i have another idea
so
now i know what you're thinking aren't those guys brackish water fish technically sure they
can be they do great in fresh water brackish water or full marine these are the scats the
monos as well as the archer fish and based off of these specific types i can kind of transition
them however i've wanted however the 375 has been sitting there empty for months on end and while
we set up a beautiful brackish water 180 gallon months ago i decided uh let's slowly convert them
back to fresh which took a few months not a big deal uh and transition them into the 375 because
they were originally got for the threes or originally got for the 2000 i thought they
just their black and white coloring i thought they look perfect in this tank but i don't want to put
them in there they're going to get eaten they're too small but the 375 makes entirely perfect sense
for them and the way this actually works is some of you guys might have seen that pump in the back
that's just pumping water up to this main aquarium and then it simply overflows uh you guys remember
i did an entire tutorial on how i built this entire aquarium plus it's uh overflow system water
just overflows through the wheel we built down to this tank drains into this tank and kind of
just cycles through there's no direct filtration on this because it's not needed we're using the
2000 and just increasing its overall water volume and then using the filter we built as well as the
canister filter to filter the entire thing the 375 and the 2000 kind of match i mean the uh
and everything in there is aqua decor by the way aqua decor backgrounds.com none of that is real
um so this this tank isn't really going to lead to any form of additional waste for the fish or for
the aquarium or the filtration but now you can see why i'm building bigger filters and whatnot
this has been planned for a while it's not very all that random but they are doing fantastic in
here they're going to experience a much larger growth spurt they would have did well in a 180
but um knowing that i've been planning on this to do it for a few months now and kind
of acclimating them building the filter that sort of thing i got to say this is part of a much this
is a very small fraction of a very much larger plan that i have that i'm currently working on
eventually the piranha the baby piranha which just hid behind the rocks are going in
the 700. now this brackish water tank is empty the discus that were down there are now
in their own aquarium in a new breeding tank for themselves
that means three of the 180s are going to be empty i think that over time you guys are going to start
to see some of the things that i'm planning and i don't want to ruin it for you i just kind of
wanted to show you this video with that said we might as well talk about the discus as well
uh i hope you guys like this deck i love it i think it's absolutely amazing especially when you
first walk in it's like one of the first things you see this building is going to be repurposed
eventually the 700 the 2000 375 are going to stay and so will the fish uh it's going to be kind of
like a monster aquarium gallery which is monster fish and then you guys know a new building's
coming and that will be for much smaller fish and breeding and whatnot but then i also have a visual
uh more of a display gallery i'm working on as well things will make time and uh make sense in
time but of course i've been you know planning and starting to try to execute on a lot of these
ideas and things that i want to do i think you guys are going to be absolutely floored for it
because this is just going to be oh it will be absolutely phenomenal and there's nothing more
to say about that now when it came to discus you know that we had some pigeon bloods but you also
know that we have these blue ones they're cobalts they look fantastic in white but the pigeon bloods
would look a lot better against uh like a bluer background so i went and got a really good color
for the blue background and they look absolutely gorgeous against it of course this is a simple
breeding tank these guys are far more skittish than the other pair they are eating and doing
fine but of course no signs of breeding just yet a couple sponge filter i don't want to poke around
the tank too much because this this area doesn't get much traffic which is perfect for breeding but
um a pvc pipe that i showed you guys how to build a small heater in there just in case
temperature in here drops because this is more of like a utility room quarantine room
you'll also remember that we had a flower horn up here he was in there for darn near a year just
keeping filters cycled i actually had a really good lifelong friend come over his girlfriend's
into fish i knew that i didn't really have a place for the flower horn but you know i'm not
just going to sell them or drop them off or give them away it's always got to be the perfect moment
for me to do that sort of thing uh and anyways i thought that was the perfect moment to say hey do
you want them and they were shocked that i would even consider giving it to them and that's when
i knew that it was going to go through a really good home and but i don't sell my fish i don't
do anything like that i don't do giveaways i make sure they have the right homes uh with
people with the right intentions and that's where they go but nonetheless these tanks are
looking absolutely phenomenal just gorgeous fish we'll see what happens long term with these guys
but i got to admit setting up these two little breeding tanks is certainly inspired and put
you know put a fire under me to want to do my plans a little bit sooner and a little bit faster
the downside is simple though a lot of this cannot happen until like january-ish
has nothing more than to do with availability of what i'm trying to get and do there so we'll see
what happens long term but uh yeah just kind of tinkering around out here moving closer to
my end goal which i'm not really going to announce much more perhaps on members only i'll um no i'll
definitely make a video and just tell them everything but if you want to follow along
with that and know everything first go ahead and join the membership if not i'll make videos on it
eventually um but with them i i i i just like grabbing my phone and i can just talk to them
whenever i want so much easier that way so anyways the uh that was it i mean i i just think it's a
cool tank i thought it was worth filming but i have been working on a lot of other things which
just means the the lack of videos recently i've also been making a lot of tick tocks lately that's
been really easy um i think here shortly the baby piranha i've gotten to size and healthy enough
to go in the bigger ones but we'll see i might try that shortly i'm terrified to do it though
because if i'm wrong they'll be decimated if i'm right it's going to be absolutely amazing but um
it we'll just have to wait and see i mean i could feed these guys heavily and then add in the babies
then they have a chance of survival and we'll go from there i think they'll be just fine anyways
i got lots of work on hope you enjoyed today's video i'll see you guys in the next one oh and
one of the other things i was talking about it was thinking about is i need to start going live again
um just because i have these ideas and then i'll think about it for a few weeks i'll change my mind
but then i come back to it months or years later so maybe i should start bouncing a lot of things
off you guys and see where we go from there let me know in the comment section below if you want to
see me going live on youtube once again it's been a couple of years since i did but we did it a few
times in the past and it was an absolute blast so let me know what you think see you guys shortly