HAPPY 10th BIRTHDAY SAPPHIRE COAST MARINE DISCOVERY CENTRE
by Marine Discovery Centre • November 26, 2018 • Announcements, Aquaria, Education, Events, Research, Volunteers
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Having a slime time with our new occupant
by Jillian Browning • July 12, 2016 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
Deep sea creatures have always excited and delighted people with their weird ways and the hagfish is no different. The hagfish, otherwise known as a slime eel, is an eel like fish that lives on the ocean floor. They look like a worm, eel and star nosed mole had a baby and produced a blind…
Read more →Piranhas at the beach?
by Jillian Browning • April 1, 2015 • Announcements, Aquaria, Research • 1 Comment
This is not real! It was an April Fools Day Joke. Exciting and slightly scary new discovery! Scientists have recently found a new marine species of Piranha, called the Ocean Piranha (Pygocentrus oceanus). Piranhas are an omnivorous species usually found in South American rivers but through a recent marine census a salt water species…
Read more →Aquarist position available
by Jillian Browning • February 3, 2015 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
The Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre is seeking an Aquarium Maintenance Technician. Flexible hours, up to 12 a fortnight. Experience necessary. Applications close February 16, 5pm. For more details contact us on 02 6496 1699 or email: admin@sapphirecoastdiscovery.com.au
Read more →Umbrella snail babies
by Jillian Browning • February 6, 2014 • Announcements, Aquaria • 1 Comment
Up until this Summer I had not heard of an Umbrella snail (or shell). It was when we found one at Shelly’s Beach, Eden on a Rocky Shore Ramble that I first learnt about this strange but wonderful creature. The Umbrella snail (Umbraculum umbraculum) is a large marine gastropod mollusc in the group Opisthobranchia. Opisthobranchs are characterized…
Read more →This centre visitor was turtley awesome!
by Jillian Browning • April 4, 2013 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
On Friday March 22, the staff was surprised and delighted when a man with a turtle turned up on our front door step. Michael Hewitt from Melbourne was happily fishing in Pambula Lake while on holiday when he came across a lost green turtle. He quickly collected her and brought her down to us hoping to…
Read more →New octopus babies
by Jillian Browning • December 13, 2012 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
We would like to congratulate proud mother Morticia on her beautiful new children, all 1000 of them! As you may have guessed Morticia is not human. She is the lovely gloomy octopus living at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre. The octobabies as they have come to be known were hatched on Monday December…
Read more →Two New Octopi (not the edible kind)!!
by Jillian Browning • September 12, 2012 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
Exciting news everyone, the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre has not one but two new octopuses. A beautiful little girl gloomy octopus and a dashing young male pale octopus!! Since the sad passing of everyone’s favourite star Octavia we have had an empty tank as a sad reminder but now we have a new…
Read more →Octavia and her babies
by Jillian Browning • June 28, 2012 • Announcements, Aquaria • 0 Comments
It has been an exciting month here at the Sapphire Coast Marine Discovery Centre with the multiple births of literally hundreds of baby octopus occurring over a number of days. First discovered Monday the 4th of June, the tank was bubbling with activity as minute (about 1mm long) baby octopus, or hatchlings, bobbed around and up and down…
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