SAVE $100's on Water Changes in FISH ROOM! -- Seachem Safe

let's go to on guys get kind of late Monday night after work I did some water changes on Friday on my 55 yard things but all my 20s on the custom rack stand need water changes some we go ahead and show you guys how I'm doing water changes I really don't want to do them but you know it's at time of the week tanks getting dirty my rants behind me definitely need a big water change so I'm going to go ahead and show you guys what I'm doing I got basically just to tell you real quick I have a mag drive pump pumping through a inch and a quarter inch and a half hose about 50 foot long to my floor drain then I have a Python hose with a custom PVC kind of like a J hose that hangs on the tank and I'll fill that up I'll to chlorinate with some seacams safe that I buy in bulk and then I premix that so let me get all my stuff situated let me kind of show you the first tank or to how I'm doing the water changes I'll do them all I'll show you some dirty tanks right now and I'll show you what they look like when I'm all done just to kind of show you the room if you're not familiar with my channel I have a bunch of 20 Long's here there's 16 20 Long's on my just to my four Stan I got some 10 gallons over there in the 40s those all be getting changed tonight a little messy in the fish room but I got my 29 s 55 in some tents they've all been cleaned I got to do those pens in the corner but everything else over here that you see all needs water changes tonight so I mean usually takes about three hours to do all the tanks got some clutter over here but here's my 20 gallon shrimp tank with a some Guppies breeding in there the one let me see they thought with flashlights on here use my little flashlight in the fish room little max 800 and see a little bit better is still glare but I got a nice male German blue Rams in here waiting to get some females ready for him to green I got a pair of fancy Guppies in here somewhere they're breathing's dropping some fry it's not focusing much for us and I got a bunch of orange shrimp in here so they've recently started breeding more for me and let me see if I can get the focus more on tap the screen but some up front see if we can see I'm sorry about that but basically that's not the point so I got my 20 gallon I got my wall 55 gallon tank but all these tanks need water changes the 20 long hair especially definitely caught my it's time for the week that need change anyway he's got one random guppy but I got some German blue Rams in here then they went out to the 55 here shortly next week I'm gonna sell all my adult Rams I have like 20 left in all these sub adults will move in there they'll continue to collar up you know sell these full sales and stores ship some online I got some just some local like craigslist ads going out that I got some people waiting for rams so sell those but um basically guys its water change day I want to show you how I do it I'm gonna pull on my hoses I have that one drainpipe like I said pump that goes to the drain and then I have my Python hose that hooks onto the tanks so eventually what I'd like to do is I have all my thanks drilled so if I could have been drilled maybe 75% down to the tank right here do a PVC up with the little hose I can turn that sideways inside the tank the tank will lower all the way down I can lower all them walk the way for a half hour an hour fill a drain into the floor drain without using a pump and then I can turn them up straight and I can go and do the same thing I'm doing I can use my the chlorinator I'm using this seachem safe right now something I guess I just bought it was like 40 bucks I think maybe a little bit less and here's my old one I still have about this much left and I've been using anything I buy in bulk I always date it so I can find out how much it cost me per month say I use it over six months like my brine shrimp I go through almost every nine months that's like $60 so it's less than $10 a month to feed that live food obviously the cost of salt too but it's very cheap to do it's not like I'm spending $60 a month on brine shrimp eggs or anything like that and I have a great daily live food for any of my Fri my baby German blue Rams but I bought this on 12 7 16 so almost going on two years I guess a full year two years or so of using this on all my aquariums I don't know the total amount of water I know it but I don't have it I'll top my head I'll write that right there so that exact amount of water divided by half I'm using every single week on water changes it's probably around it's under a thousand a year on the water change bill I mean it's definitely a big cost where you gotta say can I justify everything it takes to run the fish and still make money so whenever you go and sell that hundred dollars of fish make that hundred or say 50 dollar sale 200 our sale whatever it may be that's not money in your pocket that's money to the expenses until you hit that overhead and then you can kind of save that up and start making money in the fish room but basically I don't want to get too off-topic let's go ahead and let's get our supplies out let's do a couple water tubes I'm not going to show you every single water change but I'll show you I showed you what the tanks look like now I'm gonna do a water change o2 like after obviously if I test the water before and after I'll get a nice drop in the nitrates so the fish are doing well it's also going to produce a lot of growth because you're diluting any hormones in the water whenever you're growing fish on the tank the more efficient have they give off a hormone and that's gonna stunt their growth so say you have a pond and there's a hundred fish in there the more they grow the more they give up a hormone that's gonna stunt the growth so you put that same hundred fish into a thousand gallon or 10,000 gallon pond something much larger same number of fish they're gonna grow much faster not because there's more water yes there is and that's part of it but the hormone is more diluted so they can grow more they can reproduce they can grow faster to hit that adulthood to reproduce this kind of nature's way of keeping things in control so when you put them in a tank its isolated if you do enough water changes you're bringing down your nitrates you're keeping the water clean you're also diluting that for mone which is gonna promote a lot of growth so little information for you guys that's always nice to know when you're breeding fish and kind of why you're doing things if I tested some of these tanks I'm sure that nitrates aren't very low but doing that water change will excuse me encourage more breeding and faster growth in the fry so I know I'm kind of getting off-topic let's do this first water change I'm gonna usually go left to right all the way through so I'm probably gonna do that but I'm gonna go ahead show you a few of these tanks actually draining it and filling it so you can see how the process and any of the products I'm using I always put in the description below help you guys out if you're looking for something find somewhere to find it and also it helps me out if you guys click on the links and things like that but let's do some water changes alright so behind me I already started doing a few of the smaller tanks but they go really fast so I didn't want to spend too much time on just shuffling around this 40 gallon tank behind me here that's got my mag drive pump in here it's already draining water out and I have my little sponge over the intake and I have my just run to extension cord for the pump so I can move it around so right now you can watch it kind of live action how fast I can drain that tank I like to get ahead of myself on the water going out before I start filling sometimes you can drain all the tanks first turn that pump off and then only focus on filling the larger tanks you can kind of do them at the same time because it's not going to fill up as fast you have a little bit of sitting around time so if I was doing all 40s I can click five or six those tanks maybe like three of them and then see it's already down there I can move to the next tank now I can start my water on another tank and I can start filling as it will fill slower then it drains with the pump this size so you want to get that water going out before if you want to do all the draining first depending on how many tanks you have and then start the filling later on after you're done me I like to get like 10 tanks ahead and now start filling by the time on not finish filling hopefully it makes sense so basically I'm draining the tanks and then filling the tanks obviously it's a water changing but if you want to you can start filling before you're done druing tank by tank especially in the fish room so this tanks almost done I'm doing a little bit over 50% not quite like a 90% so somewhere in the middle I'm gonna show you exactly what I do so I'm just gonna move it's an X Hank the tank the pump can run for a few seconds out of water so let me move it up to my top 40 real simple but I'll show you anyways so I'll pick it up let the water drain move it up there lower it to the bottom of the tank make sure I'm not falling or anything or drop of the pump but it simple is that you don't have to waste time on unplugging the pump running it over putting the pump back in plug in it can run a few seconds out in the air I've been doing this for about two years the pump hasn't that I mean I had one pump everyone so all you have to kind of shake it around in there just because the magnet may get dislodged cuz it's a mad drive the impeller sticks in there by magnet but as you can see his tanks already running I've already a few inches down I need a little more slack on my hose so it's not pinching up top besides that that's pretty basic I mean yours gonna drain the water out of the tanks using that pump so I'm gonna go ahead and keep doing this for a while I'll show you when I start my hose in how I did chlorinate it on the water coming in and kind of just how I check the temperature things like that as I'm doing my water changes a good question some people may ask me is what about gravel backs you want to clean the gravel of your aquarium all my tanks in there are bare bottom so I'm going to use a very fine mesh net and any tanks where there is a lot of buildup fish waste simply just drag this on the bottom trying to stir it up as much as you can and you're just going to scrape that along and you can get maybe 90% of the fish waste all into a net laws that's fine enough now I have a whole bunch fish waste in this net and I can just simply take that let all the water drain out and I can disregard that into a dirty bucket of water I can rinse it out in the sink anything like that but there you have right there I mean there's still a lot of waste there but I got about 90% of the waste with that one net pull and that's kind of what I do instead of going through and siphoning out using a turkey baster taking a lot of extra time which I will do occasionally but if you need to go through and just get a net scoop all that waste out it's not harmful the filter is breaking down all that extra waste chemically with the bacteria so it's beneficial bacteria in the filter it's gonna process ammonia and break it down to nitrate and then by diluting the water with water changes I removing a lot of those nitrates so that's kind of want to do for my bare bottom tanks I'll go through and do that once or twice more but you guys can get a good idea how much waste I just got out of that tank with the simple ten seconds of taking a very fine mesh net through and just scooping off the bottom so I'll do that a lot of my bare bottom tank I'm doing just a pump out and I'm not actually using a gravel back to go through the bottom what you still can do the Python hose we're gonna fill with you could take off the PVC put a hose on that and you can siphon the bottoms that mainly be 5 or 10 percent of your water change getting all that waste off then you can do a large water change of the pump to really dilute the water and give that big water change feel decided is draining them all because I do want to shoot a little bit of foot enjoy this water change so all these things over here are 50% of more water change on the forties tens 20s I did 20 planet tank and right now I'm currently draining the 55 what I did the 55 takes longer so I don't have time to shoot some footage to get the water started by actually unplug that pump right there so it's still gonna do a gravity cycling so right now that tank is draining it'll be at a much slower rate but let's go ahead and let's get our Python hose started I'll show you how I'll in that temperature and how I treat the water as they fill all right guys are about the filler tanks but I actually am running out of dechlorinator so I need to remake it the way I do that using my safe I've already purchased an initial bottle of prime this does four hundred forty eight hundred gallons of water so almost five thousand so I've calculated this if I write on my bottle four teaspoons equals that 4,800 star it's a little bright but basically I will fill this up with water and I'll add it to my safe so I know 4 TSP sorry I do a little bit math up for you guys 4 teaspoons I'm gonna use my tablespoon 3 teaspoons equals one tablespoon it's alright bill the math just make sure I doing this right so if I do one scoop of this tablespoon I'll dump it in my container that's three teaspoons you just to make sure I'm doing that right I was thinking I just added three total this will be my fourth tablespoon so that's going to equal four bottles of this so if I'm thinking three is one scoop I did three so I have three full bottles and I have an extra teaspoon per scoop and that's going to equal my fourth scoop so now I have four bottles of this I need to add to my mix and that's going to give me exactly the same ingredients or the same quantity of safe for my prime just now I know if I'm going to read this and do one capful five milliliters for every 50 gallons it's the same measurements for my mix this cost me dollars this cost me $20 so I'm saving tons of money in the fish room with my water changes doing this so I'm gonna go ahead fill this up four times add it to the mix I'm gonna thoroughly shake that in so all of that gets dissolved if you guys can see here it's too bright but basically I'm gonna do that and we're gonna have our the chlorinator mix or our water conditioner now that we can start filling our tanks and this is what we're gonna be adding all right guys just to clarify I feel like I kind of had to do too much math in my head while I was on video at the same time so basically I added three bottles of the primed just water and I added four tablespoons of the concentrated seachem safe so now I have four tablespoons three bottles of the prime and that's gonna give me 15,000 gallons of the chlorinator here this cost me a few dollars so I mean that's huge so I just want to make sure I clarified and said that the right way so I went actually thought it through I almost went through the video for a while and make sure I did four scoops so I did four scoops of that I only needed three bar was this not four so basically it's a little bit more than a scoop per bottle and a scoop being a tablespoon so now I have my the chlorinator I mix it with warm water and this whenever I'm dosing it with my dropper one squirt for me which I'll look at anything second milliliter is 10 gallons of water which I did the math and I kind of forget it later eyes know that much of that squirt to that line does this much water blah blah blah but let's go ahead let's get our water ready to fill the tanks so right now I have a dripping warm water it takes a minute for the water go ahead so when I'm close to turning this on I'll start the hot water and just kind of drip it so I know I have it set I'm gonna go ahead turn a little bit of hot water a lot of cold then we're gonna use our heat gun I want it coming out around 78 to 80 degrees so I'm gonna go ahead do that right now [Music] just kind of feel the water as it slowly gets warmer shows me it's too hot and just make sure it's consistent and now I'll go and check the temperature now we converse it I'm gonna start and the chlorinator so here we have the same feeling right now as you're going just be smart I mean bill water coming out the other thing make sure it's closed obviously double check the actual tanks temperature and then check the water coming in you can even to those wanted right on the hose you get a pretty accurate reading so my pics on the bottom are a little bit cooler when takes a call from warmer and obviously focus on this piece of the fish what I'm doing my discus tank I always make sure it's a little bit warmer over there whether I do that first or if I do it last I'll slightly bump that type of trucks a tiny bit and then I'll kind of dilute it for if I know it's wintertime I know I'm gonna run out of warm water faster it's gonna slowly get cooler more so than in the summer months I'll do that tank first but whenever you're doing this you want to dose the entire aquarium first so I use my dropper here right here two milliliters is right there and I get a full scoop up like a full cycle of water it goes right around two millimeters not if you can tell that right there probably not but I already did it soon as I came around the corner I was gonna do that the chlorinator and it's for immediately so basically two milliliters of that dose of prime or SECAM safe mix two milliliters equals 10 gallons of water so forty on aquarium turn the water on before of these when I take a big siphon like that is going to be 10 gallons each just make 40 on so I'm gonna do us the entire tank first when I'm filling from time so I've already done 40 gallons before I started talking I did another one so now I have 50 gallons there goes 60 so you want to dose the entire tank then I'm going to do at least the amount of water Eddie so for this I'm adding about 20 almost 30 gallons of water in the tank is 40 so I want at minimal seven of these so 70 gallons of water of water conditioner so it took me a while to figure it out I used to do I'd go kind of cheap on it and I believe I'm going to add in 20 Gon's of water I'm letting into two of these and that worked fine for about six months to eight months and then our city water was getting treated more so and they were adding different chemicals and I lost the entire tank of Guppies I and maybe all my tanks to find a couple of my fish kind of looks funny but one tanker was actually this tank I have maybe 300 Guppies in there just a sordid mix and I lost in about 90% of them so there must have been more chloramines in the water they're doing more chemicals to make the water safe for us but whatever they were doing it definitely hurt the fish so now I do the recommended dose where you wanna do the entire volume of the tank and then go see an initial water being added so just to clarify that because I know whenever your some people don't really talk about that say oh I just treat the water so I want to tell you how much I'm treating and if this takes all my school I always do a little bit more so right here is gonna be my third additional so there's going to be almost 80 gallons at 70 gallons of dechlorinator for my forty on aquarium doing a large about 50% water change so 60 is like the bare minimum but I mean just a little bit more and I'm doing as I fill so I don't want to do 70 gallons here I want to do 40 50 60 70 like so and I'm gonna show you how to move the hose I used to have a little bit locking mechanism but it broke every four or five months and then I have water spilling everywhere for a minute it's now all I'm gonna do maybe you can see I'm just gonna pinch the hose lift it up until the water slows down put it upside down take it to the next tank low there release that pressure so the fish get spooked and then I'll kind of let it blast and then I'll show you the whole process here I'm gonna go one two three for right away so that's gonna mix in the water and then maybe every few inches or so I'm going to add another dose somebody do another three of those as a tanks filling so in the next minute or so I had someone who gets about here and then here I'll do another dose and then it's almost finished I do the last one sometimes when I really when I pinch it I'll kind of shake that around kind of break up the surface education and mix any leftover dechlorinator that's just me first thing I'd like to think a little bit of common sense I wanted to stir the water I don't want to film building on top the tank so if I let that water sprinkle there it's gonna break more surface agitation let the filter kick in and keep doing and stuff but basically that's what I do for every single tank depending on the gallon so I've had this running for a mere solo we're talking it's not quite to the level of that point in it but there's gonna be my fifth I'm gonna do two more before it's done pinch that hose off and I'm also gonna periodically feel that water make sure it's not too cold or too hot and I can even take my heat gun here make sure okay it's coming out 77 degrees for the Guppies that's fine it's wintertime here in Pennsylvania so the fish room just a little bit colder I mean it's good it's like your house I mean these walls beside me or outside walls the windows get very cold I mean it's winter time so thanks drop a little bit a winter go up a little bit in the summer that's very normal and that's kind of Hollywood experience in the wild as well not that these are any means wild fish they're very domesticated but that's kind of how I'm feeling it I'm gonna go ahead do a lot of these I might check in and show you a couple things along the way if I think of anything is probably you guys but I'm gonna keep the chlorine any at that same rate filling all my tanks monitoring the temperature as I go and then I'm gonna go through and show you some cool stuff in the fish room because I know I have some super red bristlenose plecos then baby's just coming out of the cave as of today is first day of autumn so I'll show you those I'll show you how much the fish perk up after the water change see how much cleaner the tanks look if I had some test kits on me I need to buy something I could test the water show you kind of how much that changed but who needs that who really tested the water every week when you're keeping the same stuff it is no problems going on not say you should have them but I'll be honest with you I really never test my water I know where it is and if there's a problem I'll figure it out by using snow but whenever you're in the hobby for extended period of time you kind of get a feel for where you live your water and your fish so visual learning is the best for me I like watching videos I like looking at my fish and seeing how they react but let's go ahead and fill these tanks up I'm not gonna make you sit through it all and I'm going to show you some cool fish after this alright guys to all the tanks are full I sped that up a little bit through some headphones enlisted some music got all the water changes done so let's go ahead let's look at some fish I'm gonna wraps up real quick because I I'm done shooting videos for today it's getting late it's 2:35 I don't know if I'm gonna say that its a.m. long story short having a fish room is no easy work I work full time this is a slow growing side business so you got to make time for things you got to kind of grind it out I love doing this stuff I'd rather be doing this and playing video games or watching TV so this is my hobby and my business that I'm slowly growing but let's go ahead and let's look at a few tanks it's gonna be super quick I want to show you the Rams some of them are showing some breeding behaviors and I want to show you those a newborn bristlenose super red plecos that I talked about earlier because this I spotted one is super small out of the cave hope I can find them again but let's look at this real quick I'll wrap this up that's kind of how I do my water changes I pumped the water out I fill it up with my Python hose I did chlorinated with my seachem safe that I pre-mixed the save some money and obviously he's checking the temperature doing things like that it's all the basics but there's a couple steps in-between when you're doing a different way you got to know just different I'm a just some steps I figured I always like watching this stuff and people show things I don't really explain it so I want to explain what I'm doing show you the process show you the fish room but let's like it's some fish and I'll wrap this up the 20 gallon Ram gras tanks doing well a few of them work I mean a lot of them are kind of washed out be a few of them are really colored off especially dominant meals this guy was really fluttering above the sponge military a couple minutes ago he showed a little bit of color he's always still washed out because it's a big water change I mean there's a lot going on so they kind of get washed out just like you're moving fish on this you're not really moving him but he's definitely kind of firing up showing a little bit of color and he's still young I mean these guys got probably two more weeks of growth until they really start showing their true color and maybe valve I could sell him now but a month from now they'll be really full grown to look a lot better so he's doing good that one male swimming around showing off the rest of them are still doing good there's no stressed-out fish a little washed out they almost look better you can tell how much clearer the water looks i dented some debris from the bottom they got an 80% water change and let's wrap it up I mean I know it's getting late I mean here's the fish room it took me about an hour and a half from where he has left off to drain and fill the rest of these tanks filling takes a long time so part of me wishes I had a faster water king system but I'm very happy with my results so I'm going to do it so I like to split it up some days where these tanks over here I didn't show but I did watch into them Friday today's Monday night so those 55s got water changes these 10 gallons I did tonight so these small Rams and plecos all got a water change and they're kind of swimming around on its and plug it away first before I get a bed right after the video Guppies are doing well they had a whole bunch of new fry the last week or two so they were swimming around group of a yellow half blacks I'm breathing some grim out super Reds angels are looking good random you some of my adults it's a sub-adult and growing out and selling I have RAM still developing the plecos are doing well those guys will get their own video but basically all suppurative it here you can see you got tons of plecos in this tank and they really needed that water change because there's so many fish in there you can't forget about them I never really see their owners at the bottom of the tank cool female person knows with the super with the red Delta Guppies water life stopping here meeting the Guppies these Rams I showed and kind of the sped up water change they're doing well but let's uh wrap this up with the fish room showing on if we can find them the baby super Reza's been born so you can see this one from the tank is about a month old maybe two months old and then I have some younger ones on the cave and then let's go ahead and find some newborn babes it right here right there is a brand new baby I'm a guys super tiny like from back here let's say aspect if you look close that is a bristlenose pleco one of the babies that left the cave as of today so he's really small you can see over here in comparison that guy is tiny right there but there are so much smaller so there's he's a generation the one above hims a generation before him says one two back there are three generations of plecos in here and the last may be about three months so about every month they're breeding and having babies for me you can see another small guy right there next to the age weight from the seam of the tank so they're super super tiny and honestly if I wasn't doing these Changez tonight I would not have even found those guys so nothing would have really happened I would have fed this tank tonight anyways and they would have got their food but there's more fish breathing and growing and just being born that these water changes are so important you have to do them on a routine and not just watch your tanks and doom as needed because then you kind of forget about stuff and they don't get everything that they need but as for today as for the water changes I hope I didn't really skip stuff I had to do it I'm kind of in a rush doing the video made it more enjoyable for me and they kind of made it oh I gotta do a video tonight I want to do the water I have to do the water changes it made it more enjoyable so I'm gonna wrap this up here's my breeding tank of rams I'll show them real quick some females up front and a big male right there and he was guarding his cave the whole time the water was low so I'm sure he's gonna find a female to try to breed here in the Xterra tube but thank you all for watching I hope you appreciate the little fish room update with the water changes we post some more videos this week during the week I post a lot more videos during the weekend because I have a busy schedule but during the week I can grind out two videos late at night but thanks for watching guys please like subscribe share this video hit the notification bell check out my website at Bianca's fish column it really appreciates all support I'm trying to hit 2,000 subscribers before the end of the year 2019 so that would be awesome check out my old videos look for new ones have a good one guys take care of your fish and watch the next video I appreciate it and have a good night

Channel: Pittsburgh Pets

Views: 2,456

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: water changes, freshwater, fish, fish room, update, mag drive, clean water, clear water, german blue rams, seachem, safe, guppies, bristlenose plecos

Id: fiqjmfUvHn8

Length: 33min 12sec (1992 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 04 2018