Reptarium I visited Legasea Aquarium and Reptarium early (4/19/25)... but my species list needs YOUR ID help!

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Due to my membership to the former "Reptarium" facility, I was able to enter this WIP new, expanded facility before the public did! I already did really like my sole visit to the old place (just across the street), but this is shaping up to be a truly spectacular facility with some fantastic displays. Expect to spend a good while in here. Do note that the place isn't finished yet; the Reptarium (the old part moved over, albeit greatly improved in many ways) is more finished than the aquarium wing. Also note that I am not an expert on fish in particular - the current lack of signage in almost the whole aquarium wing doesn't help, same for the employees currently learning all these names with me as they're more knowledgeable on reptiles, and I may also give wrong ID - and I will not be listing any coral species here (though I will say there was a lot of live coral). I'm probably never trying a species list of this scale again lol.

But yeah, I have the outline to my species list in my phone notes already, but as someone with relatively little knowledge on fish in particular, I'll need those of you more up on fish, aquatic invert, and reptile Invert, me to help! Check the image gallery for The Reptarium now and leave some species ID comments! I'd post my outline as is (maybe I will if people want a partial list already), but I'm embarrassed about putting myself up to such a task I can't do lol. Also, I apologize that not every picture I took turned out. I DID take a picture of every single individual exhibit in the building, for the purpose of cataloging each one here, but some were too crud to upload.

Some of you have already helped out a little - thank you!
 
ALRIGHT IT'S TIME
Huge thanks to @AubreyKitsune, @Mr Gharial, @Great Argus, @Astrotom3000, @USZOOfan42, and @Zoo adventures for the help!

Entrance animals, outside:
Koi

Reptarium:
Basically an expanded version of the old facility, with exhibits of largely reptiles (and some amphibians and arthropods; a mammal in the future) often taken out as ambassadors, with a couple new faces. Some are labeled by individual name.
Red-Eared Sliders
Alligator Snapping Turtle (Bowser)
Green Anaconda (Ivy)
Sulawesi Black Sailfin Lizard
Reticulated Pythons (separately housed throughout) (Neopolitan, Al Machino, Night Fury, Blondie, Perdita, Sunfire, Dottie)
Burmese Pythons (separately housed throughout) (Marshmallow, Penelope, Sunrise, Switch)
Phantasmal Poison Dart Frogs (possibly other species hiding)
Argentine Black-and-White Tegu (Terrence)
Baby Albino Alligator
Bell's Phase Lace Monitor (Beetlejuice)
Pixie Frog
Three Baby American Alligators (like, maybe only a few days old)
Crocodile Monitor (Baby Kush)
Asian Water Monitors (separately housed) (Elvis and Toothless)
2 Rhinoceros Iguanas (Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong)
Nile Monitor (Lyle)
Large unsigned Albino Python, either Burmese or Reticulated
2 Boa Constrictors
Albino Alligator (Salt)
Green Iguana (Hienz)/2 Red-Footed Tortoises
Black-Headed Python
Frilled Lizard
Bullsnake (El Torro)
Eastern Kingsnake (Luna)
Mexican Black Kingsnake (Midnight)
2 Ackie Monitors (separately housed) (one is Cherry Pop)
Unspecified Collared Lizards (Mateo and Rosa)
Central Bearded Dragon
Pixie Frog
Carpet Python (Lemon Drop)
Common Blue-Tongued Skink
Sudan Plated Lizard
Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Tiger Lily)
Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Matilda). He (apparently a he) will in the future (probably by the time the public can visit) share his space with a Capybara.
Moroccan Uromastyx (King Tut)
Boelen's Python (Bugatti)
Corn Snake (Maize)
Iguanian like a black Chuckwalla or Uromastyx or a small Cyclura without spines along the back - I couldn't ID them and my pics didn't turn out
3 Ornate Uromastyx
2 Emerald Tree Monitors
Emerald Tree Boa (Karl)
2 Ball Pythons (separately housed)
Savanna Monitor (Cowboy)
Diamond Python
2 Red-Eared Sliders - Chopstix has 2 heads and the other is albino.

Arthropod Wall (in the Reptarium)
Nothing is signed and most were hiding.
Two Tarantulas were visible but I didn't have the expertise to ID them; they weren't the "usual" species you see. More clearly existed in other exhibits based on silk in them.
Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches
Blue Death Feigning Beetles
Clearly some other species that didn't want to show their faces

Aquarium:
While the Reptarium is also great, I cannot stress enough how excellent these displays are, even unfinished (eg no signage on a single one, several tanks are empty). Again, I may get ID wrong - it was a day of herptile folks in the staff actively studying the naso tang together for when people ask about them, and making it very clear that they are still learning all of these fish themselves. The Reptarium section is only slightly increased in size from the original version, meaning the facility can now be best described as a "medium size, set aside at least 2.5 hours aquarium that starts with a reptile exhibit".

First Room:

Koi

Discus

Parrot Cichlids/Bolivian Ram Cichlids

Yellow Lab Cichlids/Blue Mbuna/Emperor Peacock Cichlids/Red Peacock Cichlids/Flavescent Cichlids/Dragon's Blood Peacock Cichlid/Nkhomo-Benga Peacock Cichlid/Eureka Red Peacock Cichlid/Possibly other Cichlids

Flowerhorn

WIP tropical herp wall in first aquarium room (was getting set up at that very moment; many exhibits getting live plants planted):
2 Parson's Chameleons (separately housed)
Chahoua Gecko

Zig-zag Amazon tank:
A very long and impressive Amazon river tank that zig-zags through much of one hall.
Freshwater Angelfish/Guppies/Mexican Mollies/Sailfin Mollies/Platies

Mammal wall:
Adjacent to the zig-zagging Amazon tank, there are four mammal exhibits:
Linne's Two-Toed Sloth
Six-Banded Armadillo
Completely empty. A keeper told me that what will eventually go in here is up to serious employee debate. The two really popular suggestions are Prehensile-Tailed Porcupine (I'm presuming Brazilian) and "wild cat ambassador" (would that be a Serval? Bobcat?) Per Zoo adventures, may end up the home of an African Crested Porcupine (Sid).
Binturong

The "Giant Predator Fish" tank:
A very large and impressive tank! The residents here are all, as the name suggests, giant predatory freshwater fish. I actually got to assist in feeding them these little dead gobies(?) Had a good long talk with the keeper during then. Apparently nearly if not all of these are rescues that were bought at pet stores as little babies and then grew absolutely massive. Research your pets, people!
Alligator Gars/Clown Knifefish/Red-Tailed Catfish/Tiger Shovelnose Catfish/Red-Tail x Tiger Shovelnose Catfish Hybrid/Giant Gouramis/Iridescent Sharks/Silver Arowana/Giant Pangasius/Plecostomus (as in the most common pet species)
Possibly also Pacu, per AubreyKitsune.

Weird vibey GloFish room:
A room in between areas that has three cylindrical tanks of GloFish. The tanks ambiently fade between colors. I believe these tanks and the dark room they are in were originally designed for jellyfish.
GloFish Black Skirt Tetras/GloFish Zebra Danios

The next room!:

Xingu River Rays/Fly River Turtle (Mike, as I overheard from a keeper and confirmed by Zoo adventures)

Banded Archerfish

Atlantic Blue Tangs/Doctorfish Tang/Ocean Surgeonfish/Foureye Butterflyfish/Blue Reef Chromis/Vagabond Butterflyfish/Reef Butterflyfish/French Angelfish/Bermuda Blue Angelfish/Grey Angelfish/Either a Barred or Florida Hamlet/Other Fish

Overhead tunnel arch:
Another very impressive exhibit with two vertical aquariums connected by a passageway overhead.
Clown Triggerfish/Emperor Angelfish/Masked Bannerfish/Blackbar Soldierfish/Regal Angelfish/Purple Tang/Green Chromis/Birdnose Wrasse/Yellow Goatfish/Humpback Grouper
Possibly in here according to AubreyKitsune: Black Butterflyfish/Blue Girdled Angelfish/Clark's Anemonefish/Flame Angelfish/Pearlscale Angelfish

I forgot which tank before this point had a Blackspotted Pufferfish

To the next room beyond the arch!:
Lots of WIP in here, eg tanks either completely empty or only with coral.

Spotted Garden Eels/Mandarinfish

The more finished and very big next room:

2 Red Lionfish

Cownose Rays (touch tank)

Common Seahorses

Porkfish/Spanish Hogfish/Cuban Hogfish/Atlantic Spadefish/Seargeant Major Damselfish/High Hat/Blue Rainbow Parrotfish/Goldsaddle Goatfish

Carribean Spiny Lobsters/Dusky Squirrelfish

Blond Naso Tang/Pennant Coralfish/Fiji Devil Damselfish/Sunburst Butterflyfish/Unidentified Butterflyfish/small fish, yellow on top and lighter on bottom (pictures turned out crud)/King Angelfish/Honeycomb Moray (humorously, I didn't notice the moray when I was actually there and now I'm looking at my pictures at home)/Chocolate Chip Sea Star

Clownfish (ocellaris, percula, and hybrids)

Scrawled Cowfish/Tobacco Basslet/Harlequin Bass/Bluehead Wrasse/Yellowhead Wrasse/Lightning Wrasse/Royal Gramma/Blackcap Basslet/Other Fish
Possibly in here according to AubreyKitsune: Flame Cardinalfish/Molly Miller/Neon Goby/Purple Chromis/Rainbow Wrasse/"Dottyback"

Lookdowns

Invert touch tank:
Atlantic Horseshoe Crabs/Pencil Urchins/Atlantic Deer Cowries/Giant Red Hermit Crab

Shark Tank:
Huge tank that could (and probably will) fit many other fish in the future. All sharks are still quite young and small.
3 Blacktip Reef Sharks/Zebra Shark/False Pilchard
Possible in the future, according to USZOOfan42: Bonnethead Sharks/Nurse Sharks

Other species that AubreyKitsune listed on Zootierliste: Amazon Milk Frog, C. cranwelli Pac-Man Frog, Diamondback Terrapin, Razor-Backed Musk Turtle, False Water Cobra, Baron's Green Racer, Malagasy Tree Boa, Mandarin Ratsnake Flower Ratsnake, Black Ratsnake, Grey-Banded Kingsnake, Ocellated Lizard, Red-Eyed Tree Frog, African Fat-Tailed Gecko, Prehensile-Tailed Skink, Crested Gecko, New Caledonian Giant Gecko, Doctor Fish (were at the old facility), Clown Loach, Flamefish, Bicolor Angelfish, Blue-Green Damselfish, Bluestriped Grunt, Rock Beauty, Yellow-Banded Pipefish, Many-Banded Pipefish, Yellowtail Snapper, Painted Wrasse, Harlequin Tuskfish, Pacific Sailfin Tang, Sargassum Triggerfish, Scrawled Filefish, Black Drum, Striped Surgeonfish

I think this place may now be open to the public, or very soon? I hope you guys check it out and tell me everything I did wrong lol.
 
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Addendum: recent Instagram video shows one Splendid Garden Eel in the Spotted Garden Eel/Mandarinfish tank.

Further (other people's) Instagram sleuthing has uncovered a Mexican Red-Knee Tarantula (no way of telling you which species) as one of the inverts, and the Doctor Fish now stocked in a small tank that I didn't even bother to report at first back when it was empty. Somewhere in the facility, there's a Vampire Crab, people are handling it as an ambassador. Most important find of all, however? The blue-tongued skink is named DORITO. HE'S DORITO.
 
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Watched this recent video that mentions some future animals:

*A "frog wall" will be placed on the wall near the "party room" in the first aquarium room. Confirmed species are a Pixie Frog (Son of Sam), an American Bullfrog, and 2 Cane Toads.
*An Axolotl tank is planned for the empty wall between the River Rays and Turtle and Archerfish.
*The large empty tank beyond the overhead tunnel in the same room as the Garden Eels/Mandarinfish will HOPEFULLY house some sort of Jellyfish someday in what will certainly be one of the coolest ever jelly displays (the tank is HUGE), but they keep having technical issues like a leak.

Much else remains a secret for now.
 

This video is mostly about off-exhibit (in a way) ambassadors getting arranged at the old facility, however:

*A very large Pufferfish (unsure of specific species) named Biggie has been stocked into the archway tank.

*A Red Devil Cichlid now lives in the Predator Tank.

*A Mata Mata is in the facility's very near future. Naming contest for it soon.

Of particular note regarding animals housed in the old facility, in terms of relative rarity, are a pair of tiny hatchling Burmese Mountain Tortoises, a species I've personally only seen at Cincinnati.
 
Guess I'll have to keep updating my list!

Per here:

* Mata Mata is on exhibit in the tank next to Chopstix.
* Someday "Catfish" will be added to the zig-zag river (I'd assume Corys?)
* Anemones will be added to the Clownfish tank soon.
* A "small catshark" may be in the invert touch tank's future.

Per here:

* What I identified as a second Ackie Monitor from Cherry Pop was actually a Dumeril's Monitor. Oops! My apologies. I'm nowhere near as good at cold-blooded ID as I am warm-blooded, and I could only see his little head.
* They have obtained a Merten's Water Monitor named Otter and he is already on exhibit.
 
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Sid in Legasea didn't work out well, it got stressed. They plan on transferring the African crested porcupine to another facility soon. Seems that "mammal" space is now the sulcata tortoise's home, at least for now.
 
Visited yesterday. Some updates:

Reptarium:
Note that I circled in the opposite direction of before.
Empty exhibit near water monitors and rhinoceros iguanas is now home to a Green Iguana (Biggie).
New Burmese Python (Trinity)
Former empty exhibit now home to Madagascar Tree Boas (Tarzan and Jane). Jane is expecting.
Per new signage the "mystery iguanian" was a Chuckwalla after all, Common Chuckwalla specifically (Shakira)
There are actually 4 Sudan Plated Lizards, not one (Skipper, Kowalski, Rico, and Private)
Former empty exhibit nearby is now home to a Jeweled Lacerta (Beatles)
Another nearby former empty exhibit (this was where most empty exhibits were) now houses Tomato Frogs (Cherry, Roma, Pico, and Salsa)
New Boa Constrictor in former empty (Mushu)
New former empty Corn Snake (Starburst)
New former empty African Fat-Tailed Gecko (Oreo)
New former empty Western Hognose Snake (George)
New former empty Leopard Gecko (Rocky)
The Collared Lizards are more specifically Eastern Collared Lizards (Bob and Becky)
Former empty Dumeril's Boa (Gerald)
Only one not-albino Baby American Alligator now
Former empty Prehensile-Tailed Skinks (Fred and Wilma)

Bug Wall, still unsigned, but more chose to show their faces:
Vampire Crabs
Scorpion of some sort, possibly Asian Forest
Arizona Blond-Haired Tarantula(?)
Blaberus spp. Cockroaches - Six-Spot?
Other Tarantulas that will need ID
Desert Millipedes

Aquarium, First Room:
There are now Clown Loaches with the Discus

Additions to the now-complete Tropical Herp Wall:
Crested Gecko
Gargoyle Gecko
New Caledonian Giant Gecko
Amazon Milk Frog

Zig-Zag Amazon Tank now has Neon Tetras.

Giant Predator Tank now has an Armored Catfish. I can also now confirm the Pacu. Formerly empty tank nearby now has Glass Catfish.

Overhead tunnel arch now has Silver Monos and Ocellaris Clownfish.

The Jellyfish Tank now has jellies! Moon Jellies, specifically. Only about five of them, which I assume is an acclimation thing.

Garden Eel/Mandarinfish Tank now has Trochus spp. Snails.

Formerly empty tank now houses a Bamboo Shark and a White Ribbon Eel.

Common Seahorse Tank now also houses Banded Pipefish, Bluestripe Pipefish, another Mandarinfish, and a Halloween Hermit Crab

Scrawled Filefish (Kyle) lives in the Porkfish Tank.

Blond Naso Tang Tank now has striped fish that will need ID and a Whitecheek Tang.

Previously empty tanks now have Doctorfish

Cowfish Tank now has Starry Gobies. The Giant Red Hermit Crab has been moved here.

Empty reef tank now has Anthias of some sort and Pacific Blue Tangs.

Invert Touch Tank now has tiny baby Hermit Crabs and the same Trochus spp. as the Seahorse Tank.
 
Per this video that appears to have been filmed before my visit:
* In addition to the Bamboo Shark and White Ribbon Eel, there is also a Skeletor Moray Eel in the tank.
* New additions to the overhead arch: 3 Foxface Rabbitfish, some Blueline Snappers, and a Four Stripe Damselfish.
 
The first part of this video has several updates:
*Anthias are specifically Lyretail Anthias
*Said Tang/Anthias tank also has Firefish
*Biggie the Pufferfish had to move to the Cowfish tank because he was being bullied. Sad, as I loved watching him swim overhead, but I'm glad he's happy now.
*Blond Naso Tang/Golden Trevally tank now also has Sunset Wrasse, Orange-Spotted Rabbitfish, Sailfin Tang, and Black Triggerfish.
*Invert Touch Tank is not just inverts anymore: there's now an Epaulet Shark in there.

From that point onward, the video turns into a crossover of sorts with the Bugs On Wheels lady I've talked about on my Goodell's Earth Fair species lists before! She apparently designed the bug wall!
 
I've got to say. Like most of their exhibits which are rather small, the mammal ones are particularly awful.
 
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