Xref: utzoo rec.pets:1901 alt.aquaria:118 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdahl!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!husc6!uwvax!american!farrens From: farrens@american.WISC.EDU (Matthew Farrens) Newsgroups: rec.pets,alt.aquaria Subject: Re: Marine Equiptment Message-ID: <5019@spool.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 14 Jan 88 21:50:56 GMT References: <498@acheron.UUCP> <1124@inuxd.UUCP> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: farrens@american.WISC.EDU (Matthew Farrens) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 18 In article <1124@inuxd.UUCP> jla@inuxd.UUCP (Joyce Andrews) writes: >Since I am only a few feet from clean sea water, > Joyce Andrews King > ihnp4!inuxd!jla > AT&T, Indianapolis I guess I didn't realize Indianapolis was a seaport. Here all along I thought it was in the heartland of America. As for the thickness of the glass, the Monterey Bay Aquarium (most highly recommended!) has multi-thousand gallon tanks. I think they use plexiglass, but never the less it can be done. They also filter during the day and let pure seawater in at night. Apparently pure seawater is cloudy and reduces the opticality (?). MF