Underwater World Rhine

In the stony-gravelly or sandy main stream, the water flows faster than in the side stream. The shallow depth makes it possible for the hardy western waterweed to spread widely. Other plants have a hard time here. Accordingly, the main stream offers few retreats for the habitants.

Some fun facts about the inhabitants in the main stream of the Rhine:

The Atlantic salmon is a migratory fish and covers up to 100 km a day during its migration up the Rhine. 

The European eel has a fabulous sense of smell and the pikeperch can hear very well.

While asps become more and more solitary during their life, barbel and common nase are very sociable.

The tolerant black spotted gobies are true integration artists.

We experience the tributary stream with near-natural riparian areas and floodplains as muddy, loamy, sandy! This is how you might also know the riparian area of the Rhine, if you waded around in it with your feet. The slowly flowing water allows the spiked water milfoil and the floating pondweed to settle well. This pleases the fishes, which like to rest or spawn here - but also go hunting.

Here we meet other exciting inhabitants of the Rhine:

The pike likes to play hide-and-seek until it gets serious, and the perch has a big appetite but no teeth.

With a length of up to three meters, the wels catfish is the giant of the Rhine.

The Romans brought the carp from Asia to the Rhine and the common sunfish also has a migration background.

The bream can use its mouth as a proboscis and slurps its food.

The roach is an undemanding prowler.

Come by and find out what else there is to discover about the underwater world in the Rhine!