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2. Aquarium lighting - Wikipedia

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   Aquarium with LED lighting Freshwater aquarium lighting is commonly provided by screw-in incandescent bulbs , fluorescent tubes and LED lamps . Incandescent lighting is becoming less popular because it uses much more energy and produces more heat than the other lighting types. [ 1 ]

3. Aquarium - Wikipedia

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   The aquarium craze was launched in early Victorian England by Gosse, who created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea in 1854. [2] Small aquariums are kept in the home by hobbyists. There are large public aquariums in many cities.

4. New England Aquarium - Wikipedia

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   It also promised a 20-foot (6.1 m) x 30-foot (9.1 m) window into a new 550,000-US-gallon (2,100,000 L) Gulf of Maine exhibit. The project was to be completed by 2004, but the East Wing was cancelled due to the September 11th attacks making the public wary of crowded places, the closure of the Aquarium MBTA station due to the Big Dig , and the ...

5. Shedd Aquarium - Wikipedia

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   Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago.Opened on May 30, 1930, the 5 million US gal (19,000,000 L; 4,200,000 imp gal) aquarium holds about 32,000 animals and is the third largest aquarium in the Western Hemisphere, after the Georgia Aquarium and Monterey Bay Aquarium.

6. Freshwater bivalve - Wikipedia

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   The less major anterior and posterior retractor muscles extend from the shell and attach the body to a structure called the foot. [4] This muscular foot is typical of most bivalves, extending anteriorly between the valves (via an anterior protractor muscle) and aiding in locomotion , burrowing and anchorage ( holdfast ).

7. Marine Life Park - Wikipedia

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   At the time of its opening, the S.E.A. Aquarium was the world's largest, by total water volume (until overtaken by Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Hengqin, China), [4] containing nearly 45,000,000 litres (9,900,000 imp gal; 12,000,000 US gal) of water, and housing more than 100,000 individual marine, brackish, and freshwater animals belonging to over 800 species. [1]