Programs to make your Scuba Diving Course more interesting and more informative for your participants

Aquasearch Lab / Aquarium can take a group of up to 25 maximum at one time, preferably not more than 20.  The groups must have a minimum of 5 people.  The entire tour takes between 40-45 minutes for a group.  A second group can then come for the next tour.  Groups of >15 are split into two. 

Tour: [approximately 45 minutes]:  [$6 per person]

1. Guided tour through the marine display featuring 24 year old cultured giant clams (85 + kg in weight at this age), corals and colourful reef fish, with particular emphasis on the clown anemonefish (Nemo) which we culture at Aquasearch. Basic talk given on giant clams and some of the corals and reef fish represented in the aquarium. 
2. Visit to the airconditioned Live Foods laboratory, where stock and working cultures of marine microalgae are seen.  Each visitor has a look under the microscope at either microalgae or rotifers.
3. The wet lab is viewed with freshwater fish, some marine ornamental broodstock fish, and tanks used in mass larval culture.  Visitors are given a short talk on 4 methods of reproduction used by freshwater fish and on practical math used in aquaculture.
4. The group walks along Gustav Creek Bridge to our house where a Video is shown in our breezeway on The Life History of Giant Clams and Aquaculture.  

Bookings are essential for groups.

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