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TaratronVaeVictus

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TaratronVaeVictus (the former is a nickname I got in high school, and the latter part translates into Woe to the Conquered) here. I've been into fish for over five years now, and cats are a favorite of mine, loaches a close second. Just got into brackish and marine tanks within the last year, and am the aquarist at the small aquarium at the Wildlife World Zoo in Litchfield Park, AZ.

At home, I mostly keep "non-monster" fish as I am limited by a lack of tank space (my reptiles take up the majority of such tank space!): corydoras, shrimp, banjo cats, and plecos. At work, I am kept by a variety of psuedo-monsters, including moray eels, an epaulette shark, a lionfish, and an electric eel named affectionately Pikachu.

I'm also an Advisor at The Age of Aquariums board, at aquahobby.com.
 
Hiya and welcome to MFK.
Could you tell us about the filtration set up and maintainence schedule at the zoo? Maybe you could post it in the filtration etc. forum above. That kind of question has come up before. For example do you use any kind of UV system, and is your system a centralized one or is it set up as several smaller units?
 
The aquarium currently is a small one: it has a total of 30 tanks, ranging from the 10 gallon QT to the 325 epaulette shark tank exhibit. No UV sterilizers on any of the tank, and each tank is run on its own filtration system, no chance to spread disease. In less than two years (the blueprints are done, the foundation is started, and the QT building nearly finished), we will have a MUCH larger aquarium. Shark tanks, a Monster of the World exhibit, the works. I don't know what the filtration of -that- will entail, but we shall see.
 
Will work on pics, but don't have a digital camera...a fellow employee at work does, but our tanks are old...and unfortunately scratched up badly, both from inaquedate algae scraping and the little %#^#&@!* who come in school groups and like to use knives on glass.
 
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