We're only ninety five days ago when we announced the aquarium gallery for the first time in that video
We walked around an empty
Building and I kind of gave you guys an idea and tried to give you a visual of what was to come
Including walking around to pretend aquarium. That wasn't even there yet
Now we don't have to pretend anymore, not only is the aquarium built
But it's filled with water. This is a concrete
Aquarium the walls are eight. Inches thick it stands four feet tall ten feet long and seven feet wide holding about
2,000 gallons of water I'll have a complete tutorial on how I built this entire aquarium
Shortly with that said the aquarium is now filled with water
I've also brought it up to temperature basically the temperature
I need to stock it with my fish the tank only been filled for about three days now
And I'm going to fill it and let it sit here for about a week. Go through a water test
Make sure there's no leaks or anything like that
Which is what you should do with all very large aquariums that you just built you want to make sure
That before you stock it or aquascape
it that it's not going to leak I'm telling you you don't want to escape the tank as well as
Socket only to have to drain it all and move the fish between you and me though
I don't think this is going to leak at all
Let me go ahead and show you what I've got done this week
And what's to come the filtration and plumbing is basically done?
I've also installed all heaters as well as the in-floor heating which we'll get to in a minute and what I'm doing to monitor
The flow rates on that however you can see right here
This is all the power strips as well as you know the power adapters
I like to put them in a bucket before I run the tanks just in case there's a leak everything's protected in this bucket
Once I confirm there's not any leaks, and there's not going to be any all arranged final placement
I'm most likely going to bolt a lot of this to the wall
So it never actually touches the ground the self is completely finished
And I've already tested running it however the drain portion is quite loud
And I got to figure out a way to silence that I have a few ideas, and I'll have that done shortly
This is a tankless water heater
And it's what's responsible for feeding the aquariums if you guys remember we ran some pex piping underneath the aquarium itself
Embedded into the concrete and zigzag throughout it the way this works is hot water is constantly being heated up on here
and there's a tiny little pump in here that will turn on start circulating the water into
These pipes that go underneath the aquarium
And there's a little sensor in the aquarium that's going to sense the aquariums temperature
when it drops below the temperature all this does is turn the pump on and
Circulates the water when the water reaches the temperature shut the pump off. It's very simple
I was able to raise the aquarium 12 degrees Celsius
Within eight hours, and that sounds like a relatively long time however once you get your aquarium up to temperature
That's the hard work, then it takes far. Less energy to maintain that temperature
I decided I want to make sure I know the water is flowing through it and how much water and how many gallons per hour?
And so forth is flowing through it, so I cut into the pipe here and put a little flow meter here
I got this all on Amazon relatively cheap
I think was like ten fifteen bucks, and it's just a basic info inline flow meter again
I'll clean up all the wires and everything else in the coming days as you can see the water is now pumping through the aquarium
We have some ecotec Mp. 60 wave makers in currently. I'm just testing one on each side
I'm supposed to have four like 2 on each side however these are pumping
7,500 gallons per hour I also hooked up the ecotech reef link and I got to tell you that thing is awesome
I can control absolutely everything from it, and you know when I get good at it
I'm going to show you guys a few things about it like I said
I'm only using two of the wave makers and right now
they're just on a pulse mode basically they shut off and then slowly ramp up and
Shut off again it does that for about 16 hours a day then at night time?
I've got it down to constant mode which it's just constantly blowing the water instead of doing this however
I'm only running the power heads or the wave makers at about 35%
Basically give the fish in the aquarium a chance to rest and not be blown around
But how does all of this work well first and foremost these are all of the inputs?
I'm not finished with them on the inside
I still have to add some grates to make sure the fish don't get sucked up right now
it's just
two inch ninety degree elbows on the inside of the tank water is being sucked in through these pipes here on the other side of
The wall that comes through all of this soft plumbing and the first two pumps which these are the the new vector m ones they?
Pump about 2,000 gallons per hour each they go through this large canister filter
canister filters then returns the water out of this one and a half inch pipe through this 25 watt Uv sterilizer and
To the aquarium water then comes out of the middle pipe right here. There's two more returns
Oh, and I'm going to explain those another one of those drains comes down to this other ecotec vectra M1
And that's pumped up through the sump
Water is going to flow up through here flow through this sponge to be mechanically filtered and then
Overflows or pumps through those holes there
This is going to be filled with biological media you guys will see that shortly a lot of you guys are asking me
How are you going to cycle the aquarium, and I've said it a few times
I already have over a hundred liters of cycled media that is going in the sump so this tank is going to start right off
On the beginning cycle so I can add fish almost immediately we'll talk about when we add the fish in a minute after
Biologically filter the water flows through this last chamber and goes down through this drain pipe
Where the heaters are also going to be I have a bunch of these 500 watt heaters that are going to supplement the in-floor heating
In case you know gets a little cold in here, or whatever the case
I want to make sure that the temperatures in here are consistent, but having such a large volume of water
I need to be able to back this aquarium up with a ton of heating power when needed water then comes down low to the
Bottom of the sump through this two-inch pipe and returns out of the far left two inch return like I said though
It's not turned on right now. I still have some work to quiet it down. It's quite loud
It's making some sucking noises, and then on this side. It's bubbling
I don't want to have that I want it to be as silent as it is in here right now and as you can see
There's no noise, then we have this last overflow right here
and that's exactly what that is that's a 90 degree overflow the water level will always stay at that overflow unless I put in a
Pipe I can raise the water level in the tank right now. We're just testing things however
It's a purpose of this is directly related to how I'm going to be doing my water changes
And how will I be doing them technically?
I won't be I told you guys before and I've done a ton of videos on it on these drip systems, basically
This is a 20 PSI regulator
It's going to regulate how much pressure comes out when I turn this valve here
Water can begin to flow out of it
All I have to do is attach the airline hose
run that to the sump and
That's going to constantly drip fresh water into the aquarium all that extra water being added to the tank is clearly going to raise that
Water level, and that's when this overflow kicks into play now strip systems. Technically don't change the water they work on the process of dilution
basically if you take a glass of water, that's dirty
and
You asleep or clean water into it all that old water is going to
Overflow out of it and eventually that water is very clear that's kind of how this works however the water is going to overflow through
This pipe which is connected to a hose that comes to the wall and then basically overflows into this
Utility tub here again things are just roughly put in here, so I'm just I just have a clamp there holding it in place
But you get the idea, but does that mean I'll never have to do water changes
Well, technically no
But what it does mean is that I won't have to do them nearly as much essentially it's going to prolong them
incredibly far instead of doing say a weekly water change
Every other day. I'll only have to do a water change. Maybe once a month or every other month
It's going to depend on the parameters of the aquarium
And you know the waste and what's produced in the size of tank for me
It takes a few months to get to know an aquarium and what's best for it
But once we get on a proper schedule
I'll know exactly what it needs however based on the sheer volume of the aquarium a drip system is
typically drips water and slowly
this is probably going to need a
Constant stream of water which isn't that bad of a thing because being in Canada here
And my frost line being about four feet in the ground
And that's where all the plumbing is coming from that means that the water is always going to be running at least to a certain
Extent meaning that it'll be even more difficult to freeze my pipe
So a few more things to be hooked up including the battery backups which was interesting when I was
Connecting the reef link
I realized that when the power goes out and we go to battery backup power
I can run all pumps at like 20% or 50% it will all be automated
which will prolong the life of these battery backups meaning I'm going to get more length more life and a
Longer time period Before my power goes on so I'm not gonna have much to worry about but let's not forget about this plug here
You see this little bad boy means that I could run the entire building on a generator when needed now I've shown you guys this
before however
It's putting the building on a generator means when the power goes out I can select which piece of equipment which supplies
I want to have running. I won't run the hot water tank
I won't run. You know certain things, but when that happens
I select what I want turn them on or off and then switch the generator feed over basically foolproof
Which is a good thing for me?
So a few more odds and ends to complete with the aquarium very small stuff basically not even a day's work
However, let's talk about the facts of the tank doesn't have a cover you guys remember I use the polycarbonate
greenhouse panels that are really cheap Flexible indestructible clear Etc
I've talked about these before I could basically take them all off at once put them into a little pile
And you know put them back on the aquarium
Now from the tanks a few days with these lids on it
And I'm excited to say that even at the temperature
I needed to be at the humidity levels in this room have not changed whatsoever
I'm also happy to say that the heat pump that heats the entire building here doesn't have to turn on nearly as much because
This now acts as a heat sink now once we have this entire room filled with aquariums. It's going to become even more
Energy-efficient believe it or not okay?
let's talk about what's to come what are we going to stock the tank when are we going to escape the tank let's get a
Timeline together
well
Basically I've got to do another big water change on the aquarium just to make sure I remove any dust or anything that got into
The tank that's always a good idea when you built an aquarium for the first time you could fill it up
You can bring it to temperature do whatever testing you want to do however at the end of the day?
You should do a large water change just in case there's any impurities that got leached into the aquarium
So I got to do that. Maybe I'll do that today or tomorrow
since the tanks been filled for three days
I'm going to give it another four days before I add fish possibly only another three days. We'll see
Before I add the fish though we have to actually scape the tank now all of that malaysian
Wood is all been soaked it's been pre
soaked for almost a month now
And it's ready to go in the aquarium so to begin I'll be able to add in the driftwood but as for plants
It'll be a little while longer because I'm undecided on the lighting yet
But I do know a lot of you are asking me if I'm going to be using this
Pendant light which lights the room and the answer is simply
No, that's not going to grow the plant from want to keep so today or tomorrow. I'm going to drain about
50% of the water while doing that water change, I might even scape the tank as well
then we can start adding the fish now originally the plan was to add the rays first the rains being added just in case the
Air Wanna get settled first, and he doesn't like new fish being added to his tank
Although with the tank being so big and so tall and he's going to be up so high in the water the rays will be
So low in the water
I can't see there being any problem however the problem with the rays adding first
Is that all of the cycled Media?
is being run on his tank in the sump below so he might have to be added first so I can transfer the
Media over and then the next day or so ad in the race, whatever no
I got a few days to decide and
I'll get back to you guys on what I do most likely this coming Sunday. You guys should see the
Tank aquascape as well as the fish added and don't worry. I'll be recording all of that as well
It was open you guys enjoyed today's video
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