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Ocean Tunnel [2] - 30,000 gallon largest gallery of the aquarium. As visitors pass through an acrylic tunnel, they'll encounter more reef fish species, as well as gray reef sharks, whitetip sharks and a zebra shark. Contact Cove - Visitors can touch cownose rays, common stingrays, or get their hands cleaned by cleaner shrimp.
Shark species include swellsharks, horn sharks, coral catsharks, epaulette sharks, nurse sharks, zebra sharks, sandbar sharks, blacktip reef sharks, and grey reef sharks. The shark tunnel weighs 26,000 pounds and was lifted through the roof of the aquarium with a crane. The tunnel is made from 3.5 inch thick acrylic. [6]
It features coral reef tanks, a lagoon exhibit, a blue hole exhibit, and a touch tank. The lagoon has small fish and eels, while the 250,000-US-gallon (950,000 L) Outer Reef tank has nurse sharks, blacktip reef sharks, grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, zebra sharks, and a tasselled wobbegong. In the touch tank are stingrays, epaulette ...
The grey reef shark or gray reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos, sometimes misspelled amblyrhynchus or amblyrhinchos) [2] is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae. One of the most common reef sharks in the Indo-Pacific , it is found as far east as Easter Island and as far west as South Africa .
The aquarium is managed and partly owned by U.S. Aquarium Team (USAT) and is located in 1245 Pale San Vitores Road, Tumon, Guam 96911, Mariana Islands]. The main exhibit is a 319-foot-long (97 m) tunnel under an 400,000-US-gallon (1,500,000 L) salt-water aquarium. The aquarium is involved with many conservation efforts on Guam.
Its residents include grey nurse sharks, tawny nurse sharks, grey reef sharks, whitetip reef sharks, blacktip reef sharks, leopard sharks, ornate wobbegongs, rays, giant groupers, potato cods, snappers and trevallies. One resident, a brown whipray has lived at the aquarium since 1989. [1]
Larger tiger sharks inhabit the upper region of the tank where their dorsal fin is breaking the surface frequently. [4] Swimming patterns seen from sharks in captivity are that of blacktip, bull, and lemon sharks being active 24 hours and those of sandbars, nurse and sand tigers being active at certain times of the day/night. [5]
Many sharks will outgrow most home aquariums [141] [142] and/or adapt poorly to captivity. [70] However, numerous coastal and coral reef sharks do well in good aquarium surroundings [70] although you should have experience in keeping other saltwater fish before trying to keep sharks as they are more difficult to care for. [143]