SeaWorld Ancol Seaworld Jakarta

[Salt Merchant]

Since I become a member of this great website in September of 2020, I've seen and researched a lot, and I mean a lot of stupid Indonesian zoos and aquariums news. Sometimes it's just the annoying stuff that got me like "you darn fools back at it again" or "damn, do I miss the old days when they have this or that" and sometimes there's news and maybe some random fyp by these zoos that just so insulting that it possibly affecting my mental health.

But, this news caught me seriously off guard. It just so down right stupid that I laughed my lungs out. Probably the first time in my three years of dwelling in the Indonesia forum that I found a information so goofy. I don't know, what the hell where they thinking? I understand that recently SeaWorld Ancol have a animal idea comparable to my school projects idea, but just why THE Glo f* Fish of all thing? I can't man, I'm very baffled right now, I don't know what to say anymore.

 

[Fargusno]

Since I become a member of this great website in September of 2020, I've seen and researched a lot, and I mean a lot of stupid Indonesian zoos and aquariums news. Sometimes it's just the annoying stuff that got me like "you darn fools back at it again" or "damn, do I miss the old days when they have this or that" and sometimes there's news and maybe some random fyp by these zoos that just so insulting that it possibly affecting my mental health.

But, this news caught me seriously off guard. It just so down right stupid that I laughed my lungs out. Probably the first time in my three years of dwelling in the Indonesia forum that I found a information so goofy. I don't know, what the hell where they thinking? I understand that recently SeaWorld Ancol have a animal idea comparable to my school projects idea, but just why THE Glo f* Fish of all thing? I can't man, I'm very baffled right now, I don't know what to say anymore.

I know right. Indian Rhinoceros/Caribbean Flamingo told me first and I was in disbelief until I checked SeaWorld Ancol's IG story. DAG FRIGGING NABBIT!!

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

Since I become a member of this great website in September of 2020, I've seen and researched a lot, and I mean a lot of stupid Indonesian zoos and aquariums news. Sometimes it's just the annoying stuff that got me like "you darn fools back at it again" or "damn, do I miss the old days when they have this or that" and sometimes there's news and maybe some random fyp by these zoos that just so insulting that it possibly affecting my mental health.

But, this news caught me seriously off guard. It just so down right stupid that I laughed my lungs out. Probably the first time in my three years of dwelling in the Indonesia forum that I found a information so goofy. I don't know, what the hell where they thinking? I understand that recently SeaWorld Ancol have a animal idea comparable to my school projects idea, but just why THE Glo f* Fish of all thing? I can't man, I'm very baffled right now, I don't know what to say anymore.

i had no idea why in the world they keep glofishes, maybe glofishes are colorful and it was so satisfying to be seen, but that species should not be kept in a public aquarium.

 

[Salt Merchant]

The former angelfish aquarium has been refurbished into an emperor red snapper aquarium, to commemorate the Indonesian Independence Day.

 

[Fargusno]

The former angelfish aquarium has been refurbished into an emperor red snapper aquarium, to commemorate the Indonesian Independence Day.

I can say that this exhibit is seasonal exhibit

1. During Ramadan 2016, this used to keep juvenile bicolor parrotfish (since they're called "ikan kepala haji" in Indonesian due to their coloring that resembles an ihram/cloth worn by Muslim pilgrims)
2. During 17th of August 2017, this exhibit used to keep horn-nosed and short-nosed boxfishes as a spotlight to Makassar (it's a local delicacy known as the "ikan kudu-kudu") to commemorate Indonesian Independence Day
   
3. During 2018-2019, this exhibit was used to display plastic waste and other trash commonly thrown to the seas to celebrate Earth Day
4. During CNY 2020, this exhibit kept several humpback groupers (also known as mouse groupers/lao shu pan in Chinese)
5. During Christmas 2021, this exhibit housed three species of angelfish to commemorate different three holidays/celebrations (bicolor angelfish because of the "angel" motif like in Christmas decors, sixbar angelfish to celebrate CNY because of the stripes since 2022 is the Year of the Tiger and Koran angelfish because of its name, which alludes to the holy book of the Muslims, Koran/Al-Quran, and the juvenile form's lines resembles the lines/mushaf in the Koran)
6. And lastly, in August 2022, the exhibit now houses juvenile emperor red snappers to commemorate Indonesian Independence Day because of its red and white coloring

Before them, it was a horseshoe crab exhibit, as a spiritual successor of the nautilus tank to keep with the living fossil theming.

My hopes for the next housings:

1. Crucifix crab (Charybdis feriata) for Christmas 2022 because of its red and white coloring, and the cross is a symbol in Christianity. Peppermint angelfish and basslet are also a candidate due to their coloring resembling Christmas candies
   
2. Sea hare and foxface rabbitfish for CNY 2023 because 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit
3. Asfur angelfish, Arabian butterflyfish and Coral hind for Ramadan/Eid 2023 since they came from the Arabian Sea
4. Hemiscyllium halmahera and Paracheilinus nursalim for Indonesian Independence Day 2023 as a spotlight to Irian Jaya and West Papua

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

I agree. Jakarta Aquarium been adding lots of exotic species lately like the capuchin monkey and wobbegong shark while SeaWorld Ancol pointlessly add fishes commonly seen in fish stores like parrot cichlid and koran angelfish. Guessing they don't have enough money to buy exotic species for a while after the pandemic costed them a lot, or they're just too lazy to do so and used this as an excuse.

That's why I prefer Jakarta Aquarium nowadays, despite their small size. SeaWorld's exhibits and spaces are bigger, but they wasted them on useless stuff.

Jakarta Aquarium acquiring the capuchins is not one of the reason why Jakarta Aquarium is better than SeaWorld. The capuchins don't fit well in their exhibit in Jakarta Aquarium. The exhibit suits well with marmosets. The safari area in Jakarta Aquarium is now a mess. They acquire animals that doesn't fit well in Jakarta Aquarium such as binturong, meerkat, lemur, serval, etc. The reason why they acquire those animals because of those stupid influencers. That's all. Thank you!

 

[Fargusno]

Jakarta Aquarium acquiring the capuchins is not one of the reason why Jakarta Aquarium is better than SeaWorld. The capuchins don't fit well in their exhibit in Jakarta Aquarium. The exhibit suits well with marmosets. The safari area in Jakarta Aquarium is now a mess. They acquire animals that doesn't fit well in Jakarta Aquarium such as binturong, meerkat, lemur, serval, etc. The reason why they acquire those animals because of those stupid influencers. That's all. Thank you!

Jakarta Aquarium acquiring the capuchins is not one of the reason why Jakarta Aquarium is better than SeaWorld. The capuchins don't fit well in their exhibit in Jakarta Aquarium. The exhibit suits well with marmosets. The safari area in Jakarta Aquarium is now a mess. They acquire animals that doesn't fit well in Jakarta Aquarium such as binturong, meerkat, lemur, serval, etc. The reason why they acquire those animals because of those stupid influencers. That's all. Thank you!

IMO, JAQS is just a lesser evil compared to SWA. SWA's the greater evil for adding parrot cichlids and glofish.

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

IMO, JAQS is just a lesser evil compared to SWA. SWA's the greater evil for adding parrot cichlids and glofish.

yeah, it makes me sad that SWA acquiring the parrot cichlid and glofish

 

[Salt Merchant]

IMO, JAQS is just a lesser evil compared to SWA. SWA's the greater evil for adding parrot cichlids and glofish.

Wouldn't say evil really, just pathetic.

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

Wouldn't say evil really, just pathetic.

Yup, it's so pathetic. I can't believe Seaworld Ancol acquired the glofishes and parrot cichlids. Ancol ruined Seaworld so badly. Hope Ancol sells Seaworld in the future.

 

[Salt Merchant]

Yup, it's so pathetic. I can't believe Seaworld Ancol acquired the glofishes and parrot cichlids. Ancol ruined Seaworld so badly. Hope Ancol sells Seaworld in the future.

SeaWorld directly brings Ancol a lot of money, no way that they're going to just sell it off.

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

SeaWorld directly brings Ancol a lot of money, no way that they're going to just sell it off.

Instead of that, I hope Ancol acquire more rare sharks such as copper sharks (carcharhinus brachyurus), lemon sharks (negaprion brevirostris), etc for their sharkquarium. It's a sad thing that the only species in Seaworld Ancol's sharkquarium are only blacktip reef sharks (carcharhinus melanopterus) and tawny nurse sharks (nebrius ferrugineus). Since the only people's interested in Seaworld Ancol are sharks and rays, they should acquire rare sharks for their sharkquarium. I had no idea why they won't acquire rare sharks for their sharkquarium. Maybe they think what people think are "shark is shark".

 

[Salt Merchant]

I had no idea why they won't acquire rare sharks for their sharkquarium. Maybe they think what people think are "shark is shark".

1. Sharkquarium is big but not large enough for a lot of these "rare sharks" to swim around. The most basic thing to know about sharks in captivity is that non-carpet sharks need to always swim or else they die. Overcrowding is also to be aware of, which is the case in the early 2010's. These two reasons are probably why the bull shark and hammerheads didn't last long, blacktip reef sharks are hardy sharks. If you really want "rare sharks", then you can only get a individual and even then it's only one species.
2. Catching these sharks might be easier this time around, but getting them to SeaWorld would be really time consuming and expensive. Remember, non-carpet sharks need to always swim around or else they die, so they need a very large transport tank in which they could move around and not a simple plastic bags or fiber tubs, which often used to moved privately-owned blacktip reef sharks.
3. A lot of these sharks, even probably blacktip reef sharks, are very hard to breed in captivity or even didn't breed at all. I don't think I've ever head of reports of non-carpet sharks breeding in Indonesia, that too if they even have a breeding program for these sharks. So, if you want to have a large number of rare sharks, you need to costantly catch them from the seas, by you or paid fishermen. Since these sharks hardly breeds in captivity, these rare sharks were swimming in their vast ocean home until they were moved and remained in a crammed "sea" with a glass barrier for the rest of their life just for the sake of people seeing and in some cases interact with. A lot of these rare sharks are endangered, so catching them from the wild and put them in captivity where they most probably won't breed is just higly unethical.

It's not wrong in wanting to see a species of sharks you don't often seen, like pretty much anything that's not blacktip reef sharks or some bamboo or cat sharks, I get it. But believe me, it's not worth seeing them in SeaWorld Ancol, Jakarta Aquarium, or any other present Indonesian aquariums. Maybe one day we're getting our own Monterey Bay or SEA aquarium with massive tank with a lot of cool sharks, but hey, it's not wrong to imagine.

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

1. Sharkquarium is big but not large enough for a lot of these "rare sharks" to swim around. The most basic thing to know about sharks in captivity is that non-carpet sharks need to always swim or else they die. Overcrowding is also to be aware of, which is the case in the early 2010's. These two reasons are probably why the bull shark and hammerheads didn't last long, blacktip reef sharks are hardy sharks. If you really want "rare sharks", then you can only get a individual and even then it's only one species.
2. Catching these sharks might be easier this time around, but getting them to SeaWorld would be really time consuming and expensive. Remember, non-carpet sharks need to always swim around or else they die, so they need a very large transport tank in which they could move around and not a simple plastic bags or fiber tubs, which often used to moved privately-owned blacktip reef sharks.
3. A lot of these sharks, even probably blacktip reef sharks, are very hard to breed in captivity or even didn't breed at all. I don't think I've ever head of reports of non-carpet sharks breeding in Indonesia, that too if they even have a breeding program for these sharks. So, if you want to have a large number of rare sharks, you need to costantly catch them from the seas, by you or paid fishermen. Since these sharks hardly breeds in captivity, these rare sharks were swimming in their vast ocean home until they were moved and remained in a crammed "sea" with a glass barrier for the rest of their life just for the sake of people seeing and in some cases interact with. A lot of these rare sharks are endangered, so catching them from the wild and put them in captivity where they most probably won't breed is just higly unethical.

It's not wrong in wanting to see a species of sharks you don't often seen, like pretty much anything that's not blacktip reef sharks or some bamboo or cat sharks, I get it. But believe me, it's not worth seeing them in SeaWorld Ancol, Jakarta Aquarium, or any other present Indonesian aquariums. Maybe one day we're getting our own Monterey Bay or SEA aquarium with massive tank with a lot of cool sharks, but hey, it's not wrong to imagine.

I see....., thanks for the info! I hope we get an aquaria which the main aquarium is large as SEA aquarium.

 

[Salt Merchant]

SeaWorld Ancol has showcase its "World Cup aquarium", a seasional exhibition for the FIFA world cup. Before 2022, the World Cup aquarium was showcased in 2018 for that year's FIFA cup.

The aquarium is short and square, with the interior being decorated to look like a football field. The inhabitants are cichlids, such as the electric yellow cichlids and zebra tilapias.

 

[Salt Merchant]

A sea turtle has once again been displayed in the main tank of SeaWorld Indonesia, after a while being absent. Previously, 3-4 green sea turtles was displayed at the tank, which after the Ancol takeover were either died or/and moved elsewhere, with the overall species being phase out from display.

The sea turtle now on display at the main aquarium is the hawksbill sea turtle, currently only shown to be a individual but there could be more in the tank or more coming later.

There could be a chance SeaWorld might phased out their sea turtle touch pond in the future, although still rather low. If they insist, why don't they moved the turtles to the shark touch pond? Being larger for one or two young sea turtles. Most people (In this case Jakartans) are more thrilled to touch a giant sea reptile than some common sharks (They can still touch some bamboo sharks so what's the difference, it's still a shark to them).

An hawksbill sea turtle, with two divers performing a "underwater Soccer Game", a seasional performance by SeaWorld Ancol for the FIFA World Cup.

 

[Caribbean Flamingo]

A sea turtle has once again been displayed in the main tank of SeaWorld Indonesia, after a while being absent. Previously, 3-4 green sea turtles was displayed at the tank, which after the Ancol takeover were either died or/and moved elsewhere, with the overall species being phase out from display.

The sea turtle now on display at the main aquarium is the hawksbill sea turtle, currently only shown to be a individual but there could be more in the tank or more coming later.

There could be a chance SeaWorld might phased out their sea turtle touch pond in the future, although still rather low. If they insist, why don't they moved the turtles to the shark touch pond? Being larger for one or two young sea turtles. Most people (In this case Jakartans) are more thrilled to touch a giant sea reptile than some common sharks (They can still touch some bamboo sharks so what's the difference, it's still a shark to them).

An hawksbill sea turtle, with two divers performing a "underwater Soccer Game", a seasional performance by SeaWorld Ancol for the FIFA World Cup.
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Finally! SeaWorld Ancol did a great thing! They also re-introduced the common guitarfish in the main aquarium. Hope they acquired the whitetip reef sharks in the future.

 

[Fargusno]

A sea turtle has once again been displayed in the main tank of SeaWorld Indonesia, after a while being absent. Previously, 3-4 green sea turtles was displayed at the tank, which after the Ancol takeover were either died or/and moved elsewhere, with the overall species being phase out from display.

The sea turtle now on display at the main aquarium is the hawksbill sea turtle, currently only shown to be a individual but there could be more in the tank or more coming later.

There could be a chance SeaWorld might phased out their sea turtle touch pond in the future, although still rather low. If they insist, why don't they moved the turtles to the shark touch pond? Being larger for one or two young sea turtles. Most people (In this case Jakartans) are more thrilled to touch a giant sea reptile than some common sharks (They can still touch some bamboo sharks so what's the difference, it's still a shark to them).

An hawksbill sea turtle, with two divers performing a "underwater Soccer Game", a seasional performance by SeaWorld Ancol for the FIFA World Cup.
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I wish they either move the turtles from the touch pool to the main tank and the sea turtle exhibit, then convert the former turtle touch pool to a touch pool for rays and bamboo sharks. The former shark touch pool can be converted into a tide pool exhibit with the starfish and sea cucumbers in it, as well as horseshoe crab.

 

[Fargusno]

SeaWorld Ancol has acquired a clubnose guitarfish (Glaucostegus thouin) as part of their main tank's collection. SWA previously had them back in the early 2000s before they perished of either old age or diseases. Here's hoping for them to bring back the wedgefish and bowmouth guitarfish.

It is unknown how many they acquired, but probably just one.

 

[Fargusno]

Whitetip reef sharks has returned to SeaWorld Ancol after they were phased out back in 2013. Hopefully this and the clubnose guitarfish are signs of SWA trying to restore their former glory, though they have a huge list of what to bring back if they want to do so. I really welcome this decision, and I hope they can re-obtain the hammerhead/bull shark someday.