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  1. noobmaster69

    noobmaster69 Well-Known Member

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    As of April 2022, last visit, 14 April 2022. Might have missed some

    River Gems
    An aviary and tank with a variety of species

    Black phantom tetra
    Cardinal tetra
    Pearl gourami
    Penguin tetra
    Rainbow shark
    Red-tailed hemiodus tetra
    Trumpeter hornbill

    Way more species live here but I haven't been able to find

    African Rivers

    Small wall tank
    Congo tetra
    Kribensis
    Reedfish

    First tank
    Congo tetra
    Eastern bottlenose mormyrid
    Fahaka pufferfish
    Ocellated synodontis
    Peter's elephantnose fish
    Yellow-tailed African tetra

    Large tank 1
    African pike characin
    African tigerfish (juveniles)
    Featherfin squeaker
    Six-banded distichodus
    Tailspot ctenopoma
    Zebra tilapia

    Large tank 2
    Atlantic tarpon
    Giraffe catfish
    Nile perch

    Congo River
    Half aviary, half tank enclosure, was once a dwarf crocodile enclosure

    Bluegray mbuna
    Bumblebee cichlid
    Cobalt blue zebra cichlid
    Giraffe hap
    Golden mbuna
    Purple roller
    Red zebra mbuna
    Ringed teal
    Spindle hao
    Violet turaco
    Von der Decken's hornbill? (on the map but not in any signs and didn't see)

    Lake Tanganyika

    Blue neon cichlid
    Blunthead cichlid
    Compressed cichlid
    Cuckoo catfish
    Fairy cichlid
    Lemon cichlid
    Red spot callochromis
    Sardine cichlid

    Nile River
    One large wall tank

    African arowana
    African tigerfish
    Giraffe catfish
    Goliath tigerfish
    Saddled bichir

    Ganges River

    Gharial enclosure
    Black pond turtle
    Gharial

    Tank with an Indian temple backdrop. The enclosure was under renovation during my visit
    Clown knifefish
    Goonch catfish
    Mahseer
    Pig-nosed turtle? (could be gone)

    Mary River
    Nice mangrove display
    Australian lungfish
    Banded archerfish
    Boeseman's rainbowfish
    Eastern rainbowfish
    Jade perch
    Orange rainbowfish
    Peacock gudgeon
    Red rainbowfish

    Rocky tank kinda display
    Pearse's mudskipper

    Formerly a touch tank, there may have been more damselfish species tho
    Blue devil damselfish
    Mangrove horseshoe crab
    Whitetail dascyllus

    Mekong River

    Large netted enclosure with a pond
    Lion-tailed macaque

    Massive tank
    Asian arowana
    Dolphin barb
    Giant freshwater stingray
    Giant pangasius
    Iridescent shark
    Jullien's golden carp
    Mekong giant catfish
    Siamese giant carp
    Wallago

    Aviary
    Black-faced spoonbill
    Eurasian spoonbill
    Nankeen night heron
    Painted stork
    Spotted whistling duck
    Vietnamese pheasant

    Wall tank
    Chinese water dragon
    Vietnamese pond turtle

    A few more small tanks, don't remember all the species so very incomplete
    Burmese archerfish
    Dwarf loach
    Galaxy rasbora
    Kissing gourami
    Odessa barb

    Yangtze River

    Enclosure with underwater viewing and land area
    Chinese softshell turtle
    Chinese stripe-necked turtle
    False gharial

    Darkened tank
    Chinese giant salamander

    Large wall tank
    Amur sturgeon
    Black carp
    Grass carp

    Giant Panda Forest
    Giant panda
    Red panda

    Amazon River Quest
    Cool boat ride

    Black howler monkey
    Brazilian tapir
    Brown-headed spider monkey
    Capybara
    Caribbean flamingo
    Collared peccary
    Cotton-top tamarin
    Giant anteater
    Guanaco
    Guyanan red howler
    Jaguar
    Patagonian mara
    Red-backed bearded saki
    South American coati
    Tufted capuchin monkey

    Wild Amazonia

    Green anaconda tank
    Common pleco
    Green anaconda
    Kelberi peacock bass
    Oscar

    Aviary enclosure with climbing structures and whatnots
    Bare-faced curassow
    Golden-headed lion tamarin

    Large pond
    Silver arowana

    Squirrel Monkey Forest
    Walkthrough enclosure

    Azara's agouti
    Common squirrel monkey
    Great curassow
    Helmeted curassow
    White-faced saki
    Yellow-footed tortoise

    Pond not too far away
    Cuvier's dwarf caiman
    Yellow-spotted river turtle

    Amazon Flooded Forest

    Tunnel tank, closed for renovation during my most recent visit
    Giant otter

    Wall tank that looked pretty small
    Electric eel

    Another pretty nice wall tank
    Red-bellied piranha

    Small wall tank 1
    Altum angelfish
    Discus

    Small wall tank 2
    Black neon tetra
    Blue ram
    Bushymouth catfish
    Dwarf suckermouth catfish
    Golden nugget pleco
    King tiger pleco
    Lemon tetra
    Neon tetra
    Panda corydoras
    Serpae tetra

    Massive ass tank
    Antillean manitee
    Arapaima
    Atlantic tarpon
    Redtail catfish
    Tambaqui

    These were signed but I'm not sure if they're actually in the tank
    Black-banded myleus
    Common pleco
    Golden dorado
    Pike cichlid
    Silver dollar
    Tiger shovelnose catfish

    Open top tank
    Ocellate river stingray
    Xingu River ray

    Again, many fish signed but probably missed em
    Pink-tail chalceus
    Royal pleco
    Silver dollar


    Gotta admit it probably isn't very complete or well done but I tried my best. Overall, the place is pretty small and visiting it after all these years, it is really disappointing to see how many interesting species they lost (wink wink Mississippi River). It's still a pretty neat visit and I was lucky enough to spot the baby panda, Le Le. I'm planning to visit the other 3 zoos and the aquarium someday (the alligator gars and American paddlefish that were formerly here are there now)
     
  2. BucerosKeeper

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    The hornbills are in, they’re a sibling pair, though from what I understand they are still getting used to the habitat so may not come to the front.

    All the Pig-nosed Turtles have been moved to the zoo’s Forest Lodge if I’m not mistaken with exception of the ones in the Lion-tailed Macaque enclosure over at the Mekong.

    And most of the signed fish you didn’t see in the Manatee tank are over by the Amazonia pond

    Some of the ones you’ve missed

    Ganges River Goonch tank:
    Rita Catfish (Rita rita)

    Touch Tank:
    Hasselt’s Bamboo Shark (might be wrong about this one)

    Lion-tailed Macaque:
    Indian Pond Turtle
    Pig-nosed Turtle
    Indian Muntjac

    Main Mekong Tank:
    Siamese Tigerfish

    Small Wall Gallery @ Mekong:
    Licorice Gourami (Parosphromenus sp. Bintan)
    Hillstream Loach (Gastromyzon/Sewellia spp.)
    Fire Eel

    Giant Salamander:
    Chinese Giant Bitterling

    Sturgeon Tank:
    Phoenix Barb
    High-finned Loach

    Green Anaconda:
    Plumed Basilisk

    Amazonia Pond:
    Golden Dorado
    Red-tailed Vampire Tetra
    Piraiba(?, definitely some sort of Brachyplatysoma catfish)
    Shovelnose Catfish

    Manatee:
    Red-tailed Prochilodus
     
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  3. Zooish

    Zooish Well-Known Member 15+ year member

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    Mandai no longer keeps bamboo sharks of any species. There are also hundreds of Gold Barb (Barbodes semifasciolatus) in the Giant Salamander and River Gems tanks. No Prochilodus in the Manatee tank, but they have recently added Temensis Peacock Bass and Brachyplatysoma catfish to the tank.

    Most of their Goliath and African Tigerfishes and African Pikes are gone (probably died). Only 1 Goliath is left - the adult in the Nile tank, and a couple of specimens of the other 2 species remaining.
     
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    Sad that there are no longer sharks, hope that they’ll return in the future especially since some sort of coastal zone was initially drawn up for the zoo.

    Seems that the Goonch tank has been re-fitted to house South-east Asian species instead, the Toman (Channa micropeltes) that were once kept with the Saltwater Crocodile have all been moved there and there’s a Red-tailed Gourami as well.
     
  5. noobmaster69

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    The tank was on renovation while I was there, so did they remove some of the previous species from that tank?
     
  6. Nadchew_

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    Some clown knifefish remain but no signs of any mahseers or goonch catfishes
     
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    Have they changed the signage yet? Map still labels goonch catfish iirc
     
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    As of 3 may, still no signage yet, had to ID the fishes based on what i saw that day
     
  9. noobmaster69

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    Would be cool if someone is able to get a full species list of the fish and birds in River Gems (the very first tank) as well as those smaller tanks in the Mekong River area as well as the birds in the Congo River tank
     
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  10. Nadchew_

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    River gems species list(sorry quite incomplete maybe @Zooish can help out here):
    trumpeter hornbill
    blackline flying fox
    fahaka puffer
    penguin tetra
    cardinal tetra
    rainbow shark
    red-tailed hemiodus tetra
    harlequin rasbora
    pearl gourami
    red rainbowfish
    discus
    boseman's rainbowfish
    crested guineafowl
    lemon tetra
    Royal falowella?
    black widow tetra
    malabar danio
    red-lined torpedo barb
    black phantom tetra

    Birds in congo tank(if ur talking abt the original african dwarf crocodile exhibit):
    violet turaco
    ringed teal
    purple roller
    Von der Decken's hornbill

    fishes in small tanks at Mekong River:
    chili rasbora
    Bintan licorice gourami
    polka dot loach
    kissing gourami
    six-banded tiger barb
    tiger hillstream loach
    emerald dwarf danio
    dwarf botia
    fire eel
    odessa barb
    siamese flying fox
     
  11. noobmaster69

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    That's great. Sorry to ask but it'd be great if you get the species from the smaller tanks in Amazon Flooded Forest and those with the stingrays (no need the piranha, electric eel and the massive tank)
     
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    No problems i will clump all the fishes in the small tanks into one entire group:
    Black ghost knife fish
    rummy nosed tetra
    Altum angelfish
    blue discus
    cardinal tetra
    flagtail catfish
    leopard catfish
    red lizard catfish
    dwarf sucker
    green gold catfish
    ram cichlid
    black neon tetra
    cockatoo cichlid
    red phantom tetra
    royal tetra
    Columbian tetra
    neon tetra
    serpae tetra
    gold tetra
    glass bloodfin tetra
    panda corydora
    lemon tetra
    (next few are signed but I haven't seen them personally)
    bushymouth catfish
    golden nugget pleco
    king tiger pleco

    fishes in stingray tank:
    blue hook pacu
    myleus lamax
    l27 xingu platinum pleco
    thorny catfish
    Banded Leoprinus
    zebra shovelnose ctafish
    lyretail pleco
    Freshwater Stingray (Motoro sp., including hybrids)
     
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    Interesting stocking choices, considering only one of these species is actually found in the Mary River. That statement remains true when meaning both the Mary River in Queensland and the Mary River in the Northern Territory.
     
  14. noobmaster69

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    When the place opened, the area was themed after the Murray River and they had Murray cods and barramundi along with the lungfish but some time after, those two were removed from the collection and it became a generic mangrove area, archerfish, horseshoe crabs and mudskippers were added. They've never really cared for geographic accuracy, lion-tailed macaques from India are in the Mekong River (Southeast Asia) area, guanacos and Patagonian maras in the Amazon boat ride and the Ganges River tank seems to have Southeast Asian species now. At least some of those Mary River tank fish are Australian
     
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    Little update (credits to @Zooish and @Nadchew_ for the species)

    Ganges River Tank
    Clown featherback
    Giant Bornean gourami (Osphronemus septemfasciatus)
    Giant snakehead
    Rita catfish

    Water dragon and turtle tank
    Fire eel
    Philippine sailfin lizard
    Javaen barb
    Spanner barb

    Small Mekong tank gallery

    Tank 1:
    Bintan licorice gourami
    Chili rasbora

    Tank 2:
    Bigspot barb
    Harlequin rasbora

    Tank 3:
    Dwarf botia
    Emerald dwarf danio
    Tiger hillstream loach

    Tank 4:
    Boeseman's rainbowfish
    Red rainbowfish

    Amazon Flooded Forest small tanks (sans tank 3)

    Tank 1:
    Blue discus
    Cardinal tetra

    Tank 2:
    Altum angelfish
    Black ghost knifefish
    Three stripe corydoras
    A few more that I can't remember

    Tank 4:
    Cockatoo cichlid
    Colombian tetra
    Red phantom tetra
    Royal tetra

    Show exclusive animals
    North American beaver
    A few others that are from the other parks pike the otters, pelicans, etc
     
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    another mini update as some of the lists were wrong

    River of Africa
    Small wall tank
    Kribensis
    Oneline tetra
    Reedfish
    Yellow-tailed African tetra

    Zebra tilapia tank
    African pike
    Grass-eater (Distichodus rostratus)
    Tailspot ctenopoma
    Zebra tilapia

    Nile River
    African arowana
    African tigerfish
    Giraffe catfish
    Goliath tigerfish
    Lapradei bichir
    Saddled bichir
    Six-banded distichodus

    Mekong River rice paddy aviary
    Black-faced spoonbill
    Edwards's pheasant
    Eurasian spoonbill
    Green imperial pigeon
    Masked lapwing
    Nankeen night heron
    Painted stork
    Spotted whistling duck
     
  17. Nadchew_

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    Ur missing a peafowl that was added into the aviary, its a lone specimen. Seems to be a hybrid of green and Indian
     
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