looking good lots going on out here uh but i want today i want to talk about like
out of all the aquariums that we're bringing to this aquarium gallery what's going to be the most
difficult to move and the most to consider and what am i gonna do about it my 700 gallon aquarium
with my asian arowana and three of my black diamond stingrays there's also a visor in there
and my 375 gallon salt water aquarium but why is that a problem and uh well what's the plan
oh also what's this pool for more on that in a minute now empty the 700 gallon weighs like
a thousand pounds obviously it's not gonna be easy to move but it's been done before
once again i'm just gonna need a small army to help me now the 375 gallon is
also a hard tank to move but technically i built it and put it on its original standalone and i
have no clue how i was able to do that because man this thing's heavy it's gonna need at least
four people which reminds me i'm probably going to ask for help moving that big tank
here eventually i know many of you guys showed up to help me move it in the first place and
a lot of you guys enjoyed being a part of that so if you're not following me on instagram make sure
you do because i'll most likely ask on there for help and i'll send i'll put a date all that stuff
anyways back to the actual topic now if you were to ask me what's the perfect size tank for an
asian arowana well when you're keeping these big fish a lot of the times it comes down to
the length as well as the width of the tank for uh stingrays i would go a minimum of eight feet long
by four feet wide height doesn't really matter three feet is okay for a pair depending on the
species but we're talking about the asian arowana the perfect tank size for a single asian arowana
unfortunately they need it um he's several years old but you know it's tough to justify this for
a tiny little fish however he needs a tank that's at least eight feet long three feet front to back
and two feet tall you needy little bugger but i do have a tank with those dimensions the 375 gallon
has those dimensions because if you remember i specifically built this for stingrays and asian
arowana which is why i said i was separating them in the first place the rays are going to get their
own tank and so is the arowana however if you remember i want the rays to act a lot more normal
and be uh you know a little more comfortable in the tank stingrays have the uh habit of swimming
up the sides of the tank mine don't because the arowana won't allow him i'd also like to get them
into um breeding and you know just doing a lot better and being more like raised and i think
the only way we're gonna do that is to move this guy what that means is once that 375 gallon is
empty i could move it into place get it completely set up and running and then i could move the asian
arowana from the 700 gallon and have a seamless transition and i know what you're thinking
but what happens to the saltwater tank it's such a cool aquarium the new aquarium gallery has to
have salt so what i'm thinking is splitting the tank up into either a pair of 180 gallon tanks or
like 180 gallon tank and a couple of 120s uh and in the meantime i'll move everything from the 375
because we got to move it again the lights just came on so the a lot of the corals not out right
now but anyways uh we'll move everything to like a spare 120 gallon tank like kevin's in now believe
it or not the most difficult fish to move in the aquarium gallery is actually not the stingrays
you would think that they would attack me what not but they are actually pretty basic to move
from tank to tank they don't really cause damage to themselves they don't trash around too much
i've never been hurt or they've never been hurt in all of my years of keeping fresh water raised
the single most difficult fish to move in the aquarium gallery oh we gotta go back
is the asian arowana i bet you thought it was gonna be the piranhas or something this guy is two
feet long he's incredibly powerful he's not only going to potentially hurt me which i'm honestly
not worried about if he hurts me i deserved it but what i'm worried about is him losing scales
tearing his fins ripping out his barbells you know damaging himself in one way or the other and that
is incredibly common with asian arowana when you attempt to move them i mean they're already
constantly jumping and hurting themselves as for the rays and that's where the pool comes into play
now here's the plant we fill this up bring it up to temperature treat it make sure it's safe
for the rays themselves once the asian arowana is moved out of the 700 gallon i can take the
filtration off that 700 put it right on here and move the rays over for another seamless transition
allowing me to truly focus on acclimating them properly and getting them in instead of like
running around i'm moving i'm trying to move the 700 the razor and you know totes et cetera
et cetera this just takes the stress off of the raise as well as me and that means we don't have
to rush anything and when you rush things a lot of times you can make mistakes ultimately
end up just stressing the fish and potentially putting their lives in danger and once the rays
are in their 700 gallon i simply drain the pool fold it up put it away store it for an emergency
if anything were to ever happen i do have a relatively large 10 foot diameter pool that i
can move big fish to if i have to but we're gonna have to pick up the pace here because that pool
is in the reptile room so that's the game plan with my biggest fish and my most beloved fish to
be honest with you the arowana and the stingray you guys know that uh for the majority of my
channel that's pretty much exclusively what i kept besides discus and you know i was breeding some
rays breeding discus you know kept asian arowana and these are my biggest concern and uh my biggest
passion however once being moved i would estimate that within uh you know just a few months the rays
will be breeding as for this gorgeous fella he'll be in his own tank absolutely mesmerizing visitors
in the exact same way that he did for me but absolutely none of this would be possible without
you guys you guys watching the videos hitting the like button commenting and helping me that way
or for those that want to get my merch the link is in the description or buy my book or become
a member of the channel so you can see everything first etc all of that no matter what you do even
if you're just a viewer again this literally one million percent would not be possible
without you also sometimes you guys are right and i make changes in the gallery without making a
video about it because i'm stubborn and i want to be right but you guys were right about this i'll
i will show you other things you guys are right if this video gets like 20 000 likes if you blow this
video up i'll i'll show you some other things that i've changed because of you guys and the impact
you guys have and the comments that actually have an impact out here let me show you the first
okay first foremost just couple little things i was building on remember the platform i said i was
gonna build out a four by fours it is there and it is in place now i'm not entirely sure i trust it
uh you know i think i'm gonna have to do some testing and whatnot some stress testing maybe i'll
build a replica or something i'd rather have these crash outside than up here but
ultimately i stored those down there these are the water totes
for water changes i'd love to get them up there i tried to put them up myself
it's just too dangerous um but we'll figure that out anyways got that done something else that you
might notice i'll just give it a second see if you guys say anything or notice anything
with the first aquariums that you walk in oh this one's here now now oh yeah i have a drone
i've had it for like four years and i was flying it in here earlier maybe we should use it in uh
videos here in the near future it'll be nice to get a bird's eye view type of deal anyways
the tanks there used to be five along this wall and there's so much concern about how
much room is in between each tank uh previously there was like 38 inches that's the identical
width in between the 2000 gallon as well as uh the 120s that i have at home instead we now have
a little over five feet of distance in between each we just had to take one of the tanks out
which is fine um because i realized i wanted to do this you guys wanted me to do this as well but i
realized i wanted to do this because the studs in the walls don't necessarily land line up with the
stand placement and when i was checking out where the sides are because i'm mounting lights to the
ceiling to light these like look what i'm doing here um so just some brackets here's a beginning
one this still needs to be routed painted it'll look nice once i'm done but i'm going to do
hanging lights over every tank which will free up everything i think it's gonna look good as well it
needs to be shortened and stuff again it was just a test run i was basically um putting weights on
the end here and seeing how much it could hold up but that's a video for another day uh yeah i
think that now it does look a lot better i think it is way better downside is is that you know the
focus can't be on jamming to every aquarium possible out here we gotta have meaningful
tanks but what i'm thinking is um is i'm still gonna do 120s right along here because it's like
almost five feet in between them still and then maybe a 120 in the or i'm sorry 180s these are
180 gallons and 180 gallons in the center and 120s on either side make them all salt water but yeah
everything's coming together a little slowly lots of things upstairs are happening um and uh
yeah i got to get moving though i got to move a lot faster get a lot more done
you know maybe i'll get these the rest of the stands built this uh this week but we'll see
how everything progresses anyways that's today's video guys i hope you guys enjoyed it uh
what am i doing today i'm gonna finish mounting the lights i'll finish testing and i'll figure
that out and uh probably um go get the rest of the wood to build stands maybe cut it up
get those done i think once we have um 10 of the 180 gallon stands out here we'll get a really good
idea of the layout but i also need to build the 375 gallon stand or we're never going to be able
to move it or start this whole progression of why i'm making this video in the first place 375's got
to be made out of two by sixes and i'm pretty sure they're about three to four hundred dollars aboard
right now wood is so expensive i never thought i'd see the day oh and another thing that i'm
gonna do okay see this wall right here so what i'm thinking about doing and you guys have seen
me do this a number of times is i've built 3d backgrounds myself out of styrofoam for example
i've done styrofoam i've done fiberglass concrete you name it i've done darn near everything
that you could possibly imagine building but anyways i'm gonna get four by eight sheets of
styrofoam and tape them or glue them to the wall here right uh make sure like it's an inch thick or
something and then i'm going to carve it all into rock make this entire wall look like a rock wall
and then maybe we do it against this wall or that wall something like that let me know what you guys
think i'm asking you this because i know that you probably have a better idea than me case in point
also i want to make some one thing abundantly clear i never want to hear it again that uh i
was wrong and you were right do not rub that in my face i'll see you guys in the next video