Coral in Aquarium and Marine Museum

Universiti Malaysia Sabah Aquarium and Marine Museum also have various type of coral. Corals are marine organisms that exist as small sea anemone. Typically they are in colonies of many identical individuals. The group includes the important reef builders that are found in tropical oceans, which secrete calcium carbonate to form a hard skeleton.

Below are the pictures of coral that I have taken. They are really beautiful and attractive. There are many tourist came to Sabah to dive or just snookering to see all this living things. If you don’t have to change to dive at Sabah, you still can get the chance to see them here.

Do this look like our human brain?

Nemo swim near the coral.

There are also a few types of star fish in the aquarium. This is the Linckia Laevigata or also known as Blue Starfish. Sometime it is also call the Comet Sea Star.

Protorester Nodulosus or also known as Chocolate Chip Star. The spike on the star make it got the name of Rhinoceros Sea Star. I didn’t touch it so I don’t know whether it is a hard spike or soft.

This is another type of starfish.

In Sabah, you can get to see a sea urchin almost at every beach or sea side. You can take a look at my Sutera Harbour Resort‘s post where I got take a picture of sea urchin from the jetty. This is the Diadema Sabignyi or known as Black Sea Urchin. The spike of the urchin is poisonous. It is common in shallow water (about 0 to 70 meters) of tropical coral reefs. It can grow to a maximum width of approximately 23cm.

I’m not sure how to call this creature but I think it won’t be wrong to call it sea snail even though it doesn’t have a shell behind. This sea snail really looks cute but lonely because it is the only kind in the aquarium.

Well, these are all the coral in Universiti Malaysia Sabah Aquarium and Marine Museum. Maybe someday in the future, there will have more kind of coral raise here.

Aquarium and Marine Museum

Universiti Malasysia Sabah’s aquarium. Although the aquarium in Universiti Malaysia Sabah is not big but there are various type of fish and coral. There are gigantic grouper in the aquarium. I don’t know how much the weight of this grouper but you can estimate it yourself.

I think the picture hardly tell you the size of the fish.

Beside grouper, you can also find Gill in Finding Nemo here. I have taken a few of Gill photos.

You can also find sea horse here. Want to ride on it? Well, the size of this seahorse is just about the size of my hand or even smaller.

I want to show the picture of the sea turtle but unfortunately on the day I visit the aquarium, the sea turtle always stay away from me. So it is quite hard for me to take a good picture of the sea turtle. This is what I manage to take.

Here are the fishes in the small aquarium. There is a gigantic lobster inside the aquarium. Wonder how much it cost for 100g. This lobster is known as Panulirus Penicillatus or Asian Spiny Lobster.

Although you can't find shark in UMS’s Aquarium, but you can find the best friend of shark here. Yes, the Remora or also known as Shark Sucker is the best friend of shark because they always attach to sharks. Remora has an oval-shaped sucking disc to allow them to attach to larger fishes. Remora can grow to 1m in length. It can vary in color. They often present in shallow inshore brackish areas, as well as around coral reefs. They are ground at depths ranging from 20-50 meters. Remora has a widespread distribution in most tropical and some warm temperate marine waters.

oval-shaped sucking disc

The pictures below are other fishes in the aquarium.

This is a strange fish i found in the aquarium. I don't know what is it's name. For me, it look like kissing fish.

This is a cute fish in the aquarium.

Can you see the fish in this picture? It is near the rock. I wonder it is sleeping or just hiding.

Among all those fish, I like the remora fish. They look big to me in the aquarium but when you watch in some education shows such as National Geography, they look so tiny when they are attached to the sharks. Well, here are more or less the fishes in University Malaysia Sabah Aquarium and Marine Museum.

Aquarium and Marine Museum of University Malaysia Sabah

As you all know that my university which is Universiti Malaysia Sabah located just beside the sea. If you don’t know you can take a look at my old post here. So there is no doubt that the view of my University is number one in Malaysia’s university but do you know that there is an aquarium in Universiti Malaysia Sabah?

There is an Aquarium and Museum just beside the Marine’s faculty. Before the SEA WORLD of 1 Borneo open, this is the only aquarium in Sabah. This aquarium does open for public visitor at a very low rate. If I’m not mistaken, it just needs RM5 or RM6 per entry but it is free for UMS student. Before I show you the aquarium, I hope you don’t expect it is as good as the KLCC aquaria. You can see shark or stingray here but there are sea turtle!

Today there are lots of visitor here.

This is the decoration at the entrance. Although there are sharks and stingray hanging there but no real shark and stingray in UMS’s Aquarium.

The picture below shows the entire aquarium. After an hour plus of waiting, finally I’m able to take the photo of the empty aquarium.

Beside the aquarium is the Marine Museum. There are various type of coral reef displayed in the Museum.

There is a skeleton of a Cuvier’s Beaked Whale in the Marine Museum. Cuvier's Beaked Whale has a short. Some of them are dark grey, others a reddish-brown. Cuvier’s Beaked Whale can grow up to about seven meters in length and weighs 2-3 metric tons. They can live up to forty years.

Picture of Cuvier's Beaked Whale

Well, this post is just a brief introduction of my university’s aquarium. For my upcoming post, I’ll post all the sea creatures you can see in this aquarium. So stay with me. I'm sure that you won't want to miss it!!!

Water Front Kota Kinabalu

I think I’m wrong for my previous post. There is still new post for my blog during this exam month. This is because I’m not the type that can study for whole day inside my room without out any relaxing activity. So to make myself relax, yesterday night I went to water front in Kota Kinabalu.

Every state in Malaysia or every country has their own water front. In Kuching, there are also water front in the city which is beside the river. The different for the water front of Kuching and kota Kinabalu is that the one in Kota Kinabalu is beside the sea.

Besides, the walking path way of the water front in Kota Kinabalu is a lot shorter than the one in Kuching.

The end of it is connected to a dry market, wet market and also fruit market. If you continue walking, you will reach Le Meridien Hotel at the opposite side, Warisan Square, Port View Sea Food Restaurant, Coffe Bean and other shops.

The “SwordFish” is the symbol of Kota Kinabalu which every tourist that visits Kota Kinabalu will take picture with it just like the Cat statue in Kuching.

The Cat Statue in Kuching, Sarawak

There are quite a number of this “Fishy Chair” along the path way.

Well, the view in the day time will certainly more beautiful than during the night time. As you can see i can't take the picture of the sea because it is too dark. Besides, my camera works better during day time.

For your information, there is another waterfront which in under construction in Kota Kinabalu. I wonder it is call water front but I just name it “water front II” for the time being. It will be done by next year if no delay. Well, I will show you when it is done.

No Updated Post!!

Well, this month will be a busy month for me. Why am i busy? It is because it is my final exam month. Yesterday just been through my first day of exam. The conclusion for yesterday is “BAD PERFORMANCE”. Still got four subject to go and will be finish my final on 17 November. So recently I don’t think I will post any post. Maybe some boring post to express my feelings and my emotion after taking the exam. Even after my final, there are other things I have to busy with. Can’t tell you what it is now but you will know after that (maybe) if you follow my blog. Good luck for all whom having their exam now and very good luck to myself.

How good if my examination only need me to write abc or 123..

p/s : Please continually visit my blog to prevent my traffic drop in this critical period. Thanks all…haha