🇨🇦 Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada - A Thrilling Underwater Adventure | Toronto

Get ready to embark on a thrilling underwater adventure through oceans, freshwater wilds, lagoons, kelp forests, meeting over 20.000 amazing sea creatures. Located in the heart of downtown Toronto, right near the CN Tower, Ripley’s aquarium is Toronto’s must-see attraction for tourists and locals.
➡️The Canadian Waters exhibit features animals from all the bodies of water surrounding the country. The gallery has 17 habitats. Some animals featured in this exhibit include: alewife, largemouth bass, American lobster, wolf eel, lump fish, giant Pacific octopus, china rockfish.
➡️The Rainbow Reef features animals from the Indo-Pacific water regions and is the most colourful gallery in the exhibit, hence its name. Some of the species in this exhibit include: Picasso triggerfish, humbug dascyllus, emperor angelfish, pajama cardinalfish, unicorn surgeonfish. The exhibit also features an interactive dive show.
➡️The Dangerous Lagoon is an underwater tunnel with a moving conveyor belt, which is the aquarium's largest tank. Some of the featured animals in this exhibit include sand tiger shark, sandbar shark, roughtail stingray, longcomb sawfish, green sea turtles.
➡️The Discovery Centre features various hands-on activities such as underwater viewing bubbles, a pop-up research submarine and a touch pool which allows visitors to touch living fossils. Discovery Centre inhabitants include clownfish, palette surgeonfish, horseshoe crab. The Touch exhibits give visitors the opportunity to touch the skins of various animals like sharks and sting-rays with the help of aquarium employees. This gallery is home to whitespotted bamboo sharks, brownbanded bamboo sharks, southern stingray, cownose rays.
➡️The Gallery exhibit, also known as Mother Nature's Art Gallery, features some of the most delicate underwater species from all over the world. This exhibit features the red lionfish, electric eel, lined seahorse, and the archerfish. This exhibit features six saltwater and three freshwater exhibits.
➡️The Planet Jellies exhibit has colour changing displays with five species of jellyfish. These include: Pacific sea nettle, moon jelly, spotted jelly, and upside-down jelly.
The Ray Bay exhibit is focused on three distinct species of stingrays. Occasionally visitors can see aquarium divers feeding the stingrays during their daily interactive dive shows. Some of the inhabitants of this exhibit include the bonnethead shark, cownose ray, and the southern stingray.
➡️The Life Support System gives visitors, a behind-the-scenes look at the aquarium's life support systems room. The building features the largest life support systems room of Ripley's three aquariums. This gallery features equipment for Dangerous Reef and Ray Bay.
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