SeaQuest Rescue Animals on Display at Great Lakes Aquarium

DULUTH, Minn. — Great Lakes Aquarium now has their rescue animals from SeaQuest on display.

After weeks in quarantined, a rescue electric eel and some rainbow trout are enjoy their new home in Duluth. This comes after the SeaQuest in Roseville, Minn., closed down earlier this year.

Their new electric eel, named Faraday, is now happily swimming for the public to see. Faraday can be found in Great Lakes Aquarium’s previous electric eel tank, which past away from old age last October.

“We were really excited to welcome Faraday, our new electric eel, to Earth’s habitat,” said Miranda Rinne, the curator of aquatics. “Faraday was rescued from the shuttered SeaQuest Aquarium down in Roseville Mall. He didn’t have a place to go and we were contacted to see if we could take him. Which was perfect for us because we had a space ready for him.”

The aquarium has also rescued two white sturgeons that are healing up from superficial wounds they had at SeaQuest. Aquarium staff are hoping all their SeaQuest rescues to be integrated into their main floor later this summer.