This has got to be the greatest most unknown and remote public aquarium in the world! I certainly had no idea of its existence, but now I am adding it to my travel bucket list ! Thank you for sharing!
Hi everybody ! I, and the Aquarium des Lagons team, wish to thank you all for all your positives comments ! It's so comforting and motivating ! Gave us strength for the future, with the goal of still improving our displays... We are lucky enough to be a semi-open running system. We pump the sea water next to our aquarium, having 2 initial sand filters and drum filter filtering to 40 microns. Then, this 'new water' is distributed to our systems by gravity, with a renewal rate of maximum one time a day to one time a week depending on our systems, populations or volumes. Each reef tank has additional filtrations systems, basically sand filters (from 1 to 5 by tank depending on volume), semi-humid biological filtration and protein skimmer. We then could run our systems in absolute closed systems if needed (e.g., bad weather conditions, pollution, hurricanes, etc.). Water changes are then on a small "automatic" base during the day by the new sea water providing, and "a bit more" when back-washing our sand filters (from one time a day to 2 times a week depending on tanks). Light consists in a mix of 400W HQI, Leds, and a bit of natural light too. We also add lime water by night, but at that time of our story, no other additions are made. We aim at reproducing habitats, so both our fish and invert populations are as representative as possible of natural reefs. Each tank also have its own population of crustaceans, mollusks, echinoderms, etc. Finally, all this gave us the ability of feeding a lot our tanks. Of course the fishes, but also corals with a daily mix of phyto and zooplankton (5 different auto produced algae, rotifers, and brine shrimps). I hope this gave a few answers... Many thanks again !
I really wouldn't have expected New Caledonia to have that high quality of an aquarium. For some reason this really moves it up my list of places to visit!
All the displays that you shared were amazing. The reefs were so well thought out and diverse. And to think the corals were just replanted and there is so much that can be added.
absolutely incredible. New Caledonia is still a unique biological gem despite all the human-caused extinctions there over the past few thousand years, of lineages like Meiolania or Mekosuchus
Those nautilus babies are so cute! The giant reef tanks also show how a lot of corals we keep in the hobby will display a completely different growth form if you give them time and space for them to get huge.
One of my favorite places to visit - Public Aquariums. This one is fantastic! When I lived in Maui my apartment was across from the Maui Ocean Center and the Aquarium des Lagons has much better reef tanks. I'm impressed!
Wow :) Thank you for sharing! Love the Moorish Idol group 💗 So Peaceful and Breathtaking. I’m a reef fish 🐠 lover but oh my the corals are just incredible. Everything is so surreal and beautiful.😍 Thank You, Enjoy:)
Wow what an awesome place! Love the nautilis! And the breeding too!!! 😲 The mullet are called square tail mullet I believe also I believe I saw a Picasso trigger on the right hand side of the vid .....Regardless, amazing place and ty for sharing!
Mangrove exhibits with tidal swells #goals I’d love to have a linear 40 foot long display semi connected habitat from inshore to reef crest to drop off lol Of course partially illuminated by the sun
Hi Jake Welcome !!! i live here in New Caledonia, i am passionate about marine biology and corals, so if you stay a few days here i can offer you a scuba diving (free of course) in our lagoon! tell me if you are interested.Have a good time here !
Man those first couple tanks were the tide comes in and out changing the water hight is simply amazing. I would have never thought of that, and it’s so natural. 👍🏻
Many public aquariums that understand the importance of the quality of light are still using metal halides because of the safe great intensity and mainly because of the rich spectrum. That is a really nice Aquarium. One of the best in the world! I enjoyed this video a lot! Well done!!!!!!!!!!!!
The tank with the oldest coral is the most natural looking reefscape ive ever seen. It really looks like a section of reef, the placement of the corals and selection of fish is so authentic 💕
It couldn’t be more realistic! It is hard to believe that it is less than a year old. The oldest coral is especially amazing as it grew there. They didn’t remove a large coral from a reef! I wish I was 50 years younger. New Caledonia has always been a place I wanted to visit. Having seen this aquarium, it makes me want to travel again!
The reef tanks are so tasteful and naturalistic. It looks like it grew on its own instead of the manicured frag collection that many reef tanks can become! It's easier to do so when the tank is so big though, lol.
Shooting from the hip but the nautilus looks like it would belong to the cephalopod family but it has a hard shell?? Ive never heard of or seen one till now, just my speculation.
Jake you should come see Toledo Zoo in ohio's aquarium!! It would be a great video and I think you'd enjoy the aquarium... and the exhibits through out the zoo!! Well I think Joey King Of DIY needs to come build a 4000 gallon reef aquarium in the reef builders studio with Jake. So Jake can have those silver fish and those cute mullets!!!!!💗🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
The nautilus babies are grate but what is the purpose as I'm just really hoping they will be either released or given to no one other then other aquariums able to house them due to what they are. My partner loves watching you and I just wanted to ask this myself as they are amazing animals