The International Marine Aquarium Conference - 2006

DR. SANJAY JOSHI

Sanjay Joshi in real life is a Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State University. He has been a reef addict since 1992, and currently keeps 3 reefs at home 29G, 55G and a 500G SPS dominated reef. He also co-manages the 500G aquarium at Penn State.

He has published several articles in magazines such as Marine Fish and Reef Annual, Aquarium Frontiers, Aquarium Fish, and Advanced Aquarist. In addition he has been an invited speaker at several marine aquarium society meetings. He received the MASNA award in 2006, for his contributions to the marine aquarium hobby.

ABSTRACT

"The 500 Club"

 

After 14+ years of reef keeping, I finally had the opportunity to get a 500G aquarium and join the 500 club. This talk will focus on the design philosophy and build saga of this aquarium, drawing from my personal experiences and lessons learned from my years of reef keeping. The goal was to design a cost efficient, easy to operate and manage reef while minimizing the operating energy consumption.