pics from Mystic Aquarium today (lots of pics)

[Sploke]

Liz and I took Gwen to the aquarium today, here are the pics.

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One of the coral tanks - got rics?
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The outside marsh walk
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Watching the penguins
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Sea lion eating
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Another coral tank
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And another (nice candycanes)
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Sea lions playing tag
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This was cool, they took stingray and shark eggs and cut them open, then glued clear plastic over them so you could see the babies inside with the egg sac.
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vampire tetras
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Severum fry in one cichlid tank (not too many left, they're hard to see on the plant)
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Severum fry in a different tank (these sevs were huge - the male was like 10")
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Sea lions napping
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Sea lion napping
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More marsh walk
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[SpockthePuffer]

Gotta love Mystic Aquarium! Did you guys pose in the big shark mouth? I made my boyfriend pose in it with me when we went when I was back home in the CT, lol Gwen is a cutie too :D

[Sploke]

Haha no pictures in front of the big shark mouth, not this time anyway.

[rogers138]

Cool pics. Especially the Vampire tetras. Thanks for sharing

[Vicious_Fish]

Nice pics Matt! Makes me miss my painted turtles. Oh and your daughter is getting huge!

[Sploke]

Yeah no kidding...and I can't let her chew on my fingers any more because she's getting teeth...learned that one the hard way.

[Easydoesit]

nice pics n cute kid:)

[excuzzzeme]

I like going to Mystic Aquarium! There is alot to see there.Two of my kids have season passes as they can never get enough of it!

It's about 40 miles from me. Where do you live that you can go there?

BTW - cute kid!

[catfish69hunter]

Those are grat pics i with the local aquarium was that big

[Reefscape]

Stunning shots Matt....Thanks a lot for sharing with us...

[Sploke]

Yeah we are members there so we go probably once a month at least. I live in eastern CT, a little north of the casinos, so its only about a 35 min drive.

[krytan]

Looks a fun day out.

[BigFishKeeper]

Nice Pics & Fish!

[J double R]

god pix man! we'll have to go together again sometime soon.


on a side note.. i recognize gwen's sweater.. ;)

[excuzzzeme]

I live just south of New London.

[J double R]

south of new london? how do you pull that off? isnt south of new london known as the sound? LOL...


seriously though.. PM me if you have to. i'm rather close.

[apelaston]

very cool pictures looks like a nice family day out. My son is two and loves the aquarium but here at home he gets to help do all my waterchanges...

making him earn his keep around here ya know lol

[Dangerdoll]

love the pics sploke, very cool what they did with the shark egg