Facilities
CSAR Specifications
- 750m2 controlled environment building, plus separate primary quarantine facility
- Ozone-sterilised water intake and discharge
- Centralised air- and water temperature control: programmable 12-27oC
- Freshwater to full strength seawater
- Programmable lighting – light intensity, photoperiod
- Electronic security control to all areas
- All life support systems monitored and alarmed
- Full electrical backup via 500 kVa generator
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Incoming seawater treatment tanks.
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Two industry grade Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS)
- Each system 60 m3 volume, water circulation rate to 100 m3 per h
- 5% system volume exchange per day, at 15kg / m3 biomass
- Oxygen, ozone and pH control and monitoring
- All rearing tanks adjustable for fish / shellfish; equipped with swirl separators for uneaten feed & faeces collection
RAS A –
- 30 x 1.4 m diameter rearing tanks (1.5 m3 operating volume)
RAS B –
- 9 x 1.4 m diameter rearing tanks, (1.5 m3 operating volume)
- 12 x 1.9 m diameter rearing tanks (3.6 m3 operating volume)
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RAS A with 30 livestock tanks
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Tropical Ornamental Fish Laboratory
- Self-contained RAS
- 16 x 300 L spawning tanks
- 18 x 30 L trials aquaria
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Tropical ornamental rearing tanks
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Pilot-commercial scale live feeds production
- 1000 L / day microalgae
- 12 x 800 L rotifer tanks
- 6 x 800 L Artemia tanks
- 6 x 1,200 L copepod tanks
- 400L Photo-Bioreactor (Biofence TM)
- 2 x 600l Photo-Bioreactor (Biofence TM)
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400L PBR and 20 litre carboys of microalgae
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Primary quarantine laboratory
- 5 x 1.4 m diameter rearing tanks, (1.5 m3 operating volume)
- Self contained RAS, fully isolated from all other systems
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Shrimp hatchery
- 6 m3 volume self contained RAS
- 9 x 300 L tanks
- 10 x 50 L larval tanks
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