Pretoria zoo's Aquarium...

Great day guys!

Would have liked to stick around and socialize, though.

Everyone just seemed to disappear afterward.

Tell the truth, I'm not quite sure what happened. Did everyone just up and go home? or did I wander off and get lost?

Most probably the latter. And me with a boot-full of beer!

Big thanx to Moolis for taking over the tour, we'd have been lost without you, and to Dolf for putting up with us wandering through his domain!

When's the next one?

 

Hi guys... Sorry I missed Saturday,but one of my best friends from childhood got killed in a freak farming accident on friday aftrnoon on his farm outside Brits...
Been with his family since friday night... his parents are old family friends... - kinda Fu%d-*p... sorry...
Thanx @Pet Stop - Moolis for "taking over"...

hope you lot enjoyed it!!! Where is the pics? - just got home...no internet there...

 

it was great seeing everybody there, the tour was awesome thanks to moolis for taking the lead. if not for him i'm sure there would have been a few lost sheep like myself.all in all it was a great day

 

Was a nice day out ! Loved the massive Malawi system !

Suppose it was a bit tame as a result of it still being a fairly new concept ( People didnt really know each other etc )... im sure the next one will be significantly more raucous though !

Thanks to all

 

It was a great day indeed! Next time we really should wear those name tags though... I only know @Pet Stop and his crew and @CharleyFXST. @Noodle was kind enough to grace us with name tags, but other than that it was like "who's ready to play, Guess That Poster!"

So, for those wondering, I was boasting a red Billabong shirt ;-)

 

@azurekoi.. would have been nice if u went but ur friends death is way more NB..always a next time! sorry about ur friend..

 

@shihr! That's the other forum member I met... I knew I was missing one

 

HI All

Thanks Moolis. Azurekoi, sorry to hear about you loss, our prayers are with you. Was nice seeing the filters etc.

It was really informative

 

Haha, Oh yeah Im pretty uncreative with my name, so Im Jody and Forum name is JodyC

 

I now know that the aquarium has the biggest damn protein skimmer I have ever seen in my life! It's about 3m high with a 25-30cm radius!

 

Sounds like you all had fun, let me know if this happens again. Being late really wasn't cool....

 

Sorry to hear about your loss azurekoi.

You should see the skimmers at ushaka I'll see if I can find a pic.

 

Say "Thank you MASA!"

 

Well there you go As you can see there are quite a few of them. I think maybe 10/12.

 

Yup! that's amazing! Can't imagine they make them that big! I wonder what their rated flow is?

 

Went to Zoo yesterday, was so nice seeing the local SA fish that you should not be seeing in fish tanks normally. Hopefully they able to get some more locally fish. Here is some pics (forgive me for the quality)

 

That did not work out added alot more pics,will add the rest lata

 

Also got a few pics on my '1 man tour' lol will post on weekend

 

@mip, was that a black shark in one of the pictures you attached? :idea:

 

I think it is a local fish called a mud fish