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