oh hey
oh hey reefers
what is up
excuse my voice I totally lost it
this should make for an interesting video considering
i'm leaving for new zealand in a few days
I leave on saturday
I've been trying to figure out what i want to do with my tank while i'm gone i'm really
worried i'm going for a month and a month alone from my tank is just really, really
scary so i've been trying to work with a few friends to come service the tank shout out
to ocean avenue corals for looking after my baby while i'm gone but i just realized my
tank stand is atrociously messy i mean how the heck is anybody who is looking after my
tank gonna find the essentials so i thought considering that i have to do this daunting,
horrible task of organizing this tank stand might as well do it with you guys right so
this is what we're currently working with we have all sorts of great mess here a lot
of mess here definitely so and i have my auto top off here some tools and i don't even know
dosing products some mumbo jumbo some more test kits honestly this is just this is a
lot here i really honestly don't even know where to begin um i'm guessing i don't know
well we'll figure it out here in a second my wires too say hi to santa my reef tank
is so festive right now look look how festive i'm so festive look at what we're dealing
with back here ya'll this is not only an incredibly disorganized but how any what is this what
is this this cord situation this cord situation right here this isn't gonna work no but seriously
no joke that cord situation is so bad i got electrocuted for the first time the other
day yeah yeah between my poor cable management skills and my inability to lift a bucket full
it it wasn't a big electrical shock no equipment was harmed but it definitely opened my eyes
to some of the you know safety risks involved whatever i have back there is atrocious and
i'm fully aware today uh i i have this i envision this whole big like cable management beautiful
mother like a big board full of my controllers and everything is like neatly placed and the
plugs and it's just like some Pinterest type shit it's like I really envision a masterpiece
for my reef tank organization here in the future but today it's already getting late
and honestly I can't be bothered I have so much stuff to do I just need a simple organization
thing just to get by right now so uh i'm already getting overwhelmed i'm already getting overwhelmed
this is too much can we can we can we just can we just not do this video anymore by the
way i also got these cute little aquarium cameras so my psycho ass can watch my tank
while i'm gone i know i know they're like panning ones and i have two of those suckers
i'm going to put one from afar and put one all close up so i can see what's going on
at all times i guess now would be the best time to figure out how i'm actually going
to approach this i am thinking my auto top off sits here but the shelf right it's like
what is this space definitely nonproductive space that's what it is i think i'm gonna
put the shelf oo put the shelf down get like it in line with my auto top off system i don't
know what to put on the sides of my auto top off system because there's so much space so
much real estate for organization maybe put some pretty baskets you know maybe put the
essential items there like glue and and my my lens kits for when i take pictures for
instagram stuff i need handy real quick real fast you know like two little baskets or something
over here like real pretty ones too cause i have these i have these ugly ass green ones
but this is ain't cute it's about the asthetics ya'll i'm thinking we get like a little like
organizational shelf you know like a little cabinet so i think its time to go get a nice
little unit we'll pick one out together i'm probably going to end up making a bigger mess
than i started but hey yeah just got to at home and i've never actually been here i've
never even heard of this place i asked my mom where can i get cute little cabinets for
the reef tank she suggested this place she loves a good organizational project so i think
she might be joining me ok i found her hi mom found it already is this
the one mhmm
ooou and it's perfect size wise that is nice lets see what we're working with is that enough
room i think so that's a cute little yeah look at all of these baskets this is what
i'm talking about what do you guys think of these too small overwhelmed i'm already stressed
what if i don't find the perfect basket stuff like this and they're light what do you think
of that black and they're longer these ones are nice perfect yeah very nice very nice
hmm three of these babies got my baskets where is she where did she go hello mom mom mom
i'm here baby oh there you are stacking ones those are nice ones like that cause they uh
stay on top and we can put bottom and top and see it nah i like this one more it's sleeker
yeah but this one you can put the glue here but this one is too tiny you can't put anything
in here we're done here a little haul of stuff gonna have a nice organized stand aren't we
so we're back from the store now i'm really happy with everything we got we got uh nice
pretty baskets that we're gonna see if we can fit down here below got the little tray
for the glue and look have to begin doing the messy stuff start by getting all of the
test kits out so we got our salifert test kits test kits are kind of looking really
janky too so and here is reef mama hello might as well use this time to take out some of
the junk little dollar store glue here that i like to use dollar store glue got that nice
and handy we have purigen coral food i have some reef roids here more chemipure back up
chemi pure elite some of this stuff i had no idea was even in here this container that
you take to like frag shows or on the plane this one is kind of cool actually because
it has the numbers i don't know if you can see but it numbers your frags just in case
you like lose count you buy so many you know well my MP10 unfortunately broke so clearly
is not needed dosing items we have esv b ionic look at how much purigen we have revive coral
dip we have more chemipure in this tray we have coral carrier i have aptasia x well here
i just have the box aptasisa f sorry so i have this stuff because i used it to cure
my tank of the nasty anthellia xenia creature that took over i definitely don't really need
this anymore i have stockings these stockings serve a really good purpose when you're trying
to measure out purigen an old auto top off sensors that don't even work anymore i am
a hoarder oh my gosh i thought i lost this it's actually kind of funny that i find this
right now because a while ago i made like a little diagram of that the controller board
that i wanted to make with all of my equipment look at that it's like really messy i don't
know if you can see it diagram of exactly look cable organization going to keep this
for future reference we got some octopus snot too here with my glue right here in my handy
dandy heh dionized water i don't even know what this is what is this coral viewer filter
floss my little tool mabobber need this i know i'll need this little toothbrush turkey
baster skimmer brush beautiful beautiful beautiful nice
cleared the top stand we still got a
lot of junk right tao i filled my little basket of goodies refractometer glue random syringes
and polyplab filter kit ah it looks so good so excited look at this look at this level
of organization we got our glue we got our syringes our little rolled up towel you know
storage expansion for the future auto top off little bucket of tools more storage options
in the future that is some clean stand the next part is really going to be the difficult
part it's the part that i dread the most two hours later it is now two hours later still
have not organized the cables i promised you some form of cable management and i will provide
some form of cable management here in my pocket printed off little cute like look at this
can't even see but it says powerhead and skimmer and pump so here in my crazy mess of cords
i have this screen i don't use this screen not for anything you can tell how dusty it
is it's gonna make me cough here i think it's ugly and uh i don't have jumping fish this
isn't even plugged in this says light 2 but it's not a light this has got to be the most
boring video i've ever made to date huh our nero our nero pump number one i just got this
pump they're super strong while i was configuring it all of a sudden it went to full speed and
then that thing wrecked havoc in my tank there was sand everywhere and my corals were flying
coral frags were getting knocked off their glue completely that thing is just wild put
it on the lowest setting i ended up getting two of them cause i kind of want flow in like
different areas they pack a punch my only issue with them so far is that like the connectivity
with them i don't know if it's the app that is giving me issues or its just the bluetooth
connection itself but for some reason like it has a mind of its own i'm sure it's not
the powerhead i'm sure it's because i have a curse i have a technological curse wifi
does not work around me and i guess nor does bluetooth powerheads they decide when and
where there will be flow in my tank they make the decisions i just work around them however
that flow is good flow they're cute too like they look asthetically pleasing powerheads
are ugly creatures by nature the fact that it's kind of sleek and sexy is just another
bonus powerhead left is looking beautiful honestly spaghetti slime of i was gonna say
who the hell set up this thing but like it was me i don't even know where this thing
is going heck is this what is this ok this is in no shape or form what i call organization
bigger mess than what i started with um i think we did well today so you know i mean
take what we can get a little bit more organization is better than no organization am i right