New Filtration System For an LFS - The Animal Jungle's 2,600 Gallon Shark Tank

The 2,600g shark tank at Animal Jungle in Kinston, NC is a popular local attraction and is the pride and joy of the owners, Mike Ingalls and Perry Jones. The tank contains a small (20" at the time of this writing) Black Tip Reef Shark and a number of other small fish including Damsels and Squirrel Fish. There is a 5' diameter pile of rocks in the center of the tank which provides some cover for the small fish (midnight munchies for the Black Tip). The original filtration system consisted of a 2' X 2' bio-ball tower which was supplied with tank water from a 4,000 gph pond pump. The original mechanical filtration consisted of a few filtration pads in a tray over the bio-balls.