{"id":1809,"date":"2015-01-29T21:25:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T02:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?page_id=1809"},"modified":"2015-03-04T01:56:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T06:56:36","slug":"ripleys-aquarium-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/ripleys-aquarium-of-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada is a for profit aquarium that displays various animals, mostly fish to the public. The aquarium is located just next to the CN tower in Downtown <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/\" title=\"Toronto\">Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Shark.jpg\" alt=\"Shark.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1812\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Shark.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Shark-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It is one of the places where one can see a lot of sharks and other large fish that are not on display in other places in the Greater Toronto Area.<\/p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sawfish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sawfish.jpg\" alt=\"Sawfish.\" width=\"900\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1811\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sawfish.jpg 900w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Sawfish-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>It is a fairly large aquarium with various displays where people can see sharks and other fish from a tunnel surrounded by water. As such it requires an awful lot of machinery to keep all the water in the display clean and suitable to sustain marine life. &#8212; which is of course for me as a marine aquarist is very fascinating.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1813\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Life-Support-System-at-Ripleys.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1813\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Life-Support-System-at-Ripleys.jpg\" alt=\"Life Support System at the Ripley&#039;s aquarium of Canada.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1813\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Life-Support-System-at-Ripleys.jpg 800w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Life-Support-System-at-Ripleys-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1813\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The life support system that keeps all the creatures on display alive.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ripleyaquariums.com\/canada\/\" title=\"Ripley's Aquarium of Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada<\/a> website.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ripley%27s_Aquarium_of_Canada\" title=\"Ripley's Aquarium of Canada\" target=\"_blank\">Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada<\/a> on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>Animals on this blog photographed at the Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada<\/h3>\n<p><div class=\"piclink_captioned\"><a href=\"\/2015\/02\/03\/horseshoe-crab\/\" title=\"Horseshoe Crab\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Limulus-polyphemus-wide-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Horseshoe Crab\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/2015\/02\/03\/horseshoe-crab\/\" title=\"Horseshoe Crab\">Horseshoe Crab<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"piclink_captioned\"><a href=\"\/2015\/03\/04\/lionfish\/\" title=\"Lionfish\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Red-Lionfish_wide-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Lionfish\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/2015\/03\/04\/lionfish\/\" title=\"Lionfish\">Lionfish<\/a><\/div>\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"clear\">&nbsp;<\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ripley&#8217;s Aquarium of Canada is a for profit aquarium that displays various animals, mostly fish to the public. The aquarium is located just next to the CN tower in Downtown Toronto. It is one of the places where one &hellip; <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/ripleys-aquarium-of-canada\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1810,"parent":680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1809\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}