What I'm going to
do today is show you the whole
process of this 10 gallon peninsula reef right so what i did here guys just for purposes of being
able to see the tank i'll leave this here because of the light when i take it off you can't see it
so i'll withdraw some of the water enough to make this light enough to lift up here i'm
going to have to get a pump and go down want me to lock it down but i told her to pass the key
you got to slow it down don't you move it too fast for me nobody did it like this so they wonder they
asking me if i can slow it down cause it's coming too fast for me baby don't try to stop it you
should know that i got options remember you gotta obviously unplug everything make sure you have
plugs in your new location like i already almost screwed up in the cockpit mess around with the
money get drop kick the only one in the city to pop quick never care about being your top ten got
a house in the hills can you top this i came from where them boys and being this is a peninsula tank
which is viewable by three sides that's the way i see it and the overflow
filtration and whatnot is on one side
all right so the glass is cleaned off now guys three sides not the back here this is gonna be
the back i'm breaking bread it's only with the brethren i need the tops that's where i'm heading
so what i'll do now is i'll get a pump because for those of you who
are really just starting i really can't create a great siphon from here to here
siphoning needs to be gravity below gravity so from here to here i might get a little bit out
yeah she want me to lock it down but i told her to pass the key
what i'll do right now is just to get at least maybe half the water out i'll use a pump and
just do the surface that way it'll make it light enough so i can pick it up and move it
up here you guys have been really well behaved i appreciate that paying attention focused good
before you put your aquarium anywhere guys it's always a good idea to put some neoprene
foam all right guys this is nothing more than neoprene i ordered this from amazon in a row
and it's a quarter inch thick what you want to do with this is cut it to the footprint of your tank
and this quarter inch thick neoprene will help level it a little bit if it's not level on one
side the neoprene will give a little less than the other side i mean it's not going to
go overwhelmingly level it and it'll protect the glass bottom from the surface you're putting your
tank on i'm going to cut this 20 inches long by 10 inches deep or wide and then that'll go
up here on the table and then the tank will go on top of that i got really lazy here and didn't want
to go to the garage to get the square the metal square but any straight edge to do this will work
all right so what you see here guys is i centered the neoprene
over the cabinet i didn't want to favor the right side because of levelness if i favor one side the
legs may not support the perfect level position now we're only dealing with not even 100 pounds
when it's full 10 gallons but i still wanted it to be centered i also centered it over the top inside
so it's not out here too far so it's centered and leveled with the cabinet all right so you're
going to see in this part where i start to take the water out of the tank it's been down below
i have to basically do a water change and make it light enough to lift it from where it was up to
here so this is how i do that all right so what i'm using here to take the water out this is an
old power head aqua clear 50. it's old but it's strong and it's just enough to get the water
out so i'm going to put that down inside that's less than half and then obviously you don't
want this to be out i want that to be in your bucket and then you want to have a free plug
handy close by and this one right here is close and there we go starting to go guys see
remember everything is out no sensors no ato everything is out of my overflow box back
so a little quiz question of the day how much does one gallon of water weigh
like that's enough because that's gonna be light that will not be that heavy for me
right on there like
that that was really heavy i would recommend not using any kind of sticky surface
with your neoprene let it be able so you can move it around all right so the tank's up on
top now now i'm just going to do a water change i'm going to fill the water back
in all right next step i'm going to go get the water and fill it right up all right check this
out this is the only thing you got to be concerned about when you do an internal overflow box look
all right so i'm going to come over here and pour it in the back
all right there it is guys it's up
and i'm gonna put the light on it and put everything back in and i'll show you step by step
how i put it back in all right the first thing you want to do here guys is get your pump going
here what you're hearing me do is untangling lots of spaghetti
it's gonna start hopefully nothing will go wrong
there goes that's pretty darn close guys
almost to where the old level was so now at least we have circulation
it wasn't a snail it was a hermit crab
i'm looking at the tank in between takes guys next step is the heater this is the hager
50 watt mini it's been perfect it comes with a little controller here it's not exactly on
but once you dial it in then it doesn't matter so the heater is going to go in
all right i'm going to put the sensor in now but i'm not going to turn it on that's the
last thing i want to turn on because obviously i don't want it to go off while i'm working on
i'm looking down at the lower sections of the rock where there's less flow
and i'm seeing little tufts of algae growing in so all right so the next thing i put in
guys is this filter flaw sponge this you have to be careful with what you want to put in there
in terms of its density because if it's too dense like if you do a real fiberglass floss it's gonna
block the water flow so i find one of these to be just perfect it'll collect the larger
pieces of food and detritus and then i cut it so it's like tight and i just wedge it in there
and it also kills the sound guys any kind of trickle sound gets muffled in here because now
the water is only traveling from here to here so it muffles the sound i love the sound of silence
this is a 20 tank from petsmart and i just put this overflow in with acrylic
and i have a video on this on how i did that now i can put the heater
this little filter sponge down in there my pump is hidden everything's in there
in this section i handled the ato i didn't really have to do too much changing of any
of the electrical down below i added one uh light strip you got the ato down below here
and of course we can't forget the mini
wave digital thermometer that'll just go down in here
so ato if you're a new viewer i add a small amount of kalkwasser in there on this tank
i will not two-part dose at this point i'm just going to rely on kalkwasser in my ato
to supplement calcium and whatever alkalinity it can supplement put the canopy back on
i have notches in the back of the foam blocking to take the cords to go through
i may have to do something with this guys now that it's viewable from three sides
i'm not liking the way this looks looks good guys i'm gonna turn the light on
so you guys can see what i'm looking at it's not as let me turn the light on
do
all right guys once again that ends a sunday video
i think that's enough right guys i agree tell the new viewers what that means anyway have
a great rest of the day water change wednesday on wednesday new viewers i try to do that every
wednesday it comes out in the evening sometime it's question and answer format new viewers
so have a great rest of the day i hope you enjoyed the video and take care now
you