Gump Research Station: Rotating Coral Acclimation System
Moorea, French Polynesia
After successfully using a custom coral research rack system Aqua Logic had built them, Cal State Northridge came back, this time asking us to design and build a small tank system that could rotate 360 degrees. Coral specimens would be acclimatized in this small system before being moved to the research tanks.
Components & Features
- Round FRP tank, customized to customer dimensions
- Internal rotating platform for coral specimens
- Full platform rotation in a 12 hour duration
- Advanced temperature and lighting controls
- Aqua Logic air-cooled titanium water chiller
- 2kW titanium in-line electric heater
- Magnetic drive recirculation pump
- LED lighting
- Custom stand for tank and LSS equipment made entire footprint of complete system only 4’ x4’