Hey everyone.
Steve Poland here.
And if you caught last week's video you saw me go through all the equipment on my 125
gallon display tank.
Well this week I'm gonna go through my 90 gallon display tank that sits right across
from it
and just give you another overview of all the equipment to tell you why I have it on
here and what's going on.
So this is actually more of a grow out tank.
Though these fish are getting pretty big and several of them probably will be moving over
to the 125 any day now.
This tank I also bought new.
It's an Aqueon 90.
Bought it brand new actually at a store.
And let me flip this light on so we can take a look at some of the equipment.
This stand I got from someone on Craigslist.
It is the sort of the standard 90 gallon four foot pine stand that you see a lot of the
time but they're really nice.
And then I bought this matching canopy for it.
Again it's like the stock 90 gallon canopy that opens like this.
Works really well.
But let me go ahead and take that off.
So on top of this tank, the light that I use is this eBay LED.
I will link to this down in the description and as with last week's overview any product
or video previous video of mine that I talk about
I will link to down in that description.
These lights are very inexpensive but they do a great job.
They look really great.
People ask me all the time "what light are you running on that tank?"
It's just this little- it's a 3 foot light on a four foot tank but it makes dark corners
and the fish don't mind at all.
And then again I have this old four foot strip light sitting on here.
Similar to my 125, it's really almost more acting like a blocker of light to the back
of the tank
but then sometimes I'll flip it on,
usually when I'm cleaning or sometimes when I'm taking pictures.
It actually helps a lot...because the light that you have on your tank to enjoy it day
to day and the light
that you want on there when you're taking photos of your fish are often very different
unfortunately.
Also running that same drip system on this tank.
You can see that here...dripping steadily into the tank which is awesome.
And then on this tank similar to the other one is this eShopps overflow box.
It's actually the same model of overflow box and again I just use this one because it has
the dual tubes here.
Just for backup and that goes down and flows down into my basement with all the other tanks
to the drain system.
But it works great.
It really helps for the health of your fish.
One thing that I forgot to talk about on the 125 is the heater controller.
and I have to kind of tape these to the top so that they don't come off.
These heater controller sensors are not long enough unfortunately
But that's a great thing to run on every tank.
Again, did a video about that.
It's a Finnex Max-300 heater controller that prevents you from having an accidental
overheating of your tank if your heater malfunctions so that's really nice.
It also helps you set a constant temperature if you have more than one heater as I do on
the other tank.
This tank I only have the one.
That's really it for the top of the tank other
than these parts of the filters which I'll show you here in a second.
Let me give you a little more light here.
OK so I run two filters on this.
I run this Sun Sun 304-B which is a good filter.
It doesn't....it's not quite as quiet as I would like it to be.
It does tend to rattle a bit which I have to like...open it up and fiddle with it.
Maybe that's just this one.
Maybe that's just an issue that I'm having but it's still kind of frustrating.
It runs through, like my other tank it runs through an external heater- a DIY external
heater.
Just PVC that's attached to the output.
You can see up there that is the controller back there.
And this is an FX5.
So between these two filters it's a lot of filtration for a 90.
The FX5s, I got this one used.
They're so pricey the FX5 or FX6 buying them new but they are great filters.
I don't love any filter with trays and of course both of the filters on this tank have
trays.
I just don't feel like they're necessary.
I feel like they take up space in there unnecessarily.
It's kind of annoying.
But still the flow on these is great.
I really like that the Sun Sun has black filter intakes and spray bars.
I talked about that last week with the Eheims.
I love Eheims but that's the one thing about them that's a bummer is those green spray
bars.
that you, that I feel like I have to get after markets.
And then of course the FX5 has the standard intake and the output is up there in the corner.
And I just point that up at the surface to get a little surface agitation.
I don't run any kind of powerhead or anything on this tank like I do on the other one just
cause I have that
and then the overflow box is up there in the other corner so it does get some nice surface
skimming which I really really like.
So overall I love this tank too.
It's hard because this tank started out as you know just a grow out tank.
It wasn't supposed to be any kind of awesome display tank but the fish in here...
as these males have colored up...you know there are females in here and as these
males have colored up it's just really become a joy to look at this tank and this tank
I can actually see more easily from my living space like if I'm standing in the
kitchen I can just look over in here and see it it's pretty awesome.
I'm hesitant to move some of these guys over because I just like a looking at them from
this
direction but i guess I�m just gonna have to bite the bullet and do that
And knowing me I'll get more fish and as some of the fish that I'm breeding downstairs grow
up maybe I'll move some
of them up here so
That is all of the equipment on the 90 so again if I
forgot anything or if you have any questions about any of this stuff please
let me know down in the comments and as
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