setup of 300 display tanks
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Kentanner11
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Yea 20 tanks doesnt sound bad! You will just have 15 sumps~! hmm. do you have a local fish store by you? If so go look there ( I Have a petsmart and sneek peeks behind their tanks,! )
Kentanner11: thanks for your reply...
all local pet stores (in KUWAIT) are 19 X 13 ft square with basic setups (a sump, bio media and 10 tanks ) sharing soft corals, hard corals, and fish...
i am working on 5000 ft2 store only aquariums. 70% going to be marine fish.
i have a normal pluming setup and mobile trolley CO2 Reactor (my DIY project) and the tanks divided in 2 parts with a black partition so, half of it will be clear to customers and the other half is a storage, this a very good way to avoid the weekly shipments, and have it monthly...
all local pet stores (in KUWAIT) are 19 X 13 ft square with basic setups (a sump, bio media and 10 tanks ) sharing soft corals, hard corals, and fish...i am working on 5000 ft2 store only aquariums. 70% going to be marine fish.
i have a normal pluming setup and mobile trolley CO2 Reactor (my DIY project) and the tanks divided in 2 parts with a black partition so, half of it will be clear to customers and the other half is a storage, this a very good way to avoid the weekly shipments, and have it monthly...
SWSaltwater
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is this for an aquarium store?
SWSaltwater
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OK so I guess the next question is what will you be holding in the aquariums? 30G will limit you to smaller fish. Is it in kuwait? I understand they have some fairly big tanks there so you might need a few larger tanks for show size fish. 5000 Sqft is plenty to work with. What I would recommend is 5 gallon cubes on up to 80 gallon tanks to vary the size of fish you can have. A few 6"x6" cubes are great to house jumpers (get good lids). Get me a little more details and I can send you a few ideas.
SWSaltwater: my stock will be 100 types of fish, corals, inverts. the tanks i think most of them will be small, but 10 to 15% will be large enough to hold upto 5" fish and corals so, it will be divided to hold most of the stock, SWSaltwater: nothing is planed yet so, your free to help me with any structure and we can make alot of ideas based on that. any start will be helpful.
SWSaltwater
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For small fish I wold isolate them in a cubicle system. This keeps em from fighting and the jumpers from jumping (until you open up to catch em). The problem with multiple fish in a tank is something I learned that the hard way. I am going to isolate the small ones in a remodel coming up soon. I think about 15 4x4 cubes, 15 6x6, and 15 8x8 cubes are a good way to go(that about 45 small fish to isolate but some can have multiples such as clown gobies). If no one out there does acrylic systems like this, you might consider 2.5 gallon glass tanks. Then for the medium fish 20 Gallon tanks would be good, and then 60 gallon tanks for the larger community fish. For corals just do an overview system like a zero edge aquarium or something, really shows off the corals well. Now for plumbing you will want 2 salt systems, one for coral and one for fish (so fish can be medicated). For fish system, the skimmer I would recommend is RK2 with a large sump, a UV sterilizer with 0 bypass, a sand filter, deep sand bed filter(in sump), and lots of live rock. For corals, simply a large sump, lots of live rock, ozone, and decent skimmer like a large octopus, deltec, euro reef, etc. Budget is the main issue though.....
I guess first things that come to mind for me are what kind of budget are you looking at for setup equipment? That will tell you a lot on what you can do for your setup. You have a ton of options but they all depend on money.
I would look at some maybe some larger automated system where you would divide the tanks into groups of 45 or so. These systems will house the chiller, UV, Ozone, Filter media, Protein Skimmer and battery backup for each unit. Also they will house all pumps with automatich switch over pump incase of failure. But each of these units are about 6'x'6'x8' so you will need a lot of room. There are a couple of manufactures that make systems like this, and I think this make you daily life of maintence and worries alot better. HTH
I would look at some maybe some larger automated system where you would divide the tanks into groups of 45 or so. These systems will house the chiller, UV, Ozone, Filter media, Protein Skimmer and battery backup for each unit. Also they will house all pumps with automatich switch over pump incase of failure. But each of these units are about 6'x'6'x8' so you will need a lot of room. There are a couple of manufactures that make systems like this, and I think this make you daily life of maintence and worries alot better. HTH
SWSaltwater
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Some are really bad systems, casco group makes a decent one but they are pretty pricey.
RocketEngineer
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Wow WHAT A NEAT PROBLEM!
Personally I would try to set up banks of say 10-20 tanks that have a common sump. This way if one of the sets has a failure, it only effects those tanks and not the whole store's worth.
So using a 15 tank bank of 30g tanks as an example, I would set them up in 5 columns, 3 tanks high. The top most tanks would receive the water from the sump. These top tanks would then dump directly into the tank below via an overflow, and then the middle tanks would dump into the bottom tanks via a second overflow. The bottom tanks would then dump into the sump. This would help to stabilize the parameters across all the tanks.
I have seen on a thread here a three tier acclimation setup that uses shallow but wide and long tanks set up in much the same way so I can't claim any credit on the idea.
Good luck on this project and don't forget to post some pics along the way.
Personally I would try to set up banks of say 10-20 tanks that have a common sump. This way if one of the sets has a failure, it only effects those tanks and not the whole store's worth.
So using a 15 tank bank of 30g tanks as an example, I would set them up in 5 columns, 3 tanks high. The top most tanks would receive the water from the sump. These top tanks would then dump directly into the tank below via an overflow, and then the middle tanks would dump into the bottom tanks via a second overflow. The bottom tanks would then dump into the sump. This would help to stabilize the parameters across all the tanks.
I have seen on a thread here a three tier acclimation setup that uses shallow but wide and long tanks set up in much the same way so I can't claim any credit on the idea.
Good luck on this project and don't forget to post some pics along the way.
SWSaltwater
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I have seen that setup tried, the problem is how fast parasites travel when one tank drains to another. Have the tanks on a common sump and return water to all tanks threw a UV to keep parasites from spreading. As long as you dont use a common net if one tank gets anything it can be isolated and properly medicated without affecting the other tanks.
thanks guys for all the replies, the budget is open, the concept of few tanks dropping water from top till the sump is a good idea, edgeless tanks for corals also is a good point, the issue is the medication, or system failure so, i would chose the hard job and have more control on the tanks than an automated system thats hard to trace.
any pics out there about store tanks and pluming will be great !
thanks again.
any pics out there about store tanks and pluming will be great !
thanks again.
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