OdySea Aquarium and other attractions in Scottsdale

Beardedbillygoat1975 · November 21, 2022

My sons like many kids in their generation are absolutely obsessed with Kids YouTube and about 18 months ago my 5 year old started talking about The OdySea Aquarium in Scottsdale AZ. Not sure what it was about it perhaps it was just that typical flash and bang style of a YT video but he was hooked. About 4 months ago my wife and I started thinking about my Continuing Education and using it as an opportunity for a quickie family vacation. Well Scottsdale was ironically at the top of my list due to a cool meeting so we made it to Scottsdale. Day 1 of the conference was an afternoon session so we had the whole morning at the aquarium.

African leaf fish and butterfly fish simple scape that liked a lot. In terms of freshwater tanks they had a few and several were unique.
These Bimac cichlids how beautiful. Just gorgeous monsters. Such great personalities and that bond make and female it’s why you fall in love with them

If you have monsters then at least have beautiful ones and these were gorgeous.
As for the electric eel, I mean come on it’s and electric eel!!
Rays are cool, this one’s pattern and color I should work on this with the editing software.

Ursula ferkin is that you? More Santa like with that red foot.

Here’s the guy who led us here. What a fun companion to do the aquarium with. I grind to provide experiences like this for him. Worth every penny.

They has some puffers but not freshwater.

Sea Turtles and ….

The biggest rays and groupers I’ve seen. I think it was a Hawaiian ray and a Goliath grouper.
Parrot fish can get big but I’ve never seen one this big.

Sea Lions my son was a fan.

They had a nice shark and ray exhibit.

We had a ton of fun. My wife bought tickets for some of the other “attractions “ Nextdoor and I found this Butterfly experience quite cool. The first time I did one of these it was at the Museum of Natural History in NYC.