River Wonders River Wonders Species List 2022

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NATY

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As of April 2022, last visit, 14 April 2022. Might have missed some

River Gems
An aviary and tank with a variety of species

Black phantom tetra
Cardinal tetra
Pearl gourami
Penguin tetra
Rainbow shark
Red-tailed hemiodus tetra
Trumpeter hornbill

Way more species live here but I haven't been able to find

African Rivers

Small wall tank
Congo tetra
Kribensis
Reedfish

First tank
Congo tetra
Eastern bottlenose mormyrid
Fahaka pufferfish
Ocellated synodontis
Peter's elephantnose fish
Yellow-tailed African tetra

Large tank 1
African pike characin
African tigerfish (juveniles)
Featherfin squeaker
Six-banded distichodus
Tailspot ctenopoma
Zebra tilapia

Large tank 2
Atlantic tarpon
Giraffe catfish
Nile perch

Congo River
Half aviary, half tank enclosure, was once a dwarf crocodile enclosure

Bluegray mbuna
Bumblebee cichlid
Cobalt blue zebra cichlid
Giraffe hap
Golden mbuna
Purple roller
Red zebra mbuna
Ringed teal
Spindle hao
Violet turaco
Von der Decken's hornbill? (on the map but not in any signs and didn't see)

Lake Tanganyika

Blue neon cichlid
Blunthead cichlid
Compressed cichlid
Cuckoo catfish
Fairy cichlid
Lemon cichlid
Red spot callochromis
Sardine cichlid

Nile River
One large wall tank

African arowana
African tigerfish
Giraffe catfish
Goliath tigerfish
Saddled bichir

Ganges River

Gharial enclosure
Black pond turtle
Gharial

Tank with an Indian temple backdrop. The enclosure was under renovation during my visit
Clown knifefish
Goonch catfish
Mahseer
Pig-nosed turtle? (could be gone)

Mary River
Nice mangrove display
Australian lungfish
Banded archerfish
Boeseman's rainbowfish
Eastern rainbowfish
Jade perch
Orange rainbowfish
Peacock gudgeon
Red rainbowfish

Rocky tank kinda display
Pearse's mudskipper

Formerly a touch tank, there may have been more damselfish species tho
Blue devil damselfish
Mangrove horseshoe crab
Whitetail dascyllus

Mekong River

Large netted enclosure with a pond
Lion-tailed macaque

Massive tank
Asian arowana
Dolphin barb
Giant freshwater stingray
Giant pangasius
Iridescent shark
Jullien's golden carp
Mekong giant catfish
Siamese giant carp
Wallago

Aviary
Black-faced spoonbill
Eurasian spoonbill
Nankeen night heron
Painted stork
Spotted whistling duck
Vietnamese pheasant

Wall tank
Chinese water dragon
Vietnamese pond turtle

A few more small tanks, don't remember all the species so very incomplete
Burmese archerfish
Dwarf loach
Galaxy rasbora
Kissing gourami
Odessa barb

Yangtze River

Enclosure with underwater viewing and land area
Chinese softshell turtle
Chinese stripe-necked turtle
False gharial

Darkened tank
Chinese giant salamander

Large wall tank
Amur sturgeon
Black carp
Grass carp

Giant Panda Forest
Giant panda
Red panda

Amazon River Quest
Cool boat ride

Black howler monkey
Brazilian tapir
Brown-headed spider monkey
Capybara
Caribbean flamingo
Collared peccary
Cotton-top tamarin
Giant anteater
Guanaco
Guyanan red howler
Jaguar
Patagonian mara
Red-backed bearded saki
South American coati
Tufted capuchin monkey

Wild Amazonia

Green anaconda tank
Common pleco
Green anaconda
Kelberi peacock bass
Oscar

Aviary enclosure with climbing structures and whatnots
Bare-faced curassow
Golden-headed lion tamarin

Large pond
Silver arowana

Squirrel Monkey Forest
Walkthrough enclosure

Azara's agouti
Common squirrel monkey
Great curassow
Helmeted curassow
White-faced saki
Yellow-footed tortoise

Pond not too far away
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Yellow-spotted river turtle

Amazon Flooded Forest

Tunnel tank, closed for renovation during my most recent visit
Giant otter

Wall tank that looked pretty small
Electric eel

Another pretty nice wall tank
Red-bellied piranha

Small wall tank 1
Altum angelfish
Discus

Small wall tank 2
Black neon tetra
Blue ram
Bushymouth catfish
Dwarf suckermouth catfish
Golden nugget pleco
King tiger pleco
Lemon tetra
Neon tetra
Panda corydoras
Serpae tetra

Massive ass tank
Antillean manitee
Arapaima
Atlantic tarpon
Redtail catfish
Tambaqui

These were signed but I'm not sure if they're actually in the tank
Black-banded myleus
Common pleco
Golden dorado
Pike cichlid
Silver dollar
Tiger shovelnose catfish

Open top tank
Ocellate river stingray
Xingu River ray

Again, many fish signed but probably missed em
Pink-tail chalceus
Royal pleco
Silver dollar


Gotta admit it probably isn't very complete or well done but I tried my best. Overall, the place is pretty small and visiting it after all these years, it is really disappointing to see how many interesting species they lost (wink wink Mississippi River). It's still a pretty neat visit and I was lucky enough to spot the baby panda, Le Le. I'm planning to visit the other 3 zoos and the aquarium someday (the alligator gars and American paddlefish that were formerly here are there now)
 
The hornbills are in, they’re a sibling pair, though from what I understand they are still getting used to the habitat so may not come to the front.

All the Pig-nosed Turtles have been moved to the zoo’s Forest Lodge if I’m not mistaken with exception of the ones in the Lion-tailed Macaque enclosure over at the Mekong.

And most of the signed fish you didn’t see in the Manatee tank are over by the Amazonia pond

Some of the ones you’ve missed

Ganges River Goonch tank:
Rita Catfish (Rita rita)

Touch Tank:
Hasselt’s Bamboo Shark (might be wrong about this one)

Lion-tailed Macaque:
Indian Pond Turtle
Pig-nosed Turtle
Indian Muntjac

Main Mekong Tank:
Siamese Tigerfish

Small Wall Gallery @ Mekong:
Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus sp. Bintan)
Hillstream Loach (Gastromyzon/Sewellia spp.)
Fire Eel

Giant Salamander:
Chinese Giant Bitterling

Sturgeon Tank:
Phoenix Barb
High-finned Loach

Green Anaconda:
Plumed Basilisk

Amazonia Pond:
Golden Dorado
Red-tailed Vampire Tetra
Piraiba(?, definitely some sort of Brachyplatysoma catfish)
Shovelnose Catfish

Manatee:
Red-tailed Prochilodus
 
BucerosKeeper said:
The hornbills are in, they’re a sibling pair, though from what I understand they are still getting used to the habitat so may not come to the front.

All the Pig-nosed Turtles have been moved to the zoo’s Forest Lodge if I’m not mistaken with exception of the ones in the Lion-tailed Macaque enclosure over at the Mekong.

And most of the signed fish you didn’t see in the Manatee tank are over by the Amazonia pond

Some of the ones you’ve missed

Ganges River Goonch tank:
Rita Catfish (Rita rita)

Touch Tank:
Hasselt’s Bamboo Shark (might be wrong about this one)

Lion-tailed Macaque:
Indian Pond Turtle
Pig-nosed Turtle
Indian Muntjac

Main Mekong Tank:
Siamese Tigerfish

Small Wall Gallery @ Mekong:
Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus sp. Bintan)
Hillstream Loach (Gastromyzon/Sewellia spp.)
Fire Eel

Giant Salamander:
Chinese Giant Bitterling

Sturgeon Tank:
Phoenix Barb
High-finned Loach

Green Anaconda:
Plumed Basilisk

Amazonia Pond:
Golden Dorado
Red-tailed Vampire Tetra
Piraiba(?, definitely some sort of Brachyplatysoma catfish)
Shovelnose Catfish

Manatee:
Red-tailed Prochilodus
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Mandai no longer keeps bamboo sharks of any species. There are also hundreds of Gold Barb (Barbodes semifasciolatus) in the Giant Salamander and River Gems tanks. No Prochilodus in the Manatee tank, but they have recently added Temensis Peacock Bass and Brachyplatysoma catfish to the tank.

Most of their Goliath and African Tigerfishes and African Pikes are gone (probably died). Only 1 Goliath is left - the adult in the Nile tank, and a couple of specimens of the other 2 species remaining.
 
Sad that there are no longer sharks, hope that they’ll return in the future especially since some sort of coastal zone was initially drawn up for the zoo.

Seems that the Goonch tank has been re-fitted to house South-east Asian species instead, the Toman (Channa micropeltes) that were once kept with the Saltwater Crocodile have all been moved there and there’s a Red-tailed Gourami as well.
 
The tank was on renovation while I was there, so did they remove some of the previous species from that tank?
 
Would be cool if someone is able to get a full species list of the fish and birds in River Gems (the very first tank) as well as those smaller tanks in the Mekong River area as well as the birds in the Congo River tank
 
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noobmaster69 said:
Would be cool if someone is able to get a full species list of the fish and birds in River Gems (the very first tank) as well as those smaller tanks in the Mekong River area as well as the birds in the Congo River tank
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River gems species list(sorry quite incomplete maybe @Zooish can help out here):
trumpeter hornbill
blackline flying fox
fahaka puffer
penguin tetra
cardinal tetra
rainbow shark
red-tailed hemiodus tetra
harlequin rasbora
pearl gourami
red rainbowfish
discus
boseman's rainbowfish
crested guineafowl
lemon tetra
Royal falowella?
black widow tetra
malabar danio
red-lined torpedo barb
black phantom tetra

Birds in congo tank(if ur talking abt the original african dwarf crocodile exhibit):
violet turaco
ringed teal
purple roller
Von der Decken's hornbill

fishes in small tanks at Mekong River:
chili rasbora
Bintan licorice gourami
polka dot loach
kissing gourami
six-banded tiger barb
tiger hillstream loach
emerald dwarf danio
dwarf botia
fire eel
odessa barb
siamese flying fox
 
That's great. Sorry to ask but it'd be great if you get the species from the smaller tanks in Amazon Flooded Forest and those with the stingrays (no need the piranha, electric eel and the massive tank)
 
noobmaster69 said:
That's great. Sorry to ask but it'd be great if you get the species from the smaller tanks in Amazon Flooded Forest and those with the stingrays (no need the piranha, electric eel and the massive tank)
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No problems i will clump all the fishes in the small tanks into one entire group:
Black ghost knife fish
rummy nosed tetra
Altum angelfish
blue discus
cardinal tetra
flagtail catfish
leopard catfish
red lizard catfish
dwarf sucker
green gold catfish
ram cichlid
black neon tetra
cockatoo cichlid
red phantom tetra
royal tetra
Columbian tetra
neon tetra
serpae tetra
gold tetra
glass bloodfin tetra
panda corydora
lemon tetra
(next few are signed but I haven't seen them personally)
bushymouth catfish
golden nugget pleco
king tiger pleco

fishes in stingray tank:
blue hook pacu
myleus lamax
l27 xingu platinum pleco
thorny catfish
Banded Leoprinus
zebra shovelnose ctafish
lyretail pleco
Freshwater Stingray (Motoro sp., including hybrids)
 
noobmaster69 said:
Mary River
Nice mangrove display
Australian lungfish
Banded archerfish
Boeseman's rainbowfish
Eastern rainbowfish
Jade perch
Orange rainbowfish
Peacock gudgeon
Red rainbowfish
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Interesting stocking choices, considering only one of these species is actually found in the Mary River. That statement remains true when meaning both the Mary River in Queensland and the Mary River in the Northern Territory.
 
animal_expert01 said:
Interesting stocking choices, considering only one of these species is actually found in the Mary River. That statement remains true when meaning both the Mary River in Queensland and the Mary River in the Northern Territory.
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When the place opened, the area was themed after the Murray River and they had Murray cods and barramundi along with the lungfish but some time after, those two were removed from the collection and it became a generic mangrove area, archerfish, horseshoe crabs and mudskippers were added. They've never really cared for geographic accuracy, lion-tailed macaques from India are in the Mekong River (Southeast Asia) area, guanacos and Patagonian maras in the Amazon boat ride and the Ganges River tank seems to have Southeast Asian species now. At least some of those Mary River tank fish are Australian
 
Little update (credits to @Zooish and @Nadchew_ for the species)

Ganges River Tank
Clown featherback
Giant Bornean gourami (Osphronemus septemfasciatus)
Giant snakehead
Rita catfish

Water dragon and turtle tank
Fire eel
Philippine sailfin lizard
Javaen barb
Spanner barb

Small Mekong tank gallery

Tank 1:
Bintan licorice gourami
Chili rasbora

Tank 2:
Bigspot barb
Harlequin rasbora

Tank 3:
Dwarf botia
Emerald dwarf danio
Tiger hillstream loach

Tank 4:
Boeseman's rainbowfish
Red rainbowfish

Amazon Flooded Forest small tanks (sans tank 3)

Tank 1:
Blue discus
Cardinal tetra

Tank 2:
Altum angelfish
Black ghost knifefish
Three stripe corydoras
A few more that I can't remember

Tank 4:
Cockatoo cichlid
Colombian tetra
Red phantom tetra
Royal tetra

Show exclusive animals
North American beaver
A few others that are from the other parks pike the otters, pelicans, etc
 
another mini update as some of the lists were wrong

River of Africa
Small wall tank
Kribensis
Oneline tetra
Reedfish
Yellow-tailed African tetra

Zebra tilapia tank
African pike
Grass-eater (Distichodus rostratus)
Tailspot ctenopoma
Zebra tilapia

Nile River
African arowana
African tigerfish
Giraffe catfish
Goliath tigerfish
Lapradei bichir
Saddled bichir
Six-banded distichodus

Mekong River rice paddy aviary
Black-faced spoonbill
Edwards's pheasant
Eurasian spoonbill
Green imperial pigeon
Masked lapwing
Nankeen night heron
Painted stork
Spotted whistling duck
 
noobmaster69 said:
another mini update as some of the lists were wrong

River of Africa
Small wall tank
Kribensis
Oneline tetra
Reedfish
Yellow-tailed African tetra

Zebra tilapia tank
African pike
Grass-eater (Distichodus rostratus)
Tailspot ctenopoma
Zebra tilapia

Nile River
African arowana
African tigerfish
Giraffe catfish
Goliath tigerfish
Lapradei bichir
Saddled bichir
Six-banded distichodus

Mekong River rice paddy aviary
Black-faced spoonbill
Edwards's pheasant
Eurasian spoonbill
Green imperial pigeon
Masked lapwing
Nankeen night heron
Painted stork
Spotted whistling duck
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Ur missing a peafowl that was added into the aviary, its a lone specimen. Seems to be a hybrid of green and Indian
 
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