All New

There are loads of new things at the Blue Planet Aquarium, especially in the "where land meets sea" coast area. In the "where land meets sea" area three tanks have been refurbished and they look great. They now have a sea grass tank (below) with Banggai Cardinal, some unidentified snails and Pipefish (currently no information about what species please add a comment if you know from the picture).



But thats just to start, in the second refurbished tank (which used to house Sea Horses)they know have a pair of Tasseled filefish. The tank currently only has two fish and I believe they will add more in the future.





They have also added a new Shark and Ray egg case display tank.












The final of the three tanks is actually two displays. The photo below shows the two tanks joined by tubes which water freely passes through. Both tanks are half blacked out.

The tank on the right with natural illumination is currently housing Seahorses. I could spot three seahorses in the tank and at least 1 of the seahorses was very clearly fat with young.

But the left tank with red illumination had something very interesting. Palau Nautilus which normally live between 100m-300m below the sea. I have never seen anything like this in a public aquarium. I will be looking in more detail at the Palau Nautilus in my next blog.

But the its not just tanks, the Blue Planet Aquarium also has a new novelty coin press that for 50p will flatten a 1p coin and inprint on it one of 4 water realted images.



Thats all i can fit in this blog but please come back soon to find out more information about the Blue Planet Aquarium.