i was uh i was just thinking you guys are going to think this is going to be the single most boring
update of the new aquarium gallery to date but i gotta say is really exciting to me because just a
few days ago when we did the original tour of the layout of the new location i kind of talked about
all of the things that i need to do which was painting security measures et cetera et cetera
there were so many things repairing walls taking beers down removing it was a lot of work and i was
starting to think like man i bit off more than i could do i'm gonna be in here painting for weeks
ah i got excited we did it in a few days i'm gonna bring you guys through what we've got done so far
and kind of the plans and what's to come next but first and foremost the entrance this is obviously
the first thing that people are gonna see when they walk in here um i'll go out the door a
little bit i'm not using a wide angle lens so it's gonna be hard to see everything but
um when you walk in the front doors here we have the 3d logo the king of diy you guys will remember
this from the original podcast studio uh it had to be moved here because this logo is ten feet long
and four feet tall whereas the new studio's wall is only seven feet wide uh so it's three feet too
long it just couldn't go there plus i thought it made way more sense to come in here put a couple
plants on either side of it and then a bench temporarily eventually we'll probably have like
a desk or kiosk come out a few feet and probably be those dimensions anyway but for now uh since
this isn't open to the public right now i decided we're gonna put it right there also painted this
entire room look how bright and bright white and fresh this is it just kind of sets the vibe
uh install security cameras everywhere uh you're gonna notice that i'm probably going to miss a
lot of things that i forget to talk about but we got so much things done that to the point where
this place is like it's it's getting ready for me to build the stands and whatnot
still plenty more to do but we're getting quite far quite far along obviously painted every wall
mirrors are removed patched all the holes in the walls everything is repaired and fixed and uh
oh yeah and some people are like how are you gonna clean this place they uh we i have these little
robot vacuum things i got four years ago for the original gallery and never used them in there
they've been keeping the fork clean for me ever since and that's gonna be a big thing is like how
am i going to take care of all of this you know we're gonna have thousands of gallons of aquariums
and you know water changes and maintenance and sweeping and cleaning and blah blah blah so the
bots are gonna do the sweeping one of the things for water changes is i have to build
a platform on top of this platform to further brace it it's going to come and it's going
to go from straight back all the way down because this platform's about 12 feet long
14 feet long and front to back it's five feet so what i was thinking was we could easily
put up some water containers up there like 300 gallon water containers and have about a thousand
gallons of pre-mixed water up there at any point in time because we are on town water now which is
uh chlorinated and chlorine i'm sorry chlorine and chloramine is in it so i got to make sure that we
store the water and treat it first otherwise i could do water changes and treat the water
as it goes in but there's just going to be too many tanks in here to do that with so
i was thinking one of the best options is just to have it on tap and i could also do gravity-fed
water changes and that's why i'm getting at this is ignore my mess that's all garbage
um oh and by the way it is like real wood up here this is an actual wall here
um so it's gonna be pretty easy to support and build you know like a uh
almost like uh you know a a a wall along the w we'll see i'll just have to figure
it out uh but if i do gravity-fed water changes through a one and a half inch pipe
and this is going to be a little boring for you guys but i do the math on everything and
at the slope that the water is going to drain out of these so when i open a one and a half inch
valve the slope that it's going to be draining at and the height that it is as well as the
diameter of the pipe it's going to flow about 3 000 gallons per hour
which means i can change 3 000 gallon or fill 3000 gallons of aquariums within an hour
but i'm not going to do that so imagine a quick math there's 3 000 gallons of water out here and
i want to do a 20 water change we're looking at 600 gallons of water needs to be changed
of that 600 i've already got a thousand on tap i'm draining the 3000 gallons an hour
uh it'll take me about 15 minutes to drain and fill i'm sorry to fill 600 gallons of water that
got changed the longest part is going to be the actual siphoning and draining of it but even then
draining 600 gallons of water through a one inch one and a half inch pipe is only going to take
about 15 20 minutes just like the filling process so ideally i could technically change 600 gallons
of water in about 30 minutes so when people are like oh how are you going to maintain it
you're going to be there all day you're going to need to hire staff et cetera et cetera et cetera
no i haven't needed staff for help for the last four years with the current gallery and this is
not going to be any different this is going to be a much larger space and technically there's
going to be more bigger aquariums besides the 2000 we're not going bigger than a 700 in here
i can't because of the structural engineer advised what i need to do and what i can't do and this is
on a second floor technically it is a commercial building though and it's not built like your home
so do not try to do this stuff at home unless you have a structural engineer give you a stamp
of approval like i did with that current layout and whatnot where the tanks are going to go but
yeah maintaining this is going to be super simple for myself i mean ultimately sweep some floors do
some you know i don't know dusting i guess is what you would do um clean the bathrooms when needed uh
and do my water change it's not gonna be a big deal these mirrors i have no idea what i'm gonna
do if you guys remember they used to be on this wall um i put one in there just to put it in
there just get out of the way and i was thinking i was gonna put one mirror here just to make the
space look a little bit bigger i don't know we'll figure out something to do with those mirrors but
the one thing that we did do i didn't touch this wall much i just painted it a little bit
because this wall has to be removed in a firewall put up eventually supposed to
be this month better be this month we'll see though uh this is the female bathroom we have
three washrooms here we have the female we have the handicap and then we have the main washroom
female washroom is going to be turned into the quarantine and hospital area
and the simple reason is this once again just due to the water source i am on a
well at home but commercial or i'm sorry uh what what is that called i haven't had to deal with uh
town water i guess you can call it town water here and the parameters of each location are going to
be dramatically different and treated differently probably different temperatures plus when a fish
is ready to come here to save them the drive and the stress i figured let's just do everything
on site and then they have the best chances of survival simply because everything's identical
because i run every tank the same temperature every tank the same water parameters and
all of the same water quality etc so might as well do the quarantine hospital tanks here as well
and i'm thinking it'll be done in here with a few uh 120 gallon tanks probably 220 gallon tanks
and some 40s the main bathroom everything's been labeled as well so we now have proper labeling
you'll see that there's employees only i replaced all locks as well so this can lock
so if i don't want anybody in there they don't but this is
wheelchair accessible this is the public bathroom for example and we do have a um ramp that comes
up in here this room here and people wanted this room ripped down i'm not doing that i have plans
for this room here eventually and that'll come to fruition in time we talk about that when it's
ready but uh yeah i'm not ripping these walls down and opening it up or i think that's what people
said was why don't you rip down every wall and just have i don't want a big warehouse uh feeling
of tanks like a big open tanks i love having the reception area i love having crowd flow and being
able to control where the path of people are going to go and this place will not be like a free roam
area it will be guided towards by myself it's an educational uh facility here to serve for
inspiration as well as education and i feel the best way for me to do that is to do guided
tours people will not be on their own free roaming throughout here so it's not going to be like this
some people are worried about fish getting poisoned or something
happening or stolen et cetera i'm going to be right there with them the whole time
uh we'll be open during certain hours certain days et cetera details on that to come if that's the
way we go um and those details will be released like next year so it's not uh something i'm too
concerned about right now but every door has a lock on it every door is labeled properly
the upstairs i painted this i thought black looked way better actually my friend twyla painted this
my daughter haley painted this wall tamera helped taping and i did a lot of painting myself but uh
yeah so oh and my son did the lock changes so this has been like a family effort type of thing
but we are doing it all ourselves a gate to come up because this is not open to the public up here
come up here and um there's only two offices up here two office spaces one's going to be like
the staff room for us to you know get something to eat or relax for a minute take a break etc
whatever the case might be and there's just the basic necessities so air conditioning
a little couch that turns into uh well it's a futon so you guys know what that is television
um little table and chairs little fridge microwave airfryer coffee maker sink a little storage for
some snacks and whatnot pretty basic stuff and then over here is where the podcast studio is
going to be and this is why uh that logo can go on there can't go on that wall because it's
too short in this one um i only have seven feet front to back and there's just not enough room so
i put it here be a podcast studio as well as editing so the podcast will pick back up in time
i'm only bringing over like the random stuff right now like the skeleton of things i don't
have everything here yet internet is hooked up tomorrow security systems being installed
on doors windows etc even though i already have security cameras i'm getting a monitored system
here so if anything ever wherever to happen and i was sleeping in the middle of the night
uh we'll have people responding the the right to authorities and whatnot
like i said a lot of boring stuff just painting and whatnot but this is something that's going to
take up a tremendous amount of time is the behind the scenes and the setups and i spend more time on
the phone and in calls and and getting permits and all this stuff that i do actually doing hands-on
but when i do i just go hard out here and get everything done in a relatively short amount of
time the focus is of course is bringing all the best things from the current gallery in terms of
what we learned to for taking care of thousands of gallons of water what makes the most
sense and uh to do it the quickest and safest and most efficient ways and we're going to bring it
all here uh the next thing we got to do of course i got to build all the stands i need to build 10
180 gallon stands i need to build a 375 gallon stand i need to build 120 gallon tank stands
and i suspect that could take a week or two building stand up or maybe just a day two days
two to three days if i'm gonna be completely honest and i go hard i can i get that in two to
three days all the wood cut up on day one start putting them all together day two and finish
putting them together day three and then you know day four day five potentially is wrapping them
wood is so expensive right now what do you guys think it's gonna cost to build all those stands
let me know in the comment section below i'm pretty sure i got an idea
um but we'll we'll disclose a lot of costs and stuff like that in the near future
one of the next things i want to do as a next video is show you the layout
of where every aquarium is going to go and i'll be able to do that just the same way as i did
the original gallery and other tank builds that i've done inside my house for years is
just take some masking tape and tape out on the floor where everything's going to go and then
you get an idea of the flow and how much room you have around each tank because i want uh
i'm not stacking tanks on top of each other i'm not putting them touching each other so i'm not
trying to jam as many aquariums in here as humanly possible i want to have the most
amount of meaningful aquariums positioned in a meaningful way where many people can surround the
same tank as we do an educational talk about each one it'll be also be interesting to uh
see how they're all laid out as peninsulas i want benches everywhere seeding it's gonna it's gonna
be a while but we're getting along i think in the next video uh we'll go ahead and probably
do the final layout uh um where the tanks can go based off of where the
the beams are and what the structural engineer approved on but uh yeah lots to do hope you guys
are enjoying the ride so far sorry for the lack of videos i don't have internet here so it's tough to
do any editing gotta film here and then take it home blah blah blah and i'm always covered
i was covered in paint constantly so that was kind of holding me off but moving forward
especially since from tomorrow i'll be able to do everything from here editing
filming editing and uploading all from the same location which makes things super super simple
but in the next video um either we'll go back to this the old gallery because i got a few things i
want to show you that are pretty cool but uh or or we'll do the layout let me know which one you want
to see in the in the comment section below see you guys in the next video thanks for watching