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