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Pool Farm
The new $1.2 million Pool Farm at SARDI West Beach offers a selection of 80 new tanks for marine and freshwater research.
This new system of tanks allows marine scientists the opportunity to reproduce experiments in a large number of tank environments, thereby providing more conclusive results.
The tanks vary in size from 36 of 1 kilolitre capacity, 36 at 5 kl, 4 at 10 kl and 4 with a capacity of 20 kilolitres. Each tank is piped with fresh filtered seawater or filtered re-circulated seawater plus an additional optional pipe work system allows freshwater to be provided. To maintain oxygenated water, compressed air is also provided via diffusers for every tank.
The pool farm is available to marine and aquaculture industries as well as Universities and partners of the Marine Innovations SA initiative (MISA).
Initial bookings for the tank farm involve the dietary and nutrition requirements of yellow tail kingfish with mulloway research soon to follow. Please contact Mark Gluis for bookings: Phone 08 8207 5466.
SARDI West Beach – Fish Tanks
Juvenile Mulloway – ready for research
Pool Farm – Filtration System
