New Mazatlán Aquarium

A Research Article on how to control the parasite Neobenedenia sp. was published by the Gran Acuario de Mazaltán, in collaboration with researchers from Mexican universities. This shows role of aquariums and their collaboration with academia to advance fish medicine and husbandry.

Also includes official data on their largest tank parameters:
  • Volume of 2,583,000 Liters / 682,356 Gallons
  • Spans 427 m2
  • Depth of 7.6 m
  • Temperature 26 °C
And the species list in their largest tank, which includes the none that often seen bignose shark (Full list with each specie´s population count can be found in the article):
  • Scientific name, Common Name,
  • Diodon hystrix, Spot-fin porcupine fish
  • Anisotremus interruptus, Bacoco
  • Caranx caballus, Green jack
  • Caranx caninus, Pacific crevalle jack
  • Chaetodipterus zonatus, Pacific spadefish
  • Trachinotus rhodopus, Gafftopsail pompano
  • Lutjanus argentiventris, Yellow snapper
  • Hoplopagrus guentherii, Barred snapper
  • Lutjanus novemfasciatus, Pacific dog snapper
  • Lutjanus colorado, Colorado snapper
  • Diodon holocanthus, Long-spined porcupinefish
  • Pteroplatytrygon violacea, Pelagic Stingray
  • Aetobatus narinari, Spotted eagle ray
  • Carcharhinus altimus, Bignose shark
  • Gynglimostoma cirratum, Nurse shark
  • Negaprion brevirostris, Lemon shark
  • Bodianus diplotaenia, Mexican hogfish
  • Hyporthodus acanthistius, Rooster hind
  • Trachinotus sp., Pompano
 
flatstingray said:
A Research Article on how to control the parasite Neobenedenia sp. was published by the Gran Acuario de Mazaltán, in collaboration with researchers from Mexican universities. This shows role of aquariums and their collaboration with academia to advance fish medicine and husbandry.

Also includes official data on their largest tank parameters:
  • Volume of 2,583,000 Liters / 682,356 Gallons
  • Spans 427 m2
  • Depth of 7.6 m
  • Temperature 26 °C
And the species list in their largest tank, which includes the none that often seen bignose shark (Full list with each specie´s population count can be found in the article):
  • Scientific name, Common Name,
  • Diodon hystrix, Spot-fin porcupine fish
  • Anisotremus interruptus, Bacoco
  • Caranx caballus, Green jack
  • Caranx caninus, Pacific crevalle jack
  • Chaetodipterus zonatus, Pacific spadefish
  • Trachinotus rhodopus, Gafftopsail pompano
  • Lutjanus argentiventris, Yellow snapper
  • Hoplopagrus guentherii, Barred snapper
  • Lutjanus novemfasciatus, Pacific dog snapper
  • Lutjanus colorado, Colorado snapper
  • Diodon holocanthus, Long-spined porcupinefish
  • Pteroplatytrygon violacea, Pelagic Stingray
  • Aetobatus narinari, Spotted eagle ray
  • Carcharhinus altimus, Bignose shark
  • Gynglimostoma cirratum, Nurse shark
  • Negaprion brevirostris, Lemon shark
  • Bodianus diplotaenia, Mexican hogfish
  • Hyporthodus acanthistius, Rooster hind
  • Trachinotus sp., Pompano
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This is a fascinating peek into the past of this facility. The article states that the outbreak and mortality event happened in April 2023 - so a large number of elasmobranchs either died due to it or have passed since. On my visit in September 2024 they had three silky sharks, two lemon sharks, and a mixture of nurse sharks and Pacific nurse sharks (G. unami). They also didn’t have pelagic stingrays at the time, instead they had longtail stingrays (Hypanus longus). Their “spotted” eagle rays were wild caught in the Sea of Cortez so would thus be Pacific whitespotted rays (A. laticeps). Not sure what the inconsistency with the species name there is but my elasmos list was verified by two of their staff members along with me, so little odd to not see that.
 
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