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Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : samedi 07 novembre 2015 à 23:08
par branson
Sacré boulot !!
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : dimanche 08 novembre 2015 à 14:54
par dragonmaster75
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : dimanche 08 novembre 2015 à 17:40
par bastoon
after seeing with my own eyes ... . it is a very impressive ...
I look forward to seeing it full of corals
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : dimanche 08 novembre 2015 à 20:22
par Ridgeway
Thanks Bastoon and nice you could visit this morning, good luck with your snow dogs you have quite a team there.
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : lundi 09 novembre 2015 à 1:02
par bozo
Nice job ! Also have to remove a kind of wall... I can hire you
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : mardi 10 novembre 2015 à 21:30
par Ridgeway
To give an Idea of the aquascape that is planned it should be something like this:
https://youtu.be/lpbZigy6kno
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 21:09
par Samy
Hello,
Just discovered this post now and the pics of all the building process in the house, my god
what a job !
Congratulations !
It's a big big challenge to do a tank this size
Cheers,
Sam.
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 22:53
par Ridgeway
Thanks Sam,
Yes and there's still plenty of work to do.....
Actually the work load has decreased since the main construction has finished so now it's more about setting up the systems and the usual reef aquarium tasks.
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 23:02
par Ridgeway
Next was to start on the tiling so I needed some volunteers...
And then of course time for a new sink
Next was to find a supplier for the steel support and get them in the car.....
Then paint them with a plastic based paint that is resistant to salt water
And then hope that they fit.....
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 23:07
par Ridgeway
It was time to design the sumps, from memory they are both 150cm long x 45cm wide and the upper sump is 50cm high and the lower sump is 65cm high.
Upper sump:
Lower sump:
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : vendredi 13 novembre 2015 à 23:52
par Samy
Did you ever try to count the hours of work on all the project and the realization!?
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 20:34
par Ridgeway
I never kept any record of the hours but could easily be close to 1000hrs so far with planning and realisation as I was averaging around 20hrs p/week on the work although this has now reduced to around 10hrs p/week and sometimes less since the system is now running.
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 22:25
par Ridgeway
Whilst the concrete for the pillars was drying it was time to start on the electrical side of the Installation:
Here's the power supplies for the 12 x Hydra 52's
I also decided to Install a dedicated 16amp supply for the aquarium and each of the 15 outlets have it's own RCBO power breaker i.e. each piece of equipment is on it's own circuit so in case it has a problem it doesn't effect anything else:
The sumps and RO system were next in:
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : samedi 14 novembre 2015 à 22:34
par Ridgeway
And at some point you need glass for an aquarium right ?
The glass is 25mm laminated Optiwhite for the 4 main panels and each panel weighs around 125kgs. The base is double 15mm so the totals weight of the glass is around 500kgs.
After around 30 cartridges of silicone we have an aquarium.....
And once it was up and I then needed to wait some days for the silicone to cure and also fit the internal brace bars and steel frame, so I Installed the lighting frame.
The lighting frame is custom made from stainless steel and it allows me to slide each set of 4 lights around quite easily.
Re: Swiss Cube: Project SWUBE
Posté : dimanche 15 novembre 2015 à 12:43
par naso1260
Good good good