Aquarium
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| New for 2013 is the Clown Fish Kingdom.
Dive into the amazing, colourful world of the clownfish. The beautiful sea creatures made famous in "Finding Nemo" come in many varieties.
During your next visit to the SEA LIFE Sanctuary, learn more about the incredible secrets of these charming characters and all of their friends.
| When members of the Aquarist team arrived on the 7th April 2013, they discovered that a baby Brown Band Bamboo Shark (photo below) had hatched overnight; the baby Shark is in a tank along with a number of other juvenile Sharks. The baby Shark has been named Bambi.
| The other new arrival to hatch at the Sanctuary was a baby Guitar Shark (photo below), it has been named Monty!
| These totally amazing Northern Sea Nettles (Chrysaora melanaster) (photo below) can grow to a length of up to 60cm and can be found in the Pacific & Arctic Oceans. Click here to see a large photo of this.
| Just click here or on the picture of your choice below to catch up with some of the creatures at the Hunstanton SEA LIFE Sanctuary.
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| Ernie, the spectacular Green Sea Turtle, has settled back into the refurbished Tropical Shark Tank. He currently weighs roughly 50kgs and loves to eat his greens.
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| Caimen Crocodiles
As you can see the Caimen Crocodiles are putting on lots of weight, they have now been at the Sanctuary for two years.
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| Seals in the Wild!
As we are coming into the Common Seals pupping season, the lovely Angela Rudd, who is the Retail Manager, if you have visited the Hunstanton
SEA LIFE Sanctuary you may well have been greeted by her, decided it was time to check on the local seal colony.
Angela and her family booked a boat trip to view the seals with Searles Sea Tours.
| | Photo above was taken by Angela Rudd.
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Rescued Seal Pups
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| After the successful rescue and rehabilitation of Marge, who arrived at the seal hospital on 6th March 2013, it was decided that she was finally ready to be returned back to the wild and was released on 1st May 2013. Her flipper tag number is 060 (red).
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Boris, a 6 months old rescued grey seal pup, arrived on 4th April 2013. He is currently recovering from a nasty case of lung worms and an ulcer on his eye.
Boris is in the hospital´s weaning pool. He may look cute in this picture but Jo, a member of the Aquarist team said that Boris is the most aggressive seal pup she has encountered this year!
| Penguins
At the end of March, members of the Aquarist team arrived at the Sanctuary, to check on Joepi, as he hadn´t felt very well for a few weeks, sadly he passed away during the night. After a post-morten, it was found Joepi died of kidney failure.
There could be the pitter-patter of tiny feet in the coming weeks, Ellie has laid an egg, lets hope it is fertile, due to hatch on 23rd May, so fingers crossed. Ellie and her partner Beau, are taking it in turns to keep the egg warm in their nesting box for the 40 days it takes before hatching.
| Harvey (photo below) can be currently seen in the corner of the Penguin enclosure building a nest.
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or on a picture of your choice below to see a larger photo.
| Otters
As you can see the Sanctuary has been very busy making some improvements to the Otter enclosure! New viewing and covered areas in case it rains and even some new toys for the Otters.
| Summer loves to smear her muddy paws across the windows after the staff have just cleaned.
The otters love to dance, the staff calls this the "Otter Jig".
| Resident Seals
The Animal Care Team had been putting Miley´s medication tablets in the head of the fish, after watching her, they found out that she only eats the tail ends! Oh dear!
Tyne likes to show off and during feeding time likes to throw her fish up in the air and then catch it.
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Sally is now 25 years old, Amber is 23 and the youngest of the three adult resident seals is 9 years old Tyne.
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