Coral Tank from Canada (1350gal Display Tank)

[muttley000]

muttley, I know how you feel but do not panic there is a significant update coming. The activities over the next two weeks will be as actioned packed as the tank arrival in the beginning! The ongoing dialog will heat up with some of the items still to be resolved in the fish room. I can say however that the progress in the last couple of days has been very exciting for me on several fronts.............More on this reeeeeely soon. Thanks for your patience.

Peter

Peter, I will say you have not let us down yet!

 

[Antonais1391]

cant wait to see the aquascaping. always enjoyable to do IMO, it also means living things will be in there soon. go for a jawfish,there great to watch. cant wait for the big update :spin2:

 

[cichlid225]

taggin along to this amazing build. and i don't even own a saltwater tank. very inspiring.

 

[Aquarist007]

Who's talking about my teddy bear ... :lmao:

Paul

I see a slight resemblance

 

[grabthereef]

nah bubbles is the man

 

[elijaher]

How things going Peter.

 

[PauChi]

What a bunch of hosers eh? :beer:
Peter ... have you been sleeping in the tank ... again??? :lmao:

Paul

 

[Aquarist007]

What a bunch of hosers eh? :beer:
Peter ... have you been sleeping in the tank ... again??? :lmao:

Paul

We hosers are like aquarists or reef keepers eh
cause like we want to get tanked too ---oh beauty

 

[artur]

Very nice thread Peter, im also taggin along
Cant wait for the aquascaping!!!

 

[nineball]

Very nice thread Peter, im also taggin along
Cant wait for the aquascaping!!!

Thank you artur, welcome to the community. I have just finished a 70% (440 gal) water change for the live rock temp storage tanks. The rock is colourful, and does NOT smell bad. The SW is 1.025 on the button and the temp is 76 F. The fishroom equipment arrives tomorrow.............

Peter

 

[elijaher]

Glad to hear that.

 

[dainiusiva]

it will be interesting weekend

 

[clinton stan]

wow! this is truely an amazing build Peter :thumbsup:
i have just gone through the whole thread,from post 1 and all i can say is that the amount of planning and effort that has gone into this build is phenominal!
well done Peter and good luck with the rest of this build.
cant wait to see it up and running!

 

[nineball]

Update...... Pic intensive.

Update...... Pic intensive.

It has been a while since the last major update and I apologize to all those patient members of this fantastic community for the wait. A number of activities have been going on including the building of the fish room as well as the equipment acquisition greatly impacted I might add by comments and advice coming from a number of the members of this group. And lets not forget keeping the live rock 'live'! So going back, briefly to the beginning, lets check out the fish room or as I now call it .........

Peter

 

[nineball]

In the begining there was nothing...

and then a plan.........

This is a small closet under the stairs that serves as an access port under the tank. I did not want to have access from the fish room as I wanted to isolate noise, humidity, heat from the main display tank.

Peter

 

[nineball]

I remember when I was asked for an update in the middle of this and I honestly didn't know where to begin.......this was the early state of chaos.

some of the plumbing that would not require maintenance would be buried in the walls otherwise all salt water fixtures and transport would be surface mounted. This is also true for electrical.

Any copper pipe, clamps or connectors does NOT carry tank water just in case anyone is paying close attention.

This is where the fan will be mounted to create the negative air pressure for the cabinet over the tank into the fish room.

Peter

 

[nineball]

Its clear that the two tanks for the RO/DI will not fit here so I decided to use an adjacent room for salt water production.

 

[nineball]

I wanted to insulate the walls as much as possible for noise and heat containment.

John from DQI was responsible for assuring me that noise and moisture would stay where it was supposed to.

I have to tell John to measure BEFORE we put up the dry wall.

Peter

 

[nineball]

We agreed that we would do our best to make the fish room an active part of the total aquarium experience........hence the marble. It also is extremely effective as a noise barrier.

This is the equipment sled base with a metal frame. It is unbelievably strong and very very heavy....

 

[digitalchrisg]

We agreed that we would do our best to make the fish room an active part of the total aquarium experience........hence the marble. It also is extremely effective as a noise barrier.

Wow, looks great, and like a lot of fun to design.