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 A big part of keeping our animals healthy is figuring out what and how much to feed them. For example, our deep sea hagfish hardly eat at all. In the wild, these animals feast on worms that  live in the mud, or on dead animals that sink to the seafloor; after a feast, they may go for months without eating. At the aquarium, we mimic their natural feeding cycle: we let them stuff themselves on shrimp, squidor fishes, then let them fast for weeks before we feed them again.
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Keeping the animals looking their best also posed some exhibit design challenges. To discourage our deep sea ratfish and catsharks from "hiding out" in their exhibit, we concealed a plastic pipe under the viewing window; the pipe emits a gentle stream of water that attracts these animals to the window, where visitors can enjoy them. We also knew that condensation caused by the chilled sea water inside our tanks would obscure visitors' view. So we installed two-inch-thick acrylic windows to prevent the exhibits from fogging up.
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www.montereybayaquarium.org
886 Cannery Row | Monterey, California 93940
Open every day except Dec. 25
Regular hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Winter: 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Summer/holidays: 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.
Summer weekends: 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m.
More information: (831) 648-4800
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