Ridgeway
LIFE MEMBER
OK so I've kept, bred and cultured marine life for a few years, 29 to be precise. 2015 was a bit of a big year as we built our new aquarium in the house, this meant quite some building work and modifications to the house and overall a year long project, almost but not 100% completed as yet.....
You get some idea of what we did from the pics I created below, aquarium is on the left in the middle, under the stairs:
A supporting wall had to be removed and so the modifications began.....
To put things into scale (weight) the entire system weighs around 5 tons so I engineered the base to handle 15 tons as a minimum. This meant a reinforced concrete base and then RSJ's with a precisely calculated deflection factor, 1mm is OK across 1.6m but not more...
I know this is all a bit nerdy so I don't want to bore you all with the techy details but I know there's a few avid DIY'ers on here.
Next was to take delivery of 450kgs of 25mm glass
And then to build an aquarium..... and of course someone had to test it out.
OK role forwards about 6 months or so and it now has a diverse marine life that is flourishing
It's a long long way from becoming a mature and successful reef system but it's on the way.
Now I just need to finish those cabinet doors.....
You get some idea of what we did from the pics I created below, aquarium is on the left in the middle, under the stairs:
A supporting wall had to be removed and so the modifications began.....
To put things into scale (weight) the entire system weighs around 5 tons so I engineered the base to handle 15 tons as a minimum. This meant a reinforced concrete base and then RSJ's with a precisely calculated deflection factor, 1mm is OK across 1.6m but not more...
I know this is all a bit nerdy so I don't want to bore you all with the techy details but I know there's a few avid DIY'ers on here.
Next was to take delivery of 450kgs of 25mm glass
And then to build an aquarium..... and of course someone had to test it out.
OK role forwards about 6 months or so and it now has a diverse marine life that is flourishing
It's a long long way from becoming a mature and successful reef system but it's on the way.
Now I just need to finish those cabinet doors.....