Aquarium Visit

[DevinWolfe]

These are the pics (and vids) of our visit to Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokeys. All pics and vids taken with my Moto Droid, not bad for a phone's camera IMO.


Lookdown fish in a massive cylindrical tank at the front door

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Their 60,000+ gallon (I think) artificial reef

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Video





Sea Turtle

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Reef Shark from inside the tunnel

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Their new live coral display

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Left Side

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Right side

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The clams

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Beautiful and seemingly fat and happy Mandarin in the coral tank

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Cuttlefish

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The rays

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Leopard Shark in the ray tank/pen

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Penguins

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[Spongie]

Nice pics and video. One of these days I am going to sliding me a weedy seadragon on the sly. Now if I could just firgure out where to put the 200 tall tank that it would take to house them...

 

[DevinWolfe]

I didn't even realize that one of the dragons was actually an animal at all until it moved after a few minutes of watching them float gracefully around their tank. Very cool animals!