What's up fish tank people?
Fishtanktv.com, dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you on a Sunday, how is everybody doing
today?
I hope you are doing well, hope you had a great week, hope you got some sunshine I know
it has been beautiful all over the country.
Yesterday was gorgeous here, I was out frolicking in the greenhouse, playing the yard, working
on the whole bimmer i got crude underneath my nails "clarks cars and things" I don't
know if you still watch this channel I was working on the E36 bimmer for those of you
who know about the Bavarian motor work style.
So having a good time, It's exciting folks!
It's Species Sunday, I got a lot of stuff for you.
I got three lessons for you - learn how to tank over behind me here.
I want to tell you what is going on this week as some of you might have heard I just been
talking about it, just a little bit.
We are going to be at the Newport Aquarium on Saturday, so we are six days away.
I was up there on Thursday talking to my man Jeff, folks it's crazy, right.
I got the whole upper area overlooking the Ohio river, a huge thing!
They got an eight foot discuss in angel fish tank up there.
Right when you walk in you can see it of to your right.
My man Brian and I are going to be up there.
We are going to be up there all day pretty much.
I started eleven o'clock, the aquarium opens at ten.
We are going to start right out of the gate, mic-ed up talking about the Dirted tank for
an hour.
At noon Jeff is going to take down the first twelve to the high level tour, It's going
be an hour bows of the aquarium.
But I want to talk about this for a second, this is not the can's fifteen dollar behind
the scenes tour that you can buy there.
This is done intentionally by my man Jeff and I think this is very cool.
He realizes that there is the thirty four year old demographic mom with two kids that
they have been getting at the aquarium and every fish is "Oh look the shark!".
Then there is the copyist, the hardcore hobbyst - this is for those people.
They are doing this for free.
He is actually coming in on a Saturday, doesn't typically work Saturday, to really give a
behind the scenes tour because one of their goals is to like really get the hobbyist that
is really into it to see this.
It is going to be a really in-depth thing.
I am really pumped about it.
He took me and Bryan around on Thursday for like two hours.
We just looked at the system, how they do water changes on the salt tank, how the huge
salt thing does 4200 gallons a minute, how they mix 40 000 gallons of salt.
What do else do they do?
They do the water lab, where they make their own water, like specifically and then it is
showed and explained, and really intense chemistry stuff.
This is one of the craziest things I saw, how about having a buoy out in the Red Sea
that sends GPS feedback back to one of your tanks in the United States spinning of the
readings that are going on in the Red Sea, so that you can have your tank parameters
exactly match that environment.
Next time I go to Peru, I am just going to rocket down there, grab me a little GPS thing
sticking in there.
This is the tank parameters down there, this is the tank parameters in here, insanely high
level stuff on that tour.
By the way my stuff is going to be pretty legit too, just so you know.
There is only room for twelve people per tour.
There are two tours, I come at eleven, Jeff starts taking people at twelve for an hour.
Look it's going to be a small group, so I got time here to question if you miss it.
Bryan and I are doing three aquascapes.
We are doing a sixty five tall, a forty long, a fifty five, maybe another one.
Then we got a bunch of jungle tanks we are going to be selling plants out, so I am excited
about that.
This stuff comes to me, always fun to get good spider driftwood.
I am going to be selling some of this up there, I am also going to be using it.
This is the piece that I have put on the dustinsfishtanks facebook page.
This is so sick!
These two are my favorites, I just like these a lot.
It is always great to get this stuff in the mail.
You never know what you are going to get, so I am real pumped about it.
Great stuff, I am having a blast with it folks!
I have got the 220 on here and I want you guys to know this is dedicated to my man Kenny
out in Oklahoma.
Son you have to learn how to keep your lights off.
Are you afraid of the dark?
That will be my question for you.
Are you afraid of the dark with your fish tank?
Because I haven't had this tank on for two days, because I had some hair algae going
on, I need to do a big water change.
It is simple Ammonia and High light equals , algae - it happens.
I left my lights off for two days, I am just firing it back up, but I got some tighter
barbs in here, I will grab the camera and show them in a second.
But leave your lights off, don't be afraid to leave your lights off.
Now look you are like drug addicts with your fish tanks and you have got to get your fix,
okay?
So you get your fix, you turn your lights on for an hour then turn them back off, if
you are dealing with stuff or more importantly figure out what the problem is.
Is it too much light?
Is it bad bulbs, is it just straight up lack of maintenance?
This thing has a lot of fish in it now.
I added a bunch of tiger barbs, like a dozen of them.
Then I got a high fish flow.
That is my issue, so I need to do a big water change get that thing bounced back out, so
I just wanted to show you, I haven't had this tank on in probably three days.
That is what we are doing there.
Let's see here, what else do we got?
We got the fish, we got the algae.
As we engage in battle, the crowd now screams in rage
The High Chief Jamel-Ah-Rief take the stage.
Light is provided through sparks of energy from the mind that travels in rhyme form giving
sight to the blind.
Little WU there, for those of you who don't speak wu tang Triumph, I got some new lights
to show you all.
Now check it, this happens.
People have been talking to me forever, I got two things/three lessons to tell you about
this tank over here, I am really excited about it.
I can get the lights to turn on.
There we go.
Lights are on, I have done my wu piece, I want to talk about this.
This is my tank that last week I showed you blast in the CO2.
Well guess what, the CO2 ran out, because I was just crushing it there.
Obviously I am not afraid to show a tank looking bad, so I am going to show this because I
think there's value in it.
First and fore most I had it half full I started filling it up and the cold water
came on.
I didn't have my hot water, so the plants all got hit with some really cold water which
sucked, and it melted a lot of plants and you know look I have killed my share of plants
I am not worried about it.
That happens no big deal what you are going to do is you got to look at the plants and
see what is going to happen with them, so this is my Crypt Usteriana, this is my new
Red Ryukin.
So I melted this, you can see the Crypt Usteriana hates the temperature swings.
You can see the Crypt Usterian in the back there looks terrible.
That one has jagged leaves, but here is the thing folks.
Right here this tiny little line coming up, can you guys see that little thing, if my
gold fish gets out of the way, that one little pokey thing means there is a new leaf coming.
All you can see the new leaf on this, so what you are going to want to do is you are going
to want to trim these bad ones.
People ask me about this all the time, you are going to want to trim the ugly ones, because
the plant centered energy to an ugly leaf that is not going to come back.
You are going to trim those and then you are going to let this new one come.
That's what you do.
If you do like cook something or you have bad leaves, or leaves are just adjusting to
your tank trim those suckers off.
Like this one it has to go, that one has to go.
I might leave that one on, because I can still do something with that one, but yes you are
going to trim those up, and then if you see the new growth you are heading in the right
direction.
Impulsed buy on the gold fish look, gold fish happen folks.
For me this is the time of year to be buying gold fish, okay?
Because when you get to spring and it gets warm, guess what happens?
A) They are picked over B)
They are shipped in too hot of temperatures and the mortality rates are higher, and you
may not even be able to get that.
Look at this guy, I want to zoom in on that bad boy.
I am real pumped about it, I got the goldfish.
I didn't have a plan, but they kind of created their own plan, I have got them, I am excited
about it.
The other thing too, I don't have time to talk about these lights, because I haven't
used them enough, but these are from full Fluval I straight up bought these.
I think these are wicked.
These are quad high output T5-s, like "Give me some of that light son", and I am excited
about those, but here is another thing with the lights folks.
When you get new lights, don't run them for ridiculous amount of time.
These are new, I had like two schwill bulbs from 1985 on here.
Now I have got quad high output T5-s for 54W bulbs.
It is a sick amount of light increase, so what you do is you only run it a little bit.
I am running it just a little bit, well I am just freestyling them now.
I am running them for hours a day when I am looking at them, because I don't want them
to be going too much.
Where is that fish at?
So that's what I am doing.
The lessons to learn make sure you keep control of your water temperatures, when you are doing
your water changes.
I ran out of hot water, went to cold, nuked a bunch of plants.
It is not the first time these killed a few plants.
That happens, don't run the lights too long.
Especially if you are getting, I am getting quad high output T5-s on this, it's going
to get algae for sure.
Then buy gold fish when you see them, I got a black moor in there as well.
Yes I am just letting them forge around the plants because D doesn't care.
I am excited, if you like what I am doing subscribe.
Come check it out next folks, it's going to be sick I am having a really good time, Newport
Aquarium is going to be awesome and I will be trying to do it all over the country.
It's really exciting for me to be doing that.
A lot of good stuff going on at the Newport!
They are going to be giving away t-shirts, got a bunch of stuff to get out.
There are people driving from Virginia that is crazy!
Make it a great week, hope you and your tanks are doing well.
Tank on!