About Océarium

The residents of Le Croisic’s aquarium are fed five times a week. They are given a fresh and balanced diet of shellfish, crabs, fish, shrimps, cuttlefish and plankton.

For the tunnel, it is a diver who is given the delicate task of feeding the fish, one by one, by hand.

A few special cases:

• The octopuses and cuttlefish are fed daily with crabs. These animals actually have a beak in their mouth, which they use to shell the crab so they only eat its meat. Once they have had their fill, they spit out the empty carapace.
• The Australian sharks are fed twice a week with pieces of fish (conger, whiting, mackerel …), cuttlefish or squid. The food is placed on the end of a stick, which is wielded from the surface in order to distribute the food evenly among the individual sharks. And yes, they only eat twice a week because their digestion is slow and a shark only eats 2% of its body weight in a week… so, an animal weighing a hundred kilos consumes only 2 kg of food! So, at the Océarium, although the sharks are the biggest animals, they actually eat the least! By contrast, the animals that eat the most are the penguins as they are fed three times a day with small oily fish (sardines, sprats and anchovies). Their food is given to them by hand but is also placed directly in their pool, where they like to race each other to catch as many fish as possible!