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“come touch a horseshoe crab!”
The South Carolina Aquarium, located in Charleston, South Carolina, opened on May 19, 2000 on the historic Charleston Harbor. It is home to more than ten thousand plants and animals including river otters, loggerhead sea turtles, alligators, great blue herons, hawks, owls, sea horses, jellyfish, pufferfish, moray eels, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, pythons, and sharks. The largest exhibit in the Aquarium is the Great Ocean Tank, which extends from the first to the third floor of the Aquarium; it holds more than 385,000 US gallons (1,460,000 l) of water and contains more than three hundred animals. The Aquarium also features a Touch Tank, where patrons may touch horseshoe crabs, Atlantic stingrays, and other marine animals.
This is not an all-day aquarium experience, but we had a great experience. The aquarium is clean and the tanks are easy to access. Crowds were not a problem at the time of our visit.... Read more
Decided to come here with my fiancé as he loves aquariums. It was a small but pleasant aquarium I really enjoyed a show they had running where a scuba diver went into their big tank to talk about... Read more
Not the best aquarium I have been too, not by a long shot, but still decent. I don't like that there is no parking here, that you need to park kind of far away and then walk out here, but that... Read more
South Carolina Aquarium
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