You know, even though the pond doesn't finish I'm behind on a bunch of projects
The gallery is an absolute mess like it's destroyed
None of this matters right now
because
We have fish to unbox not one
but two boxes of
Fish you see in one box. We have the fish for the pond in the second box
some secret fish a
Little bit of a confession before we begin the secret fish. I'm not showing you today
I don't know which one is in which box so I'm gonna show you in the near future. I will say this
I've been searching for this fish for years probably over 10 years
I've been in love with them forever never seen them in person. But I've always wanted them they're seasonal fish
Not that cheap and extremely difficult to find believe it or not for me anyways
more on that in a future video
Gonna end up being my favor query and I'm just gonna say that
Don't look in the background of these videos
Everything's a mess. Oh, I don't know which one these are
Nothing's labeled on the outside. I
Know what these are let me check the other box to make sure some didn't get put over here either
They would wait till you see that oh
Okay
well, that's
These guys are gonna be uneventful now
So I had talked about in the last video giving you guys some hints and so many of you actually guessed correctly
I said I wanted to get a predator fish
Hard-hitting
Aggressive feeder hits the surface hired fun to feed fun to observe from above
and
Just as an all-around awesome fish. I've had these before
Problem was I only had a couple of them
I was gonna put them in the or a few of them like three
I think it was I was gonna put them in the 2000 plans for the 2000 change. So I rehome them
Now we're coming back for them
Something you might know what I'm getting
We are getting into peacock bass specifically we've got some two menses
These guys are beautiful peacock bass they're going to get
Quite big grow quite quickly and are absolute beasts. We got five of these
I'm gonna start floating them in their new gigantic pond and
then
we got
So those were two menses these are a
Quickie for however you pronounce that
Take these guys out
We I know they don't look like much right now but
These guys are a really good size
Very active
And going to eat no problem
We have a problem with this pond though one that doesn't have a filtration unit on it yet. Not that big of a deal
I'm going to be able to actually
Go ahead and run this tank with just you know to power, you know
Twelve hundred gallons of water and it plenty of dilution for these tiny little fish. We've got twelve in total, of course
always kind of try to buy extra just in case there's some DOAs or
Gives me better selection down the road
long term
I'll probably only keep six in here and keep the best of the twelve because like I said these guys get
Massive but I also need to add the light on today and build the lidding the lid system or the cover
But for now, we're gonna float them then add them to the tank. We'll get some underwater footage now
We'll take a look at all of these guys here closely in a minute quick side note about the tomatoes
It might not actually be two men to see you see where these guys are actually collected
There's about five species of bass caught there and at this size they kind of a lot of them
Just look the same. We think they're two menses, but gonna end up being something else
So this is kind of like a little surprise bag down the future
Since these guys have been in the shipping bag for so long as always
What we're gonna do first and foremost is a temperature acclimate at them
Make sure that the temperature in the bag is the same as the aquarium. I'm not letting any air in
Next thing I'm going to do is dump them directly into the net. I don't want cross contamination of this water into my aquarium water
Just like so
They're free now now the property like this is that
It is not
I think this is them
Yes, so not only do we not want that cross-contamination ooh, there's lots of these days in there
but I've talked about this time and time again when adding
Fish to the aquariums here. We talk about the actual chemical process that
Happens inside the shipping bag as your fish are on the weight heel. You see as the fish are in the bag. They're producing ammonia
breathing
Creating waste and of course
We all know that ammonia is deadly to your fish in a tiny space like this
Or a small amount of water if it's gonna be even worse. However
They're also consuming the oxygen in the bag. That's why it doesn't feel as full as it probably did once shipped
When oxygen levels deplete in the water column the pH of the water also drops with it
At lower are at acidic levels below 7, which is neutral
Ammonia is no longer as toxic
However, once we crack this bag open what's gonna happen?
It's gonna become oxygenated again and the pH is gonna shoot up and that ammonia is gonna become immediately toxic to them
So this is why I do it this way
Temperature acclimate I don't cross contaminate the water and of course
We get them out of this bag as soon as possible. This works great for freshwater fish
Of course these guys I've only been in the bag for maybe 12 hours
16 hours something like that
So there will be seven in this one
They pretty I already have some pretty amazing coloration on them
More body markings than anything but these guys look fantastic
Off they go
One you guys are free now, too
Okay, so last night I did a number of things to prepare the tank of course
I'm a little bit behind on getting all this all done
To tide me over until I add on the filter which is going to be later today
I added in a very large air stone when you need the big stones, you look for pawned supplies and whatnot
This is going to help aerate the water agitate the surface and aid in oxygen exchange the bubbles simply rise too fast
to dissolve to actually add oxygen directly to the water and many people believe that's what's adding the oxygen but that's not the case as
the water surface agitates
It's technically creating an even greater surface area
For that gas exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen will exchange at that surface and the bed depending on the temperature of the water
will depict how much oxygen the water can actually contain next thing we did was I started to get the pump as well as some
Plumbing supplies ready? I
Already had a bunch of PVC on hand. So I created a bit of an input. This is quite large
It's 2 inch PVC pipe. I'm going to switch it to black
This is all I have it's gonna be easy to switch it over just to get things up and going so we can move on
However, as you can see, I just drill a bunch of holes in the bottom here with a simple drill bit
and
This will hang on the side
Over there when we hook up the canister, which I'm gonna show you here in a moment for the output same idea
This is a Frankenstein out ploy bunch of spare supplies
I've already kind of cemented it together two inches in and then goes down to what is this?
1 and 1/2 inch on the output
This is going to allow me for to create more of a jetting effect to distribute the water throughout
This tank is quite large. Of course. I never cement the bottoms. So I'm able to twist them and
Keep them in a direction. This will be underwater. Anyway, the only things I do cement our once above water
On the side just like this and of course certainly we need to switch this to black for it to blend in but just to
Give you a basic idea when I do switch to black because is probably what it's going to look like as for the pump
I actually increase the output and input size
the output tends to take a one and a half inch I increased this the two inch with just a
Reducer and then of course on the input. I did the same thing
Sorry
Input output. So on the input increases two inches output increase the two inches as well
I did this to match the plumbing
However on this note we need to talk about something very important when adjusting the size of your plumbing to your pump
It's okay to increase the size of your output
never
Decrease the size of your input this can cause cavitation in the pump as well as damage it permanently
So always go with at least what it says it can handle
So if it says it's a one and a half inch input you use one and a half inch plumbing
Or you can go slightly bigger. That's not going to cause a problem but never go smaller on the other side
Hopefully you guys will be able to see this but we got the controller's hooked up
You've seen this earlier where I had to drill them to the side to add in the Ecotech MP 60 wave maker
We got a couple of battery backups ones gonna power the pump ones gonna power the wave maker. So a power goes out
I'm good for like 12 hours or so
Even though I actually have the ability to take this entire building
Offline and put it on a generator now
I do need to pick up a couple more plumbing supplies for the actual filter
Which is the canister filter that is on the 2000 gallon aquarium right now already cycled. I just have to buy some more
couplings and
Unions and we're gonna be fine. I can move this over completely cycled ready to rock and roll essentially right now
It's like having the the bass inside of a large holding tank with plenty of dilution over a thousand gallons
They're completely fine
but of course we want to get the filter on as soon as possible with that said check this out check out the back of
The 375 I forgot I had this eight-foot long banner of my logo
But I use some time. So I just tossed it on the back here gives it a black effect plus
My logo there. I thought that was kind of cool. I get I was just testing it out
Let me know what you guys think of that stuff while I was at the hardware store though
I found that they had a bunch of
Fake rock panels. Well, technically they were siding panels for a home, you know
The type like that they're made of plastic and they're very thin but it looks like a rock effect. They're on sale
Have I seen some they're all out now
but they can get more in what I'm getting at is I'm thinking about getting enough and covering the entire pond with them and then
Doing the entire
Cement or the 2000 gallon aquarium with that as well. I think that would look pretty cool
Especially if we go like a grey rock which would fit the theme in here. Let me know your thoughts on that
It's they're on sale, but they're still pretty expensive. I got to make sure it's what we want to do
So again, let me know in the comment section below what you think if you think the brick stone type look would look awesome
I'll make the match being a pond though. The number one thing we're going to combat
is evaporation
And
humidity and even though we have
air exchanger that's
Constantly refreshing the air in here as well as a heat pump that also removes humidity as well as it large. Do you humidifier?
It's not going to be able to battle
Forty-nine square feet of open water area that's constantly gassing off and a bath rating
So we need to cover it when we're not filming it and we're not going we're not enjoying the tank
You guys know what I'm doing. I took a couple of two by ones
Drove them into the tank here created like lips so you can see this
So we have it here but not over here. And what we're going to do is take these greenhouse panels like I showed before
This is gonna stop
Humidity, it's gonna stop
Evaporation and of course it's going to stop these fats from jumping when they become these monstrous adults that are heavy hitting
Feeders that are going to splash and make a complete mess on that note this tank is or this pond or this
Wooden container of water is kind of depressing right now two reasons, really?
small fish in a big pond
That's difficult to see
It's gonna take time before it's actually
going to be the pond that I'm dreaming of and excited about it's gonna take months before they get to a
Reputable size so to speak
second thing is
small fish in a big pond
It can be difficult to feed them. You see a lot of times we do grow out tanks
These are smaller tanks with fish to get them to a certain size. We can target feed them do bigger water changes, etc
It just grows them out faster
We'll see what happens in here. I'm a little bit nervous but
I'm sure we'll handle it. Ultimately though. I got a bit of work ahead of me tonight
I really want to finish this up and there's a few other things. I want to move on to. Let me know your thoughts
So far, I know that it might be disappointing right now
But with everything I do it usually is until I finish it or it becomes what I'm explaining
It will be one day. We also need to reveal the secret fish that I am absolutely
thrilled about I
Can see them and you guys will hear shortly if you're excited about them. Make sure you subscribe if you're not already