Wedding at Melb Aquarium

[sammigold]

I went to a wedding last night which was held in the Coral Attol room at the Melbourne aquarium.... I thought I would post some photos of the fish and the Jellyfish exhibit...

(I took more photos of the fish than I did of the newly married couple!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: )

Here goes:

Magnificent Lionfish

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dont know what this guy is but WOW is he huge!!! and beautiful!!!!

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close up

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big EEL
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Names of Marine fish is not my specialty so here are some more photos of Pretty fish!! :lol:

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[sammigold]

Some more.....

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some snaky eel thing... :ug ]

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Now for the jelly fish....

cant remember this ones name but they are not found in australia these ones came from America... the "appendage" (thats what they called it! :lol: ) has no known function but it looks interesting!!

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The Brown Sea Nettle... Mildly harmful to humans if it stings...little fish use the tentacles as refuge...

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Moon Jellys (sorry about the darkness but if you used a flash they came out white and they looked so nice with the red light....)

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hope you like!! It was amazing that big blue one was over a metre long!!

[ellwa]

they have that same fish[they look identical] in the sydney harbour aquarium


he is beautiful!

I love going there, so much i bought the CD for when I'm watching my discus late at night.

great photos.

thankyou

[Ben]

Wowser! what a great room to have a wedding!

Thanks for the awesome Photo's Sammi!

Cheers
Ben

[Crocky]

Nice photo's Sammi!

Where you invited or did you gate crash it lol.


Brad

[sammigold]

Invited!!!! :lol: :lol: with a little friendly persuasion.......... :P :twisted:

[nicholas76]

Yeah its a great place to have a function!


I actually loooked at having a big bday party in the shark room.


however the rate is a flat fee ( minimum )of ten thousand dollars. I decided to pass on the venture.

The coral room was better but jeepers still $$$$$$$

[nicholas76]

aaah also

just another observation.

notice that the corals are dead and or fakes!

they should go to the effort and make it all alive! but then with that many fish , its expensive fish food :P

[sammigold]

I was talking to LFS and they said they read somewhere that the reason the corals are fake is because they didnt want to destroy natural reefs in order to create the reef environment in captivity so they have replicated it as best they can.... it does look pretty real if you dont look underneath and see the sticks up the bottom of the corals... :lol: :lol:

[nicholas76]

hehehe sammii !

they probably didnt want to pay the bill running those metal halides! :lol: :lol:

[sammigold]

Well i suppose this way they are safe.... there would be nothing worse than looking at big patches of dead things that they couldnt keep alive..

you may have a point about the money... :lol: :lol: :lol:

[AussieStar]

yer i went there when i was in town for the GP, i was impressed until i sure the fake coral in that tank, would have been alot better if it was real, bad it was a enjoyable place to visit