Birch Aquarium, San Diego

[Ranger]

I'm taking a trip down there today and I'll take lots of pictures and post em for u guys . If you have any special requests as far as pictures goes I'll try to accomodate you. Try to post before noon Pacific Time.


Pics can be found in this first post, and in a few posts down. It's a limit of about 40 pics per post, fyi.


EDIT: Let it be known that I am not a professional photographer, lol .

Just the "touching" tide pools they have out behind the aquarium. Has various fish, anemone's, lobsters and an octopus.

A closer pic of part of the tidepools w/ some fishies.

Some anemone's

Thats a pic of the coast from the aquarium. The point you see is right where La Jolla cove is, fantastic snorkeling/diving.

Need I say more?

Sea Cucumber? I can't recall what its called.

Just some sea stars in the "tide pools"

Another pic of a nem... or so I thought until that decorator crab started crawling on my hand as i went to touch the nem and I nearly jumped 6 feet backward.

Another of the decorator crab. Oh that person you see in the water is my evil twin , I call him Werd.

Some kind of sea urchin


----Here comes some fun stuff!----

Just some rocks... or is that a fish right there?

Not much to say about this guy, I believe the pink says it all. It's eyes were like mirrors... It was strange

I believe that was a "pregnant" male seahorse.

A pic of a different seahorse. I like this one.

That was some interesting sand

In case you didn't get the last one, this one is easier.

I guess it didn't like me

All I can say is... WOW Labeled as "Leafy Sea Dragons" I didn't get the scientific name, sorry.

More to come!

Thats the last of those. They are so beautiful.

I'm going to post those for now so you guys can look while I post more!

Giant sun seastar or summin like that. It was atleast... 4-5 feet from tip to tip

Tank with lots of nems.

Close up of one of them

The octopus was out and about. Had never seen that before.

 

[sianeds]

ooh ooh lionfish are my favourites!! Soooooo beautiful. Hope you have a good time. My husband and I have yearly membership to our local aquarium and go every few days (yes we really are that nutty about fish).

Is a great way to learn about different species and get ideas

 

[Ranger]

ooh ooh lionfish are my favourites!! Soooooo beautiful. Hope you have a good time. My husband and I have yearly membership to our local aquarium and go every few days (yes we really are that nutty about fish).

Is a great way to learn about different species and get ideas

I agree, I'm meeting my highschool marine biology teacher down there so I'm hoping to learn alot. I'm kindof sad right now because I just starting my study in kinesiology for college, but part of me wants to do marine biology.

 

[sianeds]

I know the feeling...I did Msc health science. Had to pass the marine biology buildings every day

Oh well am still young..maybe when my daughter is a bit older I'll go back and do marine biology

 

[Ranger]

Currenlty uploading the pics to photobucket.com and I'm just wondering if there is any limit you guys on posting pictures in a thread for whatever reason. I've got around 113 I'd like to post

 

[SkiFletch]

I'm sure there's a number of pics per post limit but I've never reached it .

 

[Lynden]

I'm sure there's a number of pics per post limit but I've never reached it .

Neither have I. Since post length is based on text and "code text", I think it would be extremely diifcult to have a post that has too many words, let alone pictures, whose codes only take up 1-2 lines of text.

-Lynden

 

[Ranger]

Got Crabs?

Some little sharks

Those stuck out at me because there was recently a post on how some guy found one in his prawns or something?

Not sure what that is, but I had to laugh at it. I'm not sure why though

Big lobster, it just sat there. You didn't miss much

You lookin at me?

Who? Me?

Upsidedown jelly's, or so they were labeled. Wouldn't that make them polyps? (They weren't rooted to anything so maybe not?)

This pic is basically a "snippet" of La Jolla cove, and thats pretty much what its like when ur snorkeling there.

California State Fish!

Uh... Leapord Shark?

Hmm... No comment

I found the tank to be visually attractive, and it seems like the goby is using the sea cucumber thingy for protection

This is the kelp forest tank.

Just a big grouper.

Some Sharkies.

A look at the top of the kelp forest tank.

Shark and ray together.

 

[Ranger]

Colorful guys.

Baby Shark, maybe 4 inches.

Shark egg, if you look close you can see the outline of the baby shark. It was squirming around when I saw it.

Some kind of hybrid fish... said it was the first time it was successfully(sp) bred. It seemed picture worthy

Funny Nudibranch

One of their most stunning tanks IMO

Just some of the fish that were in the above tank.

That trigger was incredibly hard to get into a picture...

Shiny colors

Some of the more outstanding fish.

I wish I had that in my home... Complete with maintenence team.

Cuddlefish. Changed colors, had an interesting personality


Per request, here is the lionfish

Ta Da!

Can you find the fish?

How about now?(That's the same tank as the lionfish, fyi. I didn't notice it there for a while, lol.)

The tidepool octopus at feeding time. Fascinating.

A baby Garibaldi (State fish)

Lobster. There's Werd again

Stuff...

Wolf Eel

 

[Betta5]

The last pics have red Xs on them

 

[Matthew5664]

"Cuddlefish. Changed colors, had an interesting personality" LMAO

cuddling it I won't be but you can if you want!

 

[SkiFletch]

Nice shots of the Garibaldi Damsel. My LFS has one that I love

 

[hubbard_shark]

Cool pics, some of these r very common to me since I work at Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. The ones of the leafy sea dragons, and the weedy sea dragons. we're the only aquarium who has successfully breed weedy sea dragons . its pretty cool fact. the wolf eel is amazing, always liked those guys. the coolest guy at our aquarium right now is our bowmouth guitarfish, he's insane.

 

[demonmagus]

wow nice pics, the 'disguised' fish are awesome