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