Reef Fish wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2002 21:03:10 -0600, Mike Wallace <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> >Now that Steve mentions it, there are a couple or more really good
> specimens at
> >the Tennessee Aquarium. Weird fish.
> >
> >
> >
> >> Here are two links to paddlefish info. I wonder if anybody on the list
> has
> >> ever heard of these fish. Mike Wallace?
> >>
> >>
> >> Address:http://www.quarrycommando.com/pfish.htm
>
> This fella has been in the Choo Choo Aquarium for quite a while.  But,
> present compamy excepted, it's far from being the "weird fish" in
> that aquarium.  :-)
>
> Was the Tennessee Aquarium to which you referred in Nashville?

There is an aquarium in Gattlinburg.  I think it's called the "Smoky
Mountain Aquarium"

> The Chattanooga Aquarium stakes claim as the one that has the largest
> collection of FRESH water fish among all the Aquariums in the US.  It
> has quite an impressive collection of the fishes from various rivers
> in several continents.

We visited the Choo Choo Aquarium back last fall.  Very impressive.  It's
the only aquarium I have ever seen where the "big" tank is a fresh water
one.  Everyone else has their "big" tank a salt water tank with lots
of sharks and other large oceanic fish.  The one in Chattanooga is
styled after the lake on the Tennessee river just a few miles downstream
from the aquarium itself.  Lots of big catfish, paddlefish, gars, etc.

Harold
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