so it's water change day for the 120 gallon tanks not really the topic of today's video but i kind
of like to show you guys little things that i do sometimes i've already drained the tanks with
a large hose and now i'm filling it up with my garden hose which is just cold water however it
has a tremendous amount of pressure so it fills the tank really fast and then this water source
is from the house and it's just hot water i balance it off outside until i get the perfect
water temperature coming out of here which is about 26 degrees celsius and it fills the tank
twice as fast so i do all a 50 water change on all these or about i don't know what we call that 30
35 40 who cares in about an hour awesome anyways today we're talking about the new aquarium gallery
the place we're moving to that's five times bigger we'll have bigger aquariums permanent
installations and eventually we'll be opening it up to the public and you guys you guys know though
how lucky i've been out here in the current gallery i own my property and i own my well
meaning i when i do my water changes it doesn't cost me anything and i don't even have to treat
the water but in the new place i have to pay for the water and i gotta treat the water
first you guys been asking me how are you gonna do water changes how are you moving everything
and a bunch of other little questions like that i'm gonna answer in today's video there's actually
a lot of things that i have to do before we even move there and of course behind the scenes with
the contracts and paperwork blah blah blah all that boring stuff which you guys will potentially
see i'm working on something that you guys will be able to be included in everything but one of the
questions a lot of people had is when you start the new gallery does this mean we're not making
videos anymore heck no we're probably going to be able to do daily if not every second day for at
least a year um and then we open and we continue with the videos the videos are never going to stop
i'm not substituting this new place um and i'm only opening it to the public so you guys can
finally come i it's not going to be incredibly profitable in fact i highly doubt i'll even
break even when we move over there but that's a topic for another day but there are things that i
can start to plan and build in advance that we can kind of show you and talk about and one of them is
how i'm going to do my water changes and i really got to start building the filtration i'm just
waiting for a nice day so i can get out there with my saw and cut up some acrylic but i'll tell you
probably what we're going to do for filtration and that is most likely um building internal sumps
i think it's going to be great to hide the filtration behind the backgrounds will cover the
actual filtration partition uh we'll put all of the pumps there everything will be in there super
easy to take care of i've shown you guys actually how to build this before anyways i'm most likely
just going to build like 10 of them and over in my little storage area we already have the acrylic
um it's weather beaten so i mean i got to get all this off which is going to be impossible which is
this protective thing i just might pressure wash it off this is a six millimeter cell cast acrylic
a full sheet of it that's all i'm going to need to build the filtration well probably all i'm going
to need to build at least i don't know i guess i never took the measurements but i'm hoping i
could build all 10 my luck i'll build like five of them and but that's something people want to know
um and why it's so easy to set up this new gallery is because this one's been
running for four years and i have a surplus of everything including
like escaping supplies backgrounds etc and it's all going to be used i don't
throw it anything and i don't sell anything because i know one day heck you might need it
underneath the acrylic here is a massive pile of wood for example rocks i mean
i'm never gonna need rocks i can always get them wherever i always collect them
but this is like two three pallets of manzanita wood as well as malaysian bogwood and then of
course all the backgrounds just stored right here beside um they're completely safe they're
like indestructible you can put them outside in the rain in the snow let them freeze let them
thaw i got these from aquaticallybackgrounds.com and they literally i've never ever once had an
issue with them anyways for water changes i'll be getting three of these massive things they hold
about 330 gallons um so i'll have three maybe four of them so i'll have a thousand gallons
or more of pre-mixed water uh safe chlorinated except uh dechlorinated et cetera so it's going
to be super simple to drain the tanks really fast like i currently do and then get this massive pump
to fill them up really fast and i figure if we start the gallery off with about 5 000 gallons
of water do a 25 water change we'll be able to do water change on all the tanks in a matter
of a couple of hours now 5 thousand gallons doesn't sound like a lot because we already
have a thousand or two thousand gallons right here but the aquarium gallery is an aquarium
gallery it's not like a public aquarium where you walk in and you're gonna see
shamu there the killer whale or you know um seals and and otters and that sort of thing it's
fish tanks that you could have in your house displayed basically it's what's possible in the
aquarium hobby well what we're doing literally right now like relatable sized aquariums
this method isn't perfected just yet but no worries because the in the new place will do
something proper but some people are like you need to do an automatic water change system
no i don't want pipes and drains and everything running all over the place in fact i don't want
you to be able to see any of that i just want you to see the aquarium and the fish within it the
scape how they're interacting all of that i don't necessarily and i'll bring you through the build
process of everything we're doing but for the most part i just want you to be able to be inspired by
the actual aquariums i don't want to let too much go or talk about too much because we're not even
in that building yet but the day we get in there i'm going to disclose to you some of the exciting
plans okay next big question moving all the fish in the aquarium gallery how am i going to do this
how am i going to move the tanks for example the asian arowana and stingrays i mean i can't put all
these guys in a 120. these guys are massive like really big this guy's a couple feet long these
guys are at least 16 18 inches across the big one especially the littlest one is a foot across so
we got to figure something out because if i even if i took them out put them in a rubbermaid tote
this is going to be an all-day move i'd like to be able to set it up dechlorinate the water
have everything up and running properly and then transport them which means i'm going to need them
a temporary home for you know three to five days so what i've done there and again this is all the
prep work and the getting ready and there's so many things that i gotta do but what i've done
well i guess i got a box inside this box is a is a like a kiddie pool it's eight feet in diameter
and 30 inches deep it's going to be perfect as a temporary holding tank for the rays and arowana
everybody else well these guys just got a water change with another like the frontals and stuff a
lot of these guys besides the piranha will be able to kind of like temporarily go into a rubbermaid
toad as their tanks are being moved etc maybe we'd be able to put some fish in the 2000 you know when
it comes to the saltwater tank just toss them all over here i mean we'll see what happens there
i'm not too concerned about most of the fish it's just the big guys that i really need to prep for
yeah i think ultimately as we set up a tank in the new gallery and fish get moved into it then i can
uh take that tank down um for like for example we set up a lake tanganyika tank and these are
some of the fish going in it once these guys are moved into that new with tank
this one could be shut down i'm not going to be running two galleries in fact the 2 000 gallon is
the only personal tank that's going to be at my home it's it's incredibly impractical and
unaffordable to be able to run two full aquarium galleries especially since the expenses that
it costs to run this place are just going to be essentially diverted to the new place i can't wait
for that piranha tank to be set up though they just got their water change so they're all kind
of hiding in the background there if you don't follow me on tick tock i just put this really
cool feeding video out with these guys super awesome anyways i'm really really really excited
about their tank they're going to go be putting a 180 and it will be escaped similar to this one
okay well that fills i'll show you one more thing sorry for rushing through a lot of this stuff
whole studio's getting moved there these two tanks of course are going to the new place as well
um the oscar aquarium this is an interesting one i just built this tank too so it kind of sucks and
these guys are doing fantastic they are going to the gallery for sure and this tank will be shut
down now the thing about it is i can't take it can't do anything with it it either stays here
or it gets destroyed because it cannot fit up the stairs and cutting it half i'm not doing that
and putting it back together et cetera et cetera i built it rather quickly for you guys to show
you how to do it type of deal and it sucks that i'm probably going to have to tear it apart but
it is what it is i mean um the new gallery is far outweighing having uh my house filled with
aquariums plus i need to repurpose this room and take advantage of my home i'm so tired of like and
i know my family is as well like aquariums overtaking absolutely everything but gosh
look at these uh these oscars aren't they gorgeous tank's a little messy but i mean
who cares look at that look how healthy the fish actually are so oscars will come
studios going there already have a place for the studio in the new gallery
those two smaller tanks the oscars i think the oscars might even come out to the gallery for a
little while and here's one more thing we got to talk about that tank's almost done
uh by the time we made this video and it's only been filming for 15 minutes i can't believe all
these tanks are being filled so quickly i did spray the water and get myself wet but damn that
was fast uh if i need to put a fish from this tank to that tank it's not going to be because from
the time we get the gallery in the first month is like basically painting remodeling it to an extent
fixing things up getting it ready to move in uh the following month july is when we can start
moving things in and by probably august type of thing all tanks should be there and we could begin
escaping i don't know the timeline we got to get in there you guys know me though i get things done
uh incredibly fast so one of the things i got to do is the oscar tank has to go because i have no
results to put that kiddie pool to put the air or arowana and stingray so it's a it's a little bit
of shuffling that's going to go on but all the fish of course are going to be safe and uh come
along but it could potentially be two or three months before fish have to go to the new place
so in the meantime we got to figure everything else out here and slowly start preparing to get
moved et cetera et cetera but i'll bring you guys along for the entire process i'm such a
jumble brain right now because once this is done i gotta get out of here i'll get this video to
you guys and then i gotta get uh along with my day i hope you guys enjoyed the video though i
hope i answered a few questions of yours if you have any more make sure you answer the ask them
in the comments section below and i'll be able to get back to you guys i can't wait to get into
this new place i love being busy like this i love it i live for it see you guys in the next video