Hi guys, so today. I'm here at Rick Warren Seams Place here in Chicago, Illinois
He's going to give us a tour of his fish room which pretty impressive
It's absolutely one of the cleanest setups I've seen thus far
So where do you think from here show us what we would obviously have up going on here
Well welcome to Chicago everybody. This is my basement fishroom and over here
I've built a couple tanks in the wall on the right hand side is an 8-Foot 240
It's a 8 foot by 2 foot by 2 foot position. There are some sick with so much acquire them
Which is a colombian Cichlid to the left is a 550 tank with some aliens in there
And I always wanted to build some tanks in the wall really enjoying have a really big tank
But once your follow the otter [we'll] take a look inside one of my pictures
Come on in
over here
On this side [of] the wall, I've got [four] 125 gallon tanks each. Tank is filtered by us with tropicals mat and filter
You come on in here. You can see how their drill
I've drilled all of them with one [inch] bulkhead
there's an overflow [bowl] cut for each as well as a drains all cut reach and what that means is I can either do a
Drain and fill system or I can do it overflow system several times and that door closes
[ok] we get it
Over here is the back of [that] 240 gallon tank
you can see the [date] [says] long a pain in the back of all my fink's with rust-oleum safety loop and
what I've tried to do is [make] it easy to get water into my tanks and out of my tanks I
Mentioned how their drains but over here is an example of a manifold I have high pitch pecs coming from Potential distribution system
Using a stainless steel text band to a half-inch water valve to all my different tanks the big tanks have a couple of bus
Lines going into the star ones have one I use one inch bolt heads and big tanks and some [3/4] and all from 1/2 inch
The track over here is a [3] foot by 8 foot rack. I got the 20 long to top the 40 breeders
Concerti graders over here. No custom. Tanks here. I use the Sam substrate for everything an led light. I think will come around
this way
Here's another eight-foot rock and this is my rack of 10 go over here where I have some libraries where I do mcgruff?
I've got a 50 breeder over here at 75 and
This is my water distribution system
To copy [the] manifold all the blue lines got each of my 8 different rack
[I've] got hot and cold coming in over here
And this is [a] hot and telephone and what this role is [is] to make sure I have the right temperature water
Going out to the tanks I set it to say 80 degrees and adjust the valve
automatically to make that happen
If I'm doing overflow I've used my volumetric flow valve and simply turn it to deliver the amount of water
I want to wrap and it will shut off automatically and that much water has gone through
so pretty
System, it's worked well for me over the years. I've used it for a number [of] years
on the other side of this [eight-foot] Rock are [2] [40] [breeders] to
33 years [to] the top and then
To my right is my actually my favorite thing about the fish room. Which is my stainless steel sink. This is a restaurant
It's got a referent valve and a spray bar
[the] stick itself is 24 inches around so I can put tanks in there and scrub things and get it clean and
[its] really great
We're really nice thing about a restaurant is you can soak water if you want to pleat something a clean something?
The valve or it's right down here
You just move this up and down you don't have to reach into the edge of the sink [Tempe] the dream which is [to]
That's just one of my fish. Oh, let's take a look at another one
Over here, we'll come on through. This is an exterior door and
Besides Cichlids I also do some library follow me and this tank has this room has 14
tanks in it most of our 20 [logs]
But there's a couple of 15s and a couple of [tents] in here as well, and all these tanks again are drilled
Twice
There is an overflow and a drain if you come over to the side [you] can probably show this pretty well over here
You can see the elbow overflow at the top and also the drain. I want to drain it in my tanks
I can just reach down under here and simply turn that valve and
It's going to start draining for me. It's very simple
When I want to salt back up I turn on the system the other room locate the tank. I want to fill up
They're all numbers so for example. Here's tank number three
here's number three on my [manifolds]
I simply turn that and water will start flowing into the tank so that way it makes water changes. So really easily
So I can change fifty percent of all the water in all these tanks
In about an hour and a half to two hours [total] and that makes it really easy
Just our air distribution using your piston pump for pretty much everything. [they're] nice and quiet
And I don't have all [your] tanks [LGX] and they've only set up the fisher and recently as I'm really enjoying it
So then that's the basic breakdown of how it's all set up. How are we?
We're filtering it with these corner filters for the most part sponge filters and air power filters. How are you eating these tanks?
Well, I heat my room centrally [so] this room is a temperate fish room
It's maintained about 71 to 70 degrees simply use a floor heater for that
Over here in the other room. I have a wall heater again runs on a 15 amp circuit
You want to take a look at that? Yeah? Let's take a look at that. Okay looks really interesting so I don't using heater
That's a couple of the big changes, but in terms of heat in the room
It's all done with this Stila ultron wall key over here it runs on 15 amp circuit
It's $160 for this. That's like [five] for Dieter's ma'am. You have [44] fish
tanks like I do well that [would] be a lot of heaters very expensive and
This is less expensive so the thing to remember make this work Eli insulation
So all my walls at 2 inches 2 inches of spray foam [insulation]
Above and the floors in the wall and at first between my room so this room stays very warm
it's great calm down marriage ring of
Kolkata we're in 77 in here is like going on vacation
Masculine [kind] of hot right now my favor given warm that's for sure
Tell me a little bit about the fish let's start back [at] where we began
Can you tell me a little bit about each fish in these tanks, okay? I can do that
Oh, did me. [I'm] the big tank. [it] would briefly took a look but these guys are absolutely stunning, [okay]?
So don't be trampled [acres] came back. Oh
Yeah, sure, okay
So these tanks [D] stretch are cyclic so major fire a colombian Cichlid and this tank?
I have three males and one female. They've rarely been bred in captivity including once in u.s.
The quinoa Columbia starting about four five years ago after a very long absence from the Hadi
People in a hobby tell them these one both of the different ones than the ones we had to say 20 30 years ago
It's a very large robust cichlid this big male over here is about 14 to [16] inches long pretty mick
They are pursuit predator. They don't eat really really big fish, but I can tell you they can kill anything
That's in with them, and they've proven that
They sponsor me a couple times, but [they've] [eaten] the eggs and I
Continue to work on them. I hope to spawn up soon
Hmm
There's one female in there. I love the fish
They're actually pretty friendly
They nice neat very well, and they have a lot of personality, and they're very creative as well [moveable] and [over] here
This is scooter [Tropius] Williams. I north's makan days sometimes called the blue lips
it's a [Malawians] [hood] like a lot of lobbyists sickles and get that thing to get pretty me and
There are obviously a rocks while yamuna. I mean see the trophies Williams. [eye] is the type species for [Scooter] tropius?
[they're] actually a shallow water fish
And they get kind of that gold color if you get the right light on they look a sheen of blue as well
[unfortunately], [I] got that group when [there] [are] full [adults] which is not a great thing to do within munna
[but] I do enjoy [them] nonetheless. I've never kept them before okay, so you want to go inside?
Yeah, sigil is some of the other ones that stand out to you smokes you got so many
I don't think a lot of time to do the mullet, okay some of the ones that are
Stand out to you. The most okay. Let's go smoothies
Yeah, so if you're the fish does not the best looking fish, but we keep it because it's interesting and possibly in danger
This is Sarah third on Caroline
from Lake Borromean [Boats] the Crater Lake in Cameron
It's the only place to found or endemic deadly and when I got them. They were actually mislabeled is my Akamai [Anka] which they're not
[but]
Dr.. Anton lamb boy actually came by my fisherman identified them for me, and [he] wrote the [book] on West African Cichlids
So I'm very happy to have them
[they're] a big omnivorous planktivores. They pretty much anything
They are always open to their [mouths] they will eat meat meat till their stuff and you'll never blow them
They always look like they're hungry
So now we're here are some really nice
Several these are a [Hero's] [being] read a species. They're a soft water fish
I'm very hard water so [in] [order] [to] me to read these I'm going to have to really get a lot of soft water in
120 [gallop] A
But a real pretty sense to get along as well. I think a great markings on my left, right?
They seem pretty za'darius. They like to eat. They're looking at me to feed them right now
But I like I like all sickness. I like all fish every time they breed. I get a kick on [it]
Yeah, I really enjoy that girl
And I think that's what I've read two hundred thirty six pieces cichlids, but and I'm still like reading
well
[actually] is also passionate about of my birds because they [needle] so let's go
so
Most of the libraries I keep arkad dated and get is [are] cool water pressure on the Mexican highlands
so yo d heater typical good for none which makes me cheap and
They're a little more interesting than your common guffy because like Cichlids they have mating behavior
In the milk or the [females] over here. This is a fish that's actually confident build a library obvious called the black print and
It's called cracking on on [Ax] users from El Toboso in Durango, Mexico
And the male's have those black tails the females are sort of Nondescript
But you need to keep these guys like flip lips with rocks and caves the reason for that is they get aggressive otherwise
So you need a lot of places for them to hide [I] have three pairs in there?
And these are all bred by my cranberries
But this is a fish that [is] sound is basically one location next to go down from Say 20 30 40 years ago
we don't keep these fish they're going to disappear and
The library club that I run tribal lifers deciding to raise money [or] conservation [to] support?
reintroduction reintroduction efforts for logging a fish and so far
[there's] been some successful reintroduction fo [two] now so although
Although these fish don't look like much [of] your awful
Have xx cichlids they are important to have and they change color with cyclic
You kind of you can test this trait with this guy over here that really dark usual in the milk gets dark like that
they're going to breathe and
They can change colors rapidly. Just like a cichlid doesn't know if you're going to get them in there
But they change color very rapidly like cichlids do and I think that's one thing that makes them
interesting and
[then] I think that you're [just] maintain these fish so that other [people] will have a little feature is important and try to do that
And for [live] [barriers], [and] there's 10 or 20 gallon tank you can do that
You know [if] I've you to maintain most your firearm which get [2] feet long
That's a big commitment [10] or 20 out thing. I think anybody has time for [that]
That's something I [try] to do and have some fun with it no
We hope you hope you enjoyed the fish room [tour]. [shape] my pleasure to give it to you. Thank you joy for coming by and
We'll see you out soon tonight