Favorite Freshwater Fish Galleries

Enzothephotographer

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One category of zoo and aquarium exhibits I've grown attached to are exhibits of galleries dedicated to aquatic life in freshwater locations around the world, with my main interest being aquatic rainforest fish. So I was wondering what your favorite freshwater fish collections are
 
SeaWorld San Diego had a pretty nice little freshwater fish gallery but it was closed a few years ago. The best has to be River Giants at the Tennessee River Aquarium or the rivers of the world (and) Amazon River Aquarium at Singapore River Safari.
 
The Rivers and Streams exhibit at Cairns Aquarium is quite nice, a good collection of local species. Rock tank borders, fake tree roots and gum tree, and a speaker playing the calls of local birds is a nice touch. It features:
Jungle Perch
Fly River Turtle
Sooty Grunter
Silver Grunter
Tully River Grunter
Gulf Saratoga
Australian Short-Finned Eel
Barramundi
Jade Perch
Snakehead Gudgeon
Sleepy Cod
Australian Freshwater Moray
Pacific Blue-Eye
Eastern Rainbowfish
Tandanus
unidentified eel-tailed catfish species, perhaps Hyrtl's Catfish
Bullrout
Redclaw Crayfish
Giant Jungle Prawn
sleeper goby species, likely Empire Gudgeon
Mangrove Jack
Forktail Catfish
Freshwater Whiptail Ray

The exhibit's main attraction, the Freshwater Sawfish, has been released after outgrowing it's tank, and the exhibit used to have Yabby as well, but have since been taken off exhibit.

The freshwater exhibits (there are two) at Kyoto Aquarium are nice too, I am unfamiliar with many species kept but of the ones I can identify, they have:
Hybrid Giant Salamander (Japanese x Chinese)
Masu Salmon
Whitespotted Char
Common Carp
Amur Catfish (signed but not seen)
Japanese Eel
Barbel Steed
Yellow Pond Turtle
Japanese Ricefish
Japanese Freshwater Crab
Giant Water Bug
Diving Beetle
Oriental Weatherloach
Japanese Fluvial Sculpin
stickleback species
salamander species
bitterling species
 
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