Suzhou Ocean? Aquarium

Monday we headed off to the aquarium, which is on the other side of Suzhou from us (about an hour from our house).  Honestly we had high expectations from trips to the Virginia Aquarium, which I had been to regularly for most of my life.  Overall, it was OK.  It was a little small for the money and there was a very cheesy 3D movie about a sea horse that turned into a dragon in order to save everyone from a sea monster.  It shot fire balls out of its mouth, which I thought was a little over the top.  Also, the first half of the tanks were all freshwater fish and we were located on a freshwater lake, so for about 45 minutes I was wondering where the "Ocean" part came into play.  Later there were several salt water tanks and dolphins, so I guess it lived up to its name.  Some little funny things were that the nameplates were in English, but none of the descriptions below were.  The names also didn't match the contents on several of the tanks.

There was a dolphin show that we were about an 1 1/2 hours early for, but didn't feel like there was enough there for us to stick around that long.  The aquarium was right on Taihu Lake (one of the largest inland lakes in China), which was beautiful.  We figured we would come back to hang out for the day at the lake and then catch the show.  Below are a few pictures, note that the two alligators with their heads off of the ground (Riley took the picture) were stuffed ones...