Monterey Bay Aquarium Major deep sea animal exhibit coming to MBA

So to the best of my understanding, here is a quick reference for people who haven't been caught up with the rotations and are thinking of going soon:

No longer on display:
-Snow Globe Jellies (Modeeria Rotunda)
-Red Paper Lantern Jellies (Pandea Rubra)
-Mauve Stingers (Pelagia Flaveola)
-Phyllosoma (aka Lobster Larvae)

New Animals that are on display:
-Abyssal Comb Jellies (Beroe Abyssicola) On Display in the circular tank where the Paper Lanter Jelly used to be
-Tower Jellies (Neoturris spp.) On Display where the Snow Globe and Red Paper Lanter Jellies used to be
-Umbrella Comb Jellies (Thalassocalyce inconstans) On Display where the Mauve Stingers and Phyllosoma used to be
-Balloon Worms (Poeobius sp.) On Display with the Sea Angels

Everything else such as the Bloody Belly Comb Jellies, Siphonphores, Red X Comb Jellies, etc is all still on display. It looks like so far they've only rotated Midwater species. All the Benthic stuff that was there on Day 1 is still on display.
Also a really good update, they've been updating the website pretty actively, so new species are now added onto the website once they go on display, and the ones they replace are now taken off (except the Snow Globe Jellies for some reason, not sure why they're still on the website) so it gives you the most up to date species list for at least the midwater section. Into the Deep | Exhibition | Monterey Bay Aquarium

Also heres a pic of the Umbrella Comb Jelly graphic, thanks to VampyrSquid for the pic
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Just to let everyone know, both shortspine and longspine thornyheads are signed and the roughy is now signed and is a big roughy Gephyroberyx japonicus
 
Northwest_FIsh_Keeping said:
So to the best of my understanding, here is a quick reference for people who haven't been caught up with the rotations and are thinking of going soon:

No longer on display:
-Snow Globe Jellies (Modeeria Rotunda)
-Red Paper Lantern Jellies (Pandea Rubra)
-Mauve Stingers (Pelagia Flaveola)
-Phyllosoma (aka Lobster Larvae)

New Animals that are on display:
-Abyssal Comb Jellies (Beroe Abyssicola) On Display in the circular tank where the Paper Lanter Jelly used to be
-Tower Jellies (Neoturris spp.) On Display where the Snow Globe and Red Paper Lanter Jellies used to be
-Umbrella Comb Jellies (Thalassocalyce inconstans) On Display where the Mauve Stingers and Phyllosoma used to be
-Balloon Worms (Poeobius sp.) On Display with the Sea Angels

Everything else such as the Bloody Belly Comb Jellies, Siphonphores, Red X Comb Jellies, etc is all still on display. It looks like so far they've only rotated Midwater species. All the Benthic stuff that was there on Day 1 is still on display.
Also a really good update, they've been updating the website pretty actively, so new species are now added onto the website once they go on display, and the ones they replace are now taken off (except the Snow Globe Jellies for some reason, not sure why they're still on the website) so it gives you the most up to date species list for at least the midwater section. Into the Deep | Exhibition | Monterey Bay Aquarium

Also heres a pic of the Umbrella Comb Jelly graphic, thanks to VampyrSquid for the pic
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The phyllosoma are gone already?? I thought they would have given them a bit more time on exhibit.
 
CheeseChameleon1945 said:
How the hell would they keep that? ????:eek::eek::eek:
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So I thought this would be relevant to bring up once again since I did some digging last night and went down a big rabbit hole. So basically from 2002 to 2008, MBA had a special exhibit called "Jellies: Living Art" which represented how Jellies are similar to paintings. This exhibit had 10 tanks and displayed many different species such as making MBA the first aquarium to display Blue Blubber, Flower Hat, Spotted Comb Jellies and a couple other species of Jelly for the first time in the US / the World.

There was a tank called "Tank of the Month" where every month, it would display a new species of Rare Jellyfish from the Bay or another part of the world. This is relevant because sometime during 2002 and 2005, they actually DID display Praya Dubia, the Giant Siphonphore. It doesn't specifically say it was this tank, but I'd imagine it would be. So MBA has actually kept Praya Dubia before in old versions of their Deep-Sea tanks. I can't find any photos or videos of it so far, although I'm assuming this is where the Praya Dubia picture for the Praya Dubia profile on the site came from but I can try and keep looking. The source is here, written by Ken Pederson in 2005 who I believe was the Aquarium Curator at the time. Other cool species that were kept then include
Clione limacina, Cliopsis krohni, Carinaria cristata, and some other species of Beroe Comb Jelly.

ZooLex Exhibit - Jellies: Living Art

So basically MBA did exhibit Praya Dubia back in the day somehow, I'm not sure how successful they were but with their new technology today, maybe we could some small specimens of Praya Dubia on display in the near future? That would be amazing


 
Also another important thing I should say is, Matt Wandell confirmed there is only 1 Tube in a Tube system tank within the gallery, being the one the Common Siphonphores are in.
He mentioned they tried to make the Bigger Tube Tank, the one that currently has the Bolinopsis Comb Jellies in it, into a "Tube in a Tube" system but there were some issues that came up due to the size of the tank so they scrapped that idea. I believe that might be why the concept art images (posted earlier in the thread) had drawings of Siphonophores such as Apolemia in it, as if they did make it into a Tube in a Tube, they were planning of displaying some of the bigger siphonophore species.

So I don't think we'll see any large animals that do need the Tube in a Tube system to survive and thrive in captivity, such as the larger siphonophores. We could still see some of the small species / smaller specimens of larger species especially if they learn how to culture other siphonophores.
 
birdsandbats said:
They are behind-the-scenes. I know this was confirmed a few months ago.
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Oh interesting, I missed them then
When I was behind the scenes in April, I saw the Balloon Worms (now on display), more Bloody Bellies, Snow Globe, Red Paper Lantern, and Red X Jellies. Along with the Giant Red Mysids and some Jellies I'm not allowed to post / mention outside the MBA discord
 
DaLilFishie said:
They had Praya dubia?!? Wow!!!
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Supposedly so, they also had some Clione Limacina, Cliopsis Krohni which is also under "Sea Angel" and a wild looking "Glassy Nautilus" which is Carinaria cristata and looks like this. I wonder if we'll see the Cliopsis or Carinaria in the future. The Carinaria apparently gets as long as 20" so it'd probably have to be displayed in one of the bigger displays unless they find smaller individuals
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splendens said:
Well the website has many species they do not have currently or have never had such as blue whales. Did the website just have a page for praya dubia or did it mention it is behind the scenes?
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It said it was a species that would be exhibited at Into the Deep.
 
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