so in one of the last videos you guys watched we were ripping Down the Walls I know it was quite
shocking I know that you guys are likely tired of the changes but this is the last change I promise
we're adding 35 aquariums to the aquarium Gallery when the original only had 12. today we're doing
something that I'm incredibly nervous about I have to build an eight foot long double stacked
180 gallon stand move the tanks onto it they weigh about three four hundred pounds empty absolutely
it's an intimidating amount of weight but most importantly it's glass I knocked them I I I moved
them the wrong way I could crack them and destroy those tanks in every tank and every fish we have
an end goal for today with that said the salt water tank ended up turning out just fine all
the fish are fine uh I gotta be honest I thought that this would be a fantastic idea I'm still
racking my brain with what to do with this but I do have an idea I'm feeling like I'm going to
move Tyrese to this tank he's over here and I know like moving fish around Etc is not necessarily a
great idea however Tyrese is in the wrong tank if you guys remember we built a tower Aquarium
where we had a three foot tall tower that comes right out of the tank and I had to put it over
here it's just the order in which it moved and and I still have the tower I'm thinking
the serious fish gods are going to call this blasphemy but I am thinking this
turns into one of two things I'm gonna need your help I'm gonna need your guidance and uh
at least I will need your validation should it be Guppies or a Beta sorority tank
I can't believe those words came out of my mouth either anyways today we're moving on
to actually building uh this racking system we have the two by sixes here and I have to
build a rack to hold two tanks that I've never really built them like this before let's just
get to work and see what I can come up with oh yeah and it turns out when I was building this
stand I ran out of wood it was about one or two o'clock in the morning and I decided I'm
gonna move these tanks anyways because they're already sliding position the rack can hold the
weight of the empty tanks and the next day I could just buy the supports and add them in
all right
God get it up there don't give up you have to get it up there stop there has to be moments of Rage
now get it up there do something I am and I'm gonna give you guys a warning I'm gonna do my
best to edit out as much stuff as I possibly can in terms of some of the curse words and
whatnot because it got pretty bad uh Tamara was holding the camera she was kind of like coaching
me on and encouraging me uh but leading up till that point she was out here having a few glasses
of wine and she got a little uh well you guys just watch you said you wanted to see everything
this is dangerous don't try this at home
just push it
I did this before guys you can do it no four men moved this before like strong men you are fine
you got this I don't have this I want you got this I want it more look at
them muscles I'm so sorry I didn't mean to swear I couldn't help it
don't demonetize me
just just simply close you got it barely anywhere else it has to go
it says you because you're sitting I am chilling out I have to hold it at all times
or okay from here on out
I don't know I feel like you got this I don't know I have to pick up a lot of weight come on
come on whoa what's going I'm gonna break my arms first push those pushes push it up
it's gonna hit this tank it's gonna break I don't think this is possible for one person
thanks it's too big yeah it's gonna slide
I gotta get behind it you just need to push on the other side
I know I'm going it's gonna snap my arm if I get too far back oh it's a big tank oh up up push push
push it push it no I need to rest you don't you have to get it up there now
push it with that momentum [ __ ] yeah [Laughter] I like it oh my God do not do anything I do it
don't don't don't listen to me you know the fun part is I have to put the phone and the plywood
under it yeah that's what I thought I was like I'm always talking about I think I take do-it-yourself
a little too serious this is incredibly dangerous do not do this alone just because I did it I took
risks I could have broke the tank I could have broke me uh but you guys know like
when I gotta get things done I'm gonna get them done and I'm unstoppable when that happens however
now we are entering a different phase can you guys hear me now can you hear me you wanna hear me now
uh we have to put plywood under it to absorb the irregularities of the stand in case there
are any and then of course the foam under that if you thought what I just did was wait I'm showing
them the phone okay if so if you don't know Tamara's been the one holding the camera it
it been me and I hate it you don't have to have an accent I don't oh you know how I'll do it
I'm gonna have to get up there and drag it
oh yeah the time where you did lovely so do you see what I'm trying to do you're
trying to put this under this I want this to meet this so I have to get up there yeah
okay Perseus I'm not Percy you like acting like them you ready yes
it has to go under
did you do it yeah anyways you can see the nightmare that moving these tanks can be
especially when doing it by yourself luckily I did have Tamara giving me a bit of help here and there
with that said now they've got to be slid 10 feet into position and I can't move them there was a
stand and a tank there previously everything has to kind of be built in place and then moved so I
came up with what I believe is an absolute genius idea I was going to shim the tank up a bit lift
it up enough so I can get these aluminum pipes under it these little cylinders and I figured
couldn't I just roll it into place this is when uh I decided I'm going to have to get relatively
creative and do something that I always thought would work these weigh about 350 pounds each
that's 700 pounds plus the stands probably at least another 150. luckily I didn't have to do
much shimming to shim it I only had to shim that corner but I was leveling it out it's level this
way and that way uh miraculously oh and look one filter is going to go back here this is how it's
going to be set up that's why it's eight feet one filter is going here I'm gonna build one filter up
here and I'm going to build like a visual block of some sort uh and then I could probably even have
plants up on top of it or something I don't know I'm going to cover this all of this will be the
same color as everything else I don't know if it's going to be white I don't know if it's going to be
black gotta paint the walls here too I can't leave them I also started to think that uh for sure the
saltwater fish got to go up here I I keep tossing it around I kind of want the discus up here
because it's a prettier tank prettier but they'll do better down there let me run this through you
I'm going to have uh these two tanks stacked up when we've got a saltwater planted tank and a
discus planted tank uh down low here we're gonna have an eight foot long desk workstation really
with the a 180 gallon tank built into it then I'm taking the 375 I'm putting it up here
and using another 180 as it sump I'm going to tie the 2000 into it just to make water changes on
all this entire area super simple the 180 desk is going to be frontoza by the way absolutely
awesome anyway so I'm sitting at this desk at computer we can do lives I can build my stuff
on an eight foot long table by two foot with no worry of it breaking because I'm building
it out of this big thick one one and a half inch thick wood so that's gonna look awesome
I don't know how I'm gonna finish the stands I don't know if I'm just gonna fill them sand them
and paint them uh maybe paint them black maybe paint them white I don't know or maybe I'll
get a nice wood to cover them I'm not sure but I want to make sure I have all three in place first
um I think this area would be just absolutely phenomenal let me turn around and we've got a rack
of nine tanks that we're gonna have a blast escaping and setting up and uh building building
literally literally everything we're gonna build everything including the aquariums the stands the
racks the lights you name it and then we also have to stock it you know Escape it it it's a
lot of work but this is going to be a really fun wall it's going to be like a 14 foot rack
okay that's kind of cool then we have the monster aquarium which is absolutely phenomenal but what
if I want to you know dabble in some breeding what if I want to get into some fancy plecos you know
one of the things I always wanted to do build a collection of high-end fancy plecos that are
like the smaller ones like the zebra plecos and you and you know uh like I already I've already
have an affinity for them I mean I do have a sunshine pleco in the 2000 but maybe I build a
fancy pleco collection or maybe I just get into some breeding I don't know what I want to do in
there but I got 12 tanks on the way going in there oh the piranha tank room and like I said this room
is done I know I keep saying oh it's done it's done it's done I don't know what I'm doing with
this tank yet because this all everybody in there is going out there this will remain Tyrese's home
he just clearly just likes it he's always so happy until he outgrows it then I'll figure
something else out but the piranha tank a lot of people say will you ever change this and I I
I just want to tell you first and foremost it was not cheap for me to get all these piranha there's
only a few out right now of course because that's always the case when I come bashing through here
um it wasn't cheap to plant this none of this was cheap this was thousands of dollars the
tank was expensive everything about it is just astronomically expensive um but look at this look
at this Moss just growing in gorgeously this tank is doing so good that I don't want to do anything
to it it's perfect now I'm not touching it I might get some more bleeding heart tattoos I don't know
um but yeah this gotta stay here it's just gorgeous I love it I love it this is going
out there though this is my little stool and um and I'm gonna get like a rolling tear or stool or
something like that but that's where I am right now uh tonight and maybe in the next video or
something I'll uh do the escaping and the stalking of those tanks and we'll go from there hopefully
I can get that done tonight because I still got to clean these tanks up look how nasty they are
oh I got some tips and tricks on how to do that I think you guys are gonna like that but like all
those types of video I try if I put everything in one video a lot of the information gets buried in
a video that maybe didn't get watched and what I'm trying to do here uh is bring as much information
as many times as possible with a bunch of cool videos but I think you guys are gonna love it
if you know what it doesn't matter if you love The the content or love what I'm doing I think that uh
I think it's very important for people out there that do not have you know a fish tank friend in
person I want to be that person for you I know my purpose now and I have to keep making these videos
continuously and constantly because to be honest my trip to Ohio literally saved me I needed that
I am so excited to do these trips the next one is in Atlanta in May uh I think it's May 10th
I can't remember check me out on Instagram it's right there the details are coming very shortly
I just talked to them the other night so uh flights and all that will be getting booked
et cetera et cetera however you know I come home and look at this board I can't show it all to you
because it might be changed but all of the bottom half is my schedule of videos for over a month
I've never done that before I've just become more organized more determined more motivated
more inspired more ideas and once I do that now I can get creative now I have time instead of
oh what am I going to make for my next video no I already know all the next videos now I'm like
what do I want to do for fish what do I really want to do for escape and it's just it's a much
more relaxing and exciting time for me and I can't wait to bring you guys along for it if you haven't
subscribed to this channel yet I highly suggest you do because 2023 is coming up all aquarium
hobbies and I can't wait to bring you guys along for the trip I'll see you guys in the next video