so i showed you guys how to build the octopus aquarium and then i showed you how i built
the shark egg aquarium and i kind of spoke how they're going to be intertwined at least to
some extent in today's video i'm going to show you exactly what i meant we're going to talk about the
lighting the filtration and of course building the stands leaving the stands for the end because that
didn't end well more on that later now check out this view isn't that lovely sit here at my desk
build some stuff do the podcast swivel around and enjoy the tanks close up here's the cool part the
filtration for both of them is right here i have complete and full access it's like the most access
i've ever had to any aquarium and because i am getting a little older and senile and decrepid
and i'm hurting all the time and my back's always sore i don't even have to bend over to access the
aquarium just arm's length i can kind of touch the bottom we are going with sump filtration can we
just take one more look at everything i can't wait to show you everything actually everything but let
me take one more look matching tanks matching stands matching stand filtration filtration just
kind of like perfectly fitting in there lighting fits the room the big logo on the back this
is an exciting exciting build you're seeing it one dimension though wait till we get to the other
wall it's gonna get a little crazy let's start off with the lighting itself first and foremost
these are going to look familiar those are those pendant style diy lights that i showed how to
make previously and we put them on the 2000 and and all the 180s and i felt like i'm not growing
coral in here i only need enough light to kind of see the fish why don't we keep the theme going
and put these lights right back up here plus it kind of lights the background up a little bit
and i just think they look really good downside is we got all these white wires going along the
ceiling which doesn't look good uh to be honest with you i usually just spray paint them black
much like what we did over the 2000 which you the lights aren't on so you can't really see
them right now so these lights are using just 11 watts a piece and to be honest with you
it lights the tanks up perfectly there's no light spillage in the room either
and like i said it kind of lights this area up beautifully it just seems like these tanks and
the filtration was all just meant for that wall doesn't it well maybe you don't think so but
that's exactly how i feel about it looks great now an actual problem if we're gonna call it that is
that i don't have all the pieces and parts that i need for the overflows for the filtration and the
sump and all the other like little miscellaneous things that i need but i figured let me keep the
ball rolling show you how i built the stands the lights talk about the filtration and i always like
to get a little bit of feedback anyways but the plan is going to be to install overflows that are
hopefully octopus proof into the backs of the tanks they will overflow each individual tank will
overflow together into these aquariums and i'm either thinking i'm going to go with a split pump
or two pumps haven't decided that yet like one return pump for each tank i don't know yet what
i'll actually do and in here they'll have a couple filter stocks for mechanical filtration we'll have
some biological media and then of course we're gonna have an oversized uh protein skimmer that
protein skimmer is gonna be good enough for like 300 gallons but this total system is like 180.
this is just a 40 gallon breeder tank it's an extra one of the six that i had so i
decided to build it right into here giving me complete and total access i'll make sure
it's covered so there's not a tremendous amount of humidity or anything like that
but i'm loving this setup i'm loving the fact that this is i mean look i can look down
i can look through standing at it it's like the perfect height or i can sit at my chair
and kind of go like this but since this desk goes up and down as well i even come down and i'm like
at eye level this is perfect i never planned it that way it's just turning out that way and a lot
of the times when things happen that are awesome that i didn't mean it to be i get a little more
excited than i probably should alright so like i said these lights i think just fit the room
the white wire's gotta go uh it also doesn't take away from the logo in any way i can raise them or
lower them if i want to and we'll see what happens once we get fish in there like i could lower them
to here perhaps if i wanted to but if we look at all the other tanks out here it's all matching
and sometimes that's important personally i don't really care i'm not really big into
lighting anyways i'll use whatever works but man just look how well and how good these tanks look
together absolutely phenomenal if i do say so myself i'm in love with this setup so i mean
that's like an introduction into well of course there's not much more to do with the lighting
i've already built them before and if you want to see that video links on my channel somewhere
or maybe i'll put in the link in the description but i'll likely forget um that's what we're doing
for filtration and one of the next videos we do on this we're just going to go ahead and plumb
the whole tanks build the filtration and likely scape it as well if everything passed its water
test we'll do like a one big video on this so we don't have to keep breaking them up i'm not a huge
fan of breaking these videos up but sometimes a week or two can go by without having what i
need to complete what i'm doing but what about these stands let's do another how to build an
aquarium stand video shall we we'll keep it short the stands themselves are built out
of two by fours and i plan to cut these to be uh 32 inches wide 32 inches long and stand i forget
oh 40 inches tall building a basic uh 2x4 frame and because these are acrylic tanks the top uh
where the tanks are actually going to sit on need to have horizontal uh support as well as vertical
now these stands could potentially support 6 500 pounds approximately in these tanks
a thousand pounds maybe so they are way stronger than i need them to be but that's the case with uh
two by four stands anyway okay so i could have did these stands better i didn't need access
into the stands themselves and i didn't want to go too crazy because to be fair
wood is like double the triple the cost right now and because i don't need in them i just
went with some economy type of materials these wayne scott panels were only 7 15 bucks a piece
and then some pine boards just to kind of add a trim to it kind of finish it off and then of
course as you can see painted them black i already had the black paint on hand same thing went for
the filtration stand i didn't want that on the floor i wanted it up so the pumps would have
be stronger without with less pumping head head height also far more accessible plus i kind of
want to see it anyways and i kind of want it to be like the mechanics of what's happening here you
can see behind me because likely when we do the podcast i'd be here tamara be there type of deal
and you can kind of see through us give you guys something else to look at
instead of this pretty face everything included though each stand was about 90 bucks
90 dollars for each which is probably twice the cost it would have cost me two years ago i
mean if we take a closer look it certainly looks like a 90 dollar stand but to be fair i love it
oh
i saved tons of money building these stands myself took me a couple of hours but then i
made up for it by every once in a while i've got too many things going on and i get a little clumsy
and sometimes i break cameras so all the money we saved uh i lost it completely in busting that
camera fantastic not the first time probably won't be the last time but whatever that just
comes with the territory anyways hope you guys kind of like are enjoying this build process
i know that like the tanks aren't up and running and the fish are in or anything
like that in reality that's not what happens in real life uh these things can take months
but i suspect by the end of the month we'll have these completed with the animals in them
octopus shark eggs both saltwater systems connected at the sump here
lit by those do-it-yourself led lights sitting on top of the do-it-yourself stands in tanks that we
also built run by filtration we built i hope you guys will stick around and enjoy if you don't i
how do i end videos how do i i hope you enjoyed hi everybody see you guys in the next video
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