pull it out until it's like teeter-tottery and now let it slide down against my hips
I'm not holding the weight really well
in order for me to put it back on I would just tip it back and that would be hard I
got to pick up some of the weight but we're just using the weight of the tank against
itself I guess you could say
and that's how I moved a pair of 180 gallon aquariums off of two stands and placed over
here the old stands have been removed I was able to save uh quite a bit I'm going to use
this for the 180 gallon desk that's going right here but now I got to drain this tank
move these fish to the spare 70 gallon that has nothing in it I'm glad I never put anything
in it because these guys got to go over there at least temporarily while I build the stand
get this tank up onto it fill it and unfortunately I gotta put these guys back in it for the
time being because they're not really scheduled to be moved anywhere soon you guys will remember
the frontosa are actually going in the uh desk tank the festivums are going in with
the discus uh the Rays will eventually come into here catfish will go in the 2000 and
everybody else pretty much goes in the 2000 that could handle that environment anyways
let's build this stand somehow I need to take this tank off uh the this little platform
because I need the platform under it I'm trying to reuse as much stuff as I can and uh this
bottom piece with all the plywood and the two by sixes and the entire frame I'm going
to use it because it's going to sit right on top of it how tall will this be I think
I'm going to build it about 40 inches tall which is about the size uh the height of the
desk the downside is is this tank will be a few inches shorter than that tank that we
set up there that salt water tank but I'm sure we could make do
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so this was a peculiar build and as you can see I had to build the entire framing before
I even put the sump in before I even put the top brace on and look I've already got it
set up so that we just kind of drop it into place but this has to come off of there and
before I take the 375 off I got to put the 180 in here and then get there this off of
it put the the top frame on and then finish you see how we have a center brace the center
brace can't go on till I get the 180 in I just want to make it a little bit easier for
myself because I'm working with like little to no space here put the 180 gallon in there
put the brace on just like that one and I might actually wait until this top one's on
let's just see what I can do [Music]
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thank you [Music]
[Music] foreign [Music] is now in place I even gave the stand a bit of a paint job the
filter or at least 180 gallon aquarium that's going to be turned into a filter is also underneath
of it obviously I'm going to need to plummet here first luckily I already have all the
bulkheads installed but this is the first time I've looked at them for a while these
are old bulkheads with old PVC in it I'm gonna have to replace all of them and that's not
a problem I'll have some sort of a pre-filter and then 180 gallons of biological media and
return it to the top of the aquarium the razor going in here I'm also going to feed the 2
000 gallon into this filter so right now we just have an old canister filter running this
tank just for the time being just to keep these guys kicking um but I'm so glad that
the heavy lifting is over uh there's a few fish in here that you guys will see again
here shortly for example look at the frontosa aren't they absolutely gorgeous they are going
in the desk aquarium the eight foot long desk aquarium that we still have to build and of
course the red tail catfish he's gonna go in the 2 000 gallon aquarium I'm not sure
when I'll be able to actually move him because he's quite small I'd be a little worried I'm
not sure where the coil will go yet but we do have other 180 gallon aquariums for example
in my house we also have a 4 000 gallon pond outside that has no fish in it right now the
saffron's not positive uh angels are just little scragglers that I decide to keep because
I have a pair and my mono it's the last brackish fish that I didn't want to give to a friend
I thought he was absolutely perfect I'm going to keep him for a little bit but we'll see
how he does because I think I might put him in the 2000 as well see how long uh and see
how well he does in there I'd like to see how big he grows um other than that some floating
plants nothing too crazy as of right now but I'll be honest with you that little clip that
you guys seen that Montage of me moving it and it's just music playing I kind of had
no choice uh because Tamara was out here listening to a podcast I didn't want that to be playing
as I'm trying to talk and whatnot so I just moved the tank and it's better that I just
moved these on my own without talking because it's just a lot of cursing and that sort of
thing that I don't think you guys want to see but that's the end of moving tanks uh
I do like to show myself moving tanks because a lot of people don't believe that I do it
and or how do I do it and sometimes that type of thing can be relatively interesting although
I won't be doing any more of those salt water tank is doing absolutely phenomenal could
probably use a bit of a cleaning in terms of uh just cleaning the front glass these
tanks aren't done either the fish are just in there and their main Scapes are in place
but uh nothing too crazy where are the Lions ones under there of course and the other one
is up over there uh discus are doing uh good oh I gotta tip that back up we did put a few
severums in here um just because I felt they do a lot better with the discus so here's
some of them are they're still kind of settling in I mean we just transferred them over uh
the Moss is looking absolutely horrible uh it kind of looks like a bunch of sewing thread
to be honest with you and that's simply because it's just not getting enough light uh and
or uh doing that while this tank so we'll have to increase the lighting in our photo
period I'll be honest I rarely have the lights on in this tank in fact I just turned them
on just to make this video but the discus look to be doing quite well everybody's settled
in settling in nicely I Can Begin feeding again I gotta tip this log over it's not going
to get any like that Moss is on the other side and of course we still need to but uh
that desk that I think is going to turn out absolutely amazing look at this guy I can't
wait until obviously the razor over there in that 375 I can't wait for that I'm also
going to put the sunshine pleco in with the discus and this Tank's really just going to
turn into a bunch of monster fish I think ultimately we'll have the bisher we'll have
the Oscars we'll have the arowana and I think we'll have the catfish and that'll be about
it for this tank I think that they will uh utilize this tank greatly everybody else out
here is doing okay nothing to hear to show here I just jammed a bunch of wood in there
on to be honest with you just to have somewhere to put it for the time being uh Tyrese is
always doing absolutely phenomenal and then of course the uh piranha tank as well anyways
guys it's back to work for me we got to build that desk we got to start filling some tanks
up we got to start I need to build that desk in order to build these new aquariums I've
got nothing to build it on look how beautiful this tank is isn't that gorgeous oh here comes
a big Bella let's turn these ambient lights off and see if that helps them be a little
more excited to come out yeah here they come isn't that beautiful
absolutely stunning just such a gorgeous aquarium via the plants just grew in beautifully and
I mean the plants are starting to take over the entire Aquarium which is crazy a lot of
people don't believe me but this plant coming out here is this well you can see this one's
Trail that's the mother plant right there that mother plant's gotta be darn near well
eight nine inches tall it's a big one so you can just imagine maybe that will happen maybe
I don't know if you guys I don't know if you agree but maybe all of these Runners will
come out and just eventually fill this entire aquarium I don't touch the substrate because
I believe there's something going on in that substrate that I should that obviously the
plants are enjoying probably some nutrients I don't want to touch this tank much besides
do it's water changes 25 right now I'm just doing them once a week the fish are healthy
everybody's eating snails are becoming uh in check they're mostly just on rocks and
that sort of thing they're not crawling all over every surface anymore so that's been
nice but uh okay like I said back to work not enough of admiring the fish oh maybe we
should feed them we'll feed them here in an upcoming video I know all my fish are hungry
they're sick of hearing the sauce going out here anyways if you're not subscribed to this
channel yet you want to watch all of these builds I know this video was a hard watch
it's just kind of music playing me moving a few tanks but I kind of wanted to show that
aspect of it because you know it's not always uh it's literally the worst part about these
uh builds is just moving these massive big tanks around when you have to that that'll
be the last time all right see you guys soon