ACI Aquaculture Coral Farm Tour

[@maceysdaddy5150]

Thank you Deven & Chris. You two are always positive and happy and bring so much passion to the hobby. Chris, your systems are amazing and it’s so kind of you to open your doors and share it all with us! I dub you the coolest reefer in the industry.

[@ReefDudes]

🥰

[@jonathanlee97]

Chris is such a cool guy man. You can really see the passion

[@quinn8823]

Nice tour of ACI Mariculture

[@ReefDudes]

Thanks!

[@billydanzz]

Wow! So much to see....will definitely watch this a few more times!

[@ReefDudes]

Heck yea!! So much eye candy

[@dusk1947]

Cool video of a fantastic farm. Mr. Meckley certainly knows what he's doing. It's one beautiful collection after another. I also appreciate how outspoken he is abut his commercial methodology and pushing new techniques. I don't always agree with using them on my own hobby scale system, but that's usually either a lack of supporting data or the methods simply being to new and thus unproven. Regardless, ACI is a spectacular example of a successful coral farm.

[@ReefDudes]

At the very least it gets the wheels turning on scaled down versions for home system :)

[@jackson6745]

Chris is the man 👍

[@docforestal]

nice video tour of a pretty amazing facility - would love to walk around there peeking over the edge of the tanks

[@RogueAquariums]

Chris has a very nice coral farm with some stunning corals. I need to visit him the next time I go to Florida. Thanks for the tour Deven.

[@ReefDudes]

Your most welcome!

[@Esposreef]

Great video mate!

[@ReefDudes]

Thank you!

[@martyeverywhere]

“My addiction of corals is a real problem, I’m so glad I’m not addicted to drugs” 🙌🏾😭 I feel that one haha!! All my money goes to coral 🪸

[@ReefDudes]

Lol much better to have pretty corals to show for it!

[@spicyreef]

Nice!!!!! I've been wanting this tour 🙂

[@spicyreef]

please tell me there is more....

[@MiXReef75]

Oh yes this is going down!!❤

[@burtminshew4812]

Great video guys! Chris..it would be cool to set up a glass Acro tank and showcase your Acros and favorites.

[@ReefDudes]

Agreed!

[@ARandomTrex]

I dont live far from his farm. Id love to try and link up and check it out. Dude needs a giant top down viewer for videos.

[@MiXReef75]

adding t5s real soon

[@philip91816]

What happend to the AI blades over your tank? Can we get an update review

[@deadgam3]

@reefdudes did he say why he is no longer using ReefBrites?

[@ReefDudes]

He’s a fan of the halides and has cheap power

[@aciaquaculture]

We only have room for the CoralCare and either the reefbrites or T5s on that system. We still dig the reefbrites but we’re adding T5s.

[@drumklok9346]

T5 owns.

[@EugeneRu777]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@mickeyg3139]

With respect, you got to just show the entire experience of just underwater shots. It’s almost pointless to film the top of the water with light reflecting off the surface and pumps disturbing the surface of the water. There are so many coral channels who mess this up. The only person who had it down was Jake Adam’s.

[@ReefDudes]

I mixed some of that in where it lined up with what we were talking about

[@aciaquaculture]

This was also not planned and we had a crowd at the farm. Deven next time you are down this way, make sure I know you are coming😁

[@ReRe-yl6dq]

he should have turned the flow off to view

[@jungleboys3220]

Couldn't see anything with all thw flow on. And sounds like he lost most of his acros when they lost flow for a couple days... 🤦‍♂️

[@Wyz1981]

T5 and metal halide is against everything we should stand for in the reef keeping hobby. We should be advancing and saving electricity. All other farms use LED with no issue

[@Fishfoo_]

That’s like saying everyone needs to have an electric vehicle… if something works and is proven to be effective, people can and will continue to use them

[@RogueAquariums]

@@Fishfoo_ 💯% agreed..