♪ I bring that insane rigor from the psycho ward ♪
♪ Pull my trigger ♪
♪ Plus I got the Wu Tang sword ♪
♪ So how you figure ♪
♪ You can't even ♪
♪ Bom bom bom bom bom bom ♪
♪ Bom bom ♪
♪ I do this for me ♪
♪ It feels good to share with you ♪
- My flip flops will rock and shock the nation
with some some planted tank game domination
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What's up, fish tank people.
Dustin's Fishtanks bringin' it to you on a Sunday, baby.
How's everybody doin'?
I hope you're doin' well.
In today's video, I'm gonna show you some of the design
and some of the flow that we're startin' to get.
In Greenhouse 2.0, I'm gonna bring it inside.
I'm gonna show you some of the ponds
and the way we're kinda settin' that stuff up.
I'm also gonna try to bring it to you with plant trivia.
We like cichlids straight from Bolivia.
My flip flops will rock and shock the nation
with some planted tank game domination.
That's right, we got some Sunday.
It's Species Sunday.
I got one, two, three types of val goin' on
plus an an insane import we just got in.
Okay, so you all are watching this channel.
My channel is called Dustin's Fishtanks.
It involves Dustin setting up fishtanks.
Let me ask you a question.
When was the last time I actually
set up a fishtank on this channel?
The answer, far too long.
I've been in the middle of doin' all this,
one of the biggest, most challenging, and right now,
most rewarding projects I've ever done in my life.
I've been tryin' to be 100 percent focused
following one course until successful
on getting this sucker done, and I'm slowly
putting the pieces, puzzle or parts, back together
and I wanna talk about just quickly
some of the stuff that's been goin' on.
Obviously, the move to Greenhouse 2.0 was a big,
longtime coming for me and I actually moved out
of Greenhouse 1.0 which served as both the place
of my business and a place where I could go
and relax with my family.
1.0 was near and dear to my soul and it got ravaged
on its way out, but now it is slowly, quietly
coming back together and is gonna become a place of zen,
a place of relaxation, a place for Dustin's Fishtanks.
Wanna make another comment
for all you married men out there.
Happy wife, happy life.
This is my garage.
Look at how fantastic my garage looks.
Doesn't have a 350 on the floor.
You can actually walk on it these days.
I'm slowly getting my feng shui and my flow back
and I think that's really important.
There's a saying in a book my wife was reading.
Messy room, messy mind.
Like the place I live was a mess.
The place I work was a mess
and your boy Dustin was a mess
and now you guys are seeing it
and somebody commented on it the other day, like
"Hey, Dustin, I'm glad to see
"you're actually happy in your videos."
Yes!
I'm actually happy to be makin' videos right now
because life is slowly coming back into the good song.
So we're rollin' here.
I wanna talk about the flow in Greenhouse 2.0
and I wanna talk about some of the designs
and I also wanna talk about some of the designs
we've done a little bit on this concrete.
But first, folks, Jim Rohn says, and I said it last week
and I'm gonna say it again.
"when's the best time to start a project?"
best time to start a project is when it's finished.
When it's finished in your mind, when you've had
a clear vision of what you're doing.
So if it's cool with you, it's cool with me,
I'd like to share a little bit of a moment
I had the other day here at 2.0 after driving 400 miles
down and 400 miles back to Hotlanta to pick up
some hot plants and drop them off in a place
I've been envisioning for quite a while.
First, about to drive the van onto the concrete
for the first time with 10,000 plants.
If I could have any job in the world, what would it be?
12 hours in the car, I have the perfect job for me.
(techno music)
♪ Bom bom bom bom bom bom ♪
♪ Bom bom ♪
♪ I do this for me ♪
♪ And it feels good to share with you ♪
Psh psh psh psh psh psh psh psh
You know how many times I've driven this trip
from Atlanta and not had a place to put 'em.
Now I got 'em.
♪ Up in here ♪
All right, and speaking of design and of flow,
I wanna talk with you all quickly about some of the design
that was done in the design of the cuts on this driveway.
First, thank you all of you who dropped me
several comments validating that it was, in fact,
the right move to do concrete.
If you guys knew how much time is spent staring
at other people's concrete jobs and bad asphalt jobs,
I feel like I made the right decision
and all of your comments kind of like
put the exclamation mark on that for me, so thank you.
One of the things some of you old, wiser subscribers
and nonsubscribers said is this,
they said make sure you try to enjoy it.
The day the slab was being poured, you know,
I wrote it down as like a written thing, to do list
of actually enjoying the process of watching it
come together and it's something that I hadn't done
throughout this process of building this sucker.
So I did actually take my time and take a step back
and really enjoyed it comin' in.
Shout outs to Andrew for catchin' all the great footage
of it, but I do wanna talk with you all about somethin'
that I was dead set on that I've seen done right
and I've seen done wrong with cutting concrete.
Now look, I'm no concrete expert.
The guy who did this has been doin' it
for about 45 years and I wanted to get his opinion
but I want your opinion on how this worked out as well.
The Wu Tang sword style.
The game of chess is like a sword fight.
You must think first before you move.
You'll notice this square right here
and this square right here and this square right here.
These are all really super duper straight lines.
They've got one of these cuts that runs all the way.
It's super duper straight, like all the way
across the parking lot almost hardly any curves at all.
I absolutely love the craftsmanship.
I like the way this turned out.
People noted about how much rock is in there.
Underneath it is a lot of dirt so I'm hoping
that we can kind of peel that out and get it.
I don't actually know if the city will allow me
to put a pond in there.
Obviously that is the first thing,
but you all have had some great comments
on what to do with the landscaping in here
and I would still love your feedback because I know nothing
about landscaping outside of aquariums,
what you all would do in here, low maintenance,
easy to maintain, doesn't get too tall
that I should put in these little landscaping islands.
But it's Sunday, it's Species Sunday.
Before I show you three different types of vallisneria,
I want to just talk a little bit about these ponds
because they're basically everything I'd hoped
they'd ever be with a pond.
Josh and I discussed how basin lifestyle is the way to go
and we are lovin' it, livin' it right now.
We had worked out the kinks with one, two
and this is three right here.
This is 88 inches across.
We're absolutely lovin' it, 11 inches high.
We intentionally have a six by six across the center
as kind of a spine to set foreground plants
to get even more sun.
This gets almost full sun.
We absolutely love it.
It's all about making things easier on yourself
to do the water changes.
I can grab a hose, I can roll right like this, fill it.
We have not put the lids or the frame or whatever
on this yet because what we've been doing is
we've noticed we get a little bit of leaf fall off here.
We just overflow it.
It's actually slightly lower over in that corner
and everything just flows out.
We watch the plants just smile at us in full sun.
So it's an absolute riot.
We're lovin' it, we're actually in the process
of doing this and duplicating this
on the other side over there, but it is Sunday.
It is Species Sunday.
Thank you for listening to me talk
about how much I love concrete.
So let's roll over here and let's talk about some val.
Let me use the Shamwow.
It's like a chamois, it's like a sponge.
I'm actually talking to the real Vince Offer
on Instagram which I just think is hilarious
'cause he saw the spoof I did of him.
Shamwow, wipin' it off in the front there,
get ya ready for a little bit of val Species Sunday.
Camera guy, ya catchin' this?
But, folks, it's Sunday, it's Species Sunday.
I'm gonna try to bring it to you raw
like shimmy, shimmy y'all with one, two, three
types of my favorite plant.
We are talking about the genus vallisneria.
I've got three different species on this Species Sunday.
We're gonna start with one that's from the land
of the free home of the brave.
Talkin' about vallisneria americana.
This stuff you can click links around,
check out shirtless D, rollin' up around upstate New York
where this is actually found in the wild
here in the United States.
Love this plant.
This plant is being started first for a reason
because it has epically thick leaves,
gets wider, grows taller than any other val I've ever seen.
However, it's going first because it is the least
forgiving of all of these types of val
because it has the thick leaves, so when these leaves
melt back, it's putting out a larger leaf,
it's more work for the plant to push up and out
that next level, next larger leaf.
So this has actually been sitting and growing out
in a tank I've been showing you week after week.
Vallisneria americana, obviously you know where it's from.
We're gonna go from americana, we're gonna go
to vallisneria, Italian val.
Italian val, I'm not even sure if it's from Italy.
This, we sell a ridiculous amount of.
This is one of the plants, actually all these types of val,
we are slowly starting to propagate and grow in-house here
instead of buying them from suppliers.
You can see this here actually has new growth.
This is the medium.
This is a little bit more forgiving.
Actually, it's a lot more forgiving,
than the vallisneria americana
because it has thinner leaves,
it has just easier for the plant to pop off,
give us new growth.
So we love Italian val because it's got thin leaves
and it can easily regrow.
And then last, but certainly not least,
wanna bring it to ya with the vallisneria nana.
Not exactly sure, nana sure where val nana is from,
but it grows super thin.
This plant melts back faster because of the thinner leaves
but it turns around and converts quicker
back to new environments.
I wanna take that lesson to all of you all
and vallisneria I a fine example of that.
When you have an aquarium plant
and you put it into your tank,
it's leaves are used to being in another environment
and then it says, "Oh, my god, I don't like it here.
"I'm gonna shed these old leaves."
'cause they're made from this old environment
and bring it into a new environment
where it produces new leaves made
to fit the new environment that it's in.
Now do me a favor, folks, drop me a comment
on what your favorite type of background plant is.
I'm a big fan of the val.
Let me know what you think of these three types of val.
Are you keeping it in your aquarium?
How are you keeping it?
What do you know, or maybe you've got some sort
of other background plant that you'd like
to drop us a comment about.
Everybody, make it an awesome week.
Hit the subscribe button and tank on.
Later.