let me know what you think the fish that I'm getting for this tank is
I don't think any of you will guess yeah it's gonna look absolutely insane
you're probably wondering where the saltwater fish is though and I'll show
you in a minute don't worry no worries bad but when aquadecorebackgrounds.com sent me this mind
you use code joey15 on their website 15 off these new slim flexible magnetically held backgrounds
I knew what I wanted to do today I'm just going to kind of set this tank up show you exactly what
I was thinking and I think you guys will agree with me rather quickly that I'm making the right
choice luckily since these are so flexible they just get shipped to you all rolled up
into a little bundle and then when you open it up you can just personally I just laid it flat
for a couple hours and it like went back to normal form but apparently you could also use hot water
I find that though that's great that method's great for like
the uh smaller rocks and stuff so you see these Nubs here they come with these magnets put this
on the other side of your aquarium just tiny little silicone covered magnets that aren't going
to scratch the glass and it holds it in place meaning that you can add this to your aquarium
even if you have fish or if you don't okay so that was arguably one of the easiest 3D background
installations I've ever done I arguably could have pulled the uh tank out from the wall because you
can you can clearly see that it's quite far from the edge here but what I found was I just started
dropping the magnets behind it and they just get stuck where they're supposed to go so that worked
out absolutely perfect background looks completely amazing and when I install the backgrounds and I
drill through the back of the background or I'm sorry when I install the filtration that will go
back through there because the filter kind of sets up over there okay now I really want to
move on to the Rocks I'm totally excited about this tank especially uh the potential stocking
so there are a couple of different styles of the Rocks they sell one is like the hollow type so
obviously this would sit flat down but there'd be nothing wrong with it going like this in the tank
and then look in the back maybe the fish use it as a breeding cave or additional cover I don't need
that for this tank I have a different idea so the idea here is to kind of build Rock piles and have
Manzanita would tie it all together the other type of rock is like this fully enclosed type
so it literally looks like a full Rock but there's a slice in it so you can let air out and whatever
but it's lightweight I definitely want to do a couple of rock piles and I think one of the Best
Bets is to kind of put the rocks in and make them kind of join together so it kind of looks
like they kind of fell in that position or it's been years and years and years and it's
almost like you know they fit perfectly together capitalizing on flat spots and
divots I mean if you take a look at this it doesn't kind of get much better than that
absolutely stunning that way we'll take a closer look here in a minute I want to do this side next
now I need some wood
so I think this is probably what I will end up settling on
uh mind you the glass is a bit foggy because it was salt water in here just a minute ago
once this clears up had a nice brown sand likely some Indian almond leaves uh I'll probably mess
around with the uh the wood a little bit more but uh I'll give you a look at what I was seeing
so the priority is to make sure fish can swim all around plus they've got tons of hiding spots
Etc but they can do that on both sides I do think the wood was an absolute necessary addition I
think it just looks absolutely phenomenal like this uh one of my concerns though is like I want
it to kind of look cool from this side as well so I made sure that the bottoms of the wood were
actually touching the glass so it kind of looks like maybe they're coming up out of the ground
um I also didn't want to make these matching so a little less wood over here than here this
rock pile is bigger um brings more height uh to the tank because those branches go
up 24 inches and then this one's a little bit more subdued however we also have to
worry about the flow of the tank the flow is going to be coming from this way if it were
coming from this way it's going to have to it'll blow around the branches and kind of
diffuse the flow but here we'll be able to get all throughout the tank let me know what you
guys think nice open swimming space you guys know I love to create that in all of my tanks
but uh I think this is just absolutely gorgeous especially for the planned fish that is coming I
want to do this in advance because I got to get this tank up and running here shortly I think
filled up and running is going to look absolutely phenomenal I just don't have the substrate so I'm
not going to bother filling it until I run to the store in a few days and get some but yeah this
is just absolutely gorgeous let me know what you think okay let's check out the saltwater tank so
yes I moved them all back uh there's Dwight he's getting upset like bro stop moving and lionfish
are all fine this isn't harmless to them anyways uh everybody's been moved back in here look at how
much uh every other day it just seems like we have more and more uh macro algae in this tank but you
guys do know that this is going to be Dwight's tank anyways he's going to have a lot of this
in here with him and this tank the salt water tank is going to be tied into the racking system and uh
it'll look fantastic that way and the lionfish are getting their own tank as well I do know that
things in the gallery right now look pretty bad pretty rough shape but you also have to remember
that I'm building tank after tank after tank I just finished moving things these two tanks
have to be completed I also have to fix these two tanks make them look gorgeous this is but
once we get up and running guys this is going to be absolutely phenomenal especially when we
get the Rays over there uh but anyways hope you enjoyed this video of setting up bat tank I think
it's just absolutely gorgeous definitely one of my favorite in the gallery although I think I'm gonna
mess with the wood a little bit more maybe less is more but we'll see maybe I'll just have one
stick coming out instead of a bunch yeah maybe I'll do that but of course in the update uh
when we start filling this tank and you know obviously adding the fish and substrate and
whatnot you'll be able to see the final look then I'm definitely thinking about removing
a couple little pieces maybe just having one sticking out from the Rocks like one big branch
okay I went with less I already changed my mind now if we shut off one of the lights we get
something even more dramatic and now I'm liking it even more the Shadows that uh the branches are
created they seem to look more mysterious and they pop out of nowhere crevices are darker there's
more shadowing and once we have water in here and the water's Rippling creating a ripple effect
along the rocks and stuff it's just going to look absolutely gorgeous let me know what you think
the fish that I'm getting for this tank is I don't think any of you will guess