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Our aquarium installations adorn many commercial business establishments such as: Restaurants | Bars | Private Homes | Department stores | Shopping Malls | Banks | TV studios | Reception Areas | Hotels | Waiting Areas and Rooms | Shops | Living Rooms | Cafeterias | Hospitals | Dining Rooms | | High Rise Building Lobbies | Child Care Center | Fancy Boutiques | Law Offices | Corp Board Rooms | Theater Lobbies |
 Also as technical professionals, we offer a no-nonsense standard Project Management planning approach (we use Microsoft Project software) or your company’s project planning process. All references are documented.
The picture on the right is a high rise building lobby installation. We also display a high end restaurant installation on our Custom Aquariums page to give you an idea. Click on Custom Aquariums to see a dramatic Predatory Tank in a high end restaurant environment. The process begins with defining your requirements. In other words, "What exactly do you want." We appreciate that sometimes it’s hard to explain exactly what you want, especially if you don’t already have one. So we’ll help you decide the Aquatic System Requirements that makes the most sense for you or your customer's business goals. Call us today at 972-423-0414. Ask for Larry. For more information click on Custom Aquariums. We’re sensitive and take every measure to make sure our customers feel confident each step of the construction. Generally our Project Plan follows these steps: Gather Measurable Requirements – What kind of aquarium design do you want– What Features? & How reliable and Fault Tolerant do you want your tank to be? Most important, what are your abstract expectations that can’t be measured?
| Prepare and Present Project Proposal – We’ll graphically explain our project plan and how much it will cost
| Get Contract Approvals – get everybody’s okay
| Prepare Engineering Drawings and Bill of Materials – we’ll graphically explain all the structural specifications and list all the major components
| Project Review & Approval to Proceed – Here’s the plan and technical specifications - Everything is ready to go - All we need is your “Go Ahead”
| Habitat Construction – Build the Fish Tank, filtration and water exchange subsystems, hook it all up and fill it with water
| Aquarium Stocking and Conditioning – Place and acclimate the aquarium live stock in the fish tank
| Final Test and Acceptance – Prove that it all works and the customer will accept it
| Aquatic Design’s Service Agreement – We’ll clean and service your tank periodically and keep your aquatic creatures healthy and colorful– all you have to do is feed them daily
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We design systems that will accomplish specific goals. The first and most obvious goal is to provide an adequate simulated habitat for your fish, plants and invertebrates.
Less obvious, but equally important design goals include that the system be reliable, fault tolerant, and cost effective.
A reliable system is when the system components do not fail to meet specification on a consistent basis (Component specifications are part of our technical drawings and Bills of Material)
Fault tolerance allows a system to continue to operate if a failure occurs, or to at least prevent catastrophic failure if a system fault occurs. We plan fault tolerance for the failure of components within the system, and for external effects, such as power failures, happening outside the system. While fault tolerance can increase the system cost, it can prevent the occurrence or minimize the effects of failures that could wipe out the tank population.
We employ cost effective means to overcome the temptation in design to oversize everything. Most of our competitors use common "rules of thumb" that ends up over sizing components and adding excess costs. That is why we make an accurate calculation of your requirements and meet those requirements, rather than to heavily oversize those requirements in order to be "Safe." (Note: In many instances where this is done, the additional expense of meeting these overstated requirements comes at the cost of implementing fault tolerance or other important design goals. In other instances, by using the most effective configuration of components we can reduce the system requirements themselves and have a more efficient aquatic system.)
Our experience is that failure to plan for a reliable, fault tolerant, cost effective system will likely result in a system that is failure and disease prone, subject to catastrophic failures during power outages or other events, and which costs more than it needs to. We document everything, each step of the way. For the essentials, see our Aquarium Supplies. Also see the selection of aquarium books frrom Amazon.com. 
Aquariums 1629 North Central
Plano, TX 75075
(972) 423-0414
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