LIVE TROPICAL REEF WEBCAM
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- Location: Aquarium of the Pacific, California, United States
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Info: Live aquarium webcam showing sharks, rays, turtles and tropical fish at the
Aquarium of the Pacific in California, United States.
The Tropical Reef Habitat is the Aquarium's largest exhibit, containing 350,000 gallons of salt water and over 500 living creatures.
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More info: The exhibit has a sea turtle, olive ridley turtle, zebra shark, bonnethead sharks, Queensland grouper, eagle rays, cownose rays, and many varieties of tropical fish, including bluefin trevallies, angelfish, tangs, and unicornfish.
Zebra sharks as juveniles have dark bodies with yellowish stripes. As they grow older, the pattern changes to small dark spots on a gray-tan background. Zebra sharks have an impressive tail which is almost as long as its body.
The olive ridley turtle is named for the generally greenish colour of its skin and shell, or carapace. They are found in the warmer waters of the southern Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Olive ridleys are one of the smallest of the sea turtles, reaching only about 2 feet in shell length.
The green sea turtle is one of the largest hard-shelled sea turtles. They are unique among sea turtles in that they are herbivores, eating mostly seagrasses and algae. This diet is what gives their cartilage and fat a greenish colour (not their shells), which is where their name comes from.
The Queensland grouper is the world’s largest reef-dwelling bony fish. Adults are mottled brown to dark grey in colour, with pale spots or blotches on their body and numerous black spots on their fins. It has a robust body with a rounded tail and fleshy lips and adult males can weigh up to 400kgs.
Bluefin trevally are so called due to second dorsal, caudal, and anal fins being an electric blue colour. Bluefin trevally have sleek streamlined, deep bodies designed for speed and agility. The head is slanted downward coming to a pointed snout. The entire body is an iridescent grey with blue-black spots scattered on the mid to rear body.
The eagle ray has a protruding, tapered snout, a dark brown back with white spots, and a long, thin tail and a white underside. The body averages about 4 to 6.5 feet long, not counting the tail. An eagle ray’s most distinguishing characteristic is the triangular corners of its wing-like pectoral fins.
The cownose ray has a kite-shaped body with a wingspan of up to three feet. It varies in colour from brown to olive green with a whitish belly and a long, brown tail that looks like a whip. Its squared, indented snout resembles a cow's nose.