Berlin aquarium burst

The world's largest freestanding cylindrical aquarium, hosted in a Berlin leisure complex, burst early on Friday. The aquarium was home to around 1,500 ...

The aquarium was last refurbished in 2020, according to the website of the DomAquaree complex. During the upgrading work, all the water was drained from the tank and the fish were moved to aquariums in the basement of the building, where there is a breeding care facility for the fish, it said. - The aquarium was home to around 1,500 exotic fish and spilled 1 million liters of water and debris onto a major road in the busy Mitte district.

A huge aquarium in Berlin burst, spilling debris, water and more than a thousand tropical fish out of the AquaDom tourist attraction in the heart of the ...

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The 14-metre-high cylindrical tank in Berlin, Germany held 1 million litres of water and housed 80 different species of fish before the burst.

The aquarium, which was last modernized in 2020, is a major tourist magnet in Berlin. She also said she had seen a dead parrot fish frozen to the sidewalk. Without electricity, the tanks cannot be powered, and the fish will not receive enough oxygen to survive. Some have speculated the -10 C temperatures experienced in Berlin early Friday may have caused the tank to crack. Water rushed out of the building and onto the main road, forcing lamps, bellhop trolleys and retail merchandise into the street. The 14-metre-high cylindrical tank held 1 million litres of water and housed 80 different species of fish before the burst.

Reynolds Polymer Technology, which helped build the AquaDom in Berlin, says it is sending a team to investigate the Friday rupture of the aquarium.

It said that “we are also deeply saddened by the animals and aquatic life lost.” About 400 to 500 mostly small fish from a separate set of aquariums housed under the hotel lobby were evacuated to other tanks in a neighboring aquarium that was unaffected. Berlin's top security official, Iris Spranger, told German news agency dpa on Friday that “first indications point to material fatigue.”