25 AQUATIC animal META-WISHLIST

[Markiz]

I can't believe I still haven't done this list.

Now I'm not very well versed when it comes to fish so I counted on EAZA list to have my back, and I was surprised how many classical oceanic animals are rarely kept in captivity if all form some species. And those which are kept shouldn't be kept and so on. I feel decieved by Marine Mania.

Granted I haven't been in any aquariums, like ever, so I wouldn't know.

Rambling aside, here's my list. Looking ng at others mine's gonna be a lot more semi aquatic and freshwater focused:

1. Pacific Walrus
2. Bearded Seal
3. Baikal Seal
4. Northern Sea Otter
5. Rockhopper Penguin
6. Eurasian Otter
( I know I had general meta wishlist for these, but put up against land animals these aren't making the cut)
7. West Indian Manatee
8. Green Sea Turtle
9. Alligator Snapping Turtle
10. Chinese Giant Salamander (Japanese aren't kept in captivity, apparently, go figure)
11. Ocellated River Ray
12. Red Tailed Catfish
13. Alligator Gar
14. Giant Arapaima
15. Electric Eel
16. Red Bellied Piranha
17. Pacu
18. Wels Catfish
19. Beluga Sturgeon
20. Northern Pike
21. Australian Lungfish
22. Mississippi Paddlefish
23. Koi Carp
24. Arowana
25. This one spot is dedicated to general type of wish. Ambient fish schools. Like I don't want to spend a slot on them and neither I would like to have them on animal list in game, but they would add so much to color and liveness of our tanks

 

[Cotolorynchuseggs]

10. Chinese Giant Salamander (Japanese aren't kept in captivity, apparently, go figure

just fyi, i googled it and found that they are at several zoos in the us, like Omaha, Honolulu, and Detroit zoo; as well as asa zoo in Hiroshima

 

[Markiz]

just fyi, i googled it and found that they are at several zoos in the us, like Omaha, Honolulu, and Detroit zoo; as well as asa zoo in Hiroshima

Oh, that would be enough to change the list. I guess I made a mistake, it's not kept in any EAZA zoos, and I confused it with all in general

 

[yoav_r]

-Orcas
-leatherback sea turtle
-tiger shark
-sand shark
-narwhal
-pelican
-puffin
-platypus
-little fairy/blue penguin
-eurasian otter
-swordfish

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.

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

I can't believe I still haven't done this list.

Now I'm not very well versed when it comes to fish so I counted on EAZA list to have my back, and I was surprised how many classical oceanic animals are rarely kept in captivity if all form some species. And those which are kept shouldn't be kept and so on. I feel decieved by Marine Mania.

Granted I haven't been in any aquariums, like ever, so I wouldn't know.

Rambling aside, here's my list. Looking ng at others mine's gonna be a lot more semi aquatic and freshwater focused:

1. Pacific Walrus
2. Bearded Seal
3. Baikal Seal
4. Northern Sea Otter
5. Rockhopper Penguin
6. Eurasian Otter
( I know I had general meta wishlist for these, but put up against land animals these aren't making the cut)
7. West Indian Manatee
8. Green Sea Turtle
9. Alligator Snapping Turtle
10. Chinese Giant Salamander (Japanese aren't kept in captivity, apparently, go figure)
11. Ocellated River Ray
12. Red Tailed Catfish
13. Alligator Gar
14. Giant Arapaima
15. Electric Eel
16. Red Bellied Piranha
17. Pacu
18. Wels Catfish
19. Beluga Sturgeon
20. Northern Pike
21. Australian Lungfish
22. Mississippi Paddlefish
23. Koi Carp
24. Arowana
25. This one spot is dedicated to general type of wish. Ambient fish schools. Like I don't want to spend a slot on them and neither I would like to have them on animal list in game, but they would add so much to color and liveness of our tanks

List updated!

With 15 new species, and the cuttlefish gaining speed!

 

[zoomaster1994]

1. West-indian manatee
2. Amazon manatee
3. Bottlenose dolphin
4. Dalls porpoise
5. Orca
6. Amazon river dolphin
7. Sea otter
8. Walrus
9. Southern elephant seal
10. Hawksbill sea turtle
11. Green sea turtle
11. Giant moray eel
12. Blacktip reef shark
13. Greater hammerhead shark
14. Whale shark
15. Sawfish
16. Giant manta ray
17. Spotted eagle ray
18. Blue-spotted ribbontail ray
19. Giant octopus
20. Electric eel
Exhibit;
21. Leafy Sea Dragon
22. Red bellied piranha
23. Red lionfish
24. Pufferfish
25. Archerfish

 

[yoav_r]

1. West-indian manatee
2. Amazon manatee
3. Bottlenose dolphin
4. Dalls porpoise
5. Orca
6. Amazon river dolphin
7. Sea otter
8. Walrus
9. Southern elephant seal
10. Hawksbill sea turtle
11. Green sea turtle
11. Giant moray eel
12. Blacktip reef shark
13. Greater hammerhead shark
14. Whale shark
15. Sawfish
16. Giant manta ray
17. Spotted eagle ray
18. Blue-spotted ribbontail ray
19. Giant octopus
20. Electric eel
Exhibit;
21. Leafy Sea Dragon
22. Red bellied piranha
23. Red lionfish
24. Pufferfish
25. Archerfish

Will update over the weekend

 

[Sarajt2011]

Here are my selections- tried to keep it to realistic animals. Also tried to choose
Larger fish that would work well has habitat animals.

1. Sea Otter
2. Giant pacific Octopus
3. Zebra shark
4. Blacktip reef shark
5. Hammerhead shark
6. Green sea turtle
7. Alligator snapping turtle
8. Manta ray
9. Whale shark
10. Bowmouth guitar fish
11. Goliath grouper
12. Moral eel
13. Sawfish
14. Longnose gar
15. Barracuda
16. Sturgeon
17. Manatee
18. Tarpon
19. Tiger shark
20. Moon jelly

 

[NachoB]

I doubt we'll ever get fully aquatic animals... i have a feeling they are either planning an aquarium/marine park simulator or they are going to save this for a planet zoo 2 if there is one. Either way, dreaming is free so here goes my wishlist:

1. West Indian Manatee
2. Sea otter
3. Arapaima
4. Amazon river dolphin
5. Green sea turtle
6. Red tailed catfish
7. Orca
8. Beluga
9. Bottlenose dolphin
10. Blacktip reef shark
11. Hammerhead shark
12. Red bellied piranha
13. Moorish idol
14. Lionfish
15. Clownfish
16. Butterfly fish (any)
17. Mandarin fish
18. Blue tang
19. Pacific giant octopus
20. Blue ringed octopus
21. Manta ray
22. Ocellated stingray
23. Leafy sea dragon
24. Harp seal
25. Wobbegong shark

Animals such as starfish, corals, anemones, etc could be animated props and other animals such as crabs could be exhibit animals. I included "small" fish in the list but i feel like they would also be exhibit animals if something like this is ever implemented.

 

[coatifan]

10. Chinese Giant Salamander (Japanese aren't kept in captivity, apparently, go figure)

Actually, at least one AZA facility houses them-- my very own local Smithsonian National Zoo!
(source: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/japanese-giant-salamander)

 

[Gabboi]

1. Beluga
2. Sunfish
3. Blacktip Reef Shark
4. West Indian Manatee
5. Manta Ray
6. Sawfish
7. Arapaima
8. Koi
9. Blue Marlin
10. Whale Shark
11. Sea Otter
12. Green Sea Turtle
13. Walrus
14. Moray Eel
15. Leafy Seadragon
16. Clownfish
17. Blue Tang
18. Lionfish
19. Giant Pacific Octopus
20. Red-bellied Piranha
21. Great Hammerhead
22. Jellyfish (any)
23. Japanese Spider Crab
24. Bottlenose Dolphin
25. Cuttlefish

 

[BananaLeech]

1. Common lobster

2. Common Snapping Turtle

3. Sea Otter

4. Loggerhead Sea Turtle

5. Arapaima

6. Senegal Bichir

7. Wels Catfish

8. Australian Lungfish

9. African Lungfish

10. Any Snakehead

11. Any Sturgeon

12. Redtail Catfish

13. Alligator Gar

14. Longnose Gar

15. Spotted Gar

16. Brown Fur Seal

17. West Indian Manatee

18. Florida Manatee

19. West African Dwarf Crocodile

20. Orinoco Crocodile

21. Southern Rockhopper Penguin

22. Australian Freshwater Crocodile

23. American Paddlefish

24. Any Grouper

25. Commerson’s Dolphin



PS Commerson’s dolphin is listed twice on OP’s tally for the meta-wishlist

 

[SaritaWolff]

Why is the Leatherback Sea Turtle seperate from the other sea turtles on the list?

 

[yoav_r]

Why is the Leatherback Sea Turtle seperate from the other sea turtles on the list?

Leatherbacks are unique both in appearence, size, and behavior from other sea turtles, and they belong taxonomically in their own seperate family.

 

[Humble Bumble]

Going to keep whales and dolphins out of this

1. Lions Mane Jellyfish
2. Leatherback Turtle
3. Green Turtle
4. Moray Eel
5. Sea Otter
6. Blue Hippo Tang
7. Angelfish
8. Manta Ray
9. Stingray
10. Clownfish
11. Lionfish
12. Parrotfish
13. Sunfish
14. Pufferfish
15. Cuttlefish
16. Giant Octopus
17. Leopard Shark
18. Goldfish
19. Crown of Thorns Seastar
20. Sea Cucumber
21. Dwarf Seahorse
22. Triggerfish
23. Yellow Tang
24. White-clawed Crayfish
25. Spider Crab
26. Barracuda
27. Reef sharks
28. Zebra Shark
29. Scorpionfish
30. Seadragon

 

[Traffyl]

1. Manatee
2. Sea turtle
3. Manta ray
4. Beluga
5. Gian Pacific Octopus
6. Walrus
7. Bottlenose dolphin
8. Red bellied piranha
9. Sawfish
10. Swordfish
11. Reef shark
12. Orca
13. Koi
14. Clownfish
15. Surgeonfish
16. Sand tiger shark
17. Electic eel
18. Hammerhead shark
19. Whale shark
20. Narwhal
21. Ocean sunfish
22. Sea horse
23. Jellyfish
24. Seadragon
25. Zebra shark

 

[Biologymatt]

1. Manatee
2. Pacu
3. Sea Otter
4. Walrus
5. Giant Salamander
6. Tassled wobbegong
7. Sawfish
8. Sunfish
9. Sturgeon
10. Alligator gar
11. Wels catfish
12. Arapaima
13. Alligator snapping turtle
14. Marine iguana
15. Conger eel
16. Common dolphin
17. Vaquita*
18. Spotted eagle ray
19. Beluga
20. Loggerhead turtle
21. Leather back turtle
22. Hellbender
23. Dugong
24. Amazon river dolphin
25. Nutria

*I watched a heartbreaking documentary, Sea of shadows, about how the one vaquita brought into captivity died within hours due to stress, I felt for the researchers as well as they were trying everything to save the species but captive breeding won’t be the way, any way realism aside it would go some way to raising awareness of this species

 

[SanRazo618]

1. Manatee
2. Pacu
3. Sea Otter
4. Walrus
5. Giant Salamander
6. Tassled wobbegong
7. Sawfish
8. Sunfish
9. Sturgeon
10. Alligator gar
11. Wels catfish
12. Arapaima
13. Alligator snapping turtle
14. Marine iguana
15. Conger eel
16. Common dolphin
17. Vaquita*
18. Spotted eagle ray
19. Beluga
20. Loggerhead turtle
21. Leather back turtle
22. Hellbender
23. Dugong
24. Amazon river dolphin
25. Nutria

*I watched a heartbreaking documentary, Sea of shadows, about how the one vaquita brought into captivity died within hours due to stress, I felt for the researchers as well as they were trying everything to save the species but captive breeding won’t be the way, any way realism aside it would go some way to raising awareness of this species

Unfortunately, the Mexican government removed the protections on the Vaquita refuge area so it seems all but certain that the governments have given up. All we can hope now is that Vaquita find a safe location to breed and not get caught up in nets. And that Tuataba poaching is handled with more force or importance than it is currently

 

[Shimi43]

1. Vaquita
2. Hawksbill Sea Turtle
3. Leatherback Sea Turtle
4. Manatee
5. Dugong
6. Asian arowana
7. Arapaima
8. Green Sea Turtle
9. Giant Pacific Octopus
10. Grey Reef Shark
11. Giant Shovelnose Ray
12. Giant Isopod
13. Electric Eel
14. Pacific Walrus
15. Japanese Spider Crab (Macrocheira kaempferi)
16. Zebra Shark (Stegostoma fasciatum)
17. Goblin Shark
18. Nurse Shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum)
19. Leafy sea dragon
20. Harbour seal
21. Moon Jellyfish
22. Portuguese Man o’ War
23. Bull Shark
24. Nurse Shark
25. Red lionfish

 

[BigLifeSanctuary]

1. Sea Turtle
2. Beluga whale
3. Bottlenose dolphin
4. Killer whale
5. Zebra shark
6. Amazon river dolphin
7. Leopard seal
8. Harbor seal
9. Leatherback sea turtle
10. Tiger shark
11. Alligator snapping turtle
12. Great white shark
13. Nurse shark
14. Bluespotted ribbontail ray
15. Sandbar shark
16. Softshell Turtle
17. Stellar sea lion
18. Blue shark
19. Bull shark
20. Mako shark
21. New Zealand fur seal
22. Chinese White Dolphin
23. Commerson's Dolphin
24. False killer whale
25. Devil ray

 

[AlexSea]

1: West Indian Manatee
2: Bottlenose Dolphin
3: Beluga Whale
4: Green Sea Turtle
5: Sea Otter
6: Goliath Grouper
7: Leopard Shark
8: Blacktip Reef Shark
9: Whale Shark
10: Green Moray Eel
11: Reef Manta Ray
12: Bluespotted Ribbbontail Ray
13: Spotted Eagle Ray
14: Leafy Seadragon
15: Spiny Seahorse
16: Giant Pacific Octopus
17: Moon Jellyfish
18: Purple-Striped Jelly
19: Powder Blue Tang
20: Yellow Tang
21: Ocellaris Clownfish
22: Arabian Butterflyfish
23: Emperor Angelfish
24: Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse
25: Barcheek Unicornfish