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  1. Piko

    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova:
    - Is under construction the new dolphins (Bottle-Nose Dolphin) tanks (Main, Medical, Nursery and Holding), it should open in June, at the beginning there will be the 2 aquarium's dolphin, then should arrive the 4 Gardaland's dolphin, these tanks can host max 9 animals
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    Kifaru Bwana Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Perfect, I also read somewhere Acuario di Genova acquired a manatee from Odense recently.
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    oh yes, thank you, a female, the other two manatee are males
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova:
    - The new Dolphin Enclosure and the other part of the aquariu, the Nave Blu, will be open/reopened on 26 of this month
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova:
    - Opened the new dolphin pavilion, four tanks (main, nursery, medical and holding), it's a palace high 23 metres (only three metres out of the water, except the two tower that are high 10 and 13 metres), large 30m and long 90m, max 9 dolphin (there're six dolphin at the moment)
    Main: 580sm, is deep from 4,5 to 7 metres, 3200mc
    Medical: 34,5sm, semimovable floor, 86,5mc
    Nursery: 201sm, semimovable floor, 1048mc
    Holding: 95sm, 408mc
     
  6. Piko

    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova:
    - Arrived Big-Belly Seahorses
    - Are born: four Magellanic Penguins and a Common Bottlenose Dolphin
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova:
    - Is born a Bottlenose Dolphin
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    That's great, I always forget to seach for aquariums news
     
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    Piko Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Acquario di Genova
    - It is born a Harbor Seal
     
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    Sneeuwpanter Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    How many giant sunfish does Genoa aquarium have ? And hoe big are those?