This "Virtual Tour" will allow you to visit the Waikiki Aquarium via your web browser.
We hope you enjoy it!
The exhibits at the Waikiki Aquarium highlight the aquatic life of Hawaii and the tropical West & South Pacific. Education and conservation are strongly emphasized in all of our programs. There are six main areas: The Corals Are Alive area introduces you to some of the builders of the largest living structures on the planet and one of Earth's oldest ecosystems. Hawaiian coral reefs are unique in that they are geologically young reefs and are the most geographically isolated reefs in the world. We also display corals from the tropical West & South Pacific.
The Galleries at the Aquarium highlight the aquatic communities of the tropical Pacific and Hawaii, the amazing diversity and adaptations of sea creatures from many different habitats, our use and conservation of marine resources, the cultural significance of some animals, and some of the endemic freshwater animals only found in Hawaiian native streams.
The Edge of the Reef exhibit is a 7,500 gallon (28,400 liter) outdoor exhibit that recreates a typical Hawaiian shoreline. Here you can learn about five different types of Hawaiian reef and shore environments, and get eye-to-eye with colorful fish.
The Hawaiian Monk Seal is one of the world's most endangered marine mammals. At their exhibit you have a chance to see and to discover more about these amazing pinnipeds. You can also learn about some of the current monk seal research projects that the Aquarium conducts. The Ocean Aquaculture exhibit displays the Pacific Six Fingered Threadfin (Polydactylus sexfilis) known locally as "Moi". Its desirability as a popular seafood dish has resulted in a reduction in the number found locally in the wild. Aquaculture efforts are currently being made to help relieve some of this pressure. The Ocean Aquaculture exhibit demonstrates some of the techniques used to successfully rear these fish in captivity from egg to adult. Aquaculture is a viable enterprise and lessens our demand on the marine environment. The Waikiki Aquarium's conservation ethic runs deep. As one of the first aquariums in the world to display living South Pacific corals, we have a particular interest in the peril that many reefs in the South Pacific now face. Our Coral Farm exhibit is a working coral propagation facility enabling us to provide hundreds of coral colonies a year to other aquariums and research institutions. It is hoped that the demand for live corals may eventually be entirely met by "coral farms" and that damaged wild reefs may even be restocked through the efforts of captive propagation.
Within some of our exhibits are animals that are rarely seen by the public or exhibited in aquaria. A visit to the Aquarium gives you a chance to actually see some of these amazing or beautiful creatures and to learn more about them.
View the Seahorse exhibit in advance as Aquarium Biologist Norton Chan takes viewers
behind the scenes at Waikiki Aquarium to talk about the care and
feeding of seahorses. | 
