David Gauthier, 9, Chelsea, Mich., gets a thumbs up from zoo aquarist Dennis Law as he scuba dives in the 90,000 gallon reef.
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Ron Hanna, Rudolph Libbe senior project manager for the new aquarium at the Toledo Zoo, checks out the Gulf of Mexico tank.
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A diver makes the first public dive.
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Ashley McGilvery, Waterville, right, dances with her son Ethan, 5, as her daughter Emily, 2, dances with the children's grandmother Judy Kampfer, as they listen to musing before the event.
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Lizzie Nuhfer, center, and Kiki Haney, right, both students at Toledo School for the Arts, dance holding jelly fish during the event.
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Lucas County Commissioner Carol Contrada and Toledo Mayor Paula Hick-Hudson cut a ribbon as Al Stroucken, left, Chairman and CEO of Owens-Illinois and Jeff Sailer, CEO/Executive Director of the Toledo Zoo, look on.
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A visitor tries the touch tank as a southern stingray, yellow stingray and horseshoe crab swim past.
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Young visitors watch a diver feed fish in the 90,000 gallon reef tank.
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A southern stingray elicits smiles from William Ryan, 5, left, Anna Ritter, 4, Azhina Allen, 4, parent Caryn Tanner and Olivia Freytag, 5.
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A young visitor watches a diver feed fish in the 90,000 gallon reef tank.
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Ayden Davis, 5, left, and his sister Brooke Davis, 8, Defiance, view the 90,000 gallon reef tank.
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Mason Stites, 4, holds his new stuffed shark as his father Jason Stites zips up his coat after the pair from Defiance toured the new aquarium.
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Moon jellies swim in a tank.
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A bignose unicornfish swims past in the 90,000 gallon reef tank.
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Patrons crowd around the touch tank.
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Pam Connell and her sons Ben, 3, left, and Jacob, 5, get a visit from a southern stingray in the touch tank.
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Pacific sea nettles swim in a tank.
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Tink, a green sea turtle, swims in the Gulf of Mexico tank.
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Spencer Toral, Toledo, keeps his five-month-old daughter Quinn warm as Lyn Casye-O'Shea, Oregon, wraps up in a blanket before the event.
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Patrons enter the aquarium during the grand reopening.
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A model of a great white shark greets patrons as they enter the aquarium.
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Patrons view the Gulf of Mexico tank.
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