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