Planet Zoo 2 Great Hammerhead — habitat, biome, size & which animals it can live with

Great Hammerhead is one of the 130 Planet Zoo 2 launch species. It is housed in a Aquarium habitat, accepts the Open Sea / Reef biome, carries a Grade 3 · 1m barrier requirement and is listed at 3.50 m (length). It shares a biome and an enclosure type with 26 other species, but the official species data rules out every one of those pairings, so it needs a habitat of its own.

Great Hammerhead Deluxe

Every figure on this page comes from the official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export rather than trailer footage: biome, enclosure type, barrier grade, size and the compatibility verdicts are all taken from the game's own data.

Size (M)3.50 m

Weight (M)—

BarrierGrade 3

EnclosureAquarium

BiomesOpen Sea / Reef

StatusCritically Endangered

Where it lives in the wild
Atlantic Ocean · Indian Ocean · Pacific Ocean

Great Hammerhead at a glance

Source: official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export (130 species). Also on the searchable animal list.

Enclosure and barrier requirements

Great Hammerhead needs a Aquarium enclosure and accepts the Open Sea / Reef biomes. The barrier requirement is Grade 3 · 1m, and that is the number to check before building: a Grade 4 animal behind a Grade 1 wall is the most common way a first zoo stalls.

Which animals can live with the Great Hammerhead?

Great Hammerhead shares a biome and an enclosure type with 26 other species, but every one of those pairings is ruled out by the official data, because one side of each pair is officially solitary.

Same biome, but not compatible

26 of the species that accept the Open Sea / Reef biome cannot share an enclosure with the Great Hammerhead, because one side of the pair is officially solitary. These are the pairings people ask about most, so they are spelled out rather than left as an unexplained gap.

Species	Biome	Enclosure	Why not
Blackspotted Puffer	Reef	Aquarium	Blackspotted Puffer is solitary “Blackspotted puffers are solitary and territorial, only interacting with conspecifics during the breeding season.”
Blacktip Reef Shark	EstuarineMangroveReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Blue and Gold Fusilier Deluxe	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Bluespine Unicornfish	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Clown Anemonefish	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Clown Triggerfish	Reef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Dolphinfish	Open Sea	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Giant Grouper	EstuarineMangroveReef	Aquarium	Giant Grouper is solitary “Giant groupers are solitary fish, although they may form temporary aggregations during spawning.”
Golden Trevally	EstuarineReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Hawksbill Turtle	EstuarineMangroveOpen SeaReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Humphead Wrasse	Open SeaReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Indian Ocean Oriental Sweetlips	EstuarineReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark	EstuarineMangroveOpen SeaReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Indo-Pacific Sergeant	Open SeaReef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Longfin Batfish Deluxe	Reef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Ocean Sunfish	Open Sea	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Ocellated Eagle Ray	EstuarineOpen SeaReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Pacific Bluefin Tuna	Open Sea	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Pacific Sardine	Open Sea	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Palette Surgeonfish	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Red Lionfish	EstuarineReef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Sailfin Snapper	Reef	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Schooling Bannerfish	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Threespot Damselfish	MangroveReef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
West Indian Manatee	EstuarineLakes & RiversMangroveOpen SeaWetlands	Aquarium	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”
Yellow Tang	Reef	AquariumExhibit	Great Hammerhead is solitary “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.”

Close, but ruled out by enclosure type

2 species share at least one biome with the Great Hammerhead but use a different enclosure type — a land habitat against an aquarium or a flying aviary — so they cannot be mixed however well the biomes line up.

African Penguin, Moon Jelly

Behaviour, size and weight

Great Hammerhead is classed as Solitary in Frontier's Social & Reproduction notes: “As opposed to some other species of hammerhead, the great hammerhead shark is a solitary animal.” On size the game lists 3.50 m (length) for the male and 5.00 m for the female. Size and weight together decide the minimum habitat footprint, so use the female figure when you are sizing a breeding pair rather than a display animal.

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All 130 animals · Full compatibility chart for Great Hammerhead · Aquarium animals · Aviary birds · Deluxe edition animals · System requirements