Pictures - Boston Aquarium. Mostly SW, some FW. 56K Warning!

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

Yesterday we went to Boston’s New England Aquarium…again. It’s so much fun

. The difference is, this time we remembered to bring our camera. Soooo, that means I get to share the pictures with you! There’s always so much to see there, and this time it was cool because their exhibit was on jellyfish (pictures of those will be included later).

I’ll do this in stages, so there will be a lot more pictures than what is in this first post – don’t miss ‘em!

So, let’s start with one of my favorite tanks, the full reef when you walk in:

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Some beauties:

Someone looks grumpy:

A pretty anemone:

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Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

Here's a green anemone tank. Every minute or so, a huge downpour of current/water rushes down from the front glass and turns the whole tank into one huge whirlpool. It's really cool. Sorry for the blurriness, I didn't get a good one of this tank

A closeup.

What I like to refer to as the technicolor dream tank:

A random picture, from another huge "reef" tank - though this reef was fake.

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

A beautiful crab:

A big fish. Boston's "main" aquarium is a ~30ft tall circular tank in the center of the aquarium, with a ramp that spirals to the top, with windows all around it. It's pretty cool! But hard to get pics down at the bottom where it is darker. Some of the fish have been in the tank for many decades.

The big tank:

Sleeping Nurse shark: There are also two Sandtiger sharks. I've got a pic somewhere...

Moray eel:

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

For being so smart, they sure are weird looking:

Sandtiger shark. They raised this one from a 6" pup.

We'll do the jellyfish next. So beautiful!

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

Okay, these aren't even the "pretty" ones, IMO:

Some of the neater ones, IMO:

Mini jellies. The largest of these were no bigger than a quarter:

These were beautiful. The tentacles are a LOT longer than they appear here. Umbrella jellyfish:

new2tanks · Mar 18, 2006

wow thanks for sharing Leopardess.great pictures.keep em coming!

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

These were awesome. They were the kind that look like they've got electric chaser lights on them. They'd shoot out purple, blue, green, pink, yellow, etc.

This tank was really big. It was at least 8 feet long, about 5 feet tall...all an eery blue.

And now on to Seahorses!

Here's my two favorite kinds of seahorses:

A different tank:

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

This is a local type tank. It's a "bird" tank because they have some birds in there that are rehabilitation birds. The tank's got a lot of sole, starfish, some corals/anemones, various other critters. It's weird that you can look through and see the cityscape of Boston through the back!

Here's another neat tank. There was another tank directly behind it, with Jellyfish swimming through it; it looked like they were in the reef tank, but they weren't. The tank also had a really beautiful mandarin fish.

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

And now for my other favorite tank. It's in the jellyfish exhibit downstairs. Know why? All those things along the bottom are jellfish! Their bases expand and contract, over and over and over again, so it looks like the lawn is pulsing. There were too cool! There also seemed to be virtual no current in this tank.

Aren't they beautiful!?

We'll do some FW next.

Leopardess · Mar 18, 2006

Anaconda setup with cardinals and bleeding heart tetras:

Ornate birchir and arrowana tank:

An electric eel tank. This one is awesome. It's got a meter up top that measures the electric current the eels are putting out. It's a scale from locating prey, to stunning, to killing. They were pretty active the day we were there. Plus, it's got audio so you can hear the electric "snap!". They used to have poor little panda cories in this tank...I didn't see any anymore!

Here's a very big tank. The top had a steady rainfall coming down. There were some altum angels in here, lots of fish I don't recognize, turtles, rays, a giant red tailed catfish...

A few more to come later.

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