what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
it to you on a Sunday baby how's everybody doing I hope you're doing well
I'm doing a fabulous I hope you're doing fantastic as well today it's Sunday I
gotta show you around what I got going on in the greenhouse we're going from
keeping heat in the greenhouse to getting heat out of the greenhouse I've
also got about a 10,000 plant import coming that pretty much is the largest
I've ever done and I want to show you how I'm able to prepare for that what
I'm doing a prayer for it I'm super super excited about it but it's a
crapload of work so I'm going to show you what I'm doing to make my life
freakin easier show you the rack system I'm building and why I'm doing it how
I'm gonna do easy water changes but it's Sunday it's species Sunday I'm gonna
plant it's taking over the planet aquarium market by storm I'm gonna show
you how I do some tricks with keeping this special feeding but first
first let's talk about the green Isles okay so we've successfully completed
another winter in the greenhouse this winter wasn't as bad as we've had in the
past so it wasn't overly difficult I've been doing this for years now the
biggest thing people always want to know is how do I heat the greenhouse as I've
said in other videos you can click the links around here on it I don't heat the
actual greenhouse I heat the water in the greenhouse the trick I have found is
to use large bodies of water the bigger the amount of water the less you have to
worry about temperature swings I want to stick here for a minute this holds true
with your own tanks as well there is certainly something to be said about
larger aquariums anyone who's been in this hobby a while will probably agree
that the bigger the tank the ultimately easier is you'll have more room to screw
up a larger body of water can handle a random dead fish that won't spike your
ammonia levels a larger body of water theoretically should have more nutrients
available in the water column for whatever you are trying to grow a rookie
starting out would be better served with a twenty or thirty gallon out of the
gate than a five or ten gallon more room to screw it up I try to run with 75
gallons as the minimum size in the greenhouse as if I do an external
temperature drop the swing will not be that bad on a 75 gallon tank the plants
can handle this but the fish not so much and I have learned this lesson the hard
way many years ago I tried to keep some fancy goldfish in here the temps in the
greenhouse would heat up and raise their metabolism they would eat a ton the
temperatures would drop down they would quickly slow down and not be able to
adjust the gorging they just did I killed a few sweet telescope eye
goldfish this way but it isn't just about heating the tanks we need to try
to somewhat keep the heat from leaving the greenhouse so we put on what I like
to call the condom on stick with me here folks
what I use is solar pool cover liner these things are freakin fabulous at
keeping the heat in the greenhouse I would go as far as to recommend using
them if you're trying to do any kind of outside building or project to keep the
heat in you all in northern states with greenhouses ism simply a must do they
come in many different millimeter sizes I think this one is about 10 millimeters
and you do get what you pay for I think this was around 400 bucks it was money
well spent as it lasted me about three winters now I actually used two of them
one on each side of the greenhouse and the entire thing but it's springtime and
what's great in the winter simply has to go now here's the funky part I have a
lot of super hot days with full summer gets blazing hot but then at night the
temperatures hit around freezing so I leave the coverage on until around April
to avoid these big swings the covers coming off now and we're left wide open
in full Sun and you know what likes full Sun you guessed it aquarium plants one
of my favorite Instagram Francis plants isla gwyddion rippen's which I talked
about last week which sits in this upper tank right here this tank gets blasted
with full freaking sunlight plant goes totally wild a bunch of plants go wild
here including wisteria nope they are getting everything full spectrum they're
getting getting high doses it's not just what a manufacturer wants to put in a
light bulb my babies are getting hit with both the UVA end of the spectrum
and red to infrared span end of the spectrum not just found in most pictures
unless you're running halides but more on that some other time and you know
what else likes full Sun besides your boy ID aquarium plants and that's what I
want to show you out here in the greenhouse also show you the betta fish
that I got at Tom's tropicals out in OC loving this big boy right here that's
one of my beauties so the aquarium plants get hit in full freaking sunlight
totally loving watching baby tears just go nuts in this tank put the beneficia
intentionally I'm gonna talk about this species here in a minute these plants
are in full freaking sunlight and what they're doing is they're eating and
eating and eating everything out of the water so I need to make it easy on
myself to do the water changes in here like I said I've also got about 10,000
aquarium plants coming later this week so I'm gonna show you what I've got
going on projects not quite finished but it's pretty close it's all about the
easy water changes folks everybody will say here's what we're doing I have
drilled these tanks out note I used a pretty large bit here drilled it nice
and slow got it going our friends at Jim Cole always hooking it up with the drill
they talk to the guy John he's the man and then what I've done is I put this
down real low now the goal is to be able to remove as much of this water as
possible out of this tank you'll notice it's still leaking slightly here I need
to get the bushings a little bit tighter but nonetheless this will ultimately
work nobody's perfect but all I got to do now
let's say this is full this is full plants and it's in full sunlight the
plants are eating everything like crazy all I've got to do is either remove this
cap right here or remove this bottom part down low so I'm gonna go low here
cap where the bottom Bob's gonna come out um be quick about this but watch
this I'll take this out and boom that's gushing into their time is money when it
comes to mind taking in blood that's fast we want to stop it you stick this
back in boom that stopped plugged again so now really what I could do is take
the cap off I could do a fifth about a 50% water change in almost no time I
take this pipe right here this pipe runs from here to here the black mamba clip
it on there and I roll so I can do water changes in almost no time here's another
shot of the bulkhead yeah I mean these are like five bucks the bit was
expensive the bit was like sixty bucks but it's totally worth spending the
money on but folks it's Sunday Sunday but it's Sunday it's species Sunday you
all know that I was a history major by now you know I love Alexander the Great
one of the greatest conquerors in all of antiquity he had one of the most famous
horses and all of antiquity and then a horse's name was busie phallus pretty
fat horse free fat name same name as busie full Andra derived from that busie
Flandre stuff comes from Indonesia I got to show you I just got some of it in I
look I put it underneath a halide because I have seen a better
photosynthetic response with it underneath the metal halide it gets this
crazy crazy color this camera may not pick up that light so i'ma pull it over
here and show it to you like this I've got this stuff right here the problem
with it is that in the words of one of my great suppliers honey it ain't come
with a birth certificate so there's not a lot with like the scientific names
with it it's just called where it's from all over the place this is a mini
variety right here and I keep this stuff in full Sun it likes the ultraviolet
light I'm getting a better response with this plant underneath the metal halide
in my beet 26 and then I am in the no maintenance tank you can see the stuff
here totally a beginner plant super easy you know they stay at this low core you
can see the new growth I've got coming right here when it gets hit with full
Sun this plant has been too because it's been shipped for a while
but it's already putting off new looking growth so you love that here here and
then I've also got it in full Sun there's no better comparison than to say
it crystals like dank buds I mean this stuff just like boom if you're into that
sort of thing just has these like shiny little crystals on it I hope you can see
that and I get that when it's under great lighting totally a huge fan of
this stuff they say it likes lower light look I put in as much Sun as possible
and perks up quickly as possible but it likes to absorb the stuff out of the
nutrients in the water column so what I do is I do the big water changes which
is why I have the sets of setups like this so I can get the water out quickly
here's another look at it from above we'll pull it in here boost the flame
this is the stuff I use in the no maintenance tank you simply tie it on to
the trees you can see the clip of the no maintenance tank but this is how
unrolling boosts in full Sun huge water changes I mean like super easy plant
like Brian the king of anubius has been finally come onto this because it's like
and maybe it's only cooler now obviously it's available on my site but yeah
boosts up freakin for lander let me know how you deal with booster Flandre I got
this type in I got this type in and I got this mini stuff in and I'm totally
loving and you can see it's in it's sitting in full sunlight right here I
mean like there's the Sun there's the full Sun right there big water changes
and happy happy happy little plants you have folks boy DS loving it
so that's what's up so do me a favor if you like what I'm doing subscribe let me
know what you think about these fast water changes have a fabulous frickin
week stupid stay tuned for some videos updating on that the gold import 1/2
coming in and a nice fat sale behind it everybody look fabulous and check go
check out this you want a tea can we get real on the
180 we're real alright but no I want to get I want to get me like you just
recently purchased this okay this you haven't had just anchored on when did
you start talking to get the tank give us like the backstory 15 years ago we
bought this yesterday you bought the tank yesterday it's been on order for
you it's been on order for three weeks Wow dude it looks fantastic