SEA Aquarium in Sentosa

Recently my family and I visited the SEA Aquarium in Sentosa, a holiday resort for locals as wells as tourists. This place is renowned for its beautiful beaches, Universal Studio and of course, the Resort World Casino; one of two casinos in operation in Singapore.

Money making place

Resort World at Sentosa

The SEA Aquarium is  the latest addition to a series of creational activities at the small island off the coast of Singapore. This Aquarium showcases Asia's maritime heritage and it is also home to more than 100000 marine fishes from the small crown fish (Nemo) to the giant sharks. In all there are over 800 species of marine animals spreading over 49 different habitats. At one exhibit, there were sunken ship wrecks and fishes are seen swimming around happily as if they were looking for the hidden treasures in the wrecks. Some exhibits are very large in size and house a large variety of marine species while others are small containing individual type of fish. The colorful marine fishes and the corals decorations are exciting to look at. It is indeed an eye-opening experience, especially for kids who ran around clicking their cameras.

Angel fish

Beautiful marine plants

Sea dragon

 

 

Christmas for the fishes

A strange thing I noticed at the aquarium was that even fishes were celebrating Christmas in their own way. They swam around the Christmas tree joyfully. The white Christmas tree was also well decorated with gifts and boxes at the bottom. Judging the mood of these fishes, one may think they might be even singing Christmas songs and greeting each other merry Christmas.

A wet Santa

Not far from this Christmas tree, I could also see a Santa waving and dancing in the water. What a wet Santa he was. So you can imagine Christmas is celebrated everywhere in Singapore.

The Nemos

I particularly liked this exhibit where a bunch of crown fish playing around happily. I ever kept marine fish before and crown fish is really hardy and they can survive even if conditions are harsh. I always use this fish as guinea pig to test the conditions of a freshly prepared marine tank. Looking at crown fish also reminded me of the adventure of Nemo, a popular cartoon film for children and adult alike.

 

This was the central exhibit which kept the crowd motionless. Take a look and you will know why.
And not to forget the sharks and lots of them.