Guess everybody here knows my wish for a tank upgrade. I got it!
I used my july school vacations to start upgrading my living room and varanda to fit my new dreamed tank: 250x75x55cm.
First thing to do was to remove varanda´s doors to apply new floor (same as living room):
Raising concrete walls to sustain the 1,5 ton tank:
Hard wooden sticks to acomodate a bed for the tank:
Concerned about the minimum possibility of the concrete walls do not bear out the weigh I ordered extra 8 wooden feet for confortable nights of sleep without asking myself "will it hold out or not?":
New ilumination to my living room was added to the project:
The wooden bed for the tank is made of 15mm naval wood. Also decided to use granite as outside work:
The wall behind the tank recieved an yellow texture:
Now, time for tank mounting. Not all the glasses fit the elevator of my building:
Bigger one got here by stairs:
With the glasses inside my home the mounting started:
Mounting was not the worse thing. Making holes on the glass for sump pipes was the challenge:
My two cats (Pepe and Sheldon) where the first to try the new tank:
The glassman also got inside it before glass reinforcements were applyied:
Glass reinforcements all around, up and down:
To drag away my old 450 liter tank with all fishes inside was not an easy deal. I lower water down to 20% and 4 men was needed to drag it to another wall that I order to be painted in "Yellow Clown Loach" color.
Varanda´s graded window was taken off...
For a new window pane:
225 litrer sump:
almost there...
Louver boards installed, glass doors bellow tank installed and new lighst on:
150 Kg of natural river gravel set up and filtration running:
Detail on tank glass borders:
Logo from tank designer and manufacturer (Gurupy & MundoSub):
Me, proud of my new tank:
Tank lights are not installed yet. They are under construction, but will be made of 6x5 Watts Super Leds. 3 cool white and 3 warm white (yellowish) to be turned on separate to simulate sunrise and sunset.
For now, that´s it. Let´s review tank setup:
12mm glass: 250x75x55cm (lengthxwidthxheigh) = 1.031 liters
Sump: 90x50x50cm = 225 liters
Sump water return pump: Via Aqua 4900 (5000 Liters/hour)
Circulating pumps: Koralia-3 (3200 Liters/hour) and Koralia-4 (5600 Liters/hour)
150 Kg river gravel
Lots of wood and rocks
Plants: 15 giant Anubia
Starting date: 28/08/2011
As soon as tank lights are set up I´ll post again with new photos.
Hope you like it!
