Sea Life Adventure New attractions open at Sea Life Adventure

DesertRhino150

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A little bit late, but anyway...

Two new attractions have been opened at the Southend Sea Life Adventure- the Crawl Wall is twenty-one displays featuring Chilean rose and red-kneed tarantulas, imperial and hissing scorpions, orchid and peacock mantids, assassin bugs, hissing and green cockroaches, locusts, millipedes and giant centipedes.

The Scale Trail is next to the current Morelet's crocodile exhibit and houses corn and milk snakes, basilisk lizards, axolotl, tiger salamanders, the leopard, Madagascan day and crested geckos, bearded dragons and a red-sided skink (if the official website is to be believed, there could also be green crested lizards).

Sealife Adventure:Crawl Wall

https://kidaroundmagazine.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/two-new-attractions-open-at-sea-life-adventure/
 
Visited Sea Life Adventures recently. Alas,did not have the opportunity to take photographs.

Since my last visit many moons ago,they have added outdoor wood framed enclosures in the play area for non aquarium animals,with some new additions. These house Crab-eating Macaques,Meerkats and African Spur-thighed and Leopard Tortoises.

There is also a Butterfly House and Pangaea,a little tropical walkthrough with sound effect non animatronic dinosaur models.

Down in the lower exterior walkway beneath the footbridge where the Asian Small-clawed Otter enclosure was from my last visit, The Otters species are still there,alongside a Humboldty Penguin pool and a small enclosure holding Yellow Mongoose

The aquarium is sectioned into roughly. Coasts,Abyss,Amazonia,Coral Reefs,The Deep,Kraken/Atlantis (themed) and a non touch Ray pool

These are what Southend SLA have information signage for. Apart from four species signs i could not see due to that section being dark (one said Mine Urchin or something?). FROM ENTRANCE TO EXIT

Lesser Spotted Catshark
Black Sea Bream x2 tanks
Thick-lipped Grey Mullet
Painted Ray
Pollack
Plaice
Goldsinney Wrasse
Tompat Blenny
Daisy Anemone
Strawberry Anemone
Beadlet Anemone
Hermit Crab
Rock Cook Wrasse
Edible Sea Urchin
Big Belly Seahorse
Bloody Henry Starfish
Purple Sunstar
European Spiny Lobster
Poor Cod
Dahlia Anemone
Snakelock Anemone
Common Brittlestar
Plumnose Anemone
Common European Eel
Toad Crab Sea Spider
Spiny Starfish
Common Sunstar
Red bellied? Urchin
'Montiporra sp' Urchin
Beaded Anemone
Toad Stool Coral
Button Polyp Coral
Frogspawn Coral
'seaweed'
Emerald Crab
Chocolate Chip Starfish
Green Hairy Coral
Kenya Tree Coral
Torch Coral
Bubbletip Anemone
Carpet Anemone
Cabbage Leather Coral

Copperband Butterflyfish x tanks
Blue Chromis
Coral Beauty fish
Regal Tang x several tansk
Chalk Bass (?)
Talbot's Damsel
Purple Brush Gorgonian Coral
Clownfish
Black & White Clownfish
Banggai Cardinal
pyjama Cardinal
Shrimpfish
Valentin's Sharpnose Puffer
'Wreck Fish' sp pseudanthus squampinnis?
Skunk Clownfish
Dot Dash Butterflyfish
Striated Surgeonfish
Flame Angel Fish
Leopard Wrasse
Banana Wrasse
Royal Gramma
'Butterflyfish sp chaelondontidae?
Yellowtail Blue Damsel
Blue Green Chromis

Amazonia

Butterfly Goodied
Clouded Archerfish
Cherry Shrimp
Sunshine Pleco
Bamboo Shrimp
Cardinal Tetra
Red bellied Piranha

Exterior

Crab-eating Macaque
Leopard Tortoise
African Spur thighed Tortoise
Meerkats

Pangaea

Giant African Land Snail
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Mbu Pufferfish
Red-finned Cigar Shark
Leatherfish Squeaker ??
Bristlenose Catfish
Red bellied Pacu
Tiger Shovelnose 'catfish'
Black Pacu
Giant Gourami

models of T Rex,Triceratops,Deinonychus,Stegosaurus,
Kentrosaurus,Dilophosaurus and Velociraptor

Butterfly House
Leaf Cutter Ants
Salmon Pink Tarantula
Boeseman's Rainbowfish
Green Keel belied Lizard
Sun Beetle
African Dwarf Crocodile (perhaps Morelet's?)
Green & Black Poison Dart Frog
Antony's Poison Fart Frog
Giant Madagascar Day Gecko


Butterflies:
Scarlet Mormon
Blue Morpho (doesn't every butterfly house!)
Giant Owl
Plain Tiger
Giant Wood Nymph
Clipper
Postman
Pat
Lime Swallowtail
Emerald Swallowtail
Monarch
Great Mormon
Tailed Jay
Sulfur

Swinhoe's Squirrel
Humboldt Penguin
Yellow Mongoose
Asian Small clawed Otter

California Horned Shark
Honeycomb Moray Eel
Doubletooth Soldierfish
Sergeant Major Damsel
Birdmouth Wrasse
Eclipse Hogfish
Dog Face Puffer
Zebra Shark
Picasso Triggerfish
Pacific Pearlscale Butterflyfish
more Regal Tang
Blue striped Snapper
Indian ocean Anthia/Anthea
Red Lionfish

x4 species whose signs were too dark to read.One a possible Mine Urchin?

Yellow Goatfish
Roundfin Batfish
Lookdown
Striped Damsel
Sea Goldies
Slingjaw Wrasse
Sweetlips Houli.....
Blackstreak Surgeonfish
Brown Banded Bamboo Shark
Cownose Ray
Scribbled Filefish
Lipstick Tang
Blue Triggerfish
Porkfish
Bicolur Goatfish
Longnose Butterflyfish
Foxface Rabbitfish
Spotted Boxfish


Phew! Is that thorough enough for ya,?
 
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