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I wondered which of the large aquaria has the best selection of British coarse fish on display? Birmingham's Sea-life Centre does pretty well, and so does the London Aquarium. Does anyone know of any better?

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As I recall the Plymouth marine aquarium has a freshwater section, but I can't remember how good it was. There were also a few tanks of freshwater fish when we visited the Sea Life centre in Weston Super Mare a few years back.

 

Last time we went to the London aquarium, nearly all the chub were suffering from a bone deformity and they had very deformed gill covers. I posted some pics elsewhere at the time, but here's one of them for interest :

 

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Pangolin:

 Does anyone know of any better?

Not necessarily better, but I quite like the Brighton aquarium. Its in an old Victorian arcade, very atmospheric but a bit damp (not just inside the tanks ), and last time I went had a very good selection of UK and sea fish in quite realistic habitats - not sanitised like in some aquariums.

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