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1. Oceana's artificial corals for an aquarium in a beach house at a distance of one hundred meters from the natural reef of the Red Sea

A Saudi VIP requested Oceana to build an artificial reef for a curved front, 7m aquarium. (See photo of the artistic work. Respect of privacy prevents us using actual photos of the completed project)

The beach house hosting the tank is extremely close to a magnificent and unspoiled Red Sea coral reef, it seems logical to use natural corals for the aquarium decoration: a strange millionaire eccentricity?
Not at all. There are solid reasons behind this request:

• It is very difficult to achieve a spectacular effect by piling rocks and living corals. In most cases the "wall-effect" is unavoidable.
• Even close to the sea, a large aquarium with living corals is a maintenance nightmare and requires extremely complicated lighting and filtration systems.
• The most beautiful and spectacular fishes are coral eaters.
• Artificial corals stay beautiful forever, don't die, don't get sick and don't carry fish diseases.
• When sooner or later a fish disease will manifest in the tank, the fishes will be easily medicated and saved remaining in the tank, without the total dismantling of the tank.

2. Imitation roman artefacts now available from Oceana. (added on the 11 January 2005) Oceana recently installed at the Pretoria Zoo a 100% fibreglass exhibit, depicting the inside of a relict of a Roman wine carrier antique ship, designed to host moray eels.
3. Artwork of a submerged Roman villa: exhibit under construction. (added on the 11 January 2005)