Kuroshio Sea – Now Thats A Fish Tank

Kuroshio Sea

Kuroshio Sea – one of the worlds biggest fish tanks – is located in the Churaumi Aquarium in Okinawa, Japan

Eighty species live in the Kuroshio Sea tank, including yellow-fin tuna, bonito and manta rays.

But the daddy of them all is the world’s biggest fish, the whale shark – which can grow to be 12 metres long and needs a quarter of a tonne of food every week.

All the species housed here can be found thriving around Okinawa – and even the water itself is pumped in from 300 metres offshore.

Tank facts…

The main tank holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimetres.

Posted on September 8, 2009 | Filed Under Travel