Just to make everyone's imagination run wild

[jerseyhokie]

Imagine a 2 story 32,000 gallon tank. Worked on/in one in highschool. James J Howard research lab on sandy hook, NJ has a state of the art tank. Heres a proper link:

http://sh.nefsc.noaa.gov/tank1.htm

The lights over the tank can control it such that any condition around the world may be mimicked. Imagine that as a place to breed some of these ultra rare species.

Here's a few pics i could pull from the web:

The upper deck and gangplank

15 lb 30" bluefish for scale

Black Sea Bass

How they remove the sea bass

What would you do with this kind of space?

 

[jjk_reef00]

Remove the sea bass with a harpoon! Deep sea fishing inside your school, that is my idea of a good after school activity.

 

[little bear]

so huge, and i want to know how to choose the filter

 

[jerseyhokie]

The ocean, (Really located just inside the bay) is the filter. They ran almost a half a mile of pipes to take NSW in and pump it for the entire facility. Ill bet all told the place hits 50,000 gallons of running tanks. Just need to adjust flow rates for turnover.

JJK i have fished for juvenille bluefish in a catch an release study. After hooking 1 or 2 they wise up and are only persuaded by live offering. Amazing how the ammonia (urine) they release when hooked acts like a warning system.

Forgot to mentions the tank has multiple video locations, but i dont think the streaming feeds are public. Divers clean the tank of algae that grows on the walls.

 

[serpentman]

That is sweet. I want one for my living room, lol.

 

[davewbush]

I know that studies are being done on the fish in there, but I would ditch the bass and make it a full reef. The way the light system looks, you would be able to mimic the sun rise and set over the tank. Possibilities would be endless.

 

[jerseyhokie]

Yeah they actually had an intern who programmed the lights for different locales. They type in tahiti full moon and they get tahiti sunrise and sunset times with full moon night lighting. Theyre working to change the water level to simulate tides.