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Sir John Proud Aquarium System
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Fibreglass tanks D & E are in the foreground.
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The Station's excellent aquarium system was built in 1995 and is named after the late founder of the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation. It is a flow-through system providing a high volume of seawater pumped from the reef immediately in front of the Station. Seawater is gravity-fed from header tanks through the aquarium system and back to sea. Seawater and compressed air are on tap in numerous areas for use with many different sizes and types of containers. Click here for a plan of the aquarium system. Some specifications:
- A total of 30,000 litres of seawater storage in three header tanks
- Three pumps capable of continuously moving 10,000 litres of seawater per hour to the header tanks
- Raw seawater and compressed air on tap to all areas of the system
- Seawater filtered to various levels as finely as 1 µm can be delivered to certain areas of the system
- Numerous aquaria can be set up on the 22 fibreglass wet benches (each 2.65 x 0.75 metres) throughout the system, as follows:
- 2 x wet benches in outdoor area on concrete floor under shadecloth (Benches 21 and 22 on aquarium plan)
- 12 x wet benches in outdoor area on concrete floor under transparent roof (Benches 1 to 12)
- 4 x wet benches in each of two enclosed rooms (Benches 13-16 and 17-20); one room is air conditioned and light levels can be controlled in both.
- Outdoor area under shadecloth has the following ground-level tanks installed:
- 1 x round fibreglass tank, 2.6m diameter x 0.9 m deep (Tank A)
- 1 x round fibreglass tank, 2.2 m diameter x 0.6 m deep (Tank N)
- 4 x round fibreglass tanks, 1.5 m diameter x 0.7 m deep (Tanks B, C, D, E)
- 4 x round plastic tanks, 1.0 m diameter x 0.4 m deep (Tanks F, G, H, I)
- 4 x oval plastic tanks, 2.2 m x 1.2 m x 0.5 m deep (Tanks J, K, L, M)
- Additional containers that can be set up as required include:
- 2 x round plastic tanks, 1.0 m diameter x 0.4 m deep
- 3 x rectangular plastic tubs, 1.1 m x 0.6 m x 0.5 m deep
- many rectangular plastic tubs, 0.8 m x 0.5 m x 0.5 m deep
- many smaller glass and plastic aquaria
- several glass aquaria suitable for photography
- Two bays 2.3 m x 1.2 m under solid roof on concrete floor (Bays 23 and 24) are also supplied with seawater and air and these can be configured in many ways
- Indoor air-conditioned culture room with panels of daylight fluorescent lamps
Various glass and plastic containers set up on wet benches. Bench 12 is in the foreground
Fibreglass tank N
Aquarium room showing grey tank on benches 14 and 15, and other tanks on bench 13
Plastic oval tanks L and M
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