 ost of us have never seen what really lives in the ocean - tiny green shrimp
and scarlet sponges, crystal and glittering jelly fish. At Gulf Specimen Marine
Laboratory, you get a better sense of the enormous diversity of life on earth.
Unlike most large public acuaria that emphasize porpoises and big fishes, they focus on
sea horses, hermit crabs, emerald eyed spiny box fish, red and white spotted calico crabs
-- all endless living treasures of the North Florida Wilderness Coast.
Together with animals that look like plants and plants unlike any on land, they challenge our concept of what it means to be an animal, what it means to be alive!
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Water
bubbles and flows in a swirl that sustains our unique collection of the bizarre and the
beautiful. Seahorses hide in the seaweed, their black and bronze hads dusted with
gold flecks. Starfish glide effrtlessly over the sand and sometimes an octopus will come
out of its burrow. Red hermit crabs with bright blue eyes carry waving sea anemones
on their shells.
Gulf
Specimen Marine Laboratory has been in the business of supplying marine animals and
developing specialized aquarium systems for more than 25 years. The marine biological
supply division supports the laboratory, provides a constant flow of animals coming
through the lab, and creates an exhibit that is constantly changing. A variety of
invertebrates, fishes and algae are routinely collected and sold to schools and
laboratories. It's never the same twice. 
Gulf
Specimen Marine Laboratory is 30 miles and 45 minutes from Tallahassee, the state capital
of Florida. Take US 319 south to US 98 west to Panacea.
