frankfurt zoo, wilhelma stuttgart (a little turtle biased)

[AFRO-thunder]

Hey guys,

I have been at a turtle meeting near Frankfurt/Germany last weekend and so I had the chance to visit 2 zoos. They have great Aquarium and Terraium exhibits, so I took some pics. Here are the best ones:


These are pics from the Frankfurt Zoo. I took most of them at their huge Amazonas Tank, which holds really beautiful fish and turtles (Phrynops geoffroanus, tuberosus, nasuta and Podocnemis unifilis)

Archer fish:

Chelodina longicollis

Heros sp.

Phrynops geoffroanus

Potamotrygon sp.

The Wilhelma Zoo in Stuttgart also has a great reputation for it's amazing exhibit of reptiles and fish. It didn't disappoint me!


Phrynops hilarii

Oscar

BIG cichlid (Umbee?)

Shovelnose catfish

cute froggies:

Atheris sp.?

Mata mata

yellow blotched map turtles

blurry, but you can see the HUUUUUGE asian catfish

giant gourami

Geophagus steindachneri (kinda ugly one)

cichlids I don't know

pleco:

I hope you enjoyed the pics!

 

[blazin_dragon18]

they have some good looking bicourtis

 

[greatfulxdead]

I'm digging the tank with the giant gouramis and frt.

 

[south coast nelly]

wow they have some stunning fish, love the texas's and nic

 

[tydus]

The sevs are sexy!

 

[Onion01]

4 things...

1) those are huge archers!
2) that is an ugly oscar!
3) why is that tsn swimming at the surface?
4) awesome pics!!!

 

[just_relaxed]

amazing tanks and fish!

 

[AFRO-thunder]

thanks for the nice replies guys!

3) why is that tsn swimming at the surface?

good question. I only saw him doing this for some seconds, then he disappeared somewhere in the back of the tank. Maybe he wanted to show himself to me

 

[Lizardking]

That oscar is actually really nice. Looks like a mix between astronatus and aequidens something.

 

[channarox]

cool zoo.
nice turtles.