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Our Team |
Lautoka Facility
Main Facility |
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Labasa Station
Northern Station |
Live Rock
Our Live Rock Team |
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Our Gang
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From Us to You |
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OUR FIJI STATION |
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Welcome
to Walt Smith International Ltd. in Fiji. We are
very proud to show you our 18,500 sq. ft. facility
with five separate holding systems dedicated to
various aquatic needs and 1-1/2 acres of adjacent land
we are developing as our marine "land based"
aquaculture facility.
Almost all the fish are held in individual cubicles before
shipping with colored dividers between each specimen
to keep them calm while in our care. We have over
2,000 cubes, 14 tanks of 300 gallons and 30 tanks of
40 gallons to meet almost every need.
The system is over 5000 gallons with a pump for each
row, RK2 skimmers, ozone generation and a chiller
with a 50% water change every week and specially
designed metal halide high bay lighting spaced four
feet apart for maximum light coverage.
Maintenance is a daily routine at WSI. Each cube must be
cleaned and siphoned regularly to keep ammonia and
detritus at an absolute minimum. We have crews
dedicated to this job only.
For our corals there are 3 tanks 40 ft. long x 2-1/2ft. wide
with tremendous flow and state of the art LED
lighting (over 140 LED units). In addition to the
three 40 ft. tanks we also have five additional 20
foot tanks and a few various smaller tanks as
well…of course there are the usual skimmers, ozone
and chillers … We spare no expense at WSI to create
as perfect of an environment as possible for the
precious marine life in our care! Each system water
quality is regularly check and supplements are added
to maintain good coral health and growth. The coral
systems also have good sized refugiums using out
Fiji Mud to keep it all stable.
All orders are selected very carefully for each customer’s
requirements and all corals are checked a minimum of
2 times before they are shipped to ensure the best
quality. Each specimen is packed in a minimum of 4
polyethylene bags with two separate layers of paper
for that added protection against leaks. We
overestimate the time of transit of 40 hours and
pack according to that time frame to allow for any
problems along the way.
Our rock system is a unique design by Walt Smith. We are able
to hold a massive amount at any one time all under
the constant spray with the rock placed on racks
spray allowing all the "nasties" to crawl off. This
allows us to hold several weeks’ worth of rock while
it is "curing" under the into the bottom of the tank
where we can either put them back in the sea or sell
the snails, crabs, eels etc.. that wind up in the
tank below the rock.
Because we are able to hold this much rock at one time you
can always be sure that the rock you receive from
WSI will be clean and ready for installation in your
tanks …… please do not settle for inferior rock
collected from the beach the same day it is shipped!
Some companies make claim that all the "sea life" is
better left on the rock but, all you get is a
decaying mess at the other end that WILL foul your
water. We are the ONLY company that holds and cures
our rock, even so you should still take the
necessary precautions to cure it again at you end.
See our curing process on this web site.
When the live rock (Fiji premium)
comes into our facility, it is usually full of
seaweed and mud that needs to be scrubbed and
rinsed. Once the weeds, mud & sponge have been
cleaned from the rock we then put it under our salt
water power sprayer to give it that final cleaning
before placing it in our system. The result of all
this effort is seen here in our popular "Fiji
Premium" rock and Tonga branch.
We have a separate chilled system
to hold anemones and have installed carpet on the
bottom of the for damage free removal for a
shipment.
All of our sea water is pumped into holding tanks from 2
miles out where the water is crystal blue. Our water
storage system is insulated and chilled to maintain
the same temperature as our systems when we do our
regular water changes.
We invite all of the Fiji school
system into our facility for field trips to share
with them the wonders of the sea. Some weeks we have
as many as five schools stop by for a visit that
could last a couple of hours per visit.
The media is also very interested in what we do and very
often it serves as a check to make sure we are
concerned with environmental issues. It seems that
hardly a month goes by when we are not in the press
in one form or another
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