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