>From: "Crail, Todd" <tcrail_at_northshores.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Toledo Zoo
>Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:18 -0500
>
>Hopefully the Aquarium wasn't packed with people during your visit. I
>was able to walk thru the Aquarium when it was *empty* once. I could
>have pulled up a recliner in front of the Moon Jellies and just
>forgotten about things for awhile...
>
>The Herp House and Greenhouse are pretty darn sweet too (The Herp dept
>is rated in the top whatever in NA). The Zoo has gone to great lengths
>to switch over to biotypic displays, and I think with the completion of
>the Aviary, they're moving forward now. This summer, there's a Gray
>Wolf display opening. The Zoo is compact and discrete, which I give
>them total kudos for the layout. You can walk the whole thing in a
>morning without rushing and see a heck of a lot of animals.
>
>In the orderliness of displays, I'll give you one on the Shedd, but
>don't expect the Aquarium portion to even compare. The Shedd just has
>way too much mass going for it, and you can't beat an entire corridor of
>natives ;)
>
>Bob's got a good point about stopping in on the way to the Convention.
>It may well be worth a stop. And it won't put you far out of your way
>to Ann Arbor.
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: sajjad_at_lateef.org
>
>Just returned from Toledo, OH (business trip). I took some time off to
>visit the Toledo Zoo and managed to visit it for a few hours, this past
>Sunday, before the freak snow storm hit. It's a very beautiful place.
>
>The Aviary is awesome. There were exhibits in which you could walk
>through
>a bio-type with birds flying around you.
>
>The Aquarium was even better (but I am biased towards fish anyway).
>IMHO,
>it's better maintained than the Shedd here. Each tank was beautifully
>aquascaped (but, I guess it is understandable that the piranha tank and
>the Arapaima tanks were not too aquascaped :). Lots of native fishes on
>display - brackish Fundulus sp in a correct biotype, sturgeon, huge
>black
>crappie, walleye (even a mention of the blue walleye in the blurb), a
>huge
>alligator snapping turtle, a four pound bluegill. They also have a
>walk-through display of the Amazon rainforest complete with pools with
>arrowana, cichlids, red-tail catfish, terrestrial birds that were
>fighting
>with each other, and a sloth but I didn't see it.
>
>There were some pretty rare fish in there - a seadragon, some fish which
>live at 1800' below, etc.
>
>Odd things: Angelfishes with neon tetras (and no neons to be seen, I
>wonder those angels seemed so full and happy :). Glass catfish and
>glassfish (Chanda ranga) in the same part of the display as the
>saltwater
>fish - probably for special care.
>
>If you are near Toledo, I highly recommend a visit.
>
>Sajjad Lateef
>NANFA - Chicago
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