The Logistics Behind a $12.5 Million Aquarium Exhibit | WSJ Operating Costs

Просмотров 235 тыс.

% 3 040

The National Aquarium in Baltimore says it spends $45 million in annual operating costs on important upkeep like dive cleaning, filtration systems and feed for all kinds of fish.
WSJ visited their Blacktip Reef exhibit to see what it takes to maintain a 270,000 gallon tank and keep over 600 animals like sharks, Australian whiptail rays and Queensland groupers alive and healthy.
0:00 Over 600 animals live in this tank
0:38 Dive cleaning
2:08 Filtration systems and replicating sea water
3:35 Feeding and training the animals
5:58 Adding animals to Blacktip Reef
#Aquarium #NationalAquarium #WSJ

Опубликовано:

31 май 2023

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 186

@mitchykillya4551 Год назад

Free my man Duncan he ain’t done nothing wrong

@russthebuss5 Год назад

for real, they had to put the guy in a all white room with a small tiny window??

@SkyzzWalker Год назад

Fr they should’ve known puffers are never truly well fed and will eat corals 😭

@ButterMllk Год назад

@@russthebuss5 bro got sent to the psych ward

@BradThePitts Год назад

I always wondered why in aquariums the bigger fish aren't always constantly eating the smaller fish. After watching this the answer is obvious - the fish all well fed already, but sometimes one live fish does swallow another.

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

you.... you needed this to know that???? do you have a drivers license? rights? they should be evoked

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

True. Over at the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco, all the fish, including the larger predators, are fed regularly. However, the small sardines in the tunnels do tend to slowly get picked off regardless.

@monyroath Год назад

As long as the animals are happy and healthy, I have no problem with facilities like this. They are very well taken care of which make people happy to see them

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

thank GOD you approve

@monyroath Год назад

@@chasecharron4546 you’re welcome

@TheHarshWay Год назад

you are nearly not as important as you think

@disgaeajean13 Год назад

the point was to make people happy to see them…

@wadel.2465 Год назад

I agree. I still don’t love the idea of keeping so many animals in such a small area (at least compared to their natural habitats), but like you said, they are very well taken care of.

@user-sc3ib5zt6v Год назад

I've been here and it's truly an amazing aquarium. Great to see how much work goes into maintaining this place

@thijsjong Год назад

I had snails eating the algea of my glass panels of my aquarium. I had a freshwater aquarium. Maybe there are simular salt water snails. Or they would get eaten by fish in this aquarium.

@Charley_Goji Год назад

Duncan when he sees plastic tank decorations: 👁👄👁

@ROZDAB Год назад

Have been to quite a few aquariums in my lifetime and I have to say this is one of the best out there. If you are ever in Baltimore area definitely go visit.

@quinnmorgendorffer531 Год назад

going to the national aquarium is always a fun, educational experience

@bryanpascual3543 Год назад

Duncan the pufferfish is that rebel that chews on a class set pencil that got sent to the corner because of misbehavior

@tivonbandyjr.1705 Год назад

I can only imagine how long it took to cycle this tank 😅

@cnaizhen Год назад

I'm wondering the same as well. Not familiar with salt water aquariums, but I presume they will overload it with beneficial bacteria doses and throw in cheap fishes for cycling.

@michaelprice777 Год назад

They can actually be cycled very fast. Like, cycles aren't what they're made to be. If you take a ton of media from other well established aquariums you can add fish instantly. If you're familiar with the show Tanked, that's how they added fish on delivery day.

@tivonbandyjr.1705 Год назад

@Michael Price it isn't about how fast you can cycle a tank. It's about how established the cycled tank is. A 2 month cycled tank is far different from a 2 year cycled tank in regards of beneficial bacteria colonies being established. Just curious with the size of the tank how long that period would actually take. Reproduction rate of nitrite and nitrates is about 36 hours for 1 single cell.

@eegernades Год назад

@@michaelprice777 if you watch behind the scenes of tanked, it's not done that way and tank has been cycled already.

@michaelprice777 Год назад

@@eegernades there was a RU-vid that just did an interview of the main guy that owned the show and business. That's one of the things they talked about.

@sharkclubpenguin3000 Год назад

makes me appreciate how much operating costs the Georgia Aquarium has to run. Thank u Bernie Marcus for donating $250 million to allow the aquarium to be the largest in America.

@TheFalseShepphard Год назад

Great to see The American Political figure Bernie Sanders looking after the Caucasus

@sharkclubpenguin3000 Год назад

@@TheFalseShepphard wrong Bernie lol. I realize I forgot to put his last name Marcus

@AlphaParticle Год назад

I would def go here if I ever visit Baltimore

@kennethadler7380 Год назад

It looks fantastic

@redbean9410 Год назад

free my boy Duncan he ain't do nothing

@asunbeam5479 Год назад

i literally love zuri

@shane006 Год назад

I wonder why they don’t add algae eating species in the reef to make their work load of cleaning the algae ridden tanks often

@Kazzzack Год назад

there are some, just not enough to keep up

@gebarksdale90 Год назад

I’ll adopt Duncan 😢 poor lil guy

@GDon141 Год назад

Duncan the puffer fish has limited days left. Sorry buddy, don't eat the $800,000 replicated coral!

@Oceans_ai Год назад

Happy to be an ambassador here. Worth every penny.

@tallperson117 Год назад

Anyone ever visiting Baltimore has to visit this place. It's absolutely amazing.

@Jordankjfruykvkjruyk Год назад

FREE DUNCAN ✊ he has rights and needs representation.

@AjitKumar-yp2on Год назад

That’s a large budget and good to see how the operating cost.

@ferrisbautista Год назад

ahhh man my boi duncan.

@DarrenKrusi Год назад

Love aquariums, everytime we travel my wife has to watch out in case there's an aquarium in the city and I insist on going.

@edimalan14 Год назад

The shed aquarium in Chicago shipped in sea water and never replaced I wonder how they did that and they have to replace theirs

@Chloroplastspectrum Год назад

The Shedd Aquarium uses Instant Ocean, a similar synthetic seawater product to the one shown in the video. They do replace the water in their systems regularly. That said, they are a very water-conscious aquarium and I've heard they use a closed-loop saltwater system in the penguin enclosure!

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

words are hard... try again?

@crazybungee Год назад

Please do a service to the coral reefs by changing the video graphic titles to "ARTIFICIAL aquarium coral." The reasons should be obvious.

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

Duncan the pufferfish didn’t seem to mind.

@pasta-and-heroin Год назад

@@hypanusamericanus9058 lol

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

you... might be the most useless person here

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

anyone with 1/10th of a brain can see the difference

@jackstanley7052 Год назад

Free Duncan till it’s backwards

@RizeNthryve Год назад

I can barely keep my Ember Tetras alive and these people are keeping 100's of different species alive!

@hummersd Год назад

"Ugh, oh, Pepe." 😆

@Max_m Год назад

And that is why you use real plants/coral vs fake stuff, much easier to maintain.

@andrewlalis Год назад

It's probably more difficult on a short timescale, where habitats are needed for fish in the exhibit as soon it opens.

@TheRedKnight101 Год назад

Live corals need to deal with disease, bleaching, predation and can have algae grow on them. A lot of extra time and money would be needed to house corals in that big of an area.

@Kazzzack Год назад

in an exhibit this big you'd need to either take literal tons of coral out of the ocean, or wait a few decades for it to grow in

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

obviously never maintained either

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

Have you ever tried to maintain a reef aquarium?

@jonathanpeterson1984 Год назад

It’s BY FAR the best part of Baltimore 😂

@TheNoerdy Год назад

Not to be rude, but why are they cleaning the coral? Coral doesn’t get cleaned like that in nature.

@pianobench6319 Год назад

It is a replicated coral reef system. So the coral are fake. They likely went this method as it is more work to raise and grow corals from frags. Or to source real corals from reefs all around the world.

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

@@pianobench6319 Exactly! Algae-eating invertebrates introduced to the tank would also likely be consumed by some of the larger carnivorous fish in the tank, like triggerfish, though I would assume the herbivorous fish, such as tangs would have some impact on the algal growth.

@agalva100 Год назад

Wait, where will Duncan go?

@colorado841 Год назад

Can I put one of these in my $3500 motor home?

@BladeRabbit Год назад

Tbh they probably live better in this aquarium than the ocean

@___beyondhorizon4664 Год назад

The weirdest aquarium I have seen has to be the dry aquarium in Alexandria Egypt. I mean DRY!!! ALL the sea creatures are dry, stuffs, suspense inside the display which looks like an aquarium. Puffer fishes, lion 🐠🐟 etc. The tickets were cheap, by the harbor lighthouse. It was only after I left them I realized that the aquarium is dry!!!! I'll try to make a short video to share soon.😊

@jessicag23100 Год назад

yesss please make the video

@WraithLK Год назад

If only Egypt wasn’t so harsh on tourists

@rickh3714 Год назад

"Hi my name is Mummy of Ramses. Excuse the bandages. In this exhibit you have the deadly Stuffer Fish. The reef crabs below here are enjoying their filling meal of sawdust & desiccant. Wally the Walrus uses his glass eyes to scan the reef for the inevitable appearance of the Damien Hirst shark..."

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

id hope its cheap with no overhead costs but lighting

@disgaeajean13 Год назад

They literally did the most, making HR, but for the fish 😂

@kaizikenpinas Год назад

Poor Duncan 🥲😢

@MjLeem Год назад

Positive reinforcement followed by a clip of them bagging n wrapping the shark up because it panicked a little😂they held it down. Listen I’ve trained some puffer fish before, so I’m not a complete dum dum but I know restraint isn’t positive

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

They're probably trying to perform a checkup on the zebra shark. Positive reinforcement refers to using the stretcher as a location to feed the shark so that it does not solely associate it with checkups. Also, what puffer fish have you worked with?

@E7R1I6C Год назад

18lbs a day of food for 630 animals ? Doesnt seem right

@wyattrox03 Год назад

Fish really don't eat that much

@Tonyhouse1168 17 дней назад

FREE DUNCAN! Also, what’s up with that redhead?

@thewatersavior Год назад

#Drones Seems like the perfect place for a underwater drone. Not trying to put divers out of work, but, I'm sure a helping hand could pay dividends..

@thewallsarebreathing2509 Год назад

FREE MY BOY DUNCAN

@caro_santamaria Год назад

Wait! The puffer was eating the coral!!? Like it would in its nature habitat?😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Wow! That’s shocking! 🙄

@Charley_Goji Год назад

It was fake coral

@davebdot6713 Год назад

Thats why i only own freshwater aquariums lol

@ladybug1601 Год назад

I feel like if they stopped scrubbing the algae it wouldn’t grow as badly. The algae spores will just grow back after they settle and why don’t they add more algae eating things like urchins?

@hypanusamericanus9058 11 месяцев назад

Because Duncan and his invertebrate-munching pals would love a taste of that uni. The ideal algae-eaters would be vertebraes like tangs and rabbitfish.

@davidhughie6691 Год назад

In fresh water we put glutaraldehyde to kill algae, but idk if that s safe for marine aquarium.

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

Tell me more about this glutaraldehyde. I am a freshwater and saltwater aquarist and have never heard about this chemical (though as far as I am concerned, algaecides are generally frowned upon on both sides of the aquarium hobby).

@davidhughie6691 7 месяцев назад

@@hypanusamericanus9058 i actualy dont know alot abt it

@disgaeajean13 Год назад

baffling to think that this budget could have also been spent on work concerning the rehabilitation of the environments that these fish would naturally just exist in and fight for policies against their destruction led by corporate giants…

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

That (conservation efforts and research) is exactly what the National Aquarium does with the money it earns.

@marym7104 Год назад

Within 12 days!

@freewifi510 Год назад

the price for maintenance is unsustainable. aquarium tickets are $50!

@pasta-and-heroin Год назад

"Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year." id say they're doing juuust fine

@Ausf Год назад

I'm surprised people are paying $50 to look at some fish, but with 1.3m visitors, they only need to make $35 per person to break even, so that's $15 per person profit, just from tickets. Presumably they sell food and merch too.

@Niklez7 Год назад

@@pasta-and-heroin HOW can have 2.600 jobs per for just aquarium? im just so confused

@stefano3202 Год назад

@@Niklez7 maybe they mean it in the sense that the aquarium provides business to other people and therefore supports their jobs. I’m sure a lot of their needs are very specific to the needs of an aquariums and even just to that aquarium, so there are very little vendors for these products and the national museum is their largest customer

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

cant do math eh? grants and taxes dont help at alllllll either eh?

@nwyk153 Год назад

$16 for a brush??? have they heard of Ali baba or Amazon?

@Hokou Год назад

exactly

@b3t471 Год назад

Free Duncan!

@dangerousthoughts.1591 Год назад

Dunkin just tryna do his own thing😢

@TaataGeo Год назад

David Attenborough isn’t impressed 🥵🥵

@jjperceval Год назад

its queensLAND not queensln

@TheLazyLabrador Год назад

DUNCAN!

@Cicaduhh Год назад

#FreeDuncan

@commasama1098 Год назад

Saying that cleaning is the first line of defense is a bit disingenuous in my opinion. Any aquarist knows that the most common algae is usually harmless aside from aesthetic purposes. Meanwhile, if those filtration systems give out all the living things risk an agonizing death if operations aren't immediately restored. Saying that is the "second defense" behind cleaning is a bit... lol

@camerica7400 Год назад

But why not use real coral?

@TheRedKnight101 Год назад

Real corals would require more care due to disease, bleaching and the same issues with encrusting algae, proper lighting for their internal algae as well as food for the coral, predation from the fish, and when they die you are left with a large white rock that needs to be removed.

@TheStrokke1 Год назад

Acrylic hand pads lol

@marym7104 Год назад

107,764th viewer of this video!

@juanalmanza34 Год назад

Gahd dammit Duncan

@marylander3798 Год назад

My aquarium! Its only 15 min from me my son loves it

@justintryba Год назад

What did someone who knew nothing about basic reef keeping make this you don’t put triggers and puffers in a reef tank

@ericboos3872 Год назад

FREE DUNCAN!!

@steliosjaj Год назад

why dont they use weights when scuba diving instead of sunction cups? Are they serious?

@dazedneptune Год назад

Suction cups are the better solution here. They allow the divers more mobility to clean all the glass whereas a weight would just sink them and they’d have to drag it around.

@steliosjaj Год назад

@@dazedneptune You can inflate your diving jacket to the point that you basically neither sink due to weight, nor float. Then use the suction cups to navigate. Their struggle is apparent in the video.

@chadrob Год назад

Are such places really needed? Just to satiate want of human novelty and adventure?

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

Aquariums help to educate the public on the ocean and conservation. The National Aquarium, in particular, also leads conservation efforts and research.

@davidvandenberg6378 Год назад

Interesting in many ways but so much work to maintain fake corals, it’s such a missed opportunity for live corals Also a lot of critters eat algae for you.

@tubatupora0512 Год назад

Exactly, like I understand live corals are not easy to maintain but I think it would be nice to see large tanks with actual corals, with suitable inverts (that play a role in clean up) and carefully curated fish stocks that wont eat one another as well as wont eat the inverts.

@darthlatitude2105 Год назад

I would like to see them do real coral, but tbh, a lot of those fish in that tank will nip at or eat coral :/

@liamelias4158 Год назад

As beautiful as it sounds, for a tank this big it would be ripping thousands of coral out of their established reef or growing them for a year years waiting a decade for them to grow and take over. Definitely pricy and involved

@chasecharron4546 Год назад

yes live corals require no work at all opposed to something that cannot change

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

The problem is that many of the eye-catching animals that appeal to visitors in "Blacktip Reef" are either too clumsy to avoid bumping into the coral, like the elasmobranchs, or would attempt to eat the coral and algae-eating invertebrates, like Duncan the pufferfish. Corals also require intensive lighting, various trace minerals, etc. which make them very time-consuming and expensive to care for, and yet they still grow rather slowly.

@delta2zer0 Год назад

3:59 "Oh Pepe" had me crack up a bit, sounded somewhat erotic.

@auro1986 Год назад

how? they catch them from sea and put them in these aquarium

@lastmexicano Год назад

Probably bred

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

@@lastmexicano Some, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) were born in captivity, but the vast majority of marine fish in public aquariums and the aquarium hobby are still caught from the wild.

@Hansulf Год назад

Algae growth? To many nutrients... Reduce fish, put more macro algae and add stuff that eats the algae.

@Gasgivingdaddy Год назад

I feel like half the people in these comments didn’t watch the video lol ITS FAKE CORAL DUNKIN COULD DIE IF HE EATS IT Also real coral couldn’t be housed at this level it’d be insane maintence and they’d be stripping the ocean for it or waiting 20 plus years for growth this size

@Rezin_8 Год назад

16$ for a car pad 😂😂😂😂😂

@ldc4817 Год назад

Please don’t add the sea turtle 😢

@trudy8950 Год назад

It almost seems easier just to leave the fish in the ocean no?

@samuraijack1371 Год назад

So what if that $45mil went to ocean conservation where these animals actually belong?? Combine that across all aquariums. That’s a ally of money and much better for everyone in the long run. What’s the point of spending so much on an aquarium??

@halfthefiber Год назад

As a matter of fact, they do.

@dazedneptune Год назад

Aquariums both take care of their animals and do ocean conservation work. It’s not all or nothing. Besides, aquariums bring valuable education and awareness to the public. Without public support, ocean conservation efforts would be worse off.

@linden6352 Год назад

Poor Duncan all he did was eat and now he's in fishy jail

@shailong3254 Год назад

Why not just grow real coral?

@kevinlhcheng Год назад

#FreeMyBoiDuncan

@maggiefranks6849 Год назад

What an insane waste of money. You would think Baltimore would have bigger fish to fry

@kevinlim1632 Год назад

i would rather spend the money on the real sea itself

@Meilingsueyoung Год назад

They killed the sea turtle

@HungryEatNow Год назад

Wow half of the world's population is starving...

@veriteg Год назад

We return the fish to the sea and we put huge 8k UUHD screens with a nice 1 month movie of the aquarium..we save money, environment, energy and reduce animal stress.....well yes, many people will lose their jobs..sorry

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

a. The multiple exhibits that have existed in the space Blacktip Reef currently resides within have exposed it to pathogens from all around the world. Returning its current inhabitants to the ocean would spread native and, more importantly, nonnative pathogens in the wild. b. People are primarily driven to visit aquariums to see live animals, not screens. c. Animal stress would be reduced in captivity due to a general lack of predators, need to find food, animal specialist care, etc.

@Roy-G-Biv Год назад

water prison.

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

Little stress from predators, the need to find food, etc. I would not consider this a prison.

@Roy-G-Biv 7 месяцев назад

@@hypanusamericanus9058 you’re not a fish.

@MrJakson112 Год назад

Poor fish, and then they of course claim to be doing it for conservation like all the others do

@simonhawker9277 Год назад

I'm an antiquarian i don't believe its morally right to keep fish in tanks. lol

@hypanusamericanus9058 7 месяцев назад

Why? In captivity, fish do not need to worry about finding food, evading predators, etc. Captivity can be used to breed threatened species, rehabilitate injured organisms, etc.

@miglangell Год назад

12 million and the ocean does it all for free

@Adam-ix2sn Год назад

WASTE OF MONEY... are they bragging?

@joekev27 Год назад

Its a shame this will be useless once Florida bans Aquarium fish. New FWC proposals may restrict the total amount of species across all subsets of the pet hobby to as few as perhaps only 200 total species across the entirety of the pet trade.

@DegenProjects Год назад

poor things could have left all this in the wild but had to waste money and destroy a ecosystem to get it. what humans wont do for profit

@HeadHoncho727 Год назад

They really tried to put a pufferfish in with fake coral 😂💀 that tells you everything you need to know about aquariums tbh. EVERYONE in the fish keeping community knows pufferfish eat coral. Anything with those type of teeth eats coral.. they dont know what theyre doing alot of the time honestly. Thats why these mf'ers gotta clean the tanks 3 TIMES PER WEEK?! So basically all that machinery in the back is all for show?!😂

@phrous Год назад

I don't think this is a good business model

@freewifi510 Год назад

agree fully

@shmookins Год назад

It isn't a business, it is a non-profit for educational purposes.

@pasta-and-heroin Год назад

'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.' seems ok to me

@shirtdirt1874 Год назад

not using real corals is a huge money saver.

@adiposerex5150 Год назад

Humans have no right to abduct fish for this display. How ridiculous this is.

@IM2357 Год назад

Please tell me that this is a private aquarium that pays for itself. If it's running on public money, shut it down. Americans are becoming homeless, kids are skipping meals. It's insane to use tax money to keep a big fish bowl.

@pasta-and-heroin Год назад

'Since 2019, the National Aquarium has generated $1.3 billion in economic activity, generated $109 million in state & local tax revenue, and supported an average of 2,600 jobs per year.'

@TheRedKnight101 Год назад

The US government as a whole costs more money in one day then it costs to operate the aquarium for one year. Any money saved by not spending it on the aquarium is going to the military long before it goes to helping the needy.

@schalitz1 Год назад

As red knight alluded to I'd much rather spend money on an Aquarium than our corrupt military.

@DB-ub3wx Год назад

Sad they should all be in the ocean 😢it's so cruel

@hypanusamericanus9058 Год назад

These fish are under expert care, do not have to fight for food and other resources, and have little to no risk of predation (assuming everyone in the tank is fed properly). While adapting to captive life may take some difficulty, as mentioned in the video, overall, I would say that these animals are doing well in captivity or even better than their wild counterparts. Besides, aquariums bring knowledge of the ocean to the public and can serve as sanctuaries/breeding facilities for vulnerable species, like the zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) seen in the video.

@anonymlulz8273 Год назад

@@hypanusamericanus9058 We should put you under expert care too.

@vampirelordx1 Год назад

@@anonymlulz8273 … What?

@damondefranco Год назад

There's nothing cruel about it. Aquariums play a vital role in animal conservation. Without aquariums, a lot of these animals would go extinct.

@fatzyfatzy8322 Год назад

WASTE of money

@oliveringold8146 Год назад

So sad to see all these animals taken from the wild for our amusement and profit…

@LaughwithMAZ Год назад

I hope tax dollers dont go here. people can just rent a boat and see life

@shmookins Год назад

Not unless you rent a boat half way across the world to Australia. And taxes should pay for such facilities like aquariums, zoos, national parks and so on. They are educational, inspirational, and they keep us in touch with nature. There is more to lie and being human then the pure manufactured rigid environments we confined ourselves to. After all, no one lives around such diversity of nature and wildlife from all over the world.

@ezioauditore5616 Год назад

rent a boat, and the time to search and see for each fish? and the scuba diving fees?, i think it'll be like 1k or so in expenses

@dazedneptune Год назад

Dumb take

@americandosx1815 Год назад

$12.5 Million Dollar Investment ?????? Generated $431 Million Dollars in tourist related economic impact. 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿 That how u #Buy Back the Block