More Georgia Aquarium pictures - behind the scenes tour

[crpeck]

The behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium was amazing!!!!

First, here are some pictures from the regular tour:

Beluga Whales

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African Cichlids

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Coral seas

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[joeycadre]

wasn't that coral tank insane? the waves were so neat.

[crpeck]

Now the behind the scenes:

Here is a view from above the HUGE aquarium that holds the Whale Sharks and the Manta Ray. See the row of BIG fans blowing air down along a straight line across? That's where the walking tube is. They run the fans to create turbulence so the people can't look up at the rafters of the building.

They said this aquarium is the size of a football field

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During the tour, we walked across this scaffold bridge and were able to look at the tank from above

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A Whale Shark swam right under us!!!!

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[crpeck]

Originally posted by joeycadre
wasn't that coral tank insane? the waves were so neat.

Hang on .... I'm about to post the pics of how they make the waves

[crpeck]

This picture is taken from the back of the Coral Seas exhibit from the top looking back toward the filtration equipment and the giant wavemaker

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The wave maker is a series of giant buckets that fill and fill and then tip and dump when they get full

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The lights over Coral Seas

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[crpeck]

Here are some pics of the filtration equipment

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And one of my favorite parts, they have a tide pool above the Coral Sea exhibit where they grow out corals and keep fish that aren't ready to go in the exhibit

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[crpeck]

And my VERY favorite ..... The Beluga Whale tank from above the display. There's Niko the male hanging out by the front window for the people

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But then he got curious and had to swim by and check us out

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The two girls

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[crpeck]

Last ... just some misc pictures around the aquarium

Giant crabs

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In case you didn't see this on the other thread .... doesn't this just look like someone you know?

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[alkamar]

Nice pics. My kids would love to go there.

[joeycadre]

sweet

[crpeck]

Actually I think that might be the mama Beluga looking at us.

I brightened up the cichlid pic and it got a lot better. (edit: Picasa updated automatically so now they both look the same - sorry for the repost)

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[ducklabdad]

Thanks for the PICs Cathy, they really look nice, and by the way the Neon Green Sarcophyton Robin won at the meeting (and most kindly donated by you) is doing well!!

I see Robin "check on it" each day.

[Goibot]

Thanks Cathy for posting them! Really cool

[crpeck]

I'm so happy that it's doing well, Bill!

I'll have 4 or 5 at the frag swap - a couple are getting too big to be called "frags".

Thanks for the update.

Glad you like the pics, Tracy I was afraid I was posting too many. It was amazing to see the aquarium.

[pjbusby]

amazing pictures. I had heard that the georgia aquarium was nice, but now I know that I must go there!

[crpeck]

Thanks. Richard's pictures over in the MACNA thread are better yet.

One of the raffle prizes at MACNA was a really nice hardcover book of pictures from the aquarium. I was hoping I'd get one of them. I really did enjoy seeing it a LOT.