Tropical Reef - Long Beach, California, USA

Colorful reef fish swim past corals in the Tropical Reef habitat at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, and this camera looks into the aquarium's biggest exhibit as schools of fish drift by.

The habitat holds 350,000 gallons (1.3 million liters) of seawater and more than 1,000 animals, from tiny cleaner wrasse to a zebra shark. It's modeled on the Blue Corner, a famous dive site off the island nation of Palau.

The aquarium opened on June 20, 1998, at Rainbow Harbor in Long Beach. It cares for more than 12,000 animals in all, including sea otters, giant Pacific octopuses and puffins, and is run as a nonprofit.

Did You Know? Cleaner wrasse set up "cleaning stations" on the reef, where bigger fish wait their turn to have parasites picked off their skin.

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