Some days I want to build a breed for profit fish room. Other days I think I'm nuckin futs! Lol if you know what I mean. I'm scared, more that I won't be able to unload all of the fish. I'm a newb so I've never shipped. Like I have almost 200 brown plecos. I don't know what to do with. Thanks for the video. Always love your insight.
Very useful info. Im building a fish room right now and I've already considered the majority of what you said but you brought up a great point about a packing station, storage space, and what size tanks I can bring down into the basement. Thanks Michael
I liked the piston pump that you showed how to repair after 3 years running from Jehmco. I bought that one for my fish and switched over to all air. Linear pumps are too expensive for me. Just a hobby for me. Great info by the way.
hahahahaha alex and siri be hearing things i swear. one day when i buy my first home, i wanna have a small fish room. all guppies!! lmao the bloopers LOL 😂
See I thought you do it like I did...just add tanks with no planning whatsoever .... just find room for them 🤣🤣🤣 I’m going to have to go back now and do it the right way! Great content as always! Much love to you and yours 💕
Thank you very much. This video helps me plan. I build my first fish room soon and really like your set up. Will probably email you with some questions 🤔
I rent, so there is only so much I can do. BUT if I was doing it again, I would add some of those square insulation stick on thingies to the garage door and wall. I would also add a PVC tube to the wall leading to the garage door, so I could just stick the python end into it and drain water straight out the door. Excellent tips.
Don't forget to check that your electrical system can handle the load you may put on it. Not gonna be an issue in new homes, but man if it's like some of these older buildings in jersey, no bueno lol my building can't even handle the microwave and washing machine running together 🤣
Great information 😊. Btw... I have a ventless gas heater in my so called fish room. It was a room built onto the house for the dogs which turned into a room for my fish. Dogs are living in the house and when we aren’t here... the garage. No heating vents from the furnace in the room so we decided to use a ventless heater. Been working great for the past 4 years. Since my fishroom is technically in a sunroom I don’t have to heat the tanks, except I do have in the discus tank, in the summer because it gets super warm and the water in the tanks are at the right temperature. Only have to use the ventless in the winter months. Thankfully when we built the room on we over insulated. Just wish I had an auto water changer.
I had a two level packing table. Then God gifted me another five tanks. Now it's another wall of tanks. Back to packing on the dining room table, lol...
Helloooo, Michael! I just discovered your awesome channel, liked and subscribed! I just have one question if you don't mind: can you recommend any books about learning more about fish keeping for Freshwater fish? Every fish shop I go to they're like always giving me the wrong answers 😡 like a angel fish can go with a black goldfish which is the worst idea or that silver dollar fish can go with gourami which is also not right bc they chase them and eat them. So if you can recommend me to a source of learning more about fish keeping independently like books or something it would be greatly appreciated 😊 and thanks. Sorry for long comment.
I’ll do a fish room when I get a bigger house or my children move out🥴. It’s simply a 2nd job. It takes an enormous amount of time. Taking the time to keep everything healthy. Power supply. Monthly costs. Etc. Love the content my man. Honest information. Setting up is probably the hardest. Question: do you have a backup plan for like when you have a power outage? Did you put extra power supplies in your house? Like when i would put 20 tanks on 1 power group and turn on my washing machine.. power will shut down xD
I sectioned off a small section of my garage for a fish room. Built it myself. I wish I would have had someone come in and shave to concrete to make it level.
Biggest thing I’d do differently in my fish room (46 tanks, ~850 gallons) is vapor barrier the room with the insulation first. All that water has caused moisture issues around the house. Dehumidifier runs constantly. Would also run bigger pipes in the drain lines (all my tanks run to a sump).
Those were some good tips, the insulate especially. For insulation you might try those radiant barrier sheets, it’s kind a like bubble wrap with foil on one side, the real easy to cut and stick in to take places and you should be able to slip them over your pipes an air tubing and all of that junk. It might not be quite as good but it’s some thing and it’s cheap and easy and surprisingly it does a pretty good job When you don’t have the time or money to do other options. I like to keep the seat in my car unless ever get stuck having to sit out in the snow to work on it or something, you throw a sheet of that down and you stay nice and dry and warm. Alexa 😂😂😂😂 Electric, Alexa, same difference. Lol A lot of people fight with me on this but I think heating, especially when you’re not really a breeder and just want a lot of fish in the fish room is a little overrated come out everybody says you have to have your water at 78 to 80, I’ve always tried to keep my tanks below 75, it seems like a lot of the parasites in it and things like that love those tropical temperatures and almost every fish I’ve ever had does fine at lower temperatures. My guppies and Endler‘s don’t act any different 73.9 then they do 78 and when you’re heating a whole room that’s a pretty big expense in the winter. Breeders probably have to consider that a little more, I think you said before that they breed better or there might be gender changes through different temperature ranges. But as far as just keeping fish and having them healthy there are very few tropical fish that can’t do just fine it’s 72 or 73. When I was a kid I was always told guppies were a cold water fish and I just kept them in bowls or tanks without heaters like goldfish and I don’t remember ever having a problem they still breed those temperatures to, I wasn’t an expert but they seem to do fine to me. Lol. If you do decide to step up to the next level whatever that was and expand or grow I hope you do great.
And like you say, automatik water change system in some way its a must, or els its taking some fun out of fish handling, when there is like 20 tanks or more
I have a question. I have 5 juvenile L333 plecos. They are about 1.5 inch. Can they be placed in a tank with one albino bristlenose adult male? He seems very chill, I just want to be sure. Thanks in advance. >))))o>
Wow Michael, I just looked today at your website and there are a lot of out of stock items.. damn.. you must be busy selling heaps.. I like the rainbird timers as they are mechanical and prefer all my things mechanical for my fish room. I hate electronic things as time and time I have had power outages and electric things need resetting or just don't work when there is no power whereas mechanical it still works and no resetting required. I also have a small generator outside for when I do have power outages, but it is of no use when I am not at home or sleeping and come on who knows the power is out when they are asleep?
For warming mine i use air/air pump so i have AC in summer and heat in winter and its The most energy efficent, and for holding humidety stable, sorry for spelling 😁
👍 Nice video topic 💦🌿🐟 You brought up some good points. I'm figuring out if I could install the vapor barrier and insulation. My ceiling has no sub floor..its just the wooden floors upstairs. This does have me concerned. I run a dehumidifier 24/7 in my basement since before I started my fishroom. I check for mold, but thankfully, my basement is dry. Same as you, I have a French drain and sump with cinderblock walls. I manually drain my tanks into a hose that runs to the sump. Then I fill my tanks with a python. I'm just getting concerned about debris getting in the sump, like sand, snails or plant pieces. I need to stop the debris with some kind of mesh over the end of the hose. I also need a new Sump. Mine is 30yrs old!! Any suggestions on keeping the debris out of the sump? Sump manufacturer? Thanks 😊
I'm living in an apartment that I share with other roommates that own the house and they have a problem with my fish addiction and I have a 40 gal bowfront, 50 gal no stock 10 gallon no stock 5 gal no stock and a 3 gal bowl and my ppl are complaining that I'm going to use too much water and I don't know what to do because I can't really use water from the house unless they leave and I can hurry and fill up 1 gal jugs but I am trying to be secret about it without them bitching ant advice
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yes. Just like I called the pool. The way you have the lumber set up it will sag over time and the seals will start to give way one after one with the ones in the middle going first.
This video was so helpful and relaxing it put me to sleep for like an hour and a half
Thanks, I think.
Even a working fishroom is always evolving. Think im on version 3 or 4 too and I also would still do more things differently.
Me too....LOL
These are excellent planning tips.👍🏼🐟🌱🐌 Congratulations Kimberly 🎉🐟🤗
Glad you like them!
I’m planing on building a fish room thanks so much for the help!
Glad I could help!
Some days I want to build a breed for profit fish room. Other days I think I'm nuckin futs! Lol if you know what I mean. I'm scared, more that I won't be able to unload all of the fish. I'm a newb so I've never shipped. Like I have almost 200 brown plecos. I don't know what to do with. Thanks for the video. Always love your insight.
Hi Michael awesome video. I like videos like this it gives idea to people
Thank you!
great advice!
Glad it was helpful!
@@MichaelsFishRoom I'm currently on my 3rd fishroom rebuild and it seems never ending.
Hopefully, you can add in depth videos as you do some of the changes.
That's an old video.
Great video. Love the bloopers. 🐟🌿👍😊
Very useful info. Im building a fish room right now and I've already considered the majority of what you said but you brought up a great point about a packing station, storage space, and what size tanks I can bring down into the basement. Thanks Michael
Thanks for the tips 😊
Last part was the best
The bloopers?
Great tips! Thank you cause im right in the middle of that.Good planning goes along way.
For sure. And don’t be afraid to change!
Love the vid keep up the good work
Thanks, will do!
I liked the piston pump that you showed how to repair after 3 years running from Jehmco. I bought that one for my fish and switched over to all air. Linear pumps are too expensive for me. Just a hobby for me. Great info by the way.
hahahahaha alex and siri be hearing things i swear. one day when i buy my first home, i wanna have a small fish room. all guppies!! lmao the bloopers LOL 😂
Lol...thanks!
See I thought you do it like I did...just add tanks with no planning whatsoever .... just find room for them 🤣🤣🤣 I’m going to have to go back now and do it the right way! Great content as always! Much love to you and yours 💕
Been needing this ty very much
Glad I could help
Great stuff thanks, Michael!
Thanks for watching
Hi there gorgeous. Thanks for video I asked you to do this one a while ago.
Thank you very much. This video helps me plan. I build my first fish room soon and really like your set up. Will probably email you with some questions 🤔
Glad it was helpful!
I rent, so there is only so much I can do. BUT if I was doing it again, I would add some of those square insulation stick on thingies to the garage door and wall. I would also add a PVC tube to the wall leading to the garage door, so I could just stick the python end into it and drain water straight out the door. Excellent tips.
Thanks for watching!
Don't forget to check that your electrical system can handle the load you may put on it. Not gonna be an issue in new homes, but man if it's like some of these older buildings in jersey, no bueno lol my building can't even handle the microwave and washing machine running together 🤣
LOL....great point!
Always Better ways to do stuff after the fact . Great vid Mike .
Thanks bro. So many things I would do different!
@@MichaelsFishRoom - same here - Hopefully I will build a new one soon
I hope so!
Great information 😊. Btw... I have a ventless gas heater in my so called fish room. It was a room built onto the house for the dogs which turned into a room for my fish. Dogs are living in the house and when we aren’t here... the garage. No heating vents from the furnace in the room so we decided to use a ventless heater. Been working great for the past 4 years. Since my fishroom is technically in a sunroom I don’t have to heat the tanks, except I do have in the discus tank, in the summer because it gets super warm and the water in the tanks are at the right temperature. Only have to use the ventless in the winter months. Thankfully when we built the room on we over insulated. Just wish I had an auto water changer.
I had a two level packing table. Then God gifted me another five tanks. Now it's another wall of tanks. Back to packing on the dining room table, lol...
LOL
Helloooo, Michael! I just discovered your awesome channel, liked and subscribed! I just have one question if you don't mind: can you recommend any books about learning more about fish keeping for Freshwater fish? Every fish shop I go to they're like always giving me the wrong answers 😡 like a angel fish can go with a black goldfish which is the worst idea or that silver dollar fish can go with gourami which is also not right bc they chase them and eat them. So if you can recommend me to a source of learning more about fish keeping independently like books or something it would be greatly appreciated 😊 and thanks. Sorry for long comment.
Great info .What would be your insulation of choice ?
I’ll do a fish room when I get a bigger house or my children move out🥴. It’s simply a 2nd job.
It takes an enormous amount of time. Taking the time to keep everything healthy. Power supply. Monthly costs.
Etc.
Love the content my man. Honest information.
Setting up is probably the hardest. Question: do you have a backup plan for like when you have a power outage? Did you put extra power supplies in your house? Like when i would put 20 tanks on 1 power group and turn on my washing machine.. power will shut down xD
Needed this video 😊
Glad you liked it.
Ur bloopers are hilarious
Always the best part.
I sectioned off a small section of my garage for a fish room. Built it myself. I wish I would have had someone come in and shave to concrete to make it level.
Yeay, that would be pricey
Who else is observing the Platinum Snow guppies in the bottom shelf 1st aquarium.
For sale at www.michaelsfishroom.com
It's the first thing I noticed lol.
Biggest thing I’d do differently in my fish room (46 tanks, ~850 gallons) is vapor barrier the room with the insulation first. All that water has caused moisture issues around the house. Dehumidifier runs constantly.
Would also run bigger pipes in the drain lines (all my tanks run to a sump).
Yup, and fixing the humidity issue now for me, means shutting down the fish room. 🥲
@@MichaelsFishRoom keeping the tanks covered and the dehumidifier helps a lot.
Great video! Question: is Michael’s fish room your full time gig or do you still have a regular job?
Thanks! No I have a real 50+ hour a week job too.
Hey Micheal can you tell us what type of lighting you use to keep plants in your tank
Watched your video the other day of drilling tank is there another way to do a auto water change with out having to drill in tank?
There might be, I just don’t know it.
Going a little bit to the side of the topic,do bushy nose eat brine shrimp thinking of adding one to my setup if they can use it?
Should say hatchery.
Btw were is The Nice China selling stuff videos, love The unpacking lol
Those were some good tips, the insulate especially.
For insulation you might try those radiant barrier sheets, it’s kind a like bubble wrap with foil on one side, the real easy to cut and stick in to take places and you should be able to slip them over your pipes an air tubing and all of that junk. It might not be quite as good but it’s some thing and it’s cheap and easy and surprisingly it does a pretty good job When you don’t have the time or money to do other options. I like to keep the seat in my car unless ever get stuck having to sit out in the snow to work on it or something, you throw a sheet of that down and you stay nice and dry and warm.
Alexa 😂😂😂😂 Electric, Alexa, same difference. Lol
A lot of people fight with me on this but I think heating, especially when you’re not really a breeder and just want a lot of fish in the fish room is a little overrated come out everybody says you have to have your water at 78 to 80, I’ve always tried to keep my tanks below 75, it seems like a lot of the parasites in it and things like that love those tropical temperatures and almost every fish I’ve ever had does fine at lower temperatures. My guppies and Endler‘s don’t act any different 73.9 then they do 78 and when you’re heating a whole room that’s a pretty big expense in the winter. Breeders probably have to consider that a little more, I think you said before that they breed better or there might be gender changes through different temperature ranges. But as far as just keeping fish and having them healthy there are very few tropical fish that can’t do just fine it’s 72 or 73. When I was a kid I was always told guppies were a cold water fish and I just kept them in bowls or tanks without heaters like goldfish and I don’t remember ever having a problem they still breed those temperatures to, I wasn’t an expert but they seem to do fine to me. Lol.
If you do decide to step up to the next level whatever that was and expand or grow I hope you do great.
I'll have to check them out!
Eggs, onion, toast and Darjeeling tea.
You left out all the painkillers to deal with all the headaches...
And like you say, automatik water change system in some way its a must, or els its taking some fun out of fish handling, when there is like 20 tanks or more
I have a question. I have 5 juvenile L333 plecos. They are about 1.5 inch. Can they be placed in a tank with one albino bristlenose adult male? He seems very chill, I just want to be sure. Thanks in advance. >))))o>
Should be OK as long as there is plenty of space and caves.
@@MichaelsFishRoom Thanks a lot. Btw, love you channel. >)))o>
Wow Michael, I just looked today at your website and there are a lot of out of stock items.. damn.. you must be busy selling heaps.. I like the rainbird timers as they are mechanical and prefer all my things mechanical for my fish room. I hate electronic things as time and time I have had power outages and electric things need resetting or just don't work when there is no power whereas mechanical it still works and no resetting required. I also have a small generator outside for when I do have power outages, but it is of no use when I am not at home or sleeping and come on who knows the power is out when they are asleep?
LOL, my timer uses bluetooth so I set it from my phone.
For warming mine i use air/air pump so i have AC in summer and heat in winter and its The most energy efficent, and for holding humidety stable, sorry for spelling 😁
how about the light? do you turn it off ?
of course
@@MichaelsFishRoom nice
Hi Michael it’s Cathy from Australia 😊. Thanks for such entertaining videos I eagerly await the new ones !
Hi Cathy from Australia!
👍 Nice video topic 💦🌿🐟
You brought up some good points. I'm figuring out if I could install the vapor barrier and insulation. My ceiling has no sub floor..its just the wooden floors upstairs. This does have me concerned. I run a dehumidifier 24/7 in my basement since before I started my fishroom. I check for mold, but thankfully, my basement is dry. Same as you, I have a French drain and sump with cinderblock walls. I manually drain my tanks into a hose that runs to the sump. Then I fill my tanks with a python. I'm just getting concerned about debris getting in the sump, like sand, snails or plant pieces. I need to stop the debris with some kind of mesh over the end of the hose. I also need a new Sump. Mine is 30yrs old!!
Any suggestions on keeping the debris out of the sump? Sump manufacturer? Thanks 😊
I'm living in an apartment that I share with other roommates that own the house and they have a problem with my fish addiction and I have a 40 gal bowfront, 50 gal no stock 10 gallon no stock 5 gal no stock and a 3 gal bowl and my ppl are complaining that I'm going to use too much water and I don't know what to do because I can't really use water from the house unless they leave and I can hurry and fill up 1 gal jugs but I am trying to be secret about it without them bitching ant advice
Move?
leeeegend
True Dat
"All my Day's" as the Brits say 😉
Lol
do you have mollies?
Yes
Because of the way you have your tanks supported the seams are going to start breaking one after one.
Yeah? It’s been 4 years and no problem.
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yes. Just like I called the pool. The way you have the lumber set up it will sag over time and the seals will start to give way one after one with the ones in the middle going first.
Still haven’t happened
fourst. :)
*First
no im fourth lol. xD
I got kicked from. That fb group
What did you do?