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This 142,000-gallon, three-story high exhibit stands at the end of the Aquarium’s Great Hall of the Pacific and features ocean inhabitants found off the coast of Catalina Island.

  • grant: $668,000 - Aquarium of the Pacific

    To support the Aquarium’s educational programs and research projects.

  • topic: aquariums

  • location: long beach

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guardians of the sea: blue cavern

This 142,000-gallon, three-story high exhibit stands at the end of the Aquarium’s Great Hall of the Pacific and features ocean inhabitants found off the coast of Catalina Island.

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location: Long Beach, CA

best viewing hours: 8:00am - 9:30pm

time zone: Pacific Time

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Leopard sharks swim at the surface keeping their mouths open and going in a counter-clockwise motion while schools of anchovies that are also at the surface of the water swim in a clockwise direction swimming directly into the open mouths of the sharks.

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The moray eel's favorite prey, the octopus, has developed a chemical in its jet-black ink that temporarily disables a moray's sense of smell.

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The sharp teeth of a moray eel angle backwards, to better retain its prey. The teeth also hinge and lock into position when pushed forward, enabling the eel to firmly grasp even the most slimy fish.

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Moray eels sleek body lack scales, gill covers, and almost all fins, presenting a smooth surface to back into tight hiding spots.

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California sheepheads hunt actively during the day, but at night they move to crevices and caves and wrap themselves in a mucus cocoon to hide their scent from predators.

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Both giant sea bass and California sheepheads change sex from female to male as they mature into adults.

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The ovaries of a 320 pound female giant sea bass weighed 47 pounds and contained an estimated 60 million eggs.

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Giant sea bass can grow to 7.5 feet and up to 560 pounds and lives to 70 years of age.

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Giant kelp is found from central & southern California all the way to Baja, and also in South America, New Zealand, Tasmania and the Sub-Antarctic islands.

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Giant kelp's unusual distribution in both hemispheres may reflect oceanographic events occurring during the Ice Ages.

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Giant kelp is a temperate water alga, preferring water 68 degrees or less, and is therefore not found in the subtropics and tropics where corals dominate.

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Kelp serves as both food and habitat for at least 800 species of marine animals and 300 marine algae.

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Kelp produces its own food through photosynthesis, similar to land plants.

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Under optimum conditions, giant kelp can grow as much as two feet a day and reach lengths of 200 feet.

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During WWI the U.S. harvested kelp as a replacement for the potash that had come primarily from German mines. Potash is a primary ingredient of gunpowder, and some say that kelp won the war!

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Kelp was harvested for the sodium alginate, a gelling and colloidal agent. It has been used in products including beer toothpaste, ice cream, cake mixe and frosting, shampoo, lubricating oil and welding rods.

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Kelp is divided into three structural elements: the leaf-like blades, the stem-like stipe and the root-like holdfast.
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Related Links · Aquarium of the Pacific
This 142,000-gallon, three-story high exhibit stands at the end of the Aquarium’s Great Hall of the Pacific and features ocean inhabitants found off the coast of Catalina Island.

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