Experience Budapest’s Tropicarium shark feeding every Thursday: hand-fed sand tiger sharks and rare shark-tail guitarfish in a giant saltwater tank—family-friendly, thrilling, educational. Plan your 2026 visit in Budafok-Tétény.
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Budapest’s Tropicarium is serving up a weekly adrenaline shot in 2026: live shark feedings every Thursday at 14:30. It’s a family-friendly spectacle where trained, certified diver-keepers hand-feed the predators inside a vast 1.4-million-gallon saltwater tank, 4 feet deep and kept at a cool 21–23 °C. The show also spotlights a shark-tail guitarfish, a rarity in Hungary you’ll only see here. Find it at 1222 Budapest, District 22 – Budafok-Tétény (Budafok-Tétény), Nagytétényi Road (Nagytétényi út) 37–43.
Settle in by the massive viewing window, let the ambient music wash over you, and watch sharks glide, pivot, and play with hypnotic grace. During the dive, keepers feed the animals by hand, offering roughly 26–33 pounds of sea fish per session—enough to bring the reef to life right in front of you.
Social hunting is rare among sharks, but sand tiger sharks often gather with their own kind—sometimes dozens around wrecks and cave mouths. They can gulp air at the surface and store it in their stomachs to fine-tune buoyancy. Their long snouts, icy stare, and dagger-like, protruding teeth make them look far meaner than they are. That fear factor fueled decades of baseless blame for attacks and ruthless culls, especially off southeastern Australia, where populations were wiped out in many areas.
Upcoming Thursdays: 2026.02.26; 2026.03.05; 2026.03.12; 2026.03.19, Budapest. Organizers reserve the right to change dates and the program.
