Pirates Below

An aquarium area with New Zealand’s largest tropical fresh-water aquaria and NZ’s largest marine coral aquaria – both teeming with a wide variety of fascinating fish. Kids love spotting Nemo the clownfish (and his dad Marlin) in the marine coral tank - darting in and out of the anemones - together with Dory and a host of other brilliantly coulourful fish species. The 9m long tropical freshwater aquria hosts a large collection of African cichlids as well as the carnivorous Giant Gourami (found in the butterfly house pond), the huge Pacu and a range of other fascinating species.

Aquarium - Fish Species

Cichlid - Freshwater Tank
Volume: 10,008 Litres
Weight of water: 9 tonnes

Common Name
Giant gouramy
Black pacu
Silver arowana,
Lemon finned shark
Gold severum
Tinfoil barb

Scientific name
Osphronemus goramy
Colossoma macropomum
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Hypsobarbus wetmorei
Heros severus
Barbotes schwanenfieldi

Reef - coral tank
Volume: 3,593 litres
Weight of water: 3.6 tonnes

Common Name
Niger trigger fish
Blue tang
Blue devil damsel fish
Fijian blue devil damsel fish
Flame angel
Coral angel
Yellow tang
Sail fin tang
Clown anemone fish

Scientific name
Odonus niger
Paracanthus hepatus
Chrysyptera cyanea
Chrysyptera taupou
Centropyge loriculus
Centropyge bispinosa
Zebrasoma flavescens
Zebrasoma veliferum
Amphiprion percula

Did You Know!

The freshwater tank is one of the largest in the country, holding 9 tonnes of water!