The power of positive rethinking today,
I will build the two best
Aqua scapes of my entire life.
Hopefully.
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Marine people. Of course,
for supplying all the gear in this
video, I'm going all out today.
I have already started my Aquascape
because I did this once before. Right.
But I'm going to improve upon this
and build a whole new Aquascape.
So I got mine, my purple carob C rock.
I have my Aquamaxx reef safe kind of rock.
I'm going to be using the
purple core line, red, a poxy.
I even have a whole bunch of these
acrylic pieces for like overhangs.
I got my drill over here. I just
hope to make something spectacular.
But honestly, when it comes to
like ideas, I'm kind of blanking.
It's never been my strength.
It just hasn't been.
So I think I'm going to start
by looking at Pinterest,
looking at reef Taree forums,
looking at Nanodegree forums and just
trying to like fill my head with as many
beautiful nano tanks as I can before I
start and also get a sense of like what
my end goal is going to be. I mean, I
have a general idea of what I'm going for,
but it's really not that
well, fleshed out by the way,
this is segment two and
the 427 build list series.
So if you want to see episode one in case
you missed it, you can click up here.
If you're on your mobile
phone, just turn it horizontal,
swipe up and it'll be there
links down below as well.
I've also done like two or
three escaping scaping videos,
and I will put links down below. Most of
them, I don't think turn out very well,
but I did one for my neighbors,
like right over there,
which actually turned out really well.
So go ahead and check
out those links below.
If you want to see some of the other
ideas and some of the other products I've
used to make these scapes think,
I think that's all I got for now.
Let's do a little brood research,
get some ideas in my head and then we'll
start scaping and see what we come up
with.
Well, here.
Well, I came up with a couple
people on Instagram, Bahama, Lama,
coral and muddy reef had this amazing
suggestion that I should take the
two sides and I should Aqua scape them
to make it look like they're going
through the glass and
having a single Aqua scape.
That was such a good idea,
but I just didn't have any more of the
carob sea rock. So I couldn't do it.
I still have a ton left to do though.
I have the sand. If I'm going to put sand,
do I use the Hawaiian black sand or I
use the Fiji pink sand. Oh, by the way,
I always forget this. You
know, I'm on my, on my website.
I have this section called gear guides
where I have like my favorite theaters or
my favorite epoxies or
my favorite live rocks.
And I'm actually going through them
this following month and updating all of
them.
So if you want to check any of those out
to see some of the stuff we use in this
bill, or just some of the things that
I really recommend for beginners,
just go down and click on gear guides
and you can just browse all those gear
guys, knowing that they're probably
about a year old at this point,
but they're being updated as this
video is being published. Okay,
let's go get the rest of these tasks done,
or probably take me a few
more hours to do all this,
but stick around because we're going to
come back at the end and we're going to
check back in with coral gal.
And we're going to check
back in with puff daddy reef,
to see how their Encore
builds. You're going
Only took 12 hours. I mean,
I should know by now that these
projects of mine take so long,
but we did it. We got it wet. We got it
all set up. You should see the wires.
I need to do some serious wire management.
All I did basically was I took the tank
and I divided it in half and I put half
the wires on like one power strip
and the other half on another,
there's like five power cords.
At least for each of the sides.
My goal for the day was just
to get it up and cycled.
And so that's what's happening, but
let me, let me flip this around.
Let me show you guys some quick
shots of how everything turned out.
They used some closeups
of the scape, the gear,
the mess underneath the auto top
off units. And then we'll come back.
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That's part two of four for the innovative
Marine Encore build lists series.
Again, if you could do as a
favor and subscribe down below,
we would greatly appreciate it. And if
you want to see all the gear we use,
just go ahead and check down below, put
links to everything. But before we go,
we need to check in with two
of our friends. First up,
we're going to check with coral gal and
see how her innovative Marine build is
going coral gal. What you got.
Just wanted to give you an update so far
on this build up. So what we've done,
we went ahead as a console, assembled
everything together. We did use the,
a top offs from Amazon that we found
out later on might actually evaporates
quicker than his.
I'm not sure it's because I have a lot
less water displacement since I still
kept the bare bottom idea that I'm wanting
to go with originally versus his and
other thing that we found interesting
on it, on his side of the tank,
when we tested everything,
the ammonia is a little bit off
on the level of versus this side.
I don't know exactly the scientific
version of reason why that happened,
but I know that on my side, we
use the turbo star Fritz, the 900,
along with the algebra barn,
the nitros cycle on his side,
he used the Brightwell of
products to get it going.
It's the micro factor, seven, along
with the live sand. And as you can see,
he did choose the office
scape on his side.
We'd got in a shipment of rocks
and he wanted to do the shoving.
So the Apple scape was redone. So
to help that out, that an what,
our change on it,
he added some live bacteria from a
different establish tank to expedite the
process on the cycle, retest and
everything looks great. On my side,
when I had an added a Superstorm
conference that was ordered,
fortunately we ordered two,
one, didn't make an shipping,
but we all know that's part of the hobby,
the unfortunate side of having
the loss of a live animal.
That's never a good thing,
but wanted to discuss the good and
the bad with these things. You know,
things don't always go as planned as
you well know, it's part of the hobby.
Unfortunately, on this filtration system,
we originally set it up or had the Kimmy
pure blue full for the filtration on
the media. I changed mine
up a little bit. I kept the,
some of the innovative Moraine.
I lift the super bright media,
the eight shape and an exchange to the
media down here from the giving your
balloon to the clear effects
pro from blue life USA,
just to do a side by side comparison,
as far as filtration is concerned on
these tanks on the bottom of these rocks,
as you can see kind of hard to tell them
this, but I'll send you some pictures.
We did the abs on there and the
attachment to the live rock.
So it doesn't scratch up the
sand. I can still pick it up.
I can remove any of the buildup or any
of the dirt or any kind of nasties out of
the bottom of the tank without trapping
anything and causing any issues down the
line. That's all I have for you. If
you have any questions or anything,
let me know, happy to answer them.
Big. Thanks to everyone.
We'll see you next time.
