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GmoAndres escribió:Hola
asi es,

De hecho, aquel acuario de Tom Barr en mi opinión no brilla por su armonía entre elementos y plantas ( no me tiren un tomatazo :cyclopsani: ) sino por la salubridad conseguida en tamaño recipiente

Saludos!!

Holas,

Es cierto, el diseño de este mega-acuario rompe varios "principios básicos" del acuascaping. Y sin embargo, igual me gusta. =D>

Saludos.

Well,
The tank is 12ft x 4 ft x 4 ft.
400 Gallon sump.

The key at this scale, as well as smaller tanks, are light and CO2. Those had been the biggest challenges. We use 2 large mazzeii venturi valves for CO2 which have woked well. Due to issues in measurement, we ended up using a nice CO2 meter that measures partial pressure of CO2 dissolved in soluton, this is far more accurate than other methods and does not use KH/pH or any interferring parameters. CO2 was 45ppm, it was lowered to 38ppm for the time being. Beyond 45ppm, the discus turn darker and have signs of stress. The larger the fish, the more likely they will show signs of CO2 issue at higher levels.

Scaping is honestly very hard. I swim and float looking down from above, the owner hangs at style from the cross braces. I like 82F water personally vs a headache.

We lower the water to about 2ft or so. One one has an arm longer than about 2ft for work on aquariums.So this is one reason you rarely if ever seen deeper than 1 meter tanks that are fully planted all the way to the bottom, eve Amano's large tank is white gravel foreground(and I can personally see why, it was suggested here as well, but over ruled).

The tank gets about 1/3 cup of KNO3 per day, a few table spoons o KH2PO4, takes up an entire wall. The water change is simple to do and require virtually no effort: Turn a 2" PVC ball valve to drain to 60% water change in 15 min, turn another to fill in about 1 hour. You have to do large water changes simply to work on the tank without scuba. So large water changes provide some practical utility.

There's about 1 ton of driftwood in here, you can no longer see most of it.


Regards,
Tom Barr

The fish list:

24-36 10" Discus never seen them this size except at the Discus competitions
60 Rose lines, yes, 60
1000 cardinals
64 Altums

The list goes on.........


Regards,
Tom Barr

I have at leats 3 more this size and larger to do yet.

This one is a personal client's.
It's in their Den, not much else is in there except a nice view of a number of famous Hollywood stars, LA skyline, the San Gaberial mts, the ocean etc:-)
The home is not yet finished. He is a possessed fish hobbyists by all accounts.
See the fish list, Amano does not do fish list like that.

High profile Beverly hills etc.
The other 3 will be for the LA Zoo's Amazon exhibit.

They will be in the 20x6 x 4 foot range.
One community like this one, one Hydrocoylus/stringrays etc, one piranha.

That does not include the other folks that will see this in the client market base I deal with.
Likely will get several more out of this one.

The tank will grow and evolve nicely.
The wood weighed 300lbs for one piece alone. See pic, the 2" PVC pie is a just in case it moves type of thing.
Took 5 people to set it in.
Fortunately, nothing moved afterwards and filling.
Placement ballast rocks will be removed after the wood soaks a bit more.
I am going to do some replanting in 2 weeks.

Then polishing around Oct 5th for 3 days.

4 gaint 1 micro bag filters, 500wUV, pure O2 controller injection system to maitain at least 8ppm O2.
160lb petrified wood pieces.

Tank is 30 minute old in the pic.

Regards,
Tom Barr











Ferts are EI, the client doses and likes to feed the fish.
700Gallon RO reservior and 1000gpd RO unit.

Cleaning and maintaining are secrets:)
Maybe I'll tell later.
It's not hard really.

I expect minus feeding fish, to have the client spend 2 hours a week of work.
He has 20+ tanks now and spends too much time that takes away from his family, so one big uber tank is here to prevent that.

The water change is auto valves, nothing more than a turning a lever and fill/drain rapidly.
All my client's tanks have this added for the last several years.

There are a few stem plants, but they only need trimmed once every 2 weeks or so, and while the tank drains, the water levels is low and you prune with long tweezers and scissors.
By the time the water levels come back up, you get out, add the ferts, clean filters etc as needed(bag filters are the only things that need changed really and the prefilters which are quick).

I maintain other 4ft deep tanks with less access than this tank.
There are some simple tricks.



Regards,
tom Barr

Mardito Cabroon...


sl2!

simplemente increible :|

:O

precioso el sueño de cualkiera :D

Yo quiero vivir en esa casa....con un adorno así.....se pasó!!!!

Salud!

Wow !!

Simplemente espectacular, precioso... :cyclopsani:

Saludos, que esten muy bien...!!

La kgo!!!

Esta muy genial... sobretodo la gama de colores que tiene!!

increible el acuario
na k decir
saludos ...

ese acuario lo he visto en varias ocaciones y aun no me dejo de soorprender!!!! =D>


gracias por el link!

OOOOOOO...
Hermoso acuario la embarro
algun dia tendre uno de esos jajaa..

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