over the last year we've been slowly converting my 2 000 gallon aquarium into
more of a community oriented aquarium and at first we had some severums and some angelfish
some walru tiger bird some denizen burbs as well as some archer fish now the archer fish looked
absolutely amazing in this tank but i thought if we had them in more of a species specific tank
they'd be able to perform well in there plus we could finally add a ton of tetras and smaller fish
to the 2000 gallon aquarium because nothing in there is really going to go after them besides
the archer fish so you guys will remember we uh drained the tank partly we removed the archer fish
and while we were in there decided you know what we'll go ahead and re-escape it oh and the archer
fish simply went into a temporary holding tank after doing a massive water change the bacteria
don't no longer really have as much food as they once did because we're kind of removing it from
the water column not only were doing that but we added a tremendous amount of more fish so
again kind of asking for an ammonia spike if you ask me so to kind of protect me from that
i added in this uh fritz zyme monster 360. now fred sent me this a little while ago actually
it was probably a year ago or so maybe more and essentially what it does is that uh it basically
has sludge eliminating bacteria that rapidly digest waste you could kind of read it right
there and you guys will remember once i stirred up all that substrate we created an absolute mess
but once i added this in a couple days later tank's almost back to normal a little foggy
but we'll deal with it so really liking this stuff and then of course we added in all the tetras now
i did this a few days ago and here's how that went everybody's been placed in this bucket uh you guys
will remember the original there's got to be at least 100 200 fish in here there are festivums
there's discus there's blue tetras there are red eyed tetras there's a couple different types of
rainbow fish we've got a mono shrimp that i think are going to do really good in here
despite what we might think that the other fish will eat them and whatnot the tank's just huge i
think they're going to be fine we also have otto sinclas which is an amazing little uh
algae eater i think is going to be a great addition this is like all community
uh fish type animals and again i don't know if i said festive ones but you'll notice there's only
four discus in here right now that's because i don't know if i want to put all 10 in here
just now so i moved six of them that i think had the best breeding possibilities into a 40
gallon breeder and we'll see what happens uh maybe we'll separate or maybe we'll just add
them all into the 2000 at some point but right now we're going to try out four see how they do
and we'll go from there i'm going to add them all at once from the bucket for a simple reason
uh this is going to help diffuse aggression nobody's going to be picked off of course
i could have netted them one at a time and kind of put them in but putting them all at once
simply 100 200 fish all at once is definitely going to diffuse that type of aggression of
being picked off or being singled out or anything like that i also don't have to worry about the
acclimation process of matching the water's temperatures or anything like that because
everything out here this gallery is identical from the water temperature to uh the parameters
like hardness and ph everything is absolutely the same so there's no worry about that either
go ahead and add them in okay so they're a little confused a little scattered even the festivums are
like swimming out and about with everybody um they are more of a middle column water swimmer
so i feel like they're going to spend most of their time out here but we'll see what happens
there now the tetras are kind of grouping up the best tetra you can get for schooling let them go
all throughout the back they'll find out you know they're just exploring the tank at this point
but those red eyed tetras are absolutely amazing look at the blue tetras swimming
along with the denizens like they're all like a gang even the rainbows look good we got some
little dwarf rainbows in here look at the blue tetras are literally swimming with along with the
denizens perhaps because what's like following them they're going with them
wait i can't wait until the uh this is insane i've never seen anything like that
this is such a big tank for fish to kind of act far more naturally this is going to be absolutely
incredible aquarium to follow along with it you know i don't know if you guys feel the
same way but you know even the uh auto synchless where is it it's not in focus
the auto cyclists are already they'll have a ball in here this tank's aged pretty well it's been
going for what five years four years so plenty of a little bit of everything to eat in there
i did think the uh festivums might hang out with the angels a little bit more than anything else
but we'll see over time the big guys of course are always going to kind of circle around the uh
the bottom of the tree look at the uh the wall room these guys are huge guys like in person these
walruses like i gotta be like 10 inches or so just massive yeah this this aquarium is is gorgeous i
don't even know what to look at like it's really hard to film this tank i do not know what to film
and it's not perfectly clear just yet that will happen and you know in due time but look at the
tetras swimming all amongst the uh the vines there this is insane those are the red eye tetras i'm a
beautifully schooling fish there's a few of the blue tetras in there as well i think the red eye
tetras will scatter them out of there eventually and they will join the gang like that's a gang
and i think the denizens know it because they're rarely this excited but they're swimming around
like like knowing they made it you know it's no longer you know that number what is there
like 10 of them eight of them i don't remember but uh now there's gonna be like 50 of them i
think they're just look they're so they're so uh brazen around the wall and stuff oh that's crazy
and this is the tank as of today looking absolutely phenomenal by far my favorite
rendition of the 2000 gallon aquarium over the past four years it's just absolutely gorgeous
there's i can't get bored of this aquarium i mean there's just so much going on so much life
watching the tetras and the rainbows uh you know and and all how all the cichlids are kind
of interacting and then of course the denies and barbs just swim by in a a shoal right there just a
gorgeous aquarium one of the things that's really cool is the festivums kind of stick together
um i'm they think i'm about to feed them so they're breaking up right now so this
is a bad time to say that but uh i've also noticed that uh we do have plenty of the uh
amano shrimp in there as well i'm very tough to spot anyways but they were doing well this morning
um discus are hiding right now all kind of behind the background but they come out every once in a
while mind you they only got added three days ago so and when i feed they do come out and eat
so that's an absolute positive thing that's the one of the most important things when uh making
sure a fish is okay of course is that not only are they breathing okay settling in not being
picked on but then of course go back to normal life and start eating again i've already kind
of been posting videos of this on instagram so if you're not following me on uh there make sure you
check me out uh links in the description or you can simply just look me up you'll find me pretty
easily but anyways everybody in this tank is is just it's it's something that like i come out here
and i i almost gasp getting to see it in person and this is and and this is my fish tank like it's
it's just an unbelievable thing you know one thing i gotta do there's a piece of biological media
right there i gotta get that out every time i look in this tank i see that immediately it's funny
where your eyes are drawn to isn't it when you guys first look at this what is the first thing
you kind of your eyes are drawn to if we back up a little bit anywhere just to see this for the
first time is it the tetras is that tree trunk um the walru are acting really really strange lately
in terms of their coloration you'll notice from this video compared to the last they're they're
darkening up a bit you'll also notice they're kind of a coupler in there kind of burrowed
we did have some breeding action here off and on so we'll see what goes on there
but this tank is just it's just gorgeous now here's something that i never got to do before
that we can do now and that is get a full view from this side remember the tree was over here
more and it kind of blocked off the viewing angle and you know i guess i wasn't really considering
this side and just mostly looking at it from one side but this tank is just absolutely gorgeous
i have a couple of more videos we have to do on this aquarium including we need to add in the
original fish that were bought for this tank that have been sitting in quarantine for four months
and that is uh i don't know a hundred tetras a hundred more tetras or something like that
uh a ton of corydora and so a few other little surprises that are in that tank that i
i can't wait to add to it but there's about 200 fish more that we're going to be adding and by
the end of it we'll probably have about 500 fish in this um i think that we added maybe a hundred
150 today in this video probably closer to a hundred we'll call it a hundred um
and then the next one's definitely 200. so make sure you subscribe for that if
you're not already because this tank is just it's just absolutely gorgeous
absolutely beautiful mind you i don't want to confuse anybody that i'm just running to the store
and tossing fish in an established aquarium and it's not like i'm also not preparing the aquarium
for a new fish addition these fish are quarantined properly sometimes for months on end and when
that happens of course it's unintentional uh and things just kind of uh got sidetracked and whatnot
or plans changed et cetera man just watching this fish i'm gonna go back to where the big guys are
but they're all properly you know quarantined and whatnot look at these man this is just a beautiful
beautiful tank what's your guys's favorite part of this aquarium and what would you have added next
we need life on the bottom of the tank and i'm really tired of the corydora that are already
in there only coming out at night time so um i think they get behind the background of whatnot
because when we did our big water change i didn't uh really see many i seen like five or six of them
or whatnot but uh now that oh we have auto sync list in this aquarium now as well um man this
is like a true community aquarium imagine taking like a 30 gallon and 50 gallon tank like most of
you guys have i asked in the last video and just super sizing it to 2000. fish stay the same but
you know just multiply in numbers and uh and and this is it it's just i love this it's a beautiful
awesome aquarium maybe a little too busy look at the waru gang life loving it and that's everyone
oh gorgeous just beautiful beautiful beautiful fish here um i do say and i will admit one of
the things i don't like about it the most oh and the festivums aren't going to stay up near the top
of the surface forever um once they get some size on them they won't be hanging out with the rainbow
fish and whatnot but one of the things that if i could change about this aquarium is probably all
the different species of tetra i definitely would have went with one or two species as you can see
the red eyes just kind of stick together in school and i probably should have did something more
like that but at the end of the day it's a 2 000 gallon aquarium um and i thought having something
a bunch of different types would fill the space in a lot more which would look a lot better now
if this is 180 gallon or 120 or 55 or something i'd definitely go with one or two species
um because i think that would look uh tremendously better but i'd love to know what you guys think
and get your thoughts look at him he's darkening up right now so the male 7 or the male wallru will
do that when he's trying to show off for the female so what he's doing is he's darkening up
and he's showing off to the females saying look how healthy i am look how big and robust i am and
how dark i am and how much i can protect you i'd love for this to focus on him instead of
everything else swimming in front of me it's like owning a bunch of kids and and i'm trying
to film something else and like daddy daddy look at me daddy are you looking daddy daddy
look how much he changed he's back to normal he was just showing off for a quick second
and that's just insane i love walu i can't wait for them to breed this tank if they do
you know ultimately i'm not uh my focus isn't on breeding i've done enough of that
um with every type of fish you know that you could imagine but
i uh i love this like this is insane guys i got i can't be wrong right right well i guess i can be
wrong at times but i mean this tank is awesome and well it is in my opinion i think it's just
crazy i think that there's things i could have did different or things you would do different so let
me know in the comment section below if you're not subscribed make sure you do because we're going
to be adding in those 200 more fish here shortly and then once everybody's established we'll do a
proper feeding video um you know two more videos on this aquarium and then we've really really
got to move on to some other things that are really really big that i'm working on right now
that you guys are going to uh lose it over until then i'll see you guys in the next video