i have an idea
lighting mounts now it's getting a little late here so i'm not going to be doing too much more
tonight but uh and the angle of the camera is making these all warped and bent but they're not
uh oh technically speaking this one is an inch higher than the rest it looks like it looks
like it's a foot higher when you stand here it really looks really high but it's not these all
stand about 80 inches um like 80 inches from here to the floor basically what the plan is
is that i want to have lights and pendants uh strapped to these so that they can't really be
taken off the tank they can't be touched they can't be moved around they just hang
above them cords going down into the wall just a minute here imagine this entire wall covered
in rock and these all painted black blending in it's going to look absolutely amazing well
absolutely phenomenal now these are about five and a half feet long i wanted to make them five and a
half feet so they don't actually come out to the ends of the aquariums uh because i'm most likely
going to run four foot long shop lights because there's going to be a lot of projects out here
that you're going to be able to replicate at home and this is technically something i've always
wanted to do but i've never done it now you'll also notice you'll notice a couple things about
these that you might have concerns about first and foremost the brackets are upside down true
that's technically not how they're supposed to go however i thought that it would just look better
if i changed my mind i can easily flip them around the second thing you guys are going to
be concerned about is the boards are they going to bow yeah they're wood they're going to go towards
gravity and what's pulling them uh and if that ever becomes like an eyesore flip them over no
big deal or i'll double up the thickness of the board but i've already been testing you see a
shoplight over here i was already trying it in fact i brought them home to see uh well i was
at my local hardware store and i saw these shop lights for 15 bucks they're very low in wattage
though and they're not very bright so i decided i'll just get one and i'll take it home first
and test it out and this is what happened okay so this is what the prana tank looks like with just
one pendant style light turned on what you guys have always seen it's very cool shimmery looks
different let's see what it looks like without that on and this four foot long led shop light
so much different color we still get the shimmering uh to an extent because it is an
led light but this is you know sitting as you can see like sitting right on top i can't angle it i
guess to make it look different uh but of course this will be much higher above the tank which i
think might light the tank up a little differently i think we should try it and see what happens
but you know for what these costs and how little power they use it could be a pretty viable option
so will i use these no for 15 bucks though i was pretty excited but at only end at only 18 watts uh
it wouldn't take much power but i also want to grow plants in a lot of these even if it's
just easy to grow plants that don't require a tremendous amount of light simply because
i think that just really sets the aquarium off i don't plan on doing like massively heavily planted
tanks out here because well biotypes typically aren't like that but they do have plants which
by the way you guys know at my house i'm on a well here i'm on municipal water it's supplied
by the town it's treated the parameters are drastically different so i'm a little worried
about the entire acclimation process i'm going to be okay but it's something i'll have to take some
extra steps to make sure the fish are okay when transitioning to this water but the water at home
is incredibly hard incredibly alkaline it's so hard you could walk on an mph of 7.8 i'm going
to show you the water test from this location here shortly and all it does is scream plants
now let me show you something here um you can't hit your head on that obviously oh in the tank
got it
right to about here so a perfect viewing angle for the average person and tons of room
in between the tanks now you guys just had to get me to move these tanks and make more space
it's about five feet this also gives me plenty of space to hang lights or raise them and adjust
them as i would at the original gallery because i showed you guys how much an aquarium's appearance
changes just based on how high a light is or how low it is what it's angled at near the front is
it near the back et cetera i still want to be able to do that with this i don't want to just have one
option i like playing with the lighting because it causes traumatic or dramatic effects so from here
to there it's about 18 inches of playroom i gotta say i really like this but i'm showing
you guys this project really early it's nowhere even close to being ready or finished and it
would have looked a lot better if painted in the rock walls there and there's tanks in place and
we have the lights hanging but i want to get your feedback let me know what you guys think
so we've only got five of them completed so far or at least
started i still have to do five more and that's the thing with the projects out here is like
it's not about just doing one for example when it comes to the 180s i have to do everything
10 times it's exhausting so i'm only building five of them now because well a couple of reasons not
all of the stands that are going to be in place and all the tanks are going to be like that these
four will come out like this but there's gonna be another one flat against the wall instead of
jutting out um and they'll have different styles of lighting for these five definitely like this
you know maybe i end up changing my mind depending on how everything turns out but we'll see what
happens yeah and i think that's where we'll leave off on today's video i got so much more we got to
move on to and as i'm doing other projects i always glance around seeing what else i got to
work on and you know i don't even have to be doing anything and i'm just bubbling with ideas this
is so exciting and the past year and a half has been so tough on so many people with the
pandemic and being locked down and um you know self-admittingly i've been going through a lot
of stuff and i haven't been acting myself in any way whatsoever and that's been really tough on me
but the gallery for myself and i hope this kind of relates to many of you guys as well
it's just something new for a new journey um and i just feel the change and i i i'm so grateful
for everything that's happening right now and uh you know i'm so thankful for you guys literally
once again making this sort of thing possible and if you want to help and continue the journey of
the new public aquarium gallery you could do so by liking the video commenting subscribing
you know the basic stuff that goes a long way with uh youtube creators and then of course
if you want to have some direct help you know you can go ahead and buy my merch it's actually pretty
cool stuff um i wrote a book you can read that get it that's the ultimate do-it-yourself handbook
for the do-it-yourself course link is in the description you know where you become a member
of the channel those are like financial things you could do to support but you don't have to
just watching the videos and liking and and that sort of thing helps me out tremendously and i just
want to let you guys know how much i appreciate it i hope i don't get mushy in every video i'm
just so happy right now i'm so excited i have so much to look forward to you know and i hope this
has the same effect for you guys as well anyways thanks for watching guys see you in the next video
oh phil i feel like jean-claude van damme
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