today we're adding the piranha to the 700 gallon aquarium but first we got to drain their tank
remove all of their decor and then remove them because there's absolutely no way we're
going to be able to move them in a fully set up tank now the problem with shutting
down the piranha aquarium moving them to the 700 gallon is i love them in that 180 gallon
i thought that aquarium was absolutely phenomenal however i think in the 700 gallon they'll just do
a lot better of course you put fish in a bigger tank a lot of the times they will do better
this will just allow us to get even more piranha and turn that into a jaw-dropping
aquarium perhaps having a few hundred tetras swimming above them that are true schoolers
with that said i love their tank and i'm going to reuse the escaping materials that
were in that tank and we're going to set up an entirely new aquarium and add the fish to it
in this video plus add the fish to the sev the piranha to the 700 gallons so we got a lot to do
so this aquarium is now a south american cichlid tank for the most part there is angelfish severums
festivals there's some corydora there's some apistogramma there's a monstrous size bleeding
heart tetras and this tank is just full of life obviously looking to be a little overstocked right
now and in time we'll see how this pans out and works out long term however i just love the look
of it uh plenty of cover and most of the time the the larger circles will spend their time over here
close to cover and the tank just fills out it's an amazing skate for some amazing fish
um now where did these fish come from well you guys will remember when we were setting up well
when we were going to launch a public aquarium i was consolidating a lot of my fish and set up
a community aquarium in the 2000 now that tank never happened but the fish stayed with me all
of these fish went into a temporary holding tank below and the walru did at first however the walru
are now in my house uh in a 120 gallon breeding tank and they are doing absolutely phenomenal
perhaps at some point we could take a look at that as well but right now i just want to enjoy
them all to myself after we added the piranha to the aquarium it took them about three or four days
to kind of acclimate to their surroundings but once they did oh wow well first and foremost
you can't even really see them these guys are so small in a 700 gallon compared to a uh 180 but
look at what they're doing they're spending all of their time in and amongst all of the plants
just looking absolutely incredible when we take a closer look at them currently i believe there's 16
which is less of a number than we started out with but at times they would cannibalize each other and
eat the weaker ones which is pretty normal in a large pack of piranhas heck some of them even
have bite marks but that just goes to show when they do feed sometimes they will bite each other
they're not necessarily doing it on purpose uh but when they go for the food they'll sometimes
uh get each other as well now one of the things i was thinking was adding in another 14 bringing up
this number to a total of 30 piranha now maybe even more but could you imagine a 700 gallon
with like 30 to 50 adult prana we're likely gonna have to do 30. now that i say 50 out loud it just
seems like an astronomical number now if we look closely and i'm not sure if i could see them any
of them right now because one of the things i did was make sure that fish can get in behind the
logs there so if they're ever feeling threatened if they ever need a place away from everybody
else and hide they can go behind those logs and hide but uh of course oh there's some in the back
there kind of maybe see them up there i added in 15 red-eyed tetras just to see oh there's
another one right there in the logs uh i added in 15 red eyed tetras which is a true schooling fish
relatively uh simple to keep and common enough to get i added in 15 simply to give these guys
a test run will you go after them will you eat them what's going to happen because these piranha
are not that big they're all three to five inches and they can get up to like eight to twelve inches
this is the red belly piranha um but they don't view the tetras as a food source at first when
i added them in they kind of chased them around but then lost interest uh so that's a good sign
they're not eating the 15 that's in there there's i see them and i try to count them every day so
what that means to me is that test was successful and we can go ahead and add more in i'm thinking
uh like around 200 it would just be absolutely incredible and the red eyes spend most of their
time near the surface schooling and the piranhas stay down low for the most part as well so
long term this tank could be absolutely incredible it's also clearing up considerably
uh ever since i um you know kind of set this tank up it was a bit cloudy and whatnot but it is
it is uh doing really well the filtration cycle but just in case i took this massive block out of
a holding tank it's a massive you can see it right there it's ugly it's just sitting there right now
but it's fully cycled and uh just to help with the extra bioload and whatnot just in case i
don't want to have any sort of mini cycle or anything like that i will have to adjust the wave
maker here because it's blowing the sand but this tank guys is just it's just absolutely phenomenal
i know we say that too much and i got to try to figure out a new word to say but i'm just
i'm just blown away from it i think this long term is just going to look
incredible i love how they all kind of stick together i love how they also spread out
but they all have the same characteristics they love being in and amongst the plants i think that
we're going to see an additional plant explosion and growth due to the addition of more nitrogen
and waste being added to the tank i'm still technically on uh you know whether or not i want
to add in co2 to the tank i have two 10-pound tanks of co2 ready to go i just don't know if
i want to do it just yet i want to add in the other 200 red eye tetras whenever i can get them
and make sure everybody's okay then and then once i have a balance or at least the stocking
finalized then i can play around with co2 levels and whatnot but this tank is just absolutely
gorgeous i think it's just a fantastic way to display piranha they're not touching the plants
they are doing fantastic you know wait till we do a feeding video um and you guys are gonna see just
how incredible this tank is uh and and i think it could potentially get so many more eyes on
the hobby and that's something i do try to do at times i don't recommend setting up a massive 700
gallon aquarium and getting piranha this is a huge huge huge uh expense and maybe that's something
i should do at some point it's kind of an eye opener to what a lot of things that i do cost
but with that said i mean i mean there's tens of thousands of fish and combinations and things that
you could do in the hobby and i just hope that you find something that you were successful with and
are truly enjoying because this is just incredible i remember the first fish i ever got in the hobby
was uh piranha the very first fish i ever kept was a piranha so it's incredibly ironic for me to know
that i now have a 700 gallon piranha aquarium and uh i'm just in love this is what i got into the
hobby for seeing a piranha in a planted aquarium and uh so it just kind of gives me chills to to
now have one and and to think that maybe i'll do the same for somebody else anyways guys i hope you
enjoyed this video um i gotta get back i think i'm gonna do a water change on this tank but we'll do
a feeding video on this tank and it's it is insane wait till you see it i hope you guys enjoyed
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