Ucluelet Mini Aquarium

Ucluelet Sea Crestures - Touch Them!

Get Up Close and Personal...

The Ucluelet Mini Aquarium is one of the coolest places to visit. It is a collection of sea life that is captured by the aquarium's divers, placed into viewing tanks, then released back into the ocean. How's that for a great idea. We get to view sea life that we'd only see if we were divers and it's a beautiful sight. The aquarium is also very much a hands-on kind of place. Where the tanks are open you are allowed to gently touch the sea creatures.
Ucluelet Mini Aquarium

Some anemone have smooth tentacles and others had a feathery texture to theirs. In the photo on the left the brown creature sitting on the rock is the same as the one with the green tentacles in front of it except that it has closed to eat something it's caught. The same in the right photo. The open anemone with the feathery tentacles sits in front of a closed one. You can also see a closed feathery one on the left of the left hand photo.

Smooth tentacled anemone on the right and Feather-like tentacled anemone on the left

Sea Stars

Crabs

Sea Urchins

 

Pen point gunnels, small rock fish and sea pens

How do the pen point gunnels and small rock fish swim in the air?  | These sea pens are bright orange in the light and glow blue in the dark.

Sea Slugs and Sand Dollars

Beautiful little long fin sculpin

Jelly fish in Space!

Visit the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium and find out how these jelly fish appear to float in space.

Learn about sea life at the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium

The Ucluelet Mini Aquarium is a great place for kids of all ages to learn. The staff provides educational sessions for school groups, day camps, surf schools and university students. The mini aquarium is a real hand-on experience with open touch tables, a microscope hooked up to a large monitor and friendly knowledgeable staff.

Who visits the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium?
Along with you and your friends and family
here are the names of some of the sea life that visit the Ucluelet Mini Aquarium:
Octopus, sand dollars, long nose skate fish, feather duster tube worms, starfish, mussels, oysters, snails, scallops, crabs, urchins, sea pens, sculpins, ling cod, sea cucumber, anemones, shrimp, sea slugs, nudibranches, sea lettuce, pen point gunnels, rockfish, barnacles, kelp crabs, hermit crabs and long fin sculpins.