All right, one 20, enjoy your new home.
So I'm getting rid of the tank.
And I think I should probably explain to you why this is by far my
least favorite of my five or six aquariums that I have right now for,
for several reasons. Number one, it's too big. You know,
when I'm taking care of five or six tanks every week, it's just,
it's just too much, you know, between, between the website, between, uh,
making YouTube videos between the newsletter between social media,
this just doesn't get the attention. It deserves. Also,
there are a couple imperfections in the glass that look like oil that I've tried
are moving. They're just a part of the glass. That's bugged me forever.
When I look at this tank, I'm just not happy with it.
I think the Aqua scape is complete crap. I think it looks ugly inside.
Every time I walk by it,
I'm just like reminded of my own inadequacies as a reefer and as a
hobbyist also,
I don't have any more space for tanks and I have a new tank coming in,
maybe this upcoming week. And literally now we have a tank in my bedroom,
in my daughter's bedroom.
I have two tanks out here and there's just no more space by taking this down.
I can put the new tank here. Most beginners.
Aren't going to be able to jump into the hobby with 120 gallon tank.
Not that 120 gallon tank is somehow bad for beginner. It's not,
it's great for beginner, but it's just a lot more expensive.
What I plan on doing is having the brand new tank,
which is like a 40 gallon breeder size plus a sump.
And then I will be able to have a second tank right next to it.
And another thing is I just, I just like smaller tanks.
I don't know why does this mean that I'm just never going to have a big tank
ever again? No, but in the foreseeable future, as far as I can see,
I think I might be done with big tanks for now.
So in order to this tank ready,
there are three overarching tasks that I have to do.
The first thing I need to do is I need to get the 40 gallon breeder tank ready
for livestock.
The second thing I need to do is I need to move the livestock from the 120
gallon to the 40 gallon breeder.
And then the third thing I have to do is break down the 120 gallon system
starting up top. I need to get my lights on a schedule.
Then moving over to the two returns.
They're not putting out like any flow right now.
So I need to install the vivid creative aquatics, random flow nozzle.
I've never used these, but I've heard great things.
I had this Brightwell export, bio brick and the 120 gallon tank.
And I put it in here. So there's probably plenty of beneficial bacteria in here,
but I definitely want to do some testing.
So I'm just going to double check everything. Moving down to the sump.
I have a protein skimmer I'm going to put in there.
I think I'm going to use this bubble. Megace protein skimmer.
It should be a pretty good size in the final section in this Marine Depot elite
sump, you can use the final chamber as like an auto top off reservoir,
but you can also use it as a refugium.
So I'm going to transfer the refugium from 120 gallon into this section.
I'll also need to install my refugium light.
I'm gonna use the same one I'm already using, which is the castle AAT, tuna sun.
And then up top,
I don't think I totally forgot is I need to create some habitat for the fish.
So I have a whole bunch of PVC that I'm gonna use zip ties to put them together
into like a little PVC mansion for the fish.
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Progress is being made. It is now almost 4:00 PM. When I planned this video,
it was so clean. Well, it didn't work out that way.
Everything has of course overlapped everything else.
And you should see this mess here. Let me, let me turn it around.
You can see the mess. Here's the view from the back of the room. I have,
I have plumbing supplies, random pumps, drill bits from,
from like earlier, when I was doing some stuff workstation,
I have wrenches kind of already set up. This is messy. I mean,
just look at all my buckets. Not only that, but let's walk over here.
The tank is only like half broken down,
so I just need to get the fish and the livestock over there.
It took way longer to move the refugium that I thought it would.
I think the tank is finally ready for fish.
So I'm going to remove the last couple of pieces of rock cash,
the livestock move them over.
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So this day was supposed to be very simple. It was supposed to be a long day,
but not this long. I was supposed to have it all well planned out. Well,
this place is a mess.
The entire house reeks of just like nasty algae
smells and it's disgusting.
And I just spent like 45 minutes, maybe even an hour,
trying to remove one of my four anemones from the,
using a utility pump and just blasting its foot.
And all it did was it ended up ripping.
And then I take out that rock and I put it down and I go walk away and I come
back and who's there. I didn't take a video of this. Sorry. I was just,
it was so fast. He was there. Six line RAs.
I totally forgot about six line rats.
And he was hiding in the rock structure the entire time.
And so luckily I saw him there and he was probably out for a minute and a half,
two minutes. I mean the poor guy. Could you imagine how awful that would be?
So luckily I was able to scoop him up and place him in the tank behind me.
He looked like he was not doing well. And then about a minute in,
he started swimming around. I don't know if he's going to make it or not.
Anyway, it's been a very stressful day.
I still have three anemones to try and get off.
And I've been blasting one with a utility pump for the last 40 minutes and it's
still solidly attached. So I'm not sure what I'm going to do. Not only that,
but the 120 gallon is not even empty yet.
I haven't even started the cleanup process yet. So.
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