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So we closed the store down one day to go on a trip to Long Island Aquarium. Many of us have seen its 20,000-gallon reef tank in videos. To see it in person, and to get an all-access behind-the-scene tour given by none other than Joe Yaiullo himself was equivalent to going to the Disneyland of reefing for us. Here are a few photo highlights from the trip.

We started with a behind-the-scene look at the 120,000-gallon shark tank.
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Skimmers Joe built for the shark tank. The same type of skimmers is used on the reef.
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Massive ball valve on the skimmers.
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300W LED canon with liquid cooling soon to be going on the reef. Most of the reef is still being lit by MH and only a couple of these canons are currently being used. But LED is definitely on Joe's mind. However for a tank of this scale in the public eye it is not something to be rushed.
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The reef runs on NSW and ESV Tarnsition Elements. For calcium and alkalinity, kalkwasser is added via a large pool dosing pump intermittently through out the day. About 2 quarts of calcium hydroxide powder is added to a mixing drum and consumed by the reef daily. The reef is currently measuring 410-420ppm for calcium, and 10 dkh for alkalinity.
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Generator that keeps the aquarium running during any outage
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Atop the 20,000 reef tank looking at the 200g surge device in the corner
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One of the two viewing panels into the reef
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A massive Hydro Wizard that by itself can move the water in this tank while using ~345 watts at peak.
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20,000 gallon water storage tank for water change in the aquarium
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All pumps turned off for a top-down view.
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In this video, Joe demonstrates the power of the Hydro Wizard by turning off all the pumps except the Hydro Wizard on pulse mode at 100% every half a second.
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