Without donning scuba gear and flippers, you can make a fascinating journey into the deep world of marine and river inhabitants, visiting the aquarium in Krasnodar. “Galaxy” is a city shopping and entertainment center where you can arrange wonderful shopping, see and take part in various fairs, exhibitions, festivals and charity events. As well as wandering around the breathtaking expositions of the largest aquarium in the south of Russia.
General information
The grand aquarium in Krasnodar, the capacity of the water basins of which exceeds 850 tons, is equipped with many latest-generation filters for continuous water purification, similar in composition to oceanic. With the help of modern air conditioning systems, its comfortable temperature is maintained. Several dozen aquariums mesmerize visitors with thousands of marine and freshwater fauna.
Shark tunnel
Of particular interest is the glass tunnel with its formidable inhabitants - sharks. Unforgettable sensations arise among visitors when black-feathered sharks rush headlong overhead or at arm's length. Slowly passing white-feathered predators fascinate with their menacing grace. It was their relatives in the recent past who attacked Egyptian tourists. Their feeding once every three days, at about 17:30 local time, is carried out by the diver of the oceanarium. However, sometimes the health of marine life makes adjustments to the diet. This action attracts a lot of emotions among visitors, and especially among children who with wide open eyes absorb all the magic of the sea element.
Tour opportunities
The oceanarium in Krasnodar called “Ocean Park” consists of several levels. Therefore, the most distant aquariums can be reached only by wandering along the stairs. Monitors located above some large aquariums are constantly updated with information about local inhabitants. In addition, an experienced guide works in the territory of this water kingdom. He tells a huge number of interesting facts from the life of the underwater world. In order to listen to his entertaining narrative, you just need to find a crowd of curious visitors and join the tour.
Water creative
A very interesting and bewitching sight for visitors was the observation of parrot fish, which does not breed independently in artificial conditions. The local ichthyologists found a fairly simple and creative solution: with the help of non-standard jaws, exotic color and other creative sophistication, they create the conditions for its fertilization, which is extremely amusing to others.
Water is water, and lunch is scheduled
The Oceanarium in Krasnodar (address: Uralskaya St., 98) has become one of the fascinating and informative local attractions. Every day you can see how the piranha natterera and paca eat.
As an additional bonus for tourists - the organization of self-feeding of some inhabitants. Trachemys and Japanese koi carps with some sloth, but still willingly absorb treats. By carefully listening to the announcements broadcast in the hall, you can find out which inhabitants of the oceanarium will be fed in the near future, which means that they will observe this process. Lunch of dangerous moray eels and voracious piranhas is of particular interest to adult lovers of ichthyology.
Tactile contact
In addition, aquariums are very popular in which live inhabitants can be touched. Of course, this entertainment is safe, since they contain only toothless carps, and not the formidable predators that inhabit the oceanarium in Krasnodar.
The official website (ocean-park.ru) provides a variety of information about the network of aquariums located in Krasnodar, Gelendzhik and Anapa, as well as about the grand construction in Dubai.
Entertaining variety
A lot of marine and freshwater fish, as well as crustaceans and newts, are located on the background of waterfalls and cozy lagoons, successfully illuminated and elegantly decorated by designers.
The oceanarium in Krasnodar offers visitors not only an aquarium inspection, but also a cafe with impressively vivid photographs of the inhabitants of the deep sea in the most favorable angles. In the "children's hut" young artists can show their talent by painting one of the local representatives of the underwater world. Under the reliable supervision of attentive animators, children's dreams come true, and the sweet prize becomes the final chord. The exposition of a mechanical shark meeting tourists at the entrance to some young visitors makes a lasting impression. Her jaw moves ominously, and her eyes burning with artificial fire are capable of causing horror in minor naturalists for a short time. As a final chord, the Aquarium in Krasnodar offers the acquisition of souvenirs in a souvenir shop.
And another zoological world
The city has another oceanarium, opened much earlier, in 1996. Its expositions occupy 3 floors. The oceanarium in Krasnodar (Sadovaya, 6) can demonstrate several dozen species of fish, and one and a half dozen mammals and reptiles.
In the pool on the first floor, Japanese carps feel perfectly at ease, adjacent to sturgeons, past which black and white swans slowly swim. Martens and porcupines, mongooses and raccoons, Far Eastern wild cats can be seen in aviaries, and to view the exposition with exotic reptiles and aquarium inhabitants, you should go up a floor.
A unique and memorable spectacle gives emotional pleasure from enchanting visuals and completely new tactile sensations when immersed in such a realistic imitation of the mysterious underwater world.