Georgia Aquarium Pictures

Here are my pics for the Georgia Aquarium. Jess (my girlfriend) gave she and I season passes for Christmas. We went for the first time on Wednesday. I shot 9 rolls of film and had 4 of them developed 1-hour. I am sending the rest away for cheaper developement so it will be a few days. The seaturtle, octopus and penguin pictures will come then.
The picture above is a guitarfish taken from inside the tunnel through the big tank. Click on the pictures to see them bigger.

The aquarium opened in Atlanta in November and I really know too much about it. I have read every article and watched every video on the Atanta Journal Constitution's and 11-alive news' webpages.


This is one of my favorite pictures from the day. A fox-face or angel fish in the Coral Reef exhibit.


This is the "Big Window" at the aquarium. It is the 2nd biggest aquarium window in the world and looks into the worlds biggest fish tank. The whale shark in the pic is about 17 feet long. For a frame of reference, the entire Chattanooga Tennessee aquarium contains about 1.4 million gallons of water. This one tank has 6.2 million gallons. The whole thing contains more than 8 million gallons. A sign at the Aquarium said that this was 250 olympic-sized swiming pools.


The Belugas Whales are the stars of the Cold Water Quest exhibit. The water in the tanks is about 50 degrees. They are about 8 ft. long.


I love this picture of a school of golden travalli fish.


A bunch of yellow tangs in the reef exhibit. I have a yellow tang in my fishtank at home.


More tangs. The glass made this picture distorted. Sorry.


Lots of coral at the reef exhibit. Much of the coral now is fake, because they are growing their own from small peices instead of tearing apart a natural reef.


A school of cow nose rays swim all over the Ocean Voyager tank. People are allowed to pet the rays at the "Touch Tank." Those rays were taken from off the Georgia coast as they migrated south.


A bad picture of a shark (nurse? zebra?) and a goliath grouper.


A goliath grouper. This one is said to be about 300 lbs. Can you guess why its called goliath?


This beluga is ripped. I wish my stomach looked like that.


The whale sharks are the biggest fish in the sea. The ones in Atlanta are the only two in captivity outside of Asia. According to PETA, of the 21 whale sharks ever put in captivity, 19 have either died or had to be released. Then again, none of them were in tanks this big. Hope these have better luck.


Even though they are sharks, the whale sharks don't hunt and kill like other sharks. They filter plankton out of the water. The fish in front of it's mouth ride the current that the fish makes.


The whale sharks' names are Ralph and Norton. You would think that they could have come up with better names than that. One is about 18 feet long and the other is about 17 feet. They can supposedly grow to about 50 feet in the wild.



A school of golden travallis in the tunnel.


The aquarium is home to about 100,000 species of fish. Here are a bunch of them.


If you click the picture you can see the nose better. This is a sawfish. Bernie Marcus, the man who built the Aquarium for $250 million, made his money by co-founding Home Depot. Fittingly, the first fish in the big tank was a Sawfish followed by a Hammerhead shark.


This is a spider crab from the Cold Water Quest section. The spider crabs at the Tennessee Aquarium are much bigger and scarier.


This is a picture of Leafy Seadragons from Australia. They are related to seahorses.


They were in the cold water section and blend in to the plants really well.


Here is some kind of ray. I thought it was a Manta ray, but i have been corrected.


They had a jelly fish room. Pretty scary really. Pictures don't do justice for these guys. They are incredbile.