Estação de Peixes Vivos // Aquário do Porto Pim — Attraction in Horta

Nice place to visit ( specially if you take time to do the trekking around Monte da Guia, its on the way). The cost p/ person is 4 eur. Indeed not a typical aquarium that lives only from tourism. The idea here its to mixure tourism with a work place. 90% of the fishes (which are exclusively from Azores region) will be sold & transferred to other aquariums around the world or are temporarily there to be taken care off. I recommend it. The staff was nice and explain us many stuff. In the end its possible to watch a 7min video with a short explanation of the marine life...

It was a pleasant surprise! We had been told it was small so we only went because it was included in the tour of te Dabney house. I am delighted that we did! It is indeed small, but it is a very interesting project! It is very important to have the guide explanation of how the Aquarium works, and on that I have to say Alejandro was not only professional and kind, but also his enthusiasm for his work is contagious!

Thank you for the visit and I only pity that we did not dedicate some...

Supposedly it is a public aquarium but in practice it is a collection holding tanks for a private company that supplies fishes from Portuguese waters to public aquariums around the world. The species present depend on the orders the private company receives and the aquariums are mostly bare tanks as it is temporary. The one highlight is that they do some wildlife rehabilitation work, mostly with...