What's up fish tank people? Fishtanktv.com, dustinsfishtanks bringing it to you front
centered in the family room on a Sunday. How is everybody doing today? I hope you are doing
well, I hope you got out this week, hope you have been chilling. Hope you got a good weekend.
Your basketball teams are doing good, you bragged to doing good and all that madness.
It's exciting, I have to be honest with you folks. It felt good to do a video saying basically
an apology last week when I was just tired from doing the Newport Aquarium event. Super
event! Definitely going to be doing another one. I have been talking about a lot. I will
give you guys a breath, but I am actually going to do a big blog post on dustinsfishtanks.com
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We have got some cool stuff rolling out at the end of this week. Definitely check that
out! The Newport event was great, thank you for all the people with the positive feedback
on it, comments, and just support showing up, hanging out, showing your tanks. One of
things I am going to do, which I didn't do enough of at the Newport event is make it,
so it is easier for people to both display and talk about their tanks, because you never
know when there is like that dude in the room that is keeping the same fish you are, the
same plants you are. I think the connection and the synergy of that, I mean you don't
get that environment often. I am going to try and make it so more people can discuss
what they got going on and hopefully connect some dots for people and make it easier. That's
what is going now. I have got a good show for you today. No species,
but I got an update in the green house that I am really excited to show you in just a
second. Today I want to talk about, this is my original bad boy tank right here. It is
my 125 and I want to talk about the low tech tank and kind of my thoughts on it, and what
I have been doing with it, and how you should size up your tank and your goals. I am going
to talk about this in the new guide that I have got coming out. Some of you Gold and
Silverfish members have gotten a little sliced, I want to talk some fish to keep.
In that guide I really want to hammer all of it, and today as well. What are you goals,
and what are you trying to achieve with your tank and is that in line with you budget and
is that in line with the time that you have and really your experience level as well?
There is definitely something that needs to be considered when you are setting up a tank.
I will just take a step back. A lot of people are like I got this sweet tank, I want to
do it up, and then like in a year from now, but I am going to move and go of to college.
Well hey can you take your tank to college, they probably don't allow bigger than a ten
gallon, or B going to leave it with your Mum and Dad who are going to keep us with your
dosing regiment, your water changers. I doubt it! Ask me how I know this, I left my piranhas
to my father and came home and there was four of them. Lost one, he did water changes got
the four of them okay. Anyway I mean just think about that. I go the 125 here and it
is low tech. Almost no tech, I am running 2,4 w per gallon. Everybody asks me all the
time, these are coral life Metal halides , 150W. Got them on eBay pretty cheap. You have to
replace the bulbs, like most good lights they are typically geared for reefs. But I got
2.4 wats per gallon, I got a bunch of easy plants. I got Anubias, I have got Big swords,
Cypts, I got a Crinum which is we will talk about in a second here. I also have the remainder
of a red tiger lotus. It's just low tech and it is easy. I don't have to do much work.
Last week straight up I didn't want to look at fish tanks, still that Wednesday I was
so shot from setting up a 65,75,3,20 and I think like two 55s at the event. I always
get these messages too from people that are like: "Oh coming of, we had a reef for years
and we tore it down and he we just liked the low maintenance planted tank or "I had a high
tech tank, but I am running a low tank and it's my favorite tank and whatever". I just
want to say think about your goals with your tank and what you are trying to do. What you
are trying to really achieve with that tank. What can you really put towards it. 125,220,90
greenhouse tanks. Yes that is pretty thing, so to me this tank is great. Water change,
Anubias starts to flower and I am going to come up a tripod here. Don't you guys get
spoiled with this tripod stuff either. I showed this on Dustinsfishtanks on facebook. I have
got the Anubias, about the flower there. You can see that. I got the checker board, from
Peru, what's up son? I go one remaining me on tether. What's up
son? I have got this crinum right here which is awesome. Crinum the tense coming out. This
is what I do. When I buy crinum, I don't sell a lot of them and I don't really care because
I keep them. But these wands, I want to show, this one is obviously in great shape, these
ones took a beating. Got them in, they didn't look hot when I go them in, but this is where
everybody trips out. They get their plans in like two weeks in, sometimes it gets all
back. This happens, but look at that little tiny growth down there. That is the part of
the plant you are supposed to be focusing on, my fish tank people. That is where you
need to be. That plant will be completely fine, it's under good conditions, I will hit
it with another water change. This crinum calamistratum back here, this tall guy back
there, came in same deal like that, and then like a month it's good to go. It's long, stringy
all straight. That is just something to keep an eye on and understand and be patient with
it. I got something in the greenhouse to talk to
you about. We are all out here, carrying a tripod is awesome. I want to show you what
I am doing out in the greenhouse. That's right. We are rolling out here, fun little project
yesterday. I am doing a 70 percent shade cloth on the green house nowadays. Because it gets
hot and the temperature swings are jacking my tanks up, pit me with algae. Last week
you saw a tank crushed with algae. I got a twenty by twenty four. The green house is
twelve by twenty four. I will back it up and will show you that. I got a twenty foot, by
twenty four thing to put it over there. I talked about it last week, but I want to show
what I am doing, also want to show something that can be of value. You can see no shade
cloth, big difference in here though. Definitely a different thing here, I like it though,
because the Sun was just crushing all my plants giving me too much light. Not listening to
my own advice on algae. Check this out, this is a little ghetto, hope you guys see it sandals
with socks. See that's what I do for you guys. I hope you guys can see that in the reflection.
Rolling because I had to get out of here fast and then are the shoes I slipped them on.
The CO2 I put in these little containers up-side down on a cinder block and what I am doing
is, I am having a passive C02 in here the whole time. Now look I had some crypts , that
are doing really well , The baby tears are responding very well to it, so that's exciting
for me and then also over here I want to show this too. This is some Ludwigia Repens that
I had, that just took too cold of... I forgot to plug the heaters, whatever. The leaves
came up, look you got a new growth on the top. This aquarium plant will be fine, so
I wanted to just show that. You can see the tiny little growth in the center there. You
can see those little nub little spots coming on. This plant, you know two weeks, than it
will be completely fine. See the bubbles coming of it. That is always a good sign.
That's what I am doing, hope you are enjoying it. Signup for those top ten planted tank
tips on Dustinsfishtanks.com. I got a lot of stuff coming actually at the end of the
month. I am really excited about that, so appreciate your feedback. Welcome new subscribers,
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folks! Tank on!