you guys remember this the three nano aquariums holding about seven and a half gallons a piece and
we built them to be connected by a water bridge now the real problem comes into play is escaping
then i thought maybe we create some escape that kind of comes up through come like kind of looks
like it's leaning here maybe it finishes and it kind of looks like it's one but no what about
the water bridge nobody ever escapes the water bridge itself today i'm going to challenge myself
to doing something that i don't know is going to work or if i can make look good at all uh
the main goal here is to use sand rocks wood and plants like every other aquarium but here's
the main idea i'm gonna take a few pieces of wood here and i think what i'd like to see
is like imagine if just for a second i'm gonna roughly kind of balance these together just so
we can get a basic idea at least i don't know again just roughly here but look so imagine
having a scape that all kind of looks the same and it looks like it'd go in one big tank
but we take it and put it inside the tanks and the water bridge which would mean
caught it i i have no clue how i'm going to do this okay this piece got to come off here
is this possible to not have to cut too too much
this is impossible how did i even cut this and why did i do it like this you're good you don't need
to be in there you are fine you were not what is your problem there you go this isn't turning out
the way i thought it was going to but none of my escapes too by the way i already built the stand
got this little foam on it stands match the other tanks and then we have another
spotlight above this which will be good for uh low low light plants which one does this go in
this isn't easy this one was here right no this is that weird wonky one that's gonna go in there
and it's this one that goes in there horrible idea or genius i'm i'm leaning to ah it hurts
it hurts i'm leading towards horrible idea i hate it i don't know why i do this i'm going to break
all of this where's my bat i'm not i'm not joking i will smash all of this i don't know if you guys
ever feel that way i get frustrated enough i'm like okay everything can be broken that's fine
totally cool with everything just being smashed no this is easy if i just take my time and be patient
crazy
so basic recap on the triple aquarium water bridge we used pool filtration as a substrate rocks that
i got outside uh and then we glued some java ferns to the rocks as well as wood i kind of focused
on evenly placing them throughout each aquarium kind of giving each tank its own little ecosystem
because obviously these aquariums are not filtered how you would typically think i'm using a small
canister's filter and full disclosure i was going to build something i just got lazy and tossed on
something that i picked up at a local store with that said the input as you can see and i'm not a
fan of this but the input's sucking water into here canister filters down here since i didn't
install a door i cut a door the output is over here the bridge itself is equalizing all of the
tanks so as water sucking from this tank you would think it would suck all this water dry and pump
it over here but the water bridge equalizes it now to get the bridge to be filled with water which is
kind of still has air bubbles in it and whatnot um but it is level but to get the air out of here you
just suck it out with an airline hose it's not fun but for a smaller system it's definitely a little
safer i can sit here and monitor how much water is going in uh versus how much i'm sucking out
the scape itself has changed a little bit from what you've previously seen
some of the things don't line up perfectly but you don't really notice it unless you're like
really close up like this one's kind of perfect so this branch is kind of coming in through here
um and this is just minor adjustments i just have to twist it to make things line up perfectly
but i got frustrated last night and decided i'm just going to go to bed instead of continuously
messing with this tank but a lot of the things do line up and this is actually just cemented
with glue um well weld on the same stuff that you build aquariums with you can see like right here
though for example there are some areas where i decided it doesn't line up that well and i move it
but it's super cool isn't it this is just a random piece of wood set on top i thought it looked a
little bare this one is really awesome comes out of the tank completely you rarely see this type
of thing but it could encourage others to kind of skate you know a lot of times we see people
escaping outside of the tank but never kind of like through it and i'm not saying it's never been
done i'm just saying it's not that common now this branch was supposed to go into this tank but again
i got frustrated cutting lining up gluing and i just decided i'm going to just have it have here
a little rock to kind of act like the scape is coming out
and that's essentially it now we're left with the idea of how do we maintain this aquarium
well the same way you would with any if you know an algae magnet throughout the bridge
water changes drain the tank of course siphon the the substrate if you need to um and if i do say 25
i'm likely well the tanks aren't filled completely up either and technically i'm probably when i do
fill these up i'll do a water change to the bottom of the bridge so i don't break siphon
but if i ever do uh water comes out of the bridge only to the bottoms of this it's not
like it's going to come gushing out at uh all at once if that siphon breaks it will reseal itself
how do i know i did test after test after test when i originally built one of these what was it
seven or eight years ago uh with that said we're now looking at what should we stock this with now
i thought of a couple of things um tamara wants to go with guppies and i can't blame her they're fun
they're pretty and to be fair they would likely occupy the entire space including the bridge
mostly mindless little fish i was thinking to put all males here all females here see what
happens see if they like congregate in the boom boom room that's what that would be called if
we did guppies the other thing i was thinking of would be i have a ton of apistos that would look
absolutely amazing in this tank because it is kind of dark it is kind of uh mysterious looking almost
uh however i do believe this light's going to be enough to at least maintain the the java ferns
if not you know they're easily replaceable maybe we do fake but i do like the look of this i might
just add one more light but uh we could look at this from any angle and it's just absolutely
phenomenal i do like the idea that we can look at it from absolutely any angle and see the fish
will the fish go from tank to tank absolutely i do believe so and the simple reason is
the bridge technically takes up 50 percent of the tank's uh width and 100 of its length although the
width and length are identical um they're almost going to come up and follow and this is going
to be important to have in water bridges in the future is to escape the bridge as well to entice
the fish to come up in there and to be fair i believe they're going to spend most of their time
in the bridge is it stagnant water no it's not going to be stagnant the water is continuously
cycling through this on a continuous basis and it's going to be just fine this is my first uh
my first bridge type of deal uh we are getting a little oxygenation back there but given that this
is basically a 30 gallon system we're not going to be stocking it heavily anyway so i'm not going to
be worried or focused on you know whether fish will be gasping or anything like that i believe
with the plants in there as well as the surface agitation over here will be just fine worst case
scenario though i add in a couple air bubblers to the corners away from the bridge because if
we start pumping air into the bridge that will be catastrophic uh the bridge will fill with water
air and that water will be forced out the water will just overflow but let me know what you guys
think this is by far one of the more interesting builds it's more of a gimmicky thing i'm not
too serious about it i think it was fun to build i think it was cool to show you guys
i don't think everybody's gonna want one or run out and try to build all this stuff
i'm working on some other things right now that are like really really cool but this one was
super fun super interesting and the first time i ever built a triple water bridge so that was
uh that was a good time as well with that said uh let me know what you think in the comment section
below make sure you give this video a like if you like it sorry about the music earlier
but i was cursing way too much as i was escaping it because i kept messing everything up and it
most of the footage was unusable so i was like okay do the youtuber thing put music
over it and mute myself so that's how that went uh so what do you guys think guppies or apistos
either way i mean this is going to be absolutely phenomenal
um let me know what you guys think and we'll go from there uh in one of the future videos
but i got to give you guys an awesome update on the octopus here shortly as well as the sharks
and a few other things that i'm working on that are going to literally blow your mind
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