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