Swedish fish - behind the scenes rebuilding a public aquarium

[Sallstrom]

Being that the tank is bare bottom, do you have a plan for blocking light from coming in through the bottom? Maybe a simple plan to paint it black?

There is a whole wooden board directly underneath the tank, so that's taken care of

Edit. But there're a lot of duct tape and black trashbags along the backside for lights from the refugium not coming up on the backside

 

[Sallstrom]

More corals moved to the experiment tank today. Three of them LPS. Will be fun to see if we can get them to spawn approximately when we predict.
Might have found two brain coral colonies of the same species, or genus. Or family... I’m pretty sure they are the same phylum are least Anyway, if they spawn and are closely related, we might get fertilisation.

And a picture from outside the building where the digging process is ongoing!
Edit. For new readers, this is were the new Aquarium will be built. Next to the old museum building, but still connected by indoor stairs.

 

[Sallstrom]

Now I’ve discovered that we are actually pretty good at keeping corals alive for many years and multiple them by fragging. Many of our corals today comes from just one frag. Not great when trying to setup a sexual reproduction experiment But still a good thing
Waiting for answers from colleagues around Scandinavia, hoping someone has a partner colony or two for our corals. I mean, who says no when asked if they are willing to lend a +15 cm Acropora colony for a year.. I won’t even ask the hobbyists.. But I might steal a Herpolitha limax from @Lasse

 

[Fudsey]

But I might steal a Herpolitha limax from @Lasse

Do it now while he's on holiday

 

[Lasse]

Do it now while he's on holiday

Scsssssss - he has my key.

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Sallstrom]

Always make sure there’s a good place for a coffee cup when setting up a new tank.

 

[Sallstrom]

This is what the museum looks like inside at the moment, in some areas.
This was our old Aquarium office(to the left).

And here we had a workshop, a room for the old ventilation etc, and storage. Now it’ll be our new entrance hall, plus a restaurant.

 

[Sallstrom]

And there’s already water in The New Aquarium. Might need to filtrate it though ;Woot

 

[Silver Dollar]

It's a lot of rock there. Is it possible to blast or will they use a different method to remove it? I guess that the nearby buildings are sensitive for vibrations.

 

[Sallstrom]

It's a lot of rock there. Is it possible to blast or will they use a different method to remove it? I guess that the nearby buildings are sensitive for vibrations.

What I've heard they will use some kind of saw. Probably something more fancy than my "coral saw"

Those rocks were the reason why we had to get more budget for the rebuild last year. That extra time it took for waiting for that budget decision from the city, is the reason why we will(hopefully) open 2022 instead of 2021. 2021 was the plan from the biginning, the year Gothenburg will turn 400 years. But for us it's fine with 2022. We will celebrate more 2023 anyway. In 2023 the Aquarium will turn 100 years!

 

[Sallstrom]

Still searching for “partners” to our corals. Put in a couple more species yesterday. Some of these, like Stylophora and Pocillopora, have different ways to reproduce than Acropora and Favia. So it’ll be interesting to see how they react on seasons. For Duncanopsammia axifuga I haven’t found any observations so far, so if we could document a spawning there it’ll be cool.
Haven’t figured out a way to control all species and how to know if the spawn yet. Need some kind of cameras I think.

 

[Sallstrom]

A short update from the Aquarium. We, the staff, are doing fine. So is the animals.
We updated our “emergency plan” from earlier a weeks ago, mostly to make sure we got enough chemicals, food, CO2 etc for running the tanks for 2-3 month at least.

We also decided to not be more than two staff members at the Aquarium at the same time, to try to avoid getting sick at the same time. We’re only five people who can run the Aquarium at the moment, so we need to plan a bit.
Luckily there’re plenty of thing to do on the computer as well, so working a couple of days from home is fine

Hope everyone is doing well out there!

 

[Brew12]

A short update from the Aquarium. We, the staff, are doing fine. So is the animals.
We updated our “emergency plan” from earlier a weeks ago, mostly to make sure we got enough chemicals, food, CO2 etc for running the tanks for 2-3 month at least.

We also decided to not be more than two staff members at the Aquarium at the same time, to try to avoid getting sick at the same time. We’re only five people who can run the Aquarium at the moment, so we need to plan a bit.
Luckily there’re plenty of thing to do on the computer as well, so working a couple of days from home is fine

Hope everyone is doing well out there!

It is a crazy time we are living in! Hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly for you!

 

[Sallstrom]

It is a crazy time we are living in! Hopefully everything will continue to go smoothly for you!

It really is!
I haven’t heard anything from the building/digging companies so far, so I hope the work goes on according to plan so far.
Oh, except one of the bosses who were in Italy and sits in quarantine at home now(not sick I think).
I’m not that worried about the temporary Aquarium. As long as we got water and power!


I know we’re not supposed to write about the virus, but it effects us in our work and I wanted to just give an update. Sorry R2R if that was against the rules

 

[Lasse]

I´m on my way home from Norway by train - still not closed. I´ll meet up with David for a short briefing at the train station in the evening. And after that - home for a home quarantine during x days. This of two reasons - be sure that I´m not infected and serve as a reserve if the others got sick. We have not been in contact with each other during 14 days. We works with animals and we must all the time be sure that some of us can work with the daily management.

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Lowell Lemon]

It is good to have a plan and work the plan! Wishing you all excellent health!

 

[Sallstrom]

Now we restarted my old Instagram account and done it a bit more official for the Aquarium. At the moment I'm doing a recap over 2019, so you've probably seen most of the pictures here on R2R anyway. BUT!! Everything is a competition and we want to beat our colleagues from the other departments of the museums. So get in there and give us a couple of likes!! ;Smuggrin;Smuggrin;Smuggrin

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[crusso1993]

Now we restarted my old Instagram account and done it a bit more official for the Aquarium. At the moment I'm doing a recap over 2019, so you've probably seen most of the pictures here on R2R anyway. BUT!! Everything is a competition and we want to beat our colleagues from the other departments of the museums. So get in there and give us a couple of likes!! ;Smuggrin;Smuggrin;Smuggrin

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[Sallstrom]

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You might also think about tagging companies that have helped you out with equipmemt and supplies to help raise your views/followers.

Thanks!!

Yes, absolutely. Working on that. I'm not a very social media person. But I will get better! Thanks!

 

[Sallstrom]

Back at the temporary Aquarium after a week working from home. Good to see some corals live again

Not much news. We're dealing with the current situation and it's okey so far. @Lasse is in quarantine at home and another colleague is at the office at another museum. Trying not to get sick all at the same time. So far all of us are healthy, but some have colds. Not easy to know what's what... So we're keeping our "teams" apart just in case. Lasse is ready to take over the aquarium if we get too sick

At the Aquarium we have had some other diease among some of the corals. At first only Stylopora were affected. Then Seriatopora. Last week a large Acropora got it. Looks like brown jelly diease. So far it's not that much. But it's enough to annoy me.. We're trying some treatment with H2O2. But mostly just keeping the sick corals away from the others and trying to keep the water as good as possible.