430gal., L-shaped display

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Well, thank you. We lived in this house for ten years before we were pushed into the remodel by the failing furnace, so we had lots of time to talk about what we'd ever change if we ever had the chance to remodel. So, we went to the architect with very definite ideas about what we wanted and needed. That helped a lot. Plus, my lovely bride and I are both designers and are pretty close in our sense of aesthetics (which we _don't_ share with our architect, BTW :) ). I can't even express to you how much that helped, because we never had the arguments with each other about what we wanted. Now, we certainly had them with the architect.... :)

But, thanks. The whole goal was to make this a house that we never want or need to move out of. :)
 
Thanks, Eric! Here are more:

Some new photos:

http://www.ummfish.com/remodel.html

The tank framing is just about done. Nice and stout!

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They installed the vent line for the humidistat controlled vent fan today:

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It heads right outside:

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Thanks, y'all!
 
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Is that what you're talking about? I was wondering if anyone would ask about that. That is the pond base for a fountain we're moving from our back yard. We're (obviously) right next to the house next door and on a fairly noisy street, so we figured between the water noise from the fountain echoing off the wall and the wall itself just blocking some of the noise from the street, we'd actually get it to feel fairly private in there.

I'd like to make it a saltwater pond and give some of the animals a trip outside for the summer but the saltcreep from the fountain would be something awful. On the other hand, the salt would make it less likely to freeze in the winter. Hmmmm. :)

We are planning to have them install flagstone over the concrete so that the end result should match up with the porch really well.
 
Thanks! Yes, Matt's doing a fantastic job. He's actually the second-in-command of the GC's crew. I apologized for making him do all of the funky angles and he told me that he got his start in carpentry making skateboard ramps and that he loves building things with crazy compound angles. He's also the guy who built all the arches throughout. He's fast, too. I've never seen anyone use a jigsaw to do coping saw stuff.

I should have an update with pictures later. The tank builder is in now and I think he's planning to finish up the tank this weekend.
 
:) I wish. It's not that big of a pond (I think it's 80" diameter) and there'll be the base of a fountain in the middle. By my estimate that'd be about 390 gals. Can that be right? Pi * r squared * height = area in cubic units * 7.48 gallons of water per cubic foot?

3.14 * (3.33 feet * 3.33 feet) * 1.5 feet height = 52.281 cubic feet * 7.48 gallons per cubic foot= 391.06 gals.? That's without the fountain displacement, though.
 
I'm always amazed that a bead of silicone can hold those panes of glass together against the water pressure. What exactly do those strips of glass at the bottom of the tank do? Do they provide a greater glue area?. If that's the case I wonder why they're not needed down the sides of the tank.
 
can still dream..
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Oh, I'm good at dreaming. :) For some reason apex predators don't really interest me for my home aquariums, though. I know lots of people are fascinated by and want to keep sharks, but seeing them every once in a while at the public aquarium seems to do me fine. I like the smaller fish and inverts. ***Shrug*** Of course, if someone wants to give me a 20,000 gal. aquarium, things might get different. :)

I'm always amazed that a bead of silicone can hold those panes of glass together against the water pressure. What exactly do those strips of glass at the bottom of the tank do? Do they provide a greater glue area?. If that's the case I wonder why they're not needed down the sides of the tank.
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I don't really know. Seam reinforcement, I'm sure, but I've never seen anyone else use them. Maybe it's trying to stabilize the long pane and keep it from bowing? Yeah, I don't know. Any help?
 
I don't know if you can tell, but the forms they used were just some sort of hard cardboard so they could mold them into a circle. The plywood spacers were there to keep the forms from buckling under the weight of the concrete, especially since they had to remove the inner and outer rings of wooden stake supports before the concrete dried so they could fill in the holes where the wood was.
 
That tank is a gnarly beast! Congrats!
I live in Fort Collins and have a number of friends in Boulder. We might have to make a frag trade once you get that bad boy 100%.
 
Thanks, Tu Ku! Shoot me a PM if you ever come down. I'm probably not going to be able to trade you anything for a while (unless you want some Aiptasia ;) ) because my coral stock is pretty low at the moment, but I'll get there eventually.
 
Hey, do you know if Kip ever get his big tank finished? He stopped posting photos (that I've seen) somewhere in the middle of his build.
 
I hope that you'll bear with me for the off-topic photo, but we started to move back in today!

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After a few more trips:

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This _is_ on-topic. If you ever have any desire to work with invertebrate larvae, I _highly_ recommend picking up this book. You can buy it directly from the Univ. of Washington web site:

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They started framing in the access panel in case for some reason I ever need to mess with the return plumbing behind the short L of the tank.

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