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:
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Pearly Jawfish
- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
- The AquaNerd Behind the Scenes
- Moody Gardens Tour
- Moody Gardens Behind the Scenes
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Softy Reef Tank
- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
- Striped Shrimpfish
- Frag Tank
- Zebra Shark Egg
- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Stonefish
- Fish Feeding Schedule
- Turtle in South Pacific Aquarium
- Surge Device Over Coral Tank
- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
- Huge Anemone Tank
- Caribbean Gorgnia
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Coldwater Anemone Aquarium
- Frogspawn
- Turtle in South Pacific Aquarium
- Moody Gardens
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Biologist Killing Aiptasia
- Bottom of South Pacific Exhibit
- Large Display Reef Aquarium
- Anemone Display Tank
- Kenya Tree Coral
- Large RK2 Protein Skimmer
- Moody Gardens South Pacific Tank
- Fuzzy Mushrooms
- Sea Lion Skeleton
- Blue Striped Pipefish
- Moody Gardens Filtration
- Moody Gardens Penguin Exhibit
- Soft Coral Reef Tank
- Moody Gardens Filtration