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- Time to go pick up Dee and go shopping.
Time to put some plants in that woman's tank.
Let's do this.
- Hey!
- [Dustin] Got you up early this morning!
The tank all right?
- Yeah, it's good.
- Flip it on here, boom.
Oh okay, yeah, it's definitely plant time.
Gotta take a moment.
- [Dee] Here we are!
Awe, how cute!
- [Dustin] Pow.
- [Dee] All right.
- [Dustin] Let's go shopping!
- [Dee] Let's look and see what we got going on.
Okay, so I wanna little bit of color in there.
- [Dustin] This is a fine looking plant.
- [Dee] Yeah, get that one.
- [Dustin] We got the poofy right there.
- [Dee] Now, it won't grow out of the fish tank, will it?
- [Dustin] We're gonna put these along in front of that.
- Wow.
- What's up, fish tank people?
- Hey everybody! - Dustin's Fish Tanks,
Dee's Fish Tanks bringing it to you
on a Sunday, baby.
How's everybody doing?
I hope you're doing well.
In today's video, we're gonna bring you
part two, Dee's Tanks.
Dee, I'm gonna get 'woo woo' with people, right.
- All right. - I say all this, like,
positive stuff, you ready for this?
- Go ahead.
- I woke up this morning.
I said, if I could have any job in the world,
what would it be?
I have the perfect job for me.
I'm gonna hook up my friend Dee.
My goal is to help people through my service.
I strive to be the best in the world
at what I enjoy doing, and look at the best
in all situations.
I will not worry about things I cannot control.
I work hard at these things and understand
you can't get what you want in life
without paying the price
and enduring the suffering to get it.
Anyway, so I woke up.
I was like, I'm gonna go set up a tank for Dee.
Dee, I love you to pieces, I'm so glad.
- And I love you, too!
- Everybody was loving this video!
I was like, we got to get this video rolling.
- Yes!
- [Dustin] Dee got to go shopping
at Dustin's Fish Tanks.
Nobody gets to go do that.
- I know, I feel so special.
- You should feel special!
So, we got her hooked up.
Today is part two.
We're gonna set the stage for you.
We're gonna lay out all the plants.
First things first, we got the FX4 tubes cut,
we got the shorter 36 inch standard double
from yours truly.
I'm gonna put Dee to work in a second here,
she's gonna hold that siphon.
We're gonna siphon this sucker down.
I'm not going to put any of the siphoned water in my mouth.
(spits and gags)
Yeah, gotcha.
- Ha!
- We're gonna drain it down,
then we're gonna plant it,
then we're gonna fill it up.
So, here we go, let's set it up, Dee.
- Subscribe to him, yo!
- I need you you over there holding that tube.
I'm gonna run into the bathroom.
Just right there, stand right there.
I'm gonna run to the bathroom and then I'm gonna go
(sucking sound)
Lay out all the plants.
Now, the reason I do this to drain it
is because it's easier to work on the tank
with everything out.
We've got a bunch of fun species played out,
laid out for you on a Sunday.
Dee, you were telling me your son makes beats.
We should have him throw some beats in this video.
- [Dee] (laughs)
- [Dustin] Boom, boom, gotta get it going.
Filter's unplugged, tube is cut.
With Dee, what we're gonna do,
Dee and D are gonna do it like this.
I've got one of my hot selling hygrophilas.
Dee, this plant is like the biggest sponge plant.
Everybody asks, 'Do we take the stuff out of there?
Do we take it out of the sponge?
Do we take it out of the rock?'
Yes, yes, yes my beloved customer,
yes you take it out of this.
Nice roots, and then I like to do this, like,
two or three stems,
and what you wanna do is you want to spread it out.
This is, this plant is gonna take over the whole show,
and that's fine because it's a big fast
nitrate absorbing plant, which means
the bigger this plant gets, the more fish
you can get.
Also known as water wisteria,
down in the back, and we're gonna get it.
The trick is to get it down, way down into the dirt,
so it's actually gonna go past the point
of like, where it would look cool normally,
because you wanna get way down in there
as hard as it can go.
So you wanna take this, and you wanna take the plant down
to the food.
So, we're gonna go all the way down here.
So we're gonna go all the way down,
you see that?
It goes all the way down there.
That's gonna do the plant more good
than being way up above, because now
it's down where it needs to be,
and then I'm gonna kick some of that over there,
and that's how you plant Hygrophila difformis.
This thing like that, pow,
and that's gonna stand up and look nice.
That's done.
- [Dee] We're done?
- [Dustin] We're done with that.
So now it's low, and then when you're done with that,
if you can grab me a paper towel,
we're gonna wipe the front.
I've got Ludwigia repens, rippin' it.
Right here, boom.
- [Dee] Echinodorus quadricostatus.
- Like that, quadrico-quadricostatus?
- I have no idea what I'm saying.
- Quadricostatus is just like a name of like a,
it sounds important.
- [Dee] Yeah, it does.
- [Dustin] Quadricostatus, like (laughs)
- [Dee] Yeah, uh huh.
- [Dustin] This is the quadricostatus, right here.
So, it's a narrower chain sword.
This plant is way down in there intentionally,
because I want it to go down to the roots.
So, even though you can't see the above part,
the below part is going down
into the nutrient-rich dirt substrate.
So you're like, 'Well that's hardly doing anything.'
Well yeah, but then once it hits the roots,
it's gonna go pow pow pow.
I like to do plants in clumps of three.
- [Dee] Uh huh.
- [Dustin] Because it just gives you a more natural look.
Like, if you were in the wild, you would see like,
a whole area of stuff.
- [Dee] Right.
- [Dustin] I'm gonna speak in layman's terms to Dee,
but there's this guy,
his name, and people watching this video know him,
his name is Takashi Amano.
He was this, a little Japanese legend of this,
this is called aquascaping.
- [Dee] Mm-hmm.
- [Dustin] And he said, his quote is,
'Creating nature is the ultimate luxury.'
- [Dee] Mm-hmm.
- [Dustin] I like the sound of that.
- [Dee] Me, too.
- [Dustin] And he died, and he was like the,
drop me a comment, fish tank people, about Takashi Amano
and his influence
on this wonderful hobby.
And yes, you can purchase all of these
on DustinsFishTanks.com.
- [Dee] (laughs)
That was your animation voice?
- [Dustin] That's right, that was my, like
Sunday Sunday Sunday monster truck rally.
(laughs)
- [Dee] Yeah, yeah.
So, what's the timer for?
- [Dustin] The timer just makes it so
you don't hafta turn the lights on and off,
it'll just automatically kick on at like,
a certain time.
- [Dee] Ah, that's cool.
- [Dustin] Yeah, it's pretty slick.
This is called Pogostemon stellatus.
This is like a big old bushy,
like it's gonna just, 'blagh'.
But we need that.
Fast grower, and this is gonna be one
you're like, 'That one's taking over.'
- [Dee] So if it's taking over, what do I do,
trim it down?
- [Dustin] Trim it, just like one of your customers
coming in, just hack it down.
- [Dee] That's what I did to my lucky bamboo
on the other side.
- [Dustin] Yeah.
- [Dee] When I see brown stuff,
I take my scissors and trim it all the way around.
- [Dustin] The plant likes that.
It sends off the new growth to the good spots
and the bad goes away.
Once you realize a plant is sending energy
to bad spots that are like,
bad leaves or whatever, it's wasting energy.
So, you just trim, you wanna trim anything
that looks bad, because the new growth
that's made for this environment will be sent up.
So, like some of those little things
with some little, like bad spots on them,
if you wanna get in there and trim
and get your kind of flow on,
trim that off because that'll help stimulate
the new growth and stuff that's actually growing
in this environment prepared for this,
and you're gonna say, he's gonna say,
'When can I get some fish?'
- [Dee] Yeah, I see you gotta wait 30 days,
- [Dustin] You say...
- [Dee] And I said it like 15 times.
- [Dustin] Oh yeah, they gotta hear it.
And yeah, I mean you could add fish sooner
but it's just, let the bacteria work,
and we're about to fill it up.
Dee, can you do me a favor and connect
that big red hose?
- [Dee] Mm-hmm, outside?
- Outside, that would be the easiest way
to fill it up.
That would be helpful.
It's filling it up time, got the hose,
the 50 foot hose, splashing it around,
and it's always easier to do it with less water in
which is why we did it that way.
While we're adding it, we gotta add some of the
de-chlor from our friends at Fritz.
This is ACCR, it's one capful for every 10 gallons,
this is a 30 gallon tank,
but Lexington water's been stinking recently,
so we're gonna use four capfuls,
pretend like it's a 40 gallon.
So, this is the good stuff right here, man.
There's nothing on the floor right now,
like, messy room, messy minds.
Like, clean up your stuff.
So, I got my stuff cleaned up for the most part,
and I feel better.
- [Dee] You never make a mess.
- I try not to make a mess.
- [Dee] But not on my carpet.
- Not on your carpet, no,
this is somebody else's house!
What're we trying to do?
What does it need?
Oh, I like the way that grass is going,
like how we got a little foreground action there.
I actually have a little bit of rock
I'm gonna sprinkle.
- [Dee] Look how good my fish tank looks.
I know, and I don't even have any fish in it!
You know, I'm like okay, well,
maybe I don't wanna put fish.
Yeah, I do though, yeah.
(laughs)
You got to eat your Wheaties everyday
to be doing all the stuff you do.
- This back here is gonna get bushy and huge
in the back.
It just, I just shoved it way down in there
but it's gonna come on out.
- It looks so natural.
- [Dustin] That's the goal.
- [Dee] I think it looks so good.
- Cool, I'm glad you like it.
- [Dee] And look how the plants are standing up now.
- Oh, yeah.
- [Dee] They're really, you know.
- Wait until later tonight, everybody's like 'whoo'.
- [Dee] I know, settled into their new home.
- Uh huh.
The quadricostatus is gonna go nuts.
The copiel flame, there we go.
- [Dee] It did it, too.
- Boom, so that's what's going on folks.
If you don't mind, fish tank people.
- Subscribe to him, y'all!
- Would you leave me a comment?
What do you want me to do with these tanks?
Should I come over here once a month
and give you an update?
What do you think about the plant selection?
Does anybody have any questions about the dirt?
We'd love the feedback on this.
Hit the like, subscribe, share button.
- [Dee] Let me know what kind of fish that I need
to put in there.
- [Dustin] Oh, I didn't even think about the fish!
- [Dee] Yes, you gotta let me know what kind of fish
I need to throw in there.
- [Dustin] What kind of fish should Dee put in there?
I didn't even think about the fish,
that's a foolish part on me.
What do you think, I don't know? Came out all right.
- [Dee] I love it.
- [Dustin] You love it, cool.
- [Dee] I mean, love love love it.
- [Dustin] Tank on, everybody.
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