SEA LIFE Minnesota Aquarium - Bloomington, Minnesota

Sea Life at Mall of America (formally known as Sea Life Minnesota Aquarium) is a public aquarium located in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. The 1.3 million-US-gallon (4.9 ML) aquarium contains thousands of aquatic creatures, including sea turtles, sharks, sawfish, stingrays, jellyfish and seahorses. There are eleven exhibits featured at the aquarium. The aquarium is highlighted by a 300-foot (91 m) 360° clear acrylic tunnel, which consists of four different areas housing both freshwater and saltwater creatures.

Exhibits

Brave the Rainforest features multiple pop-up tanks to allow visitors to get closer to the creatures and a Ranger Stage with extra facts and animals. The rainforest features spectacled caiman, poison dart frogs, piranhas, freshwater angelfish and other exotic species.

The Tunnel, a 300-foot (91 m) 360° acrylic tunnel that goes through four exhibits: Sturgeon Lake, Wild Amazon, Shark Cove and Rainbow Reef.

Sturgeon Lake is a freshwater exhibit designed to simulate a Minnesotan body of water, and features turtles, gar, bass, lake and shovelnose sturgeon, common carp, smallmouth buffalo, tiger muskie, channel catfish, and paddlefish, among others. The exhibit also features alligator gars, which are not found naturally in Minnesota.

Wild Amazon consists of arapaima, arowanas, black pacu, midas cichlids, fossil catfish, pictus catfish, leopard catfish, tiger shovelnose catfish, plecos, flagtails, silver dollars, and freshwater stingrays.

Shark Cove is themed to look like a shipwreck, and with a volume of 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L) it is the largest exhibit in the aquarium. Shark Cove holds multiple shark species including, Sand tiger sharks, Nurse sharks, Brown shark, Whitetip reef sharks, and Zebra sharks. It also contains southern stingrays, giant shovel-nosed guitarfish, and green sawfish and two Loggerhead Sea turtles. In addition, it has groupers, red snappers, red drums, pork fish, jacks, permits, and other species.

Rainbow Reef which resembles coral reefs, has stingrays, puffer fish, assorted tangs, bamboo sharks and others.

The Coral Caves hold live coral and fish such as clownfish and regal blue tang.

Seahorse Kingdom features seahorses.

Jellyfish Discovery features moon jellyfish.

Ray Lagoon features a ray pool full of cownose stingray, Atlantic stingray, southern stingray, shovelnose guitarfish and other rays.

Pacific Northwest Rockpool features a touch pool full of assorted anemone, sea stars, sea urchins, and prawns.
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