If a fish lives 4000 or even 1000-2000 meters underwater, how do aquariums simulate the pressure of that without having the exhibit be actually that deep? Or are the fish able to adapt to the lower pressure environments?
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There are some ways of simulating increased water pressure without a massive water column. One would be to pressurize the vessel with compressed air. Air compresses nicely for this purpose and will create a similar force distribution to a column of water above the water line. There probably isn’t a need for simulating full depth pressure for most deep sea fish though so keeping them in a pressurized vessel when not necessary would be expensive.
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