when it comes to the aquarium gallery there's only one fish tank out here out of the last four years
that i technically regret building the way i did and setting it up the way i did and that don't
get mad was my 2 000 gallon aquarium but let me explain you see when i launched the gallery
uh it was at a point when a lot of people were getting sick of my do-it-yourself builds that
it was just constant fish tank build after fish tank but people wanted to see something else but
when i had the gallery i knew i wanted one massive aquarium out here and i knew that i'm if i'm going
to keep your guys's attention i'm gonna have to do something original and different and new and
i thought to myself well you've built aquariums literally out of every type of material that
aquariums can be built out of you know uh plywood acrylic glass old tvs making uh coffee table tanks
above ground ponds below ground ponds uh l-shaped upside down you name it every type of aquarium i
could possibly think of i did but i've never done a concrete tank this tank needs to be cleaned you
can see a little bit algae here it's it's cleaning days tomorrow and and i'm filming today so
you guys are gonna have to deal with the algae it's no big deal though
so i built this tank because i wanted to do something and i wanted to do something original
but i also planned like i'm never going to need to move it and i don't ever plan to shut the gallery
down but now that we are moving uh to a larger location this is the only aquarium that can't come
all of the 120s can go the 375 that 120 over there the 700 that the rays and arowana are gonna go
into which is what this tank originally had in it now it is of course uh a really interesting
uh community tank you see some denies and barbs going on back and forth down there
they all want to be fed we have a bunch of walru amphicanthoids this is a south american cichlid
and there's a group of six in here one of them used to be a stunted a bit his name
was no grow timmy or timmy nogrow uh he was a stunted wahru and now i don't know
which one he is because he had this massive growth spurt as soon as we put him in here i mean
he could be it could be anybody except this guy i know this one's the big dominant male we also
have some severums now these guys are from south america absolutely beautiful fish often found
with wahru and discus in the wild then of course the angels gotta have angels in a tank like this
it's almost a south american theme if it wasn't for the uh the barbs and denizens and of course
all of these archer fish swimming above of course like i said we have some tiger barbs in here all
doing absolutely every fish in here is doing fantastic i mean you won't find a fish in here
with a single mark on them um a thin nipped nothing absolutely perfect all in fantastic
health beautiful beautiful tank i absolutely love it and all of these fish oh so if you don't know
we're moving the gallery to a spot that's five times bigger permanent installations and open to
the public and for the past few videos i've been talking about what's gonna happen to each tank and
the fish within them so these fish in here are for the most part all coming along with us what will
happen to the 2000 in the meantime well i mean for example i don't know if everybody's gonna come
but i might just remove everything that's not from south america and then make this a big south
american themed tank because that is my typical favorite we do have a ton of archer fish as you
can see back here all swimming around uh the tree they tend to circle the tree the most uh
i'd love to do an asian themed aquarium for those guys uh and maybe set up some targets above the
water surface it's impossible to do it here um the tank's just too big but uh and same with the
tiger barbs they can go into a theme tank i just you know i don't think everybody's going to stay
in here but for the most part oh you know half the fish are going to come to the new gallery and
we'll see if this stays in south america or maybe i turn it back into stingrays i don't know we'll
see what happens there but the tank itself cannot come the 120s can the 375 with the salt water
which is an on yet all of these 120s and then of course the 700 gallon back here is going the 40s
are going um and some more 120s and 10 180 gallons and okay well that's it for now i'm not going to
spoil too much more anyway so when i was building uh when i decided i was going to build this is
because people were like tired of me building tanks they wanted to see something different so
i built this and did it somewhat different and i never brought you guys through step by step simply
because i knew that these videos were going to take two to three months to build this tank um so
you guys got it eventually you got the whole build process but it was an entirely uh labor intensive
build that took way longer than i had anticipated uh like it can't be moved it's built into place i
can't even slide it out of the way and if i could it weighs like almost twenty thousand pounds
empty so i'm not pushing that around uh so that's what i regret about it because i could have and
probably should have just built a plywood a tank that was four feet tall or six feet tall however
tall we wanted to build it and if we ever need to move it i probably could have just cut it in
half got it out the door so i don't know we would have had far more options and uh but with this um
before we added anything to it was like ten grand ten thousand dollars for the cement the rebar
um the acrylic 1.6 oh and by the way this is ten feet long seven feet front to back four feet tall
made eight inch thick cement 5000 psi cement reinforced with 5 8 rebar and 1.6 inch thick
acrylic panels the thing is literally bulletproof uh i wanted to be able to walk on it i wanted to
be able to do whatever i wanted to it now of course it's turned into something gorgeous but
that's going to be the only thing that's left in this entire gallery is this tank all other tanks
will be removed and it's most likely going to be turned into something more like a quarantine
anyways i want to make today's video because of course i got to do the update on every aquarium
let you guys know what's happening to absolutely every fish tank but i also wanted to talk about
what's actually going to happen to the fish now when it comes to south american aquariums
there are so many cool fish i mean i also wanted to potentially add the discus to here
and more corydora etc but uh so i mean the stocking for this tank might stay identical
it's it's getting a little bit uh weird with the different species from different continents but
that's an easy fix so we could always remove them adam to something from the the new gallery but
this tank isn't going nowhere for obvious reasons isn't that cool this tank is just so cool i can
sit here and watch it forever i usually sit on the lip of the tank too if i'm out here
i'm waiting there's no chairs out here so i just sit on this tank it also serves as my bench but
yeah absolutely gorgeous fish gorgeous tank and i thought that many of you guys like it as well
yeah totally a tank you just sit here and watch and the thing is the fish are so comfortable
with each other and there's so many in there none of them are full grown yet so this tank's going
to be have a population explosion type thing as they grow it's going to look like there's twice
as many fish in here but you'll notice that they follow me around even these little tiger
barbs if you can see them here on the camera even these guys always following me around
hoping to be fed hoping to be fed a lot of people thought when i had these barbs they're like you
can't have tiger barbs in with anything especially angels because they'll nip them so i just want to
kind of take a peek at the angels and see if we can find a single one that has a single nipped fin
you see that's the difference between uh stocking properly and size of tanks so tiger barbs yeah
they're definitely a fin nipper but that depends on the size of the aquarium you put them in
as well as the number of fish uh you start with i mean if you started with three or
four of these guys and put them in a 10 gallon tank with angels they're gonna do nothing but
nip the angels if you put in eight to ten of these guys uh the angels stand a better chance
i wouldn't put any angels in a 10 gallon tank i'm just trying to give you an example
of cramming fish into a smaller tank and then we look at putting them all into a much larger tank
giving them everything they need and require and look what happens not even a single tiger barb
has a nipped fin if we can actually focus on one yeah just beautiful coloration is showing
the reds they're getting darker and darker like these guys are absolutely gorgeous the walrus
are doing fine everybody's doing really really really really good in this tank
but um whenever i set up a new tank a lot of the times i'll have to like defend my choices
and whatnot because um these things happen like i'll be accused of not knowing what i'm doing
because the tiger barbs will attack everything in the tank and that's just not the case it all
depends on the size of the tank as well as the stocking and the numbers you put in it
etc and that's going to come down to experience and and and having
you know a little bit of time with each fish and uh being in the hobby for a little bit longer but
one thing about the barbs is you can look at them and you can see like if the camera will focus on
they're so tiny compared to everything else in this tank some of them have different colors
and patterns on them not different colors but like some are different and darker that guy's
going to be my favorite see him isn't he actually really really pretty super chris barring i like
the black stripe on his uh pictorial fins dorsal fins nice and dark that is a gorgeous tiger bear
if i ever had to i've never said that sentence in my life but man i'm not wrong look at the
walrus while we were getting absolutely gorgeous and big as well just a stunning beautiful fish
i like this massive tank and having such a huge community because i do find not only do the fish
act differently but they swim differently in here uh and they just do everything different
now if i had these denies and burbs for example in like a 55 gallon it'd be like
oh not only is the tank not big enough but it would look like they're constantly panicking
and just darting around everywhere but that's what they do they will calm down a little bit
but for the most part they like to do laps like literal laps around this big tree but so does
the archers look at them go they'll go around and then they're going to come back over here
and get past the algae um cleaning days tomorrow but i got to make this video today
so yeah i mean like i do regret building it that way because it would have been nice to
empty out this entire building and start fresh and start a different type of system out here
uh especially since everything's being moved but i can't also see myself not having any aquariums
at home so having the 2000 gear will be nice and i'll be able to do updates with it or not
but i just want to give you guys an offer and i'm doing this at the end of the video because
um usually if i do this near the start you guys hit the goals um but if i do it near the end a
lot of people don't stick around so here's the thing if you guys can get this video to 30 000
likes which isn't much is just did it a few videos ago 30 000 likes i'll get in this one
last time and we'll kind of uh we won't get in there to splash around i'll take the gopro etc
um but we'll sit in it and see what the fish do with me in there for a longer period of time and
uh i think it'll be fascinating they'll probably nip at me maybe we'll feed them a little bit let's
see how comfortable we can get them i don't like going swimming with the fish i don't like getting
in the tanks just because it can be potentially stressful dangerous too you know you uh you leach
off your deodorant and your body soaps or whatever that could be pretty bad so you gotta rinse
30 000 likes and i'll get in there properly and we'll do a video uh but yeah i just want to update
you guys on this tank give you one last look at it and explain what's gonna go on with the fish and
everything in it before we actually move to the new location which i'm starting to get into um
i'm starting to have to jump through hoops and hurdles and stuff to and structural engineers
are starting to get involved and we're going to do videos on all of this eventually but i
do plan to go to daily videos once we get in there because there's going to be too much to
talk about too much to show so we'll do daily videos i'm going to step up the editing maybe
i'm going to have to get an editor somebody to help film or something like that um but i
also need somebody to create my logo if you're interested in doing that follow me on instagram
because i'm gonna do a contest somebody could just can just design the logo for the uh the gallery
links are in the description anyways 30 000 likes we'll take a dip see you guys in the next video