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AQUARIA KLCC
Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre
Kuala Lumpur City Centre
50088 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Information about Aquaria KLCC :
• 10 minutes walk from the Petronas Twin Towers
• 5 minutes walk from Suria KLCC connecting tunnel
• 8 km from KL Sentral Station, 80 km from KLIA International Airport

“ ocean of discovery ” at the Aquaria Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre in Kuala Lumpur City. It is the first commercial aquarium in the KL and a wonderful place to spend the school holidays with the family.

It's a RM60 million aquarium featuring some 5,000 aquatic and marine animal exhibits of over 150 different species from Malaysia and around the world – some caught, some sourced and some given.

Boasting of an area spanning two levels and covering over 5,500 sq m, making it the largest aquarium in the world, the Aquaria has 19 tanks with various environments to keep and display fishes from various parts of the world.

Living Reef tank is packed with multicolored and multiform anemones and corals.

Flooded Forest tank , with its pair of hefty Amazonian arapaima freshwater fish, all of two meters in length.

Transparent tunnel, whose moving belt walkway transports you through the base of the vast Living Ocean tank, replete with menacing sand tiger sharks, all with parasitic ramora fish clinging to their front and back edges.

This first commercial aquarium of its kind in K. L. is a place frequented by families for fun and excitement during school holidays.

1) Journey Starts - Touch Pool, Electric Eel, Electric Catfish & Elephantnose Fish

2) The Stream - The Giant Water Rat, Asian Small-Clawed Otter

3) Jewels of the Jungle - Reptile, Amphibian, Insect, Butterfly Life Cycle, Coatimundi and many others

4) Amazon Flooded Forest - Arapaima, Red Tail Catfish and many others

5) The Coast - Archer Fish, Horseshoe Crab and many others

6) Oceanarium - Sand Tiger Shark, Octopus, Gaint Blotched Fantail Ray and many others

7) Weird and Wonderful - Chambered nautilus, Sea Jelly and many others

8) Coral Discovery - Seahorse and many others

Pedestrian Walkway
To walk to KL Aquaria, we walked through this air-conditioned pedestrian walkway at the Centre Court of Suria KLCC to the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. It is delightful walk on this walkway.

Before the main hall is the section "Jewels of the Jungle" with amazing variety of insects specimens, lizards, arachnids, and several amphibians. found in the tropical jungle.

This is a diversions on coastal and other wetland habitats. Some unique creatures that live under the dense tropical rainforests shown are:
- Coatimundi
- Freshwater turtles
- Tarantulas
- Lizards
- Poisonous snakes
- Green snakes
- Malayan Horned toads
- Tarantulas etc.

1) Malayan Giant Frog (Limnonectes blythii)
The Malayan giant frog are found along streams in lowland to mid-level rainforest. The color ranges from reddish to yellowish brown. The species can be found in Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia.

2) Bumblebee Poison Dart Frog
Bumblebee dart frog is only 5cm in size yet is one of the most toxic animals on earth.

Location : 3-Jewels of the Jungle

The center piece display of Aquaria KLCC is this 30 feet height cylindrical tank (photo above) located mid way in the aquarium. We enjoyed looking at these large barbs, knifefish, and catfish as they traveled vertically along the column.

Arapaima gigas
Largest freshwater fish species in the world.

Maximum Size : 450 cm (4.5 meters)
Distribution : Amazon River basin in South America
This Arapaima gigas (photo above) is about 1.5meters in length, is considered a child still growing. When it fully grown it will be 4.5 meters (3 times) in length.
It may take 10 years to grow to it full size. So we will come back again in 2016 to measure again.
Location : 4-Amazon Flooded Forest

Oceanarium

The highlight of the aquaria- 90 meters tunnel that runs right below a RM2 millions an oceanarium.
Long sharks, ray, giant garoupas, sea turtles, with hundreds of other fish swimming freely around the tunnel. This is an amazing experience.
Location : 6-Oceanarium

A state-of-the-art marine museum of Universiti Malaysia Sabah campus.

Established in 1995 by Borneo Marine Research Institute (BMRI) to promote education, research and training in conservation and sustainable development of marine resources.

Dragonflies of Borneo

"With 275 named species so far recorded in Borneo, the island has one of the richest and most exciting dragonfly faunas in the world. More than 40% of species occur nowhere else, making it the most distinctive sub-region of Sundaland." A Guide to the Dragonflies of Borneo by Albert G. Orr

Insects are diverse and dominant inhabitants of the tropical rainforests in Borneo Island. New species are discovered too often. Entomologists are still struggling to cope with the documentation of tropical insect diversity.

Most of the common dragonflies in Sabah are red coloured, especially from the family Libellulidae. Some red pecies are even confused as same species, for example the three species of Genus Neurothemis.

GO FURTHER

Zoos in Malaysia
Zoos & Wildlife Parks In Malaysia That All Animal Lovers Should Visit!

From mini zoos to large wildlife parks that are home to some of majestic creatures, Malaysia has many of these places for you to visit and educational experience.

FAUNA

Dragonflies of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore

Dragonflies are among the most beautiful of insects. Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore are home to more than 230 species (twice the number found in Europe). They include some of the most exquisite forms found anywhere in the World.

FLORA

Fig trees of Sabah

Borneo has 150 species of wild fig trees. Most of them are found in forests of Sabah.

FISHERIES

Tiger Prawn Farms in Tawau

Prawn farming is a main commercial activities in Tawau. Spawners from Tawau are graded the best in Malaysia. For decades, Tawau has been exporting high-grade tiger prawns to several countries such as Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Egypt and Australia.