Moody Gardens Aquarium Exhibit
My local aquarium club, MARSHReef, got to take a behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens. The tour was nice, but nothing new for me since I worked there in college. The display tanks weren’t in the greatest shape, but we have to remember that Moody Gardens and the entire southeast Houston area was devastated by Hurricane Ike about a year and a half ago. In fact, some of the exhibits haven’t even opened back up yet. On the trip, we visited the penguin exhibit, the aquarium’s filtration systems, and pretty much every place off limits to the general public.
All in all though, the trip was fun. I go to meet fellow marine biologists, go a few places I’ve never been before (at this particular facility), and got to hang out with aquarium keeping friends.
We took a ton of pictures, but not all of them turned out that great…and some where just of people, which is boring to look at. But see our gallery below:
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- Moody Gardens
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- The AquaNerd Behind the Scenes
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- Soft Coral Reef Tank
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- Frag Tank
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- Large RK2 Protein Skimmer
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- Large Display Reef Aquarium
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Striped Shrimpfish
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- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
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- Moody Gardens Tour
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- Moody Gardens Behind the Scenes
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- Pearly Jawfish
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- Frogspawn
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- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
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- Coldwater Anemone Aquarium
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Surge Device Over Coral Tank
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- Zebra Shark Egg
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- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
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- Fuzzy Mushrooms
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- Bottom of South Pacific Exhibit
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Sea Lion Skeleton
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- Turtle in South Pacific Aquarium
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- Softy Reef Tank
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Blue Striped Pipefish
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- Fish Feeding Schedule
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- Huge Anemone Tank
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
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- Stonefish
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- Moody Gardens Penguin Exhibit
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- Caribbean Gorgnia
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- Kenya Tree Coral
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- Turtle in South Pacific Aquarium
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Moody Gardens Filtration
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- Biologist Killing Aiptasia
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- Anemone Display Tank
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- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
