so yesterday i finished building all of the stand frames for the 180s or at least the first six
and then i moved on to the single most important room that this gallery is going to have but before
we get to that i just kind of want to show you what these uh look like out here it's really
starting to feel like something out here guys it's really starting to you know uh come to fruition
and it's it's going to be absolutely amazing but we're starting to get an idea of well as well
as the flow of the room and what it's going to look like the first tank out here is technically
going to be the 700 but when it comes to these stands they will all have a 180 gallon tanks
for those that don't know which are six feet long two feet tall two feet wide
uh uh yeah this i still gotta wrap the stands as well yeah so uh might as well mention that
they're not gonna look like this i'm going to wrap them in wood plywood on top with
some styrofoam to absorb any irregularities and most likely paint them black to match the floor
because i want the attention to be drawn to the tanks and you know i don't really
need a lot of attention put on the stands themselves something a lot of people wonder
is like what's it gonna look like when there's people in between them i gotta say plenty of room
uh i'm of course gonna bolt these stands to the wall so they can't be bumped or tipped over but
i mean if you did tip over i don't know anybody that could accidentally tip over two thousand
pounds but it is what it is we're gonna bolt them to the wall anyway so i know a lot of people still
aren't sold on this idea of the tanks coming out like this i think it's absolutely incredible a
way to do things um the backgrounds will be on the back and then we can skate the entire area so you
can look at it all the way around now when i was out feeding the fish today i was thinking about
the lake tanganyika tank and what i was thinking and you'll have to you know kind of be patient
with the envisioning this but perhaps we'll have rocks large rocks probably jagged falling down
from the back and at the front more of a beach area and that is where the shell dwellers can go
so when you walk up to this tank for example you can really just see the shell dwellers from every
angle and i've never been able to do that before i'd love to have a walk around tank like that to
be able to see things but that's the excitement of these types of tanks and them going like this
is it opens up new possibilities and different ways to do things and uh i think that's going to
be really really fun as for the other tanks 700 is the first tank that's going to come in here
and then we'll have the 180s the 375. these tanks over here as you can see on the floor where i kind
of map them out i'm not completely sold on them coming out from the wall like that but when i
build their stands i'll figure out exactly where i want everything the other thing i got to build
and is the second most important thing is the water changes i got to make sure that are easy
to do and incredibly efficient and fast i don't want to be spending you know hours a day every
day doing water changes i want to do every tank in two hours type of thing and this holds about
between the two of them they're 275 gallons each so that's about 550 gallons that'll allow me to
do uh about a 50 or i'm sorry about a 20 water change on absolutely every tank that's marked off
on the floor not every tank that'll ever be out here but just so far was marked out on the floor
it will allow me to do about a 20 water change and i'll most likely do that every four days
but what i gotta do is build a mount to go up there out of four by fours and you guys
will remember uh this is actually a stairway that goes down in the basement over there
so i was checking to see what was up here and it is solid board
but if we look in the back there see these holes there and then the sawdust around it
i was drilling into those into the wall to find out what's back there it's just solid thick wood
um and this here is uh you know real solid wood as well but i don't want the weight to
be on this i'm going to bolt four by fours all to the walls and build a frame almost like a stand
all the way to the floor and uh the weight of the these uh containers will be transferred to those
four by fours instead of depending on the wall to hold them up we'll see how that goes though
uh well i guess there's only one way to find out if it's gonna be successful or not
it's fine i've already gone over the numbers it's definitely gonna hold this type of weight
so yeah water changes then i'm going to connect the two down here and a ball valve in the middle
which i can open uh whenever i have a tank that i want to fill and it'll just gravity feed because
we're coming down from like almost eight feet in the air seven feet in the air down to the tanks
it's gonna drain it uh with one and a half inch hose super fast i'll be able to drain both of
these tanks in in like under an hour easily like 20 minutes something like that so that's uh oh and
because i'm on treated water or town water i fill these up uh put air stones in them treat the water
pretty straightforward i mean if i really want to get crazy i'll build some sort of a carbon filter
of some sort to remove chlorines and whatnot but for the most part i'm just going to treat it
regularly also i might even see how long it takes me to dissipate the chlorine because if i keep the
caps off and i aerate the water that aeration and oxygen exchange at the surface dissipates
the chlorine but how long would it take that's an interesting thing so maybe i'll see how long it
takes to dissipate the chlorine naturally versus treating and if i can dissipate the chlorine in
like two three days i probably won't even have to treat the water i could probably just aerate
it and within three days type deal do my water changes anyway single most important thing that
i want to talk about today and show you how i felt like i'm already bringing backgrounds in here and
this
i've only got four in here right now and they gotta be cleaned up but this is my quarantine
hospital breeding slash fry set up i i got to put in two more but this is uh i was a little
nervous building this because i well i'm gonna show you how i built it here in a second but
if you guys remember i already built a massive racking system to hold tanks way bigger than this
we did it with a pair of 225 gallon acrylic tanks that i built and then i built uh a rack out of
two by sixes so the design is essentially identical and if that design will hold
a pair of 240 gallon tanks or 225 i can't remember what they were they're definitely going to hold
you know 120 gallons up there and down here it's like half the size so no problem at all
i still got to clean the tanks up and saw their backgrounds filtration lids clean the tanks
and that sort of thing but they'll be run on sponge filters most likely
and we'll get to that here in the near future but this was definite must and this bathroom
here that used to be the field bathroom it's the quarantine hospital area i'll most likely bring
in food i was thinking about taking these out but i don't know if i want to replace them if i do um
maybe i'll have a rack here for all the food and storage and that sort of thing
but this place will be off bounds for the most part for the for the mo for like unless it's
like like a fan or something like that that really wants to come back here and see it then of course
who am i to say no you can't come see these things but yeah this was a definite must it turned out
really really nice anyways here's how i did it well i forgot that the studio isn't really set up
right now i still gotta hook up the microphones and everything but we'll do it this way
uh so this is not any different than a regular build would technically be we're connecting with
the two by fours with butt joints the stand itself is about 11 feet long and butt joints means like
two pieces just put together like this and then a couple screws it holds it together fine there's
no twisting or anything when it comes to an aquarium stand all the weight is just being pushed
straight down uh and transferred through the wood none of the weight is technically on the screws
screws are just holding it together some people like to glue it together and whatnot but starting
off with the two bottom bases was the easiest part moving past that was creating the little
tiny legs i wanted these tanks to be elevated off of the ground as much as possible so i'm able to
do water changes via gravity and if they're too close to the floor it's just too difficult to do
this isn't like a public space either so i don't need to worry about how they look or vision or you
know when you're standing in front of them what do they look like etc this is a quarantine hospital
type area it's it's not necessarily needs to be pretty it just needs to be functional
the legs were interesting though just uh i think they're off the ground by about four inches total
and then the two by four itself is three and a half inches so that's four by seven and a half
um so i got about eight inches off the floor total which is fine because i'll just drain into
the shower right beside them but yeah all of this goes together just like a typical regular stand
essentially just look at the design and you can kind of figure it out
but yeah again a very straightforward project it took about an hour to cut it up and put it
together the dimensions of it is i believe the whole thing is 11 feet and it's five feet tall
with this tank on it so without the tank like less than four feet 42 inches tall and then 19 inches
wide i built everything so the tanks can fit in there and have a half inch all the way around
and the tanks themselves sit on the two by fours since the 40 gallon tanks that i put on there have
lips underneath them i can get your fingers under there i only need to worry about supporting the
perimeter of the tank i don't need to have plywood or anything in the middle because nothing is lit
literally nothing's going to touch that so i just want to make sure this all the two by fours cannot
only fit it but they're also flat and they're not wobbling around or anything like that because
if a tank's wobbling once it fills up it's going to twist and that's when a tank breaks so that's
pretty much the only thing you want to worry about not being level is pretty common but with the tank
is like wobbling that's when you have to to figure things out and fix it and a lot of the times it's
just a one or two cuts cut wrong or the board's bent or it's it's annoying to fix but it can be
done anyways the this is a project that i'd like to see more uh well when the price of wood goes
down i'd like to see more fish rooms done like this in terms of uh building out a two by four
framing um although i mean if you need other options and you don't have any tools i've shown
you guys how to take cinder blocks and boards and make stands out of that we've built stanzo don't
darn near any and everything i mean i built a 540 gallon tank and the whole stand was just cinder
blocks you know so it was easy to put together and of course easy to take apart but this is just
another project i think that uh you know many of you guys could benefit from especially if you are
planning on setting up a fish room you definitely want a quarantine system and uh well that's mine
so like i was saying it's the exact same design as absolutely every other stand that i build uh
except when i want to have lags on it i just have to put these tiny little supports down here
as opposed to not having them but yeah everything just lines up to support systems now each one of
these two by fours will support about 800 pounds we have one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten eleven twelve we have a dozen of them which means this is gonna hold i don't know ten
thousand pounds almost and we're not even coming close to that i think we're putting on you know uh
a couple thousand on each each level if that so incredibly strong and i don't need it to
support that much that's just what these two by fours and this designs actually i'm gonna
end up uh being able to support so i mean i don't think everybody needs a racking system
like that but i do believe everybody needs to properly quarantine their fish and i don't mean
you know it's that one time you might never have had you might have bought and fish in your whole
hobby you've been in the lobby for years never ever had a problem adding a fish to a system
it's gonna be that one time when you do and it wipes out the whole tank or the entire tank gets
icked so like i said you just never know but i have shown you guys many different ways to
quarantine or hospitalize your fish including just using a rubbermaid tote so you don't have
to necessarily have a whole tank up and running i mean you could just have a sponge filter always
in your main aquarium maybe hide it behind a rock or whatever but it's running and it's
always cycled and ready to go toss that into a rubbermaid container for your new fish or you
know uh hospitalized fish fish that are injured some fry whatever the case might be you always
have an option maybe your tank leaks et cetera you always have you know backup plan oh also
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