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Some examples of the largest exhibits at the aquarium include: Ocean Tunnel. A moving walkway in an 80-metre (260 ft) shark tunnel under the 2,500,000-litre (660,000 US gal) oceanarium takes visitors past several viewing windows, with fish swimming all around the walkway. The exhibit includes three separate habitats: coral reef, cave and open ...
This temperate exhibit features a limestone (non-coral) reef at its core and is home to 3–4-metre (10–13 ft) grey nurse shark, 4-metre (13 ft) smooth stingrays, large loggerhead turtle and over 70 other species of rays, octopuses, sharks and fish natively found in Western Australia.
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 .
A new chapter has just launched in Disney Animal Kingdom Explorers on Facebook, with this eighth chapter taking us to Australia. The first scene is set underwater in the Great Barrier Reef, and ...
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]
The "Shark World" exhibit is a huge exhibit containing 3,000,000 L (790,000 US gal) of water, and featuring 20 shark species, rays and corals. The exhibit has a huge viewing window, an underwater tunnel and an interactive explanations area with educational stations about the importance of sharks and the threats that make sharks endangered.
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.