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A week in the life of managing the 17,000-gallon display at PoloReef Over the past year, we have given you glimpses of what goes on behind the scenes at PoloReef. In this brief video, we tried to capture what happens during a typical reef managing this tank. We show what it takes to do a team dive where we not only show how we go about photographing and shooting videos of the tank underwater, it is more challenging than it looks, but we also show how we add and attach pieces. But even more fun is the portion of us feeding the fish and having them swarm around us while being fed. It is an experience that needs to be viewed to be appreciated. This tank has a lot of maintenance, so we showed what replacing the GFO, which we do regularly, entails. There is also a glimpse of our new wet lab, on which we broke ground; this is where even more elaborate water testing and fish and coral pathology will be done. Since we quarantined all fish and corals in grow-out systems adjacent to the lab, we even showed or added 16 new corals. And while it is not sexy, our weekly water change which can be a significant undertaking is demonstrated. It shows how good planning makes even this mundane task more fun. And from a planning standpoint, the section on setting up the aquascape for the 300 outside of the tank should inspire anyone setting up a new tank and how to plan the aquascape better. And this was easy compared to what we shared about setting up the new 2500-gallon system. We had a visit with Lou from Tropic Marin and the fine folks at AlgaeBarn. And finally, there is an emergency dive. It was also interesting to see what happens in just a week of managing PoloReef. *************************** ☛ SUBSCRIBE for the latest *************************** ☘ GIVEAWAYS more! Join our mailing list for updates: *************************** ➜ WEBSITE: *************************** ♕ MERCHANDISE Official Gear for charity: ************************** ❤ Get SOCIAL! Facebook: Instagram: ************************** ✨ New EPISODE SERIES Follow the “Mad Reef Keeper” on his new show: *************************** Thank you for being part of the Polo Reef journey! - Andrew Sandler ----------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 00:15 Evie from Reef Builders dives to place some of Jake Adam's corals 00:35 Removal of anemone for treatment 01:05 breaking ground on Lab constructions 01:38 Added new corals 02:24 Phosphate control and water changes 02:49 aquascaping time 03:18 working on rock scape 03:39 Draining the 2,500 03:58 Top Shelf Aquatics aquascaping technique 06:14 flying anemone 06:30 Reintroducing fish 06:45 Aquaforest visit 06:50 Tropicmarin visit 06:58 AlgaeBarn visit
