tanks are here
it's been a while since i had to drive those with the aquariums finally here we're about to move
into hyperdrive no obviously they're just kind of sitting out here right beside i was out front of
the gallery and uh i started to unbox them there's 10 total and i just kind of want to get a layout
and the look of the tank see what the see what we're going to be working with here it looks to me
like these came out to be a half inch glass which is going to make them incredibly happy or heavy
and i'm happy so i'm going to need help carrying these in you see the bracing system too is just
absolutely enormous now the benefit to this is that i don't need much of a lid to cover them
but i'm going to show you what we're going to be doing for lids as well because not only are we
building uh the racking system we're going to do the lids i'm going to build the filtration we're
going to actually build all the lights as well and i mean every light in the aquarium gallery i have
a plan i just got to wait for materials to come anyways how i'm going to get these in here once
we unbox them i'm just taking them and they're going right through that window i'm not messing
going down that alley i'm not coming around the 700 it's just too much i could pop this
open and the racking systems are right here now those tanks came from concept aquariums here in
canada and i decided i go with them simply because well i've wanted to promote a canadian company but
i bought them from them also because that's where the 700 came from as well that's currently housing
the freshwater stingrays these guys are gonna get this all alone there is a bichar in here right now
um but he's gonna be coming out there's no lights on this tank cause like i said i got to build
all new lights the 2000's getting a new light i'm building lights all the 180s that are outside are
coming in here and we're going to build new lights for them these guys are going over onto
that racking system there's so many things i got to update you guys on oh remember that last video
or one of the last videos we just did it was a 40 gallon well it's all cleared up now and man this
looks absolutely phenomenal i kind of like how the background is like darker darkened out of course
we can move the lights back like i showed you in that video and maybe kind of like angle it like
that so it gives it more dimension but we're going to be putting shell dwellers in that so this will
be incredibly interesting once done i also went ahead and added in backgrounds to the other ones
and that's pretty much it these guys will have 3d backgrounds and the 120s will have 3d backgrounds
but when it comes to the 180s that we're putting here all of those we're going to paint them black
or blue or something like that anyways i also finished the 120 gallon filters i ended up wanting
to add in a bracing system just because they start to bow a little bit and six millimeter will blow
bow out even though it's only um six inches uh tall it could still bow and then of course
we took some uh double wall polycarbonate panels i've shown you guys this before how i built lids
and we're going to cover these up entirely and completely and these go ahead and just sit on
the backs of the 120s just like that one we built previously just give it a shot that one's actually
working really well on that saltwater tank but uh now we're gonna have something incredibly sexy
now i had to wait for the 180 gallon tanks to get here for a number of reasons one i wanted
to time everything because well i'm going to be moving the 120s and all the fish have to be
temporarily stored in places and i don't want to like temporarily put them anywheres for too long
basically want to be able to make this a smooth transition i also want to make sure that you know
we cut up the acrylic lids properly so this still has its protective wrap on it but i'll give you
an idea of what it's going to look like i hope i cut them right i only did it the other day maybe
i shouldn't film this part until i confirm screw it let's do it yeah that's fine so um this fits on
there perfectly now obviously i still need to cut it and you know put like a little finger hole in
it so we can lift it up but look i don't need the lids to cover this part i just need them to kind
of come to here um filtration system's actually going to go right through the sides of it this is
going to be so cool when i'm done but all of them are getting new lids and i don't think i talked
about this but one of my biggest missions for the aquarium gallery this time around is to focus on
um air quality out here because uh a lot of these glass lids and whatnot have gaps in them
you know water is evaporating i even replaced the uh the 2000s top i never talked about that
yet never really even showed it yet but also did it over here for the 700 and this is what i'm
talking about when i say it's like big pieces all you do is cut a whole bam now these are a little
bit more snug no evaporation is coming out and you can even see it over here uh and this is how
you know they're working really well is there's condensation on them uh meaning that you know it's
not condensating everywhere so there is plenty of oxygen exchange but when i had the uh previous
uh corrugated lids on there they you know the greenhouse roofing panels i showed you guys how
to use for years there was never any evaporation on it i mean they weren't that efficient now if
you're wondering if i'm just starting to use these i'm giving your view no i've been using these look
the lids on this uh on the 375 that we built like five years ago six years ago i've been using those
lids so that's gonna help with evaporation out here i finally got my air exchanger working
really well again it'll cycle the air out here six times an hour and if you also look
in the corners and everywhere in the building there's these fans circulating the air out here
basically treating this entire building like an aquarium i have a filtration system for the
air it's a heat recovery ventilator i've also got wave makers out here to circulate the water
which is the fans et cetera so this is kind of uh been really interesting oh you know what's uh
you guys are gonna laugh so i hate when somebody just walks in the gallery like
i'll have a buddy come over or tamara will come out and i might be filming or i might be doing
something where i just won't be left alone this is my zen area so okay see this thing
have a doorbell out here now so anyways the plan today is very simple i gotta drain all
these tanks move the fish i'll probably put them in buckets for now until i can get a tank moved
over there and then i can put the fish in there temporarily connect the filters i'm
not going to escape them i'm not going to put backgrounds i'm not going to do anything
just yet once that's done i also want to make sure that i can reuse as much of this rack as i can
most likely to be able to use the plywood and some of the two by sixes but the dimensions of the new
racking system is going to be much bigger however i wanted to wait until the tanks were here to get
an absolute guaranteed idea of how everything's going to look and uh the dimensions et cetera
so once these guys are all moved today i got to rip this entire racking system down try to reuse
what i can and then build an entire new double rack for the 180s to sit on top of each other one
on top of the other if you're curious about the height of them it's going to be the same height
as the 120s the 40s and the 375 all of this will be symmetrical and once the tanks are in place
and that rack's built i'm going to wrap the entire building with those leaves there you
guys love that idea and i think it's going to look absolutely phenomenal out here i think it's going
to be like more lush you know i'm adding plants out here i want this i want to be i want to walk
into this and and know that like it feels like i'm in a different part of the world yet it's right in
my backyard and it's right on your phone or it's right on your computer or however you watch me
odds are you're probably looking at me on a phone yeah on the topic of making uh the air quality
out here a lot better it's night and day right now for example that 2000 was gassing offs or
so much water was uh uh evaporating from it as well as the 700 i know you guys always ask me
about what these are as well these are just like little um oh and the next thing i want to do is
make this place energy efficient the power bill out here is enormous and i'm gonna try to use
less equipment less energy et cetera but you guys will see that in the long run um so anyways yeah i
um i put my food in these containers this one says salt so that's saltwater food this one says fresh
although i can tell the difference and if you look at it if you look at any of them you'll notice
that it's a mixture of different types of pellets and dry foods and whatnot i mean they still get
a variety of frozen foods and whatnot but when it comes to feeding them i'm not messing with
all these little baggies and little containers i'm dumping it all into these and then i pop the
lid and just sprinkle it in delete as much as they want this allows me to feed everybody in the tank
a variety of different foods that they'll all eat makes feeding everybody so much easier too
and this freshwater mix is good for most of the fish out here that are relatively smaller look
at the this is just a lot of fish and again i can't be out i have i feed so many foods and
go through so much that you know this might last a week two weeks maybe depends on how often i feed
lately now with all these moves coming up um and so much going on i've just been feeding once a day
um which is perfectly fine this tank is so awesome to feed
a lot of people ask about the discus and the pleco i mean not everybody comes out every time i point
the camera at it but oh there's a discus right in the back right there uh the pleco you can see
his spots right there yeah everybody's in here there's nothing uh going on with this tankers
besides the camera is always blowing it out that's a little bit better give him some more yeah so i
like to do this this is one of my favorite things to do obviously it's everybody's favorite thing to
do sprinkle it throughout the entire tank and this gives everybody an opportunity to eat something i
mean the corydora and the autosyncless everybody's going to be going down at the bottom and i want
it to kind of spread everywhere although if i don't turn off the pumps or anything it has a
tendency to go all into this area which is fine it lets them pick at it and uh gives fish uh
more of a chance at getting it and whatnot so we'll see what happens long term but you know
the corydora every fish that was added in here is doing doing really really well um i don't blame
the discus for hiding behind the tree constantly but you know it is what it is they they have a
tendency to do that it's going to take them a lot more time to get comfortable in here
unless i add in another 10 or 20 of them which is probably the only fish that i consider doing
i mean otherwise we have so much in here anyways yeah if you have a ton of fish to feed or a fish
room or you know just have a few aquariums and you just want to simplify things streamline things
get a little container right on the top what it's for um add a mixture of different foods in there
there's like four different brands and different types of food in here that's gonna target uh you
know carnivores and herbivores gives them a little bit of everything gives them a really varied diet
and i don't feel guilty for forgetting what i gave them the day before have i fed them the same thing
all week they might want something this is easy just dump it in and you're good to go so so when
i move everybody over here we have the salt water down there 120 here 120 there 120 there i'm gonna
have to make these three fresh water because these guys gonna have to go in on 120 for the
time being the piranha might be able to fit in the 40 i'm not sure temporarily these guys all
got to go to 120 and these guys got to go on a 120 i mean i i even got to clean the tanks look
at the algae i allowed to like just build up and i don't care because water quality is like perfect
there's no trace of nitrates ammonia there might be a little bit of nitrate certainly no ammonia
certainly no uh nitrite but the water's clear and the fish are doing absolutely fantastic
i can't wait to get these guys in a 180 with uh tyrese the fahaka puffer he's going in it and then
the buy sure in the 700s going in it as well and then that'll be a tank and the stock or the skate
for this i already have a great a good idea i already know exactly what i want to do kinda sorta
if you've been following me for a while and you watch that goldfish tank build the one in the wall
it'll be very similar to that i love that skate by the way it's just a pile of rocks in the center
but it was gorgeous it was perfect it was simple it didn't take away from the fish and that's kind
of the idea of what i'm gonna go with the oscar aquarium um something that they can't destroy
overnight that's something that's simple and easy to set up but we'll see what happens over time i
might even give them some of the anubias in in here because i have so much of it but uh yeah
the uh marijuana is doing fine everybody's doing fine out here that's enough for this video guys
i gotta really get uh get to work here i got some buddies coming over to help me um move these tanks
uh and just put them right there i'm only gonna be able to put two there
but uh what i'll do with the other two probably turn them into filters or store them with a bunch
of the other tanks that are stored but if you're not subscribed to the channel yet and you want
to see everything i've been talking about you know building the lights building the filtration moving
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