Mote offers frightfully fun night

Mote aquarists carve pumpkins in one of the shark tanks.

Jauzlyn Parker

Da’quan Gaskin, Isaac Heaven and Dir’ia Gatheright.

Ryan Walker and Elena Bretoi.

People look down into the large shark tank.

Stumbles and HooDat.

Gilly the Shark poses with his look-a-like, Preston Milligan.

A view of the crowd at Mote’s Night of Fish, Fun & Fright.

Mike Collins goes around Mote as a scary pirate.

Gideon Hanson-Gibbs inside the haunted house.

Adriana Ocana-Lara paints a moray eel on Nic Knispel’s, 5, face.

Caden Brooks

Khloe Ladd

Annalisa Wiley with her niece, Emma Wiley.

Brianna and Nicholas Ngo.

Greer Gaspard

Children go on board “Skullywag” prior to going inside Mote.

The outside of Mote Aquarium decorated for Halloween.

Katie Watkins with her granddaughter, Brie Michael.