Presentation: The Hard Reboot of a 20,000 Gallon Reef Tank

Bio: Joe Yaiullo is Curator and CoFounder of the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, New York which opened 22 years ago. For eight years (1987–1995) he worked as a Senior Aquarist at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn, where he helped pioneer what are now common practices in the reef keeping world.

His 20,000-gallon reef tank, when first unveiled, was the largest closed-system reef tank in the Western Hemisphere. Joe, an admitted “Coralaholic,” currently feeds his ever-increasing addiction by nurturing a collection of corals, some dating back over 32 years. His work has been featured in reef keeping books and magazines and has presented lectures worldwide. He received the MASNA Award in 2016 for his outstanding accomplishments