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The Giant Aquarium |
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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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