it is moving day for these tanks finally finally we're going to move these fish into temporary
holding tanks so we can actually get started with the final plan of getting the 180 gallon tanks
in here setting them up escaping them i got some amazing plans and i'm incredibly excited but now
that the tanks are actually here that you guys know of in the last video it's time to actually
move things over however before we even touch a fish i want to show you what i've been working on
so the oscars are getting moved over to that tank over there however you guys remember these filters
i built the salt water filter is now up and running i actually have this one up and running
as well and that's the beauty of these filters is that it doesn't matter what the water level
is they can still operate and completely function water comes in through here it's
mechanically filtered through this sponge this is just temporary setup i'm going to dump all cycled
media into this from the 120 gallon tank finally goes into the final chamber where i can offer
uh chemical filtration or even put a filter or i'm sorry a heater in there and then of course
it just overflows and drains to my delight these are completely silent we got lids on them i braced
them i kind of updated you guys on this the other day but man does it ever look sexy up here i love
the way it looks absolutely awesome okay so as this fills with fresh water i'm going to take
all the media from the oscar tank that's in the hang on the back filters and i'm gonna put it
in the filter over here allowing these fish to be immediately moved to their new home with a cycled
filter in today's video all we're going to do it's quite a bit of work actually we're moving
this tank over there we're setting the filter up and then we have to move one more over and i'm
thinking two of these tanks with the smaller fish can stay behind but i'll also move the archer tank
and get their filter up and running and again they're only temporarily going over there and
everybody else will go in probably the 40 gallons and then i'll build the racking system we'll get
the 180s on there build the filters for them escape them set them up and then transfer the
fish back to their final homes anyways let's get started there is so much pothos on top of this
tank every tank will eventually have pothos on top of it which is just a common house plant but it
will obviously grow in an aquarium and what we're doing here is not only does it look aesthetically
pleasing and it's actually really pretty but it's also sucking the nitrates out of this
tank prolonging water changes making the water quality in the aquariums just that much better
so in this filter which is just a hang on the back it's packed full of cycled
biological media i'm going to take this and dump it into the back of that filter
now put this into perspective throughout the entire last like four or five years i've showed
you guys that we can filter aquariums with a vast array of different methods of filtration
so long as they are being sized properly and filtered properly and in this rendition
we did this with hang on the back filters a pair of hang on the back filters that are rated
for like 100 gallons each and i just doubled it up whenever you buy a manufactured filter
that's rated for a certain size aquarium i always cut that rating in half like i said
these are aquaclear 110s technically rated for like 100 gallon or 110 gallon aquarium yeah right
because watch this i just dumped all of the media that was in it into here and we didn't even make
a dent now i got to put another one in there and it's probably not even going to layer the bottom
that well so i'm going to not only be able to have everything that those two filters have
but four times that amount sitting on top of my aquarium using less power yet far more functional
and my lord i don't know if you guys think it man i think these things are just
sexy also i should probably stop referring to aquatic related things as being sexy especially
in front of my girlfriend otherwise she's gonna start thinking something's up
something is up so this is both filters with their media moved over you'll also notice that
i went ahead and put the sponges in there let's not forget that biological media can be a sponge
ceramic media it could be anything bacteria is not a free-floating organism it needs a surface
to survive on so these sponges that came out of those filters are just as saturated with bacteria
as these little balls so of course i want to keep these cycles and of course i want to keep them in
the aquarium you know i'll be able to start up other filters and pre-cycle them with this a
cycled sponge filter is worth its weight in gold keep that in mind wow the oscars are way bigger
than i thought and way prettier as well it'll be interesting to see them under saltwater lighting
and this is a saltwater light that's on it because it's technically going to be a saltwater aquarium
but it's just fresh water in here right now so different interesting stuff good thing about
moving oscars is they're so trusting they'll get they'll get in the net thinking there's food in it
okay dramatics
last one is the puffer notice that he's not puffing up notice that the transition and move
was incredibly smooth he's doing fine there he is right there perfectly fine tyrese is
he's gonna be fine one of the things you don't want to do is constantly chase them around but
i gotta say i've moved puffers quite a bit and a lot of the times i'll either use like something
like this in fact i move them like this and that's technically the best way to move them you want to
keep them in the water so they don't inflate but puffers will often practice inflating and
stretching their muscles etc it's a sense of in a form of defense we know that but i've also seen
other like youtubers and whatnot criticize the way i keep puffer fish or the way i move them like
as an opportunity to try to discredit me i just want to say one thing notice that my puffer fish
are alive but they can't keep them alive longer than a couple months be careful where you get your
information from on the internet doesn't matter how many subscribers somebody has or anything
like that look at their aquariums and look at their fish and base your opinions off of that
i don't like talking like this so that's it for that so the tank is completely emptied
and cleaned up we got the suction cups on here you guys know i love these i can climb walls
with these they hold about 660 pounds a piece this tank only weighs a couple hundred pounds
uh the oscars everybody's actually doing really good over here uh the fahaka everybody's doing
fine it's time to move the tank but i have a bit of confession uh a bit of a confession and
i don't know if you guys are going to allow it per se so obviously i get to marry to sometimes
help me move tanks around and she's actually quite strong for being such a little girl but
these tanks are going up four and a half feet in the air it's really hard to do that it's not like
she's the incredible hulk like myself and could put a 400 pound tank up there uh but so i have
a friend i don't know why i have to do this sort of thing with you guys you guys lose it every time
there's a new person in my video but believe it or not i have more than one friend and the reason
why i'm doing this is because hashtag not gary love you admits you come back and help sometime
i got my buddy j for back in the day come to help me out come to move some tanks he's
always here with me just in the background type of deal we're gonna pick this tank
up we're just gonna put it over there the only thing he's missing just give me a sec
twins wait twins oh i missed your tippy toes contrary to tamara's snide remark
about me being on my tippy toes i certainly was not i'm actually about six foot four
okay closer to five foot nine like the internet says but but that's average right
oh it's so heavy
all right full disclosure before i get a you know a friend that doesn't keep fish this is the reason
i don't uh get friends to help me with stuff that don't keep aquariums because they ask me
silly questions we're about to move the tank he's like are we gonna be moving that with water in it
no jay we're not moving it
perfect fit
love it
you know i've moved a lot of tanks with my friends before
and gary he did such a better job no he did it gary you'd move the tanks the best
love you and miss you come back and help sometime all right big shout out to my buddy jay you know
um i always get excited when my friends get involved as they help and they get to come and
see my world and see who i've become over the years as opposed to who i used to be
and now it's really nerdy he was he was listening in the background just you don't talk like that i
have way too much fun doing this sometimes so the 120s are now moved i actually moved all of them
uh this is actually the tank that the archers were in moved it from the end there because they were
one of the easier fish to move and they need a 120 now note look at their coloration in this tank
as opposed to previously now uh they're darkened up their stripes are far more prominent um
and looking absolutely gorgeous and this is an indication of some of the things i've told
you guys before whereas and they were a little washed out before that's why i'm bringing this
up but the reason why i talk about this is we've talked about the fact that a fish's environment
can definitely impact their coloration and that's what happened with these guys they were on a white
substrate which kind of washed them out so moving forward i think it would be good to do a dark
substrate maybe black perhaps uh i did save all their substrate from the oscar tank so they're
doing fine as for the oscars they look really really weird in assault under salt water lighting
um if i do say so myself very interesting though they're uh their colors and whatnot it's just i'm
not a huge fan but you can definitely see some coloration that you wouldn't have been able to
see before because the uh uh the saltwater lights are you know they hit a little bit harder on
some of the reds and blues as opposed to fresh water but they're all doing fine all doing great
tyrese back there laying down like a lazy bum that he is uh obviously i got to clean
up all the cords and the wires and whatnot oh and kevin damn kevin you know what he did
he ate every single anemone and then chewed the rock apart this is just a temporary holding tank
but you know he ate all the anemones um he didn't for the longest time but i think once we moved
him in here you know he couldn't help himself but uh that's cabin for you i mean he's just a
a glutton and he's actually getting really really big this tank is going to be for him exclusively
and then all the other fish will eventually come up here i'll turn that back into saltwater as well
and we'll go from there uh one thing that i'm loving about this racking system
is a couple of things i love the heights of the tank they are at uh you know viewing
height i love the lids you guys seen that we made these lids here a little
while ago and the filters themselves in the back they are just perfect absolutely silent
and and working phenomenally i think i'm going to change this into uh chemical filtration maybe
we'll add in some activated carbon of some sort just to make sure that water is crystal clear
but like things are definitely coming together out here there's just so much more that we have
to do over the weekend i'll be moving these guys i'll shut those tanks down the piranha
are either going to go in a 40 or in this 120 down here or we might do that with the the frontosa and
shell dwellers um we'll see what happens and then i have to rip this entire thing down build a new
rack uh all of my lights i'm storing them because i'm going to all do it yourself lights i'll do
yourself lids stands there's going to be a lot of cool things and of course the do-it-yourself
filtration that i think you guys are really going to like so the next thing i got to do of course is
like i said remove all this build the new rack get the tanks on and start building once again
but for now things are looking awesome and i love it i hope you guys too if you want to see
everything that we're doing you're not subscribed to this channel yet make sure you do or you're
going to miss them i'll see you guys in the next video also kevin i'm putting him up for adoption
um i will pay you twenty dollars to take him first first come first serve i'm kidding i love kevin
he's just a jackass for eating those anatomies but you know here's a possibility whatever
i mean he's not scared of me either he's he's such a tough guy
punch him right in his mouth put you right in those fat lips of yours all right this is you guys