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