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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!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

It was a SUPER busy day at the touch tank! Between the conference people and all of you that just came to see our beautiful faces... oh and the touch tank haha :) we barely had a breath! But when we did have a breath we spent it looking up more info on our new additions to the tank, the nudibranchs. These guys are a type of sea slug that have little frills that come off their back that are used kind of as gills. We also found that they not only feed on stinger organisms like hydroids and anemone, but they can actually use their sting-y food to their own advantage by becoming sting-y as well!
Tomorrow we are drawing the name for our Lobster! So drum roll for our next post!

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