Where I've Been and Updates on the Biggest Aquariums
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- Happy to be back after 3+ weeks, I explain what happened. We get back into working on the 3000, 4500 and Double 1200 gallon aquariums!
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Glad you are feeling better!
Thanks! I am so happy to have my energy back...3 weeks of zero energy sucked, was depressing :-(
We just never know when we come down with some kind of illness. I kept waiting for a new video, no wonder. Glad you feel good now.
Thanks! I haven't been sick like that in I can't even remember when, truly had zero energy for 2.5 weeks...I was getting depressed lol...back to normal now though! 😊😊
Hello my friend
Very happy to know that you have already got recuperate from yr illness.
As always, yr tanks are looking great, very interesting what yr going to do, can't wait to see everything working.
Take care, all the best.
OMG!, Wow! Absolutely Beautiful, Congrats!
You should do a brackish estuary with the one of the new builds👀 with assorted Scats, Mono Argentus, Mono Sebae, Talapia, Puffers..? Either way super excited for what you do!
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Im really digging the 2nd sump/mangrove estuary idea. Can't wait to see you bring it to life
Yeah I think the mangrove estuary is going to be pretty awesome...can't wait to get started on it once I clear out that area. 😊
@@AquariumDomain. by the way, mangroves dont really do very much at all in terms on nutrient export unless you have 5+ large established trees
@@AquariumDomain. I have built an above ground plywood pond with a glass front and its got 2 mangrove islands and lots of macroalgae like an estuary. There are highfin snapper, rectangle triggers, humu triggers, queen and blue ring angels, hippo, ringtail and shoulder tangs, mono argenteus (highly recommend) and 3 different butterflies. its 215x150x60cm. Also do you think you will ever have corals? Love your videos
Hit the buttons ladies and gentlemen!
Thanks Big Steve! 😊
Glad to see you recovered 💚 So many projects!! The mangroves will be really interesting to see. I admire your motivation and fun ideas for your tanks.
Thanks! I am really looking forward to the marine mangrove estuary 😊
You should use a polarising filter on your camera, if it can take one. It cuts out almost all reflections from the glass, and you're constantly constantly shooting that, so it would be great. They can also enhance colour and contrast.
And stop putting your hand in front of the camera. It focuses on that and what you're actually gesturing at becomes blurry.
I will look into a polarising filter, as reflections are always an issue when videoing aquariums. 😊
It was worth the three week wait. Such great progress. Thanks Jeremy!!!
Thanks Todd! 😊
Try tapping a bag under drilling to catch the shavings maybe??
I finally replaced my old shop vac that died with a smaller hand held one, it works well for inside tank cleaning etc. 😊
Just get an external skimmer. There are a few of them available. U get a pump to push water from ur sump to the skimmer and allow gravity to return it back. U won't need ro add Amy additional sump space. They have circulating pumps on them so u won't need ti worry how the air gets injected into the water that's inside the skimmer. U can use an additional pump or T off a feed line from one of the returns.
Yeah I am very familiar with external skimmers, the current Predator Bay 1800 gallon runs and external Super Reef Octopus 6000+. I already have an ASM G6 Protein Skimmer, which isn't cheap...so I want to use it. I am actually looking forward to building the additional sump as I really want to make a large part of it a mangrove estuary and a place to grow out new additions to the Predator Bay 3000.
I am loving almost everything you are doing lately. My only concern is the "quality assurance cat" is nowhere to be found in this video. You will regret that one day when inspector "catget" gives you a big paws down LOL. Love what you are doing brother...we all live vicariously through you. Keep making these amazing videos my man.
Hehe...you know quality control cats...they have a mind of their own. Maybe she is lulling me into complacency and then she will hit me up with a unannounced inspection! 😊
I'm glad you're back. I was sick that bad in the fall. Knocked me out for a week, it was terrible. It's nice to see you back doing what you love. You have some great ideas, I really like the mangrove idea. Really looking forward to the new Predator Bay. Stay well :)
Thanks Phil! I am looking forward to the mangrove estuary 😊
You won't believe
I checked your channel just today for new video
Good timing! 😊
Would love to see the fish in the current predator bay, been a while since the last update. Glad you are felling better.
I may soon have a shark egg in their to show, the Bamboo pair mates pretty aggressively every 3-5 days it seems like. Also noticed the female has a big bulge back on her body...so we'll see what happens 😊
WOOOHOOOOO!!! A lot going on, love it. Back to work!
I got 3 weeks or aquarium building to catch up on, lol 😊
Maybe your pump would work if you had a temp pool outside to catch the substrate with a return pump feeding some what clean water back inside?with some kind of overflow system. Just because you have such volume of water. And tonnage of substrate. You are a beast had to shut down my tanks
Yeah it would definitely take something like that to keep up with it. I am actually getting ready to use it for my yearly clean out of my Koi pond...should work really well for that as well.
Great video as always. Looking like you need to build a trolley for tools going back and forth 😅
Yeah right...I can't wait to get some of this construction done and get the place all cleaned up. 😊
Hope you get better and stay well now.
Can't wait to see the PB3000 up and running!
Thank you! PB3000 should go much faster now! 😊
All the arowana are looking very good! Glad to know you've recovered!
Hey Bentley! Yeah you don't know how much I want to see those Arowana cruising the 4500 gallon! 😊😊
Wow the riverbank plants are looking amazing
Definitely!
I am very happy that the riverbank really is matching up with my mental picture of how I hoped it would look 😊
@@AquariumDomain. are the roots growing down into the tank yet? Or mostly staying in the baskets
Great.
I'm glad to see that you are feeling better. Can't wait to see what the 3000 brings.
Thanks! 😊
Build Sumpthing!
Lol, I see what you did there 😊😊 and yes I will 😊
@@AquariumDomain. You said it!
Glad you're feeling better had a feeling something was up you always post something weekly or biweekly. When are you getting a couple marble motoro stingrays for the 4500.. Stingrays don't need a quarantine or grow out as they don't carry common diseases that other fish carry. Just make sure they can't fit in the bass mouths. And actually I say motoro because they're my favorite lol but the leopaldi (potamotrygon leopaldi) stingray is a tru xingu river stingray.... Can't wait to see what you decide on.!
Red tail cats also inhabit the xingu.
I am pretty much ready for some Stingrays whenever I find the right Rays for the right price. In regards to Redtail Cats, I love them but just don't want to limit what I can keep in there to what won't get eaten by an adult Redtail...which is a big limitation. :-(
Glad you're feeling better, and sorry about your discus. Everything looks like it's going amazing still.
Thank you! 😊
Glad to hear you're on the mend brother! I love that shimmer on the discus tank! Keep on keepin on dude!
Thanks Steve! 😊
build a giant refugium behind the sump on the back wall, if you already need the space, DO NOT SLEEP ON A REFUGUIM/SUMP COMBO. and you can partition it and run the skimmer in the refugium.
then seed it as soon as you get water in it with a massively diverse Copepod Population. they will live in the refugium , and eventually through reproduction infect the entire tank through the filtration system in an unbelievably positive way. helping your tank maintain itself.
The under tank sump will have a large refugium section, but I am going to add the second refugium/estuary sump as well where height won't be an issue. 😊
@AquariumDomain. you know I'll be around to see it!
Im excited to see a little coral reef come to life. You gotta get and 100 GPS (GREEN STAR POLYP) frags and plant them along the sand line at the back wall of the tank and as it grows up the wall it will create the most majestic lush grassy backdrop. Please do it!!!
@@Fishybrosonwheeles In my experience it only takes a tiny bit of Green Star Polyp and you will have a ton of it in no time...on the rock..on the glass lol 😛
Glad your doing better man loving all the progress
Thank you! 😊
Glad your feeling better been looking for new content. I love the work you are doing this is awesome
Thanks! I am really looking forward to getting the Sharks moved into the 3000 gallon. 😊
Tough as nails! Glad you are on the mend. That being said, you gave me a huge dose of OCD. Pressure washing is side to side left right left right and you were moving it forward and back... aaaaaaaaa. In any event playing a game of catchup at this point and hopefully these projects go smooth sailing and work out alright. I am also uber jealous of your tremendous success growing plants like that. They just flourish in all sorts of ways. Such an interesting concept to have and to add to the aquarium because it gives it a whole new dimension both above and below the water line. It is like a rainforest above.
Losing 3 weeks really sucked, but it feels good to be back. I am loving the river bank, best of both worlds having the lush vegetation and the big Cichlids underneath...I am really really happy with how the Xingu River tank is progressing! 😊
Welcome back , glad to see you on the mend & getting back to yourself 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 great video & informative as always , keep up the amazing work, see you on the next one sir 👍🏻🫡
Thank you! Feels good to get back to work on my projects! 😊
Glad you are recovered! :)
Thanks! 😊
@AquariumDomain. Have you thought about adding a massive school of some sort of Tetra in the 4500 to act as dither fish? That might help in getting them to spread out.
Sort of, I have a large group of Thin Bar and Wide Bar Silver Dollars that will be moved over to the 4500 pretty soon and 2 more Flagtails, which I believe will get everyone in the tank more dispersed as the Silver Dollars will swim everywhere. 😊
@@AquariumDomain. I meant smaller and other than them. Something like 500 or so Red Eye Tetras or 500 Cardinals. Just something tiny that wouldn't be a meal worthy of any effort.
Glad to hear you are feeling better and I have a feeling that the best way to have it yesterday is not the same as it was in the past , or in other words 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 a few minutes more of counting the Sheep and pushing yourself a little bit less is just for the best. No one else has mentioned it before that I read when my suggestion as you had just completed the Xingu River that you would be ( I guess I have to go back and see what I wrote but it was just a message that you have been pushing and now it's a good idea to sit down and hangout with the fish and enjoy what you built !!! ) Take care 💙💚
Thanks Stoney! Yeah I need to take more breaks and spend more time chilling in front of the Xingu River tank! 😊
Glad you’re feeling better. Nothing worse when you’re sick and need to get things done. Your body put the brakes on you 😊 excited to see predator bay come to fruition. The plant growth on the 4500g has exploded. 👏
Thanks Rogue! The 4500 gallon is far from fully stocked but so far with all those plants the nitrates always read 0-5 just barely registering anything with the old cheapo Tetra test kit 😊
@@AquariumDomain. appreciate the low nitrates now because once the tank is fully stocked your nitrates will go up but hopefully the growth of the plants will help to keep them in check. 😀
hey man been watching your stuff for a while and man you are the best aquascape for monster fish like all your tanks look amazing and the fish look very health props to you and cant wait for the dual 1200 gallon tanks to be done
Thanks! Honestly I couldn't even imagine the 4500 without the riverbank now, definitely worth the extra work now that I get to sit and watch the Peacock Bass cruising the 4500 in a natural setting. 😊
So glad to see you are back to health. Missed your videos. Is it worth pressure washing the sides of the 3000 to give it a nice clean finish?
There would be a lot of splash, plus once it is converted to salt the die off from the old dried out algae will be beneficial to kicking off the cycle.
You should put a giant school of nano fish in the 4500, tiny fish that are fast and small. Those monster fish aren't going to eat 2 cm fish.
Would be great to see a giant bait ball swimming around, showing all sorts of natural behaviors
They would all eventually end up getting sucked into the 4 return pumps, tank wasn't really designed for little fish like that.
Very nice! On the river tank what kind of flood lights are you running?
Thanks! The brand is Melpo, picked them because of the 6000K color temperature. I have a bunch of them around the fish basement and no issues so far. 😊
Riverbank is looking incredible. Glad you're back. You should get 1 million neon and cardinal tetras for the 4500 😂😂😂
I wish I had enough money that buying 1 million neons was an option lol 😊😊
@@AquariumDomain. Touche
I was wondering if everything was ok, it sucks when something comes out of nowhere like that. Glad to see you are on the mend.
Thanks! I haven't had anything hit me that hard in as long as I can remember, just happy to have my energy back now! 😊
What flood lights do you use. Great videos by the way buddy
Thanks! The lights are branded Melpo. I like them because they come in 6000k which I find to be a very nice color temperature.
@AquariumDomain. thanks, buddy. looks awesome
🤔 predator bay would make a great native fish tank.
I guess it technically will be a native tank.....fish native to the Indo-Pacific 😊
Where do you source glass for these large builds? Do you know of an affordable source?
Unfortunately the local glass shops I used in the past closed down (they had the best price) since then I have been ordering online (onedayglass). Online prices are OK if you order multiple sheets of glass at once, which really lowers the cost per sheet and makes shipping more affordable...but everything is a lot more expensive these days than say 5 years ago. 😊
Your amazing man! The real questions is... are fish really worth all the time, effort and money that you burn through? Lol
For me the answer is an easy Yes! but of course I am a lifetime fish keeper that dreamed about doing the things I am doing now for probably 20 years before the situation was actually right to do it. So I am just happy to finally be able to live out my fishy dreams! 😊😊
That is freaking cool, I love your channel. Thanks for sharing your dream! It sure is coming true 👍
Are the bass gonna change pattern as they grow?
Yes, as adults the Xingu Peacock Bass will have a yellow body with a black lateral line markings and black vertical bars.
@AquariumDomain besides the plywood being 5 ply. Do you use any special kind of plywood. I see other channels saying you use Birch Finish Grade plywood, or hardwood finish grade. That shits expensive. Do you use that type?
For most of my builds I did use 3/4" Birch/Oak with 1 sanded side, but when the price went up to like $80 a sheet I started using $40 a sheet 3/4" Plywood sheathing. Since I fiberglass the entire tank, this has worked well for me, only a few spots that need filling and sanding.
Hello my man I have bin watching your videos love them i have a 300 ltr tank and you inspired me to build my own custom aquarium 12foot long 30inch depth 42deep I will only be using one pain of glass as the back and two sides are up agen the wall I think it will be around 2500 ltrs do you think 15 mill glass will hold ??
I am assuming the 30 inches is the top/bottom depth and the 42" is the front/back, if so 15 mil non-tempered glass would only have the desired safety factor (3.8) up to 27" of depth. 15 mil tempered would work or to go 30" you would need to step to 18 mil non-tempered glass.
@@AquariumDomain. thank you for replying im not great with the messurements righting them down so ill try explane better i your looking straight at the tank left to right 12 foot front to back 30 inch and 42 deep resaon for the odd size is it will be in my room beside my bed haha no joke
i will take photos when i start it and true out and up load. thank you so much man reall 18 mill it is
@@AquariumDomain. why 18 mill non tempered
Blue discus just pining for the fjords?
I had to lookup the reference 😊, but unfortunately he was dead.
@@AquariumDomain. That's the crappy side of owning pets of any sort.☹
Dont put ur hand infront of the camera, it focus on hand and not the item u wanna show ':D
Yeah I noticed that during editing 😊
Oh no! You got fossilized into a plank.
Lol...yeah that wasn't very comfortable 😊
not impressed with the progress man
predator bay did not fully complete and get stocked , the 2 builds did not complete , the grow outs did not become fully mature , you are slacking from your average dude XD
I know right! 😊😊
@@AquariumDomain. ya man in the next vid i want all the projects completed and a 2nd Storey built to your house for the new fish room and another basement dug out