City: Townsville
Country: Australia
State: Queensland
Opened 24.06.1987
Species 250
Reef HQ (typeset as ReefHQ) is the largest living coral reef aquarium. ). The Coral Reef Exhibit has 130 coral species and 120 fish species along with hundreds of species of sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, brittle stars, feather stars, snails, worms and sponges. Water motion is created in the Coral Reef Exhibit by a pneumatic wave machine. Unusually, the aquarium is open to the weather, receiving precipitation, sun- and moonlight, just like natural coral reefs. The tank holds approximately 2.5 million litres of water.
Service given
Open : under renovation to minimum 2026
Entrace fee: Yes
For kids: Playgrounds and pettingarea
Food: The Aquarium has 3 places where you can get a snack
Taking photos: Is allowed, if publiciesed, please mention the aquarium on your homepage
Contact
Phone number 07 4750 0800
Fax number 07 4772 5281
Address: Reef HQ, PO Box 1379, Townsville QLD 4810, Australia
E-mail: info@reefHQ.com.au
Website: www.reefhq.com.au
Where to finde the Aquarium:
I don't have any guides of this aquarium. Does any body know if they made any guides? And where I can get those?
In the year 2012 they had theire 25th anniversarry. Have they made any books on this occassion?