osteoglossum bicirhossum will be the largest fish there; they even reach the length of 120 cm.

■  Total capacity of the exposition reservoir is 130 000 I of water, which weights 130 tons. The aquarium is 5 m long and 8 m wide. Height of water level from the bottom reaches 4,8 m. Against water you are protected by shaped acryl glass vault tunnel having the thickness of 6,5 cm which had been delivered from the remoted Japan. Thus you can experience the unique feeling of walking under the water level, where the fish can swim free over your head and around you.

■  Feeding of fish in the aquarium by our divers belongs to our special offer which must be ordered in advance. (This activity ís offered for extra pay.)

■  As a final part of your exhibition our guide invites you into the cosy aquaristic shop where you can choose something of our rich offer of aquarium fish and other water animals, feed stuffs, medicaments, aquarium requisites or where you can buy advertising leaflets or souvenirs.

Source: official printed materials of the Obří akvárium Hradec Králové (2009)

 
   
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