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Our Marine Wildlife team rescued a one-ton sunfish on New Year's Day
The Two Oceans Aquarium’s Marine Wildlife Management Programme rang in the new year with our biggest sunfish rescue to date! The sunfish was trapped in the Sturrock Dry Dock and later weighed in at approximately one ton and measured 2.32m in length and 2.5m from fin tip to fin tip.
Celebrating the importance of wetlands on World Wetlands Day
Happy World Wetlands Day! Today, we celebrate one of the most valuable and most threatened ecosystems on Earth: Wetlands.
What’s it like to do a PADI Open Water scuba diving course at the Aquarium?
Recently, a Two Oceans Aquarium staff member completed her PADI Open Water Diver certification with our five-star Dive School. Let's hear more from Megan about her experience of learning how to scuba dive...
Meet the Two Oceans Aquarium's Turtle Road Trip team along the Garden Route this February
The Two Oceans Aquarium Foundation’s Turtle Road Trip travels the Garden Route and Southern Cape to raise awareness of turtle stranding season and strengthen South Africa’s Turtle Rescue Network.
Looking back on Wetlands Week with Ocean Campus
In celebration of World Wetlands Day, Ocean Campus hosted a vibrant and educational Wetlands Week from 3 to 6 February at the Green Point Urban Park wetlands. The week brought together learners from schools in Nyanga for an immersive learning experience focused on one of nature’s most important, yet often overlooked, ecosystems: Wetlands.
Celebrating Reverse the Red Day with a win for green turtles
Reverse the Red is a pioneering global movement that works to reverse biodiversity loss and showcase positive achievements for species on the brink of collapse by celebrating efforts that bring species back from being endangered.
Tracking our turtles: News from Nori, the green turtle
It has now been 75 days since Nori, the green turtle, was released into the wild waters of De Hoop Marine Protected Area. Since then, she has travelled an incredible 3 700km, averaging about 49km every single day.
Happy first birthday to our African penguin chicks, Ember and Echo!
This week, the Two Oceans Aquarium is celebrating the birthdays of African penguin chicks, Ember and Echo! Our first African penguin chicks in 10 years, they were welcomed to the Aquarium family in February last year.
Orbicular batfish
The orbicular batfish is a large, disc-shaped fish with a flattened dusky silver body. Its anal and dorsal fins are symmetrical, giving the adult batfish a spade-like appearance. Its dorsal, anal and tail fins are translucent yellow with black margins, and its pectoral fins are yellow.
Bluefin gurnard
Bluefin gurnards are a common bottom-dwelling fish that is a common throughout the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Sergeant major
The sergeant majors are small, oval damselfish. It has a grey body with a yellow dorsal area.
Steentjie
The steentjie (Spondyliosoma emarginatum) is a blue-grey fish that has an oval-shaped body with several faint yellow horizontal stripes on its flanks and dark blue-grey fins. It has several sets of both incisors and a row of molars. They use this combination of teeth to pick up bottom-dwelling invertebrates and crush their shells. As they mature they become more omnivorous and will graze on algae. During spring and summer months, male steentjies will take on brighter blue and yellow colours and will construct nests in the sand. Once spawning has taken place, the males will remain at the nest to guard the eggs until they hatch. The steentjie occurs in large shoals above shallow, rocky reefs on the coasts of the Western Cape, Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal.