do you guys remember the octopus aquarium we just built
turned out absolutely phenomenal do you know what else did though
the matching aquarium we built the very next day
so
that's right we not only have an octopus aquarium that is 32 inches long 32 inches wide 16 and a
half inches tall but we have its sister tank an identical tank that i built the very next
day only difference between them is there's an access hatch and the octopus aquarium to house his
little lookout tower that he'll be able to swim up into and overlook his domain absolutely gorgeous
but what's going in this tank well when i was originally planning out the octopus tank
which i've been thinking about for months if not well technically years i think about octopuses
far more than the uh the average healthy mind should but i knew that i wanted to
have one here and then i thought well i'll build a matching tank here because out of uh i think it's
two three sheets and two sheets of acrylic i could build all of this so i did just that now here's
the plan and here's why i got to tell you about these tanks right now this tank here is going
in that corner this tank here is going over on this side and i'm going to tie them in together
in the middle through the sump filtration i got to build the stands i got to get everything out
of the way so i can continue on with another build that is going to blow your socks off but this when
they're tied in together with 70 gallons here 70 gallons here 40 gallons in the middle you know the
the tower plus that extra three gallons in each one we're looking at about 195 200 gallon system
with uh matching parameters both are going to be salt water of course
and that increased water volume is absolutely going to offer far more stability especially for
these frail uh octopus and i haven't said it yet the baby sharks were going to get now stability
with the baby sharks are going to be all too important you guys will remember we did this
four years ago already see four years ago we went to my local fish store and we bought two shark
eggs we spent two months watching them grow within their little egg sacks if you don't if you're not
familiar with it like some sharks will give birth to fully formed young live births like a guppy you
know how like some live bears give birth to fully they're not laying eggs or anything but while
sharks some sharks do lay eggs and we call them mermaids purses inside these little mermaid purses
our blood is technically a shark egg this hard leathery outing shell inside of it is the yolk sac
as well as the embryo the oak shack is huge it's about the size of a thumb and then there's
this tiny little squiggly line attached to it that's the little baby shark and for two months
we watched those guys grow until one night i came out here in the middle of the night
and i noticed that one of the sharks had hatched it wasn't moving nothing was happening with it
so i turned the light on and then shined a flashlight at it and the flashlight caused
it to move around i was like oh thank you lord this is so like it was two months of watching my
little baby grow i immediately started to panic and was like why isn't the other one growing and
you know i gave it a day or two and i had to intervene the the shark within the egg was no
longer moving cut it open hatched it by myself and the little next little baby shark was fine then
i even got them to eat and they were they were doing just fine lo and behold though of course
mice destroy my heat pump i try to replace it's the middle of a heat wave in the summer
can't get any more repaired can i get any new ones etc etc i did my best to try to cool this building
down during a heat wave that was literally killing humans wiping out fish stores of all of their fish
everybody was battling this massive heat wave so was i the only way i could figure out to cool
these tanks besides floating ice in thousands of gallons of water which wasn't effective in
this much water was to do cold water changes i'd do one tank at a time and by the time i got down
all the tanks done it was time to start the next tank or start all over again for 16 hours a day
i was doing cold water changes to the point where i ran my well
dry luckily though i ended up getting the heat pump fixed and recovered entirely this sounds
like a sad story but i saved 99.8 percent of the fish there was over a thousand fish out here
three died one was a gourami and in all fairness he was a little beat up so i will 50 50 chance
whether he was killed in the tank by another fish and or the heatwave got him but he has a grommy
he can breathe oxygen i'm leaning towards he was bullied in the tank and that's things can happen
but the two single most newborn sensitive and finicky and vulnerable fish in the gallery died
and it happened to be those two sharks i was devastated not only did we spend two months
uh watching these guys grow in their eggs and you guys were totally invested and excited and so was
i and we were all so encapsulated and i never knew anything would happen but then i got involved and
hand hatched them and hand-fed them and started getting them eating and i was so emotionally
into them that when they died i was literally devastated and i swore them off for four years
it's taken me four years to kind of realize that that wasn't my fault joey you can do this
give it another shot so we're going to i'm building a baby shark aquarium we're going
to get some shark eggs in as soon as everything is up and running and like i said the only reason
that i'm showing you this now and i know that you guys want to see like a full tutorial on
how to build an acrylic aquarium i don't want to dedicate any like hours of editing to that
right now because i got to get these stands built i got to get them up on their stands
the filtration stand built the filtration in place get these guys plumbed and all that stuff and
hopefully in the next video we'll be able to do all of that or if not some of it but i gotta tell
you having an octopus tank here and a baby shark egg there i don't know and i think you'll agree
that if you stood in front of both of them which one you would want to look at first
and that's kind of the theme of what i'm going with now like all these tank builds that i want
to do and that are planning are just going to be absolutely fascinating interesting
and i think you guys are going to absolutely love it and if you think you will make sure
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see everything eventually anyways hope you guys enjoyed the video i'll see you in the next one
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