Oh, what a long night what you guys are about to see in the aquarium gallery is an absolute mess
But we've made some progress. I guess we should maybe start out here show you what I mean
I have a bad habit of just throwing things out the door worrying about them later. This might look familiar to you guys
It's the old filter for the 2000. Let's go have a peek
So like I said
It's an absolute mess out here, let me show you something else
More messes more messes more messes
But we've got progress on the pond filtration I was able to transfer
The canister filter that was on the 2000 gallon aquarium over to the pond
Everything is looking good here pull update on the fish in the future video
However, as you can see everything's just simply up and running pond is nice and healthy
More on this in a future video behind my hand is the secret fish. You guys will see this coming Sunday. I
Can assure you they will not disappoint
Absolutely. Awesome. I can't wait to show you
I
can barely walk so
Nothing is done in here so don't judge anything. I'll explain the best I can I
Know how awkward this looks let's start off with
The new canister you guys will remember that I just showed you the pond canister filter essentially I transferred the old one
Over to the pond and now we have this larger one
The one on the pond is rated up for 2,000 gallon aquariums. And this one here is for 4,000 aquariums and ponds. Of course
I'm not a huge fan of the price point but the very low maintenance essentially maintenance-free. It's pretty awesome
Using this valve up here. We can not only backwash the filter which will of course clean the media within it
But we can also do water changes at the same time really simple
We're running an aqua
ultraviolet UV sterilizer
I think the 25 or 40 watt if we get with is actually
The same company makes this we've got a vector l1 by Ecotec love these pumps completely powerful
I do have a couple of small leaks
Of courses to be expected when setting up so much plumbing and doing such a big move. I was you know, it just happens
There's just very tiny ones one on here for example on this valve
I'll fix it inline heater or the in-floor. Heating is now in this racking system
That's what keeps the two thousand gallon aquarium underneath the concrete and then of course
the actual rack
Now this rack was on sale for like 120 bucks each rack will hold about two thousand pound
We have a hundred and twenty gallon sump down below. This is what runs the 375 gallon
Let's start back over here
You guys will remember that we had that big fluidized filter here with a bunch of media in it
All that fluid eyes media it cycled
I put it in here for now
Until I get the media for this and then the media in here is gonna go in these barrels
Which I'll come back to in a moment all of that
Ceramic media is now jammed in here
Literally jammed in there
Tons of biological filtration though. This is the 375 gallon filter
2000 gallon these two are going to be for the 2000 gallon aquarium. This is going to be for Frank's tank
Not sure how I want to set this up. But this going to be a fluid ice chamber
I'm not sure if I'm going to deliver the bottle the water through the bottom or through the top if I do through the top
That means the water is just going to splash down on the media which is going to be completely fluidized
It'll drain out the side here into this barrel
and then of course overflow at the top and back to the mm or
we could pump the water up through it not need an air stone to fluidize it and
Use the jets of the water pump instead
rising up through it water then overflows into this this barrel and down through the bottom and out using this for
Biological media as well and maybe even a settling chamber
I'm gonna take my time on these because I don't know how I want to do it. But in order to connect these barrels
I'll be using
These Uni seals here
It's like a bulkhead basically
drill a 4-inch hole inside of the barrel and
These will allow you to push pipe through it creating its seal as it becomes tighter
they also got some 2-inch bulkheads just in case with these really cool strainers on it and
Just gathering supplies making sure that I can do whatever I need to do that method of filtration with the barrels might look familiar
Though if you go ahead and watch my video on how I built my 540 gallon aquarium
I did barrel filtration then as well, very cheap very efficient and very powerful method of filtration. We're connecting them with a black
ABS pipe
Which essentially?
Is going to color match color matching isn't a big deal for me, but I'm using black and gray in there
So I guess it would kind of look good and on the topic of ABS a lot of people say you can't use
ABS for aquariums because it's toxic
Which I always thought was kind of weird because aren't bulkheads made of ABS if you read the codes on your plumbing
Whether it's PVC or ABS, there's gonna be an ASTM number
Which essentially if you google it?
You can tell it'll tell you exactly what that pipe was meant for and if how it's rated whether it's for potable water
Potable water or not. Don't pay attention to the the all
Blanketing statement of all ABS isn't safe for your aquarium. Simply not true. So switching all of this out last night took about hmm
I don't know about six to eight hours. It was pretty difficult. I had to rip out the entire room here
Switch out all the plumbing get the rack built in here. And of course get this sump set back up
These are just sitting there. This isn't their final position. I still have so much more to do including cleaning up the wires
Hooking up the battery backups, which are actually just kind of sitting down here
This means that if the power ever goes out here and I don't get my generator hooked up fast enough
Which I just plug into here and it takes the entire building off the grid
I can run it person along who's the generator. Will that means depending on how much equipment I put through these?
I'll be able to run them for about 12 hours the pumps on low power modes
So I'm pretty safe
I think I'm gonna mount those
Battery backups to this wall as well as the controllers which are all just jammed back here
And there's a power strip way in the back there absolute mess, but you get the idea work in progress
Bottom line was get everything hooked up and running. These are the life support systems get them running worry about the smaller stuff. Later
This is the next project I got to worry about again. I'll take my time with that. Other than that guys though
clearly I've got a lot of catching up to do and in terms of cleaning and
Whatnot in order to move forward with other projects
I want to tackle in the meantime
If you're excited about the new surprise fish or the secret fish that video will be out this coming Sunday
I know many of you are also gonna have questions about the shark eggs
That'll probably be out next Tuesday or some point next week
I'll give you guys a full update and show you what I'm going to be doing and what has happened by that time
so if you don't want to miss those make sure that you subscribe if you're not subscribed already while I have you I should probably
Also mention that if you're not following me on Instagram
I'm gonna leave a link in the description below but last night I was doing stories on there
I think I did maybe 20 or 30 of them of like behind the scenes and just like what I was up to
And Frank made it a couple appearances and we kind of made fun of him
So if you're not following me on there
Make sure that you do because I'm really enjoying those little stories and having fun with you guys
And also story for such a short video today
I don't have a ton of time to do doing a ton of filming or editing. But yeah, it's a quick update