i didn't know if you were just still getting stuff or if you were ready now
okay i'm ready it's good yep so today
we are stalking the oscar aquarium with all of these oscars my pahaka puffer and a really big
bike shirt before we do that though we have to take all of their cycled media and add it
to the aquarium because there's nothing in there right now
doing so is going to allow me to add these fish
immediately so previously i showed you guys how to build these filters step by step and some people
didn't really like them you they sounded like it was an eyesore we could see too
much mind you back in 2015 i showed you exactly how to build the identical filter
i built the state i built everything for that including the tank the stand the filter uh lights
etc and using the same method of filtration except for the exposed portion i'll show you real quick
i simply just like painted over it
and then it looked like it was part of the system and we could do that again
bottom line is this yes it's an eyesore but every piece of equipment in your aquarium technically
will be i mean ultimately it's just going to come down to a matter of being able to hide it and
camouflage it in and whatnot but i just kind of wanted to point that out that we've done this
before i built these filters before every method of filtration i've built and covered especially
in my book the ultimate do-it-yourself handbook for the do-it-yourself aquarius link in bio did
you zoom in for that do it again ready lincoln bio so far and we're almost live here this is the
uh this is a two liter jug we've already got two liters in there this will be another two liters
which is essentially just over a gallon of media and it's not even halfway filled up at this point
i don't know if i have enough but i do have other types of media that isn't cycled just yet
bottom line is all of this media is for the oscar aquarium i think once we get uh all the tanks
stocked with their initial stocking we can then do you know circle back to the small stuff
and the minor details of you know painting the tank so you don't see the front of the filter
i like being able to see the filter you know buffing out scratches removing tape marks
stuff like that little things that will uh well i'll circle back to but it doesn't really need
to be a video or anything i mean members only will get the video they see everything
poor guys it looks like i only had six liters of media in this
every single one of these just absolutely saturated in bacteria
these are supposed to be white but they're like a golden brown beautiful color if you're into
fish tank bacteria six liters it was more than six liters probably closer to seven
it's probably about two gallons of this stuff in here right now
it's making the tank a little bit cloudy i don't really care it's not that big a deal
yeah look at that that's beautiful to me that's literally very pretty to me
i have other bags of media as well that i've never used so we'll just go ahead and dump that in
one bag of this supposed to support 50 gallons of life
always pretty skeptical skeptical about that i think this will be enough
now if we were to follow the manufacturer's guidelines there's technically enough biological
media in this to filter a 500 gallon aquarium it's only 180 gallons though oh
these sponges are going with it big old sponges
saturated in bacteria these are also supposed to be white they're clearly not
i'm just going to toss them right into this section for now
all i want to do is you know keep them cycled because
you know worst case scenario i could just take these ones ooh they fit side by side in here
yeah close enough i could take these sponges out at any point
and transfer them to another aquarium cycling it almost immediately
oh yeah we're putting these too here i keep forgetting about it
this is just uh some carbon activated carbon in bags there's a ton of media in here so pre-filter
and chemical filtration saturated in bacteria this sponge is essentially just quieting it
down instead of the water falling it's just kind of falling onto it cascading over it
so doing something like this where you take established biological media check it out see
how much is in there so adding in um this much biological media that's already cycled to an
aquarium is very similar to like doing a massive water change on your aquarium a lot of the times
that can be somewhat dangerous you could have ammonia spikes or whatnot so when you do this
you definitely want to keep an eye on water parameters because this water
isn't filled with any sort of waste there's no detritus there's nothing in it it's
super clean so what might happen is you know the bacteria could potentially starve
off if we don't add the fish in right away so i think the first net fish we're going to add in
is going to be the bishop just because he's right here and i'd rather let him get in there
and establish than add him next or last and you know kind of panic or something like that and uh
you know the oscars go at him or something this isn't going to be easy
there he is but the bishop is an incredibly intelligent fish so oh net is hard to move around
in here i think we got him look at the size of him now remember when we got him he's about the size
of my finger we've had him for a few years now what three years he's gorgeous and he's so much
more active without that bully in the tank the uh asian arowana oh look at the size of my dinosaur
he's actually quite big damn i wasn't expecting this it's so much different taking a fish out of a
tank and seeing their true size for the first time all right let's get him in there and you go bro
where is he seriously uh i don't know did he go in i didn't
i literally didn't see him he's not in the neck
okay that's not cool where is he oh he's right here he's in the corner oh damn
what a little bastard look how big he is oh my lord okay
now for the oscars i think we'll just use a regular net for him you know what i thought was
he jumped out of the net and like got like tied up somewhere or flopped on the ground
or something but the buy sure is incredibly tough fish they're not an ancient dinosaur fish for no
reason they were literally around when certain dinosaurs were as well they're also able to
climb up out of the water onto the ground and breathe oxygen if they had to
but what they're not built to do is drop over six feet onto the ground so that's why i was nervous
i bet you they'd survive it though all right so the oscars are hungry but uh
i'm not doing what they think i'm doing these guys are too big to move
um in a group i have to move one at a time oh damn it let's go floor's gonna be wet so watch yourself
here you go you can come up a little closer if you want
oh yeah now i just added the biological media to this aquarium and you know it's it's going
to cloud up the tank a little bit so it's not going to look fantastic the good thing is
is i've tried to put these videos out um a little slow they're coming out every two or
three days at this point but i'm about a week ahead in video so that means when you see me
adding these guys in i'll be able to come back a couple of days later and add in the
footage of what they're actually looking like you know when the tanks cleared up
and how they're doing a few days later all in the same video all in this video
man i hate that i don't mind moving big fish it's the uh it's that splash that gotta do at the top
would you get out of the net oscars are so cool but man they could be stupid sometimes
are you allowed to say that word or is the s word not allowed normal i don't know i
haven't been keeping up with cancer culture as much as i probably should
another one this is the most docile
let's go bro good thing we have cement floors out here now
oh i love this i love getting soaked by my fish
the oscars are already slipping around
i love it okay
does that look cool or what do you think i love it yeah
it's like the perfect oscar queer i think i titled the video the ultimate
oscar aquarium and i don't mean it's like the best in the world or the best ever created
i mean i think it's the ultimate for two reasons
one i think it looks good and two it just is the ultimate aquarium oh i love it i love it it's it's
okay in my head they're coming over to me right now and thanking me for such an awesome aquarium
you know that saying fish are friends not food i
think it came from like finding nemo with the sharks and stuff
well my saying is
fish are your only friends joey
yeah these guys are going to love this
ronnie i don't know his name well he's the most colorful one so he'll be recognized
as being the most colorful and people are going to call him ronnie now i'll i'll try
to remember but i don't think anybody else will ronnie
ronald reginald oh yeah yeah i love it i'm not crying it's water well maybe i'm crying
there you go ronnie enjoy your tank bro yeah so they're just behind the rocks right now now tyrese
i should make darius come out and get him
i don't think there's any other fish in here yeah with these aquariums now fishless they
will temporarily be quarantined tanks until um we're ready to actually set them up and when we do
he's gonna bite through the net like literally so i gotta move fast he's done it before
he's he bites through but look at him laying there like shamu
just loves it he's like i trust you dad no you don't i don't trust you out you go
there you go tyrese he loves it didn't puff up didn't even swing swing around in the tank he
loved it i was like transferring a beluga whale you ever see those hammocks they put
in the beluga whale and then like the blue whales all calm that was tyrese and he's
one-tenth the size but he's well on his way fisher moved filter is set up cycled everything is doing
fantastic let's give these guys a couple of days and we'll come back in this video in just a second
and see how they're doing 24 hours later and everybody is just doing absolutely fantastic
oddly they're all kind of doing what i anticipated as well oscar is all near the top
kind of occupying that void space the fahaka tyrese near the bottom
created some beds and whatnot it's really interesting to see that he's occupied and
taken over the uh the front indentation of the rocks this tank is just absolutely amazing now
the bishop on the other hand has been uh settling in a little differently we'll have to look a
little closer and uh underneath those plants right there right there you could see his head
we might not be able to see him but he's just hiding we'll give him a few days
of settling in and he'll enjoy his friends and whatnot but this tank is just absolutely gorgeous
as is there's nothing more needed to be done i love the shimmer of the
lights i love the way everything's looking right now it's just absolutely gorgeous
and i think that uh it's not only an oscar safe aquarium but you know everything in here is safe
for them in terms of you know if they want to smash up against the rocks like they probably
will eventually they're rounded so if you are going to do an oscar tank i highly suggest use
rounded rocks fake plants and uh a substrate that's more of a fine gravel than a sand
and it's going to be turning out just awesome now i got a few ideas and things and videos that i
want to do with these guys here in the near future um i don't want to ruin it for you just yet but uh
it's going to be super awesome things i've been wanting to do for a while
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