Each is about six feet long and probably weighs thirty-five or forty pounds. These animals have lived at the Aquarium since 1981 and were collected from the Florida Keys. Their species is also found as far north as New Jersey and as far south as Brazil.
Green morays are the largest of the morays found in the Atlantic Ocean.
The skin is actually not green but dark blue. The mucus which covers the skin is yellow and these colors combined to make the animal look green. The morays at the Aquarium get fed thr ee times a week. Their menu includes fish such as smelt or sea trout and also squid. When the food is placed into the water from above, you may see a long green body emerge from a hole in the rocks.