Blue Planet Aquarium
Below are images taken from some of the photos that I took on a visit to the Blue Planet Aquarium, Ellesmere Port, UK. The displays
are very impressive, and feature a wider range of freshwater tropical fish than many public aquaria.
Hold mouse over thumbnail pic for description, left-click for larger picture.
Tropical Tankbusters |
The hugely impressive tankbusters tank contained two red-tailed catfish, pacus,
arowanas, tiger shovelnose catfish and the centrepiece (for me!) - an Arapaima gigas (pirarucu). |
![Tiger shovelnose in the tankbusters tank](Images/bp-tsn.jpg) |
![Red tailed catfish and tiger shovelnose](Images/bp-rtc_tsn.jpg) |
![Arapaima gigas](Images/bp-arapaima.jpg) |
Malawi Display Tank |
The large Malawi display tank contained a huge range of the cichlids found
in Lake Malawi, East Africa. |
![Malawi display tank](Images/bp-malawi1.jpg) |
![Malawi display tank](Images/bp-malawi2.jpg) |
![Malawi display tank](Images/bp-malawi3.jpg) |
Other Freshwater displays |
The Asian Rivers display tank was a large circular tank containing sharks,
barbs, and rasboras. Other freshwater diplays included a tank housing several electric eels, and a South American
leaf fish. |
![Asian rivers display tank](Images/bp-asianriv.jpg) |
![Electric eel](Images/bp-elec_eel.jpg) |
![Leaf fish](Images/bp-leaffish.jpg) |
Brackish |
The brackish display tank contained archer fish, scats, shark catfish and a
separate shallow-water area for mudskippers. |
![Brackish display tank](Images/bp-brackish1.jpg) |
![Brackish display tank](Images/bp-brackish2.jpg) |
![Mudskippers](Images/bp-mudskip.jpg) |
Marine Displays |
Several marine species were featured in separate rectangular or cylindrical
display tanks, a small selection are pictured below. |
![Regal Tangs](Images/bp-marine1.jpg) |
![Copperband butterflyfish and Emperor angelfish](Images/bp-coppbfly.jpg) |
![Young Hammerhead Sharks](Images/bp-lionfish.jpg) |
Amphibians and Reptiles |
A display tank featured several axelotl's and there were several tanks containing
tropical frogs, including the Golden Dart Frog pictured below - apparently the most poisonous animal in
the world. |
![Axelotl](Images/bp-axelotl.jpg) |
![Golden Dart Frog](Images/bp-golddf.jpg) |
![Caiman](Images/bp-caiman.jpg) |
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