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- [Dustin] This is what life is like at 2.0.
I'm in the middle of moving.
I got Aaron, Ryan, Josh, Andrew; everybody behind me.
I got my fat 28 hundred dollar garage door,
'cause I spent the money,
'cause that's what I wanted.
And right now,
as we speak,
my neighbor,
not the lady,
my neighbor
is actually in the middle of going and fetching
his car for me,
his truck,
'cause I don't drive a truck,
I drive a mini van.
'Cause I got no balls.
But, he's gonna go fetch his truck.
Now just think about that for a second here.
What if I was across the street,
what if my team was smoking cigarettes,
and the lady was out on the front porch
calling the police saying that I did
whatever, whatever, whatever I wasn't supposed to do
because of my conditional use.
"Every seed of adversity,
every failure,
every heartbreak,
has with it the equivalent
in greater value",
the old Napoleon Hill quote.
So we're opening up the vents,
and we're about to do some drywall.
But just kind of a moment that my neighbor's like,
"Yeah man, you can borrow my truck,
"go pick up a bunch of drywall, I don't care."
like he volunteered it,
I didn't even ask him.
Life's good.
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Think the lady'd lend me her truck?
Later.
I've had a lot of memories in 1.0.
A little sad,
I'm not too sad,
I hate to see her like this.
(sigh)
But this is how we're looking right now.
Let me switch this.
Barren 20's.
Barren 125.
Dun, dada, dadun.
Empty, empty, 125 gone.
475's empty.
Empty 125.
More plumbing than I care to see.
(sigh)
Then of course, over here.
How about that.
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times.
But now I get to have part of my life back.
Like not having people in my yard working.
Not worrying about the plants in my backyard.
I get to like do Dustin's Fish Tanks.
Dustin's Fish Tanks.
Not sell stuff to make money.
Dustin's Fish Tanks.
Can come back so,
1.0 is,
has been devastated today,
but she will be okay.
2.0 is on point.
But, it's the end of an era.
My guys are pumped.
You shoulda seen the way they drove outta here.
But, I'm lookin at a ravaged,
a ravaged you know,
my baby for the past few years,
but movin's tough.
But it will be awesome when
the new place is all set up.
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What's up fish tank people?
Dustin's Fish Tanks bringing it to you.
On a Sunday, baby.
How's everybody doin?
I hope you're doin well.
Doesn't get any better than this folks.
This is post run, Dustin.
And I've had a bowl of cereal.
I've had a cup of coffee.
I could use some more coffee.
I'm tryin to bring it to you all with the video.
Today's video, we're gonna take
ya out to Greenhouse 2.0.
We're gonna talk about the hardest part with fish tanks.
And that's movin em.
We're gonna show you some of the
progress that we're makin at Greenhouse 2.0.
We're also gonna show you a plant
that we're plantin' because it's Sunday,
and it is species Sunday.
I've got a species,
a couple of species that I've been dying to plant,
so here comes the madness that is moving
out of Greenhouse 1.0 into 2.0.
All right, first things first,
you'll notice this video is being
shot pre-shower, post-run.
I've got my written goals right here that
I write every day, I've got my notebook
here that I'm absolutely scribblin it out
on how I'm tryin to plan out my day,
and I gotta keep my vision clear as
Arnold Schwarzenegger says, he says,
"you've gotta have your vision clear,
the clearer your vision is, the better".
Right now my feng shui, my flow,
everything in my life has been like,
turned all around and flipped.
I moved out of a greenhouse I've been
in for like 9 years.
I've got a big 350 out of my garage.
It's a big day folks.
That's my man Aaron,
grew up in Michigan.
Everybody says they're gonna
come down and help.
Aaron actually comes down to help.
He's gonna be doing drywall today.
But fellas,
ya might be married,
ya might have a lady in your life
that you want to make happy.
Happy wife happy life.
The first freakin' thing we're
doing here today folks,
is we are removing this 350 gallon
aquarium that has been in my
garage not since last November,
but the November prior.
The last year that The Aquatic Experience
was in Chicago.
Shout outs to our friends at Custom Aquariums,
and Josh not dribbling that ball
while I'm making a video,
- [Crew Member] Come back, come back, come back, stop.
- [Dustin] to their patience with me as I do this here.
So yeah, I've had this tank forever.
My wife hasn't pulled her car in the
garage in a long time.
It's about to leave.
It's about to be amazing.
This is a 5 man job because this tank
probably weights 500 pounds.
Each of us, except for me,
cause it's my tank, it's my problem.
Are getting a suction cup.
So, Aaron has 9 suction cups with him.
I get to use one, everybody else gets 2.
Now we're gonna move this bad boy out of my garage.
There's a think called feng shui.
I don't know the exact like definition of it.
Basically means like everything is in order,
and like your house is clean.
This has been ruining my feng shui for over a year.
Not anymore.
Today we move into 2.0.
It's a big opportunity here.
Big opportunity.
It's a big tank, it's gonna be awesome.
I'm excited to get it out of my garage.
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Make sure you hit that subscribe button
and that notification button because
we're gonna do a lot more videos from in here.
So I'm having to keep my kinda eye
on the prize right now because all these pieces
have been thrown up into the air.
And we're slowly puttin' em back together,
and I'm real excited about it,
but I gotta keep focus on what's the most important thing,
and what the end vision is,
cause right now things are a little crazy.
But, now I'm freshed,
dressed like a million bucks,
threw on my white socks with my all blue cuffs.
Stepped out the house,
stopped short,
Oh no,
I went back in,
I forgot my
Kidding, I forgot my bananas.
Rollin outta the house.
Killin it.
Headin to 2.0.
Crew's already there workin.
Feel's good.
Notice, dressed up for success.
Dress for success.
Practice success everyday.
Why are you dressed up to go to a greenhouse
where you're gonna get sweaty and hot?
Cause when I walk in there,
I'm ready to work.
I'm ready to get it done.
I'm ready to call people.
Get my electrician there.
Get my HVAC guy there.
Get my plumber that I trust there,
and get this show on the road.
That's it.
Plumber's on his way,
HVAC's gonna come there today.
Call everybody early in the mornin'
to get what you want.
Who owes you something?
Get them to give you what you need.
It's good.
Now we're gonna roll up in there,
and get organized,
get the feng shui right,
get the flow right,
get some of this trash picked up,
get everything kinda organized.
Did I mention this part?
It never really gets old.
Rollin up here.
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Where ya from bro?
Aaron down from Detroit.
- Detroit Michigan
- Why'd you come down?
- To swing the hammer.
Get the plywood and drywall up.
- Helpin out.
Helpin, everybody's like,
I'm gonna come down and help,
Aaron's like, yo I'm comin down.
You been down 3 times now?
Yeah dude, thank you so much bro.
We're gonna do a tour of it in a minute.
- Right now, I'm sittin on the soon to be toilet.
Putting in the ADA compliant handrail things right here.
So if someone gets up off the toilet,
they can do so quite easily.
We will have a urinal right here.
And, gettin some drywall up on all
the interior walls of our structure here.
Right over here, we've got Dustin's office.
This is where all the hard work will be gettin' done.
We gotta cut in some boxes for
him down there to get all the high speed
interneting and webby nets up and happy.
And, I think that's about it.
Just get the rest of this sheet rock on the wall,
and pretty soon we'll get to texture,
and muddin and painting.
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- So, I'm takin' a break from drillin
real quick just to play and kinda
show you all plants.
I actually have more like,
work work to do,
but I like to play with aquarium plants,
and that's what I'm about to do.
I talk about this plant quite often,
but I wanna show a couple of different
angles with one of my favorite plants,
and that is Jungle Val.
This is actually Jungle Val Americana.
This is
You've seen clips of me walking
around shirtless with this.
There's a reason.
Love this plant.
It's a thicker variety.
But this is actually sellable,
this is actually not.
So I want to show what I'm going to do.
Currently I buy this plant from domestic suppliers,
but I have a lot of pieces that
simply are not doing that well,
are not long enough,
and just are not up to the quality of plant
that we're trying to sell.
So, I wanna show two things,
both how I'm gonna prototype the Val growing,
and also this great system right here.
First, I wanna work on this system right in here.
I don't know if you can see it,
but plants are growing absolutely bonkers,
those of you should be takin notes.
Plants take in light from everywhere.
So, this tank particularly has the most light,
because it gets that wonderful eastern sun that
comes like this,
so it gets hit from the top down,
and from the side.
Val is a tall and skinny plant.
And it has been growing tremendously in here
in a poor nutrients,
but just you know.
Oh this actually came out of my pond.
So this was my,
I mean I knew it was gonna grow good.
But it's my demo.
It's my proof.
This is the Vallisneria Americana.
That's new growth just in a random little cup of sass.
So what I want to do,
Josh has actually never grown plants
with good substrate,
so I'm gonna use,
I think this is either the Bright Well,
or the Fluval Stratum.
I'm a substrate hoarder.
So what I'm gonna do is,
I'm gonna plant this in here but while I do it,
I'm wanna show kinda how this system works.
I'm gonna take this water level half way down.
I'ma turn this valve right here.
It's got the Fluval S6 pump, I believe.
So the water is now stopped from going in there.
This is the Crinum that had a little rot problem.
It is growing back nicely.
This is a nother Crinum doing the same thing.
This is the return, okay.
So this is the return,
this actually feeds directly back into the basin.
Come around here.
So this feeds here,
goes down into the basin down here.
So, it goes down to the basin here.
You can see the bubbles here.
So what I'm gonna do now is I've got this feed line,
I'm gonna flip this lever open
inside of here is one of these.
I'm gonna take this,
and you can watch all this stuff,
I'll stir it up.
So, lets say I have a problem in here.
Let's just say some plant's all jacked up.
And it's loosing all of it's leaves,
cause plants do that.
I can flip this lever,
if ya follow me,
it comes here,
it's going here,
going through here, through here,
these three are off at this time.
It's gonna go down through here,
it's gonna make a turn here,
and it's gonna run here.
So now, this water is going out the
back of the property,
which we'll spare you the look of that.
So, this water level is slowly going down.
So what I'm doing is I'm doing a full water
change on just this system,
this part of the system right here.
This is a modification of the original 1.0 design
where I had an overflow siphon.
My guys used to always get upset with me
at how often they would break the siphon.
There's no breaking of a siphon,
it's right here, it's a valve.
So, that's pullin water out.
While that's pullin water down,
I'm gonna show you what I'm gonna do with the Val.
Val is an incredible root feeder,
and so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take this stuff right here.
And I've got some of this Vallisneria.
Italian Val actually.
And I'm gonna put it in here.
And this is gonna be.
I mean I can grow Val super fast.
And I actually wish it wasn't
restricted to this container,
but Josh will yell at me if I just start
growing plants in a random system.
So, I'm just gonna put these in here like this.
And we're just gonna watch this little tub.
We're gonna come back in a video later on.
Some of these are not sellable,
so I'll just pick through the shorties and all that.
Some of them have little runners
on them so they're okay,
but I mean if I sold somebody this,
they wouldn't like that.
So, we'll take a little runner like this,
and we'll shove these down into here.
Me and my toes.
And, what you want to do when you're planting
plants is you want to get the roots
further down in than you think you
need because that's where they do
a lot of the feeding.
That's a nice piece,
it's gonna go in here.
And then these little slubs which are not bad
but they're just not long.
Now, Val's gonna melt back.
Now we know that.
Now here's the beauty of it.
These are actually in the same type of conditions
in the other tank over there.
So they've been living for a while
in the same water,
and now this is low,
turn this on
right here,
and then I'm gonna put this in here.
Now this is gonna over flow and probably make
a little bit of a mess,
but see how that's dirtied up all of the water?
Now what's nice is none of this water
until this dirty water hits here,
it's not going back into the basin.
I'll open this up,
dirty water will slowly pull out of here,
get all the dirty water out.
And see this real quick here,
you can see how it's kinda pullin it all in,
see how it's sucking it in there?
All the little particles and everything
are going down and,
they're not going into the basin,
they're going down,
out of the actual building itself,
so I don't ruin my whole sump
in the process with that.
Lovin' the way this
giant Val is doin.
My goal is to have entire beds
of it at some point here.
But, you gotta crawl before you can walk.
Quick tip for you guys doing this here.
Ideally I'd have, I actually kinda do have,
if you have 1 inch here,
you wanna have 2 inches of drain size,
but because this pump is split out over
actually 5 outputs it's not a big deal.
By the way Elodea's been growing like crazy.
That's another plant we're never gonna buy again.
Just gonna have it and grow it,
a good pond plant and good aerator.
It doesn't matter with this,
because in the old days in the old Greenhouse 1.0
if this were to break siphon right here,
and you hear that sound,
it'd break siphon because air is gettin into the system.
Right here it just stops.
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By the way, you want as much atmospheric air
as possible in there.
And I want to show this system while it hits the top.
This is the return,
it hasn't reached this level yet,
but when it does,
it's coming up here,
see how it got quiet as soon as it came up there?
Now this is actually the return,
so this will go down into the basin,
but I just wanted to show you all,
if I wanted to have a secondary overflow thing, boom.
And that will not be able to keep up with that.
But that's gonna dump out like that.
Now I'm gonna put it back in the basin.
But that's good, it's got the full pump.
But what I can do is open up all these
cause these have been closed
to see how fast I can fill it,
and everything is good.
(running water)
Full go on that one.
So now, it's back to normal running speed
Jungle Val's over there.
We've also got some fun Jungle Val
shirts you all should check out.
But, yeah I'm super excited to watch
how fast that's gonna grow in that
little container right there.
And now I'm cooled off.
Now it's time to go drill again.
All right folks, we're getting closer every day.
Feng shui's slowly coming back.
Do me a favor and drop me a comment on
what I should do for the opening
party here at Greenhouse 2.0.
Everybody make it an awesome week and tank on.
Later.
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