Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
My niece and I took a self-guided tour of the Birch Aquarium in San Diego (https://aquarium.ucsd.edu), which is rated as being among the Top 20 aquariums in the U.S. The aquarium is also known as the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography because it's the public outreach center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, located specifically in beautiful La Jolla. The aquarium covers over 60,000 square feet and its display tanks have over 175,000 gallons of seawater. It features over 3,000 animals representing 380 species. More than 500,000 people a year visit the Birch Aquarium, which features exhibits both inside and outside. My favorite sea creatures to see here are the leopard sharks, jellyfish, tropical fish, and the seahorses, to name a few.
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Davis Galleria (Lobby)
0:55 Hall of Fishes (Wolf Eel/Bat Stars/California Spiny Lobster/Sheep Crab/California Moray Eel/Round Stingray/Garibaldi/Juvenile Swell Shark/Medusa Jellyfish/Moon Jellyfish/Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker/Starfish/Octopus/Flag Rockfish/Wolf Eel/Saddleback Clownfish/Tropical Fish-Pufferfish/Racoon Butterflyfish/Yellow Tang)
6:25 Oddities
7:52 Seadragons and Seahorses
9:27 Little Blue Penguins/Educational Talk on Penguins
11:30 Kelp Forest-Giant Sea Bass/Moray Eels/Leopard Sharks
12:36 Threadfin Butterflyfish/Palette Surgeonfish/Angelfish
13:44 Tide Pools
14:40 Sharks & Rays (Leopard Sharks/Stingrays)
16:24 Summary
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My niece and I took a self-guided tour of the Birch Aquarium in San Diego (https://aquarium.ucsd.edu), which is rated as being among the Top 20 aquariums in the U.S. The aquarium is also known as the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography because it's the public outreach center for the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, located specifically in beautiful La Jolla. The aquarium covers over 60,000 square feet and its display tanks have over 175,000 gallons of seawater. It features over 3,000 animals representing 380 species. More than 500,000 people a year visit the Birch Aquarium, which features exhibits both inside and outside. My favorite sea creatures to see here are the leopard sharks, jellyfish, tropical fish, and the seahorses, to name a few.
0:00 Introduction
0:24 Davis Galleria (Lobby)
0:55 Hall of Fishes (Wolf Eel/Bat Stars/California Spiny Lobster/Sheep Crab/California Moray Eel/Round Stingray/Garibaldi/Juvenile Swell Shark/Medusa Jellyfish/Moon Jellyfish/Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker/Starfish/Octopus/Flag Rockfish/Wolf Eel/Saddleback Clownfish/Tropical Fish-Pufferfish/Racoon Butterflyfish/Yellow Tang)
6:25 Oddities
7:52 Seadragons and Seahorses
9:27 Little Blue Penguins/Educational Talk on Penguins
11:30 Kelp Forest-Giant Sea Bass/Moray Eels/Leopard Sharks
12:36 Threadfin Butterflyfish/Palette Surgeonfish/Angelfish
13:44 Tide Pools
14:40 Sharks & Rays (Leopard Sharks/Stingrays)
16:24 Summary
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