What is coming to the coast

The coast section of the aquarium with the ever popular ray touch tank at its centre is renovating three of its tanks. I've been told that this is unusual for them to be taking down and renovating three tanks in the same area at the same time.



Firstly they have taken down the existing seahorse tank and have given it a complete refit. As the above picture shows they have rebuilt the hardscape, added some of the plants and have filled it with water. They should be putting in seahorses soon.



Now this tank has been down for a few weeks at least and they have have done a major rebuild on the tank. When i asked what the tank will focus on I was told it was going to be a sea grass exhibit. Whilst I do not currently know what fish will be included in the tank I believe the Red Fire Shrimp in the box are being acclimatised to the tank and will form part of the exhibit. The below picture gives a closer view of the amazingly bright coloured shrimp.





Finally we come to the tank which is the most interesting to me. These tanks joined by tubes are going to become a deep sea exhibit. Now I have not found out what fish this exhibit will house but i have been told that half the tank will be blacked out. From what i have been told the fish will not be the grotesque, giant teethed fish but still fish that you would not normally see in a snorkeling trip.

I hope you have found the state of these tanks interesting. I will keep you updated as i see the tanks being filled.

Hello

Just to be very clear this is an unofficial blog about the blue planet aquarium in Ellesmere Port, in the North West of England. I have not be asked to create this blog by anyone and i can guarantee am not being paid to write it. I am a local resident with an annual pass who enjoys the Aquarium immensely and I would like to share some information about the Aquarium. Since getting an annual pass visit the aquarium about once a week. I often take work from the office to the aquarium and work there as i find it a great environment to work in (as long as i bring head phones to cut out the noise of the occasional school trip).

This blog will mainly focus on talking about the exhibits and the fish within them. I will hopefully also be able to post information about new additions to the tanks and new exhibits. For example recently they have added an adult lobster into the ray tank in the shoreline exhibit (see below pic).