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- What's up, fish tank people?
Dustin's Fish Tanks bringing it to you on a Sunday, baby.
How's everybody doing?
I hope you're doing well.
In today's video, we're gonna talk about the good,
the bad, and the babies out at Greenhouse 2.0.
We finally got some fish out at Greenhouse 2.0.
We also set up an aquarium.
So today's video, we're gonna show you
some of my favorite fish,
show how they've been getting busy.
We're also gonna show you one of my favorite tanks
that's been reborn.
And it's Sunday, it's Species Sunday.
We got all kinds of beautiful species to show you today.
All right, first of all, this video is 100% inspired
by my man, Ryan.
He is responsible, as the greenhouse manager,
to make sure that any and all plants leaving the property
are awesome and entirely up to his high standards.
He also was one of the ones that wanted
to finally bring fish out to Greenhouse 2.0.
And he had another great idea.
He wanted to keep some kind of in-house,
like our own plants, to kinda show off in Greenhouse 2.0.
And so today's video, we're gonna show you
some of those as well.
Today, we're gonna show you the old No-Maintenance Tank
and how it has been resurrected in Greenhouse 2.0.
But I gotta go back to Ryan for a second.
I'm not a big fan of keeping fish in with the plants we do.
We do massive water changes, we heavy-fert,
sometimes we use CO2.
This is not an ideal environment
with the dramatic swings that fish generally can't handle,
unlike what plants actually enjoy.
However, Ryan has actually brought swimming-around fish
into the greenhouse, and I have totally loved it.
Ryan had a massive tub of guppies.
This was going into winter time.
He moved the guppies from his house to our place.
And in the giant tub of guppies, he needed to put a heater
'cause back in October the temps were dropping dramatically.
I said, "Ryan, use any heater you want."
Unfortunately, Ryan used one of the heating coils
that we use, not an actual heating unit
with a thermal regulator in it.
My man cooked about 40 of his beloved guppies.
It happens, folks.
If you're trying to use heaters,
I recommend you use a good one.
We use the Fluval M Series all over the greenhouse.
It's the silver bullet, I like to call 'em.
And I actually used to heat Greenhouse 1.0
exclusively with these heaters.
They've had the least amount of stick.
Let me tell you, folks.
As far as equipment that you do not wanna cheap out on,
heaters, in my book, are the number one.
You can have a filter go bad, you can do water changes.
But if a heater goes bad and you cheap out on your heater,
and it sticks, it is going to cook all of your fish.
So that is one thing you wanna be very cognizant about.
Like I said, we use the Fluval M Series.
They also make the E Series
with the little LED inside of it.
However, we run a little bit less water flow
in some of the tanks,
so the Ms are just a better fit for us.
Regardless, he killed a bunch of fish.
We've all killed fish, you've all killed fish.
Let that be a lesson to you all.
But we got new fish. (upbeat music)
And not only did we get new fish;
we got new fish with some babies!
The struggle is real at Greenhouse 2.0,
trying to keep the heat in.
This is the solar pool cover.
I used to use this on 1.0 back in the day.
These were 500 bucks apiece.
This one is good.
The more heat you can keep in, the better.
We've got a nice thermal mass in there.
You can feel the wind right now.
We are at the top of a hill.
I wish you could see me struggling to put this one on.
Note, this one is on.
Oh, that one's almost off (laughing) right there,
so I have to get up on top of this stupid greenhouse
while it's not windy and not wet, like it is today,
and get up there and bring that sucker back on there
and figure out a way to keep this secured on top.
If anybody has any ideas, let me know.
I was using a bunch of these clips
that worked real well on this one, but once the wind
gets underneath it, (upbeat music)
it just like, (whooshes) pulls it away,
so you're seeing it flapping in the wind right now.
But it's Sunday, it's Species Sunday.
Gonna talk about some Ludwigia action,
'cause we've got actually a Ludwigia-only tank.
Let's start with the Ludwigia inclinata
that totally needs to be trimmed.
Note, this is an entirely dirt substrate down here.
We've got Ludwigia inclinata growing like a weed
in a glass tank in Greenhouse 2.0.
Great, brightish red color.
Sometimes, it has like a white diamond look to it.
There's some sort of variation like that.
I can see why.
Over here, we've got Ludwigia glandulosa.
Look at the red on that.
Oh, yeah.
And that's what sold me on these glandulosa.
I've seen glandulosa be a little bit more purple,
a little bit more finer leaves,
but check out the Ludwigia glandulosa here.
And this right here is actually Ludwigia ovalis.
It's got more oval leaves on it.
And then back here, this is the Ludwigia,
overgrown by the inclinata, this is the Ludwigia Triple Red.
You can also see the clip here
of how we grow Ludwigia Triple Red
in our own greenhouse tanks,
but this is a grown-out version of it.
As far as red and color, this plant cannot be beat.
Just look at the contrast on that.
And it's hardy.
So it's both hardy and red, a nice combination.
Over here in the corner, we've got Ludwigia arcuata,
this little fine-leafed one.
Not a beginner plant at all, not easy to keep,
but the fine leaves on this plant, oh my goodness.
We actually grow it in-house under a metal halide.
I absolutely love the narrow,
narrow, little leaves over here.
And then last, but certainly not least,
we have a Ludwigia Pantanal,
which is kinda struggling (upbeat music)
'cause we just got it in, but a super fun one as well.
I wanna talk about the loaches
that we brought out to Greenhouse 2.0.
First and foremost, bringing fish into a greenhouse
where you do big water changes,
bring a lot of plants in, sometimes add CO2
is not the ideal conditions that fish generally want.
However, I gotta give a shout out to Ryan
for bringing in his almost eight-inch-long weather loaches
out here to Greenhouse 2.0.
He's had these fish for almost a year
and they are absolutely fabulous
and have rekindled my love for these awesome-personality,
huge, and hardy fish.
He has these two fish out at Greenhouse 2.0,
and he keeps them in this 40 breeder right here,
loaded full of Cabomba.
The temperatures in this tank stay right around 70 degrees,
which, in my opinion, is perfect for these fish.
Ryan bringing the weather loaches
caused me to want to bring out
the old-school-player- to-new-school-fool
Golden Dojo loaches.
You can click the links around here
and check out the old-school videos I did
talking about the wonderful, massive-personality
Golden Dojo loaches.
Right around Christmas time, we decide to treat ourselves
a little bit of a Christmas present,
and we went to the local shop around here.
We went to Animal House Pets
and picked up a bunch of Golden Dojo loaches.
Why Golden Dojo loaches?
It's simple: Golden Dojo loaches can actually be seen
at the bottom of a black rubber liner basin.
So we put the Golden Dojo loaches in there
and immediately they all hide.
Then all of a sudden, they start to come out
and they start to party.
So come Christmas break, we've got Golden Dojo loaches
and we've got monster weather loaches in Greenhouse 2.0.
What does Ryan wanna do over Christmas break?
We're chilling, he decides to set up a species-only aquarium
in Greenhouse 2.0.
Why didn't I have the idea?
Because I'm the boss and he's the creative plant person.
So he decides to set up a 55-gallon aquarium.
And during the time he sets that up,
he moves some of the plants
that were in with the weather loaches
into the 55, formally known as the No-Maintenance Tank,
now living in Greenhouse 2.0,
makes-me-wanna-set-up-a-fish tank-again tank in 2.0,
the Ludwigia and Crypt species tank.
And Ryan hits me up (upbeat music)
the other day and he goes, "You're not gonna believe this."
I go, "What?"
And I'm thinking he's gonna hit me with a prob.
He goes, "Dude, we got some baby loaches."