North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Knoll Shores North Carolina Aquarium At Pine Knoll Shores Species List 2022

These are the list of species present on my visit on 1/30/22.

Species in written in red text were unsigned.



Mountain Gallery


Deep Creek Tank: Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge, Smallmouth Bass, Rock Bass, unidentified fish

Mountain Minnows Tank: Blacknose Dace, Bluehead Chub, Central Stoneroller, Common Creek Chub, Creek Chubsucker, Longnose Dace, Mirror Shiner, Rosyside Dace, Swallowtail Shiner, Warpaint Shiner, White Shiner, Yellowfin Shiner

Trout Pool: Brook Trout, Brown Trout, Lake Sturgeon, Rainbow Trout

Hellbender Tank: Eastern Hellbender, unidentified blennies/gobies



Piedmont Gallery


On The Edge (herpatile terrariums):

Black-Bellied Salamander, Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander, Dusky Salamander, Spotted Salamander

Common Gray Tree Frog, Eastern Spadefoot Toad, Green Tree Frog, Squirrel Tree Frog

Broken-Striped Newt

Leopard Frog, Musk Turtle, Pickerel Frog


Fairway Pond Tank: Grass Carp, Goldfish, Koi

Falls Lake Reservoir Tank: Blue Catfish, Bullhead Catfish, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, Hybrid Bass (Morone saxatilis x Morone chrysops), Largemouth Bass, Striped Bass

Screech Owl Exhibit: Eastern Screech Owl

Otter Exhibit: North American River Otter


Outdoor Marsh Boardwalk:


Small Yard: Bald Eagle


Snake Building (most of them were off-display for the winter):

Timber Rattlesnake

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake

Cottonmouth


Coastal Plain Gallery


Pond Turtles Tank: Eastern River Cooter, Green Sunfish, Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Redbreast Sunfish, Red-Eared Slider, Redear Sunfish, Spiny Softshell Turtle, Yellowbelly Slider

Snake Exhibit: Corn Snake, Pine Snake

Alligator Tank: American Alligator, Warmouth

Ditch Dwellers Tank: Bluespotted Sunfish, Greater Siren, Spotted Turtle

Cypress Swamp Tank: Alligator Snapping Turtle, Black Crappie, Bowfin, Longnose Gar



Tidal Waters Gallery


Ray Touch Pool: Atlantic Stingray, Cownose Ray, Yellow Stingray

Salt Marsh Tank: Atlantic Spadefish, Crested Blenny, Diamondback Terrapin, Northern Kingfish, Sheepshead Minnow, Southern Kingfish, Spot Croaker, Spotfin Mojarra, Striped Hermit Crab, Striped Mullet

Dock Tank: Bandtail Puffer, Cubbyu, Sheepshead, Spottail Pinfish, Tautog

Queen Anne's Revenge Tank: Atlantic Croaker, Black Drum, Florida Pompano, Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Lookdown, Palometa, Sergeant Major, Sheepshead, Spottail Pinfish

Oyster Rock Tank: Belted Sandfish, Eastern Oyster, Lookdown, Silver Perch, Striped Burrfish

Seahorse Tank: Lined Seahorse, Neon Goby (Elacatinus oceanops)

Loggerhead Odyssey (small tank for baby sea turtles): Loggerhead Sea Turtle



Ocean Gallery


Wreck Of Caribsea Tank: Atlantic Blue Tang, Atlantic Bumper, Bermuda Blue Angelfish, Blackbar Soldierfish, Bluehead Wrasse, Cocoa Damsel, Doctorfish Tang, French Angelfish, High-Hat, Ocean Surgeonfish, Porkfish, Sergeant Major, Slippery Dick, Smallmouth Grunt, Spanish Hogfish, Spotfin Hogfish, Spotfin Porcupinefish, Yellowcheek Wrasse

Living Shipwreck Tank: Atlantic Spadefish, Atlantic Tarpon, Bermuda Chub, Black Sea Bass, Blue Runner, Bluestriped Grunt, Crevalle Jack, Gag Grouper, Gray Snapper, Great Barracuda, Green Sea Turtle, Horse-Eye Jack, Mahogany Snapper, Nurse Shark, Red Drum, Sandbar Shark, Sand Tiger Shark, Sheepshead, White Grunt, Yellowtail Snapper

Small Tanks Across From Living Shipwreck Tank:

Pygmy Angelfish, Royal Gramma, Twospot Cardinalfish, Yellowline Arrow Crab

Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Neon Goby (Elacatinus oceanops)


Hardbottom Ledge Tank: Atlantic Blue Tang, Beaugregory, Bicolor Damsel, Blue Chromis, Butter Hamlet, French Angelfish, High-Hat, Midnight Parrotfish, Neon Goby (Elacatinus oceanops), Puddingwife, Reef Butterflyfish, Royal Gramma, Sharpnose Puffer, Spotfin Butterflyfish, Townsend Angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris x Holacanthus bermudensis), Yellowhead Wrasse, Yellowtail Damsel

Lionfish Tank: Gray Angelfish, Longspine Porcupinefish, Sargassum Triggerfish, Spotted Moray, Red Lionfish, Reticulated Moray, unidentified devilfish/stonefish

Jellyfish Tanks:

Moon Jellyfish

Unidentified sea nettle


Little Minnows Play Area Tanks:

Atlantic Spadefish, Cubbyu, Smallmouth Grunt, Yellowtail Snapper

Bluestriped Grunt, Permit, Sheepshead



And that is a full list of species that are kept here. Hope I could help anyone who needed it!

 

What did you think about this facility?

 

For such a small aquarium, it's actually not bad. Although there is not much variety in its collection (since almost all of the animals kept here are native species), its displays are very impressive, with my personal favorite being the Living Shipwreck exhibit. This aquarium, along with the other two North Carolina aquariums (Fort Fisher & Roanoke Island) are in my opinion pretty underrated. If you are close by, I totally recommend you stop to visit.

 

I’m afraid I live out here in the fields (Illinois), so I doubt my parents will be willing to take me for a day trip there LOL

 

Very nice, love to see small local species aquariums getting the attention they deserve!

 

Thank you for the list, what is Queen Anne’s Revenge?

 

Queen Anne’s Revenge was a 18th-century French merchant ship, until it was captured by pirates in 1717. It sunk only a year later in 1718 where it was lost, until it was rediscovered by a private research firm in November 1996 off the coast of Atlantic Beach, North Carolina.