Speaker: Alright so today is moving day for the second to last aquarium rack. The vieja are going in their new tank today. First, we got to feed the big guys. First up is the catfish and giant gourami. I wonder if they want a little-- I know they want a little bit of this.
Get it guys. Giant gourami dashed off for a split second. Catfish is just loving it. Everything is just pouring all over his head. He's never been happier. Giant gourami got a chunk and took off.
You need to start sharing my friend, seriously. You both get more than enough. These guys are such gluttonous animals. Now of course the 2,000. These guys know what's coming. Always a pleasure ladies and gentlemen. Always a pleasure. I love feeding this tank. It's getting warm out here. Everybody else has already been fed for the day or this evening actually. I've already done the boring part which is draining the tank, taking out the rocks and whatnot. Removing most of the equipment.
Today's video is mostly going to focus on getting the vieja out of here, putting them into a temporary holding container. Then of course removing each aquarium off the racks, putting them on stands and finally putting this tank back at its place. Hopefully we get the vieja back in it in this video and set back up and running. Finally, we only got one more left after this and we can circle around and start setting the rest of the tanks up. And finally scalping and adding a lot of new amazing fish.
For those that don't know I heat the entire gallery as opposed to heating each individual aquarium. It's more efficient that way and because of that it gets really warm out here and I'm constantly complaining how warm and sweaty I am. I've been doing this for two years out here. The heat pump heats and cools the room. Can I just cool it while I'm out here and then heat it back up? I literally just clued into that now. Anyways it's really nice out here now.
Water level low enough to catch the vieja, these are the vieja and spill them, and put them into a very temporary holding tank. I got a lid close by. Let's catch them, I could barely get my arm in here. Calm down little one. And a nice fold. Look when you doing it one handed you lean it back and they can’t escape. Now I do a lot of this stuff one handed and trying to get the shots and whatnot for you guys but a lot of the times I'll just do this one time for this so they can't get out. Then of course put the camera down. Okay, all fish are moved and I moved them out of the way where I'm moving around a lot. Put them out here just to make sure they're calm. Any type of movements is going to upset them and freak them out but they're all in here. They're all going to do fine.
I took a couple of the mats blocking it off. Of course I could put something in there to give them something to calm them down but they're just going to smash into it. So adding a little bit of black around it's going to make them feel more secure. Of course putting a blanket over would work as well, but they're only here for a short time and I don't plan on coming out into this room until I'm ready to put them back in. With the tank drained, moved out. Fish are out, decorations are out. I have to disconnect all the plumbing, take apart. Mind you already took the clips off. Take apart the actual racks themselves. Of course move the tanks. Let's do that now. This stuff is so monotonous.
I need to lose some weight. I hate the next part. Here we come sweetness. Nice and easy. I left the sand in there because I didn't want to take it out because I was being lazy. I'm preparing it a little bit right now. There we go. The sand is wet but 40 pounds being wet. Maybe 60 pounds so there's a little bit more than it usually does. All right. Here we go. Who's ready to bite their nails? I'm not. I don't want to do this anymore. I changed my mind, Sally come take this. Oh God.
Just come down nice, its going to slide, sliding off the wrong side. Oh boy come on. Did you touch the stand yet? Why are you the worlds longest aquarium? That felt like it was so much extra. Alright wasn’t so bad. Never really want to put too much pressure on the brace. Done like dinner. Once again folks do not do this something like this alone. I'm not going to be cliche and say don’t try this at home. I've been moving tanks for many, many years almost two decades. Now 17 years it's still dangerous for me to do it.
I shouldn't be filming it and promoting it like it's okay for you to do. It's not. I also don't want to act like I've never broken an aquarium doing this but again I'm taking my time. I'm moving slow. I can physically manage the weight and I use physics to my advantage. But even then just don't do it. Get somebody to help. Taking the aquarium from the top rack and dropping it down more nerve wracking than it actually is. It just looks hard. I'm just guiding it down, sliding it. Letting the weight hit my knees, taking the weight with my back and just dropping it. Just using again physics.
Taking this tank and putting it up on the stand is where I actually have to lift the weight. I hate this part. I don’t have enough room to move around. I got a tank here that I could barely squeeze by, and a tank there, that's a 2,000, I'm not moving that anytime soon. Even if I did have help we wouldn't be able to move. It would be just like one person doing it. Maybe that got to come closer. Maybe this is going to go up further. I can't believe it I got that there. That was so heavy. These are way heavier than they look. Way heavier.
I know a little but I'm not that weak. This is so heavy. Come on. Always remember to lift with your legs. Keep your back straight almost at an angle. It's going to be like you're sitting down on a chair, if you sit down on a chair that's how you want to lift things. The weight actually goes to your legs. This isn't a workout channel, I don't know what I am talking about. I didn't put the [unintelligible 00:08:50] on it yet, because there is just too much grip. I can do that in a minute.
Behind the scenes. Real behind the scenes. This is the bottom of the stand. This is the top. You can see the bracing and whatnot. Plywood goes on that one. Over here though I had put it on the wrong side. Just rushing and trying to get it done. I had to take the tank off, flip the stand, put the plywood back on the top. Now I got to pick this up and put it back on it. Stupid silly mistakes trying to save some time. It is almost three o'clock in the morning now, so it got me a break. Again I don't suggest to anybody try this stuff at home, but man, I do it all the time. Sometimes I just got to get it done. All right. I'm going to call it a night for-- Well I'm just going to take a coffee break and then I'll have to keep going. The fish are in a bucket. There's no way I'll stop, but that's it for today's video. When you guys come back the next time. We'll have this tank up and running. We'll add the fish in. I'll just keep telling myself that-- I'm going to be completely honest here for a second. While I like to build things, I don't like to build it over and over and over again. It takes the fun out of it. It takes the hobby aspect out of it. It makes you feel like some manufacturing plant. It's so monotonous. It's like again and again. When I have to build this 10 stands and then move 10 tanks, the only thing I keep telling myself is, "Don't worry." It's like I got to eat my vegetables and then I could have dessert. Which is scaping and setting up the tank and getting some fish and just enjoying them and enjoying it with-- I think you guys know what I'm talking about. If you're not subscribed to this channel yet and you want to see the videos of me eventually enjoying what I do, make sure you subscribe so you don't miss any of them.
