Monterey Bay Aquarium Major deep sea animal exhibit coming to MBA

[DaLilFishie]

As for the feather stars, I am not aware of any other aquariums besides MBA that have displayed them, but I have seen a handful of feather stars in the aquarium trade, so it would certainly be possible for a public aquarium to obtain specimens. However, despite their beauty, feather stars are unappealing for aquariums due to the difficulty of feeding them - most simply starve to death.

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

Neither of these are correct. Toledo displays sea spiders and Shedd displays feather stars.

Oof my bad, I just got the feather star thing from their website. I didn't know Sea Spider were displayed here before, that's new to me

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

The Sea Spider species looks like Ascorhynchus japonicus if that helps.
The feather stars I don't remember what species they were but from the AOP ones and the MBA ones they look a bit different so they could be a different species

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

As for the feather stars, I am not aware of any other aquariums besides MBA that have displayed them, but I have seen a handful of feather stars in the aquarium trade, so it would certainly be possible for a public aquarium to obtain specimens. However, despite their beauty, feather stars are unappealing for aquariums due to the difficulty of feeding them - most simply starve to death.

Yup, specifically the Red Crinoid are the ones that appear most in the trade. Super hard to feed and if you want to properly house them that's a whole other challenge. Some people have kept them properly but it took a lot of work and in the end they just gave them to an Aquarium.
These Deep-Sea crinoids might be a first, again I'm not sure what species AOP has on display but they look a bit different than the MBA ones

 

[DaLilFishie]

The Sea Spider species looks like Ascorhynchus japonicus if that helps.
The feather stars I don't remember what species they were but from the AOP ones and the MBA ones they look a bit different so they could be a different species

A handful of aquariums in Japan keep/have kept this species.

 

[ocellated_eelpout]

Does anyone know which species of sea spider Toledo kept?
It might be the same species as MBA's sea spider (s), but I think they were collected by MBARI

 

[splendens]

Oh yeah the teeth on the whale fall tanks skull spell out deep sea in morse code.

 

[DaLilFishie]

Oh yeah the teeth on the whale fall tanks skull spell out deep sea in morse code.

Oh! Is that the easter egg I heard someone talking about! That's so cool LMAO

 

[splendens]

Thanks to @Northwest_FIsh_Keeping, some people on instagram and Mateo Juandel, we now know Neoturris jellies seem to have replaced the paper lantern jellies.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeNXjrMLvth/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

[splendens]

It is probably this species

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/tower-jelly

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

Yup! The #Montereybayaquarium and #intothedeep hashtags on Instagram are a great way to see any updates from people who've gone.
They look like Snow Globe Jellies but taller and with a bigger gut. They look really cool. I can only find 1 Video and 1 Photo so far though

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

Also, here's the video of the Neoturris Jellies now on display
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CeH8fr6DHNc/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Also a video of the Phyllosoma, they're a lot bigger than I thought
https://www.instagram.com/p/CeKmdKmLE7Y/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

New:

•Atolla and Periphylla Jelly Species we likely won't see anytime soon. It sounds like these are groups that are super sensitive to light and it stresses them out to the point where they just can't survive in captivity yet. Personally those two are among my favorite groups so that hurts to see but maybe in the future they'll find a solution

•I was able to find 2 graphics from an Instagram account who I'm guessing is an employee of the aquarium, the first one I'm guessing from the picture is for the Big Red Copepod (Megacalanus sp.) And the second is for the "Lined Jelly". No Scientific name and they needed an in house photo to put on the graphic so this one remains a mystery. These two could be animals we see in the future.

 

[splendens]

Balloon worms are now on display in the clione tank

 

[splendens]

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

A really intriguing thing someone brought up in the MBA discord just a few minutes ago. Thanks to Pachyrhinosaurus Lakustai in the discord, he went to the exhibit today and got a pic of a Cephalopod in the Basket Star tank! You can see suckers underneath it in the pic. He said there's no graphic for it, which is interesting, nothing on the website either. Possibly a recent addition then? He mentioned it just waved it's tentacles a bit but for the most part is hiding its face, most likely due to the light.
I'm assuming it's a local species as the Basket Star tank is full of species that are local to Monterey Bay.
He says he doesn't think it's a Flapjack Octo as it looks too "normal Octopus" shaped to be one.
I asked Matt Wandell to see if he knows, we'll see if he responds.

So Cephalopods are starting to appear in Into the Deep! Yay!

 

[splendens]

Quick update on this.

Matt Wandell confirmed its an anemone,

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

Yup, was confirmed to just be an Anemone that was folded over

Also updated graphic of the Sea Angel tank now that the Balloon Worms are in there too

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

According to the Website, Umbrella Comb Jellies are now on display. Most likely with the Bloody Belly Comb Jellies as they were being housed together BTS during exhibit construction

 

[Northwest_FIsh_Keeping]

Update: Thanks to VampyrSquid for the photos and info:
The Umbrella Comb Jellies are in the first tank by the LED screens, aka where the Mauve Stingers and Phyllosoma were before. Also they look super cool