TURTLE AWARENESS WEEK AT BLUE REEF AQUARIUM Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium is running a Turtle Awareness Week throughout the half-term holidays (February 12th-21st). The aquarium operates one of the most successful sea turtle rehabilitation and release programmes in the UK and is currently caring for a young loggerhead turtle which stranded on a Cornish beach … Continued
BLUE REEF WELCOMES DEADLY DUO A pair of stonefish – the world’s most venomous fish species on the planet – has arrived at Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium this week. Stonefish, which are also known as the goblinfish and the warty-ghoul. The poison is held in glands under 13 jagged spines running along the stonefish’s back. … Continued
Newquay’s Blue Reef Aquarium has put a shoal of more than 20 tropical squirrelfish on display after spending a month in quarantine. Mainly nocturnal, smallmouth squirrelfish are found living close to tropical reefs throughout the Indo-Pacific. They often live in or near caves or rocky outcrops and have unusually large eyes which help them to … Continued