Butterfly Creek`s, Tropical Butterfly House is Australasia`s premier butterfly house, hosting over 700 free-flying, brilliantly colourful exotic butterflies from Asia and South America. The Butterfly House is temperature controlled to 28 degrees C with 70 - 80% humidity, streams, misting and waterfalls so as to replicate the conditions of the butterflies usual environment.

The Butterfly House is easily accessed via an elevated boardwalk and also includes a variety of tropical birds such as Senegal Fire Finches and Parrot Finches. The Butterfly House also includes a large walk through exhibit with New Zealand’s largest tropical freshwater aquarium containing Lakes Malawi and Tanganyika cichlids and astunning coral reef tank with Nemo (Clown Fish) and Dory as the resident stars.

A new exhibit room, with coastal marine tanks hosting New Zealand Sea Horses, lizards including Australian Blue Tongues and a variety of insects and bugs.

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