Experience Budapest Tropicarium’s Shark-Feeding Thursdays: thrilling, family-friendly dives where keepers hand-feed sharks and guitarfish. Watch majestic predators up close in District 22. Dates throughout 2026. Perfect for kids and adults.
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Shark feeding at Budapest’s Tropicarium takes place every Thursday in 2026, serving up a thrill-packed, family-friendly spectacle. Trained, dive-certified keepers plunge weekly into a nearly 1.4-million-ounce saltwater tank, 13.1 feet deep and kept at about 69.8–73.4°F, to hand-feed the sharks and the shark-tailed guitarfish, a rarity in Hungary. The show starts at 14:30, when the predators are given roughly 26.5–33 pounds of sea fish straight from the keepers’ hands. Venue: 1222 Budapest, District 22 – Budafok-Tétény, Nagytétényi Road (Nagytétényi út) 37–43.
Settle in front of the giant aquarium glass, let the soothing music roll, and take in the sharks’ majestic glide, subtle signals, and playful bursts. It’s the kind of slow-burn drama that hooks kids and adults alike.
Social hunting is rare among sharks, but sand tiger sharks are often seen near their own kind—sometimes dozens around shipwrecks or cave mouths. They can gulp air at the surface and store it in their stomachs to fine-tune buoyancy. Their look has hurt them: that elongated snout, cold, fixed stare, and dagger-like, protruding teeth make them seem far more dangerous than they are. For decades, attacks were blamed on them without proof, fueling eradication drives that wiped out populations in parts of southeastern Australia.
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Organizers reserve the right to change times and programs.
