all right I got a lot to do ahead of me in today's video I not only have to clean up the 180 gallon
aquariums but I want them fully set up I want the lights on I want the filters installed I want the
tanks filled uh I want the tank escaped and I want the fish in it by the end of this video
we will achieve that however first and foremost I gotta clean these tanks up if you don't notice the
top tank this was the back of the algae or at the algae aquarium this was the back of the saltwater
aquarium at one point I've shown you guys jeez Bar Keeper's Friend I've shown you um razor blades
I've shown you a tremendous amount of different methods on cleaning the glass of your aquarium
but if you ever come across something like this I can wet it and maybe scrub at it for a bit I
could take razor blades and get at it or we could take a little bit of parchment paper from Tamara's
kitchen crumple it up check this out we're gonna go up to it and watch this this is ridiculous
I'm barely trying I don't have water in the tank I don't got to get my hands wet I don't have to do
anything that I typically do and once I remove it all or once I've done this for a little bit
I'll have a little dust but it's mostly stays on the parchment paper to begin with a little bit
of elbow grease usually I put in a quarter inch of water so I could dip or I get a bucket of hot
water and I clean it that way I'm not doing that anymore so now even works on hard water stains up
here it's it's just insane look over here this is hard water stains boom gone it's gone gone just
absolutely incredible this is all hard water stains tell me that isn't insane now you guys
love when I tell you not only how to do something but how and why it works I don't know but it does
so in setting up this saltwater aquarium there's not a whole lot to it I'm going bare bottom
and simply just going to move the Rocks over attempting to create at least some form of a
cave system now I'm going to be abundantly honest I never expect this macro algae or all of these
varieties to be this successful under the lighting that I've been using which if you guys don't know
are just the basic do-it-yourself lights with household LED halogen style lighting these each
are only seven Watts I'm using 21 watts to light the entire Aquarium the plan is simple I'm going
to continue to expand this rock work until it reaches six feet we currently have approximately
three and a half to four feet of this macro algae in the tank and I gotta say it's not going to take
much to continue to propagate I'm just going to rip a little piece off glue it to a new rock let
that grow and continue similar to what you do with planted tanks because after all this is
a planted saltwater aquarium moving the fish in of course we're very simple I just grabbed them
and kind of tossed them in it's not that big of a deal especially with moving venomous venomous fish
of course we're not going to touch the net with our hands we're simply just going to move it over
and get it out of the net same with the puffer fish who ate shortly before we moved them over
because I thought that these guys won't eat for at least a couple days once they're in their new tank
now that everybody's in though lighting is on filtration is hooked up which we're going to
go over here in a moment this tank looks incredibly bare I gotta admit it does it
does look incredibly bare but incredibly elegant and simple I truly cannot wait to have more rock
I don't know if we're gonna have more rock but I definitely want the the macro allergies to grow
a little bit taller they are kind of looking like they're starting to max out a bit maybe
we'll be able to pick up some different types but we'll kind of look at um them close up see if you
guys recognize any of these this one's more like a fern I don't have a lot of that it just kind of
popped up randomly in the tank but I got to admit it's one of my favorite and then we got this red
stuff that's uh everybody has in their sumps just a fantastic uh macro algae that just gobbles up
nitrates in the tank then we had like the seaweed stuff which is probably my favorite reminds me
of valence area in the planted aquarium and if believe it or not like you can kind of see they
send out Runners and then we have some whatever that one is I have no clue what any of these are
called but now I'm an expert on growing them and you know what my expertise is is have a dirty tank
and let them grow it's algae they're sucking out nutrients out of the water and doing a fantastic
job at it now I also want you to take a really close look at the flow in the tank this has been
key to this aquarium uh of course we're looking for the fish right now Dwight's just under there
uh and then we've got a one of the lionfish there and where's the big one oh he's under there and
there's actually a shrimp in there he's over there the shrimp got in with the uh with the plants
where is he yeah he's over there you can kind of see his tail and stuff anyways
look at the plants and what they're doing they're all kind of undulating and moving
I need this I found that was key with this macro algae is keep the flow moving around it
less flow or more flow means less of the obnoxious algae the gross stuff we don't want
and this stuff will just grow like a weed because technically in the wild it is a weed isn't it
notice though there's no equipment besides over in this corner and how are we filtering it again
like a freshwater aquarium we've got a large canister filter over here with the output uh
giving us some surface movement as well as uh the input at the bottom here and then I have a long uh
wave maker that's kind of blowing the water around but softly one of the outputs is blowing along the
wall here and then the other Outlet you can kind of see it's pointing towards us right now so I'm
kind of creating this little world Whirlwind and I wish there was more dust on the ground
over here or somewheres and you can kind of see it swirling I guess you can kind of see what happens
up here it makes its way all the way across the tank I this is what I want right now uh well I
think later on in the video that the lionfish and stuff will come out right now they're just kind of
like hiding from me because I just turned on the bright lights above us and blah blah blah blah
blah plus we only moved them last night uh the water is Crystal Clear besides a few particles
um but I want to build a case that hides the canister and goes above it as well so I can have
stuff on top of it because I want to put Plants up there I think but I'm also thinking about building
some sort of a protein skimmer because I don't really want to do water changes on a saltwater
tank besides topping it up of course when we have evaporation in a saltwater tank that's
what we have to do we can't add in more salt water otherwise the salinity keeps rising up and up and
up I want to add in fresh water and just kind of top it off so I might even have a top off system
back there kind of push the canister out of the way because we do have a two by two foot space
back there it is a very generous uh amount of area so I'm not too worried about that and we'll rig
something up there the other thing we kind of need to talk about is how I mix the salt in the first
place I moved some of the salt I pumped it from the 70 gallon that they were in just because it
does have some nitrates and whatever in it and I want to continuously feed the plants I don't want
them to have a big die off which I'm a little worried because this tank has gone essentially
through um at you know a 50 water change but basically I I filled this tank up about uh 60
fresh water I dumped in enough salt put in some wave makers to mix it all up and uh got it to
the proper salinity and what I'm shooting for an officially system a lot of the times is 1.023 to
1.026 salinity to six being up or on the higher end but I'm I'm still comfortable in that range
and the fish would be as well uh there is going to be a background going on this aquarium and I think
you guys are going to be excited for that I still got to paint the walls and stuff but right now the
next thing is I got to get the discus tank hooked up and uh it's already draining over here uh and
I've already began to hook up the filtration we of course have a couple wave makers down in the
corners uh one's kind of basically I'm pointing it at the wood structure that's gonna have the
plants on it essentially making sure no algae grows on it because that's a that's actually
a problem that that tank has at times and then of course the another big canister goes right
over here oh and people are asking about these these trims these are just trims they offer no
structural Integrity to the tank this is the brace it's glass but these based off
this design of aquariums sometimes they do offer structural Integrity but in this case they do not
and they just fell off eventually apparently the company that built these tanks mentioned that they
use the wrong silicone on the trim and they were just kind of falling off I don't care I'll clean
the silicone up and glue them on myself it's not that big of a deal um but the canister another big
one over here how do I get it back there I just basically picked it up and put it back how will I
clean it very simple I'll open up the valve at the bottom drain the water and I'm gonna have to take
the top off it'll be obnoxious to do but it's kind of what I have to do in order to have this set up
I'm okay with it obviously I got to clean up the cables and make it more tidy over here but for the
most part well the saltwater tank is done and it's going to be okay for you know upwards of a week or
two before I paint the stand before I continue to build things because I do got to move on obviously
I got to get the discus doing we're going to do that right now but then I got to get these
two tanks out of the way and then I got to build a stand for this get that up on the stand then I got
to build another desk eight foot long desk it's going to look absolutely amazing and it's coming
along rather quickly notice that this tank is only six feet long but it comes out eight feet from the
wall I don't uh I think I'm going to cover this side up uh with some sort of uh some sort of
wood and paint it and I I don't know if I might even go white uh stands but we'll see uh because
uh everything else is also going to come out eight feet the desk is going to come out eight feet
obviously at 375 is eight feet so everything's gonna come out as far as that I don't have plenty
of room I'm moving the fridge as well we're gonna have a wide open space this looks so crowded right
now and obnoxious to me um you know when I'm tripping over wires hoses and whatnot so I got
to get all this cleaned up and get all of these moved but that's what we're going to do now let's
just move these darn discus and I think we're gonna have to start off with by moving the wood
so that was moving the saltwater aquarium which was a breeze entirely simple and easy however when
it came to doing The discus tank I was faced with some challenges some unexpected problems
and things that kind of just overall we're just unexpected and that video went on for quite some
time it's going to take me a while to edit it down uh to what's watchable so for today I'm
just going to show you the saltwater aquarium but of course uh The discus tank will come out likely
next and again still so much to do so many things you guys haven't seen uh but all of it's coming
out so if you're not subscribed to this channel yet make sure you do or you're gonna miss it I'm
standing in the new location right now and it's absolutely phenomenal you guys are gonna love it