Monterey Bay Aquarium

[ophiura]

Thought I would share some shots from a recent trip to the Monterey Bay Aquarium! Spot the fish in picture 4!

 

[ophiura]

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[ophiura]

Last one says it all......!

 

[theappe]

nice pics!! wish my tank looked like that

 

[nereef]

wow, thanks for sharing ophiura.

 

[fishieness]

oooooOOOOOOOoooooo
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[aw2eod]

Originally Posted by ophiura
Spot the fish in picture 4!

Grunt Sculpin!!!! One of my fav fish!!
I want a cold water tank, just for a trio of them!
Great pics, Ophiura!

 

[sea_star]

I love that aquarium! It's so fun to watch the otters in the bay!

 

[ophiura]

Originally Posted by AW2EOD
Grunt Sculpin!!!! One of my fav fish!!
I want a cold water tank, just for a trio of them!
Great pics, Ophiura!

I want a cold water tank too, I don't think you can beat the colors that you find with a perfectly natural assemblage of organisms. We get color in tropical tanks, but it is often not representative of what you would really see in the wild.

 

[debbie]

Great pictures, thanks for posting.......

 

[patricia]

Kudos to the aquagarden!!! I am trying my hand at achieving a wet thumb. The fish seem to do much better when there is an extensive garden in the tank. Awesome pics. :cheer:

 

[alyssia]

Thanks for sharing! What are those in the very first (left) pic? Anemones?

 

[emmitt]

Very nice !
What are the yellow anemones(?) in the 1st post, pic #5?

 

[omgsaltwat]

Cool pics

 

[philgmiami]

nice pics ophiura

..great job

.. i have a thread in here also when i was at the florida aquarium

 

[celacanthr]

Very cool pics Ophiura!
Originally Posted by patricia
Kudos to the aquagarden!!! I am trying my hand at achieving a wet thumb. The fish seem to do much better when there is an extensive garden in the tank. Awesome pics. :cheer:
I agree, the aquagraden is cool, and I think that seagrass tanks are pretty awesome.

 

[opus18]

I used to live in Capitola, CA... Spent quite a bit of time at the MBA... Three of my favorites from my last trip... Excluding my penguin pics...

 

[laddy]

Did you go up top and check out the wave making tower?
........and to think we whine and complain about moving our water from a sump, up four feet to the display tank, those people are using industrial grade pumps and piping.
They have a great cold water reef display.

 

[ophiura]

Oh yes, wandered around a lot. Your comment made me chuckle though. Where I used to work, we had a system where most of the tanks were on the first floor of a 4 story building (except for one tank that was a 4 story cylinder :scared: ) The sump for the system was also on the first floor, but the biotowers, sand filters, etc were on the 4th floor! It was crazy, and very very poorly designed, but it does put that 4' head pressure into context

 

[reef diver]

Cool!