Sealife Centre - Scarborough

[Jodes]

Went to SeaLife Centre last Bank hol Monday

Was quite good but a bit expensive really...


Here are the pics my boyfriend took...

Enjoy!

 

[shroob]

I've been there a few times (uncle lives in scarborough), did you see the turtle?

 

[Jodes]

I've been there a few times (uncle lives in scarborough), did you see the turtle?

Ye... there's 2 pics above of him, he was ace!

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

argh! i have a photo of that exact shark too! lol you live in Scarborough then?

 

[Jodes]

argh! i have a photo of that exact shark too! lol you live in Scarborough then?

lol no i dont, we just drove out there for bank holiday, ended up being a really good day.

 

[kj23502]

Those are good pics!!

Whats the ray with the slightly curled front things? a manta?

 

[pinkdolphin_113]

some sort of manta ray, obviously not an actual manta lol i'm sure the name had dwarf in it somewhere

there is a Finding Nemo tank in there too. I can't see it workin out for very long lol

 

[kj23502]

You Tube video of some jumping manta rays. A lady got killed in Florida by getting hit w/a flying manta

I found that while trying to find info on dwarf type manta's.

I found this from here:
Members of the genus Manta:
There are approximately 7 species and subspecies in this genus: M. birostris (Atlantic Manta) · M. birostris ehrenbergi · M. birostris · M. ehrenbergii · M. ehrengergi · M. pinchoti · M. raya
That's too many types for me to read about right now.

---edit added this
Mantas are filter feeders: they feed on plankton, fish larvae and the like, passively filtered from the water passing through their gills as they swim. The small prey organisms are caught on flat horizontal plates of russet-coloured spongy tissue, that span the spaces between the manta's gill bars.

I don't know if the little fishies would be in much danger or not....maybe if they don't move out of the way.

 

[Amerce]

The turtle is a female and she is brain damaged it seems, got hit by a boat in the sea and was rescued.

Went there myself during one ofothe previous bank holidays and had a lovely time, got talking to a lad who was feeding the seahorses and he was quite informative about some of the brisih ones.

 

[paul_219]

Very nice pics looking gr8. Thanks for sharing wonderful fish.