so
this is probably going to be the only water change that i'm not looking forward to so my largest
aquarium is due for its weekly water change i'm most likely going to do around 50 percent change
about a thousand gallons let the fish scatter since i put that hose in there but once i do this
it's going to allow me to finally do something that i have not been looking forward to doing
so you guys know already the archer fish are going to get a 180 gallon aquarium here shortly
it's gonna be an asian themed aquarium and i thought archer fish were going to be the
perfect fish along with some other things and we'll be able to set up targets let them shoot
at them because if you don't know archer fish have the ability to shoot water like a pistol
out of the water and hit like an insect knock it into the water and that's a lot of the times how
they eat it's next to impossible to mimic that in the 2000 gallon though you'll also remember
we got all of these fish that we want to put in the 2000 at some point but we can't do it
with the archers in there because well they're simply going to eat them so in the meantime
you'll remember this tank right here we set it up for the festivums we set it up there because they
were too small to go into the 2000s so we wanted to grow them out for a little bit i put them in
here temporarily to free up that tank to move the archers over and then everybody including
the festivums and even the discus that are kind of like hiding all over behind the rocks they're all
going into that 2000 gallon aquarium plus we still have a ton of fish down here that have to go in
there as well so today i simply hope that we can move the archers over to their temporary aquarium
see how that's gonna go i've never had to catch small fish in this big of a tank before fingers
crossed that i don't have to get in to do it i gotta move the camera or he's gonna jump at it
he's bad he doesn't like anything being on top of his tank
all right i don't i don't know if i can do this alone i think i'm going to need some help
maybe i can get some oh you got to come out you're just blocking the
walk in the view there's no way i catch these guys
yeah short notice i'm sorry i don't even know where they all are there should be like 30 of them
you didn't catch any of that i haven't i haven't been able to i think they can like hide in there
around the tree and stuff yeah i could take the tree out i might have to just get in
i think it's best if i just get in shoot all right
i put sandals on because there used to be rays in here and there could be loose burps
but it's highly unlikely that uh the barbs are actually still in here
ooh it's chilly nothing in the tree trunk all right
let's see how this goes if i was catching the angels or something it'd be so much easier
let them know
there's no way that i can continue to get them with this here i think i'm gonna have to remove it
and uh i'm thinking i was always thinking about repositioning it anyway
put that on the floor this one's way worse do you get snails weighs a lot yeah i was thinking
about putting this more so over here and kind of like re-escaping a little bit giving it a
even more open space because i find that the log itself kind of obstructs the view
it looks cool and you would think it would it's the best option
my biggest concern is if we just leave even one behind and we can't find it or we don't
see it and then we re-escape the tank we set everything back up we add in the tetras then
that individual archer is slowly going to pick off all of these tetras and all of these smaller fish
so we got to be really careful because once these archers out there's absolutely nothing in there
that's going to go after these tetras this is way easier without them having that log there
yeah what i'm thinking of is taking this and putting it over here and having rocks all around
it that way it hides all equipment and then we have this massive open space in the center
i think that makes way more sense
he could potentially be the last one
i just feel like there's way more than that but i have been grabbing them one two three at a time
no there's more in here this has to come out i have no choice i can't see everything
yeah we can't leave even a single one
i thought i had them
all the tire burps are trying to go like we want to hold
if the tiger bars stop nipping at me i feel like i get more done
all right i think i got them all you think we got them all man
yeah i got out to let everything settle in the tank and uh if there are any archers left i'm
still going to wait like 10 15 minutes to see if any comes swimming out or anything like that
uh might even wait upwards of an hour or two and then if i see one then i can grab them but
that's plenty enough time for the fish to kind of settle in and whatnot the archers
typically relax after like 10 minutes of any sort of commotion like this so
i don't see any right now see lots of other fish but man this tank's gonna be awesome one of the
things i got to do next though oh let me show you the archers i thought i saw one over there
several yeah so the sun rooms are getting huge those festivals when
we put them in here gonna have a massive massive growth spurt
yeah i keep thinking one of those rooms are okay let me show you guys what the archers look like
just absolutely they tripled in size easily i mean they don't look so big right this second i mean
compared to what they were though i mean they're definitely much larger all four uh three to four
closer to four inches most likely um i have one kind of hanging out in the back there probably a
little upset but uh he'll get over it so these guys are eventually gonna go in 180 gallon uh
asian themed aquarium i'm going to probably use uh materials that are both silver and black as well
it's going to look super super cool i think i'll use a white sand um probably like birch type logs
i'm not sure maybe we even use like massive bamboo logs something like that i have access
to a little bit of everything right now but um yeah and then we'll figure out what we'll do with
the rest of them but these guys are the feature fish for an asian aquarium and when we do this
uh or an asian themed aquarium when we do this we're gonna put up a bullseye target for them
that they can spit at uh where i'll train them to spit at uh you know krill or snails or whatever
else i can get them to eat we'll see what their favorite is and maybe it's like little little
market shrimp or something who knows what they'll go after every single time but most likely krill
because it's gonna be easier for them to see you know shut the filters off and as soon as they shut
the filters off i guarantee they'll start going up to where they're used to uh being trained
and awaiting food to be put on that target but uh it would only take maybe a couple months to
get them perfectly trained and these guys just constantly spitting water out but for right now
this is just a holding tank till we get their big tank and set it up and get it going for them
but now that i have this emptied and the direction of this tank obviously is changing originally it
was going to be the archer fish but now we're going to put them in their own tank
and get to experience the most out of them they're just not acting natural in this tank they circle
the uh the tree but you know they're not really spitting or anything like that and i think that
we can get them in a better setting and in a better environment for them but until then
now that i have this emptied or at least drained and things like kind of move the other way
i think we re-escape it i'm gonna move all of these rocks and whatnot over
we'll push this here we'll set the tank up get it filled possibly add in some plants i was thinking
about adding all of this anubias to around the tree trunk but i don't feel confident that the uh
the walrus won't eat it i feel like they're definitely going to eat it they eat every type
of plant i ever put in with them so i don't think it'll be any different when i add in this anubias
mind you this we've got so much of it now it's just sitting in here growing with all these fish
we've got rainbow fish we've got uh we've got all kinds of different tetras we've got festivums then
we've got two tanks down here that got to go in it not all of them this tank is not i'm going to
do a video on these tanks here shortly to show you something that you guys are going to enjoy
but we also have a bunch of amano shrimp they could probably go in there's no real natural
predators in there that'll kill them besides that sunshine pleco but i think we'll add them in there
anyways just to see if uh see what happens anyways that'll be it for today i'll keep an eye on the
tank see if i see any more arches if i do i'll scoop them out but you know um i'll definitely
gonna rescape this tank we're gonna add in all these fish and if you guys want to stick around
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mean here in the near future hope you guys enjoyed today's video i'll see you guys in the next one