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A dance floor like you’ve never seen before
A typical bar or night club is filled with interesting creatures — cougars, lounge lizards and even some bar flies, but sharks? An Austin, Texas nightclub has decided to add sharks and stingrays to the mix under the dance floor. The 20,000 gallon tank boasts two species of sharks (black tip reef sharks and leopard sharks) and four species of stingrays.
The QUA Bottle Lounge has certainly given new meaning to the term “pool shark.” The owners assure the writer of this article that they have made the animals comfortable and put in enough reinforced acrylic panels so that the water they are in remains undisturbed and they can swim in peace.
I’ve always thought a bar has the ability to turn into a zoo depending on who’s present, but this wasn’t the kind of zoo I had ever imagined. What do you think about having wild animals at a bar or club?
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By Shark Fan
May 12, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this
One of the things about a niteclub is the bass - thumping is a big deal in most clubs. Given that the sharks are below the dance floor, and the speakers are likely on top of the area over them, I’m not as worried about the people falling in as I am the vibrations of all of what’s in a niteclub. Would like to go see it, though. :-)