Tuesday, January 29, 2019

National Aquarium, Baltimore Part II

A continuation of yesterpost...

Down below the tropical rainforest, we found a tank with divers inside! They were cleaning the windows and feeding the fish. Apparently, if they keep the sharks well-fed then they don't eat the other fish in the tank.

Weird shape

Diver fish

Cleaning up

Pretty

Less pretty

One lettuce to feed them all

A favorite spot was Shark Alley, a large tank that encircles visitors and houses lots of predators and very little prey.

Great white spookiness

On a break

Sawtooth on a break 

You couldn't pay me enough to be in the shark tank

The Australia exhibit has a lot of cool animals on display, and not just fish.

A lizard from down under

Shrimpiest shrimp ever?

A bit of habitat

One fish (whose name I don't remember) would eat by creating a huge vacuum in the water, sucking in everything in front of it.

Feeding the suction fish

Here comes the food

Mass of bubbles as he sucks it in

Turtles (under water)

Crawfish

This poor guy was trying to feed some fish that would spit water into the air to knock bugs off of a branch. His jar had crickets in it but they were too woke to get on his stick and be dangled over water. He needs some more naive bugs.

Feeding some dramatic fish

We managed to visit before the dolphin shows. The next show was about an hour after we got to the dolphin tank and only one of us wanted to wait. Too bad we live in a democracy!

Dolphin visiting with people who paid extra for a private audience

The Jellies Invasion exhibit was both fascinating and creepy. The otherworldly look and movement of jellyfish are off-putting for me.

Display leading into the Jelly exhibit

Japanese Sea Nettles

Moon jellies?

Tiny mushroom-like jellies

Upside down jellies

More creepy upside down type jellies

We may go back to check out the dolphin show one day.

1 comment:

  1. You have some great photos, especially the piece on Tournai. I would like to request permission to use some on my Facebook group : "Historic Sites". It is non profit and for my amusement and the viewers edification. Contact me at ckeislin@yahoo.com.

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