25 AQUATIC animal META-WISHLIST

Here goes mine, finally:

1. Sawshark (any)
2. Blacktip Reef Shark
3. Reticulate Whipray
4. Giant Pangasius
5. Sling-jaw Wrasse
6. Arapaima
7. Sturgeon (any)
8. Red Spine Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii)
9. American Paddlefish
10. Axilspot Hogfish (Bodianus axillaris)
11. Splendid Garden Eel
12. Razorfish
13. Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
14. Redtoothed Triggerfish
15. Clown Triggerfish
16. Red Lionfish
17. Laced Moray
18. Ribbon Eel
19. Emperor Red Snapper
20. Moon Wrasse
21. African Softshell Turtle
22. Green Sea Turtle
23. West Indian Manatee
24. Sea Otter
25. Baikal Seal
 
I don't know much about fish and I don't really need them in the game, but here's my list anyway:
  1. Bottlenose Dolphin
  2. Harbour seal
  3. Walrus
  4. Sea otter
  5. Beluga
  6. Orca
  7. Green sea turtle
  8. Giant manta ray
  9. Giant Pacific octopus
  10. Mediterranean moray
  11. Great hammerhead
  12. Blacktip reef shark
  13. Zebra shark
  14. Blue shark
  15. Atlantic puffin
  16. Great White pelican
  17. Seahorse (any)
  18. Jellyfish (any)
  19. Clownfish (aka Nemo)
  20. Royal Blue Tang (aka Dory)
  21. Ocean sunfish
  22. Atlantic bluefin tuna
  23. Red-bellied piranha
  24. Balloonfish (any)
  25. Crab (any)
 
Habitat Animals
1. Walrus
2. Manatee
3. Green Sea Turtle
4. Beluga
5. Sea Otter
6. Manta Ray
7. Bottlenose Dolphin
8. Tiger Shark
9. Sand Tiger Shark
10. Hammerhead Shark
11. Whale Shark
12. Giant Pacific Octopus
13. Cownose Ray
14. Some Kind Of Stingray

Exhibit Animals
15. Green Moray Eel
16. Seahorse
17. Leafy Sea Dragon
18. Japanese Spider Crab
19. Cleaner Shrimp
20. Lobster
21. Various Species of Jellyfish
22. Various Reef/Tropical Fish
23. Various Freshwater Fish
24. Banded Sea Snake
25. Various Sea Stars
 
1. Manatee (West Indies most likely)
2. Sea turtle (Loggerhead or Green)
3. Arapaima
4. Pacu
5. Red tailed catfish
6. Giant oceanic ray
7. Devil ray
8. Cownose stingray
9. Sand tiger shark
10. Beluga
11. Pacific white sided dolphin (really any dolphin)
12. Orca (although a dolphin it’s specific enough to warrant a different place)
13. Beluga sturgeon
14. Epaulette Sharks
15. Napoleon Wrasse
16. Moray eel (there’s multiple species but green moray or zebra moray makes most sense)
17. Boto, Amazon River dolphin. Used to be common in many zoos and aquariums.
18. Emperor Angelfish
19. Moon jellyfish
20. American Paddlefish
21. Some common African cichlids
22. Whale Shark
23. Sea otter
24. Koi fish
25. Scalloped hammerhead
 
Imma divide it by freshwater and saltwater and then divide by aquatic and semi-aquatic:

FRESHWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Pacu
    2. Arapaima
    3. Arowana
    4. Chucho del Rio
    5. Goliath Tigerfish
    6. Sawfish (actually brackish water)
    7. Alligator garfish
    8. Palometa (Pygocentrus palometa)
    9. Electric eel (actually a knifefish)
    10. Red-bellied piranha
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Asian small-clawed otter
    2. Alligator snapping turtle
SALTWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Cuttlefish
    2. Mimic octopus (my favorite)
    3. Blue ringed octopus
    4. Giant Pacific octopus
    5. Lionfish
    6. Dogfish (any species)
    7. Grouper (any species)
    8. Green moray eel
    9. Manta ray
    10. Nautilus
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Green sea turtle
    2. Harp seal
    3. Little blue penguin
 
Imma divide it by freshwater and saltwater and then divide by aquatic and semi-aquatic:

FRESHWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Pacu
    2. Arapaima
    3. Arowana
    4. Chucho del Rio
    5. Goliath Tigerfish
    6. Sawfish (actually brackish water)
    7. Alligator garfish
    8. Palometa (Pygocentrus palometa)
    9. Electric eel (actually a knifefish)
    10. Red-bellied piranha
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Asian small-clawed otter
    2. Alligator snapping turtle
SALTWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Cuttlefish
    2. Mimic octopus (my favorite)
    3. Blue ringed octopus
    4. Giant Pacific octopus
    5. Lionfish
    6. Dogfish (any species)
    7. Grouper (any species)
    8. Green moray eel
    9. Manta ray
    10. Nautilus
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Green sea turtle
    2. Harp seal
    3. Little blue penguin
Amazing job!
 
I tried to avoid semi-aquatic animals like walruses and sea otters, just to squeeze in more species that require tanks only.

1. Blacktip Reef Shark
2. Cownose Ray
3. Largetooth Sawfish
4. Green Moray Eel
5. Humphead Wrasse
6. Ocellaris Clownfish
7. Regal Blue Tang
8. Long-Spine Porcupinefish
9. Spotted Seahorse
10. Arapaima
11. Redtail Catfish
12. Tambaqui
13. Red-Bellied Piranha
14. Electric Eel
15. Ocellate River Stingray
16. Asian Arowana
17. Australian Lungfish
18. Banded Archerfish
19. Sally Lightfoot Crab
20. Giant Pacific Octopus
21. Moon Jellyfish
22. Green Sea Turtle
23. West Indian Manatee
24. Common Bottlenose Dolphin
25. Beluga Whale
I'm not really well-versed with regard to fully aquatic animals, and am probably one of the few PZ players who wouldn't jump in excitement over such a pack, but I'll give my best to contribute to this list as well. My list also contains cetaceans despite the potential controversy and my belief that Frontier will never add them to this game, but if they did, I would like to see the ones listed at the end here.

  1. Sea Otter
  2. Pacific Walrus
  3. West Indian Manatee
  4. Great White Pelican
  5. Green Sea Turtle
  6. Arapaima
  7. Red-Bellied Piranha
  8. Giant Manta Ray
  9. Hammerhead Shark
  10. Blacktip Reef Shark
  11. Bamboo Shark
  12. Leopard Shark
  13. Zebra Shark
  14. Common Clownfish
  15. Red Lionfish
  16. Giant Catfish
  17. Alligator Gar
  18. Koi
  19. Giant Spider Crab
  20. Pacific Sea Horse
  21. Beluga Whale
  22. Harbour Porpoise
  23. Bottlenose Dolphin
  24. Common Dolphin
  25. Amazon River Dolphin
  1. Manatee
  2. Green sea turtle
  3. Loggerhead sea turtle
  4. Hammerhead shark
  5. Zebra shark
  6. Reef shark
  7. Giant pacific octopus
  8. Sea lion
  9. Elephant seal
  10. Manta ray
  11. White sturgeon
  12. Barracuda
  13. Arapaima
  14. Moray eel
  15. Alligator snapping turtle
  16. Walrus
  17. Jelly fish
  18. Stingray
  19. Bluefin tuna
  20. Parrot fish
  21. Rock fish
  22. Nurse shark
  23. Whale shark
  24. Sunfish
  25. Koi

This was harder than I thought it would be to keep the list to 25. I tried picking larger fish and sharks that would be easily visible in large tanks
  1. Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
  2. Giant Oceanic Manta Ray
  3. Blacktip Reef Shark
  4. Green Sea Turtle
  5. Common Bottlenose Dolphin
  6. Beluga
  7. West Indian Manatee
  8. Giant Pacific Octopus
  9. Atlantic Goliath Grouper
  10. Leafy Sea Dragon
  11. Whale Shark
  12. Moon Jellyfish
  13. Koi
  14. Japanese Spider Crab
  15. Atlantic Puffin
  16. Atlantic Mudskipper
  17. Cownose Ray
  18. Red-Bellied Piranha
  19. Green Moray Eel
  20. Humphead Wrasse
  21. Nautilus
  22. Ocean Sunfish
  23. Giant Isopod
  24. Killer Whale
  25. Anglerfish
1. Reef manta ray
2. Goliath/Queensland grouper
3. Blacktip reef shark
4. Bottlenose dolphin
5. Beluga
6. Green/hawksbill/loggerhead sea turtle
7. Arapaima
8. Redtail catfish
9. Humphead wrasse
10. Ocean sunfish
11. Ocellaris clownfish
12. Regal blue tang
13. Moon jelly
14. Giant Pacific octopus
15. Japanese spider crab
16. Walrus
17. Alligator gar
18. Electric eel
19. Red-bellied piranha
20. Pacu
Here goes mine, finally:

1. Sawshark (any)
2. Blacktip Reef Shark
3. Reticulate Whipray
4. Giant Pangasius
5. Sling-jaw Wrasse
6. Arapaima
7. Sturgeon (any)
8. Red Spine Sea Star (Protoreaster linckii)
9. American Paddlefish
10. Axilspot Hogfish (Bodianus axillaris)
11. Splendid Garden Eel
12. Razorfish
13. Blue Tang (Paracanthurus hepatus)
14. Redtoothed Triggerfish
15. Clown Triggerfish
16. Red Lionfish
17. Laced Moray
18. Ribbon Eel
19. Emperor Red Snapper
20. Moon Wrasse
21. African Softshell Turtle
22. Green Sea Turtle
23. West Indian Manatee
24. Sea Otter
25. Baikal Seal
I don't know much about fish and I don't really need them in the game, but here's my list anyway:
  1. Bottlenose Dolphin
  2. Harbour seal
  3. Walrus
  4. Sea otter
  5. Beluga
  6. Orca
  7. Green sea turtle
  8. Giant manta ray
  9. Giant Pacific octopus
  10. Mediterranean moray
  11. Great hammerhead
  12. Blacktip reef shark
  13. Zebra shark
  14. Blue shark
  15. Atlantic puffin
  16. Great White pelican
  17. Seahorse (any)
  18. Jellyfish (any)
  19. Clownfish (aka Nemo)
  20. Royal Blue Tang (aka Dory)
  21. Ocean sunfish
  22. Atlantic bluefin tuna
  23. Red-bellied piranha
  24. Balloonfish (any)
  25. Crab (any)
Habitat Animals
1. Walrus
2. Manatee
3. Green Sea Turtle
4. Beluga
5. Sea Otter
6. Manta Ray
7. Bottlenose Dolphin
8. Tiger Shark
9. Sand Tiger Shark
10. Hammerhead Shark
11. Whale Shark
12. Giant Pacific Octopus
13. Cownose Ray
14. Some Kind Of Stingray

Exhibit Animals
15. Green Moray Eel
16. Seahorse
17. Leafy Sea Dragon
18. Japanese Spider Crab
19. Cleaner Shrimp
20. Lobster
21. Various Species of Jellyfish
22. Various Reef/Tropical Fish
23. Various Freshwater Fish
24. Banded Sea Snake
25. Various Sea Stars
1. Manatee (West Indies most likely)
2. Sea turtle (Loggerhead or Green)
3. Arapaima
4. Pacu
5. Red tailed catfish
6. Giant oceanic ray
7. Devil ray
8. Cownose stingray
9. Sand tiger shark
10. Beluga
11. Pacific white sided dolphin (really any dolphin)
12. Orca (although a dolphin it’s specific enough to warrant a different place)
13. Beluga sturgeon
14. Epaulette Sharks
15. Napoleon Wrasse
16. Moray eel (there’s multiple species but green moray or zebra moray makes most sense)
17. Boto, Amazon River dolphin. Used to be common in many zoos and aquariums.
18. Emperor Angelfish
19. Moon jellyfish
20. American Paddlefish
21. Some common African cichlids
22. Whale Shark
23. Sea otter
24. Koi fish
25. Scalloped hammerhead
Imma divide it by freshwater and saltwater and then divide by aquatic and semi-aquatic:

FRESHWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Pacu
    2. Arapaima
    3. Arowana
    4. Chucho del Rio
    5. Goliath Tigerfish
    6. Sawfish (actually brackish water)
    7. Alligator garfish
    8. Palometa (Pygocentrus palometa)
    9. Electric eel (actually a knifefish)
    10. Red-bellied piranha
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Asian small-clawed otter
    2. Alligator snapping turtle
SALTWATER
  • AQUATIC
    1. Cuttlefish
    2. Mimic octopus (my favorite)
    3. Blue ringed octopus
    4. Giant Pacific octopus
    5. Lionfish
    6. Dogfish (any species)
    7. Grouper (any species)
    8. Green moray eel
    9. Manta ray
    10. Nautilus
  • SEMI-AQUATIC
    1. Green sea turtle
    2. Harp seal
    3. Little blue penguin
All added and the list updated!
 
  1. Sea otter
  2. Platypus
  3. Walrus
  4. Dugong
  5. Snapping turtle
  6. Koi fish
  7. Leopard seal
  8. Fairy penguin
  9. Giant salamander
  10. Rakali
  11. Asian small clawed otter
  12. Eastern long necked turtle
  13. Marine iguana
  14. Australian Water Dragon
  15. Asian water monitor
That is all I have. I'm not sure I would want sea creatures in a zoo pack personally. So I aimed for species that seemed to fit in a zoo setting that were less migratory in nature or travel between continents (I know seals migrate, but they cope better in captivity compared to animals like dolphins)
 
  1. Sea otter
  2. Platypus
  3. Walrus
  4. Dugong
  5. Snapping turtle
  6. Koi fish
  7. Leopard seal
  8. Fairy penguin
  9. Giant salamander
  10. Rakali
  11. Asian small clawed otter
  12. Eastern long necked turtle
  13. Marine iguana
  14. Australian Water Dragon
  15. Asian water monitor
That is all I have. I'm not sure I would want sea creatures in a zoo pack personally. So I aimed for species that seemed to fit in a zoo setting that were less migratory in nature or travel between continents (I know seals migrate, but they cope better in captivity compared to animals like dolphins)
This aquatic list is for the concept of an aquarium game in the style of Planet Zoo (a Planet Aquarium if you will), so feel free to add any variety of fully aquatic animals you'd want.
 
Here are mine and see soo need an sea world/ aquarium expansion.

Shark Type
1. Whale Shark
2. Tiger Shark
3. Hammer Head Shark
4. Saw Shark
5. Mako Shark

Pinnipeds
1. Elephant Seal
2. Leopard Seal
3. Walrus
4. Fur Seal (Sea Dog)
5. Harbor Seal

Whales/ Dolphin [It is fair to still have them, zoos and aquarium in Asia still keep them]
1. Bottlenose Dolphin
2. Beluga
3. Orca
4. Commerson's Dolphin
5. Amazon River Dolphin (need some refresh water animal)
6. Chinese White Dolphin (they kept them in China0
7. Vaquita

Fish
1. Manta ray
2. Groupers
3. Tuna
4. Salmon
5. Ling Cod

Other sea mammals
1. Dugong
2. Manatees
3. Sea Otters

 
I would love this, with marine life being some of the most at endanger animals going, it would be amazing to be able to learn about them. Seeing as in this world it is hard to even see things from the sea.
I would love maybe an added factor so to have dolphins and whales you have to earn them first, prove you can take care of them. even have it so if you mistreat them (by having surprise inspections you don't know about) you can lose the right to have them for some time in the game.
Maybe have a bigger marine recuse so, animals come from around the world you take them in for a limited time heal them, or bring them back to full heal and let them live in your zoo before they are then released back into the wild. It could be an amazing way to deal with the problem of having the bigger animals, as well as a great way to help people learn about these animals which unless you are really lucky most people will never see in their life. but yet they need help just like the land animals.
I would love to see deep-sea animals where you have to have a pressure pump which keeps the water at the deep level so an added factor they need to live, as well as different water types all on which animal and where they come from. so warm water animals would need a tank heater where cold water may need a cooler. you could even have mini habitats inside the bigger tanks. So have a coral reef where you can house small fish, starfish, and other smaller animals. as well as having them in exhibits by themself.
It would be cool to have a whole ecosystem being able to live together, so if you put some sharks in with some fish, you will see the fish cleaning the sharts they like do in the wild. seeing clownfish live inside the sea anemone and so on.
 
  1. Sea otter
  2. Platypus
  3. Walrus
  4. Dugong
  5. Snapping turtle
  6. Koi fish
  7. Leopard seal
  8. Fairy penguin
  9. Giant salamander
  10. Rakali
  11. Asian small clawed otter
  12. Eastern long necked turtle
  13. Marine iguana
  14. Australian Water Dragon
  15. Asian water monitor
That is all I have. I'm not sure I would want sea creatures in a zoo pack personally. So I aimed for species that seemed to fit in a zoo setting that were less migratory in nature or travel between continents (I know seals migrate, but they cope better in captivity compared to animals like dolphins)
Here are mine and see soo need an sea world/ aquarium expansion.

Shark Type
1. Whale Shark
2. Tiger Shark
3. Hammer Head Shark
4. Saw Shark
5. Mako Shark

Pinnipeds
1. Elephant Seal
2. Leopard Seal
3. Walrus
4. Fur Seal (Sea Dog)
5. Harbor Seal

Whales/ Dolphin [It is fair to still have them, zoos and aquarium in Asia still keep them]
1. Bottlenose Dolphin
2. Beluga
3. Orca
4. Commerson's Dolphin
5. Amazon River Dolphin (need some refresh water animal)
6. Chinese White Dolphin (they kept them in China0
7. Vaquita

Fish
1. Manta ray
2. Groupers
3. Tuna
4. Salmon
5. Ling Cod

Other sea mammals
1. Dugong
2. Manatees
3. Sea Otters

The list has been updated.
 
1. Koi
2. Tilapia
3. African cichlids
4. Axolotl
5. Florida soft-shelled turtle
6. Red-tailed catfish
7. African dwarf alligator
8. West Indian Manatee
9. Asian short-clawed otter
10. Alligator gar
11. Indian soft-shelled turtle
12. Mata Mata
13. Pink-bellied side-neck turtle
14. Spotted turtle
15. Alligator snapping turtle
16. Japanese giant salamander
17. Pacu
18. Freshwater stingray
19. Black-breasted leaf turtle

I'd like to see touch pools as an interactive, but I don't know how that would work and I don't know enough about marine life to choose good touch pool candidates.

I'd also like to see a ton of waterfowl, but I don't know where you make the aviary bird cut off. So, feel free to disregard these if they're out of scope:

20. Steamer duck (any species)
21. Dalmatian pelican
22. Black swan
23. Mute swan
24. Canada goose
25. Mandarin duck
 
1. Leopard Seal
2. Ribbon Seal
3. Walrus
4. West Indian Manatee
5. Beluga
6. Vaquita (i know it’s unrealistic but it’d be nice to pretend…)
7. Green Sea Turtle
8. Leatherback Sea Turtle
9. Humphead Wrasse
10. Ocean Sunfish
11. Australian Lungfish
12. Leopard Whipray
13. Whale Shark
14. Zebra Shark
15. Sand Tiger Shark
16. Silver Arowana
17. Arapaima
18. Redtail Catfish
19. Beluga Sturgeon
20. Giant Pacific Octopus
21. Chambered Nautilus
22. Cuttlefish (any species)
23. Banggai Cardinalfish (with sea urchins)
24. Discus (any species)
25. Freshwater angelfish (any species)

I only included a few smaller fish as I don’t really have any particular species I’d consider essential, but I do think small fish species in general are essential. At least as some kind of habitat animal. If a small update with fish tanks that were just like… “large saltwater tank,” “small saltwater tank,” “African cichlid tank,” “large Amazon tank,” etc… was all we ever got fish-wise, I’d be content with that.
 
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1. Giant Oceanic Manta ray
2. Beluga whale
3. Giant pacific octopus
4. Moray eel (any)
5. Red-bellied piranha
6. Pacific walrus
7. Bottlenose dolphin
8. Orca
9. Koi
10. Lionfish (red)
11. Seahorse (any)
12. Sawfish (any)
13. Hammerhead shark (any)
14. Clownfish (common)
15. Sea turtle (green)
16. Narwhal
17. Pelican (great white)
18. Great white shark
19. Emperor angelfish
20. Platypus
21. Whale shark
22. Arapaima
23. Tang (royal)
24. Electric eel
25. Japanese spider carb
 
I will not include semi-aquatic animals which I already posted in the other META-wishlist. I make an exception for sea turtles since I've only seen them in aquariums without a visible land area.

1. West-Indian Manatee
2. Green Sea Turtle
3. Manta Ray
4. Blacktip Reef Shark
5. Greater Barracuda
6. Humphead Wrasse
7. Ocean Sunfish
8. Bluefin Tuna
9. Leopard Shark
10. Spotted Eagle Ray
11. Green Moray Eel
12. Ocellated River Stingray
13. Arapaima
14. American Paddlefish
15. Redtail Catfish
16. Koi
17. Black Pacu
18. Japanese Giant Salamander
19. Beluga Sturgeon
20. Alligator Gar
21. Asian Arowana
22. Electric Eel
23. Queensland Lungfish
24. Northern Pike
25. Largemouth Bass
 
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