Tank

Shark

Ray

Cooked Noodle - Tentacles

"The jellyfish’s tentacles look just like cooked noodles. The tentacles hang from underneath the jellyfish’s body. They can be as long as 1 cm to 120 feet long. That is longer than a basketball court!"

Jellyfish can be as small as a grape or as big as a bed. It depends on what kind of jellyfish it is. If it is a box jellyfish and it is full grown it will be 4 meters long. If it is an umbrella jellyfish and it is full grown then it will only be about 1 inch long.

"What happens when jellyfish get washed up to shore?

When jellyfish get washed up to shore they can’t get back in the water. If you spot one laying on the beach remember where you saw it. Go back the next day. Then you will find that the jellyfish has melted. When jellyfish melt, all there will be is some of its skin surrounding the jellyfish. The inside will have evaporated."

Photos: 6/13/2010

New England Aquarium, Boston, MA

Quotes from: http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215242/jellyfish.htm

...amazing

Invasion!

Palaemon macrodactylus?

"The thing with studying invasive species is it's exciting to find them, but then not exciting as well because you really don't want them here"

Poor little shrimp

Pointy

Chinese Catfish

"Pulsate"

White Spotted Jelly

http://www.waquarium.org/ocean-drifters.asp

Chambered Nautilus

"The Nautilus exhibit contains animals that have descended relatively unchanged from ancestors millions of years ago. During daylight hours these elusive creatures inhabit the deep dark depths of the reef drop-off at around 1,000 feet (about 300 meters). At night they ascend to about 200 feet (66 meters) to possibly feed and to deposit eggs that the female carries. There is much that is still unknown about these secretive creatures."  - http://www.waquarium.org/jet-set.asp

Waikiki aquarium - first to breed the chambered nautilus

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Octopus

Count 'em

Squid

Coral Polyps

Don't you just LOVE aquariums? Lots of things to look at under crazy lighting.  This exhibit even had a magnifying glass to see the individual polyps.  What more could you ask for?