DIY Automatic Water Change System for my Betta Fish Projects - Plumbing Walkthrough!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ค. 2024
- My auto water change betta fish breeding rack plumbing is DONE! I did a pretty good explanation on everything I did to build it, I hope this is interesting or useful to you.
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0:00 Recap and Prepping Shelf
1:36 Plumber Rant
3:30 Plumbing Explanation
5:37 Planning the pieces
7:07 BEST ball valves
8:19 Completing The Plumbing
12:06 Leak test and fixes
16:02 The Next Step
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Aww shucks 🥰
Whew, one step closer to being DONE. What do you think guys?!
I put some of the supplies I used in the description :)
Should I do a video about *how* to make a fish rack?
This is awesome! I saw kg tropics Berta room and this is way more doable for a smaller space. Love it!!!
Betta*** not Berta 😂😂😂
It's not only plumbers, contractors in general seem to work on their own time frames and getting them to come back and change or just finish something or even getting them to call you or txt you back can be an unwanted journey in patience and FRUSTRATION! Your system is amazing. Looking forward to seeing it up and running perfectly.
👍💖👍
The amount of planning behind this project is amazing 🙂
Haha thank you
Teflon tape on threaded bits is wonderful
I did and still ruined them 😅
@@SimplyBetta well that's no fun :( Hopefully you got it straightened out. Yeah sometimes things get wonky
I understand he was slow, he did killer work though. He even added a cleanout to the drain line.
Your forethought in adding valves everywhere is great. There are often only two or three in an entire home which is wild. I have one accessible on every branch of piping in my house so that if I need to do a repair in one section I don't have to turn the water off to the entire home.
You noticed! Yeah he did a great job. I'm all about a bit of redundancy for future convinience!
Girl, I get tired just LISTENING to all of the energy you have! I wish you lived in Utah so I could borrow some of that! ❤
Hah!!
I’m working on setting up my very first rack and it’s so great to see you include your mistakes and problems too. So thank you for that. If anything it’s more inspiring than the “perfect” videos.
for the threaded connections you’ve got to use plumbers tape on the threads. ☺️
Didn't see the actual threading so was going to comment the same.
My favorite is pvc cement for fixing those types of leaks. And plumbers tape is great for bulkheads. I love seeing people do DIY projects like this. It reminds me of decades ago when we had to make everything DIY. Great projects, this will save so much time with water changes. I use to have this style auto water change in my store. First thing I did was laugh at the ball valves, they are so hard to turn. Slay qween!
Next time you have to use threaded fittings try putting a small amount of silicone on the threads. It'll help seal it and the silicone won't bond to thw pvc so it'll still be easy to take apart in the future. They also make liquid teflon but I personally prefer using silicone
I can't wait till you have this project completed. It looks so professional 👏 😍 it will be such a huge time saver when it all ready to go. I can't wait for you breeding projects!!!
Helpful hint. Use Teflon tape or paste on your threaded connections.
I used tape, sigh. Thanks, I haven't tried the paste yet
Wow!!! I wish I could think things through like this. Awesome job, Taylor!!!!
What a transformation. What an incredibly fun process to watch. So proud of you. Keep up the great content. Sending love from Minnesota ❤
Taylor! I think the idea of automatic water changes is absolutely awesome and well worth the extra effort and time.... Keep up the great work!
Thank you!!
So impressed! Its a lot of work but WOW all the automation and capacity is exciting
Well done Taylor, really well done!!!
That water your throwing away is amazing fior plants I pump all my water out to my garden and the plants love it I just put a bucket with a pump with a flot valve
Always impressed with your b-roll awareness! Great video! And fantastic DIY project 👍🏻
Looks fantastic Taylor! That is an ambitious set up. The plumbing that the guy did looks really great- very sorry to hear that it was a trial getting there. Almost there it seems!
I really love this video and how you set your system up. It's giving me so many ideas for my own fish room
Love your videos so much I hope to have a fish/plant room someday instead of having them in my bedroom and I want an automatic water change system it would help so much. I had 2 betta spawns last year and one this year. Love the fish keeping hobby! I have 3 tanks right now.
Looking Great! Can't wait to see it all working.
Heck yes! So excited vicariously thru you! 🎉🙌
You should definitely do a collab with SerpaDesign, it would be great to see on both channels.
Maybe one day! :D
the pink rack with the pink shop lights looks AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
Really enjoyed the update!
Metal valves are ok on drain pipes, BUT maybe not on the water supply to tanks. Because if they have brass or copper or other metals in contact with the water, it will dissolve some of the metal into your fish tank water. That can kill fish or hurt them - so you'd have to do a lot of water analysis to make sure the metal concentration in the water is at a safe level - for whoever needs to know. For thread leaks - there is a great thing called PTFE tape. You open the joint and clean it, wrap a few turns to match the thread direction and reassemble. There are liquid joint compounds "pipe dope" that I would only use on drains. Your bulkheads - might need a careful tightening - easy with experience, or you can use a crow's foot and a torque wrench to make sure you don't crack the glass. Maybe some cardboard in the way of tools to prevent small cracks.
It is a hassle to set up but I can imagine you will have a lot less work to do in the fish room. And you deserve all the help you can get 🙂
Teflon pipe tape on the threads would have prevented your leaks. I'm happy your putty worked though. Great job on this fantastic project.
Wow that rack is looking awesome!
Thank you!
Simply betta, a voice so relaxing I crank up the volume for some AMSR before bed.
Wow very impressive set up! Love the water filter system. You got me thinking! I may try something similar to use for water changes on my 2 - 125g, 1 - 60g and a 29g quarantine tank. It would be nice to just drain and fill with filtered water
thanks for this walkthrough. i’d like to try and build a water change system and air system on my own in the future. this is really helpful. and omg you’re too funny 😂
I enjoyed your story especially the plummer part 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You are one clever lady, what a marvellous setup! I look forward to seeing the tanks full of Betta breeding activity 😁We must be the only people in the world whose plumber comes when he says he will; the upside of living in a town with only around 2500 people.
That sounds like a dream. My plumber took like, 6 months to do all the stuff shown. He's fired lol.
I wish I had your ingenuity with diy's madam because it's impressive lol
Ok. Ok. I'm jealous now.... Love the setup and I like how you mounted the bulkhead at the bottom for that flexibility and I think you can get the water level higher in the tank vs a top mount bulkhead and end up with the top water gap.
okay that is INCREDIBLY cool and also now I am very jealous.....an automated system like that is the DREAM oml
Very cute! I totally need to do that.
im so stoked. ive been diein to buy one of your beta. i do alot of things like you do. i love beta and im also a painter that mostly dose beta paintings
I know your so excited this is a hung accomplishment! Congratulations!
Its been a while since the last time I watched one of your videos but its awesome that you are still your fun joy filled self
Hey thanks! Welcome back :)
@@SimplyBetta I'm not really interested in DIY videos but I like your personality and thats enough for me 😃
Great job Taylor! I built a similar system in my own fish room. One of the only differences that your other viewers might like is that I installed my carbon block filter AFTER my mixing valve. That way, I only have one cartridge to change and less connections. In either case, way to go, fun stuff!
I was originally planning to do it like that! But my plumber convinced me to put them in the crawl space to save precious fish room space. Made sense to me, lol.
Thank you!
@@SimplyBetta Yes, I did something similar. I put my mixing valve and water filter in my basement, where the water comes into my fishroom. All to save precious space!
Plumbing skills lvled up, and them ballvalves need a 15min spotlight😆
I love those things
Don't push yourself for all this hard work just to make fans happy. For your own good then Taylor. Ok 👌🏻
Looks great! Maybe ill try them sometime in the far far future😅
I do believe that’s why we have TH-cam to learn new skills
I am taking apart my fish room as I am moving to a cabin that currently doesn't have room for my tanks. I will have to build a building to house my tanks. Your setup has me thinking about the design 🤔
The manic laughter bit made me laugh out loud! Really cool system! Very inspiring. I can't wait to build mine
Hahah thanks for noticing :P
Probably just need some Teflon tape on the threads of threaded parts? Maybe 🤷♂️😊 great video Tay Tay 🥰
I did, I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with threaded stuff. Maybe I need to buy a bunch of cheap threaded stuff and practice! Thanks :) wait did you change your username jakedog?
@@SimplyBetta unfortunately JakeDogg passed away 😭 early December he had some medical issues, and after needing 2 anaesthetics in a week he didn’t recover well from the second one and passed in his sleep the following day 😞
I think plastic threads are always hard to get to work well, especially if they have any pressure behind them, good luck, I’m sure u’ll have it running great in no time tho 🥰
Wow, you have very good knowledge on plumbing. Have you considered Sharkbite fittings? They are really good at preventing leaks.
YOU ARE DOING GREAT :)
THANK YOU FOR SHARING :)
THANK YOU FROM ISRAEL :)
you sound like my wife talking about any plumbing issue I have ever had to take care of at my home. Additionally, the metal inside the ball valves may leech in to the tank. You can probably find plastic boiler drains. I used one on my water change setup. That is more like a garden spigot type mechanism instead of a ball valve. Think about it like a baby gate valve.
Use liquid ptfe for plastic threaded fittings , stuffs brilliant
might try siphon methode, using quick connect fittings.
How, dear God, do you know how to DO all of this?!? You're amazing and I want to be just like you when I grow up! Thank you so much for your fabulous and very educational videos.
Wow! Just wow
pretty awesome!
First time in your chanal and i will Always listen penny's voice i miss her soo much but volume 9 is coming so im happy and i will always be :)
when you use threaded lines use Teflon tape on the treads . it is cleaner and easier then the putty . it is also cheaper.
Taylor, you may have already thought of this but just in case I want to warn you. Those awesome filters you've got under the house can't deal with hot water! It will ruin the sediment filter for sure and the carbon block. The work around is that the hot and cold water are mixed to the temperature of your aquarium and then pass through the filters. You may have already thought of this, or of another solution, but I still wanted to bring this to your attention.
P.S. use Teflon tape on thread connections! This is used in almost every plumbing job in my country. I use it constantly when building R.O. units and when performing plumbing jobs on our water main.
In any case, great video and love the project update!
If the plumber actually finished the job, then idk I think you found the BEST plumber in the world
I own just about every fish but a betta 😭 ... But I saw diy in the title and immediately clicked... Your set up and personality I said... Welp I'm sold.... New subscriber here.... Now I got to get a betta.... All your fault 😭😭😁
Amazing 👏 👏👏
Very awesome video amazing vlogs great 👍 job 😎 cool video I'm watching the replay it looks very complicated
For plastic threads I use teflon pipe dope rather than pipe tape.
Wow beautiful
This is such a good idea! I'm a little envious lol
This may be a super obvious answer, but are you using plumbing thread tape on the threaded parts?
As a backup..can you put like a gutter in the back to catch leaks and attach it to your outlet pipe. Just a suggestion and backup.
Taylor keeping all her hose in check.
Since valentine day coming up you and your husband should do a breeding video together like he picks his favorite Betta fish male of any type and you pick a female of any type u like an breed those together and see what hybrids y'all can create
And to think all these people would die to help you for free... And you picked that one guy... Oh what a life 😜
Lol just my luck!
damn, when I move out I'm blaming you for turning my probably one bedroom apartment into a fish room fr
90% fish, 10% house LMAOAO
*flips the lever* *thunder cracks*
Taylor - It works! *manical laughter* IT WOOOOOORKS
evil driftwood - *is pleased*
I love it
Did you try ptfe tape on the threads, threads generally aren't water tight, that's why every plumber uses ptfe tape.
I did :(
Awesome setup! How will you know when the water filters need to be serviced/replaced? A horrible childhood experience (when the city changed the water chemistry) has made me paranoid about the water I put in my tanks.
Also, bonus points for the bigfoot jammies.
This is awesome! What model model Hass mixing valve is that?
I'm so happy Taylor! I only have one question, if the power goes out does the water just stop coming out of the thingy? I would hate for it to keep going, not mixed and not heated. That could be a killer.
Fun!
Always moving forward.
You said you always do the threaded stuff wrong. You need to wrap the Teflon tape in the direction you spin the fitting on or use pipe dope. Good luck nexy time you also didn't righted it all the way. You could screw those in more that might be why it's leaking.
Impressive, but I would have still put the hole on the tank higher and used more pvc to make a u-shape that goes down and up to the level you want inside the tank...
That way if the bulkhead ever fails, your whole tank won't flood out.
Did you use Teflon thread tape on those connections? It’s needed to seal the threads, it’s a very soft Teflon ribbon that you wrap around three or four times and as he screw it and it creates a gasket or seal in the threads.
I also breed bettas and I need a wife like you. I am from the Dominican Republic, the best place to breed after Indonesia since the temperature is ideal and the water quality is very good.
Hi Taylor, did you use Teflon tape on the threads before you put it together?
Great video and when are you going to do my fish room 🤣
I did, and I STILL managed to mess it up. Lol I ordered my new parts
A beter solution for your leaks is with teflon tap or pipe leak tape.
I did use it but still got those leaks :(
Getting into the crawl space, nope. But seriously respect. I love it when people do their own stunts. Good result on the plumbing work, Taylor the tradie. Amazing setup. Very well planned. And everything is better in Bigfoot jammies, hahaha. Take care.
Teflon tape for your threaded pieces!
I don't know where you find the energy, with work and two kids! Do you sleep less then us average people? You do seem to have some superhero level ideas!
Haha thanks for acknowledging the struggle. I only work part time, which helps! All my projects are done during school/preschool hours or after the kids are asleep :P
@@SimplyBetta Well, each kid is a full time job...so that is two jobs...plus the home-owership/housework/new place job...that's three jobs...plus a part-time job, that is 3.5 jobs, and still you have all this energy for fun and youtube! Seems like you got the work/life thing down girl! Thanks for keeping your fish-updates coming...always great to see what you are up to!
@@megleland6320 haha I guess that’s all true! Watch my channel tank though once summer vacation hits and my gremlins are home all day! :D
I have a rack that came with particle board shelves and I want to upgrade them. What kind of plywood did you use?
I have had bad luck with betta but they are so beautiful. I have a 13 gallon im thinking of either putting a female sorority or another male. Itll be my 3-4 male if i go thst route. How often do you do water changes ?
Would aquarium silicon work better for the leaks?
Always put teflon plumbers tape on any screw fitting.
How do you go away for a weekend or on vacation with keeping them? They look nice.
You have to use Teflon tape on all threaded pvc
Did you use pipe dope on the threaded fittings?
You need to use Teflon tape on screwed in fittings.