The 700 gal indoor sunken garden project

[FelixAvery]

this is just crazy man!
i soo badly want your house and tanks lol!
what are you the king of indonesia? :P

[medicineman]

Well, people just need some luck as the factor. I happen to be one lucky enough.
The king?? lol
The country is a republic. There are small kings of heirarcy though.
Even though the world might consider our country as under development and considerably poor on general, I assure you some are the richest folks in Asia, pretty amusing if you think of it. No, our family is not one of them high rollers


I have not much to offer as update. The work is pretty much abandoned for now, leaving for re-touch after the whole house renovation mess is complete. You know all that dust flying around, not worth it to work on the garden. It is going longer than anticipated with many modifications made on the house. So those of you who cannot wait to see where this project will lead to must be patient

[A Hill]

This is turning out great! I personally would of removed all the gray color though because it just makes it look more like concrete in the pictures at least...

You will have some fun with this down the road

-Andrew

[weaselnoze]

can we get a full virtual tour of the house when its finished!? can i bring my gf over for vacation for a week? lol awesome project man. i wanna see some numbers at the end!

[Badcopnofishtank]

Luck= putting the odds in your favor by great work and attention to detail.

How is the 260 going?

[medicineman]

@Fish Newb,
Not to worry, by the time this is running, I'm sure those cement like parts will darken out. With the plants on and growing (esp the creepers and vines), things will get covered up nice.

@weaselnoze,
Virtual tour?
I'll see about that.

@Badcopnofishtank,
heheh... you got what I mean by our eastern Luck.
My 260s? Going just like usual.
One is recovering from rescent CO2 shortage.
The other one is in maturing process (will update some time later).

Speaking of CO2 shortage... I think I must back up this pond with a much bigger gas tank. Industrial/welding 55lbs tank will do very nice to ensure long haul.

[weaselnoze]

thats a big tank! oh and i was serious about the virtual tour! i love things like that!

[FelixAvery]

virtual tour sounds good
maybe strap a camera onto a fish and have it swim around filming everything

actually thats a cool idea, get a waterproof camera case and take underwater photos of the tanks

[A Hill]

Originally Posted by medicineman

@Fish Newb,
Not to worry, by the time this is running, I'm sure those cement like parts will darken out. With the plants on and growing (esp the creepers and vines), things will get covered up nice.


Speaking of CO2 shortage... I think I must back up this pond with a much bigger gas tank. Industrial/welding 55lbs tank will do very nice to ensure long haul.

Yeah, I'm not too worried about it either, once it fills in you won't notice ( We hope right LOL)

Actually, I think you will need something bigger lets do some math... some people but 5lb tank on their 10g... so 5x70= 300lb CO2 tank for you sir that should only come out to waaaay too much LOL

But seriously, how's it coming? Have you started buying the local greenhouses to fill this thing up?

-Andrew

[sayn3ver]

i just hook the tail pipe of my car up to a co2 bottle.

JOKE.

[logan]

updates updates!!! pics!!!

[dufus]

Originally Posted by sayn3ver

i just hook the tail pipe of my car up to a co2 bottle.

JOKE.

sorry, that's CO, not co2.
(carbon monoxide= )

[medicineman]

@Fish Newb,
Yeah, that would be some CO2 storage that no person would want to have in their house. Should I consume at around 15-20bps, an industrial size gas tank would still last for a year or more .. quite a long time.
Buying from local greenhouse? sadly it is not the time yet.

@logan,
Hoho... patience is good.


To update the project, I'd like to announce nothing for now.
Not a good news for people eager to see what's next coming.
The house is under total renovation as mentioned before, and work has taken much more time than predicted earlier. To make matters worse, the contractor and team seems to be slowed down by constant problems. Some comes from us (by asking too much modifications and updates), some because of poor proffesionalism of our supplier... just imagine that our marble/granite slabs are two months late and the doors are a month behind schedule. I'm sure in USA you will already ask for penalty and call your lawyer

I will certainly let know of any work done. Until the time...

[red406]

MM...!!!

you have this too??!!! (just discovered this thread...!)

HEBAT SUNGGUH!!!

[Hop]

I have to say that I swing by this site a few times a week and over the past few months, this build has really caught my attention! Great Job!!!!