what up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you baby
from denver and i was thinking to myself like how can i bring the most frequent
value and bring as much education as I can - Bob's fishermen we're going to
talk about to fish we're going to talk about how he sets up his fish room I've
actually scripted this out I'm not going to be s it like this is a good stuff
wanna make sure we hit every topic so here we go Bob's fish room love it love
it love it dude all right so I've got this flipped around here it is dude how
long have you had this room bro this room has been setup for 12 years 12
years okay and the design of this room like how long did you plan going into it
like what were you know what I'm thinking like you've been in the hobby
what was the brain thing I'll tell you I was in the business I got out of the
business I had no fish tanks for five years no fool I didn't know that I knew
were the business I did it was a sabbatical why not go back and then I
took a bedroom upstairs and trim it into a fish room and when my wife wanted to
do stained glass I turned her stained that room into the stained glass studio
and I said I'm gonna take half the bases Hey and it works well chance to get back
arrey arrey is finally the wait on him so but but like the planning so you're
moving down from here what did the planning look like in your brain like
I'm going down here Hatton because if you got to have it fundamentally zaps
certain things we got the air valves watery so what's the what were the
fundamental things Friedman started well I had to decide how big it was going to
be and the way the space really is set up half of it just seemed to work
perfectly so I took and made the plans to do that I took the side that was less
encumber i insulated the ceilings I put 40 mil plastic around to keep the
heat in there and let's just let's just go high level that you're heating the
whole room I'm heating not the individual tank so he's got it all up
here while I'm looking around central air is it an open-loop Jamaica close
close excuse me close up so it's a little circle all the way around to old
school fish tank ninjas have told me that you I think I don't know Gary
mentioned it or not but also Mike barber so obviously that's the way it's done it
looks like it's working well we've unplugged it doing it hey it's working
and it's been working a long time way and you and what's your take on just
oxygen in an aquarium I mean like just break it down simple like gas air what
do you think about it No it all depends on where the fish comes from okay
because you've got fish that come from the strings right you've got fast water
highly oxygenated you've got fish they come from the back waters from the tide
pools you know a little less you've got fish that are in the little ponds that
are slowly drying up you've got next to no azúcar okay try to recreate it and
what you can do is you can generally regulate the amount of air that's
bubbling in a tank which we can all see here we cob guys this exact same setup
in my greenhouse love that junk Oh baby they crush it for that stuff so you heat
the room you've got your air all the way around okay bring it bring it the room
how to get through the room that heats the room that's it that's it and folks
it is toasty in here but you walk right out the door
and it ain't bad and we've covered the air we've covered the heat dude when I
came out here along most a year ago I was blown away by your water setup and
Greg sages and Torrey Browns I want to talk about water folks make it easy on
yourself to do water come around here with me Bob people can hear you talk
this is Bob setup I know it's a drain and fill fit system you go talk to
everybody about how this works is it is legit my good friend Greg sage what he's
done is flex a link below to Greg sages room you can see his thing
see that he's great loves a lot of valves in the master with PVC he came in
and we did half of this fish room and how its set up is they're set up at
different levels to dream again depending on the fish come on I want to
drain that's author so what happens is we set
up the attachments that go right to my sink and this way it can drain right out
and I can fill it right in Wow and when it's not up it's just it goes away so
that the floor is unencumbered I really like it it's easy I can turn around I
can open the valves in it and I know I'm not going to be able to drain it -
that's awesome yeah so you're to walk away kind of thing you can get away from
it you can make it easy on yourself now how about a lot of things you can drain
yeah nice diameter big flow did you glue these pipes just great
you glue them all right and then so you don't have any little overflows here
these are all just this is the overflow that's it these are off when that's off
there's no like water there's no there's no contacting us it at busted in your
blood busted in at lunch come around this way Bob tell us more so all right
so - that we talked about at lunch you're like you know I'm thinking about
redoing so before we go oh yeah I want to go what you love but what do you not
love about the room because this is part of it cuz you're talking about doing
something different what are you gonna change what could people learn that you
would might suggest them to do differently you're right you know when I
was home a lot Dustin it works home alive
your tank style around your lifestyle well my lifestyle I can't my lifestyle I
as much as I love my fish kill that I want to get these rainbows I am NOT
about matching rainbow lighten everyone I'm
about to change my life just for my fish right so what I want to do what if
what's been happening here is that between trips before trips while while
I'm working I have to come home and I have to jam through these things and
it's just it's a lot of work yeah and you're where you're in what three months
a year how many one work in three months year okay traveling two months so you're
gone oh yeah I don't know that much so with all of that it's like I'm enjoying
my tank seven months here but five months even though I'm not here I'm
working very hard you're working on them so what would you do differently because
you're doing you're doing a lot of work if you are hypothetically speaking able
to do another fish room somewhere out there what would you do differently to
make it easier it would be all automated automated automated automated setup so
that the tanks would change on a set basis different banks would change some
would change every third day so I'm going to change once a week Wow some
would change once every two weeks and the designated amount of water that
would get changed in it okay so you could automate all that I can automate
all of that I'd like to take and improve the lighting through the whole place now
especially since I'm growing now aquatic gardens yeah in here and
just enjoying king can you see such on that real quick because you said like
you used to just buy lights for the cichlids to like to say it wasn't really
that so now it's a little different because now you obviously have a thing
for you like some plants you like the man likes the way it so that's it put a
whole new meaning to these to these tanks for me because no we said if you
have African cichlids you can that plants okay well they just didn't
clarify that enough yeah well and used to think around your we're finding out
what works and what does well and that's the thing you're willing to try it
some people are like well I won't work try it you meet you hadn't if you've had
some not success like you know I've had not success with plants I've had not
successful fishing it's how you learn okay Bob I got a so I'm from from like
of now I want to go I've got your set up I want to talk about your maintenance
routine ideally in here if everything's running
full cylinders you're not traveling like how do you how would you do maintenance
in here what's kind of a system you got and I like to blare some music rock out
and have fun I've enjoyed others always there's always always music gonna know
it's got to front those amazing always music going on here what I do is it's
just unfortunately it's all in my head right um but it's I know these tanks
these tanks don't change for me like we built the tank it's the same water it's
the same everything it's just more space for them to grow so it depending on
again the tank itself depends on how much maintenance it's gonna go in okay
so you are it's as if it seeks well like yeah to take itself this is ridiculous
little thing of these any last final Oh what do you what do you loves is the
final this is the final money question I had to think up to make sure I asked him
Bob what do you love about your fish room good what do you love about it bro
look around I mean what do I love about this whole theme oh dude it's so awesome
I can't explain that will be disadvantaged having a
future is it I can play here I can play here I can play here
I can run err yeah oh it's the best I did a video called the side tank and
just this is that I'm going they're going cherries I'm going this I'm going
that yeah trying that and like and you're like you know even plants you
doing like cherries and see more of all these two fingers it's awesome wicked
man well dude thank you so much for dropping some knowledge on the fish room
what you love about it and planning it and folks ask me questions in the
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