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Are the barnacles feeding? Will the hermit crab switch shells yet again? Here you'll learn about all the exciting happenings at our Marine Life Touch Tank in Portsmouth and our Blue Ocean Discovery Center in Hampton Beach, NH!

Locations and Hours:
- Blue Ocean Discovery Center, 170 Ocean Boulevard, Hampton Beach, NH (just north of the Sea Shell stage). Open 10 AM-7 PM daily until early September, and weekends in the fall and spring. Like Us on Facebook

- Marine Life Touch Tank in Portsmouth, Isles of Shoals Steamship Company dock, 315 Market Street, Portsmouth, NH. Open Tuesday-Friday, 9 AM-12 PM until late August. Like Us on Facebook
We'd love to hear your questions and comments! Hope to see you soon!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Yesterday at the Touch Tank

Yesterday at the touch tank we tried to make one of our flounder change colors to the new backgrounds that were put in the tank yesterday. Flounder not only can camouflouge in the sand in rocks but even patterned surroundings like checker boards and spots! We put one of the flounder in to a smaller tank for a little bit with our patterned backgrounds and waited...and waited...and waited for the flounder to do its thing and become a living checkerboard, but the poor flounder wouldnt sit still long enough. He did produce some black and white but that's all he was willing to do for us.
You still have a chance to name these stubborn flounder so come on down today before 4pm and put your name suggestion in the box or just come visit us if you already have! :)

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