5400Lt (1450 Gallon) system move

[dirk_brijs]

we got the call from one of our clients who would like to move his privately owned 5400Lt aquarium to his business sales office.
so we went to him to discuss a time line etc....his reply was what time line Can we do this this week.....lol
Anyway we discussed some more what was possible and what a more realistic time line would be and he agreed as long as the aquarium would be out of his house by the end of the week....lol....
anyway so we started work (now about 2 months ago.....


so here is the tank at its full glory....tank was at clients home for almost 5 years...

 

[dirk_brijs]

So I guess we had to start as fast as we could time is ticking.......



good we had a lot of help from his kids.....


emptying and stripping away wood works....

 

[dirk_brijs]

Time to get everything and everyone out.....

all life rock removed and will be given Muratic acid baths made ready to make the move...


all fish being relocated to other clients....

hard lesson learned....was not a good idea to store those urchins n with those fish in the small boxes....lost some fish there.....

 

[dirk_brijs]

Those damn wrasses are hard to find in all that sand......

 

[dirk_brijs]

let the silicone cutting begin......

 

[dirk_brijs]

first panel out...



and 2.....

 

[dirk_brijs]

making good progress....
after day 2....

 

[dirk_brijs]

new day....
all glass out ready for truck to upload and bring to workshop for full cleaning and get out all scratches and all.....





as a reminder tank was build with 30mm tempered laminated glass

 

[dirk_brijs]

after all cleaning...retouching walls etc..... 4 days later......

 

[dirk_brijs]

inspecting new area for re-install.....
inside sales office...ceiling much lower so new lower stand (40cm high) will be made....
aquarium will have to become more of a look down view aquarium....




inlet and outflow will have to go through the front wall around the corner into a small corridor (full of aircons.....2 of us ours for our chillers lol) All filtration will be placed outside away from the main display.....

 

[bigbpro916]

Why kill the live rock?

 

[dirk_brijs]

Why kill the live rock?

will be too long storage and not any space to put them in any kind of healthy water...

 

[dirk_brijs]

Tank cleaned up and buffed out complete free from old scratches and blemishes...
Stand been made

 

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area being prepared and made ready for....




Tank arrived at the site

 

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and put in place...

 

[dirk_brijs]

now put ourselves in some secret enclosure until reveal....Office staying open while we working...

 

[dirk_brijs]

in the mean time filtration was set up outside of the building....(pictures taken after water was added and cycling going on)

3 separate 650gl skimmers been used (Reef Octopus Rega 300 int)

custom build chiller

RO/DI unit connected to an auto top of system

 

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plastwood casing build around and final preparations before opening up

 

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wood wall removed final cleaning and final pictures of build

 

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some clip we made after first batch of fish was added

https://youtu.be/SeWq-jQQDak