today is moving day or should I rather say tonight we're still the same night
that we scape all the tanks but today we're moving all of the clown loaches
well as well as the vieja to the tank you guys remember we have 50 large clown
loaches and about 17 vieja that are going to be stalking the new aquarium
now I know it's cloudy but we're going to jump ahead a few days in a moment and
I'll show you what the tank looks like once it clears up and with fish in order
to get into these bigger aquariums up top I'm really just pleased to be able
to reach to the bottom I got to get a bigger platter postive head out of my
hand I guess you're gonna do them one at a time when you have a fish that's
flopping around like this it's good to pinch the top of the bag so it restricts
them from injuring themselves then into the tank let them swim out of the net
and there you have it who's ever looks small in this big tank since these guys
are moving around so quickly it's gonna be in my best interest to use two Nets
one to Corral one to scoop but I guess it doesn't matter which night to end up
in
that's it for the vieja they're all moved in they're all kind of exploring
the tank camera is not really going to pick it up if they look absolutely
fantastic in it the tank certainly does dwarfed them we'll come back to these
guys in them in a while though when the tank clears up boom time to move on to
the Loach's now the Loach's are fast as lightning and they do not want to be
picked up but we got to do it
Scott's up
the tank is already starting to clear up we're people to see the fish sorta you
can see what I'm doing here is a little differently remember when I said when
you get a bunch of fish you want to pinch the bag well instead when I scoop
these cup guys up from the tank if I just let them hang there there's nowhere
for them to go or flop around here's a prime example of why you need to be
careful with loaches when handling them if you look right in front of his eye
there see that spine poking out well they have them on both sides and when
they feel threatened they poke them out or if they want to lodge themselves into
an area they'll poke those out so just be very careful all right so all fish
are in the aquarium believe me they're in there we'll come back in a few
seconds here where we'll tie it will be a few days ahead and you'll see this
tank much clearer now we got to move the rainbows okay is the rainbow fish tank
is filling I'm gonna go ahead and start adding them into it do you want to be
careful in scooping these guys the smaller fish get hurt easier oh that's
gonna be an awesome tank all fish are added tanks are now up and running for a
few days let's take a closer look at the rainbow fish since we ended with them so
the rainbow fish aquariums you guys don't know there's a mixture of two
different types of rainbow fish in here there's the boss Monty and then there's
the red or the Iranian red rainbows within it there are more Reds than there
are boesemani there's probably about 20 bas Monty and maybe 40 Reds I'd Windell
it down to about 60 total I think that's a perfect amount for this scape as well
as this aquarium size the scape is a very simple one again we only use three
pieces of wood covered in a bit of java moss and the goal here was to almost
fill the tank up with some wood to the point where the Rainbows feels secure
and are constantly out and about never really dashing displaying their color
properly and the first thing we'll note here is that the Reds are far more
comfortable in this aquarium than the bomani and that has more to do with
their species then the scape or anything to do with the aquarium the post Monty
simply more time to get established and
comfortable in the aquarium and then finally cover color up
however the Reds are looking really really red if you guys remember these
guys used to almost be like a pink fish now there are a deep dark iridescent red
very very beautiful very deep red some of the most monies are starting to look
good as well however again that's just gonna take
time and I've said this time and time again when we get new fish a lot of
times they're quite tidy and we just need to give them time to you know grow
into their adult sizes as well as their colorations but this tank is certainly
going to look absolutely stunning in the long run I think it looks fantastic now
very low-maintenance as well given the flow of the Ecotech wave makers this is
constantly causing a tremendous amount of flow within the aquarium not so much
that the rainbows are being blown around but it is keeping a lot of debris off of
the floor so that the overflow can actually remove it all I've got to do is
simple water changes and of course feed the fish which is always fun then you
guys will always notice them always getting up on ladders to access the
aquariums of whatnot that's because the top of the tank is almost eight feet in
the air with the canopy it does go to eight feet and that brings up a topic
that is interesting as to what fish I can actually put on the top rack because
when you're putting fish seven and eight feet up in the air they tend to get a
little bit more skittish and shy so you almost need some mindless fish up there
and by mindless I'm I just mean that they're far more outgoing and more
comfortable and get established into an aquarium far better than say discus now
I shouldn't say that discus shouldn't be put up high because when I was breeding
discus I had those guys at five and six feet up in the air but there was never
no cameras no bright lights nothing like that they were just allowed to breed and
do their thing but now we can see that the top rack and all of the fish are
always out and about of course the rainbows are going to be but also the
tank of peacock cichlids you guys can see that these guys are constantly
active always swimming around always doing their thing and regardless of what
I'm doing in the gallery this is how they always display
but not all fish are always going to do that so having the rainbows up in this
aquarium is a good idea again that goes along with the peacocks the rainbows as
well as the Angels the angels are always out and about now while these guys did
start off in the 375 gallon aquarium let's take a look at that now because
what we're doing over there is it an even better idea that when we had
previously so the 375 now has 17 vieja there's three different species in there
we have since Pelham we have Argentia as well as we have a
heart Wiggy we also have 50 large clown loaches now the Loach's will take a
little bit longer to settle into the aquarium but they're already eating
they're already exploring the aquarium and the V hi the vieja are almost
established almost immediately before we get into the scape the wine I told it I
kind of want to talk about the fish's activity out of all the VA how'd the
urgent TIA are the only ones that kind of stick together within their species
the clown loaches go together as well for the most part they're always in
packs but you guys will remember that when I was scaping this aquarium I had
to keep two things in mind one the fish that I'm actually keeping and two how
they're actually going to interact with their environment long-term as well as
immediately so again we created a wooden structures in the back for some hiding
and breaking lines of sight you know sometimes when cichlids are you know
getting territorial all it really takes is for one to get out of the way and not
be seen and that can defuse the aggression we also needed a escape that
kind of sloped down just to give it a nicer appeal Plus have a large open
space and this would encourage most of the fish to come out in the open
most the time and that's exactly what they're doing however they are still a
little bit skittish watch this when I approach the aquarium
they do exactly what we had anticipated which is when they need a sense of
security they'll go over to the area that we built for them to have just that
and then of course they call come right back out
I also limited the amount of lighting on this aquarium since we're not really
gonna be having many plants in here there's a few ferns they're gonna do
fine with you know next to almost ambient lighting day you'll still grow
and survive so we now just have one light over the
aquarium this is going to cut the electric electricity in half in terms of
whiting plus I like the appeal that it has as is in person you get a different
sense of depth as well since we don't have a background on it and the tank
being three feet wide it looks like it definitely goes on further than it dies
I just make got to make sure I got to keep that back panel nice and clean to
maintain that illusion over the past couple days I'll admit that I've just
been kind of sitting here observing the fish and one thing that's interesting is
because the light is so high we're getting some lights built so they can
see me almost as good as I can see them which long term is going to be
beneficial in terms of creating a less skittish fish now I wouldn't do this
with all my aquariums but with such a big tank and so many fish in there
they're definitely gonna have a more sense of security than my average
aquarium now over the last couple days I've only done one water change and the
water is clear there's no debris floating around it but there is a slight
tint to it caused by the wood releasing tannins and when it comes to like Bob
would like the Malaysian bog with those release tannins for a long period of
time absolutely harmless and some could argue that that's beneficial to the fish
it's just kind of ugly gives the tank a more tea-colored
look some would say it looks more natural I'm not a huge fan of it I'd
rather have it look like the 2000 gallon tank crystal-clear but this will go away
over time with simple water changes of course I can also add some activated
carbon to the filtration to remove it but I'm not that to pick you over it
right now I'll just wait long term until though something else happens but as you
can see look at all the urgent Tia came up right away
all together the hard way he kind of do their own thing and the sense pilum are
the bosses of the aquarium and it just so happens that there will be the most
colorful and flamboyant in the Equator the heart the Argentia are my favorite
in this tank and long-term in like eight months to a year you're going to see
exactly why over this year these fish are going to go from the four inches
that they are to probably anywhere between eight to fourteen inches each
it'll be interesting to see what happens of course the filtration system can
handle it but I'm curious to see what will happen
amongst each other the clownfish of course the clown loaches of course are
going to take a tremendous amount of time to grow that's why you know large
clown loaches aren't typically very common however we have large sizes and
over the next year they'll probably put on an inch or two maybe a little bit
more maybe a little bit less but they're definitely interacting with the vieja on
a positive note nobody's attacking anybody and feeding this tank is an
absolute blast the Argentia will go after the food but
the Loach's create an entire frenzy and a feeding video something that I want to
do in the near future will go ahead and feed everything throughout the entire
gallery so if you guys want to see that let me know in the comment section below
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miss it we should end this video on what's coming next
oh I guess I should mention we now have just one last empty aquarium right here
I think I know what I want to put in there
we'll see if I can get ahold of the fish that I actually want to put it at first
and we'll go from there then we have this last racking system
the last two aquariums in the entire gallery I'm not sure what we're doing up
top but down low we're going salt water