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