it was nine years ago when i decided i'm going to rip down my old garage and build an entirely
new building dedicated to aquarium finally four years ago we made it happen and it was like five
years ago i started talking about dwarf caymans and well you know i'm still gonna leave that
open for an idea potentially i'll build a large habitat for them or something along those lines
if i ever build a massive fish house uh i would definitely incorporate a large portion of it
to having at least one of these guys you know just a couple examples of things that
have been in the works and things that i had been planning and things that have been on my mind and
upgrading to an entirely new building that's five times bigger with permanent aquatic installations
as well as being open to the public eventually is something well we're doing now let's go have a
look at what we're working with so for those that don't know oh calm down joey for those that don't
know we're taking the existing aquarium gallery you guys know it's been running for four years
we're moving it to a place five times bigger installing permanent aquariums
so we could watch them from day one till you know year six type of deal
oh and we're going to open it to the public pretty awesome right today i want to give you
guys a tour of the new facility so this is the outside of the building i figured we'd start here
and kind of show you guys everything uh from these windows over is mine and then all the way
to the back and then there's actually some more um outcrops and stuff that you'll be able to see
now this used to be a bank uh so right behind the truck there this little outcrop that's the vault
i thought i was gonna get that and that would have been so cool we would have talked about that
anyways i got the keys a few days early um and i'm able to get in here and do some cleaning and uh
get ready to start painting so mind you lots of damages in here that need to be fixed up and this
used to be a gym so it's kind of laid out like one sort of come in false walls 20 foot high ceilings
or they might be closer to like 18 feet something like that i don't know i'll have to measure them
um this is kind of like a reception area i don't know for sure what we'll be doing here
um but i do think that that big 3d sign in the uh podcast studio that is in there right now will
probably go on this wall i was thinking about putting a tank in the wall but i probably won't
maybe um just some chairs or something a table or something we'll go on to that side in a second
so you walk in wheelchair accessible which is kind of cool um you walk in through the front
uh and the floors are that sponge so nice little cushion to your walk brightly lit in here lots
of windows as you can see here these two well not lots but then those windows go all the way up so
it is kind of like brightly lit uh i was kind of worried about lighting this space and heating the
space it's actually not going to be too bad okay so we walk in and we'll circle back to work when
we walk in uh that's just the electrical panel over here these mirrors got to come down today
i've already been in here sweeping and mopping and wiping things down cleaning the bathrooms
taking down all the past branding but as you can see like if we look at the wall it's just a bunch
of stuff like this that i got to repair today before i can you know get to the painting but uh
let me see so i don't know where aquariums will be placed for sure i did have to give a
structural engineer the generic plans and we kind of went in the basement and figured out where all
these steel beams are and what not for example you see this outcrop here that's a steel beam
that's got to be at least three feet wide it's it's h beam another one there so this place is uh
approved and signed off by a structural engineer for the tank placements like the 700 gallon for
example is going to go right here so as soon as you walk in 700 gallon stingrays this wall will be
lined with tanks that come out uh 1 80 gallons etc again we'll have to go over placement here soon i
just want to give you guys a generic uh idea so in total this place is about 2500 square feet
but i think it's closer to 3000 i did take some measurements isn't that cool that goes up at
the offices wait wait wait wait wait till we get everywhere um i get excited every time i come in
here and i've been in here three or four times now but uh yeah so like stuff like that i gotta fix
um on the other side of this little outcrop is stairs if you go outside there's a door well that
used to be a door there um but it goes down into the basement i don't have access to that this here
look how thick this wall is so i think this might have been a safe at one point like this isn't a
small wall this has got to be two and a half feet wide brick so it could have possibly been
something the acoustics in here as you can hear are a lot different
than when we go out here pretty cool isn't it anyways in here this will be the aquatic
reptile room we're gonna have two massive cages in here that are like 10 feet by eight feet by
seven feet tall um we'll have asian water monitors here and dwarf caymans in the back this room is 22
feet long by 11 feet wide it's definitely going to it's perfect for those animals there'll be three
dwarf caymans and two asian water monitors which is the initial plan but i have to get all of this
set up and everything installed before we can actually import uh the animals because you know
i gotta get permits and prove that uh you know the very i gotta meet the various requirements
and whatnot but uh today i'm gonna paint this room it's gonna go gray which will be cool
i gotta remove all these mirrors because the tanks are gonna go up against them and i know like
mirrors will make a space look bigger but uh i don't need those mirrors right now i'll save them
maybe we'll put them somewhere else or you know as uh some of the members only on this channel said
you should put them above your bed because i got a tour of this a couple days ago
but uh no it's not the mirrors are not going above my sick bastards uh oh this is cool i have loading
bay doors both those doors open a transfer truck back into it's got bumpers out there so super cool
um we'll do the entire floor now so that's the front entrance oh tamara about you well it has
to be you could only be it could only technically be you um so when we go around this wall here
you have this door that goes into this little area i'm not positive on what this will be but it might
be for the 120s this is a cool little spot and again there's the reception area type of deal
again guys i'm just in here making sure that it's all cleaned up and painted and um and as
soon as we get that done i'm going to start with the actual planning out process i'm going to tape
off the floor where i want things to be i got to paint over these like ladder things i think they
were like doing hopscotch or whatever they do um around this corner here look how tall that is okay
then you go up there and see down the uh from the offices so cool this is such a cool layout isn't
it it's actually really really big too and the best part about this is i'm not packing it full
of tanks there's going to be a lot of aquariums in here and whatnot they'll be meaningful and
i want to have like activity areas too and i'll explain that in a later video what i kind of mean
but to give you an idea i'm probably going to set up something where there's scaping boxes so
there'll be substrate and rocks and wood and people can you know kind of uh practice and
escape with their own selves um get inspired and whatnot okay i'll take you back here yeah this is
this is insane so 700 gallon 375 10 180s all the 120s 40 gallons that room down there is
the reptile room i have a little pond in there and stuff for the crocodiles and whatnot but
okay so this is i hate any bathroom
with a light switch behind the door god that annoys me so it's the was the female's bathroom
um so they've got a shower again this used to be a gym so it's outfitted like one couple
toilets sinks i don't think this will be available to anybody i'm not even gonna use it we'll
probably use it for water storage and whatnot this is the bathroom will kind of be public and be used
it was the handicap bathroom i need to put up a mirror but plenty of space in here toilet uh
sink shower i don't hate the colors in here um i believe that the colors of the walls are going
to stay the same color i just need to paint i need to you know drywall all these holes and
um patches and whatnot but uh it'll stay mostly the same colors besides a few rooms
because there's no way i'm painting this whole thing i'll i'll be a month of just painting
i got stuff to do um then this bathroom so this was the male's bathroom
and we'll have a urinal and a toilet a couple of showers sink mirror you name it let's go check
upstairs so yeah these were huge benefits having something like this like all these
i don't need all of these but it's cool to have a shower or you know those late nights where i
don't know if i can get home on time i might as well just spend the night in the gallery
i got to paint these doors too a little dirty um storage closet i just put my
cleaning supplies in there like i said i've been already been in here cleaning and whatnot
um yeah a little damages like this they're not a big deal i just hate drywalling and
doing patchwork and stuff but i mean this is like literally the worst and all i'm going to do is um
i'm probably just going to take a piece of uh whatchamacallit drywall and just put it right
over top of it just like it is now paint it it'll be fine it's not that big of a deal i'm pretty
sure something's gonna go there anyways also this all big huge alcove i don't know what it could be
for and i'll have to see what kind of structure is up top here i'll put you guys up there
but it's wood so i was thinking like oh and one of the things this is going to be like i want
massive boulders like fake boulders and big trees and bushes and everything throughout here because
i kind of want to have like like um like jungle music playing type thing like jungle sounds or
something i don't know we'll see cool stairs i might paint them black because mostly all the
equipment in here is gonna be black but this is uh well don't make fun of me i am painting this
room and i hope to be able to get it done today but this is going to be the podcast studio room
for us and it's currently pink so i don't know it's definitely gonna be painted it's
gonna go gray um a little wall or a little window there but uh yeah pretty cool ambient lighting
um so this is really cool watch that so you come to the stairs and you can see everything
i think this used to be like a hot yoga hot yoga area based on the
how the electrical's labeled but it's all insulated and stuff so some people were in
the members only were saying to rip this part down but i don't think i want to do that i don't know
what i want to do with that area just yet but i'm pretty much can do anything in here that i want
which is pretty cool yeah i love i love this i love looking over it's super cool security systems
and stuff get installed monday there's so much to think about and do oh this is kind of cool if
you're scared of heights close your eyes ugh i'm terrified of hate so this kind of sucks i won't be
over here much but i do like the open concept open area type of deal and then this is my main office
again i'll be painting it and whatnot but uh it's actually a pretty good space it's weird that the
only place my voice echoes is in the reptile area so that's different i think in here like
a lot of people are like hey joey you should have like a mini fridge and a microwave blah blah blah
oh of course i will yeah so i can't get enough of this i love overlooking all of this stuff
yeah super super cool you can see everything it's surprising that uh don't echo in here i think it's
because of the type of ceiling and the floors are all padded and stuff so it's almost like
it's already been soundproofed and whatnot what else haven't we seen yet
yeah that's it guys super cool eh i got a busy day ahead of me i got to get these mirrors down
patch the walls that's the task today yesterday i was in here cleaning me and tamira so today remove
the mirrors maybe use them for something else who knows um but i want to remove these mirrors
patch all the walls and paint the reptile room as well as the two offices and what else oh and
probably paint the doors and just try to get as much as i can done and then the main job is of
course painting all of this but i'm not painting all the way to the ceiling i'm just painting
where it needs to be because i'm going to get the paint matched so yeah there's not that much work
to do it's just wear and tear over the years and this place has been empty for a couple years but
yeah what do you guys think isn't this insane this could be so cool yeah so
i know many of you guys want the exact plans and what's going here and what's going there and
et cetera et cetera et cetera i don't know just yet i know that we're in here i know all
the stuff we have to do and get done um as for tank placement and opening days
and there's so many questions i don't know i'm not when you tackle a project as big as this
or as big as the original gallery by yourself a lot of times most people in the columns be like
joe this is so much work i don't know how you're going to do it and you can't look at it that way
i can't look at it like this has to be filled with aquariums and super awesome and everybody's
got to love it it's got to be super inspiring and educational i don't look at it like that i look at
it like today i need to remove the mirrors today i got to do some patchwork tomorrow you know match
the paint start painting the rest of the room it's always small increments like without these stairs
for example if these stairs weren't there i wouldn't be able to get to the top which is
the final destination so i have to take each and every step and that's kind of what i do in here
or with anything is that's the final goal but in order to get there i have to set tiny little
goals and tiny little tasks now the average person that's never really kind of tackled this only sees
this massive jump and they don't oh i could never do that i don't know how i would ever get there
but now if i bring you through every step that i'm going to be doing which is so simple and
so uh easy to do i know many people could do it we now have steps to get to the top
and it's it's not that difficult hope that makes sense to you guys like if you ever have goals or
anything and really in life is that you have to set tiny little increments with a beginning and
an end like tiny little goals and accomplishments it keeps you motivated but it gets you closer and
closer to the end goal anyways we got a lot of work to do maybe at some point i'll shave and
take a little bit better care of myself maybe it's meryl wear something better than uh nice
my little bum they're probably like who are the homeless people moving in next door anyways guys
that is it if you guys want to come along for the journey of the new aquarium galleries make
sure you subscribe if you're not already i can assure you you're not going to want to miss out
on these things i will try to bring you through a step by step as much as i can as soon as i get
internet and security systems installed in a day i think it's supposed to be tomorrow the
next day i'm gonna be able to be uploading like every day or every other day because i'll have
my computer here and i'll be able to actually do things but for now it's uh probably gonna
be a little sporadic as i do like the grunt work that i know like a lot of people don't necessarily
want to see i'll show you before and afters and stuff but the most part uh focuses today is just
getting the walls ready to paint them i'll see you guys in the next video i'll get back to work