Nature Aquarium at
KC Thapar Group Head Office
Kolkata
In the month of December 2019, we executed one of our most prestigious Nature Aquarium Projects till date – a 6 footer for the Chairman’s office of KC Thapar Group of companies at 163, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rd Kolkata.
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KCT Website: (https://www.kctgroup.com/)
Thapar Group, known for their commitment towards environment, wanted to have maximum natural green cover in their office and had already installed vertical gardens and had made provisions for putting in indoor plants in all floors.
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So when they approached us for an aquarium for their Chariman’s visitor’s lounge, we suggested installing a 6ft Nature Aquarium. The aquarium was conceptualized as a floor divider, and was designed to display a complete natural ecosystem using live aquatic plants.
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KCT Group Environment Awareness:
(http://csr.kctgroup.com/index.php/projects/environment#projects)
The need to was to allow visitors to see the aquarium from all sides, so we proposed a triangular layout with maximum visibility from three sides. We also proposed to build the system using technologies from the Nature Aquarium pioneers and our partners, M/s. Aqua Design Amano, Japan.
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ADA Website: www.adana.co.jp
Designs of the aquarium setup layout was done giving careful consideration to water conditions, temperature variations, KCT's ecology reprentation preferences, feasible hard-scapes, substrates plants and fishes and most importantly, the SUSTAINABILITY.
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Meticulous planning was done as the installation of the aquarium was to be one of the last item of work for the interior design work planned for the floor.
We started work on 10th of December 2019. The first big hurdle was to lift the extremely heavy aquarium using the staircase as the lift was too small for the aquarium. That job was done thanks to the brave effort put in by a team of 6 people to lift the aquarium manually to the 8th floor.
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Here are some glimpses of the work we did:
Team installing the cabinet and doing pre-installation work.
After filling water and starting the chiller and filtration system. The cabinet design was proposed by us with louvers all around to facilitate heat exchange.
Mock-up of hardscape with Epiphytic plants attached
Team after completion of installation on 15th of December 2019.
A fantastic teamwork and a successful project with full support of KCT Group’s Projects and Operations Team.
A major milestone for us.
The Aquarium after one month of installation.
Aquarium Details
Dimensions: 180 cm by 60 cm by 60 cm
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Substrate: ADA Amazonia II + Power Sand + Super 4
Fertilization: ADA Green Brighty Series, Green Gain, Green Bacter
Lights: ADA Solar RGB X 2 nos
Filtration: ADA ES 2400 with Bio Rio filter media
Chiller: Teco TK 1000 powered by a Shiruba XB312 filter
CO2: Pressurised with ADA Pollen Glass 50 dia
Aeration: Air pump from Schego and 50 dia air diffuser from ADA
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Surface Skimmer: ADA Vuppa II
Hardscape: Branch Wood
Aquatic plants: Java Fern, Bolbitis, Weeping Moss, Java Moss, Micranthemum umbrosum montecarlo, Limnophila aromatica, Staurogyne repens, Anubias nana, Anubias nana ‘Gold’, Lagenandra meeboldi ‘Red’, Echinodorus tenellus ‘ Green’, Echinodorus sp, Cryptocoryene wendtii ‘green’
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Terrestrial plants: Tillandsia sp.
Fish: Dennisoni barb, Blue Rainbow, Cardinal tetra, Amano shrimp.
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