Jenkinson's Aquarium photos and discussion.

[Mark Shelly]

It was nice to go into the basement and upstairs behind the large tanks to see the aquarium from the tank keeper's perspective. It is a lot of work keeping a reef tank. And with as many tanks as we saw, that takes a lot of work. Of not, it looked like sandy flooded the basement in around 44 inches or so of water. One wall was designed to breakaway, so the areas in the basement with all the tanks was covered by sand. They have to bring up pumps and equipment for storms. In fact, they already had sandbags covering one front door when we were there.
Thank you Mike and Nichole for inviting us over to your house afterwards.
Here are some pictures:

 

[kschweer]

Wow looks like you guys and most importantly the kids had a great time! Thanks again @Mark Shelly for putting this together. Also mike and Nikki for having people over afterwards!

 

[Mark Shelly]

Here are a few more pictures from upstairs. Those are some huge protein skimmers. The fluidized bed filters were pretty nice as well. Note that nutrient export is largely accomplished by 30% seawater water changes. They bring is seawater into holding tanks in the basement and then transfer it into the tanks. Each major tank had its own filtration system.

 

[Mark Shelly]

Wow looks like you guys and most importantly the kids had a great time! Thanks again @Mark Shelly for putting this together. Also mike and Nikki for having people over afterwards!

It was a good event to bring children, although the real young one may not have got as much out of it. Unfortunately, I posted before importing the full images above and didn't see how to change that.

 

[Mark Shelly]

Here are a few pictures of the tanks in case you have not been to Jenkinson's. This batch is from the first coral tank that uses live rock.

 

[Mark Shelly]

Here is my final batch of pictures.

 

[myrjon]

good pics mark .this was a great time n a rainy day. Interesting to the end ..

 

[Mark_C]

NIce shots MarK! Was going to post a few but looks like you had it all covered.

 

[Trio91]

Wow, good times guys, I wish I could have made this one.

 

[Edwardw771]

Thank you for organizing this Mark. We had a great time. And as always thanks Mike and Nikki for the hospitality.


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[njtiger24 aquariums]

Looked like a great time. Nice pictures

 

[Mark Shelly]

In case you missed out and would like to see what we saw.