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Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Feeding times are back at the Two Oceans Aquarium!

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After more than two years of being unable to offer advertised feeding times due to Covid restrictions, the Two Oceans Aquarium has announced that regular and announced feeding times for all three large exhibits have been reintroduced with immediate effect!

These include the diver feeds in the I&J Ocean Exhibit, the Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Exhibit, the Kelp Forest Exhibit, as well as penguin feeds.

Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Exhibit:

This exhibit, the largest in the Aquarium with two million litres of water, houses large ragged-tooth sharks.

  • These fascinating animals are fed on Saturdays at 12h00.

This feeding time is always something spectacular to witness and a perfect opportunity to learn more about these incredible, yet misunderstood, animals.

Shark Exhibit feeding Two Oceans Aquarium

I&J Ocean Exhibit:

This 1.6 million litre exhibit houses stingrays, musselcracker, grunter and shoals of other fish species.

  • Diver feeds will again take place in this exhibit on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 12h00.

I&J Exhibition feeding time Two Oceans Aquarium

Kelp Forest Exhibit:

The Kelp Forest Exhibit at the Two Oceans Aquarium is one of a handful of kelp forests on display in the world. The exhibit holds 800 000 litres of water and giant kelp plants, as well as a myriad of fish – many of them endemic to South Africa.

  • The Kelp Forest Exhibit is fed on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays at 12h00.

Feeding time at the Kelp Forest exhibition at the Two Oceans Aquarium

Penguin Exhibit:

The Aquarium houses two colonies of penguins – African and rockhopper penguins. These charismatic birds are certainly some of the favourite animals in the Aquarium.

  • They are fed daily at 11h30 and 14h30.

Penguin feeding time at the Two Oceans Aquarium

For more information, check out the aquarium’s website.

*Also remember the aquarium’s latest Trash Bash beach cleanup at Monwabisi Beach next month: 

Date: Saturday, 17 September 2022
Time: 09h00 to 11h00
Location: Monwabisi Beach.
What to bring: Weather-appropriate clothing, water (in a reusable bottle), reusable gloves (like the ones you’d use for gardening or doing dishes), and your enthusiasm!

Read more: Litter nets catch waste from stormwater system along Sea Point coastline

Liesl Smit
Liesl Smit
Liesl is the Smile 90.4FM News Manager. She has been at Smile since 2016, with nearly 20 years experience in the radio industry, including reading news, field reporting and producing. In 2008 she won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Award, Western Cape region. liesl@smile904.fm

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