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Sunday how is everybody doing Memorial
Day weekend here in the United States of
America I hope everyone's having a nice
SOT you know long holiday break or
whatever a lot of people have Monday off
if you're in another country it's when a
lot of Americans chill out and celebrate
those who will serve their Armed Forces
so appreciate anyone who's out there you
know serving the Stars and Bars what
have you in the military I really
appreciate your helping our country out
so uh here's what's going on today folks
it's Sunday I got to tell you um I took
a little break last week I appreciate
Brian you know filling in for me on the
species Sunday talking about some great
cichlids down his brother stanca I know
we didn't get the camera turn the right
way but I delivered a video for me I
needed a blow folks I really did I
needed a break this past month my wife
finished up five years of her doctorate
so she's now doctor so it's mr. and dr.
now great but um so I've been helping
her the month of beginning of May have
been pretty crazy helping her get
through that with the kids I hope her
getting you know like a 30 page paper
done or 50 pages or something like that
I was ridiculous so I was like putting a
lot of mister mom or whatever so we
needed a nice break so I took a little
over a little over ten days off so I
appreciate that I appreciate people's
patience to an are ran out a couple of
my fertilizers offer some folks yours go
out on Tuesday so thanks for that
but um yeah my boom got my summer
haircut on what have you so um today
before I get rolling I want to talk
about two things I want to talk about
balance and I want to talk about this
aquascape I've been working on here but
first I got a couple of questions for
you all I'm thinking about doing some
other visits to aquariums and having
like fish tank people meetups there
here's what I was thinking obviously I'm
in Kentucky I'm thinking the closest
aquariums to me are the shed the one and
not check Chattanooga like the Smokies
whatever I've seen signs for it
obviously the Newport which actually
we're talking to them again
another one and then the Atlanta
aquarium so if anyone's got any other
East Coast aquariums I'd like to get
your opinion on where I should head to
and you know hop on the phone smile and
dial those folks and set up a nice
little event to meet you all so it's
something I want to do more of I was
thinking about that on vacation so
that's that's one of the questions I
want to know is what aquarium should I
visit stick to the East Coast now just
whisk and blow in the comments I'd
appreciate it the other thing is the
already good aquarium podcast out there
I feel like I'd like to connect with
more people and like a different setting
the the one on one with Rick was
well-received and I think people just
having dialogues with people it is good
and I'd like to get on some some
podcasts maybe start my own I don't know
but I'd love to know if anybody knows or
any good aquarium podcast I saw aqua mix
and Blues who were the only ones I could
really find if anyone's got any other
ones that the love to hear from you and
figured out how to let me know on that
so today's episode balance in aqua
schema straight aquascape first here so
look folks we've got the 40 tall um you
know same deal with like needing to
clear my head for just like business and
life and all that on vacation can lay my
head away from this aquascape coming
back to it was a lot of fun because I
saw like what it needed like right away
like all boom boom boom so it's not done
look they're never done but here's what
I've been doing I switched out the
original plan was to use a Krenim Natanz
I switched the credit the tansy the
fatter one columnist Robin is a thinner
one I switched it out with this credit
and I've been saving specifically for
this aquascape and I'm liking the way
that's going you'll also see the star
guy ripping sat for a week and a half in
natural daylight of dirt surprise
surprise it grew like crazy so I'm
really really liking that and what I did
is I actually aborted on some of the
Nubian on a petite that I had grown in
there a little too slow burger wasn't
filling in fast enough and I think I can
just do kind of Starro around there so
that's one of the adjustments I made um
you can see here I'm going to pick the
camera up in a minute to show you this
but I took the beach out a little bit
I'm thinking about taking it back a
little more in the front I actually had
that in the ridge
design so I did that I also had the
giant sad Sagittarian chilensis which is
available a few pieces on Boston's fish
tanks calm I like the way that is
because it's not going to get much
taller than that
so the Krenim its hands is going to have
the full height and then the Sagittario
or the giant size or sad chilensis is
going to be kind of like at the middle
height which I do like the way that's
going I also added some crypt parva ryan
osborne eat your heart out later on I
owe you some of this goldfish River Ryan
wants a crypt parva been really happy
with the way it's adapted it looked like
it was growing above water and appears
odd it's doing just fine
with that in this tank it's a little
like you know straggly and kind of just
just getting used to being in there so I
added that and I think I like the way
that's going to that's going to turn out
I feel like that's going to straighten
up and kind of look pretty solid right
here to go like you know a little height
here and I got sad here then I got the
big crinum going all throughout so I
like the way that's going I'm not sold
on the front here this part will make it
work with the Storrow I've definitely
definitely definitely loving the Storrow
so um I also didn't know more plants on
the beach that was kind of I wanted to
try it out with the Storrow to see how
it grew it grew grating them in there
unfortunately I do have dirt underneath
there I'm not concerned about it because
it's not that big of a layer but I
lowered the level of the sand out a
little bit to kind of get that down more
slope there so yeah no more plants on
the beach and I also added the hi
droplet here which is a plan I'd like to
get more of so that's what I'm doing
it's always an adjustment there's always
something happening I also added the
anubias here I feel like that softened a
little bit um and I was reading an
interesting article in the aquatic
gardener and talked about they did these
aquascaping contests and they had
basically everybody could just bring in
a tank that you already had done you had
to like get all your stuff there and in
one spot and it was interesting because
I complained about the hardscape with
this because the hardscape is the hard
part and the old penderson I believe the
guys name is that he said that like the
good aqua skippers took they had a day
and a half to do this stuff they spent
you know at least half of that time or
more figuring out the hardscape so like
I said the hardscape is the hard part so
um look I'm not 100% so long as what I
like where it's going on I think with
the crown I'm getting bigger it'll be
alright get some growth in around it so
whatever we're working with it but I
just think that's an interesting part
cuz it's hard to find good driftwood
folks it really really really is it you
have to go through like the manzanita
box that I bought I bought a huge box to
whittle down to like the you know six
eight pieces I have in my 220 and I'm
still 100% with those but it takes a lot
of driftwood so just know that it takes
a lot of driftwood you're not just going
to like boat oh this is the one like it
takes a lot of that and then you got to
modify it so hard escapes the hard part
um but anyway I'm rolling with this one
I thought that was interesting to know
that people that were doing these really
professional like award-winning
aquascapes uh took you know a whole like
you know more than half a day to just
like figure out the hardscape so that's
what I'm doing I also wanna show you
guys this check this out I got to I got
a guide about algae coming out here
pretty soon I'm going to do what I did
with the the dirted tank guide and kind
of just release a few copies of it to
get some feedback make it better but
it's about algae and I want to talk
about I've been actually been able to I
had algae problems in this tank this is
a greenhouse tank obviously this was not
aquascape but you can see I finally got
it dialed in here with the right amount
of light right amount of daylight and
the right amount of co2 I've been doing
the passive co2 in there you can see the
little lot you can see that right there
that's like the Loretto co2 I pump it in
underneath here and it fills up and then
it passively
comes out obviously it's not the best
looking thing but it's out here in the
greenhouse I don't care crypts are fine
now Rotel is fine the giants and Ludwig
EO wisteria doesn't care so yeah that's
what I'm doing I got the Crypt Parbat
down there for some of y'all so I wanted
to show that and then down here I'll
just show the close parts here you can
see the star I was doing quite well you
can see where I had the beach originally
and I move that the black part over I'm
gonna probably
move that max I'm going to pull a little
hook in here for that the anubius under
here I got to do some of those rocks not
really feeling that but the Storrow all
throughout is definitely going to be
cool and then I went on a nice rant
about having filters hanging out I need
to get the clip and hide that but it did
get the tank filtered up nicely so
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thanks for letting me take a break and
let Brian to go over feels good I'm
relaxed refreshed or not excited hope
you guys have an awesome holiday weekend
and make it a very one take on right