if you guys don't remember I built this entire Moss structure in one piece so it's going to kind
of suck to move it all I'm probably going to lose a bit of moss falling off of it I'm okay with that
I do have some hair algae on it I think once it goes to the new system it'll kind
of shock it but their filter from this tank is already over there
I might even drill these tanks and Plumb them into the 2000 but I don't I'm not positive on that
okay here we go this is an absolute Beast of a piece of a wood I never planned on moving it you
guys probably don't believe me at this point but obviously you don't build something so big and so
difficult to to move with plans on taking it out someday I'm gonna lose a lot of the Moss I already
feel it kind of falling off and falling apart here so hopefully this will hold together long enough
until I get it out of the tank and get it into its new home look at this beastly thing it
looks like something you pull oh there goes a lot of moss I'm okay with that whatever right
let it fall off I can always tie it back on look at it all coming off
yeah well it didn't help that I'm shaking it but whatever it's still absolutely stunning and once
it goes in there I don't care because it all sinks none of this floats so that's a huge Plus
there you go oh I hear some of it breaking come on get in there
it's almost like
and
a nice little trimming
um how am I gonna get this piece in oh damn it doesn't want to go in oh what a mess I'm creating
wow but yeah I just literally destroyed this whole piece most of the wood I'm sorry most of
the uh Moss fell off and you know what that's fine because I think what I might do here is simply um
why is it tipping forward like that is that sitting post
you know what I don't care that the Moss kind of fell off but look how much actually did
and that's not all of it oh wow what a beautiful piece this is what beautiful piece look at that
isn't that gorgeous [Music] um I'd like to smell it but anyways look look how much I
don't even think we started with this Moss is such like a really interesting investment for
the aquarium obvious like you just buy a little and before you know it you got so so so much
um it's fine the Moss is going to reattach it's going to grow it's going to go nuts on all of this
but uh obviously I got to try to fix this at least to some extent and the problem right now is that
I don't have any um I forget what I was gonna say
oh I don't have any lights over this tank right yet I didn't get to that
which is fine I mean I can get to it in a minute but
priority here is just kind of whatever needs to go in the water's got to go in right now oh
wow that tank has so much more Moss left in it I think I'm just gonna let the Moss free
float in this tank and attach where it wants keeping it off the input of the uh the filter
and uh I think that is more than appropriate enough and stuff it everywhere it's gonna it's
once the filters are hooked up this is all going to let loose anyways somewhat I don't even know if
I'm getting this evenly placed in here I guess I don't care because I let that happen in the
original tank where I was just letting it blow all over the place and uh turned out just fine
guys I'm not joking look how much Moss that I'm just pulling out of that tank
it's like literally I become a moss dealer uh again I'm just gonna get it in the water
I don't really I don't really care if it begins to float well it'll kind of suck I guess like
chasing it around but I just want it to be in there I don't even know where it's being
placed right now I'm also not moving all discus over this is a great opportunity for me to kind
of pick the best colors that we like because I'm coming up on a new opportunity okay to get more
I also don't think I'm gonna move the rocks that were in that tank originally because
um they just kind of Trapped detritus it kind of finished the tank off a little bit but I wasn't
too into it I didn't really care that much is that it for Moss no it's still literally everywhere
I need a stool or something to stand on the thing about discus is like you can obviously put your
hand in there and not like worry about them biting you or you know they're not going to attack you
look at this is mostly detritus on the bottom uneaten food fish waste that sort of thing but
but still discus are a cichlid and they still do have
spines that they could poke you with and you can get pretty badly hurt if you're
not careful obviously this is not the best discus tank I've ever set up but
um it's also going to allow me to uh just give it some time I guess and it will get better with
time check this out this moss on them is growing beautifully isn't that gorgeous so now when we put
this in a tank it's a finished piece that we've kind of been working on for some time and this
is going in one of the cubes one of the 16 by 16 by 16 I'm excited about that in fact both of
them might go in sorry for the bad camera angles I really got to focus though sorry dude sorry guys
um tomatoes in the house cooking supper
and I'm telling you a woman's cooking you leave her alone
oh yeah that one's this one's got to go in quarantine he's got something going
on with his head problem with having fish in an established escaped type tank is it's really hard
to see anything because they could hide see if you can zoom his in they'll hide behind a lot of the
decorations this guy is kind of emaciated I can save him though um but he's got something on top
side of his head it looks like a second it looks like an injury looks like his head was caught I
thought it was a bacterial no this guy uh just dealing with a secondary injury he's got a bit of
um healing going on on his head there but he looks to be a bit emaciated he's not getting
the food he needs he can't compete with the other ones that are really healthy especially in a tank
like this so I'm gonna put him by himself and uh let's see if we can't nurse him back to health and
then get him back in the tank eventually a lot of times it takes until you break a tank down
when you can actually really see the fish and see how they're really doing I've already given away
six of these of like ones that were repeating colors you know because we had a lot of Blues
and we had a lot of whites but we didn't have much uh Reds and whatnot so I did honestly give
I did give six away so far and I might give away a few more locally to friends um
and we'll see how that goes over time because I do want a nice variety of colors in this
tank as opposed to uh repetitively doing the same ones I wonder if I can get them
all at once oh that one looks really dark really dark discus are usually not a good
sign but are you guys over here for inspection and all I'm looking for
this nice beautiful healthy discus and that's what these guys are they're going to do much
better in that tank uh I think because these guys are pretty finicky I find that
um they're not as robust as a lot of The discus I've had um I'd like to see them eat
more food more often and I think a lot of it just have to do with location you know I'm not a huge
fan of putting small discus in Escape tank simply because those are the most meaningful moments of
their entire lives in terms of if they're going to make it or not if they'll become a
nice strong discus what their personalities will be like a lot of the times I like to raise them
in bare bottom tanks with absolutely nothing in it oh look at how beautiful these guys are simply
because it's easier to keep the tank clean which just doesn't make you a lazy aquarist
it allows for this stuff not to happen but yeah anyways that's why I do bare bottom tanks with
discus growing them out is to keep nitrates absolutely to a complete and total minimum
keep ammonia and nitrite incredibly low as well I have nowhere to put you guys right now and uh
then we have a better environment for them I don't have enough water in this tank I was going to take
from this one because I was worried about the plants dying and that's one of the big things
where you do a massive uh water change like this I've always promoted them as water changes and
one of the downsides that can happen is if you do set up an aquarium with just a cycled filter
what is it going to eat in order for your your bacteria to eat your plants to stay alive they
do need nutrients in the water column the fish it's going to take uh oh you got to see this
the lionfish is over there getting cleaned by the shrimp the shrimp's too big for him
to eat and by the time the lionfish is big enough to eat them the uh the shrimp
will have already gone through his life he's probably got a few months left anyways or her
but uh all the fish go over there and get cleaned by them and I'm gonna come be kind of sad when the
lionfish get too big and I can't have cleaner shrimp in there with them but that's literally
what's happening and the lionfish trying to scoot in and be like do my belly do my belly
hahaha that's not something that happens in the wild they like to do it to the puffer
as well Dwight's like really depressed right now because I'm playing with other fish I bet anyways
um yeah let's get this filter up and going you know what I'm probably gonna end it there
because I've really got to focus I'm gonna finish draining this I'm going to plug in
the canister filter essentially and uh toss the lid on and that'll be it I'll figure out lights
uh I don't know what I'm going to do I don't know if I can move these over the ones that
we built that are the same ones up there I'd like to because the 375 is going to get this lighting
same as the 2000s kind of cool right and I think this entire top row of racks might get it but I
don't know because the bottom row can't fit it so I don't know what I'll do I'll figure
out here shortly anyways hope you enjoyed this portion of the video obviously I still got to
paint this I think I'm gonna put a like a framing around it I'd like to cut off this entire side I
don't know not cut it but like block it off you know what I'm talking about um but that's it so
far another chapter uh completed in this uh bit of a renovation that we're doing hope you guys
enjoyed this video I mean this is exciting for me guys and I'm just trying to get through the
worst part I don't like moving the fish I don't like doing that part I like the build but like
moving the fish can at times be a bit risky what if you hurt one what if they jump what if they uh
something happens in the new tank there's a bunch of what ifs that can happen luckily I've never
actually had anything happen but you never know just because something's never happened to you
doesn't mean it won't and that's something that I like to talk about as well is like nobody's
quarantining their fish these days some are because I've been pumping it and pumping it and
pumping it and then they wipe out their entire system or something I'm not even gonna call
anybody out or anything like that but there are some things that bug me and they're so wrong that
I gotta talk about it eventually just not right now I'm not going to let that negativity infect me
while I'm doing something so cool and so positive so um anyways hope you guys enjoyed the video I
will see you guys shortly follow me on Twitch if you're not I don't know when this video will
come out but by the time it does I've probably been live streaming there for a couple of weeks
up to that point I know I'm going to be starting today is the 28th I start streaming on April 1st
or April 2nd I'm not sure which one I'm gonna do um but uh okay that's okay that's it this is
why I'm doing this is why I'm doing live streams because I can't shut up I'll see you guys shortly