Russia – Moscow, March 2008

Visit of a unique Moscow Aquarium Shop and Public Aquaria

Mikhail Berezin is the President of the “ASFUR” Ltd. and owner of the most unusual Aquarium shop of Moscow, called “Morskoi Aquarium”. Together with his wife and daughter he runs in the centre of Russia’s capital city a mostly marine aquarium shop, with a giant round shark tank and a few freshwater display aquariums. People must pay an entrance fee and they stand in lines. 2000 visitors per day is not unusual to visit this tiny showroom of less than 500 m² to appreciate hundreds of fish species from around the world, but all items are also for sale…

_{Mikhail Berezin and Heiko Bleher} 

_{The cashier nbr. 2 is through a red parrot cichlid aquarium}

_{Entrance to the round shark aquarium} 

_{Inside the round shark aquarium with 7 large Blacktip sharks Carcharinus melanopterus} 

_{Freshwater stingray, a very large Potamotrygon species} 

_{A large half-round aquarium with South American arowanas, Osteoglossum bicirrhosum, and Asian Pangasius catfishes, like Pangasius saintwongsei} 

_{There are also some very large marine-reef aquariums}

_{Mikhail has 20 employees and makes guided tours (left). Each aquarium has an identification sheet of the species contained (right and below)}

_{There is a medusa display with animals bred by Mikhail (left) and rare frogfishes like Antennarius pictus (right)}

_{Two well planted freshwater aquariums are on display (above) and a marine touch tank (below)…}

_{…and cultivation of invertebrates, corals and living stones is normal for Mikhail…}

_{…and the small shop is almost always full}

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