hi everybody joey here again and welcome back so today hi everybody joey here again and welcome
back so in today's video we're i can't 18 days folks and i'm going crazy over here
okay so i did try to make the podcast and explain everything that's happening but i have a minor
problem a little more than four years ago when we started this initial aquarium gallery i didn't
say a peep about it or plan or hype or anything because i didn't want to have to try to explain
what's to come without having a space to kind of look at it all now when i announced this initial
gallery i was able to come in the front door and kind of give you a general idea as to what's to
come and what's to be planned for example i pretended there you was a 2 000 gallon tank
here and i paced the floor and i looked at it it was a pretty interesting and exciting time but now
it i don't get the keys to the new location for 18 days for those that don't know what i'm talking
about i get it four years ago i launched an aquarium gallery this was a a building i dedicated
to the aquarium hobby showcasing all the different types of aquariums and what's possible within our
hobby different areas uh different locations of where fish are from and different species
et cetera et cetera you name it and since then the gallery has gone through a tremendous amount
of changes kind of just like uh you know set up a tank tear it down set up a tank tear down new fish
just showing you all kinds of things and over the years i just got so disconnected with it because
i was like this isn't what a aquarium hobby is like and the hobby isn't just about setting up
a new tank and getting a new fish and adding it to the tank it's also about creating their scapes and
letting it mature watching the fish mature and establish their territories and behaviors and
begin to breed and spawn it's it's so much more than just the the flash and pizazz that
unfortunately a lot of youtubers get trapped in that bubble of thinking this is all people
want to see because well of course it gets the most views but we can't discredit the effect
that the aquarium gallery had on the hobby just in general we're not going to get into the specifics
but i've always regretted not going bigger not doing permanent installations and of course
not opening it to the public for those that didn't see this to summarize i'm shutting this gallery
down sorta we're going to talk about that today and what's actually going to happen to the tanks
and fish and i'm opening up a place that's five times bigger with twice a minimum of twice as many
aquariums as the original gallery the original gallery had like 20 so this one will have 40 or so
um and and then you know everything that we want to do is going to actually happen
but for example if i were to say look at this wall guys and imagine no tanks are here look at
this wall i'm going to have 120s here and 120s there just imagine how exciting that could be
and you guys loved it and you guys loved the idea and we ended up doing it but now i'm to
the point where i don't have a place to show you what's possible and what's not so what i'm getting
at is this i've recorded the podcast that i promised i was going to do that is going to
explain everything and i realized that i was explaining uh something that needs visuals
otherwise there's no way you guys can possibly understand or get on board with what i'm doing
um because i'm just like okay and then that space that you have no idea about or what it looks like
or the dimensions or the length or what it's going to look like with a human being in there
is going to have this i've decided that's just silly uh let me circle back i'm still
going to do a podcast where i answer your questions and a lot of them are really good
but i had to stop it when i realized you guys need a visual so we're just gonna wait 18 days before i
show you and tell you what the generalized plans are going to be otherwise it's kind of
i wouldn't get excited about something i can't see i mean it's
it is what it is anyways we have 18 days to kind of shut the gallery down and it's not going to
happen at the 18th day i shut everything down of course not at the new gallery when i first get
in there we got to do a little bit of drywall a little painting little cleaning a little prep work
getting it ready taking fixtures down that we want to switch out et cetera et cetera the first month
we're just going to get it ready to move aquariums in there but the main question
that i want to cover in today's video and to show you what to expect over the next couple of weeks
or for the rest of the month i think i'm gonna have to go back to at least for this month um
for the i'm probably gonna have to start going back to daily videos or something very close to
it which is good because i'm gonna have to get used to making daily videos anyways what i want
to talk about in those videos is quite simple um each video i'm going to document what's going on
with the tank the fish um the 2000 of course the everything from when we got them till now it's
just a basic generalized all-in-one update do a feeding of each tank and explain where those fish
fit in into the new gallery and to put things rather simply everybody's they all circling me
everybody's coming with us every tank that we have out here now will go into the new aquarium gallery
it's going to be uh different stands of course and whatnot but the only thing that can't go is
the 2000 because i built this into the ground it's made of concrete uh there's no way i could pick it
up and lift it or move it but the 700 is going to go there and instead of being up against a wall
none of these tanks are going to be up against a wall besides like one end and the rest will be a
peninsula an island that you can walk around and look at from all sides besides one that will be
for some of them others you'll be able to walk around the whole thing etc cetera but i don't
want to get i don't want to mislead or give away any of the ideas until we're in there so i can
really get you guys excited and you can have a visual and be like yeah i can i can imagine
this now i can picture this now but the main question over the past couple of days and i've
been really listening and really watching is like everybody's concerned what's gonna happen to the
current fish um and that sort of thing basically everybody's coming that can the rays the arowana
um all every fish that's out here will the only aquarium that's going to remain is this one and
uh you know it's going to stay a community tank maybe we eventually have to use it for rays where
the the rays are breeding and whatnot but uh i do think that some of these fish like the severums
and walrus would fit really well into a south american aquarium the archers are going to be
put into an asian uh themed or you know these are all going to be biotype type aquariums so
the archers would be do really well in an asian themed or specific region within asia uh so there
are some fish that i already have that are going to be a great size because we want a lot of these
fish to be a relatively good size instead of like getting a tiny little showing you a tiny little uh
severum to somebody that doesn't have fish tanks and it just looks like every other fish
so we do want some of them to be kind of you know big adult and pretty impressive but for the first
year a lot of this is just going to be well we'll see i don't want to ruin anything or tell you guys
too much but like so a lot of fish are going to be in there and if you don't remember what i said
we're going to be doing themed aquariums that uh showcase every aspect of the aquarium hobby this
is going to be an aquarium gallery this is not a public aquarium i keep seeing people saying
joey's opening a public aquarium can't wait to see him get a black shirt or uh sharks or you know um
you know a twenty thousand fifty thousand gallon aquarium no no no no no no this is not a public
aquarium and by public aquarium i mean it's not like the shed in chicago it's not like the georgia
aquarium in atlanta georgia it's not like that it's an aquarium gallery like what we already
have aquarius so all the aquariums are going to be rel well they're going to be the a lot of
the bigger aquariums or the main aquariums i guess you could say will be bigger than these 120s we'll
probably be upgrading them we are upgrading them to 180s although the 120s will be there as well
um the 700 the 375 there will be some relatively large aquariums but the focus of the aquar
aquarium gallery is to i don't i'm not trying to impress anybody i'm not trying to like look
how big my tank is i want you to be able to do this i want the general public to look at that
and be like oh wow i'd love to have something like that in my home that is the point of the aquarium
gallery is to actually grow the aquarium hobby this time we're just doing it right
we did it right but we're gonna do it a lot better you know uh more aquariums proper representations
of different uh aspects of the aquarium hobby like who doesn't like an african cichlid tank
well we'll have malawi we'll have tanganyika we'll have south america we'll have uh asian we'll have
central american we'll we'll do australian we'll do all different types of continents and whatnot
but i also want to do themed tanks like we'll have a discus tank probably we'll have a piranha tank
probably when i say probably we already have the fish we'll do a goldfish tank probably and many
people want me to do goldfish again and then maybe some pet fish et cetera like the puffers maybe
we'll get another flower horn who knows but we'll definitely be uh trying to encompass all aspects
of the aquarium hobby which um while staying true to myself so over the next two and a half weeks
you can expect a lot of videos from me a lot of updates and because they're technically going
to be the final update of that aquarium before we have to like uh but the tanks will still be
out here for two to three months until um because i think a lot of people think that as soon as on
june 1st it's open to the public no that's when i get the keys and i can get in there and clean and
and paint and do the drywall and then a month later i can start moving tanks in
and it's going to be months of daily videos before you can ever consider it opening it's probably
going to actually open um in 2022 because i'm not opening it during the the way my local economy is
and the the restrictions and i i'm not doing it we're in a lockdown right now worst time to start
anything like this but i want to bring you guys along for every step of the way through the videos
anyways i promise to get that podcast done by the end of the weekend uh i'll have it out with
q a lots of information lots of questions lots of interesting questions you guys have been asking
which will be incredibly revealing so if you're not subscribed to the podcast you can so in the
description below or link somewhere it's it's called aquariums unfiltered podcast super easy
to find hope you guys enjoyed it but i just want to give you guys a heads up of uh you know what
the aqua new aquarium gallery is going to be and of course uh a timeline and whatnot of when we're
getting in there et cetera et cetera i've already talked about this but i've seen this repetitively
uh in the comment section and and people are so worried about what's gonna happen out here
and when all the tanks are out here and this just remains this might have to be the
quarantine facility depends on the space that i have at the new place i don't know what i'm
gonna be capable of i do know what i'm going to be able to display to the public but behind the
scenes like where everything else is going to go that runs the entire building a lot of it might
have to come here like the quarantine systems we might have to do it here which is fine i'd
rather quarantine offsite anyways which would definitely be an interesting and fantastic way
to promote the importance of quarantine because i see a lot of people still not doing it anyways
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so we need to target on my mind is going a mile a minute right now and i have so much to do
today so many calls and so many things fridays are insane for me i got water changes to do i hope you
guys are excited i know i am i just want to get everything going i i i shouldn't have announced
it so soon either because i knew you guys would hound me for questions and i don't know a lot of
the answers yet because i don't even i've been in there for collective 15 minutes i know the layout
i i know a lot of things about the building but it was all structural and all that sort of deal i
never really and and i know the square footage and some dimensions and whatnot i know what's going to
work and what's not but i don't know specifics june 1st we'll get in there and we'll do a walk
around and i'll do a visual of everything that we planned et cetera et cetera et cetera you guys are
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