SeaWorld Ancol Seaworld Jakarta

Minor updates, based on recent YouTube videos of the aquarium:
1. The wallago catfish has been phased out.
2. There's also some animals that have been added, such as an Amboina box turtle and three arothon pufferfish (Immaculatus, manilensis, and reticularis)
3. The last scalloped hammerhead shark on display in the aquarium has been phased out, we wouldn't be seeing other hammerhead sharks anytime soon
4. Despite having multiple aquariums, the jellyfish zone only have moon and upside-down jellyfish, althought varying in size, which make it a little bit interesting
5. SeaWorld's nudibranch is short lived, the seahorse has returned to its exhibit

Since 2019, SeaWorld's collection in my opinion decreased in quality. There's not really much interesting species aside from 5-6 animals. I understand why SeaWorld seems to not be interested in getting good species. In 2017, they acquire the Japanese spider crabs, but the visitors was said to be more interested with the sharks and rays, making the crabs unpopular. Judging by that, SeaWorld seems to acquire the more popular and more well known species, the ones you've seen in films and in animal YouTube channels, so I can't blame them and the visitors too.

But in the end, what I love about SeaWorld is the exhibits, especially the "cave zone", the one with the titan triggerfish and pineapplefish, and the sharkquarium. But please phased out the sea turtle touch pool, which is definetaly the awful part of SeaWorld. You can still replace it with some freshwater turtles, which the neighbouring Ocean Dream had done.
 
Nandito said:
Minor updates, based on recent YouTube videos of the aquarium:
1. The wallago catfish has been phased out.
2. There's also some animals that have been added, such as an Amboina box turtle and three arothon pufferfish (Immaculatus, manilensis, and reticularis)
3. The last scalloped hammerhead shark on display in the aquarium has been phased out, we wouldn't be seeing other hammerhead sharks anytime soon
4. Despite having multiple aquariums, the jellyfish zone only have moon and upside-down jellyfish, althought varying in size, which make it a little bit interesting
5. SeaWorld's nudibranch is short lived, the seahorse has returned to its exhibit

Since 2019, SeaWorld's collection in my opinion decreased in quality. There's not really much interesting species aside from 5-6 animals. I understand why SeaWorld seems to not be interested in getting good species. In 2017, they acquire the Japanese spider crabs, but the visitors was said to be more interested with the sharks and rays, making the crabs unpopular. Judging by that, SeaWorld seems to acquire the more popular and more well known species, the ones you've seen in films and in animal YouTube channels, so I can't blame them and the visitors too.

But in the end, what I love about SeaWorld is the exhibits, especially the "cave zone", the one with the titan triggerfish and pineapplefish, and the sharkquarium. But please phased out the sea turtle touch pool, which is definetaly the awful part of SeaWorld. You can still replace it with some freshwater turtles, which the neighbouring Ocean Dream had done.
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So sad that my first ever favorite marine aquarium gone downhill since 2019. Well, 2019 was the last time I saw the spider crabs, octopus and hammerhead shark before they go bye bye. As for the turtle exhibit, so far only 2 species since they added amboina box turtle (which is an improvement) but they could go for more like red-belly sideneck turtles or pignose turtles. They can add archerfish and horseshoe crab in the mangrove exhibit, and the latter used to be there back in 2019.

As for the rest, they can phase out the "kuwe gondrong" or African pompanos and move the angelfish to the reef tank. Their tanks can be inhabited by a smaller octopus (i.e Octopus vulgaris or Octopus ornatus) and maybe a pair of wobbegong sharks. Larger bamboo sharks from the touch pool can be in the former pompano tank too, mixed with other fishes maybe like coral trout or barracudas like in Jakarta Aquarium. The triggers and puffers can be mixed, and the former trigger tank could house spiny lobsters or mantis shrimps (the latter is more attractive because of its dancing swimming movements, which resembles a sea serpent).

As for the shark aquarium, I hope they obtain hammerheads in the future, maybe when this pandemic winds down and things go back to normal again, and so as their attendance. If they could, they can go for sand tigers and sandbars too.

And for the sea turtle exhibit, I'm hoping they could house green and loggerhead sea turtles, or move the larger hawksbills from the touch pool to there. They can demolish the smaller touch pools, move the sea stars into the same pool as the sharks, and move the blacktip reefs to the shark aquarium. Bamboos can stay there.
 
Fargusno said:
So sad that my first ever favorite marine aquarium gone downhill since 2019. Well, 2019 was the last time I saw the spider crabs, octopus and hammerhead shark before they go bye bye. As for the turtle exhibit, so far only 2 species since they added amboina box turtle (which is an improvement) but they could go for more like red-belly sideneck turtles or pignose turtles. They can add archerfish and horseshoe crab in the mangrove exhibit, and the latter used to be there back in 2019.

As for the rest, they can phase out the "kuwe gondrong" or African pompanos and move the angelfish to the reef tank. Their tanks can be inhabited by a smaller octopus (i.e Octopus vulgaris or Octopus ornatus) and maybe a pair of wobbegong sharks. Larger bamboo sharks from the touch pool can be in the former pompano tank too, mixed with other fishes maybe like coral trout or barracudas like in Jakarta Aquarium. The triggers and puffers can be mixed, and the former trigger tank could house spiny lobsters or mantis shrimps (the latter is more attractive because of its dancing swimming movements, which resembles a sea serpent).

As for the shark aquarium, I hope they obtain hammerheads in the future, maybe when this pandemic winds down and things go back to normal again, and so as their attendance. If they could, they can go for sand tigers and sandbars too.

And for the sea turtle exhibit, I'm hoping they could house green and loggerhead sea turtles, or move the larger hawksbills from the touch pool to there. They can demolish the smaller touch pools, move the sea stars into the same pool as the sharks, and move the blacktip reefs to the shark aquarium. Bamboos can stay there.
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Interesting ideas, but I would prefer the pompano tank to be remodelled like it used to be as a sea cavern exhibit. I thought it was a interesting exhibit with the mix (Lobsters, cuttlefish, day octopus, etc.), sad that I never got to see it.
 
Nandito said:
Interesting ideas, but I would prefer the pompano tank to be remodelled like it used to be as a sea cavern exhibit. I thought it was a interesting exhibit with the mix (Lobsters, cuttlefish, day octopus, etc.), sad that I never got to see it.
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Better idea. I want the sea cavern design back again, this time with lobsters, cuttlefish and maybe groupers (coral trouts and/or seabass)
 
SeaWorld has displayed a model of an dugong, a species they used to keep, in their museum, which display some of the aquarium's former animals like Gudel the giant Pacific octopus and Parni the giant stingray.
 

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SeaWorld has displayed a model of an dugong, a species they used to keep, in their museum, which display some of the aquarium's former animals like Gudel the giant Pacific octopus and Parni the giant stingray.
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This exhibit was part of an upgrade of the aquarium's museum, which the exhibit also houses sand tiger shark, tawny nurse shark, and bull shark. It's great that they finally upgraded one of my favorite area in the aquarium after a while.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CcMsxepLOng/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
 
SeaWorld has display an new vehicle-themed aquarium, this time a truck. It is larger and have more space. It seems to house either parrot cichlids or goldfish from the video, I couldn't tell.
 

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I currenly doesn't have any news, but @Fargusno has sent me a nice old jingle of SeaWorld Indonesia before they were fully acquried by Ancol.

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Ah yes, the good 'ol days on SeaWorld Indonesia when they used to had Club Si Woli (I joined it because members gets free admission), awesome animals (like the bull shark, hammerhead shark, giant whipray, giant pacific octopus, saltwater crocodile and dugong) and of course, friendly staffs that I knew so well, they became friends with me.

Man I miss SWI days (1996-2014)
 
Fargusno said:
Ah yes, the good 'ol days on SeaWorld Indonesia when they used to had Club Si Woli (I joined it because members gets free admission), awesome animals (like the bull shark, hammerhead shark, giant whipray, giant pacific octopus, saltwater crocodile and dugong) and of course, friendly staffs that I knew so well, they became friends with me.

Man I miss SWI days (1996-2014)
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They really went downhill from that point onward. Wish they had the same species management as the previous administration, the new one under Ancol make it look like they treat SeaWorld as like some private home aquarium collection.
 
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Nandito said:
They really went downhill from that point onward. Wish they had the same species management as the previous administration, the new one under Ancol make it look like they treat SeaWorld as like some private home aquarium collection.
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I agree. Jakarta Aquarium been adding lots of exotic species lately like the capuchin monkey and wobbegong shark while SeaWorld Ancol pointlessly add fishes commonly seen in fish stores like parrot cichlid and koran angelfish. Guessing they don't have enough money to buy exotic species for a while after the pandemic costed them a lot, or they're just too lazy to do so and used this as an excuse.

That's why I prefer Jakarta Aquarium nowadays, despite their small size. SeaWorld's exhibits and spaces are bigger, but they wasted them on useless stuff.
 
SeaWorld Ancol recently displayed a new and suprising species of fish, very unexpected to me actually and shocked me to the very core, probably the first time ever that any large and renowned public aquaria ever display this fish. It is the one and only, GloFish™.
 
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