BigWaz
Krazy Member
Hi Everybody,
Well, after 7 years of teaching I have reached the ultimate goal of any reef hobbyist. I'm teaching marine science and I have a decent size coral reef aquarium in my classroom. It took grants, a lot of discussions, emails and hours of work but it's here. Students are doing all the work, I'm not paying an electric bill, and I can just look at my fish tank when I'm having a tough day. The system is a 90 gallon display, 40 gallon sump and 20 gallon mangrove tank. It has an APEX system controlling it so I can view the tank's stats anywhere. Students can view them as well. The tank is on YouTube LiveSteam 24/7. Check that out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fB53jtHB7Q
Here's some photos
Stay tuned for a website and documentary of the whole project. In the meantime, I am interested in corals and possibly fish. We also need an anemone of course. We are looking to grow corals so we can frag them overtime and sell/trade them back to you guys and the stores, preventing more corals being pulled from the ocean. We want to grow corals that people would enjoy in their aquarium and want. If anybody would like to donate frags or corals that would be amazing. I also have some funds to purchase frags but I generally don't put out more than $20-$30 at the most. The students have been fundraising for this project so there is some money but not a ton. I am willing to drive around in the central CT area. People are also welcome to come drop off corals and visit the aquarium at Hall High School in West Hartford. It's tough for me to make long drives because then I have to get back to the school and thats a pain. We are running two 250 metal halides on the aquarium.
I am happy to answer any questions about the project, especially if there are other teachers out there wanted to do something like this. Very special shoutout to Keith (argi), Jon, (fitch4) and Scott (swannyson7) for helping with this project. I could not have done it without them!
Thank you!!
- Anthony
Well, after 7 years of teaching I have reached the ultimate goal of any reef hobbyist. I'm teaching marine science and I have a decent size coral reef aquarium in my classroom. It took grants, a lot of discussions, emails and hours of work but it's here. Students are doing all the work, I'm not paying an electric bill, and I can just look at my fish tank when I'm having a tough day. The system is a 90 gallon display, 40 gallon sump and 20 gallon mangrove tank. It has an APEX system controlling it so I can view the tank's stats anywhere. Students can view them as well. The tank is on YouTube LiveSteam 24/7. Check that out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fB53jtHB7Q
Here's some photos
Stay tuned for a website and documentary of the whole project. In the meantime, I am interested in corals and possibly fish. We also need an anemone of course. We are looking to grow corals so we can frag them overtime and sell/trade them back to you guys and the stores, preventing more corals being pulled from the ocean. We want to grow corals that people would enjoy in their aquarium and want. If anybody would like to donate frags or corals that would be amazing. I also have some funds to purchase frags but I generally don't put out more than $20-$30 at the most. The students have been fundraising for this project so there is some money but not a ton. I am willing to drive around in the central CT area. People are also welcome to come drop off corals and visit the aquarium at Hall High School in West Hartford. It's tough for me to make long drives because then I have to get back to the school and thats a pain. We are running two 250 metal halides on the aquarium.
I am happy to answer any questions about the project, especially if there are other teachers out there wanted to do something like this. Very special shoutout to Keith (argi), Jon, (fitch4) and Scott (swannyson7) for helping with this project. I could not have done it without them!
Thank you!!
- Anthony
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