Reef-Léman - Aquarium Récifal en Suisse

Bonjour à tous,

S'il vous plaît excuser ma mauvaise écriture et que je vais passer à l'anglais comme langue française est si pauvre et que Googe traduire rend toujours amusant de moi .... Mais je pensé qu'il pourrait être intéressant pour vous les gars de voir mon projet qui est maintenant sur la façon de devenir un aquarium récifal.


Some of you may remember my previous aquarium, if not it is here

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This aquarium is now gone and sold to another crazy reef keeper in VD so it may pop up at some point.....

I took the decision this time to go for a full custom aquarium and so the new one is as follows:

Display tank: 160 x 160 x 110cm
2 main sumps
Automatic 200ltrs water change

This gives me close 4000ltrs of reef to play with

Main equipment as follows:

Lighting: AI Hydra 52 x 12
Main pump: Abyzz A400
Flow: Ecotech MP60QD x 4
Skimmer: Deltec TC3070s with self cleaning head, automatic drain and washing
Control: Full Apex system with dedicated router and LAN


The project has been in planning for around 2 years and we actually started the building work in December last year. The aquarium was finished in May and we started with water in early July but it's been a long hard journey with 90% of the work done by ourselves at home.

I will post up some pictures of the project journey but here to start is a strange animal that first occupied the aquarium for a few minutes as the water was 15º

Magnifique!

Superbe Projet me réjouis de voir la suite

José

wow... deja l'ancien etait superbe...vivement le nouveau

What's the latine name of the strange animal?
Can't find it on the web..
Nice project..

Thanks for the comments, and yes that creature is unusual..... it's a Zebrasoma Kitty

First was to start with the basic plan:

More here:



And from the back here:



As you can see in order to Install the aquarium we had to make major modifications to the house. Removing 2 walls and then supporting the upper floor with new steel beams.

So the work started with me cutting out the raised concrete floor that used to be a place to feed cows on as the house is an old farm. Nice job but cutting out reinforced concrete is tough work:





Then it was time to measure out the aquarium and see how much wall had to be cut out.....

Due to the weight of the aquarium the base needed to be well made and substantial. The floor was dug out to around 40cm depth



And then the pillars were made to the following specification





The weight of the water and glass is around 3250kgs plus the concrete pillars and equipment etc and we are close to 4000kgs.

Hello Nigel

Verry good job!!

amazing project.

Gros projet me réjouis de voir l'évolution.

Awesome

Time for some light !



And some plumbing parts



And I started to collect some plate rocks for the aquascape



And back to work to get that wall down !!!













And once the wall was out then the foundations could be dug out more to a final depth



And then it was time to start to build the reinforcement for the steel pillars

The base concrete was made and we had to add the new steel beam to keep the house in one piece removing so much of your house to get an aquarium in isn't such an easy task.....



Then I got a friend to build the steel frames for the aquarium as it will be braceless, yep 110cm without glass cross support...