TWallace
09/06/2006, 04:58 PM
I was in Tulsa last weekend for a family reunion. I didn't even know Tulsa had an aquarium, but my dad mentioned it. Well, to my surprise it's actually quite a nice aquarium.
My camera isn't very good and I didn't have a lot of memory left, so unfortunately the pics I've got are brief.
The first exhibit I went to was the Carribean fish exhibit. It was feeding time when we arrived, which is why we went straight to this exhibit first, skipping many others. This is their biggest tank, other than the shark tank with 2 or 3 bull sharks (no pics, it was too dark).
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/puffer.jpg
The highlight of this tank for me was the huge porcupine puffer, nearly two feet long. He was very friendly with the diver, maybe a little too friendly. During feeding the diver had to keep shoving the puffer away so other fish could eat.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding2.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding3.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding4.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/reeffish.jpg
This was a really cool looking trigger. It stayed in the dark part of the tank, so I couldn't get a better picture. It's black with a dark red dorsal and anal fin, each with a horizontal white stripe at the base. It was about 8 inches long. There was also a large queen trigger in the tank, but it was moving too fast for me to get a pic.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/trigger.jpg
Also they had a very large French angel in this tank, probably 15 to 18 inches long.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/frenchangel.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/angel.jpg
Finally there was a large pink orange and blue parrotfish, around two feet long.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/parrotfish.jpg
My camera isn't very good and I didn't have a lot of memory left, so unfortunately the pics I've got are brief.
The first exhibit I went to was the Carribean fish exhibit. It was feeding time when we arrived, which is why we went straight to this exhibit first, skipping many others. This is their biggest tank, other than the shark tank with 2 or 3 bull sharks (no pics, it was too dark).
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/puffer.jpg
The highlight of this tank for me was the huge porcupine puffer, nearly two feet long. He was very friendly with the diver, maybe a little too friendly. During feeding the diver had to keep shoving the puffer away so other fish could eat.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding2.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding3.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/feeding4.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/reeffish.jpg
This was a really cool looking trigger. It stayed in the dark part of the tank, so I couldn't get a better picture. It's black with a dark red dorsal and anal fin, each with a horizontal white stripe at the base. It was about 8 inches long. There was also a large queen trigger in the tank, but it was moving too fast for me to get a pic.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/trigger.jpg
Also they had a very large French angel in this tank, probably 15 to 18 inches long.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/frenchangel.jpg
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/angel.jpg
Finally there was a large pink orange and blue parrotfish, around two feet long.
http://www.tom-wallace.com/images/reef/092006/parrotfish.jpg