We've gotten a whole lot done out in the aquarium gallery lately
But that also means we haven't gotten a lot done in the old office the old stingray Grow out
Tank is still in here. The 375 gallon is still in here and of course the 370 Gallon plywood
Tank is still in here now. The 375 gallon
We do have a plan for this out in the aquarium gallery the old stingray growout tank
I also have a plan for this
But this is going to be a quarantine
System that I'm setting up in the utility room behind the 370 gallon Tank many
You guys will remember the 370 Gallon Plywood aquarium we built out of plywood and two-part Epoxy and then I built it into this wall
This aquarium does not fit into any plans and simply doesn't fit into the aquarium gallery and I no longer want
Aquariums running in the house besides the quarantine system
I want this wall shut back off, and there's not enough room to store the 370 gallon in the utility room
So I've got a different place to store it someday in the future perhaps. We'll set it back up
So the plan here is simple. I'm going to rip this wall down
I'm going to drain the aquarium, and then I'm going to move the Asian Arowana. That's currently in it
You guys remember the ultimate blood red?
and I'm going to move him to the
Stingray grow Tank temporarily until his main aquarium is ready to go and that is what we're going to focus on today
I guess we should start off by ripping the wall down all power has been shut off to this wall. So we're good to go
oh
The drywall is gone now. Which is going to clean this mess up before? We move any further now. Let's remove the framework
And there you have it now
All I got to do is drain the aquarium move the fish over to the Ray tank once I fill that up and then this
Can slide right out of the wall I can take apart to stand?
And then eventually I'm going to build up all brand new wall here, so it's just a flat wall
Convert the utility room on the other side of here to a small quarantine area and then this room is being repurposed
to a more livable space for my family
So the tank is now drained and in the meantime. I fill up the stingray grow-out tank
Which I guess is now going to be referred to as the Asian Arowana
Temporary holding tank now. We move the little guy
Little guy in a big tank, not exactly a easy catch
Hey
Slow down here for a minute
No, so the catch went pretty easy
It kind of went exactly as I had hoped I figured if I could you know kind of corral him
Into the bag with the net he get into it or into the bag on corral him with the net
Into the bag he kind of get into it on his own, and that's you know kind of exactly what happened
so the temperature in both tanks Match exactly, so
I'm just going to go ahead and release them into the tank now
The tank is freshly filled. It's a little cloudy from air bubbles or not, but he's looking great
Starting to you know get pretty nice little red tone to them. He's supposed to
Now we got to move that big tank out of the wall
Aquarium and there's a few things you're going to notice one the arowana is active in swimming around
Indicating that the move wasn't that stressful you'll also notice that the water level is
lowered by a few inches this is simply due to
the fact that
Moving to a new tank might cause a little bit of stress
And he might jump I want to create a little bit of space almost an air pocket
To slow him down from hitting the lid with that said the lid is also weighed down with about 20 pounds of weight
He's not jumping through that no way. He's too small
He is about 10 inches at this point
And you know when I got him he was closer to maybe you know 6 or 7 inches
So he's put on a few inches and he is colouring up. I can't wait to see him in
Out in the aquarium gallery, and I'm really excited to get him moved
But with that said I do have an interesting plan for him much different than what I have explained before
With him going into the planted aquarium of the 375 gallon tank, we'll talk more on that in a future video though
I'm still kind of you know thinking about it making sure it's what I want to do, but you guys know me
Every once in a while. I have a plan and then I simply change my mind
But the plans that I changed them to are always a little bit better
With the plywood tank now removed from the wall and the utility room behind it now exposed you can kind of get a better idea
Of the fact that I don't have a ton of room back here to work with
Over here where these racks are this is going to be where my quarantine system is and I'd like to open this up
And allow a bit of storage for my family because we no longer have a garage
It's now replaced with the calorie
But I think it's a good trade-off
As I said I do have to replace the walls here the sump that was running the 370 gallon aquarium is now shut down
But I'm going to convert this to
Part of the quarantine system as well you see this tank will fit right under the hundred gallon
Thank so you know
I'll have a hundred gallon Tank and A
70 Gallon tank for quarantine
And then I might do a couple of smaller you know maybe forty gallon Breeders or Thirty gallons or something along those lines
You know I don't plan to have many tanks for quarantined hospital however. I would like to have maybe
upwards of five total just in case
Something goes wrong, or you know I also have to quarantine new fish when we do get new fish
So this will all come in handy when the time comes, but for now?
The next plan of attack here is to clean up my you know utility room clearly. It's a bit of a mess
I got to clean up some wiring and whatnot because over the years I've kind of made a mess
but you know I'll clean up this area create a new wall and
Finish removing the aquariums from this room and we can get back to that gallery for now though the Asian Arowana is doing fine
I'm quite happy with the move and
You know I wanted to kind of make this video because I never really show the behind the scenes when it comes to a lot
Of these projects, and I always show you know the end results
But there's a tremendous amount of work and preparation
and you know a lot of things you guys don't see that goes into this stuff and
You know given the theme of the aquarium gallery and all the videos I've been making for it
I really want to bring you guys along
every step of the way
And you know show you exactly what I'm going through because I feel like we're all doing this together
And we're all kind of doing this together
And I know a lot of you appreciate seeing this sort of thing so I really want to thank you guys for coming along
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