CCP's 2000 gallon Deltec reef tank

[Arnar]

Now that the tank has finally entered production at Deltec in Germany I wanted to start a thread to show/document the progress of the project.

The tank will be 15foot x 5.5 foot x 35.4 inches. | 500cm x 170cm x 0.90cm and will be viewable from all sides.

There will be a remote fish room for all equipment and sumps.

Here is a list of some of the basic equipment:

Skimmer -> Deltec AP 1006
Calcium Reactor -> Deltec PF 1001
Kalkwasser stirrer -> Deltec KM 500S
Flow -> 4x Turbelle streams 6100, 2x ~3000gph closed loops, 6500gph return.
Lighting -> 8x400W Mh with Lumenarcs reflectors, 10x 80W T5<br>
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Thats it for now. I will be updating frequently
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[erics3000]

THis sounds like a good one to keep an eye on.. Thanks for sharing..

 

[hatfielj]

Holy Crap.

 

[purebullet417]

:eek2:
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[McCrary]

Wow, thats a pretty nice equipment list. I can't wait to see the finished product.

 

[Zoos]

Have you figured out how much it will cost to fund this project?

 

[reefkoi]

CCP? :hmm4: are they still around?
Anyway this sounds very interesting

 

[Arnar]

Zoos> I have a pretty decent idea on how much it will cost

reefkoi> CCP is a company that creates mmorpg's www.ccpgames.com & eve-online.com

I'm going to take some pictures of the current status of the area the aquarium is going to be sitting at later to day and post them here.

 

[adddo]

I want to work at your company!

 

[invincible569]

Can you show us pics of where it will go now? cant wait to see your progress.

 

[clekchau]

woah

 

[adddo]

Damn nice to combine my two greatest hobbies, Marine tanks and mmo games.. I envy you!

 

[1SickReefer]

:bigeyes: cant wait to see this one!

 

[GSMguy]

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[Arnar]

I just snapped a couple of photos of the place where the aquarium will be sitting. They are currently building the recreational room which will house the aquarium. I'm hoping it will be finished around the same time as the aquarium arrives from Germany which is about 4 weeks from now.

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Also... last week I ordered the lighting equipment from CoralVue and I heard it needed a pallet for shipping so its going to be a lot of boxes

I'm currently trying to buy a controller. I was thinking about buying the BioTopus II from Elos. I'm not sure about that anymore since they are trying to force me to order it from Norway and that adds more than 500$ to the total amount rather than getting it directly from Italy. Any suggestions on other controllers ? Need to be able to get all the common measurements and have them logged so I can display them live on the website which I will build around this project.

 

[yenom]

When will deltec deliver that beast?

 

[bpd964]

subscribed!

 

[Paulairduck]

Crown Jewel

Crown Jewel

Just when things could not get any bigger, here comes the crown jewel of them all !!!

:smokin: :smokin: :smokin:

 

[Arnar]

yenom: I hope that they will deliver on time which should be in about 4 weeks. Then we need to ship the tank over here and that will probably take around 2 weeks.

I'm using the waiting time to order other equipment and plan the fishroom. I'm building a 500 liter grow out/ refugium tank next week.

The stand is being built out of steel and hopefully that should be ready in few weeks time. I will take pictures of that build and post them here

 

[bcordill]

AP 1006: Can't wait to see that in operation.