My home 21 feet long concrete aquarium

[LRT]

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

I'm sorry of I missed something here.
Are you going concrete on 3 walls or will you be lining concrete with something for leeching purposes?

 

[Jon Fishman]

Love it! Go big or go home.

Apparently “Home” IS big!

 

[LRT]

Apparently “Home” IS big!

And concrete has been at all time high for a long time lol. Cant wait to see hows this plays out.

 

[InfamousRozay]

I def have to follow this. I am going to grab my popcorn, and drool at the mouth

 

[Bigdaddy05]

So amazing if only I could have some thing 1/4 this size!!! will their be live coral and plants?

 

[mard]

This is an amazing build.
I may have to update my "dream" tank ideas (or just live vicariously through this thread).

 

[Daniel@R2R]

This is awesome! Following!

 

[Ippyroy]

Following along.

 

[New&no clue]

Wow, this is so exciting. I'm currently planning at 200 in wall tank... but this totally trumps mine. I've seen a couple other giant builds, but this will be fun to go along with you for the ride.

 

[Silent]

I can admit, I am not ready for something like this.

It will be amazing and a dream for sure.

 

[Gernader]

Wow, this is amazing! I can’t imagine the amount of work involved in this project. I also can’t wait to see what livestock you will add!

 

[Rob Bob]

Thank you for the kind words.
I'm trilled to make it happen.
Difficult hurdle was taken by convincing my wife.

But I keep modest. The landplot was given to me from my parents.
And the rebar and concrete isn't the biggest cost. So far, OK.
If the aquarium was made half the size, price of concrete construction was nearly the same.
So you could say, then make it even a little bit bigger.
Sometimes bigger is better, but I'm happy as it is.

I have many ideas with the aquarium. But I'm not going to write it down allready.
Ideas vs reality is sometimes different. But I'm going to make it happen.

Bye

 

[Rob Bob]

Wow, this is amazing! I can’t imagine the amount of work involved in this project. I also can’t wait to see what livestock you will add!

More than 14500 concrete building blocks in the basement.

I have my ideas in my head for the livestock, but I keep that for later.

 

[maceto]

Amazing! Following along! Best of luck going forward!

 

[JumboShrimp]

Finally a tank that can handle a full-size Unicorn Tang!! Lol.

 

[jwshiver]

Finally a tank that can handle a full-size Unicorn Tang!! Lol.

And a Manatee

 

[jugsmctugs]

There will be an epoxy coating on the inside of several layers.

This is one of the coolest things I've seen, so thanks for letting us live vicariously through you. Curious what your plan is for the color of the interior concrete. If using a colored epoxy, which color? If using a clear epoxy, will you be painting the concrete or leaving it as is?

Also, please warn us before you start buying livestock so I can be sure to replenish my clean up crew before the impending global shortage that you will cause.

 

[sixline]

You can probably breed clown gobies in there.

 

[revhtree]

WOW can't wait to see this as it takes even more shape! Thanks for sharing!

 

[tricky_tran]

wow.. the old adage "Go Big or Go home" comes to mind, but you went BIG in your home. I can't wait to see it up and running, but i think i am more excited to see the filtration room and how everything is set up.. Gear head in me .. lol