in this square is supposed to be a two foot tall or two and a half foot tall octopus tower notice
that the octopus tower is not there tank is filled up with water it's up and running but
there is no tower in the last video i mentioned we ran into a problem here's what happened to be
fair i just got excited as soon as i had sand in the tank i just really wanted to start working on
the rock work that was supposed to support the actual octopus tank it has to be elevated off
the substrate in order for the octopus to get up into it travel up through and above the aquarium
itself so i took a bunch of rocks and kind of started to build like a perimeter around it
and then kind of sort of balance it on it outside of the tank it worked really well
sort of uh and then i kept adding more and more rocks and i just ended up hating it we're never
gonna see the octopus just gonna be hiding in those rocks so i started over and i realized that
when i'm trying to hold this up which is going to weigh 80 pounds when it's filled with water
i needed to i realized that less was more less rocks was easier on this and more stable than to
have a larger pile i thought a larger pile was aesthetically better looking sort of but i'm
looking for safety i don't want this to tip over smash the tank hurt the fish or anything like that
so i took two rocks and i balanced this perfectly on it and then i stood on it
it's only supposed to support 80 pounds and i wear i weigh more than double that so it's
definitely going to do it in my haste though and getting it back into the tank i wanted to test it
out fill the tank up see if this is going to look good if i can get the air out and i was
like no problem i'll just stick an airline hose up into it and suck the air out not a big deal
there's no way i'm going to get an airline hose 28 inches up there when i can only kind of stick
it in through the bottom can't get my hand in because it's only a couple inches off the ground
but i did get it to about three quarters full and i let it just sit like that and i monitor
to see if the water level would drop because if the water level drops in the tower that means
there's like a pinhole in here that maybe the water won't leak out of but once we create all
that suction it's definitely going to draw in air stood the test of time for like a week but alas
i need a better way and a better method of getting the air in and out of there so i got some clear
airline hose and i simply cemented it inside into the back corner you can't even really see it it
just looks like a crappy seam at this point but uh it'll allow me to suck air out uh whenever i need
to because if i ever need to clean this i just got to rip it out hand clean it and put it back in
suck the air i want that part to be easy and with it done now comes the test of can i get it back to
where it was earlier and there is a bit of a space oh yeah around this that the octopus can kind of
get out of if you wanted to look it's already got so i've got the airline look it's just gonna float
unless i have this valve opened up and it can gas out the air i see the air pocket that's trapping
that is trapped under there that pressure is actually pushing up and look
can you hear that i don't know if you can that's the water coming up out of
this or the air being pushed out of it out from the top just going to give it
a minute to kind of so uh drain maybe this will be faster oh yeah that's way faster
we're doing this like kind of live this is my first time testing it obviously it was dry
just cemented it in hopefully you guys can see this that's your clunk yep so all the air is now
out so now i just got to balance it on the rocks like it was previously which isn't an easy feat
it has to be exactly where it was i think i did it never mind it's easier than i thought
now i have a an aqua lifter pump somewheres which allows you to suck uh water out of airline tubes
and kind of pump it somewhere else if you want to but for the life of me i don't know where it is
so i'm gonna have to do this manually by my mouth and no pun intended but this is gonna suck it's
gonna take me a while see what's happening though oh no where'd that valve go so as i'm sucking all
i'm doing i'm sucking the air out from the top and it's being replaced by the water below it
now in between breasts if i take my thumb off it watch this the water level's just going to
go down i don't want to wait that's like blowing up a balloon and then letting the air out and
then having to do it again i don't want to do that too many times oh i got a tiny little ball
valve on the end of this so that when i'm done sucking on it i just turn it off i'll hide that
behind the tank or something like that this is going way faster than i thought i would it would
a little wobbly there why are you wobbly you were not wobbly before
aha it's the rock itself
i hammered these rocks and kind of shaped them so you wouldn't see the grooves of how this is
actually sitting on here but i gotta get them into those oh did it just hit it yeah i know
when it gets in there because it just like hits that groove perfect yeah see
see now it doesn't move gotta hit those grooves just perfect it looks like it's
like a balancing act under there i'll show you here in a second but it's perfect
it gets harder to remove the air as it gets higher i'm getting dizzy
is this recording oh my god imagine if it wasn't i do that a lot that's perfect
i could go higher i guess okay i'll show you what's going on here so now it's filled with water
but not all the way to the top um and there's the airline hose in the back you can kind of notice
it sort of i guess but not that much i mean i can't it's got a lot of fingerprints all over
it and whatnot but yeah i guess it's like um more pronounced this way but uh it's level two look um
so some people were worried about this octopus getting out of this gap here you see that gap
it's a bit of a gap not in the back though um so that was the one thing that i wanted to do
was push it to the back of it so the brace kind of supports it as well sort of just kind of holds it
up straight and then i have to deal with just the perimeter so what i come up with was the letter u
you inspired me to do this a couple pieces of acrylic just uh silicone or cemented together
that's it it's not pretty but uh once i'm sold on it 100 i'll likely cement this brace here or this
like a little you thing to it of course it could be moved but i'll likely weigh it down too um i'll
cement it to the actual uh tower i'd have to flame polish it too like i just made this the other day
so i gotta flame polish it so it's not like that and it's more like
the seams of this tank but huh that is the octopus tower now here's the bottom of it
you can see that it's like a literal balancing act i know that it looks dangerous seems dangerous but
i can't i can't move it a tiny little octopus is gonna be able to move it either some people
will worry about it lifting it up um so filled that is now ways this weighs 80 pounds it's
seven and a half gallons or i forget how many gallons in it but i did the math and it was 80
pounds i think seven and a half gallons is something else i'm working on that's uh similar to
this thing but more complicated anyways plenty of room if we zoom in here
plenty of room and areas for the octopus to actually get up inside of it
now i there is like a little cave system for him to hide and feel more natural but as as you can
see like it's a natural progression to kind of go up into it now i've recently thought about like
if he doesn't go up onto it on his own i can put stuff in it maybe i can put some floating food in
it or perhaps we just go with um maybe some some like baby rings for it to go up and attach to
make them colorful they're typically attracted to certain colors so um we'll figure something else
out there but it's as easy as draining that basically i just let the air out
the sump will take all that extra water and um we could do whatever we want with the tower then just
lift it out it'd be light but that's it that is the octopus tower this is completed and i love it
i kind of like that you can't really see the tower too depending on the angle that you're on well i
mean you guys know it's there because we talked about it no you could definitely see that tower
well clearly up here it's just like what the heck is that it's so it's so interesting it's so fun so
different it comes right up through the tank isn't that cool i know it's not that complicated or
that crazy but for somebody in there you know with basic tools and stuff i mean anybody could do this
now it just needs an octopus obviously oh and it's lids which we'll have to lay it way down you guys
seen this in the last video um now it just needs an octopus much like this guy right here i have
a toy version of and this is a like a embarrassing admission but i have a toy version of almost every
fish that i have i don't know why i do it but it's like my thing but anyways let's just imagine
i don't if i get him to stand up
you see him
that's kind of why i got it so cool you're like that for the thumbnail you can't even see it the
octopus is too little i have the world's smallest octopus actually it's quite big
but yeah this will be super cool it'll be interesting to see what happens if he does try to
get out if he does see other fish a lot of octopus tend to try to escape their environment if they
can see other fish and giving him a look out will definitely entice him but i wish him luck i mean i
proofed this as much as i could uh time will tell and i think that we could face more challenges and
or have to overcome more things to to to suit the octopus but it's gonna be here in like a week so
if you guys want to join me on that new journey uh make sure you subscribe if
you're not already i'll admit right from the jump i'm a little nervous
what did you just see how much of that did you just see just pretend like it never happened edit
that out one of the things that i'm worried about and to be completely fair and honest
is that i don't have the octopus with me i don't have it on me it's not at the store to go pick
up i know a lot of people that do get octopuses will like go to a store and just buy it from the
store it's already healthy and eating these guys are being imported and they don't ship well so
hopefully i'm nervous hopefully they arrive okay you know to be fair i don't care if the octopus
goes in this tank i mean we could put anything in it it's still going to be a cool tank i just don't
want it i just feel guilty for like ordering in a fish and then it dies when it didn't have to or
but i mean we all take that risk especially just being in the hobby that's part of it i guess
you know you go to your fish store they had deaths trying to get fish into you
you understand anyways guys now i just stressed myself out do i have any beer i don't uh
i hope you enjoyed the video i'll see you guys shortly i don't know when
i'll show you kevin real quick your boy kevin got a tank to himself right now well he's
got some other guys in there with him but he just doesn't want anybody to forget about him
he knows that there's going to be other salt water feature fish like sharks and you know
octopus but please don't forget about his gut is all he asks and his chubby cheeks
please before you guys go i once i find the aqua lifter you know the thing i talked about
that sucks the water out and air once i find that or once i get another one
whatever the whatever comes first i'll be able to have um an air stone underneath the
tower pumping in air at the same time it's being removed at the top so that will aid
in circulation in the tower so the water doesn't get stale because technically it can't that's all