See Doug & Friends at Work & Play

Here are some new photos of the Doug the Digger Road Show visit to the Digger & Dozer Day. Just click one of the images and a larger version will pop up in a new window.

Reef HQ Aquarium in Townsville, Queensland

Duncan Forster, Reef Head Quarters Education Officer and Mr. Mac
The main tank at the aquarium holds 3 million litres of salt water, 700 tonnes of rock, 200 tonnes of sand and is home to 240 species of fish and120 species of hard corals
Safety proceedure chart for divers in the main tank

Salt water is pumped out of Ross Creek. It goes through huge sand filters before entering the main tank where it is filtered by protien skimmers which pump at 50 litres per ` second. The entire tank can be filtered in 16 hours
The predator tank protein filters also pump at 50 litres per second and cleans all the water every 4 hours
Smaller U.V. filters get rid of disease and bacteria

Blue Bio Balls filter the water in the smaller tanks
Turtle rehabilitation centre. Over 50 turtles have been treated and returned to the wild
Reef HQ is the home of Nemo, Marlin and Dory!

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