Swedish fish - behind the scenes rebuilding a public aquarium

[Dr. Dendrostein]

About 40 litres water volume, the mushrooms are low flow sulky, that will be addressed shortly.
The black splodge on the glass is a blue velvet nudi, I am removing the cyano very slowly, once it clears an area of flat worms I siphon a bit more out, I want to keep it as long as possible before I need to take it back to my lfs.
Can't rush these things!

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Thanks for sharing, comrade

 

[najer]

Thanks both!

 

[Sallstrom]

Two almost empty propagation tanks ready to move into the temporary Aquarium. Just need to rebuild the stand so the smaller one goes on top of the large one.

Some yummy algae

And a section made for macro algae.

My plan is to get the nutrients up a bit, get some macro algae to grow, and hope for the grazers to do a good job.
Nutrients today after adding both N and P was: NO3 ~2ppm and PO4 ~ 0,04. First time so far we've got a result on phosphate. The double dose yesterday and today paid off

 

[Sallstrom]

Found this colony today and was impressed by the colours. Anyone know if this Stylopora has a fancy name?
Picture taken under normal roof lights(probably T8 3000K something)

This week I'm moving corals from "the room divider reef". There are some brown clove polyps in that tank I'm trying to avoid getting into the temporary Aquarium(the dark parts on the picture). So there's a lot of cutting and hammering to get only live coral tissue(or at least no clove polyps) out from this tank. It's been a rough day for some colonies..

And here we're growing LED lights

 

[Brew12]

Found this colony today and was impressed by the colours. Anyone know if this Stylopora has a fancy name?

I think thats a "Sallstrom Swedish Strawberry Stylo"... Sells for $800 for a 2cm mini colony. A 5mm frag goes for $500. It's also affectionately known as the "Quad S Coral".

 

[Sallstrom]

Having some colleagues from the other departments over for a small pub today after work hours.

 

[Brew12]

I have to ask... are those skimmers for decoration or did you modify them to dispense drinks? Not sure I could get myself to drink something that was dispensed from a skimmer. Iced tea would look too much like skimmate for me to stomach!

 

[Sallstrom]

I have to ask... are those skimmers for decoration or did you modify them to dispense drinks? Not sure I could get myself to drink something that was dispensed from a skimmer. Iced tea would look too much like skimmate for me to stomach!

There will be LED light in the skimmers when the sun goes down!

It has been figurehead from boats where the skimmer is now. But they've been moved due to the rebuild. Looked so empty.

 

[Sallstrom]

Amazing art..

Here's another LED fixture, but for larger tanks

 

[Sallstrom]

Testing Orphek 500W Amazonas LEDs.

We will run the Bamboo shark tank until September so we will have time to try out these light and another brand over a two meter deep tank. We still haven't decided on lights for the new Aquarium yet.

Did a quick test and measured PAR at around 200 at the bottom. Not bad.

 

[Sallstrom]

One great thing having people over to behind the scenes is the days after. When everything is still in order after the cleanup

Next week it'll probably look messy again. We will try to move our old propagation tanks into the centre of this room. These two:

And we might need to repaint the inside..

In about two years we will get access to the new Aquarium!

We are also working on the documents for the public procurements that will come. Lots of large pumps, skimmer, acrylic windows etc. Will be great when those procurements goes through. Then we'll know what brands we will be working with. All we will get a better feeling if our budget is enough or not

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

I think thats a "Sallstrom Swedish Strawberry Stylo"... Sells for $800 for a 2cm mini colony. A 5mm frag goes for $500. It's also affectionately known as the "Quad S Coral".

Is there Layaway? Like Zody's

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

One great thing having people over to behind the scenes is the days after. When everything is still in order after the cleanup
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Next week it'll probably look messy again. We will try to move our old propagation tanks into the centre of this room. These two:
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And we might need to repaint the inside..
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In about two years we will get access to the new Aquarium!

We are also working on the documents for the public procurements that will come. Lots of large pumps, skimmer, acrylic windows etc. Will be great when those procurements goes through. Then we'll know what brands we will be working with. All we will get a better feeling if our budget is enough or not

Just looking at all those tank, makes me tired.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

To bad LED light has to many parts.

 

[Sallstrom]

Testing the share function on the Triton lab homepage. Just got the results from our latest tests.

Here's the 10000L reef tank(ICP).
https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/aquarium/auswertung-b/icp-oes/73393/

Here's the new coral system no 1 in the temporary Aquarium(ICP):
https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/aquarium/auswertung-b/icp-oes/73389/

Here's the bamboo shark reef(ICP):
https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/aquarium/auswertung-b/icp-oes/73392/

Water chemistry is so much fun

 

[Lasse]

A fast visit today in order to try to take a picture for this months POTM. I took some others too

This I would call an euphyllia tank - the chromis is a grown up

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The POTM was about anemones - here is some that did not chose to the contest. This anemone forrest was three 4 years ago......

Sincerely Lasse

 

[Sallstrom]

Last couple of days we've been moving out corals from the tank I call the room devider reef. All our tanks look so much bigger when the corals and rocks are removed
In this tank there're some kind of brown clove polyps growing in between the corals. I don't want to get those polyps in to the temporary Aquarium, so all the rocks will be dried(and used again in the future) and only live coral tissue will move into the propagation tanks.
Today I tried to use a regular saw(for wood) to saw through coral and rock. It worked! But I'm not sure how long the saw will last..
Since my hands were wet almost all day at work, I didn't take any pictures of that.

Here's the half empty tank

This is how it looked in February

This was the only tank with stony corals at the Aquarium when I started working here in 2008. It has caused me a lot of headaches through the years, but also a lot of satisfaction when it finally turned and started working with me instead of against me I've learned so much from this tank. I've even written a history over this tank, that might be a small article some day.
But it doesn't feel as sad as I though I might to close it down. It was far from perfect and the design(very long tank) wasn't optimal for a reef tank I think. And what it most important to me, we will build new and hopefully better aquariums in a not so distant future

Here's a Pachyseris coral from the room devider reef. About 40 cm wide.

 

[Dr. Dendrostein]

Last couple of days we've been moving out corals from the tank I call the room devider reef. All our tanks look so much bigger when the corals and rocks are removed
In this tank there're some kind of brown clove polyps growing in between the corals. I don't want to get those polyps in to the temporary Aquarium, so all the rocks will be dried(and used again in the future) and only live coral tissue will move into the propagation tanks.
Today I tried to use a regular saw(for wood) to saw through coral and rock. It worked! But I'm not sure how long the saw will last..
Since my hands were wet almost all day at work, I didn't take any pictures of that.

Here's the half empty tank
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This is how it looked in February
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This was the only tank with stony corals at the Aquarium when I started working here in 2008. It has caused me a lot of headaches through the years, but also a lot of satisfaction when it finally turned and started working with me instead of against me I've learned so much from this tank. I've even written a history over this tank, that might be a small article some day.
But it doesn't feel as sad as I though I might to close it down. It was far from perfect and the design(very long tank) wasn't optimal for a reef tank I think. And what it most important to me, we will build new and hopefully better aquariums in a not so distant future

Here's a Pachyseris coral from the room devider reef. About 40 cm wide.

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WOW!!! Labor of love. Lotta children of the sea

 

[Cory]

Found this colony today and was impressed by the colours. Anyone know if this Stylopora has a fancy name?
Picture taken under normal roof lights(probably T8 3000K something)

View attachment 1050587

This week I'm moving corals from "the room divider reef". There are some brown clove polyps in that tank I'm trying to avoid getting into the temporary Aquarium(the dark parts on the picture). So there's a lot of cutting and hammering to get only live coral tissue(or at least no clove polyps) out from this tank. It's been a rough day for some colonies..

And here we're growing LED lights
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Can you tell us more about the pile of led lights?

 

[crusso1993]

Today I tried to use a regular saw(for wood) to saw through coral and rock. It worked! But I'm not sure how long the saw will last..
Since my hands were wet almost all day at work, I didn't take any pictures of that.

Here's the half empty tank
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This is how it looked in February
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Two quick things;
1.) That tank is not 1/2 empty. It is 1/2 FULL! ;Hilarious

2.) Next time you use the wood saw have someone video it and post it for us!