For only the 3rd time in its nearly 100 year history.

The Shedd Aquarium is unveiling a new exhibit in its grand Rotunda.

Gone.

Is the Caribbean Reef, a much loved exhibit that since his debut in the 1970's has come to define a shed experience for multiple generations in its place is Water which features 2 huge tanks, replicating bowl, fresh water and salt water ecosystems.

I mean, how cool is that?

Our Patty, what Lee joins us now with more Patty.

>> That is awesome.

I just want remind people that the grand Rotonda is when you walk any wary, okay, the beginning of where you see all this Yes, really around.

Yes, really cool.

And it would everybody loved it.

A lot of people are upset that it was going away.

But it was starting to show its age, according to the shed.

You know, there've been a lot of advances in technology and also in animal care.

>> And they are going to be creating a whole New Caribbean reef experience.

But in the grand rotunda, we now have wonder of water with these 2 spectacular tanks.

just amazing.

Immersive Boston area.

What can people expect for wonder?

So one of the tanks, they're both like 28,000 gallons, each one is a salt water experience.

Kind of what you think of as oceans.

The other one, which is amazing.

What shed has done is they've uplifted are elevated the fresh water experience for people.

So they've now given equal weight, equal emphasis to both saltwater and freshwater ecosystems.

As I believe we're showing on screen.

So awesome.

I know.

I was looking We also now part from looking amazing.

Obviously there's deeper meaning to this exhibit, especially that this is on freshwater ecosystems.

>> Can you tell us a little bit more about that?

You know, shed their lake where the aquarium on the lake.

We need our freshwater experience to be as awesome as the salt water.

They've done that with their Amazon rising exhibit and now with wonder of water.

They really want people to be able to see in fresh water systems.

They're really hard to see into sometimes the really murky look in the Chicago River.

You cannot see your own hand under there.

But there's an amazing life under there, especially in both these exhibits, the light, the corals, the plant, they're all alive and they want people to be able to see what the plant life is like in these ecosystem so that you understand why organizations like Urban Rivers and Friends of the Chicago River are working to create habitat as well in the river because these animals, which you'll see in the exhibit, they really need and use in Eaton live all of these plants.

And so they want people to be able to see.

>> You know what's in our rivers?

What's in our lake and, you know, for the aquarium on the lake, it's really important for them to under one that air.

Yeah, it's in our own backyard.

You know, we really should care about these really cool assignment.

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