What's up, Fish Tank People?! Yeah, bring it to you on a Sunday, baby. How's everybody
doing? How are my Fish Tank People doing on fishtanktv land, DustinsFishTanks.com getting
a sexy little make over coming hopefully by the beginning of 2014, you will see some beautiful
action going on there. I am really excited about what's going on there. Definitely go
on DustinsFishTanks.com and check out the 6 winners of dirted tank contest, really excited
to have those up there, looking good, leave them a comment. Folks got game. It's Sunday,
I am excited to be doing a video, I am locked inside like locked up. I am just a prisoner
in here with our ice storm going on and I am trapped with the kids. I am from Northern
Ohio, this is like a glitch thing to me but everybody in Lexington are losing their minds,
there is no one on the roads. I would be out playing, I wish there were some snow instead
of just ice but that's whatever, can't control that. I was in the Dustin's Fish Tank page
on Facebook the other day, you definitely want to go there and give me a like, and get
on there if you are not already because I do daily updates on my tanks on there. I just
asked what do you want me to talk about and I got ridiculous amount of questions of people
wanted to know. I am going to try and address some of those today. I just want to know straight
up what do you all want to know? What you want me do videos about, put it in the comments
now. Let me know what you want to know, OK? And then go to Dustin's Fish Tanks fan page
and check that out. DustinsFishTanks on Facebook - check it out there, big old thing. "I am
also thinking about doing a Q&A Tuesday - just sit and go through it, just bust it out".
So stuff is going on, I could have all polished up for you, but I decided that last week I
was keeping it real, so I will keep it real with this and I am going to do a little update
on the 220. I am going to show you what's going on today. I have got a lot enstored
for you. I have got a couple of species I am playing with, I have got an update on the
220 and I have got a big all fish for Species Sunday, because I know you guys like it when
I talk about fish. Let's start with the 220. We got some things
going on here. Obviously in the middle, doing a big all water change. I am rocking about
a forty percent water change on here. That's how I roll folks. Dirted tanks maintenance,
you want it, that's how I do it. I removed the lotus that was down here, and I will take
that syphon to hold it down right next to where I am removing the plant and then suck
all the extra dirt that comes out, to try and thrash the rest of my tank. That's how
I do it. Get your siphon up, put it down right next to the plant or stick it around in drift
wood or something and roll like that. That's how I do that. I got some dwarf hair grass
in here and I am going to tell you folks, I am not going to give this plant my blessing
in a dirted tank without CO2 until I can get it rolling myself. People have asked me about
that, so I am just kind of messing it a little bit. I got that from Oliver Knott in this
sick little like tissue culture things and he gave it to me, Oliver Knott is a world
renowned aquascaper if you don't know who that is. Oliver Knott gave me those, I let
them sit for two weeks actually in this cool little tub just to see how long they would
last, in case I ever want to be selling them myself. I am going to try that out.
I have also got another species over here Apongeton Ulvaceus. They call them Apongeton
bulbs. This plant gets ridiculously huge. This is the species Sunday. I have only had
the plant for like two weeks, but it's insane. It grows ridiculously fast! I have got one
here, one over here, one back there and a couple other in the back. But it's got the
real like crankly leaves. I haven't kept them in quite a while. I would love to know what
you all know about Apongetons. I know they need kind of like a breather, the Ulvaceus
does. But it came right out of a ball, which is pretty cool. Was a dirted tank substrate
though, absolutely loving that. I have got the algae on the glass. I want to talk about
that too, because I come down here by the way, the CO2 tank is not running. Let that
be known, there is no CO2 on this tank. I got the timer down there and I flipped onto
on, so I left it on. I came downstairs and it's a crappy feeling like "Great I left the
light out again". So I left the light on. I have been playing with my own fertilizers.
I have got my own iron and my own potassium up on aquaticjungles, check it out! What I
have been doing is I have been adding the iron, and then I leave the light on. That
is a no, no! Soon I got a little bit of algae on the glass. You can see it here, you can
see it up on here, and that happens when you leave your lights on, an extra twelve hours.
Use timers folks! Please use a timer! It is so critical! Just get them on a set cycle!
Use a timer on that, that's important. I have got the Apongeton. I am trying out that. I
moved the lotus, I left the lights on. Added a little bit of sand over there. That's what
we are doing. I am also excited, got this wonderful little add in tropical. You can't
really see that? Dustinsfishtanks in there, TFH, newest TFH. Who would have thought what
type of substrate to put in a planted tank and then I got my ad right next to it. So
definitely go check that out. Excited about that, excited about the boesemani taking a
big dump right in front of camera. That's great.
But it is Species Sunday, actually before I get into it I am going to go back tripod
action on you like this. Before I go into Species Sunday, I want to tell you all what
I am doing here. I am trying to get together with more of you fishtankpeople. So I am working
on a big database of all aquaticjungles customers and people who bought the dirted tank guide
and just everybody's info that I got. I am calling you all! But I am going to be calling
a bunch of people here, it's exciting to do it. It is fun to do it. I get to talk tanks
all day long. My goal and my secret master plan is this. I am scheming where we are going
to do the next meet up and I want to know where you want me to come to and do it. Just
throw it down, talk tanks, set up tanks, dirt tanks, plants, you name it the whole thing.
I want to do it, I want to meet you all face to face, because I need the social interaction.
That's what I am trying to do. So expect that! I am really excited about that.
Let's get to the species. Shall we? Okay folks, I got a 125 upstairs, sentimental stuff coming
here. I am trying to be the Johnny Appleseed of the planted tank in case you haven't noticed.
My Michael Jackson checks in setup a 125 in college and he had it with a bunch of cichlids
and everything, and one of the big fish he had that was not a cichlids, he had a chitala
chitala I believe is how you say it. I don't know I call them a clown knife. I donít know
if you all have seen these Clown knifes. Species Sunday Clown knife action coming at you. All
right look, the fish gets huge! If you are Athens, Ohio and you went to Ohio University
there is a place called a Beach House up on the hill of Richmond Road or whatever street
that is, it has been too long. A lot of brain cells killed during that time period too.
They had a Clown knife in there and they got it at a tank they had a sucked that was probably
30 inches long. They get enormous! They are from South East Asia, India, Indonesia, that
area. I have no idea how they would do in a planted tank. I would love to know if you
have one. What's ridiculously cool about the fish is they sit here and the fish goes pow!
They have just like these crazy fast tail flips down, nail something. My boy used to
feed his nothing but Rosy Reds, and it got expensive. He never got them train other pellets.
I know you are supposed to train them on pellets. That would be my recommendation.com I am actually
not a big fan of feeding live fish in general. That is an entirely different conversation.
Clown knifes get huge, they are on like a Florida species list there. They are in Florida,
they are in some lakes in Florida. They caught them 31 inches long and that's another conversation
as well about releasing not native into native waters and having them breed, how crazy would
that be? I don't know how to do the planted tank whatever, for my opinion they get way
too big though 31 inches folks come on! Then people release them or put them into a pet
store and the fish has a terrible life. I am not a fan of them! If you got a monster
tank go for it, but let me know what you know about Clown Knifes, they are egg layers, they
can breathe a little bit of air from what I have read and they are pretty sweet. I wouldn't
recommend them for a planted tank, just because they get so big folks. That's a little Species
Sunday for you. Hope your NFL football team is doing well today, or will do well today.
I am not going to watch the Browns by the way. I am not going to do it! Sorry, it just
too painful! I have to make these videos, I have to be excited and I can't do that if
the Browns have played and lost, and then I have to make a video. That's just like suicide,
so not doing that. Welcome new subscribers, if you like what I am doing hit the subscribe
button somewhere up in the top of this video. I have a blast with your tank, this stuff
is exciting! Have fun with it. Tank on, later!