Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies.

[SimonWoodstock]

Here are a few pics of this really nice aquarium I visited Thanksgiving if you are interested. It was a very impressive place, worth a visit.

Here is the saw fish, It and a few others are kinda dark. If you know how to brighten it up you can copy it and repost if.

*I replaced the saw fish. When I shrunk it, you could not tell what it was at all!*

[SimonWoodstock]

Cool little seahorses.

[SimonWoodstock]

I thought this was cool. A small shark and a lion fish(?).

[SimonWoodstock]

A puffer close around 2ft. long.

[SimonWoodstock]

Baracudas(sp?)

[SimonWoodstock]

Villagephotos sucks!
Here is some more lions?.

[SimonWoodstock]

I'm going to stop on the next post because my pictures are crappy quality and this is taking forever. I hope you enjoyed the ones I did post.

The jelly tank.

[SimonWoodstock]

Pretty big shark. Not the biggest one in the tank, though.

[Max]

Thanks for sharing ! Wonderfull job

[harrypotter41]

yes, thanks for sharing

[MonoSebaelover]

In your first Shark/Lion photo the little one looks like a Sea Goblin or a type of Stonefish which is a very close relative to the lion. In the 2nd photo the Large fish in back is a Volitan Lion and the other two are probably a type of Stonefish. Nice pics. Our public doesn't allow photos.

[SimonWoodstock]

Thank you for the comments everyone. I may put some others on later, but I will have to try to do something about the darkness on a couple of them. I have some really good pics of huge comunity tanks with tons of different types of 4-12" fish. It looked like a live psychadellic screen saver! Also a few fish I would like someone to name for me (one being a schooling fish, slightly dark in color and prehistoric looking that swims with its mouth open...they had probably 100 of them schooling.)

Sorry about posting them like that, but recently I have not been able to link pics from villagephotos.

I would recommend that aquarium to anyone in that area. The only other aquarium I can compare it to is the New Orleans aquarium. The others I have been to were too long ago and I can't remember them too well.

[msand9898]

I was up to the smokies last november, and thats a really nice aquarium, here is a shot of a large shark...

http://www.geocities.com/msand9898/IMG_1067.JPG

Linky is here... (http://www.geocities.com/msand9898/IMG_1067.JPG)

[liquafaction]

I thought those were pretty cool...... Thanks for the share

[mogurnda]

Nice photos. Looks like a great setup. We keep talking about going back to the Smokies, and this is another good reason. We have tried to hit as many public aquariums as possible.

prehistoric looking that swims with its mouth open Paddlefish, maybe?

[SimonWoodstock]

They swim mouth open like a paddle fish, but they are around 8-10" long w/ kind of a dulphin? (maybe it is spelled wrong, but it isn't the dolphin like flipper) shaped forehead (rounded). Very interesting fish to watch.

[LT1OwnzYou]

If you would like to make all photos into a ZIP or RAR file and send them to me via email, i would be glad to enhance them and host them for u to post on here. Love to see the cool creatures of the sea. My site has slowed down this month so i can give up a few megs bandwidth :cool:

lmilz@atlstreetdemonz.com

[SimonWoodstock]

That's pretty cool, thanks. I will be emailing them right after I make this post. Not all of them need to be brightened (I just got tired of posting them the way I was) and they will be full sized, I had to shrink those others so they would fit on here.
Nice site too, btw.

Here is the fish I was refering to, for now. It is a little dark, LT may be able to make it clearer though.

[liquafaction]

I do not know about your spelling either, but there is a fish that is a dolphin, not a mammal...... don't know about my spelling either.....lol.

Anyway, I have caught them before deep sea fishing of the Carolina Coast.... they get rather large.

[SimonWoodstock]

I believe we are thinking of the same fish. Here is a pic. If anyone has any info. on the fish I was talking about, I would like to know abou it. Or at least its name so I can look it up. Everyone on the trip was interested about that fish, I just wish I could remember what it was called.

Here is the dolphin it looks like.http://www.7strand.com/Lures/Lure%20Images/DOLPHIN.jpg

[SimonWoodstock]

Thanks for fixing and hosting the pics, LT1OwnzYou. Here are a few otheres. A couple are not saltwater.
http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0433.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0439.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0444.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0449.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0450.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0451.jpg

[SimonWoodstock]

http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0452.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0453.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0455.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0467.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0470.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0472.jpg http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0473.jpg

[SimonWoodstock]

http://www.atlstreetdemonz.com/fish/100_0440.jpg

[racerX]

Slap me if im wrong but another name that the dolphin fish goes by is mahi mahi right? pretty sure on that but im usually wrong. lol. looks kinda like a salmon that hit a truck.

Shane

[mogurnda]

mahi mahi
dorado
dolphinfish
all the same