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about my man Jake Adams the founder of
reef builders over here at his place had
to stop in dudes totally into playing
tanks check this out
roll up in here it's always nice to go
to someone's house it's got the planted
tank set up what's up mr. Jake Adams
what's up what's up what's up dude
coming in man fully like nice and nice
and just you just did a recently telling
me you did a like a purge Connie you
consolidate a little bit to clean set up
clean air triple 40 breeders dude
worried where should we start brother so
my name is Jake Adams I'm editor of reef
builders calm I'm a creator just like
Dustin hell yeah I got some badass
videos out there too we can link up at
the end gap channel's the reef builders
video channel so yeah everybody knows me
is a solar guy and that's kind of my job
as my profession but just like everybody
else I got my start in freshwater fish
and planted tanks and you know it was
really plants that grew and started my
love for corals just this concept that
you could no grow these things and I am
a fan and a student of every school of
aquarium keeping LC likes me crazy
rainbows weird weird plants yeah it's um
just really practical setups dude yeah
really really simple loving it he
quizzed me on the I call it the maca
loca easy you know test tomorrow Aminata
eyes then what called a maca low because
these are actually kamata's right tamaki
that was close for close but um before
we get into sure what do you wanna do
man break it down just do like a white
sweep of the tanks okay feel like this
is my house is half of my house this
whole thing right yeah so yeah and let's
just show them the wonderful vlogging
couch just put in loving it yeah
brand-new so I'm going to grab the
camera okay sure
keen flip this oh yeah so this is my
tiny house there's a all my reef stock
Flyers come I might owe you for doing
the show but I have one tank upstairs
which is like some for some prime
viewing this is a
basically this is the bedroom right here
but still have room for a couple more
tanks including this really cool uwah
Kumi aquarium in development so we've
got some McCann micrantha mum here
covering on the bottom and let's see
some Amman de tete rose and these are
actually Santana killifish and these are
the offspring from the best-in-show from
the killifish convention not too long
ago yes it got a little carpeting plants
a little bit of mid-ground plants and
then I've got this new plant that you'll
see a few more specimens of this is the
pit dose beta and it's got this really
beautiful natural modeling and this tank
is lit I'm a LED junkie so this is lit
by one of the new Kessel 880 little nano
lights so I just want to show that
outlier
before we got into the rest oh yeah
bring it up to the top man show you we
not both coincidentally like upon
Teutons a lot so this is my triple 40
breeder let's get a wide shot sure so
this is my triple 40 breeder setup I
really wanted to maximize like volume
and space in a small room and a
freshwater person knows like a stack of
40 breeders is like a really really cool
way to go one thing I love about
freshwater tanks is you can drive so
many tanks with one air pump and I want
to show you one thing before you come in
now haven't showed uh secrets so no but
this is something I recently came put
together and I think a lot of people
enjoy this I am driving all these tanks
with a big big bomb I'm kind of like a
hatchery style there pump it's down in
there and it goes through this muffler
it's a phosphine reactor I got the Foss
man reactor sandwiched with foam between
these two panels and then I have this
bubble wrap around it and before I did
that man like you walked out this room
and you knew what was happening right
before I didn't even notice you thought
this was like some regular bars and now
it's like a small hatchery here huh Wow
I only recently like put this layer cake
together and that really quieted down to
the point where I'm that's that's really
nice yeah and then this is just like a
little foam some extra yeah yeah yeah
okay so that is pretty trick man so
that's the engine I need to do that on
my greenhouse cuz I have that the big
piston pump it's too loud it kills the
function way I was worried about it
overheating but this is not prepared raw
yeah completely sealed you know it's
just so you just put foam on top I'll
look at the footage yeah that's awesome
dude and so that's the engine that's
driving all of these tanks I know that
that takes little power and really easy
to hook up like a battery operated air
pump a fire we need it too so most these
tanks are air driven this one happens I
have a canister filter on it as well so
I love Corey's I love rainbow fish I
love dwarf cichlids I love funky plant
and funky treacherous so I'm going to
kind of walk you through from top to
bottom so in here kind of dominated by
some rainbow fish we've got a nice
little grouping of the beautiful Komaki
rainbow fish there's three males a
couple girls and you know as a rainbow
guys know those things light up in the
morning and the other red tailed guys
are the red laser rainbow so those guys
are really duh what's your male to
female ratio with your rainbows um you
know I always go for like just one more
male than females really cuz they show
off and like yeah yeah look at the
females they're just there for the boys
so other things in here we got some a
back axis apistogramma those are tight
and there's were those from I don't know
it looked like a perú of some kind I
mean it could be I'm sure that the
pistol masters love I got some assorted
sir excuse me I got some assorted Cory's
in here other dwarf cichlids this is
kind of cool this guy's um he's like at
a pistol Luling guy this one was
collected in Peru I believe by Sumeria
War II no so there's the boy and the
yellow girl she's yeah I saw the girl
pleco love plecos my mind died man
chlorine levels went to the roof killed
mine I'm so one thing to notice is that
there's just like three main plants in
here
a pons and there a pot and that really
helps to keep it clean there's a couple
lilies in here but I just like having
three showy plants and one of the
reasons I love upon jeans is they flower
and so you'll notice like I have a
flower spike I'm gonna show these from
the pepperoni I'm actually gonna open
the door Siegel open what life good Paul
yeah these are sweet yeah so I get those
spikes a lot I actually spend a lot of
that time poor cutting them from the
plant except for this beautiful triple
spike of the pseudo lace plant that's a
pangaean hen Kelly knows also knows like
narrow leaf nerves I'm doing it yeah and
so this one is still really young this
actually opened up for you this more
that's right dude it's been up here it's
been up here for new eyes calm in five
days and this morning like the the
covering just came off of it so so yeah
I'm looking to do that before that plant
I think they're self-fertilizing but
I'll find out
yeah that's cool all right so Oh last
thing on this this tumor here this is a
hybrid LED t5 fixture nice oh it's got
whites blue and red LEDs and then one t5
too
that allows me to tweak the color that
way nice and it's really really good out
that is cool so you got the base the
tube and then the adjustable LEDs yeah
oh dude and then this right here start
at the top with this house this lit man
so this one is actually lit with the new
Ecotec marine radeon XR 15 freshwater
Pro and how do you feel how do you feel
about it um I am so delighted to finally
see an LED according fixture that's
really fine-tuned for freshwater tanks
particularly with a good balance of red
LEDs but this one has warm white LEDs
it's got white in warm white so it's
finally there's like a light that gives
you like that warm glow the best way to
film LEDs is the reflection right check
out that reflection right there you'll
be able to see them a lot the camera
without school better so the warm white
LEDs really get a war
I do miss the fixture anion here before
which was a Hydra had more red and my
Red Lotus was like really red poppin but
otherwise it's it's really nice to have
that warm glow and this fixture is
really bright but I won't make it so
bright that it has to cover the whole
tank that's why I have a little
accessory LED light here and I'd like
this one cute yeah they'd like a nano
tank to put it on so sweet so there it
is again you'll see like there's a big
infatuation with potted plants because
I've done the aquascape I was definitely
like you know some one of the first guys
like doing the tone inna style with
Tamina cincone anthis and area Colin so
I've got 180 degrees now to a lot of
showy rooted plants here this is a
driven just by a sponge filter and then
there's a powerhead through a sponge
filter that's really there to feed my
co2 reactor nice good time this one's
got a little algae that one's coming
home with Dustin but here you guys I'm
gonna put one in my upper tanks that's
mom so it goes like this
it goes like this water goes in co2
feeds in right here and it's got a wheel
that's spun by the motorized and thus
you to just if you feed it really fast
it forms a bubble here but the water has
to travel down down down already bottom
of the tube or anywhere so you get a
hundred precise dissolution rate and you
all you're telling me you always run the
co2 because you got air stones yeah you
know I've done the solenoids before but
they always invariably stick but you
always have an air stone right until
you're good so I have the air stone to
balance it out and I run it at a really
reasonable rate right you know this
one's probably close to about one bubble
will co2 per second and then one of the
other tanks I'll show you later is about
one and a half to two nice so we're we
having here I guess
don't don't bust my chops too much
because I have Cardinals and beyonds
together I did notice one don't worry
separate tanks before and at some point
it made sense to combine that I mean
yeah I'm a purist but you'll see I've
got two to atone for so lottery ponds a
year we got a lot of lilies these are
all the red
Tiger or not Red Lotus Elise and I'm
definitely gonna eventually replace
those with I don't know add that but I
don't know if there's something I can
carry something but this will be like
half the size of this tank Wow and then
really special mention is this garnet
sword that I got from tissue culture or
last year sometime it doesn't get it so
far it hasn't gotten very big and those
leaves are purple under any light like a
white light or the warm glow of this
Radeon freshwater Pro so yeah I'm
definitely gonna be hoping to spread
those out I never got a trade name on
them I think they were just a weird one
off from a time tie a lab in Thailand so
I've been calling them garnet because
they're not red not purple not crimson
the color really is like a deep maroon
like a garnet awesome bro so so yeah
here's my some couple other big lace
plant and this is the pseudo lace plant
it's not like the full-on lace frankly
yeah these are cool I'm hoping like I
said to get more flower spikes nice for
the fish yeah and I'm gonna make you
wait for the rest of it gotta love
seeing a guide like Jake who's a full
reflux his living on reef builders I
think it's the longest-standing reef
aquarium blog and then he has you know
multiple freshwater tanks so totally
love I totally love seeing his
individual style with the pots I've got
more footage from his place including a
tank that he has had since he was 14
years old where he's got an individually
marked and a bunch of cool species in
there so if you like what I'm doing
subscribe check out the video Jake took
for me at Penta I it's a really sick
shop in Germany also speaking of planted
tanks in Denver I happen to be rockin
the aquatic gardener's shirt from 2012
the aga is in the end of April a month
away that's out in Denver so click the
links around here to check that out
check out the links around here as well
from where I caught by Taney out a
apistogramma by tan yatta in peru it's
pretty cool you can see where the
epistles are from everybody have a
fabulous frickin week and tank on light