got to make you guys nice and clean all these water splashes i go through a lot of this so
today i'm going to give you guys an update on the oscar aquarium i want to talk about
basically what's happened some problems i've run into how i've temporarily been able to kind of
put a band-aid over it and then the possible solution which is being triggered by many other
moving parts i think you guys are going to find this incredibly interesting first and foremost
if you're new to this channel or never seen this aquarium before this is my 180 gallon oscar and of
course fahaka puffer aquarium the tank itself is six feet long two feet wide two feet tall classic
180 gallon dimensions it's lit by these pendants this is essentially just painted flower pots
with led lights and i showed you guys how to uh build these before
covered in the same type of material that i've shown you before as well this is just double wall
polycarbonate paneling easy to cut indestructible light goes through it a very cheap lid solution to
cut down on evaporation uh in your aquariums as well as of course uh fish jumping plus it's very
lightweight so these guys are jumpers and they're constantly jumping and it doesn't break it doesn't
cause any damage to them or anything else it's filtered by a built-in filter in the side here i
showed you guys how i built that as well it's been running flawlessly and as you can see it keeps the
aquarium crystal clear downside is is these are not the same order the rocks were originally in
uh almost every day the oscars knocked them over these of course uh not real rocks they are made
by aqua decor but when it comes to having a large aquarium it's sometimes really difficult to put in
really big rocks without worrying about it especially big fish that could undermine them
and send them tumbling down like they always do notice that these guys are now covered in
algae making them look even more natural blending in looking absolutely phenomenal i love this
aquarium but we do have some problems and that is with the puffer fish itself you guys know tyrese
the fahaka puffer he's back there probably looking for something to eat it is feeding
time so we are going to feed these guys and i'll show you how i do it uh so one of the concerns
with uh the fahaka puffer with the oscars is that it's going to kill everything in the tank uh and
that's just not what has happened uh tyrese is a very gentle uh fahaka puffer typically they are
incredibly aggressive but he gets along splendidly with the oscars not a single one has a single mark
on them which is not common for the oscar usually something's wrong with them but as you can see
he's not scared of them he's always got a bit of a smile on his face even though it's a goofy one
and uh but you will notice that he's a little slim and although that the initial concern was
will the fahaka attack the puffers or the oscar i'm sorry will the fox attack the oscars
or of course the oscars attack the puffer that simply has not happened my biggest concern was
will there be enough food for the pahaka and the simple answer is not really but i'm going to show
you how i counteract this so these guys know that it's feeding time and if i come near the aquarium
they'll always come up here you'll even notice that tyrese will come over here and expect to
eat but tyrese in the general sense is definitely a an aggressive eater just not as aggressive as
the oscars and for the past six months though he's been doing well see that's what i'm saying they're
jumping at this right now um he's been doing well but not as good as he could which is raised for
concern we want our fish to be in just because he's not beat up just because he's not dying
he is active he could be a little thicker and you guys know i like my puffers to be thick like kevin
not really he's a little too thick so what i do for these guys if i were to drop in food
uh kevin or i'm sorry tyrese will eat any sort of food whether it's pellets or shrimp
or anything i offer he will eat it so will the oscars but i gotta feed the oscars first
and it's not feeding them because you can feed oscars and they'll continue to eat and
eat and eat and eat what i'm going to do is offer them some floating uh pellets uh
or floating food sticks and distract them so that'll go over there once they've discovered that
i'll give tyrese's favorite meal so they're they're relatively distracted here
oh you got that one tyrese is a little nervous and he's running away but uh if i start dropping in
the shrimp the oscars are eating anything they can right now and pieces are falling when it
shouldn't now that should have gotten to tyrese but he went around the corner oh he sees it now
and tyrese will get his now i can continue to feed the tank this is just a stressful headache
i'm always get soaked but the bottom line is tyrese got some food but he has to run
off and eat it or the gluttonous pigs here we'll take it from him
so i can make this work i can make sure that everybody gets enough food etc but
i got one piece left i guess kevin can have it okay if you're hungry here bro right there right
there right there good boy who's a good boy he's already eaten all day today so now that
everybody's eaten and kind of calmed down this is what they do with big pieces of shrimp just wait
till they can choke it down or whatever but all the oscars will just kind of relax we have a
couple of options with this uh first and foremost we can remove tyrese and put him into a tank
where he'll do much better the other option that i'm thinking of is we free up this tank completely
and use it for something else tyrese goes into a tank that uh probably over here somewhere that
he can get along with a lot uh you can get more food more readily available and do a lot better
he's fine nobody's hurt nobody's injured it's just a matter of not being able to get food
fast enough nobody bullies him the oscars are fine or so we move tyrese anyway or move the oscars
and then we just have a tank with one puffer if we just move the oscars but here's the thought
and what i'm eventually going to do the oscars go in the 2 000 gallon aquarium
with the freshwater stingrays all from south america they'll do fine oscars aren't known
to pick at stingrays or anything like that and i've kept just about everything with
the freshwater stingray so these guys would be absolutely awesome in there it would give us a an
eye opener to how they interact in even larger aquariums they would have massive growth spurts
and definitely reach their full potential over time and like i said tyrese will go in
with another group of people i think tyrese just enjoys being with other fish he's not aggressive
he doesn't buy into the idea that all uh fajaka puffers are nasty you know so i think he would do
just fine and look at him he's smiling thinking and do you mean i'm gonna get more food dead
puffers are such greedy pigs and that would free up this aquarium entirely and completely
now once this rock works kind of all piled up properly what does it remind you of
well how about i just give you a clue we've done it before and i think it was about eight years ago
the goldfish aquarium what do you say we finally bring uh fancy goldfish out to the aquarium
gallery for the first time in like five or six years what do you think of that idea we finally
get a fancy goldfish aquarium the oscars get a massive tank tyrese goes into another tank where
he has different types of friends and the ability to just eat more and become the chunk we want him
to be i mean i don't know anybody in the comments that's going to say they wouldn't want a thick
thick puffer fish i know i certainly do it's an exciting thing to think about and i'm definitely
going to go ahead and do that when i update you on the 2 000 gallon aquarium which doesn't just have
the fresh water stingrays in it it's their tank but and we put them back in it because i built
this 2000 gallon tank specifically for them but that's not the only thing in it anymore and if we
add the uh oscars i think that that would just be jaw dropping with that said this is triggered by
something else that i'm working on and i'm kind of freeing up other tanks the one on the very
bottom and i don't want to show it just yet that's essentially a holding tank for all the community
fish that used to be in the 2000 gallon tank i need that empty because i come across an amazing
opportunity that you guys are going to absolutely lose your minds about when you hear about it um
so we're gonna essentially have two empty 180s i what can you see i'm gonna have to
blur things out or crop yeah crop there's so many awesome things i'm working on right now um
nobody's leaving the gallery we're kind of adding to it and kind of shifting fish
around as they grow and we develop and learn their personalities and see what
environment is best for them and i mean at the worst case scenario the oscars are going to move
four feet but yeah i wanted to give you guys an update on the oscar aquarium i think we set it
up six or seven months ago and i don't really do updates on them because i've been working on so
many other projects and things however there's usually not a lot to update at least in my eyes
maybe they got bigger for you guys or you can see their different color patterns etc it's the same
old story though feed them they move the rocks do a water change feed them to move the rocks
i do a water chase so i usually think like now we've seen one video on them we've seen them all
but yeah let me know let me know your thoughts on the uh plans in the comments below i think that uh
i think you guys will be on board i mean practicality and and common sense
uh rules the day especially with you guys so i look forward to hearing for that if
you guys want to see that video make sure you subscribe to my channel if you're not already
i got a few other things to do the 700 gallons ready to be stocked with fish and i have them
uh i might be doing that in the next video uh
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