okay so you guys know i've recently stripped the 2000 gallon aquarium and i'm taking it back
and putting in the fish that it was originally built for and that is well my freshwater stingrays
to bring you up to speed we strip this tank down buff the acrylic on there which looks tremendously
better at this point but i probably need to do it again it's not that big of a deal without
the big tree trunk in it you see that tree trunk in there remember when it used to be in here
that used to support the lids up here and if i don't have supports these are too flimsy
so i i took rope and uh drilled it into these tiny little screws into the acrylic and it wraps around
the stand and comes back out and it's taut so now i can take the lids off put them on
way easier we just have these two green strings it's not that big of a deal nobody knew and nobody
would know unless i showed you i still have to build a big filter for this the filter that's on
it right now is just not cutting it anymore you remember we also tiled the bottom and this is
going to be one of the first times you get a good look at it as you can see like i mentioned before
there's a few spots in the back that doesn't have tile i don't think anybody would notice
if i didn't say that that's just debris um it's like a fine debris that the raise will uh cause to
get up out of the water and the filter will take it out but today we're moving the stingrays oh and
this big tree i know that it's it's all lopsided and cut up and it's a mess out here but that's
what i was doing i was cutting it to do something very very very very cool with it i think we'll
i'll show you in the next video anyways let's get these guys in their new tank correction
their original aquarium and they're going back into it for the first time in almost two years
big enough net to get them probably should move this big tree but i don't want to right now
the bishop is going in there as well i know a lot of you guys asked about the bishop
he's going there too
they're not going to like this
oh he's a big boy
when you go my friend
so what i'm trying to do here is get him to swim up the sides because they're like
suction cups when they want to be and you don't want to hurt them you just want to guide them in
here's the boy
let's guide them along get her over to the other side and they'll likely just swim right into it
water quality and parameters match identically this is the gallery so
every tank is the same temperature we heat the room not the aquariums
you can notice that she's not stressed she's not trying to attack the net or stab it with her uh
with her tail those those tails will come up like scorpions when they're really upset
this is the second time this this fish has ever been in a net in uh five six years so she's
handling it really well all these fish oh my lord she's heavy she must be close to 10 pounds see her
all right big girl you're okay
then that's cut on her there you go so what we look for when we originally add them in is
we want to make sure their disks aren't curling it's okay for them just to sit there they look
a lot smaller in this tank mind you uh each one of these are the the uh tiles are two feet by one
feet so you get a better idea of their actual size at this point look at her go on this side
so we look we're just looking to make sure it's okay if they just sit there and they're not
doing much we just want to watch and make sure that their discs don't curl up that's the death
curl that's when they're incredibly stressed but the move was really quick water parameters match
and they'll do really well in this tank the other tank was 29 inches deep
this one technically isn't filled to the top so it doesn't have four feet of water
it only has a few more inches than that 29 you know maybe a foot or something
the bishop is the last fish to go in there for now and this is a different story
i don't know how long it's gonna take me to catch them hopefully not too long i might have to use a
different type of net but he might also just get right into i can't see him back there this filter
has so many particles in the water that's tough to see the fish when they're far away there he goes
home bro this is a big heavy net too so it's hard to move through the water
you want to try not to chase but rather just block them off look see how smart
he is no wonder they've been around since the dinosaurs no god he got out
there he is now we can take a look and see how big he's gotten
he's pretty big i got him when he was just like this
it's okay bicycles can breathe oxygen or breathe air it's not going to hurt them
and razor in weisser's in at the back there i don't know if you can see them they stirred up
everything that was on the ground there i said they would now the filter could actually get it
and they're gonna do absolutely amazing in here i know that this tank looks bare i know
i think the background really saves it but uh and i know this isn't for everybody i know that like
not everybody's gonna like a bare bottom aquarium but i gotta tell you like seeing this once again
makes me so happy it's just it's everything that i love about rays i i and and the reason
i started building fish tanks in the first place these guys are literally the reason
um freshwater stingrays are literally the reason the king of diy exists in
the first place i just feel i feel so much better i feel like so relieved
you know i justified building this whole building just to build this tank in it just to give them
to the rays then i wanted to bring them in public and show you guys them in the public aquarium and
you know that never happened but you know i want my i want my 2000 back and some people
won't understand it some won't like it i agree it looked better with the other fish
in it and as a more of an amazon type tank but i mean that's debatable i love this i i love it
i want i wanted this back so badly for for a long time and i was so crushed on so many levels but
now i got it back and i can't i can't even begin to tell you how happy i really am look at the king
look at him isn't it nice not to see scratches all over the tank anymore they're just on the
inside now but isn't he just gorgeous just an absolute stunner of a fish
just gorgeous beautiful and isn't he just stunning up there oh and with that tank
being up there anytime i have friends or anything come over um they love looking at everything but
then once they go once they see him they go oh like you know like they literally they literally
gasp maybe it's the shock of that tank being up there but i'd like to think it's because he's
just absolutely stunning and this tank i know like i said was really cool as a community tank and i
know you guys loved it but at some point i gotta be happy too and uh i bet you you're gonna like
what i do with the 700 gallon heck up a lot more and in the next video i'll show you what i'm up to