This is how I did spring cleaning in the fish studio with a bucket and a few
accessories. I couldn't believe all the stuff that
you could get in the bucket with a couple of accessory pieces like the
stacking interior trays and the outside organizing skirt. I also felt fortunate to
have discovered a lid that doubles as a seat and a storage compartment.
Originally I had bought a set of wheels for this bucket to make a to make a
rolling stool that turned out not to be such a good idea. I don't recommend
turning your bucket into a rolling stool. Over the course of moving and then
storing things through the winter I had generated quite a mess in the fish
studio. What in the world? How did this happen? Where do you even start? I don't
know but I got a bucket! So here we go! I'm gonna transform this mess into an
ordered shelf with lots of storage space and a surprise at the end that's sure to
make any fish keeper happy! It sure made this fish keeper happy! It really does
seem like a daunting task at first. Just so much junk has accumulated, well it's
really not junk, it's just disorganized and not very
usable. Probably if I had to find something I could dig through all these
storage bins and find what I was looking for but wouldn't it be nice if I could
organize all this stuff keep it in one place and make some clean shelf space
for other projects? Let's start with this air box man look at all that tubing
clear tubing light blue tubing black tubing green tubing purple tubing I
don't know I guess I use a lot of air in the fish studio here we go first
stackable tray tray number one seated in the bottom time to fill it up with air
accessories there's a couple of large air stones there's a couple of Everlast
air stones by the way I put those big ones in first because I recall an old
proverb that said if you put the small things in first you won't have room for
the big things later so take care of the big things first then fill in with the
small things later kind of a metaphor on keeping the main thing the main thing
well I sure did accumulate a lot of air stones can you really
have enough air stones I don't know I think maybe I have enough I'm not
looking to pick any more up and I keep these short pieces of tubing to use an
air stone inside of a sponge filter and that Wow that was a whole kit full of
air tube Connect yeah connectors and regulators there's a check valve glad I
found that stainless steel check mill that's cool
oh here's a battery operated air pump I think they'd sell that for bait buckets
but I got it in case of emergencies in transporting fish I think I'm going to
store this on the outside of the bucket and that just leaves me with several of
these gang valves two three four gang valves and that thing I'm fooling with
off-camera that's a drip acclimation kit that utilizes air hose I use it for
shrimp okay I can begin to see how this organizational tool a bucket and a
couple of trays can really make a dent in my mess that was the large been
overflowing full of air supplies and accessories and I've got a stackable
tray left so this is a bin that's kind of a catch-all for plant accessories
I've got a couple of fertilizer bottles there that are fitting nicely on the
outside organizer there's some aquarium glass cleaner
looks like some root tabs never been opened
what do we got here Oh more root tabs well you can never have too many root
tabs apparently a sinker let's go fishing and that's some fertilizer and
some water treatment for plants that's some more fertilizer okay well no that's
a little tall let me think about that maybe yeah won't that handle go up just
the skirt here a little bit I like that skirt and the sharp green and black
river life colors oh here's a pocket on the side with a flap on it that's fancy
yep two more down we got here some startup
chemicals these are for planted aquariums bio clean fancy those are
glass vials break open scary you never know when you're going to able superglue
when you're working with aquatic plants gluing them to the hardscape and that
fishing line that's four pound test for the same reason tying down moss and
other plants to hard scape rocks and driftwood oh yeah there was that pump
for the other fertilizer well it looks like I've got a few more tubes of super
glue and a betta leaf okay that's kind of a plant that's a fake plant more
sinkers more root tabs okay there we go what's this well sorry about the blurry
footage back of my head seems to have gotten in the frame all right oh yeah
that's a pond basket the fabric pawn basket for plants a note
thanks Rach enjoy the Hobby Pete lots of fish Pete mang excellent fish keeper
used to run lots of fish on aqua bed more route tabs some twist ties a couple
of plant name labels I'm down to the end of another bin okay
now I'm gonna use a separator here you could use a frisbee a paper plate a dish
this just happens to be comes in a car wash kit to put in the bottom of the
bucket while you're washing the car separates the dirt from the water so you
don't scratch your car colorful I like it's green I use it in a
video I'll probably put a card above here so you can see the video that I use
that green disc in I'll tell you the hint here it involved aliens so here's
some food that's just been collecting soft pack food some different feeding
strategy apparatus oh that those things are cool those are food blocks I use for
when I go on vacation brine shrimp eggs some more food and maybe I'll get around
to using this one day hopefully plankton no that's good stuff it's air-sealed
hopefully it'll be good oh yeah there's my pepper grinder that also works to
grind food for fry a syringe for measuring liquid foods and so forth or
removing food from fry tanks it's pretty good to remove debris like that
feeding cones and at this point I think I'm deciding to only put the soft packs
in here a bunch of samples from a couple of different fish conventions that I
visited it's things filling up Wow look at all that food
and some apparatus for autumn food dispensers oh that's good stuff - I
need to open that I think I'm gonna take these soft packs and put them in the
storage bucket all nicely organized and these cans and jars of food I'm going
that sauce shrimp food samples that's just a baggie full of shrimp food
samples I'm going to leave these hard cases in the bin yeah and I think I use
the food more often than the other products that's why I decided to put it
on top of the bucket if there's a drawback of using a bucket for storage
that's it if you need something on the bottom you're going to have to remove a
couple of layers but you're gonna see at the end of this video the result is
worth that little pain now there's that neat lid that doubles as storage and a
seat so we're not done yet we've still got more space in the bucket for storage
I used those lunch room cafeteria gloves for feeding bloodworms to make sure I
don't wipe my eyes and get the bloodworm deuce in it and have an allergic
reaction it's just a few more samples soft packs of food and now we're into
some water treatment some water treatment products I keep in a separate
bin as well so I mean you've got the whole whole kit water treatment water
changes what-have-you right here in the top of your bucket
I got syringes small baster stirring spoons measuring utensils all the
different brands that you seem to pick up along the way for all the different
things you might need to add new fish just more more routine use some of these
some of these liquids so I'm glad to put them on top easier to get to and then
the handy thermometer gun you know we're gonna find this yeah like a holster yeah
we're gonna put that thing in its holster right there on the side of the
bucket and another bend down look at all the stuff boom
organized there we go I think there was a costumer shaped
bottle opener there if you look closely and here's what we did we got it all
stacked back on the shelf in a neat and orderly fashion one shelf part of a top
shelf there what's that leave room for huh oh my goodness four more back where
eum's I'll put a link above up what eight eight more back where iums you've
got to watch my video on Vaqueros I'll put it in the index card above and in
the description below I hope you have fun with your aquariums I know I'm going
to I just did a little bit of spring cleaning and made way for eight more
project tanks quarantine tanks hospital tanks fryer rain tanks breeding thing
you name it that five gallon bucket aquarium is a pretty handy tool and to
think that was a goldmine of new tank space we found just by doing a little
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