With almost 60,000 animals, Nausicaá is the largest aquarium in Europe. Brut took a closer look.
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00:00Hello, welcome to Nusca, you are here in the tunnel under the surface of the largest
00:07basin in Europe.
00:08So here we go into the history of the island, we have a very paradisiacal image of the islands,
00:27it is what we show here in Nusicaa with multicolored fish and a very important variety, but it
00:35also allows people to dream and to show that all this is fragile and that we must
00:39have an impact on this ecosystem and on all this biodiversity in a very concrete way.
00:44Showing precisely all this beauty allows us to sensitize our visitors as much as possible
00:49to all that can happen both on small islands but also on continents on a larger scale.
00:56It was also important to talk about coral reefs and the tropical zone, since coral reefs
01:04are really one of the richest places on the planet, at the same level as tropical forests,
01:09and suddenly the fact that coral reefs concentrate more than a third of marine life in total,
01:16it is also a very important issue to preserve.
01:18So here for example, it is all the breeding, the multiplication of coral that we do here
01:26in Nusicaa.
01:27Coral is very special, it is one of the most threatened species, since 40% of coral reefs
01:32are currently threatened on the planet, and so it is important to multiply, to really
01:38populate the different tropical aquariums in Europe or even in the world with corals
01:43at the time of breeding within the aquariums.
01:52So now we are going to arrive behind the scenes of the largest basin in Europe.
01:55Currently, it is a basin that is 10 million liters, 10,000 cubic meters, and it is almost
02:0160 meters long, 30 meters wide, 8 meters deep.
02:05And we have represented here the particular ecosystem of a small island lost in the middle
02:11of the Pacific Ocean, which is the island of Malpelo, and which has been classified as
02:15a natural reserve, classified as a biosphere reserve, etc., and which allows to show that
02:20the marine reserve aspect and the conservation aspect on very particular areas allows to rehabilitate
02:25a whole particular fauna for the benefits of the ocean as a whole.
02:33Here, the work is daily.
02:35There is a team of healers, really daily, who take care of the basin, and who also
02:40clean it every day, since it is a huge basin, we have to intervene every day in the water.
02:45So it's an intervention to do an inspection, to do a cleaning maintenance at the glass level.
02:51And it also allows to show our visitors that the sharks are not at all aggressive,
02:56since there are sharks in this basin.
02:58So it allows to demystify this image of the shark.
03:01It also allows to show that the job of a healer is a very versatile job, since
03:06you have to respect, of course, all the parameters that are really optimal for the fish that are there,
03:11and all the animals that are there.
03:13So as well on the temperature, on the salinity, on the acidity of the water, on the bacterial aspect, etc.
03:19All these parameters are important for the healer, so you have to follow this all the time.
03:24And of course, afterwards, there is the feeding aspect.
03:26So there too, you have to adapt according to each diet of each species.
03:30So some animals really have to be fed several times a day, like for example the remanta.
03:35And so they were used to receiving their food through a very particular learning system,
03:42which really allows them to feed them individually and in really optimal quantities for them.
03:54We are here in the heart of the system, for example, which allows to really treat the basin of 10 million liters of seawater.
04:02So here we have filtration systems to remove most of the particles.
04:08So it's important because it really allows to have a better quality of water to maintain all these animals present in the basin.
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