Tourist Groups

Tourist Groups

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 about 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]

Guided tour through the marine display featuring 23 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.
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.
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.
The group walks along Gustav Creek Bridge to our house where a Video is shown in our breezeway on The Life Histories and Aquaculture of Giant Clams and Clown Anemonefish.

Bookings are essential for groups.

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Magnetic Island Reef Walk Tours

During the winter low tides around the new or full moon periods from about April - October each year Aquasearch can organise to take out a group for a guided tour, with either our staff or a colleague working in Eco-Tourism. The tour is walking on the reef flats of Magnetic Island, where corals are exposed and fish may have been trapped in the tide pools. The reef flats in different bays have various types of corals and reef organisms that would be visible to the students by walking, and there are mangroves nearshore on west-facing beaches which can be visited. The group should contact us for planning a program, and for cost per person. Aquasearch or our Eco-Tourism colleague [Dr. Andrew Lewis, reefecotours@bigpond.com] would be acting in the capacity of a consultant for the group on-site, and would not be responsible for the insurance against accidents for the group.

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