My home 21 feet long concrete aquarium

[reefingBeAmazin22]

Hi all,

I always dreamt about a big aquarium so we designed the aquarium first and create a house round it.
That's how it all started more than one year ago. Last week we poured the concrete.
I wanted to share this with you.

Filtrationroom is located in the basement.
Access to the aquarium by first floor.

21 feet x 13.5 feet.


Cheers Rob

How many gallons is that?

 

[X-37B]

How many gallons is that?

If I had to guess based on dims 15-17k before sump, lol. Incredible is an understatement!

 

[reefingBeAmazin22]

If I had to guess based on dims 15-17k before sump, lol. Incredible is an understatement!

Yeah that pretty awesome

 

[>>klong<<]

Following, but skeptically after that indoor swimming pool conversion thread last month . . .

 

[reefingBeAmazin22]

Following, but skeptically after that indoor swimming pool conversion thread last month . . .

At least this one has pictures lol

 

[ybotlang]

Following this, cant wait to see it as an actual tank

 

[Rob Bob]

Dear lovely people,

Wall thickness 12 inches.
Wall thickness at window side is 14 inches.
It will be a glass window (4 plates of 0.75inch bound together).
Glass weight is more than 4000 pounds.

There will be an epoxy coating on the inside of several layers.
The corners of the aquarium will be made with a round shape, so pipework is not visible.

At the first floor, I have a separate room to have access to the aquarium.
Natural sunlight will come in from the roof.

People can run marathons on treadmills.
I want to create a system sensors can detect behaviour and movement of the fish and adapt waterflow in certain directions.
When you look at migration routes of (big) fish they do not swim constantly big distances.
From time to time they stay for a period at a certain place.
Days/weeks later they migrate. Depending on climate/water temperature/food/mature...
I want to mimic this in my aquarium.

I choose to have one big window. Other people can have different ideas and that's fine.
Our house has more to offer then the aquarium.

Way I choose to have 1 big window:
- We have clients from time to time, they don't have to see the aquarium
- I wanted to have the waterlevel to be around 4 feet higher the eyelevel. When the fishes are swimming on top, you can look at them from beneath and that gives the feeling you are scubadiving underwater. At many places you have a horizontal look at the aquarium. The vertical look was very important for me.
- When you are diving sunlight always come from above.
If I wanted to have more windowns, I should have light entering the aquarium from the side which will give a very unnatural feeling. Admittedly, it's nice to have more windows, but ruines the natural feeling of the aquarium in my opinion.

For Live Support System (LSS) my opinion is a wih a proper system you don't need much waterchanges.
When you have to do big waterchanges to keep parameters OK, then you LSS is not sufficient enough. Big big big biological filtration system combined with proteinskimmers.
Ofcoarse, nutrients needs to be refilled.

Cheers Rob

 

[paul01609]

Please adopt me

 

[EagleEye121]

 

[McPuff]

Whoa! Any idea on completion date for the house?

 

[Rob Bob]

Whoa! Any idea on completion date for the house?

Do put a date in advance can be very frustrating, so we don't do that.
It took more than 2 years for designing the house and the building license.
Now we are already 1 year further doing all ourself. I haven't seen the architect since we got the license.

 

[Kfactor]

That’s unreal !! Definitely hallowing this

 

[TriggerFinger]

Do put a date in advance can be very frustrating, so we don't do that.
It took more than 2 years for designing the house and the building license.
Now we are already 1 year further doing all ourself. I haven't seen the architect since we got the license.

Very impressive!! With all the planning and time spent so far, you and your family must be very excited to be starting the build. Please keep us updated as you progress!
Do you have any tanks currently?

 

[Rob Bob]

No other tanks at the moment.
It's this or nothing

 

[New Jersey REEF]

What’s the time frame for this project?

 

[JoshH]

How many gallons is that?

If I had to guess based on dims 15-17k before sump, lol. Incredible is an understatement!

Assuming a....

9 Ft water depth, 19500 US Gallons....
10 ft water depth, 21600 US Gallons.

 

[reefingBeAmazin22]

Assuming a....

9 Ft water depth, 19500 US Gallons....
10 ft water depth, 21600 US Gallons.

Some people are blessed lol

 

[LRT]

Love it! Go big or go home. All or nothing.
Definetely along for the ride.

 

[JoshH]

Some people are blessed lol

Very much so, on the flip side, Imagine dealing with a disease outbreak or algae issue?

 

[metzer]

Following along.