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- As you can see I actually have a mask on at this point,
because I took all that stuff,
small handfuls of it,
did not know how dusty it was gonna be
when I put it in there.
It was actually pretty terrible.
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What's up fish tank people?
Dustin's Fish Tanks bringing it to you.
Talking about a 900 gallon aquarium.
How's everybody doing?
I hope you're doing well.
So in last week's video we showed you the hardscape,
the rocks and what went into that.
The week before that we showed you the lights,
the substrate, and the filtration.
In this week's video we're gonna
tie it all together for you.
We're gonna talk about the goals the Newport
has in this aquarium, we're gonna talk about
my goals with this tank,
we're gonna talk about the plants.
We're gonna talk about what plant I went with
and why I went with them.
We're also gonna talk about the preparation
that went into preparing those plants for this tank.
I'm also gonna show you a mistake I made with the driftwood
and a behind the scenes look
at the Newport Aquarium's warehouse
where we prepped these plants.
A fish tank hoarder's dream.
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And make sure you hit that subscribe button
and that notification button.
I have four more aquariums I'm doing
with the Newport Aquarium, this is just the start.
Now let's talk about something I don't want to use.
I wanted to make sure there was absolutely
no algae from the previous set up
here in this new set up.
They did a full four day blackout here,
and you can see while I'm down in this tank
how it is all taped up.
This was not an easy sell for me, however,
because this is a public aquarium,
they have lots of people going through there
and having brown cardboard over the front of an aquarium
is not exactly the look they are going for
in their exhibits.
My goal, however, was a clean, fresh start.
Let's talk about the goals here.
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You ever head the Ludacris song too many rookies,
not enough pros?
These guys are pros.
Look down, that's like how you do it.
I was like hey yeah, we got a 700 gallon tub,
we're just gonna throw all your plants in.
So, that's one 700 gallon hygrophila set up.
That's a Reaprite 400 watt metal highlight that I love.
That's another 400 watt metal highlight.
That's two of three that are going into this tank.
Super jacked.
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Unfortunately almost all of the crypt spiralis
still had algae all over it.
And we made a game time decision not to use
any of it in the resetting up of this tank
they only had a little bit of it saved
I thought about grabbing some of it from this
amazing rainbow fish tank they have setup there.
But then I decided, let's put a little bit of
constraints on this, I'm gonna try to pull this
aquarium off with all plants from the same genus.
All of these plants we use in this aquarium are
cousins, folks.
I figured once the hard stuff was done on this tank
that planting would be easy.
Not so much.
You see, while I think I nailed the driftwood with this
my placement of the driftwood made it just a
tad bit difficult to get in and out of this aquarium
I like the look, but I had to pay the price
when I was getting in and out of it.
A quick note on the driftwood
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So, while it was more difficult to move around
I had two things working for me that I hadn't expected.
One of my initial concerns with setting of this
aquarium was how this was going to look while I was
doing it from the inside.
Am I going to be able to see what I am doing while
I'm inside the tank?
Or am I going to have to get in and out of it,
in and out of it, in and out of it?
This tank was so big, surprisingly to me,
that I was actually able to see pretty well what was
going on the whole time.
And when I hopped out of the tank,
it looked the way I wanted it to look
when I was right in front of it.
The second thing I was able to do,
and this is a huge one folks,
I was able to get a ridiculous amount of help
from the folks at the Newport Aquarium,
handing me down plants as I need 'em.
All plants come rubber bound with foam around them
they were able to take all those off.
I would hold up a plant and say
I need about 15 of these and they were able
to hand me exactly the species I needed, when I needed.
So I was able to get into something I really
want to talk about.
If I had to get out of this aquarium every time
I needed more plants it would've taken me
twice as long, more importantly it would've
messed up something that I really got into here.
That something is what I like to call the flow.
It's a flow, folks.
Ever get into something you're having so much fun
doing on your own that you completely lose track of time?
That's the flow.
That's what I'm talking about here.
Anyone who's ever done some sort of
creative work knows, when you're in the flow,
stay in the flow!
Keep doing it, keep distractions at an absolute minimum
and stay in the flow.
And folks, I gotta tell ya, I believe my flow was
pretty on point with this.
I didn't have to hold any cameras,
people were handing me plants,
and ya boy Dusty was gettin' after it in this tank.
And it was a riot.
Being in the flow with this aquarium was
absolutely awesome for me.
I had a general plan of what I was trying to do.
We had boarded on the crypt spiralis
and we went all in on the hygrophila.
All of the plants in this aquarium
were the genius hygrophila.
But once I had the hardscape established
which was slightly different than plan,
I was able to kind of see where the plants were
going to go, to fit the flow of this aquarium.
You can see how I started with the low compacts
along the bottom, I was able to bring those to the
front to really accent the foreground.
I also brought in more of the actual rocks we used
broken up to sprinkle in more to soften the hardscape
if you will, around the foreground
and I was able to build up this nice red
kinda streak you can see here with the
hygrophila cordata red.
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