So earlier in the week we started by setting up this Asian aquarium
And all we've really got done was the hard scape for it
If you haven't seen that yet make sure you watch it because in today's video. We're kind of just picking up where we left off
Now I actually spent the weekend in New York doing a number of things including
Visiting my friend Justin but more on that in a later video today
We need to finish or at least continue on with plumbing this aquarium now. There's only so much
we're gonna be able to do in today's video so what I need to do is install the
Plumbing for the bottom aquarium now the bottom aquarium is actually going to be different from the top aquarium the top aquarium
Gets a drain and a return the bottom. Just gets a drain
It doesn't get a return through the background simply because this aquarium is draining down to this aquarium
It doesn't go through the background it
Just comes over in front of it, so all I need to do is figure out how I'm going to get this overflow
Through the background and here's how I figured out the best way to do it you see that overflow is going to connect to this
Two-inch bulkhead, but you could see through this bulkhead is the background this drill is gonna
get stomped by it, but if I Center the drill and
really
Just make sure it's completely centered. This is going to be a pilot hole for me watch this
Now because I gave myself a little bit of a pilot hole all I have to do is take this drill bit line it up
To that hole start drilling in and that's going to drill me a perfect 1/2 inch hole
That's going to allow me to run the plumbing through it
You see now when I run my pipe through it. This is the one in half-inch pipe
It goes right into that bulkhead that we installed earlier and allows me to install this h2o overflow from custom aquariums
Directly on to it and see how snug of a fit that is that's gonna be perfect now
I can move this over whichever way. I want to have it
As long as it's level
To disguise it a little bit more
But this is perfect very easy overflow to install
Now the next thing I'm gonna want to do is drill some small maybe quarter inch holes
Into the middle of the background trying to hide it in one of the logs
This is going to allow water to pass through the background when I open a ball valve for the water changing
Bulkhead that we showed you six times already when I turn that ball valve water is going to come out to be sucked through that
Bulkhead or the hole in the middle of the tank at the back
But the water needs a way to get through the background so these holes will allow it to and when I do that we can
Drain half the water for a water change now. I know I'm doing a lot of this backwards for example
I should have installed the background then worked on the plumbing the last thing of course
you're supposed to do is scape the tank, but just do to my timeline and
Availability of resources and time that I actually have to do this I have to do it in random orders
Which you probably shouldn't do it this way, but I'm going to show you how I do everything anyways
There's also going to be a bunch of debris floating in the tank from drilling through the background
I
Can either shop-vac that up?
or
Simply fill the tank up and then skim it out later because it's all going to float so the next thing I got to do
Now is take this 120 gallon aquarium down and install the next background however
I'm going to have to also install its bulkheads as well as
Basically repeat everything I did there now when lifting an aquarium you might think okay?
I can lift that amount of weight, but just due to its bulkiness and size
It's very it's really advisable that I don't lift it alone
I know I can lift the weight
But I'm probably going to break it because it's gonna be awkward and I might drop it
So I'm gonna get Gary to come over and help me lift this down before we do that
I just want to address one question or one concern. I kept getting in the last video and that is
Is the background upside-down?
Technically it is I installed it this way on purpose
I wanted the roots to come out like this as opposed to come down now arguably
It looks good either way and be your preference and my preference was to have them
Coming out of the ground to kind of match the stump over here it also
Resembles the wall root tank with the roots coming down and I wanted them to be dramatically different
So I installed it upside down on purpose
Okay now we can go ahead and install the background now this isn't an aqua tech or background. This is actually Universal rocks
It's not as
Precision Lea cut as the aqua tech or not as much detail or coloration, but it's still a pretty decent background
I'm going to install it identically as to the way. I installed the Aqua decor
Which is basically?
Just slide it into place
and
Then silicone it this one doesn't want to stay put so I'm gonna have to
improvise here
I'll have to use a lot more silicone with this one. There's all kinds of gaps in this one which is pretty disappointing but
Yeah, we can make it work, there's like a quarter inch gap all along the bottom
I don't know what they cut this with but luckily. There's a big enough gap behind this background
So I can get these bulkheads in afterwards. I installed the bulkheads now because I forgot to I'm just lucky enough that
Background has enough room behind it to get my arms in there, so just like the last background. We're gonna find some holes
Places to drill a few holes in here for the water change system, and then again. We're gonna come in through the back of the
bulkhead here find the center and
The same over here, okay, so the overflow as well as the return have now been installed now
these are a little different than you might have expected previously the
extension that comes on the
Overflow is supposed to just slide right into the bulkhead beam or flush to the tank
But since we have such a gap in between the background. I had to replace this smaller pipe with a
Longer PVC pipe that can extend the entire reach of the background, but as you can see here
it
Just slides right on and it's pretty flush now one of the things I like about this is that the only thing you see on
This overflow is a little bit of the bottom elbow this here is
Actually hidden by the trim, so it ends up looking really nice
With the top tank backup in place I can go ahead and drill through the side of the stand here
to accommodate the future wave makers
One of the things that I want to do before I move on to plumbing is I know that this tank is going to be
Pulled out for a couple of days as I plumb the tank and get the filtration system
running equipment installed and whatnot and those two days
I don't want to waste any time now that I don't have to move the aquarium out any more
I figured I'm going to fill the aquarium up by a couple of inches just enough to kind of almost submerge the roots
So that I can get it heads head start on
Sinking them because I know they're going to float I'm gonna go ahead and weigh down a few of them
Just to jump the gun I think that they're going to float the log is clearly probably not going to float
But a couple more inches of water completely submerge them
Give me the opportunity to actually sink them in advance because the plumbing is probably going to take a couple of days
And I actually have to run out now to grab more Plumbing Supplies last night. We began this and today
We're kind of wrapping up and you guys are supposed to see this video today anyways?
I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. I also like to thank you for watching me in a couple of days
I think we'll get this wrapped up