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Exhibits
The Ripley’s Aquarium offers nine different galleries: Canadian waters, rainbow reef, dangerous lagoon, discovery centre, the gallery, touch tanks, ray bay, life support systems & planet jellies.

Planet Jellies
This gallery has colour changing displays with 5 different species of jellyfish. The jellyfish that this exhibit features are: pacific sea nettle, moon jelly, spotted lagoon jelly, upside-down jelly.

Canadian Waters
The Canadian Waters featured animals from bodies of water surrounding Canada. 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

Rainbow Reef
The Rainbow Reef features animals from the Indo-Pacific water regions and is the most colourful gallery in the exhibit, hence the name, Rainbow Reef. Some of the species in this exhibit include: Picasso triggerfish, humbug dascyllus, emperor angelfish, pajama cardinal fish, unicorn surgeonfish. Every hour, the exhibit features an interactive dive show.

Dangerous Lagoon
The Dangerous Lagoon is an underwater tunnel with a moving side walk which is home to some of the deadliest animals. Some of the featured animals in this thrilling exhibit are: sand tiger shark, sandbar shark, roughtail sting ray, green sawfish, green sea turtles.

Discovery Centre
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, guineafowl puffer.

Touch Tanks
The Touch Tanks exhibit gives 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, southern stingray, cownose rays.

The Gallery
The Gallery exhibit features some of the most delicate underwater species from all over the world. This exhibit features the red lionfish, electric eel, lined seahorse, weedy sea dragon and the archerfish. This exhibit features six salt water and three fresh water exhibits.

Ray Bay
The Ray Bay exhibit is focused around three distinct species of stingrays. Occasionally visitors can see aquarium divers feeding the stingrays. Some of the inhabitants of this exhibit include the bonnethead shark, cownose ray, and the southern stingray.

Life Support Systems (LSS)
The Life Support System gallery gives visitors a behind the scenes look at the aquarium’s life support systems room. The Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada features the largest life support systems room of all three Ripley’s aquariums. This gallery features the equipment for the Dangerous Reef and Ray Bay.

Birthday Party Packages
The aquarium also offers birthday party packages. There are several birthday themes available, such as Under the sea, mermaids, pirates & sharks. The party includes free admission for the birthday girl/boy.

Sleepovers
The aquarium offers sleepovers in the “Dangerous Lagoon” shark tunnel which includes an evening snack and breakfast and a behind the scenes tour. There are also group sleepovers available.

Field Trips
Field trips include classroom workshops and gallery programs. There are various classroom workshops available that meet Ontario Ministry of Education’s requirements. The workshops are for students from Kindergarten to Grade 12.