Salahunreal
Active Member
Hi,
I guess its time for me to start writing and document ion the whole journey. I should have done it long time ago but but but here I am now.
It has been more than three years since I bought my first and the only (so far) saltwater aquarium and I was really excited and totally into it. Long story cut short, I put the project on hold since then because we got a little angel (a 2nd one) and from experiences I know time flies fast with them so prioritizing the kids first and putting a side everything else.
Now looks like I am having just a little free time where the youngest one is filling three years soon so I can continue what I was planning for.
When I bought the aquarium from Akvastabil in 2017 I was in a race to try getting the tank up and running before the birth due but I was reading and learning too many creative ideas and DIY and was adding more to the to do list so I lost the race at the end but I do not regret losing it. I enjoyed every moment and same time kept reading and learning meanwhile.
I bought a complete system from a danish manufacture called Akvastabil and this is how it looks like with 360 liters
It had everything with it, leds, pvc plumbing and sump but the more I learnt along the way the more changes I made on the design. I just used the tank itself and the cabinet but everythign else was replaced and modified
Few stuff that I thought to do for the aquarium involved some home renovation like
1- First I wanted to have a nice background for the whole aquarium, so decided to buy stone bricks and cover the whole wall behind the tank.
It was not a professional work and I could do few things better but that was my first time to make a stone wall
Here I put the cabinet and printed something in case if I would go with bare bottom (but as other 1000 things I planned and then changed and changed and changed, so I am going with sand now)
My wife liked the stone wall, and said we should do the other wall on the left inside the living room as well so it will look symmetrical and here we thought also like two spotlights over the
aquarium's stone wall will look nice. Well, we needed up having spotlights all over the living room and not just one wall as we planned
And since I wanted to run Apex with ethernet cable and avoid Wi-Fi, I added Ethernet cable to go from the back side. (Actually I added like 4 cables to go around the whole living room and have Ethernet outlets for my work desk, for TV, for aquarium and 4th for future expansion
)
And here we added a colorful led strip on the edge. That one I kinda regretted later. I think it would look nice if that spotlight bridge was closed
So that was the renovation work we did just to have the aquarium
Going quickly over few stuff that I did in the past
Water leak test
Aquascaping but as everything else, this was changed dozen of time
The tape is just to simulate the view with the rule of thirds like in camera to see how can I focus on the points of interest and align it with the aquascaping
I will continue the story in a later post
I guess its time for me to start writing and document ion the whole journey. I should have done it long time ago but but but here I am now.
It has been more than three years since I bought my first and the only (so far) saltwater aquarium and I was really excited and totally into it. Long story cut short, I put the project on hold since then because we got a little angel (a 2nd one) and from experiences I know time flies fast with them so prioritizing the kids first and putting a side everything else.
Now looks like I am having just a little free time where the youngest one is filling three years soon so I can continue what I was planning for.
When I bought the aquarium from Akvastabil in 2017 I was in a race to try getting the tank up and running before the birth due but I was reading and learning too many creative ideas and DIY and was adding more to the to do list so I lost the race at the end but I do not regret losing it. I enjoyed every moment and same time kept reading and learning meanwhile.
I bought a complete system from a danish manufacture called Akvastabil and this is how it looks like with 360 liters
It had everything with it, leds, pvc plumbing and sump but the more I learnt along the way the more changes I made on the design. I just used the tank itself and the cabinet but everythign else was replaced and modified
Few stuff that I thought to do for the aquarium involved some home renovation like
1- First I wanted to have a nice background for the whole aquarium, so decided to buy stone bricks and cover the whole wall behind the tank.
It was not a professional work and I could do few things better but that was my first time to make a stone wall
Here I put the cabinet and printed something in case if I would go with bare bottom (but as other 1000 things I planned and then changed and changed and changed, so I am going with sand now)
My wife liked the stone wall, and said we should do the other wall on the left inside the living room as well so it will look symmetrical and here we thought also like two spotlights over the
aquarium's stone wall will look nice. Well, we needed up having spotlights all over the living room and not just one wall as we planned
And since I wanted to run Apex with ethernet cable and avoid Wi-Fi, I added Ethernet cable to go from the back side. (Actually I added like 4 cables to go around the whole living room and have Ethernet outlets for my work desk, for TV, for aquarium and 4th for future expansion
)And here we added a colorful led strip on the edge. That one I kinda regretted later. I think it would look nice if that spotlight bridge was closed
So that was the renovation work we did just to have the aquarium
Going quickly over few stuff that I did in the past
Water leak test
Aquascaping but as everything else, this was changed dozen of time
The tape is just to simulate the view with the rule of thirds like in camera to see how can I focus on the points of interest and align it with the aquascaping
I will continue the story in a later post
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