Fishes
This aquarium hosts a big variety of fishes, so many that even the tank manager had difficulties to list them. You can have a look at this list, not every fish is in the photos due to difficulties in finding them and the opaque glasses.
The aquarium hosts an Amblygobius phalaena, three Amphiprion ocellaris, a Centropyge eibli, a Centropyge loriculus, and a Chelmon rostratus.
Also some Chromis viridis, a Ctenochaetus strigosus, a Halichoeres chrysus, a Labroides dimidiatus, and a really enjoyable Oxycirrhites typus are present.
There are also some Paracanthurus hepatus.
There are several Pseudanthias dispar, that were really amazing.
We could see also two Pseudocheilinus hexataenia, one Salarias guttatus, one Salarias ramosus, and one Siganus volpinus.
One Zebrasoma scopas
One Zebrasoma xanthurus and one Acanthurus sohal
Corals
“The arrangement of the present corals will be changed in the next years“, that is what the responsible Martin Bauert is explaining us and he is inviting us to visit the new aquarium after the renovation. Nevertheless, corals seemed to be healthy, we really appreciate the challenge the Zoo Zurich is facing by having more species of hard corals: They could just simply impress amateurs by showing only soft corals but they wanted to create a realistic sight and therefore they are keeping a high variety of corals. Here we show the list of the hosted species.
Many Acroporas, as we already said.
Acanthastrea, Blastomussa, and Catalaphyllia jardinei
Discosoma, Echinophyllia, Euphyllia, Favia sp., Fungia sp., Gorgonie Rumphella sp., Heliopora
Litophyton sp., Lobophytum,
many big Montipora.
Seriatopora hystrix
Stylophora pistillata milka
Welsophyllia and Zoanthus sp.
Other invertebrates
We immediately noticed some big Tridacna sp. and some anemone Entacmaea sp. as sessile invertebrates.
The aquarium is also populated by several animals that are moving through the tank. Several snails like Trochus e Tectus, two Cypraea fimbriata and two Cypraea tigris. Two sea urchins Tripneustes, and some Clypeaster australasiae, one blue starfish (Linckia laevigata) and two red ones (Formia elegans). One Linckia sp., several Archaster angulatus, approx. 30 hermit crabs of several species (of them some Calcinus Elegans), two crabs Neopetrolisthes sp. and some shrimps: seven Lysmata amboinensis and four Stenopus hispidus.
