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The December 2016 issue of 'Practical Reptile Keeping' magazine has an article about the design and building of the enclosure for Lake Zacapu garter snakes.
One thing to note is that the snakes came from Steven Bol, an expert and private keeper of various garter and water snakes.
 
A change to one of the exhibits at The Deep is on their website. The former 'Bug Olympics' section has been changed and retitled 'Hull Bugs' in preparation for Hull being City of Culture in 2017. It houses nine species of invertebrate and focuses on three areas (industry, sport and heritage), each animal representing a person, organisation or area within the city.

The full list of the nine species, and what they represent are as follows:
- Indian giant tiger centipede - Hull City FC (often referred to as the Tigers)
- Wellington tree weta - Hull KR Rugby Club
- Cameroon armoured cricket - Arco and the safety wear industry
- Malaysian leaf katydid - KCOM (Hull's communications provider)
- Madagascar fishing spider - Hull's maritime history
- Jewel wasp - William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade
- Giant flower beetle - Art and diversity within Hull
- Question-mark cockroach - Hull FC Rugby League football club
- David Bowie spider - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

I personally quite like the idea for this exhibit - the very interesting list of species certainly helps as well.
 
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1.1 Loggerhead turtles have arrived from Belgium.

For those of you that haven't heard, we've had some exciting new arrivals here at The Deep; a pair of Loggerhead sea turtles called Sensa and Mabouche. They were rescued after being caught on fisherman’s long lines in the Mediterranean, which damaged their lower jaws. Even after rehabilitation at a special centre in Italy, it was decided they couldn’t go back into the wild as they wouldn’t be able to catch their own food so Aquatopia in Belgium have been looking after them for the last 5 years.

They are currently settling in, in our off-show facility and will be joining our 2.4m litre Endless Ocean exhibit in the coming weeks once they are used to their new surroundings.
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Another arrival from Aquatopia in Belgium along with the loggerhead turtles mentioned on Facebook is a male zebra shark called Smos. The intention is for him to form a breeding pair with the resident female shark.
 
DesertRhino150 said:
Another arrival from Aquatopia in Belgium along with the loggerhead turtles mentioned on Facebook is a male zebra shark called Smos. The intention is for him to form a breeding pair with the resident female shark.
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Why did aquatopia close?
 
DesertRhino150 said:
A change to one of the exhibits at The Deep is on their website. The former 'Bug Olympics' section has been changed and retitled 'Hull Bugs' in preparation for Hull being City of Culture in 2017. It houses nine species of invertebrate and focuses on three areas (industry, sport and heritage), each animal representing a person, organisation or area within the city.

The full list of the nine species, and what they represent are as follows:
- Indian giant tiger centipede - Hull City FC (often referred to as the Tigers)
- Wellington tree weta - Hull KR Rugby Club
- Cameroon armoured cricket - Arco and the safety wear industry
- Malaysian leaf katydid - KCOM (Hull's communications provider)
- Madagascar fishing spider - Hull's maritime history
- Jewel wasp - William Wilberforce and the abolition of the slave trade
- Giant flower beetle - Art and diversity within Hull
- Question-mark cockroach - Hull FC Rugby League football club
- David Bowie spider - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

I personally quite like the idea for this exhibit - the very interesting list of species certainly helps as well.
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that is a good line-up. Does anywhere else in the UK display tree weta and David Bowie spiders, anyone know?
 
Chlidonias said:
that is a good line-up. Does anywhere else in the UK display tree weta and David Bowie spiders, anyone know?
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I don't remember hearing of either of those species being on display elsewhere - the description of this exhibit on the Deep's website does state that some of the invertebrates are the only ones of their kind on display.
 
Red devil crabs have arrived and gone on-display in Deep Blue One, the Deep's rivers display.

Also, the new Mangrove Lagoon has opened and fish have been added - some of the animals include young zebra sharks, a species of stingray, Moorish idol, regal tang, pyramid butterflyfish, harlequin tuskfish and stars-and-stripes pufferfish. Videos are included on the Facebook page of The Deep and a longer one is available on the Facebook page of upcoming attraction Jurassica, courtesy of the exhibit designer.
 
Looking back at my post it seems a bit snappy, which was not intended, so apologies.
 
Fifty Critically Endangered Desertas wolf spiderlings have arrived at The Deep, as part of a rearing programme with the intention to reintroduce them back into the wild. Additional juvenile spiders will be collected in the future which would return to The Deep and other European institutions for breeding.

News comes from both Facebook and the website:
Latest News | The Deep
 
Been checking back through the Facebook page for The Deep to check if there are any new arrivals that haven't been reported on here. Since late July, there have been announcements or videos concerning the arrival of Peter's elephantnose trunkfish, Madagascar red killifish (both fish in the Deep Blue One rivers section), common cuttlefish and comb-jellies (both invertebrates in the Cool Seas section).
 
The Deep, together with ZSL, Sea Life and Bangor University's School of Ocean Sciences are to cooperate in a programme to develop ways of breeding and farming coral reef fish. To start with, the Sustainable Aquariums Project (SNAP) will work with 20 popular reef species that have not been bred in captivity before including species of butterflyfish, rabbitfish, wrasse and tang. If successful, this project could lead to the first commercial hatchery for these species, based in Wales, supplying aquariums and hobbyists across the continent.

More information is included in the link below:

Latest news from The Deep | The Deep
 
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