For those of you who have interacted with the exhibit designers and keeping staff, has anybody mentioned whether vampire squid are a possible future feature of the exhibit?
Monterey Bay Aquarium Major deep sea animal exhibit coming to MBA
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ocellated_eelpout
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You was right! elephantfish are on display now!
Visited today - Biggest highlight was the yet-unnamed ctenophore they had in Into the Deep. Surprised they found out how to care for a creature entirely new to science.
Those MBA keepers seem to be really good at figuring that stuff out! It's quite impressive.
MBA has long been on the forefront of trailblazing the care and breeding of many aquatic species. Jellyfish becoming common exhibits in NA (and quite possibly worldwide) is very much due to their pioneering work, besides things like sea otter surrogacy and rerelease, breeding cephalopods, and successfully collecting live deep sea specimens.
Great Argus knows. I'll add that Monterey has a BIG research facility that's really the heart of the organization, and works on lots of things behind the scenes that never make it to public view. They might dispute this but I came away with the impression that the aquarium really exists to serve the larger mission and educate the public vs the other way around.
Northwest_FIsh_Keeping
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I didnt ask Paul about that but it sounds like it's an animal everyone on the team wants to work with and display again. I've seen photos of them being collected by MBARI sort of regularly and they would definitely be a crowd attraction for Into the Deep right next to the Bloody Bellies
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Huge Thank you to Pat since he granted permission I can post these publicly, I'll ask about the other pics but these are so cool: Balloon Worms! (Poebius sp.) If anyone remembers these were revealed in the Water Quality Stream, and unfortunately aren't on display right now but they are an animal they have plans to display. These are in the Deep-Sea Jelly Lab, and in the Kreisel they had I'd estimate 35+, there were a lot of them. They're super cool, I wish I used my Macro Lens since they're actually pretty small.
The coolest part is something Tommy told me: There's plans to see if in the near future, they can Co-Hab them with the Sea Angels since for some reason, they work really well together. So in the future we could see a Sea Angel & Balloon Worm Tank which does sound pretty awesome. Enjoy the photos!
The coolest part is something Tommy told me: There's plans to see if in the near future, they can Co-Hab them with the Sea Angels since for some reason, they work really well together. So in the future we could see a Sea Angel & Balloon Worm Tank which does sound pretty awesome. Enjoy the photos!
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Northwest_FIsh_Keeping
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I forgot about this lol, time to follow through with it
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If you can, can you post some on the gallery? Right now we are missing quite a majority of the critters in the gallery,
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1. Sea Angels
2. Bloody Belly Comb Jellies
3. Mauve Stingers
4. "Red X" Cyddipid Comb Jellies
5. Snow Globe Jellies
6. Muddy Bottom Inhabitants (Predatory Tunicates / Branched Tree Coral / Apple Anemone / Julie Packard Coral / Sea Pens )
Also in 6. Bubble Gum Coral Polyps / Feather Stars
7. Japanese Armorheads (I didn't have any good photos so those are from my video) Japanese Spider Crab / Bone Worms / Salmon Snailfish / Sea Spider / another Bone Worm Species
2. Bloody Belly Comb Jellies
3. Mauve Stingers
4. "Red X" Cyddipid Comb Jellies
5. Snow Globe Jellies
6. Muddy Bottom Inhabitants (Predatory Tunicates / Branched Tree Coral / Apple Anemone / Julie Packard Coral / Sea Pens )
Also in 6. Bubble Gum Coral Polyps / Feather Stars
7. Japanese Armorheads (I didn't have any good photos so those are from my video) Japanese Spider Crab / Bone Worms / Salmon Snailfish / Sea Spider / another Bone Worm Species
Northwest_FIsh_Keeping
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I think I have a few more stuff, I just need to go through my camera roll. But I have more shots of a lot of things I posted so if anyone wants anymore photos just ask away!
I'll be going to see the new exhibit later this week, so I'll make sure to take down a species list and lots of photos for upload as well.