Where To Place An Aquarium, Top Tips To Consider
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- Where are you putting your next aquarium? In this video John discusses things to think about when considering where to place an aquarium.
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To John, tank spot number 1 in the video.
First placement, a cube 2 feet front to back, 2 feet wide 3 feet tall, sump underneath. Make the stand bigger with black foam edges. BOOM, problem solved. Put in 75 pounds of carbon rock, build a pryramid against the back wall, like 27 inches tall, they are so light they would not brake the tank even if a baseball sized on fall from the top. Buy 15 demasonii, and 2 years later you will have 200 in there. Absolutely beautfil. And those should have a kelvin with 12000-14000, so maybe the fluval aquasky, that one has wau more blue in it. On the light spectrum to highlight there blue colour. Keep Crushed coral sand 50% and poolfiltersand 50% and you will also have a good KH that acts as a foundation for PH drops. Just a humble but awesome suggestion one african cichlid lover to another! ;-)
Do your dishes man!! 🤣
Seriously though? Thank you. I'm about to drop a 75 gallon in about 3 hrs. Gave me alot to consider. Didn't know that the exterior wall is the strongest place to put one. I'm changing my mind now. Husband will be putting it somewhere else. 😂
I was gonna place it near a drafty area. I'm in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
it was - 29 C last night. 🥶So husband has some shuffling around to do... again. No regrets. I'm going with an exterior wall in our dining room. We live in that room. It's near water and the light is filtered there and our dining room flows seamlessly into our kitchen.
Thanks you two. Love your wife btw. I'm a plant freak too. Beautiful home you have !
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I LOVE Lisa's jungle. I have houseplants galore in the living and dining rooms and our bedroom. I'd spread them out even further if I could. LOL
What a beautiful home! I’m so happy your family has undertaken care of it, looks cozy and well taken care of. Congrats on such a building such a unique and special life (outside the fish).
Fish are obviously the most important part of the channel but your dogs and cats are delightful and I'd love to see more of them!
KGT Cribs. Thanks for stopping by, now you need to go, bye, get out. 👍🐟🐠🐡 Love the plants, The wife has hers, mine, and our daughter’s Navy boot camp pics on the wall too. ⚓️
Your house is gorgeous!! After doing a total 'spruce up' of my 100 year old house I put all my fish tank stuff in my office - knowing it would be so relaxing when I was working. But the more I gave it thought, I was glad I didn't actually set it up. An office is a great quiet place for the fish, but the reality is when I'm at my desk, I don't want distractions...like glancing over at them every 2 minutes to watch their shenanigans. :-) So I moved everything (and bought a second tank) to the downstairs living room. I practically live there when I'm not doing projects - so I'm glad you mentioned that is the preferred location. Plus it's far enough from my bedroom so I won't have to hear any gurgling water from the air stone. :-) Great video!
Great video, John. I live in an apartment and I have a 55 gallon, and the bathroom is on the other side of the wall for easy water changes. I'm on the GROUND floor of my complex, but if I were on the 2nd or 3rd floor, absolutely not! Or, I would have a much smaller tank, a 10 or 20 gallon, at most.
Absolutely. When I moved,criteria for my apartment, ground floor and a 3ft+ wall. Perks are outlet on it and bathroom around the corner. My 65 gallon fits perfect!
Like the way the house has "grown up" from the first video of the Money Pit you did when you first moved in. Lisa, awesome plants!
Thanks for the tour of an awesome old house. I mean the tips for aquarium placement! 😅 Beautiful old house though!!
Lisa really went ALL IN on plants 😂 I love it!! ❤
Your colors you picked, the rooms and the house itself, absolutely GORGEOUS 😍
Love the house and paint colors! And you definitely got more bang for the buck compared to Virginia!
Beautiful everything! 😍 Great advice about tank placement, thank you.
Wow, now I can see why you didn't put any aquariums in your main house. In my current situation, I can only have one aquarium, and it's in my bedroom. It's not the most ideal place, but suffice to say I live in a very tiny space so it's the only place. Thankfully, I've really fallen in love with neon and ember tetras, a total of 20 in my 20L aquarium, and it could easily hold a bunch more, so I'm hoping all the action in there results in more!
Your house is literally the American dream. Amazing. Ps more money pit videos! One more thing. You guys are killing it. The content you produce is the best in all fish channels on UA-cam.
Awesome! Thanks for the tips, and house tour😁, amazing home. Also love the wall with the devil dog and sailor!🫡
What an amazing house you've got and so beautiful with all the plants. LOVE the gray and white in living room .thanx for sharing
Hey John and Lisa, Thanks so much for this video. I do consider location to water for sure ;) You brought up some great info on the foundation. My house isn't on a concrete slab. So thank you for pointing out foundation support. I will always remember the outside walls have more support. Your home is beautiful! I love all the plants and pets. So much life! Thanks for sharing with us!
I love all of your plants ❤❤❤
Love the colors of the rooms. Compliments to the picker outer of the color pattern. Lol
Always love your content, house looks great-livin the dream!
I love your house! Old farmhouses are the best, especially with Lisa's plants 😁
Lisa needs to do a full plant tour sometime!
i put a 110 in my first bloor bedroom in the middle of the room to divide my bedroom from my office. Below my room is a crawl space. We did put 3 jacks up in the crawl space to make sure that the tank was completely supported. Tanks are heavy so listen to John's suggestions... 🙂
Great video! My wife has a plant problem too! This video has given her a lot of great ideas. She’s like Lisa to make a video for the best places to put Pothos in your house!
Appreciate the insight , thank you for the tour ❤😍😊
Gorgeous house... I can only dream of having that much space to live in... As always love your videos and instruction... 😊
Nice house tour video disguised as an educational video! I've lived in apartments all my life. in my last place, i had it standing on top of a kitchen island that was visible across the studio, and it was next to the sink so maintenance was a breeze! I miss that. now my tank is still next to the kitchen, but a refrigerator sits between the tank and the sink so maintenance isn't as convenient anymore.
The paint on your walls is absolutely beautiful, did you guys do that? Your house is lovely!
Wow... John and Lisa you have made a lovely home ... I like the style and the colour's at your home. Plants are always beautiful Lisa but more 😉 and John stop the argument 😉
Thanks to CJ for serving our country! 🇺🇸
I’m in a 50-year old condo over a basement. The largest I was advised i could go was a 90, MAYBE a 125. Perpendicular to the floor-joists, & though in the center of the home, my 90G sits directly over the steel-beam running the length of the house.
I’d LOVE to go larger, but have no one to help get it IN the house, then DOWN the U-shaped basement-steps to the concrete-floor.
I just got caught up on all these videos, been busy with college and enjoyed spring break. I'm taking Lisa's advice about recording parameters every day for a week, so I can regulate my schedule with water changes. I have 6 aquariums on the go. 5 in the living room and 1 in the kitchen by the entrance. From what I've read, the best place to put an aquarium is at a load bearing wall, perpendicular to floor joists. It makes sense structurally, that is if your house isn't over 100 years old. Mine is 34, which is my age, and the wood is very sturdy and hard. I'm usually in the living room, and I don't have satellite or cable TV, but the fish are perfect enough for me, and I watch internet TV shows and movies. Thanks for the great advice, myself and my local fish circles also watch your channel, very informative and I love the product reviews! You're both awesome! Love the new saltwater tank too, makes me want to get into it in the future.
I'm joining the chorous of "What an amazing house you've got and so beautifully decorated." Breathtaking :) And It was very interesting to watch the different rooms waiting for the "this is where we have our fishtank that are inside the house" but I'm not surprised that you keep them out in your Fish-Barn. :D
Lisa, do the cats go after your pothos? I want pothos but am terrified that our kitties will munch on them.
Wow you guys love the plants
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Hey that is a nice house I wouldn’t of minded just a tour of the house and prooerty.. very nice place glad you are doing well
I never considered the structural integrity of the wall when placing a fish tank, could that be explained a bit more? Is it due to fear of collapse?
Thx for the recommedations, my tanks start to „pile up“ 😅
I was just wondering if I should start more tanks (that I already own lol) in my fish room on the second floor and this video appeared. Thank you John and Lisa! Gorgeous home😍Lisa is now more than my betta guru, she's my plant guru. Oh to have clippings from all those plants🤩your cats don't chew on the toxic ones? Lucky😃 I keep my toxic ones way out of reach bc my kitties are terrible plant chewers. Not a good look for a vet tech to bring her cat in for eating a toxic plant😱 love all the kitty and Roxy shots😍😍😍
Roxy like what are you doing in my room
😂 what’s the camera for
Amazing Video
Exterior walls are structurally sound but, in my experience, the temperature fluctuates with the outside temperatures. Not a dealbreaker but something to consider.
Best place anywhere you can fit one for some people 😅😂x
Thank you for stopping to say hi to the kitty! Lol ❤
You can also get under the floor and add support to it and put a big tank where you want
I love Lisa’s jungle 🪴 my house is the same lol
Thanks for this video. Looking for new places for my tanks. We just moved and I’m hitting a perfectionist brain block. I was already considering the support walls, sunlight and vents.. but water changes and how far from a sink or spigot for my python.. and like you said.. efficiency with age is key. Hopefully helps narrow my options!
YES, you ARE giving us a tour of your beautiful new home and we would like to see the rest of it please! : ) And LISA!! Your jungle! Those string of's 😍😍😍 My first string of hearts with the pink tinge came with 3 strands in a 2" pot. It's so tiny, any advice?
Thank you I been looking dor a video like this
What a beautiful old house you have 😊
I have my 7.5gal betta tank on my Kitchen counter. Perfect spot in my House an be seen over the devider bar from dining and living room and I use spring water for his changes soooo There under his cabinets 👍
It's better to put an aquarium, of any size as your requirement, in the living room area
Great looking house
Beautiful house.
This might sound silly but I pick the spot considering Vastu shastra and Feng shui.
Most windows are fine, but southern side could be a problem with algae. Draft is a big deal for labyrinth fish like Betta or Gourami or having no heater in the tank.
Aquariums have to be LEVEL…..no one ever goes over that problem…I live in an old apartment and always put the tank next to a structural wall…….floors always uneven….thanks for the episode….
Good point as I consider putting a tank in my basement. Though it has concrete floors, the floors purposely pitch toward the two floor-drains. How to level a 250 on a floor engineered to drain water to the sewer lines…?
I bought shims when I set up my 75, and shockingly my spot was level in both directions
Something else to think about is the floor type. I actually moved some tanks to install tile flooring in the part of the basement where I keep all my tanks. It gives a lot more flexibility and forgiveness if the occasional water spill happens
Finding the perfect spot for an aquarium is important.
Logistical considerations (which you covered) aside...the number one place to put an aquarium is wherever you spend the most time. Aquariums in rooms you never "hang out" in get neglected. Also...you mentioned "hauling buckets" several times. Who the heck is still hauling buckets? In this day and age if your still hauling buckets i'm not sure your smart enough to even keep fish. I know someone is going to comment with "reasons" to do WC's with buckets but I guarantee they can't give any hurdle that cannot be overcome.
Thanks!
Wow thanks so much!! We rarely get those, it means a lot!!
Love the house, but i could neverdeal with upstairs. I prefer ceilings to be more than an inch or two above my head!
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When I think about where to put a tank, I always ask myself what circumstances could arise that would make me have to move it.
Got mines in front of a bedroom window 60 gal😮
That new room needs one special aquarium. Only one.
You saying should was not good but that, how you beings go if you have to you can put but beings underneath the area for the whole that the weight of the fish tank
Aahh did you guys let Tanner Serpa roam free in some of your rooms without supervision? With a bucket of green paint and a brush? 😂😂😂 Sorry but I had to ask! Your home is awesome 👍🤩"So long and thanks for all the fish"
I thought I had a lot of Pothos plants..
Ive been reareanging tanks for couple days now lol but im on a concrete slab.
In m family we have 4 Aquariums(100-230 liters) and do all the watherchanges with buckets and it is not the carrying that is annoying it is the time you wait for the bucket to fill up while you just sit there like ._.
Where to put a fish tank in your house?
Well for us? Our house is an Antique so no where.
A counterpoint: I am fitter than ever thanks to lugging my buckets around. 9L bucket of water is a 9kg dumbbell and I'm careful to lift with my core.
Wouldn't the door in the family room protect the aquarium from the draft and you could put a doorstop on the floor to stop the door hitting the tank.
How many cats do you have? Can you do a video of all your animals that are not fish/snails?
7 but sometimes 8 or 12 depending on who shows up randomly at night lol
Definitely an awesome house, I always tell my gf I don’t want a newly built house. No character. Your house can possible be haunted lol
Eeks. Hardwood floors. OLD hardwood floors. Makes me grateful to live in Arizona, where our site-built home has a concrete slab foundation in EVERY room.
Nc!!!
i have my 15 gal next to my bed facing towards it so i can selfishly view them as i lay on my side in bed. best position ever. except now i want to upgrade and idk how to put a 29 or 40 gallon next to my bed without it looking really awkward or preventing me from getting out of bed. having a huge dilemma right now. HELP
holy mother of god you guys have a big house
im tryin to figure out why you are always using buckets. you know they make this thing called a python. i have one permanently routed from my fish room to my laundry room. works great:)
What do you use for water changes?
How would you control algae if your aquarium is in that living room with all that light, (beautiful living room!) I want an aquarium in my living room but the triple windows get the western sun..
Siamese Algae Eaters (so large tank required) and some snails. My 90G is brightly lit & my four algae eaters keep the plants spotless, while the snails & the bristlenose pleco do a decent job on the glass.
i have a 90 gallon i bought a while ago with the hopes of putting it in my future living space. i am a little concerned about the weight, though. if i were to send pictures/videos of the area to your instagram, would you be able to help set these worries to rest?
90 is probably fine if you put it perpendicular to the floor joists (it will sit on 2 or 3). I’d be hesitant to put it parallel where it just sits on one
@@justinholmes4333 would it be possible to reinforce the existing joist to support the additional weight? the floorplan doesnt allow much room to put it so it would be sitting on multiple joists. the tank would partially cover a window and have to be about half a foot from the wall because the outlets are set in the floor. if i am being unrealistic please lete know 😅 id really like to have this be an aquarium but if weight will be a major issue i suppose i could settle for paludarium
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If you think you have enough space between the wall and the aquarium. NO YOU DONT. Put few more centimeters into the room.
Wow! What state do you all live in? I got to leave Los Angeles!! This place is a dump.
Question is, is it haunted?😮
You look different from how you were just a couple of years ago.
Always let the ladies hj now your popping into the house