what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing you yet
another sick fish room from st. Louis Chuck branmer's houseboat place
ridiculous you know it's going to be a sick sick sick aquarium place when you
see one two three three hundred gallon water retainers right when you walk in
so we'll go outside and show you the experiments a love Chuck style outside
got a bunch of caddy it's got a bunch of live bearers out here all kinds of cool
little stuff he was buying this in the auction last night got the set up like
this it's got a little overflow pumps back up with the old-school mag drive in
here a graph below and Gus to foal eeeh actually I think that's it right here as
well triples on down guppy grass everywhere Guppies all over the place
and I was out here screwing around I'm like alright yeah this is tired I'm
enjoying myself I'm looking around he's like not once you come inside so check
this out you roll inside here I'll just walk out basement how great is the water
change this will check this out folks don't don't don't don't
oh there's the man right there talking to Gary alright boom we turn in
Heather shut the door you turn in in the fish room we were greeted by a 125 then
we go around the corner Chuck man you had me at hello when I walked in I
couldn't leave it looking really sweet man so you're I mean you're running it
with a whole bunch of stuff you said all your all your tanks are experiments but
probably the experiment going it ever takes experiment every I love your style
man all the all the plants all you know just I'm trying this and doing this and
that so I could have a long deal with you but
what do you got going on man you got like dirt on top or dirt dirt what's
what's the setup like you got dirt highlight on top in the tanks you're
looking at right now the ones top and bottom have got dirt under the gravel
okay I put about an inch of dirt on the bottom and then put about an inch maybe
a little over or gravel on the top and what kind of do you use the cheapest
tops while I can get at Home Depot or Lowe's
or someplace like that I want something that has got low nutrients in it because
it's going to it's fun to move into the water fairly quickly if it's all going
got a lot of compost in it so it's going to have a lot of humans and humans will
turn into nitrogen over time so I'm not too worried about that
I want it alive in other words what bacteria in it so I don't heat it
mineralize it I think so right call it right I don't do that I do have a flush
of nutrients immediately I get usually some algae growth but over time and when
that drops back and I don't get the water circulation in through the bottom
that will mellow out and it provides very good nutrients to the root system
enough in the in the top and it grows plants fairly well now the top set of
tanks and you'll notice when you're looking at them from a distance the top
has got bright lights on and it's got a t5 very high output 54 watts a bulb
you're running what 56 K something like that yeah
pretty close to 56 K the bottom is t8 which you're only about 24 to 32 watts
bulb and I got to show two of those I'm going to show these because these are
just wicked the obviously the Cory pandas put these red plecos I'm trying
to do some begging to bring some of these fry because he's got he's got
these real sweet ones why give me this leave me the name on these again they're
on the the reddish plecos the reddish ones are the super red and sisters for
bristle those guys are cool and you notice the male that just went into the
cave is he's a calico but he's he's got these a red calico so he's got a red
base color those are so sick so you know when he crosses with the others that
I'll get some calicos and that little man and I'll get some baby in the back
they're going at it I saw one up on the front of the glass and the ASP adores
you see in there have been reproducing in the tape there you'll see a few small
ones they're the prime ask for doors it's like Cory like yeah
it's but it's a is it a quarry though or is it a it's your group kind of similar
kind of like the what does it go bro kiss or whatever kind of a similar
layout these the Aspen door species are generally the smaller quarry type
species a lot of them are longer more slender but a segment off kind of like
yeah it's a it's a sub-tribe okay oh so cool it's got those in these guys
he didn't the top 20 species I didn't mention the deer on a blank on a Guffey
grows it won't work this is hard work yeah which is try to fill versum okay
there's another specie out there which is probably found more often in the UK
and around here it's around a film sub Merson okay called soft corn borer I'm
looking for it but I haven't found it yet I hear this is a plant that's a high
drop Allah I groffle Agusta folia also called willow leaf is that a narrow
varieties it's just a plain Jane riot just a straw that's pretty much a plain
Jane variety you can see that the leaves look like willows it grows under the
under water and if you let it go long enough it will actually break through
the top and then it'll have similar it'll grow immersed as well okay I want
to show usually rooted some of these real quick down here and got the live
bears you know the good-looking swordtails man those are the poppers
hello right the melanistic type with is see with the
black spots yeah but they're a wild type it's not a domestic rug really what does
a Mexican from or where those guess it would be central Mexico okay yeah those
are high early those are how look at that a Warren John there I do these wild
clock are oh there look at that orange on them oh wow really sharp and you get
a double fail or does that I cool down a lot and then alright any place on this
side and then uh your Tanganyika tank oh wait we got inner bud what's the real
town Rotella it made the clot last night gave it to one of the beginners and
showed up there we got the Tanganyika pne's right here and then you've got the
flat without the brush rd and then what's the one with the yellow tails
sit for chromeless left Isola either called yellow flash or blue flash
and then see whether all that neat thing about that take is that take a set up as
a several communities over on the right hand side I've got a community of
kneeling for locust multiply see honest the Sheldon Weller okay
they will breed and reproduce in there and keep the colony going if you look
the cipro chromis there's the mail at the top they are an open-water cichlids
so they will stay at the top and breed and in the top okay then if you look
there some bruh chard I the ferry cichlids they will breed where the rocks
kind of like to lean up against one another and create fairly large caves
and so they will keep a colony going there in this tank and then if you look
some of the long slender fish with the black markings got our genetic Roma's
dick fell died their long and slender so they like long slender tubes and so they
will find some of the long and slender openings between the rocks and create a
different colony so I've got about four species of fish each that are able to
partition their environment and I can keep them coexisting than reproducing in
one tank because they each got their own habitat so that's what I like about
Tanganyika yeah they got their own they got their own spot their own space and
you notice there's a sin Adonis probably lose the fittest yeah
there and they will be reproducing it under the rocks too so I'll keep going
and I love the little loop I do those ever do anything for you there those are
long thin caves motor or a neural space and then above them we've got some Sun
fit or what are those would be native type Sun fish these didn't happen to
come from Illinois but these are orange spotted sunfish they're one of the
smaller sub fish species I've got a wild pond out of my in-laws house I'd love to
put some sunfish in I don't know that that's good but that's a male
bristlenose look at that now we've got this is not just a holding tank of some
young Lavetta chroma coeruleus or electric
yellows and some Sutro fist debates today and then and it doesn't even stop
folks it goes all the way over here I got a whole other thing
oh good little wheelchair - gotta have the spot to sit and chill and look at
the stuff and then you have no dirt in these ORS I haven't switch during the
bottom bottom at the bottom is dirt and highlight and the top is no dirt and low
light okay good-looking crypts in there the bronze and you all got a crown back
there nice and then it's growing pretty slowly but they do that
and then up here we've got some really nice-looking swordtails various types
you keep those at a ratio of male to female you know I don't you know so many
up no not really you notice the plants in this tank see the yellow right this
would be a high Groff Allah deform us or water wisteria yellow like that it's got
a nutrient deficiency what would you think that is possibly iron it could be
almost anything since it's yellow throughout the leaf it's some bloat
slow-moving nutrient so I have yet to figure out exactly what it is but would
I get that corrected then I'll be able to grow that elevator of course
Aldi yeah in there that means there's a nutrient balance as well right
very very cool the quarries down there look very well-fed too by the way they
look like they're well taken care of yeah the hell butters were just added a
couple weeks ago awesome and then over here what are these uh well these are
Jordanian Falcons they would be from Cuba and there are a couple I don't see
them right now
Janene see Eleni a lot of their budget it's a learning a lot are primarily the
other room but these are this is there's a story behind this tank the two species
were put together because these produce smaller private engine NC a-- so when
the adults of the density would have young instead of chasing their own young
it would chase the young this specie not allowed their young to survive really
yeah so Wow and then when we got down here Lima Lima patata it's a Cuban Libya
sometimes the bail there will also have some more and you got your sad John
what's this code this one we we talked about Itamar cilia is that what is that
isn't Marcia that would be the dwarf four-leaf clover this is a submerse form
it grows about an inch higher so it's got runners that run under the soil if
it comes to the boggy area where it's above the surface where the top can be
above the surface of the water hill for so there's a neighbor wow I need to get
my head that's a cool plant is that looks like it's free that doesn't need
much light right it's got good substrate there's actually a better one Wow and
he's got vesuvius in here the kind of doors for soo vyas and then I'm assuming
that's narrow leaf ludwigia if that would loose ribbons and ripples by our
ketotic right it's a closed across okay yeah cool when you guys have one next to
it this is a reference by our katate the one in the tank next to it is just loo
Twiggy a reference shows how when it's at the top it turns red yeah those also
in the lower tank because they're semi native and they like cooler water so
that normally the lower tanks are cooler so they have a tendency year-round to do
better in that then the big is like a little cooler yeah okay well you would
put them at 80 degrees and rounded very well in here is a skiff eeeh by lineae
otto i think the new neighbors nee otoko by Laini on a two-lane skip there a
library they don't get any bigger than this
I still assassins now making a cameo for us yep
said notice the shrimp were in there with him oh I didn't even notice those
they're eating plea coke wafers right now you got the CDs coming out of your
nose man no some we goal is to get it going a little bit better
it's a finicky one now you gotta eat here being a kid me so it always like
kind of grows for me and it kind of cuts back and then it'll grow and like spurts
I don't know noticed how it grows for you but it notice it here there is some
algae in here but the trip we're keeping it flipped back ah really as bad that's
one of these is straight cherries or I think most amateurs yeah mmm ha they
asked me how many as I killed playing with potassium tongs man I didn't
discipline genocide the man this is cool a tank of Amica splendens
the butterfly split blender pen or viddied once it was thought to be
extinct in the wild so it's kind of what got a lot of the cares projects and the
project in Mexico the fish are things like that started to save a lot of the
good deeds it was since found again but there were a lot enough um in the hobby
and the thing about the Amika is love the yellow and I noticed yes on the on
the tail notice that there's very little algae in here they they eat algae fairly
readily really a colony like this and so they cleaned all the algae out they're
getting the Hungry's that are after going after actually going after some
other plants now the other thing about abacus is there a live bear with the fry
that they have are almost 3/4 of an inch long so some of these younger fryer just
probably a day or two old really oh they come out really big oh yeah very large
about 3/4 of an inch and I got to show this because I was told I can take some
with me and I'm going to take it up on that man that's a cool plant what is
that coming out of the top there that's the willow leaf that we looked at over
there the high crop oh really they should be so aggressive oh I've never
seen it growing above water like that yeah that's awesome
I've got an above the room tank I'm playing and it's been a lot of fun we
hadn't seen it go out like that it's probably getting rid of out ready to
bloom ah so okay a little purple bloom it's a little bit like a myth
what do we got in here is this is this valve down low that's the giant valve
ah but like that photo I had last night uh yeah the same would except I'm having
trouble getting this wouldn't go to the surface the take it came out of
originally it went to the surface they we're almost an inch wide the leaves
were three to four feet long put it in here and for some reason it's it's
spread out but I just can't get it to go to the surface and what's this dark guy
in here looking at me uh the that's a one of the big ugly betters they call
it's a mouth rooting better being ugly been eyes better his musician are better
I'll post a lot excuse me better splendid isn't horrible better and up
top you got a is in red Louis then the yeah up son Ricky if he is in Ricky
right there most likely I don't um duck for sure exactly which species whole
crypts to krypter krypter cried ponta pora flora in that particular pot some
parva love it there that's a better looking parva then mine comes in a
little paler than that half it's going to boil probably goes upon a credible
water but could be there it it has it has a spoon shaped leaf well yeah it
does growing above water and then a vow I that is got dirt at the bottom which
is one of the reason that Val grows very well but I have to harvest it out every
month or so and sell it because otherwise it just grows the take shot
what I do the tank gets black from the dirt that I pull out that's one thing
one of the issues with a dirty tank and that's a wholly next part of it it's
it's a there was a bowel down there there's now a another high groffle a
high drop la Salsa folia that's a different one yeah and this is Linea
Milano gastric on the black belly gloomier okay and then as we walk to the
the back here oh you've got one of my favorites I love these guys
the weather looks yeah love the personality on yeah you got a goal is to
raise those killer a little bigger than maybe put them outside spawning
ah so I wanna I want to talk is obviously a lot of Tanks here how do we
do maintenance on this do you have a routine what is your system like when we
talk about like just general maintenance in the filtration of this icy air zone
and all of your tanks so what give me kind of your philosophy on you don't see
a lot
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