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Location
Best time
Visit early in the day to participate in animal feeding experiences. Multiple reviews note that feeding tokens run out later in the day and animals lose interest, preventing you from feeding the stingrays, porcupines, and birds.
Visitor tip
Bring cash or tokens for interactive feeding exhibits featuring stingrays, porcupines, birds, and lizards. These hands-on experiences are a major highlight and highly popular with visitors.
Visitor tip
Use the QR codes posted on tank displays to access informative details about the animals. The aquarium provides educational information this way, enhancing your understanding beyond the physical exhibits.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Aquarium
- Highlights
- Hands-on touch pools, fish feeding, stingray interactions, doctor fish experience, shark tank
- Hours
- Mon-Sat 11am-8pm, Sun 1pm-6pm
- Location
- 570 E Anderson St, Idaho Falls, ID 83401
What visitors say
Quaint little aquarium that had a surprising amount of exhibits. I liked the mantis shrimp, dr. fish, Goliath bird eating tarantula, the huge nurse shark, and dart frogs. Plus all the different parrots and iguanas. Thoroughly enjoyed,…
The place is amazing to visit, all the fun different looking fish and animals they have available. The only drawback is if you come later in the day, the more likely the feed is all gone and the fish don’t want to eat no more… we still…
My Wife and I went to the aquarium to get out of the house and we’ve never been there. So we went and it was awesome, and we went in checked in and went through the aquarium. The bathrooms are clean. The lobby is clean and tidy the…
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Did You Know?
- Features a 'doctor fish' hand cleaning experience where fish remove dead skin from visitors' hands, a specialized interactive exhibit not commonly found in smaller aquariums
- Offers a porcupine feeding experience with a named animal (Rufus), making it one of few aquariums in the region to feature mammal hand-feeding interactions beyond typical petting zoo animals
- Visitors can control an underwater camera in the shark tank remotely, an interactive technology feature that allows direct engagement with the exhibit beyond standard viewing
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