what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
you a filtration and maintenance video with mr. the legendary Gary Lang in his
85 tanks he takes care of Gary I have to first of all thank you for taking me
around all day today and show me all kinds of awesome fishermen I've had
absolute riot I wanted to show I mean it's all about doing the work and making
it easy to do the work and you've got a great system here you've got 85 tanks so
I'd love for you to just kind of take it away and how you make it easy on
yourself to do this you do a lot of water changes
take it away man how do you do all your work as soon as we've heard from all the
people that you've gone to visit today the most important thing everybody kept
saying is water change water change water change how do you do them quick
how do you do them easy that's the important thing
well I mean I start with the simple siphon hose well this is a great way to
get the nasty stuff either off your gravel or off your bare tank that's a
good thing but what are you going to do you're going to put it in a bucket
you're going to carry that bucket to the sink only crazy people do Gary don't
carry okay Gary don't carry don't carries and when it comes to water so
what are you going to do with that you can take something as simple as this guy
right here this is my gutter drain this is so cool we've got a piece of gutter
we've got the holders that would normally go on the side of the house you
sort of make a keyhole lot of I'm going to show that so you see those key holes
and lips right on there you silicon in these pieces of guttering so that's nice
gutter and oh yeah on each one and then you put a bulkhead fitting on there see
that bulkhead fitting yeah I've used the on this one I use a half
inch you get some nice braided hose because you don't want it to bend put an
elbow in there and boom you got it where you want the braid hose because block is
that way yes sturdier and it doesn't Bend because you get a kink you know
once you get a kink bit off okay it stops up on you so and then I can screw
into all my racks you can do this with wood racks or the metal racks you put
screws that are exactly the same distance apart and this goes into this
rack goes into one above above even though yeah even
and fits just just perfectly you go in there you take your your siphon tube
that we're talking about siphon it out put in there now at the same time a lot
of times I don't siphon a whole lot out of here I'll just get the bottom out of
there and and then I'll do something different because I don't want to be
sitting there going like this holding this making sure the fish aren't going
to go down the drink that's too much effort I got other things to do I'm
going to be cleaning those sponge filters so you can do something easy
like this or you can do something a little bit more complicated with
something like this you put on the different lengths of tube this is a
solid piece of tubing and then you've got the bulkhead fitting again this is
the strainer or the bulkhead fitting it goes on the end of this and you can make
them whatever length if you've got a 10 gallon tank you put it up to this one if
you got a 75 you put it in the longer one just pop that thing in there start
the siphon this is always the thing it's got it how good can you suck just the
right amount right boom look at that or in your system you got it and boom you
got the water going I was a little bit I didn't want to suck a bunch a film there
but good all is it good there's a good hole and then it'll go down halfway you
know this one's a little bit longer than for this tank but in then way and then
you got in then the water is gone and Nikita is you can move the hell on right
I mean you set that go do something else because I've got more important things
to do than sit there and watch watch water go down the drain right well when
you told me the other day you said that you know you you have a fish room to
breed and watch rainbows not clean yeah not clean and what do you say not clean
and maintain them right way to do things I want to sit there and watch you sing
now that's one of the methods that I use the other method that I use is also
where the drinking water goes that the hoses keep used you're always supposed
to do this stuff ahead of time get it all yeah whatever we get today so hose
the hose goes right into this the one in goes right into the sink
here uh-huh in the sink like this and again we use the variable adjustments on
here I've got an on/off valve you pop it in to this tank like this this is for a
75 gallon tank the shorter one is for all my 40 breeders so it drains down
halfway does fantastic I got around here for the 10 gallon tank which is a little
bit shorter still and then when you've got the tank for the fry tank ah
something like that with a sponge filled sorry male suck up your fry but this
this is a fantastic way to get gets those tanks and a lot of Tanks I mean
you've got I mean I'm seeing a lot of site but you can get it going to do
things fast again I do have other tanks that are drilled like this if you look
at these guys here all these 20 highs have have their drilled in the bottom
and you know again I'll take the siphon get a little the dirt off the bottom
that I have to do in a bucket but then you come down here grab this tap right
here yeah that's a slick set up and then I'm changing that I'm cleaning the
filter while the waters draining Jerry don't carry Jerry don't carry I love it
what do I do with these tanks down here though because they're too low they're
too low for the siphon to work you got to get rid of the water somehow this is
a cool little device I got from Genco and I also use this to clean my 220
because I don't day I'm getting rid of 50 percent of the water 110 gallons I
want to do it quick I don't have time this that hose won't go out there this
puppy does it's it's it's it's variable so you can decide if I want 20% of the
water 10% of the water 100% of the water just depending on where that is that's
got a pump on it so pump on there and it's that once the old maxi jet he sells
them with different ones I put the biggest one I could get on there so I
pump out the water's fast as I can got a strainer on there so you don't
suck up fish get it set up you put a lot of times I'll put a hook
like this on the end of it so that it looks right right of the sink put this
in the tank plug in it pickle do something go do something else you know
and then also and after a while you'll hear the pump song home home home
but the maxi jets they don't burn out now if you left them there for four days
you know they might burn out but for a half an hour or something forget and boy
that's it that's a fast way to get rid of water so that's that's how I get rid
of water how do I quit water back that's the that's the other question I have
three barrels on the other side of the room that I fill up in they're
interconnected and oh I forgot about this it's not it's a it's an old ke way
to do it what I'd probably rather do is have a pre-filter and two carbon blocks
that way because I have poor means I have to get rid of that corner drive
otherwise they kill my fish but I've got this setup and I've got a pond pump in
the bottom of one of those one of those pumps and I just and I've got a remote
switch you get these at Lowe's you read those are Lowe's yeah you get these at
Lowe's or or any of the big hardware stores
you click the button boom you got your water no man now the one thing is you
know I am NOT I'm not a real bright guy sometimes I will pick up a 20 in one
pump on one tank and walk away go clean another filter and start working around
and also I go oh isn't that a lovely waterfall it's really great you know I
get this lovely waterfall in my fish remember wait I don't have a waterfall
American water off the floor so um you know it's one of the advantage you have
to pay attention for a little bit of time so but other than that but still is
it the remote pump is pretty slick though I mean that's if you're
scrambling down the steps that's a good thing this is a much better way to do it
when I fill those barrels which are on the other side again quick disconnects
are your are your friend in the fish so when it's time to go fill those barrels
I unhook it from the pump and the other room so it's or straight into the pump
put the right adapter on here and a smarter thing than a two-way adapter
there's some that they sell at Lowe's that have four of these so you could
permanently leave one setting on one I I got cheap and I just went with the 2-1
but I probably should go up by the 4 1 put that puppy on bother sweeping it to
begin with turn this one on here to pretend it's winter time get the hot
water right get this right take the thermometer get everything right
once all the temperatures right then open this one up and then start filling
the barrel up in the other room and I know that it takes 10 minutes for my
barrels to fill up so I set a timer because again if you don't watch it
you'll end up with a waterfall in the other room so you don't want it you
don't want to do that either and so so if I was starting this from scratch I
would say go out even they get a pre-filter in two carbon blocks and the
carbon blocks do what explained with those the RV blocks are going to take
out the Corning out of the water for you because they're going to take out the
chloramine and that way you can again you that's an inline thing that's it
sits on the wall sort of like like this ro unit is it kind of looks the same way
but much bigger you've got a pre-filter and then two carbon blocks and you
replace but you know you read the directions on the carbon block they're
like 20,000 gallons or something so we wrote out how many gallons you've gone
through and you replace the one that uses the most that gets the chlorine
first and you take this one move it back to that one and then replacing it
wasting where you pick those up Junko so those or on the these aren't carbon
blocks right but the carbon block is somebody want to get a car block and
pick those up at Lowe's and Menards is where everybody really they've been
picking up so Menards is the place and I and one of these days I've got to do it
and plumb the stuff in the other room because that would be the smartest way
to do it but the cheap and easy way is you can fill up the barrels add your
prime to those barrels stir it around with the the pump get all the you know
it only takes ten minutes to to declaw roll that water and then start pumping
blob to tank but do it fast do it easy because who wants to be changing water I
want to be enjoying enjoying it man and you do have an enjoyable free throw
these babies you know look at those guys look at this on describe fish down here
you know yeah I'd rather be watching those guys than the change in water or
carrying buckets of water yeah it would be a muscle man if I
all that but Gary don't carrier you don't care about water that's awesome
good thank you so much Gary the man tank on everybody else what's up dad
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