SeaQuest Folsom in Folsom

My great niece had her birthday party here. The staff are all so friendly. Autumn was very sweet with the kids and educating them about the animals. The interactive experiences were great. They had so many animals you don't see all the time. My daughter was excited about the sting rays and the sloths.

We had a wonderful time at SeaQuest! The staff was incredibly friendly and welcoming, which really enhanced our experience. We visited on a weekday, and it was pleasantly uncrowded, making it easy to see all the exhibits and interact with the animals. Purchasing the all-access wristbands was definitely worth it, as it gave us the opportunity to feed and interact with a variety of animals. It's a perfect outing for families with young children.

This is such a cute and small little aquarium. It is hidden away inside of a shopping center and honestly what a little gem. We went on a Saturday afternoon and it wasn't too busy. They're definitely was a little bit of a line but overall a great experience. Although the place is small it is very Interactive. For $2 per token you can buy a bunch of tokens to feed the fish another animals. It's a little fun experience. Most of the feeding only takes one token but some of the larger feedings like the parrots or sloths take much more. It's a great way to kill about 1 hour of your day. We went through the whole thing in a little bit more than an hour and I brought two kids with me. Any longer than that and honestly you're just walking in circles but overall we still enjoyed it. If you're in the area and looking for something quick to do then definitely hit this place up.

Bought tickets, tokens and experiences in advance for this. Told to be 15 minutes early for first animal experience at 11am, naturally they don't open until 11am. Which was really 11:05am and don't mind it bucketing down with rain outside while people stood around getting wet. Had to kindly ask staff 3 times when there would be someone to assist with the prepaid experience the main desk was well aware we'd arrived for, before finally rushing it through in 15 minutes, instead of the 30 minutes booked. Animal experiences are wonderful, hence the 3 stars. Customer service was nowhere near 5 stars throughout the visit, can't even have a staff member at the gift store area to process a transaction, so missed out on some solid profit there, no wonder so many gift store products were on special to clear as the owners must be trying to muddle through why nobody is buying anything [hint: have staff there ready to take money] Go for the animals, not the people.

I took my son to seaquest for a field trip with his class. The lady that was our guide was awesome. The feeding process is pretty expensive but worth it for the first time of wanting to feed the animals. We had a good time at SeaQuest we would probably do it again but not a monthly routine maybe once a year

Before I visited, I heard some negative comments, which might reflect how this company operates here. However, overall, it's an educational place. The big boy at the shark section was knowledgeable and friendly. I could tell he misses his late grandfather, who was a PhD in ichthyology. I wish him success in pursuing his dream career.

Majority of workers have love for the animals here, but the people in charge have always made a money hungry choice over animal health choice when it comes to decisions. Maybe smart choice to start out would be not putting your petting zoo in a mall, but here we are, so let’s get into one topic of issues I will focus on, the reptiles. Some animal husbandry practices due to the amount of animals they have here without enough enclosures or space are outdated, such as cohabiting bearded dragons, spiny tailed lizards, and leopard geckos. I will focus on the leopard geckos for this: Leopard geckos here are the same ones since 2021, except instead of the 7 leopard geckos that used to be here in 2021 it is now down to 4, i know the reasoning behind why the number has dropped and I will not say it here, but i think you may be able to come to your own conclusions on why it is now 4 leopard geckos, not all within the same circumstance but there are reasons behind why not all 7 are still there. The leopard geckos in 2021 did not have dropped tails, now i believe either 3 or all of them have dropped their tails. Leopard geckos do drop their tails and regrow them, but this is caused by being scared or stressed. Peep, the lightest color morph leopard gecko there has dropped her tail multiple times. Pineapple is always lethargic, and Marsha and Leafy have scars on their bodies that were not previously there. They pile on top of each other constantly, and this is a perfect example with physical evidence on why they shouldn’t be together as they are solitary creatures. Leopard geckos can be cohabited and survive at the expense of their comfort, and they /can/ survive like this since they are such hardy animals, which is what higher management like a husbandry director has said when I asked about it, but if it’s going to be interacted with all day, dear god, give those lizards a chance to rest on their own comfortably at least when they get downtime from interactions. The choice of keeping them together is being done with the knowledge of chancing an injury or higher stress to marsha/leafy/peep/pineapple, why even chance an injury to them? These arent just numbers these are 4 unique lizards here. There would be 0% chance of this if they were separated. Why say animal health is priority, but instead of doing actions that show preventative strategies they instead will try to fix things up once they get scratched or bitten by the other lizards. They shouldn’t even be getting injured by each other in the first place. This definitely is not showing comfort over profit. It has been said to me the reasoning behind keeping multiple leopard geckos and other solitary reptiles together are so that if one is hiding, the guest can possibly have a chance to see a different one, but what use is that when what the leopard geckos end up doing is piling on each other in one of their hides? Wouldn’t it make more sense to make one leopard gecko live in comfort enough to the point of them wanting to come out by their own choice rather than have the employee shake them out of where it was hiding whenever someone asks to see them? It basically is showing the leopard gecko that if it comes out, it gets picked up and gets stressed, and i can genuinely say I know those lizards after watching them deteriorate for the past 4 years, none of the leos enjoy their interactions which can be seen through their body language. They cannot speak human, but they are trying so desperately to tell us they do not want to be played with like toys, and when they aren’t squirming to get away its not in a way where they became comfortable, its in a lethargic stressed freeze response. As for the capybara, Westley should have other capybaras to be with, not 2 patagonian cavies. He is getting old, and hasn’t seen another actual capybara in awhile, I just hope he gets to see another one before he passes in a place that isn’t here, but who knows what choice they will make, because they know he will simply survive. Changed name or not: Simply surviving is not the same as thriving.

Great fun place for the kids. I think it's underrated, because SeaQuest is a blast. It's not the Monterey bay aquarium, but it doesn't have to be. It's a cozy, family-friendly place. The people who work there LOVE animals, and it shows. They got fish/bird/reptiles/snakes, and more. I recommend getting the season pass and even the day-pass are very affordable. The weekends are a bit crazy, and the birds can get kind of loud- but if you can go on the weekday, that's a nice slow path trip with the kids. They have a nice store for merc, and you can use tokens to touch some of the animals, and tokens to get krill/shrimp feed for most the aquatic animals. The stingrays are cool, and watch out as some will jump up near the edge to say hello (aka eat your krills). I think it's a fun place, but best to go in groups of 5-10, and not 20+.

What a wonderful way for kids to learn about an interact with animals! The facility was clean and the animals were very well cared for. The staff was friendly and helpful. We especially enjoyed Joy- she had a wonderful way of interacting with my kids in a way that was inviting, educational and made everything even more special (I have teenagers so that is a challenge!)

I had such an amazing experience!! Everyone was so friendly, Ariana was awesome she was with us for most of our interactions with the animals. She was super awesome & answered all the questions we had about the animals. We got to feed toucans which was so cool I’ve never seen one so up close before! Thank you Ariana for such a great experience we hope to come back again. I went with my boyfriend, mind you I’m 26 and had a blast I can only imagine how fun and cool it would be for anyone with children! Def recommend!