so the 700 so the 700 gallon aquarium is now ready for fish so the 700 gallon aquarium
is now ready for fish i got to start cleaning my glass more often fritz sent me all this stuff and
you know i i i'm always about to make a video and i never clean my glass and you guys always
get after me so i try to keep that close by as a reminder that you guys actually want to see
into the aquariums this is a 700 gallon aquarium it's eight feet long it's five feet front to back
and it's a little over two and a half feet tall making it 700 gallons you'll remember that we
had these logs the trees trunks growing completely out of the aquarium itself and when we originally
planted this the plants certainly didn't look like this i did originally have an algae bloom all uh
all it was was uh you know some some hair algae and whatnot i manually removed it did a big water
change and it never came back the tank is cloudy right now that's simply because there's a lot of
uh filtration mome in the tank and circulating throughout it because i did hook this up
uh with cycled media um we'll talk about the front of it first there's a couple of
mp60s on this tanks these guys flow like three thousand gallons per hour or so i of course don't
uh run them at a hundred percent but if we look at the way it's set up we can't even see to the other
end of the tank but there's one here focusing on the front of the tank more so the bottom section
and then one here focusing on the top area in the top section which is helping blow away the return
of the filter that is coming out of the back of the tree trunk there's a pump in that tree trunk
that comes out on the other side where my utility room is or basically it's the quarantine room now
and it pumps into this large canister that was filled with cycled biological media this filter is
then returned to the tank and exits right here now obviously this is an eyesore but i've been testing
uh look at the snails in here they were the snails were in the media and there's nothing i could do
but we're gonna have some fish that will likely eat them but it just returns to the tank here and
i'm adjusting it putting it up and down twisting it that sort of thing to figure out where i want
the flow that doesn't rip up the plants or disturb the fish or anything before i come up with the
final solution however right now i don't really care because you can't even see it when you're
looking at the tank now that pump is pumping through the filter at about 3 000 gallons per hour
which essentially means i'm only getting a turn turnover rate of about four times
an hour in this aquarium and when it comes to canister filters i typically shoot to
four to six times an hour anyway so it's on the low end but that's not going to be a big issue
we have tons of surface area in the sand as well as all the decorations that bacteria is going to
grow on you have to remember that bacteria is an organism that lives on a surface it doesn't
live in free free-flowing water uh it does need a surface to survive on not a lot to update here the
lights come on in the morning go off at night uh i'm currently running them at around seven
hours a day uh which seems to be ultimate ultim ultimate ultim uh optimal optimal and when it
comes to dosing i do add a little bit of iron here and there because my water source is void of it
now that i've hooked up the filter i don't need to dose it with much of anything else
the nitrogen cycle has been working on this tank not only is this filter media cycle but i cleaned
all the filters from all of the 180s you know took the sponges out of the filters squeeze them into
a bucket of water and dumped it in here to help feed and seed the cycle before fish get in here
because worst case scenario is you put a fully cycled aquari a fully cycled filter on an aquarium
and you put it in water that's completely bare of any nutrients like the tap water or whatever type
of water you add it doesn't have ammonia in it immediately and that bacteria could potentially
die off causing a mini cycle a bacterial bloom a tremendous amount of issues so we'll deal with
cloudy water it may look bad but it's incredibly healthy and exactly what i need to happen now when
it comes to the stocking of that aquarium we once talked about the fact that we were going to do
uh maybe a couple hundred congo tetras and i thought that would be absolutely amazing
but the longer i thought about it and the longer i dragged my butt on setting that tank up and just
make sure the plants rooted properly the more i realized is that would only kind of be cool for
a few weeks or a few couple months before we just like it's boring to kind of look at it
would be kind of different but why can't we add a you know a couple hundred true schooling tetras
and then have a main feature fish in a 700 gallon planted aquarium that you typically wouldn't guess
and the best part is we already have them they're incredibly healthy and they would do probably do
a lot more better in a larger aquarium all fish do don't they i'm talking the piranha aquarium
i propose we move all 15 or 20 however ever however many's in here over to the 700
and then add in a couple of hundred tetras that are true schooling with a piranha won't harm them
all of these guys are uh you know four inches plus at this point it might not look like it
because well this tank is such a dark tannin water tank all that uh manzanita in it still leeches you
know no matter how much i do my water changes but this tank while we're here we might as well do an
update on it uh so this tank here is 180 gallons it's six feet long two feet wide two feet tall
once again we're using those pendant style lights that i showed you how to make uh they are upside
down flower pots with a hole screwed in the bottom and then installed some basic led lights
and that was it painted the black and hung them up and set them on go filtration is built right
into the tank using the same material that i use to build my lids i created an in aquarium sump
water is going to flow over and go through this grating system this is its overflow
it goes through all of this sponge which acts as mechanical as well as biological
goes through these holes here comes up through this grating which is elevating all of this
biological media look at all the mum just sitting on it i don't even touch it i let this happen i
let the organisms live and microorganisms live out their life in here and then it overflows to the
final chamber where it's returned by an aquarium pump that's pumping around 3000 gallons per hour
so this tank is incredibly clear uh at least in person but because there's so many tannins it
looks like there's a bunch of a tea spilt in it uh however i like it i like the glistening of the
lights i i think it looks absolutely amazing um and i've been wanting to kind of do oh
i kind of want to do a massive planted piranha aquarium i think it would just be absolutely
phenomenal to walk in on and the first thing you see well let me explain oh first look at these
guys the anubius is just getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger and overtaking everything
but this is such a beautiful tank that i don't want to rip it down i think it looks awesome
i do have some fish that could go in this and i'm thinking festivums and angelfish and making
an amazonian style tank maybe toss in some apistos as well as maybe a few tetras and
call it a day i think it would look absolutely phenomenal but back to the story we walk in the
front so unorganized we walk in the front door and we're first greeted
by this massive aquarium that almost acts like a a visual block to the rest of the gallery
before you kind of look left um i do like these leaves and entries being here there's some here
and there's some on the other side i love it with that said we walk in
and likely we'll get a schooling fish that stays near the top and that's like the first
thing you might see is that schooling fish you look down and you see like 20 large piranha
in a massive aquarium in a planted tank you look up and you can see that the trees are
coming through the top of the aquarium just absolutely such a crazy idea that i've been
thinking about for a while and it's a huge reason why i've been dragging my butt on this tank
i know i said i wanted to do congo tetras i knew that you guys would love that idea like three four
five hundred of them i think that would be kind of cool at first here's the thing once you see this
video the piranha will already be in that tank and i'll likely have already ordered the tetras
so even if you don't want this to happen like i said the minute you click play it's
already have happened i want to kind of show you guys this in in advance and make sure
the tank is cycled then the fish are doing okay and if this video went up fish were moved properly
everything went well and they're doing fantastic i'll film that as well for you guys so if you're
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that's it i gotta go this is this is exciting this is so fun guys and thanks for joining me
on this journey joking just want to get rid of the people that don't really stick around to the end
so if we free up the piranha aquarium and we free up the fish that are in here which is the fish i
was talking about and we combine the tanks that we were talking about previously we now have a
free 180 up there that we're thinking goldfish but what do you think i'm gonna do in here
clue we also did this before and i swore them off for the remainder of everything i said i would
never do this again total bad taste in my mouth we'll see what happens though i don't want to get
my hopes up because it's an opportunity that might go away sooner than i need it to but uh
just i'll see you in the next video