You know never in the history of my channel have I've ever missed two videos
back-to-back in the same week and I've been doing this for
10 years here on YouTube
Many of you guys were concerned over the past week and I kind of stayed silent over what has actually been happening
Let me first bring you guys up to speed. So it was just about a week or so ago that I was in, New York
and while there a pipe in my filtration room burst, I
Couldn't get any flights home till the next morning, but in the meantime
You know a lot of things happened
If you didn't watch that video, you'll just have to watch I don't want to go over it again
but ultimately the two thousand gallon lost one of my
Asian Arowana
Being home though, I was able to now fix it. Again my apologies for the energy of this video in advance
I don't even want to make this video. I don't I don't I want to take a break
But I think I just need to get this out and...
Move forward anyways bottom line is
That was a horrible experience, but we were able to move past it
I was able to repair everything fix everything, but that's not where my troubles ended
I don't even know how to explain this video
You guys know that the entire gallery is heated by heat pumps air exchangers and the 2000 has in-floor heating
When it comes to about 6000 gallons of water in a small space
It's better to manage the rooms temperature as opposed to each individual aquarium
Not only is it more efficient power wise and more cost-effective
It just makes more sense long-term
Especially living in Canada where temperatures drop and fluctuate all the time. I want my aquariums to be steady and they always have been
But you guys also know especially if you follow me on Instagram that I recently had to replace
My heat pump if you guys remember mice got into my heat pump. It was no longer
Able to switch from heating to cooling. So it was just continuously heating the gallery and it heated up considerably
I needed a technician to come out and fix it
However, what they told me was summertime and it's Canada two to three weeks we can be there. I don't have two to three weeks
It was cheaper for me to just buy a new one and install it
Then it was to wait for these guys to come and repair it not cheaper
But I can send this one back for warranty. I installed the new one it took three days to get here
Which is better than the two to three weeks
Of course fantastic time for my heat pump to go and not being able to air-conditioned
You guys know about the heat wave hitting North America here in Atlantic
Canada or Eastern Canada over 50 people have died from it already. Just the heat wave is
Absolutely
record-setting it's been
Horrible with the gallery no longer being able to cool itself and about 6,000 gallons of water out there completely heated up. I
Was in some trouble some big trouble
If you guys are familiar with greenhouses a lot of the ways where they can
Maintain temperatures in them is they'll fill up 55-gallon barrels with water stack them up in the day
They heat up and at nighttime they cool off
Or no I'm sorry they release that heat
So the temperatures in there stay steady all the time now
imagine a room or a whole building filled with aquariums that are heating up constantly and
really don't have the opportunity to gas off or cool down because the temperature outside is
Rising over a hundred degrees Fahrenheit and that's a building with 8-inch walls
That's highly insulated if I want to cool it. It'll stay cool if I want to heat it. It's gonna stay hot
Opening the doors at nighttime and and taking all the air conditioners from the house putting them out there all the fans
Everything I could do to cool it down
Wasn't working so
There's other ways I can cool my aquariums
So I've shown you guys ways on how to cool your aquariums down in the past and this works for smaller aquariums
It's not going to be that great for
6,000 gallons of water one of the ways
Of course is to float frozen water bottles in your tank that can effectively cool it down for like 10 to 12 hours
500 milliliter bottle will probably cool down at like a 10 gallon tank pretty effectively
But if I do my calculations that means I need 80 gallons of ice to cool these tanks down. I
Did as many as I could I bought every bag of ice in the area that I could find, but it just wasn't enough
so
Of course I can do water changes do cold water changes in order for me to bring down the temperature at least temporarily
That means I need to do I don't know at least 30 percent every day on every tank
That's 2,000 gallons of water every day. I did water changes out here every day for like I
Don't know
12 to 14 hours every single day out here changing water changing water
And once I once I got to the last one, the first one was heated back up. This place was a sauna
No joke, I probably lost about 10 pounds 15 pounds since this happened this week
Probably not because I'm too stressed not eating not probably rehydrating etc. But just to give you idea how was out here
Guess what happens when you're changing?
2,000 gallons of water every day during the heat wave
When you're on your own well
You run it dry. So at this point, I don't have enough ice to effectively cool down the tanks
I open the doors and it's just a blast of heat. It's it's probably warmer in here than it is outside
over a hundred degrees
Fahrenheit
I've run out of water. I can't cool the building
Eventually I did
Get the heat pump in here and I was able to slowly cool the room
But it takes a couple days to effectively cool all the aquariums as well
What a time
all I could care about was the health of my fish and
making them survive, and I know that there's gonna be so many people judging and but it's it's a
certain set of circumstances that happened and occurred that
I'm so lucky to have saved
Ninety nine percent of the fish out here. I did lose some though and that
Sucks
Second one of the other things that I did to try to cool. The tanks is no more lights
Nothing that produces Heat of course besides circulation pumps and whatnot increase the aeration and the tanks
I did all the normal stuff all the basic things that I taught you guys how to do it's just I'm battling the elements
I'm battling a room. That's entirely roasting in here. No way to cool it air conditioners way too small
I had the pumping. There's still one here one pumping out there
It wasn't working that well brought the temperatures down to like 28 degrees in here (Clears Throat)
29 degrees (Clears Throat)
Celsius it's now. (Clears Throat) Sorry
25 degrees in here 25 point five, which is actually pretty cool tanks are starting to get back to normal
Everybody's getting back to normal and I also didn't feed during this time. This video has no
Format, no flow. No nothing. I'm sorry. I don't even want to talk about it. This was
You know things happen to me and I tell you guys the truth of everything, but when things are out of my control
And I can't even tell you how to fix
I can't control the weather or the circumstances of the mice and you know, so many things happened
I did my best
We lost one angelfish which are up there we lost a gourami which is in there and then the worst
We lost the sharks
We lost one the other day and one is on its way out
He's still moving just have a look
When I came in this morning
He's on his back like that. That is really bad for a shark
I think what I'm gonna have to do is net him try to put him i
That net we had before remember this thing here, maybe that will help
But I doubt he's gonna make it
You know, it's just been too much temperatures are too high
I've been doing the water changes. The temperature of the tank is now a lot better, but I think the damage is just done
It wont focus
I don't think he's gonna make it throughout the day, but I'll do my best and I'll update you guys where I can unfortunately
I think both sharks. Well, of course the first ones gone, I think the other ones gonna be gone. So both sharks gone
These are the downsides of the gallery I've watched
fish rooms completely wiped out
Businesses, etc from this heatwave lately past week, even a few weeks ago power outages wiped out entire stores
Nobody talks about these things or what they did or how to prevent it
And I could sit here all day. And so many people will tell me all day
What I should have did or could have did but during these certain set of circumstances that happen
They were unpreventable. I did everything that I could and
Saved 99% of the fish over ninety nine. Keep in mind there's what
600 fish in here maybe more
Rays and arowana are all good. Just a shitty video to make pardon my language it just is and
Just a bad time for this to happen
But
I
I share with you guys everything good the bad the ugly
I'm just happy we didn't lose everything Frank's. Okay, everybody's fine
(Clears Throat)
I'm just I'm happy. I was home and
The heat wave no way no air conditioning. No, nothing run out of water ran my well dry
luckily, it was only out of water for two days, but
That's where I'm at guys I hope we can get back to normal here shortly
I love the support you guys give me and I appreciate all the love
It will keep me going