S.E.A. Aquarium - Open Ocean

The tank now has almost 50,000 fish, mostly scads and fusiliers that form dense schools. There are also large schools of unicornfish and batfish, and at least 8 species of rays (manta, mangrove whipray, leopard whipray, cowtail, cow-nosed, spotted eagle, bowmouth guitarfish, giant guitarfish).

A few more species of large fish are still to be added, including tuna and mahi mahi. There will supposedly be 6 manta rays eventually.

I also suspect that the aquarium is interested in getting billfish (images of billfish appear around the aquarium), specifically Indo-Pacific sailfish.

I still can't get over those ugly windows though. They're hideous!

Make that at least 10 species of rays, I missed out the giant shovelnose ray and honeycomb whipray in the earlier post.

Would sailfish be a first for an aquarium, or is there any history of captive husbandry of these species?

At least one aquarium in Japan (Aquamarine Fukushima) has tried to keep sailfish. From an old thread:

http://www.zoochat.com/241/sailfish-aquamarine-fukushima-118063/

A 3rd manta ray has been added to the exhibit this week. Smallish specimen with a 2m wingspan.

Wow, 3 Mantas already!

Are they really getting sailfish?

Just my suspicion. The aquarium has never publicly said so. It probably won't commission the capture of sailfish, but if there is an opportunistic catch the aquarium would possibly want it.

The aquarium now lists their male manta as M.birostris and their 2 females as M.alfredi.

One of the giant groupers that was previously identified as a Malabar grouper (E.malabaricus) has been re-identified as the critically-endangered Altlantic goliath grouper (E.itajara).

Blackfin tuna have been added to the exhibit.