WEBVTT 00:07.210 --> 00:07.662 Hey, guys. 00:07.716 --> 02:59.990 It's been way too long since we've been in the hot seat. Finally. So excited to get you guys a podcast. Let's just start right in first. Finally got some editors to get more podcasts out, so hopefully we'll churn some more than six months apart and shout out to Summit City corals. You can check out their website, summitcitycarl.com. They're in Fort Wayne, Indiana. That was a shout out from the podcast editor. Thank you. Lot of life changes, kid. You'll hear more details in the episode, but again, we'll try to push up more content when we can. This podcast is happily sponsored by Shrimp nv. Shrimp nv is a family run small business out of Oregon. Oregon. Oregon. I'm not sure how you cut that. They're going to beat me up after this. But they make homemade, premium, organic shrimp foods. All natural ingredients. No fish meals, no shrimp meals, no fillers, no junk. Just good stuff for your shrimp. Guys. Check it out. 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But I have been helping my friend Derek schumann open up a store in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, called Dees Fish. If you guys want to check it out, certainly you can come see the aquarium guys in person. We we live right around this place. We will meet you at the shop. You can find the website. Deesfish co that's deezfish co you want deesfish not dosefish. Come check us out. Let's kick that podcast. Welcome to the aquarium, guys. 03:00.060 --> 03:01.030 Podcast. 03:04.650 --> 03:50.600 Holy shit. It's been a while. It's been a hot minute. Do you know how many people I've gotten Jimmy messaging me? I think I get one maybe every other day at the lowest and the peak. I've gotten like ten people messaging me. Hey, man, you grease your skid. where's the podcast? Coming up. Did you die? Hey, man, when are you coming back? We really miss your podcast. Hey, the other people stop doing podcasts. Hope it's not you too. We need that stuff. And the other guy's sitting there like a coke going man for the first time. A month ago, I've discovered your podcast. I went through them all just to find out you've been in this hiatus. This is not how I need this right now. So. Jimmy. We're back. 03:51.610 --> 03:58.322 Who are you? What are you talking about? What is your name? You look fame familiar. 03:58.386 --> 04:01.106 This is episode 91. If they haven't listened to the weird. 04:01.218 --> 04:04.582 Episode 172 if you wouldn't have been set in prison. 04:04.646 --> 04:09.094 Hey, we all had a lot of lives, but I'm your hostess with the most. This rob soulson. 04:09.142 --> 04:11.450 I'm Jim colby. I'm not the one that's been in jail. 04:12.110 --> 04:13.422 I don't think any of us have been. 04:13.476 --> 04:14.560 Well, where have you been? 04:15.250 --> 04:17.662 I have had a kid. 04:17.796 --> 04:21.054 No, your wife had a child. Very beautiful girl, by the way. 04:21.092 --> 04:21.694 Nine months now. 04:21.732 --> 04:23.310 Thank God she looks like her mom. 04:23.380 --> 04:23.710 Yes. 04:23.780 --> 04:25.070 Thank you, Jesus, for that. 04:25.140 --> 04:33.986 Yes. That's a blessing. Did that open up a fish door with a friend? Yeah, that's actually the main distraction. I'm not going to lie to you. 04:34.008 --> 04:35.358 It was something shiny. 04:35.534 --> 04:44.450 We've been planning this now for three years and he decided he was going to quit his job and we dove head first. He owns the entire thing and I'm just a voluntold. 04:44.610 --> 04:45.474 Voluntold? 04:45.522 --> 04:45.794 Yep. 04:45.842 --> 04:48.330 What's a voluntold? You volunteer and told what to do? 04:48.400 --> 05:01.130 Yeah, volunteering is noble. Voluntold is a step up. It's where you volunteer to a point where you're obligated and voluntold almost marriage. That's a good example. 05:01.200 --> 05:01.786 Good example. Yeah. 05:01.808 --> 05:03.470 It's something you do, but you don't get paid for. 05:03.540 --> 05:09.870 Right, exactly. And you get no satisfaction or you're getting some satisfaction. I mean, a little bit. 05:09.940 --> 05:12.686 Every time I see him, you know. 05:12.868 --> 05:14.862 Ring up a big sales, it makes you happy. 05:14.916 --> 05:18.562 Every time I see him not order endlers in it just, oh, my God. 05:18.616 --> 05:24.958 Let's talk about endlers and how much they suck. Because adam's not here and there's nobody defend the defenses. Little endlers, little pieces of shit. 05:24.974 --> 05:26.050 He's on vacation. 05:26.550 --> 05:42.460 He tried desperately. He tried very hard. We spent a long time trying to get Adam on the podcast. He's on vacation with his family. He's calling from some sort of nudist colony somewhere and not sure why he took his children with him, but that's where he's at. 05:43.310 --> 05:45.126 That's where I've been. Where have you been, Jimmy? 05:45.158 --> 05:46.742 I'm pretty sure you've been in a nudist colony. 05:46.806 --> 05:54.922 I mean, I could be, but no, no, doing the fish store. You have been being the good husband and helping your lovely wife finish her rn. 05:54.986 --> 06:05.950 I did. I've been in the house doing dishes and everything I can to help her out. That stuff is her job, but that's the stuff that she chooses to do. 06:06.020 --> 06:07.898 Smooth. That's the one activity. 06:07.994 --> 06:12.786 Well, the only thing I'm not allowed to do in the house is pee without the lid up. 06:12.888 --> 06:13.474 Is that right? 06:13.512 --> 06:20.194 Yeah. And then the other one is I'm not allowed to do laundry. wreck a couple of $100 worth of clothing, and you can't do laundry anymore. 06:20.322 --> 06:20.982 You're cut off. 06:21.036 --> 06:24.422 But she wrecked a car, but she's still driving. So what's the deal? 06:24.556 --> 06:28.522 Also, now that she's an rn, slutty nurse outfits finally makes sense. 06:28.576 --> 07:27.098 Oh, gosh, yes. Or she's been working for the last several years. They put her in a position of being an assistant director of nursing. And so she has her own office now. She doesn't have to wear scrubs. She is in management. So the other day, I was sitting at my at my house, and the doorbell cam thing went off, which happens a lot because it's windy up here. And then the dogs bark, so I knew something was going on, and I looked outside and there's a Ups man. Oh, what could he be bringing? Jim? Why is he bringing me a refrigerator? And I'm like, Son of a gun. She bought a refrigerator for her office. I know she did. And so it wasn't like he dropped it off. There you go, Jim, have fun. And then my phone rings and she goes, hey, I saw that a refrigerator came to the door. Can you put that in your car and bring it to me? I go, no, it's not going to fit. She will use a trailer. So I hauled the trailer in and. 07:27.264 --> 07:29.174 Is that the story of how you lost your testicles? 07:29.222 --> 07:41.086 No. Okay. This is how popular I am. This is how much I went above and beyond the call of duty. Being a good husband, I haul this refrigerator in, which is a three quarter size. It's a pretty good size. 07:41.108 --> 07:44.874 I figured I get a call by now. I'm a big bitch and you just use me for lifting. 07:44.922 --> 07:46.802 That's what I did today. Yeah, it worked out well. 07:46.856 --> 07:47.442 It makes sense. 07:47.496 --> 08:13.910 Yeah. So anyway, I bit my bottom lip because I was mad because it was nap time. It was nap time, dude. And I drove 20 miles into town, dropped off this stupid refrigerator, and then just to be the greatest husband ever, I went and got all kinds of ice cream bars, like $40 worth of ice cream bars, and went back and paraded through her office and said, here you go, sweetheart. I got you and all your little friends ice cream bars. 08:14.070 --> 08:16.806 Now, did you bitch out and do the cheap ice cream bars? 08:16.838 --> 08:24.034 Or did you go, no, I got snickers, I got the M and Ms. You got the good oh, I got all the good stuff. I got, like, six, seven varieties. 08:24.102 --> 08:24.478 Wow. 08:24.564 --> 08:25.918 And anyway, you got a lot of. 08:25.924 --> 08:27.262 Pms and women that are now your. 08:27.316 --> 08:34.914 Well, they all put me up on their shoulders and cheered me on and chanted, Jim, Jim, Jim. And, yeah, they all loved me very much over there. 08:35.032 --> 08:45.486 So before we get too far, this is an aquarium podcast. Oh, I forgot you were mentioning something about some project with some baby netting. 08:45.678 --> 08:52.386 I've been trying to increase my Guppy production and I am tired of making these nets. 08:52.498 --> 08:57.282 Let's marvin Gay and get it on. Oh, I thought that's what you're using, the Guppy production. 08:57.426 --> 09:04.490 Oh, it's a little marvin Gay. No, I don't use marvin Gay. I use viagra. I just put it right in the water. 09:04.560 --> 09:10.666 I've been really trying baby so much. It's been so long. 09:10.688 --> 09:14.366 I want to put you right in front of the throat. With his scissors. With his scissors. All right. 09:14.388 --> 09:16.186 So you increase your guppy production. 09:16.218 --> 09:22.410 So yeah, there's a gentleman that I've got 3000, 3000 more guppies coming next weekend. 09:22.490 --> 09:25.994 Well did you just ask him how he's increased his production? Because clearly he's winning. 09:26.042 --> 09:27.150 I stuck over there. 09:27.220 --> 09:29.342 Did you? Yes, I did you buy him a sandwich? 09:29.486 --> 09:31.010 You know what? Yes. 09:31.080 --> 09:32.338 How about an ice cream bar? 09:32.424 --> 09:35.278 No, I did not give him an ice cream. It would have melted in my pocket. 09:35.374 --> 09:40.534 So what's he doing? He is doing does he want to shout out? 09:40.652 --> 09:42.214 No, he doesn't. Okay. 09:42.412 --> 09:43.350 A mystery man. 09:43.420 --> 10:19.634 Yes. He's actually going out of business. We're going to call him John and great guy. Raises two, three flavors of guppies and a bunch of other stuff. But he is moving. He bought a new home. He's moving and they don't know if they're going to put up a fish room yet or not. So he's keeping his equipment beginning involves his livestock. So I purchased all of his livestock. And anyway I was trying to find some netting. I took a pvc and made a large cube because I have several 110 gallon ponds. And I made basically probably about a 14 inch by 36 inch baby net to put all the adults in. 10:19.672 --> 10:20.782 So the baby is rectangular. 10:20.846 --> 10:23.634 Right, right. rectangular. Yes. That's a good word. 10:23.672 --> 10:24.274 Good word. 10:24.392 --> 10:53.946 And anyway, I ordered and ordered and ordered and ordered stuff and then our friend dabney ordered stuff and we still never got the right net or didn't get anything at all. So I went on not Amazon but on Ebay, which I don't go on there very often. And I saw some of the coolest stuff on there. If you folks are looking for cool stuff, ebay has stuff. They actually for like $30 you can get a square net that is probably twelve foot wide by 30 foot long. 10:54.048 --> 10:57.754 I feel like you just discovered Ebay for the first time in 25 years. You're a little late. 10:57.802 --> 11:20.854 No, I've just never found that stuff on Amazon fair. And anyway, so I ordered this net going, I know it's going to be wrong because I've already gotten three different types of net that's wrong. Basically one of the net just made, it was kind of like a gill net for guppies. I mean all the guppies got their head stuck in there and died. Yes. And so I've tried the plastic netting, I've tried this, I've tried that. 11:20.972 --> 11:21.490 Oops. 11:21.570 --> 11:24.706 And so I bought this netting from China. 11:24.818 --> 11:26.050 It took China. 11:26.130 --> 11:34.518 China? It took probably over three weeks to get here, and it is a catch me out. And for like, $20, I probably got about 6ft by 25ft. 11:34.614 --> 11:34.970 Nice. 11:35.040 --> 11:50.334 And so now I'm in the process of sewing up the edges and stuff to snug it all in. But that was my last little project that I was doing and stuff. But now I'm trying to find tanks to house 3000 guppies, which I had not planned on buying until the other day. 11:50.372 --> 11:51.146 That's a lot of guppies. 11:51.178 --> 11:58.046 It's a lot of damn guppies. Yeah. And then he goes to me, you want the babies too? Well, yeah, they're all adults. You might as well throw in the babies. 11:58.078 --> 12:02.654 I mean, why not? What's even it's a buy one, get one free sale. 12:02.702 --> 12:12.470 Oh, it was more than that. I said, here's what I'll give you. And he goes, I don't know what else I want to do. So, yeah, I bought it for next to nothing. Kind of like your goldfish. Tell your goldfish story. 12:12.540 --> 12:20.158 Okay, so goldfish story, right? We're catching up with local stories. So we live in central northern Minnesota, right. We're about an hour from fargo. 12:20.194 --> 12:21.098 Are you asking me? 12:21.184 --> 12:22.186 No, I'm telling them. 12:22.288 --> 12:23.260 You're telling everybody. 12:24.190 --> 12:33.706 Right. We're about an hour away from fargo, North Dakota. Right. So I see there's this local fish group, and I see that someone has discovered ditch goldfish. 12:33.898 --> 12:35.370 Fargo is what did they discover? 12:35.450 --> 12:36.458 Ditch goldfish. 12:36.554 --> 12:37.918 Ditch goldfish. What is it? 12:38.004 --> 12:39.786 That are goldfish and a ditch. 12:39.978 --> 12:40.478 Really? 12:40.564 --> 12:42.080 That's how that works? Yeah. 12:43.330 --> 12:48.142 It sounded dirty just the way you said it did it dirt goldfish, ditch goldfish. 12:48.286 --> 13:09.766 So they said, oh, there's some ditch goldfish. We're reaching out to the DNR to notify them if someone wants to come and rescue these. There seems to be quite a few here. And that's where this whole post started. Then apparently droves of people showed up because there's nothing better to do in the flatlands of North Dakota, meth and ditch goldfish and get eaten alive by. 13:09.788 --> 13:11.450 Mosquitoes while you're doing it. Right. 13:11.520 --> 13:20.006 So it's one of the worst floods that we've had in a little while. It's not like rolling down homes, but it's definitely flooding a lot of businesses. 13:20.038 --> 13:20.982 A lot of overland flooding. 13:21.046 --> 13:28.366 A lot of overland flooding, yes. So you go, and if you're listening and you're in the morehead area, they're still there. 13:28.468 --> 13:29.374 There's still more there. 13:29.412 --> 13:44.350 There's thousands of them. All right. People get there and they're like, oh, I think we got them all. Then the next post oh, we got a couple of hundred next post. We got a couple of hundred. Next post. I brought home a truckload, and everybody in their mom thinks they found gold. 13:44.430 --> 13:45.640 Yeah, right. Absolutely. 13:46.090 --> 14:12.182 Swimming gold in a ditch. So it's a drainage it's a cement drainage ditch by moorhead state university. It's not far off, right? Going down there. There's not a lot of water in this drainage ditch, so it flooded up through the drainage ditch and there is no exaggeration. Thousands of ten inch goldfish. Thousands. 14:12.246 --> 14:13.340 Yeah, they're big. 14:13.950 --> 14:22.014 It's pretty impressive. So we went out there of course, got a barrel together. Probably got three or 400 ourselves to stock in the local fish store. 14:22.052 --> 14:23.378 Yeah, you dropped off a few for me. 14:23.464 --> 14:32.834 The DNR, it's Minnesota side, so we're not transporting invasive species across state lines because we brought them. We're in Minnesota staying in. 14:32.872 --> 14:38.638 Yeah. It's not like you're sampling crack or feeder guppies or endlers. 14:38.734 --> 14:46.246 The DNR were notified they're too busy breeding walleye right now and dealing with other issues and clearly these have been. 14:46.268 --> 14:48.498 There a long time and they're not going anywhere. 14:48.674 --> 15:06.842 They're nearly not worried about them. So they just kind of left them there. So if you want some goldfish, help yourself. Just don't put them back into a natural waterway. They're right by the moorhead State University and we brought them in. They're extremely healthy. We quarantined them for weeks and yeah, they're good goldfish. 15:06.906 --> 15:09.054 Didn't you say that they're eating egg crawlers or something? 15:09.092 --> 15:12.270 I assume they're eating egg crawlers from the location that they were at. Yeah. 15:12.340 --> 15:14.446 They're huge and they're beautiful and they're great. 15:14.628 --> 15:28.926 Yeah, they're great. They're common goldfish that are now ten inches. So lots of fun. Sell them for $5 apiece at the fish door. Also, this fish store we're working on, there'll be links in the podcast notes. 15:28.958 --> 15:31.794 But it's dees fish like dees notes. 15:31.842 --> 16:04.922 Well, we want to do a Minnesota play, not the meme. So Derek schumann is the owner. We'll get him and do a podcast with him and interview him. This whole thing got set up but we want to do a play off of a Minnesota accent. So we want to tell people, you don't want those fish, you want these fish. So it's a lot of fun, pretty successful. But yeah, I'll put information in there and if you're in the, you know, central north Minnesota area or fargo fargo, North Dakota area, come check it out. It's pretty, pretty fucking sweet. 16:04.986 --> 16:11.790 Yeah. It's getting fuller and fuller and fuller as days go by. So we get something new every day. 16:11.860 --> 16:20.338 We have 30 inch koi, we got stingray, we got arijuana. Just to of course make fun of me. They have to have an arijuana. 16:20.354 --> 16:23.160 I was going to say is the arrangement needs any food. 16:23.690 --> 16:29.158 I don't know. But they don't have a tiger catfishing yet to feed two or for the. 16:29.164 --> 16:30.186 Arizona, I'm going to order one just. 16:30.208 --> 16:36.230 For that, just for the cost. Got any other news Jimmy? 16:36.390 --> 16:53.040 Any other news? No. My wife graduated. I get my summer back now. And now the summer of podcasting, summer podcasting. We've got a few trips that we're going to take to get to mow my yard and drink beer and that's what I like to do. 16:53.810 --> 17:07.720 All right, so we are doing this live on discord. So check out Aquariumguyspodcast.com Bottom, the website. You'll find a link to discord. Join the debauchery. Even if we're on a hiatus, this is where people are going to find out and jump in. 17:09.050 --> 17:12.440 Or just a rumor mill. Just check out just the rumor mail. Just the rumor mill. 17:12.810 --> 17:15.720 To see if anybody had something to say here. 17:16.090 --> 17:19.302 I think a lot of people said you suck because you've been gone for six months. 17:19.436 --> 17:19.830 Right? 17:19.900 --> 17:22.410 I think that's what they said. That's what I put on there anyway. 17:22.480 --> 17:23.066 Oh, here we go. 17:23.088 --> 17:23.766 It's pretty dope. 17:23.798 --> 17:30.490 I was there before the grand opening. It got even better. So yeah, we have a local user in here. 17:30.560 --> 17:32.934 Yeah, every day. That's mikey. 17:32.982 --> 17:36.326 That's mikey. Let's talk about sums, Jimmy. 17:36.518 --> 17:37.074 Sumps. 17:37.142 --> 17:41.742 Well, yeah, like, for instance, I like sand. You like gravel. And we argue about it. 17:41.796 --> 17:48.398 Yeah. I saw you had three or four bags of sand outside your door out here. We do. And so I took my razor blade. 17:48.414 --> 17:50.174 And cut them for son of a bitch. 17:50.222 --> 17:50.658 I did. 17:50.744 --> 17:51.362 I hear you. 17:51.416 --> 18:07.634 Yeah. I don't know if you noticed. Over at my house, robs and his family was over for my wife's graduation party. I found some aquarium gravel. And I don't know if you saw where I put it out there by the mailbox. Did you see that? No, you missed it. It's right next to my mailbox. Yeah, my mailbox. 18:07.682 --> 18:08.134 Oh, good. 18:08.172 --> 18:26.770 So I put my mailbox I was going through some old ten gallon tanks and I found some tanks full of sand and some clown puke. And I thought, you know what, I'm going to put it right out here by the mailbox. That way people know where I'm at. So everybody tying. heidi noticed, jeff and Nancy noticed. And you didn't notice? I didn't. All my aquarium people noticed. 18:26.790 --> 18:32.282 But to be fair, I was driving in 1952 Ford, and it's a lot of I've used both arms to drive that vehicle. 18:32.346 --> 18:32.766 Yes. 18:32.868 --> 18:34.650 So there's not a lot of paying attention to gravel. 18:34.730 --> 18:35.214 No. 18:35.332 --> 18:37.002 But anyway sums, Jimmy. 18:37.146 --> 18:37.950 Sums. 18:39.510 --> 18:43.618 What is your experience with sums? Do you enjoy them? 18:43.704 --> 19:39.922 I do enjoy sums. If you stay with the maintenance on them, which you need to stay on top of, they're pretty flawless. You got to be prepared for power outages. And I've had some stumps where I had a power outage and sump wasn't big enough and that kind of peaked all over the floor. So, like, on my sump that I have in my acrylic unit, I haven't marked exactly how far I could fill it and how the minimum is that I keep it at. So I really like my acrylic unit and stuff. I am now in the process of making a baby nursery. I've been watching some YouTube videos I watched today. What the heck was it? We had the gentleman on our podcast a while back, and he interviewed the master breeder with macquarie M co op. And they were showing how they built a baby nursery out of small boxes and put water and so they'll have. 19:39.976 --> 19:42.854 Like I want to say those are small boxes but yeah, I know what you're talking about. 19:42.892 --> 19:45.650 They have they're actually like little six court shoe boxes. 19:45.730 --> 19:47.634 All of those. I was thinking the big tubs. 19:47.682 --> 20:19.918 Yeah, no they and anyway I watched that today. I'm getting lots of ideas and stuff because what I'm doing I've got another twelve kinds of guppies coming in. Some high end guppies from a gentleman. I want to get on this podcast and I'm slowly going to keep them all separate and so I'm going to keep the baby separate. So right now I'm putting all my babies in one big tub or three big tubs and just letting them go. But I want to try to keep some of the strains pure. So I've got some crazy stuff that I just bought for they're not feeder. 20:19.934 --> 20:20.930 Guppies is what you're saying. 20:21.000 --> 20:23.678 Right? I paid like twenty five dollars to forty five dollars a pair. 20:23.774 --> 20:24.850 That's a hefty amount. 20:24.920 --> 20:30.130 Yes, it was. And I bought twelve pair. That's why my wife did not get a convertible for a graduation. 20:30.210 --> 20:31.638 Yeah. You got guppies instead. 20:31.724 --> 20:35.766 Well, gifts keeps on giving me and. 20:35.788 --> 20:42.134 Derek just for funzies because we're exploring all of minnesota's pet shops and we went to Twin Cities Guppies. 20:42.262 --> 20:42.650 Yes. 20:42.720 --> 20:43.722 Have you been to that place? 20:43.776 --> 20:44.490 I know them. 20:44.560 --> 20:54.170 It's in the I can't remember which mall that is. It's a huge mall. Love the mall. But yeah, they're selling pears for like $75 trios. Excuse me. 20:54.240 --> 21:02.254 Yes, they are. At the show back in March that Adam and I were at and Twin City Guppies were there. We visit with them for a little bit and stuff. Nice people. 21:02.372 --> 21:11.022 Yeah, they, they do a hell of a job. You should go check them out. I think they do sell some online but I think they just go through so much that they're always out of stock online and you got to go in person. 21:11.076 --> 21:14.442 Yeah, I was going to say I I've been online looking for their stuff and a lot of out of stocks. 21:14.506 --> 21:51.054 So yeah, definitely something to check out. But anyways, sumps. So we got beginners to overview what a sump is. So let's go with a quick overview of the gamut of filtration. Right. You have your traditional hang on the back filter where you have a pump that sucks it into a small shoe box that pumps water through cartridges. These are the ones that you normally find given the old fashioned kits you buy at Walmart local pet store. There hasn't been a lot of change to these. In fact, I think the aqua clear from fluval. I think I'm saying that name right. Hasn't changed since the original design works. 21:51.092 --> 21:53.630 Well, they've never really changed them at all. 21:53.700 --> 21:58.110 The only thing that they've added is Marine Land I think, has the patent for the biowheel. 21:58.190 --> 22:01.842 Yes. So I like the bio wheel. If it works. 22:01.976 --> 22:02.834 If it works. 22:02.952 --> 22:07.394 Sometimes they don't work. Sometimes they quit spitting. That makes me mad. 22:07.442 --> 22:08.418 Shame on you, Jimmy. 22:08.514 --> 22:11.510 Speaking of mad, let's talk about my heater. 22:13.770 --> 22:19.830 We'll put that one on the parking lot for later. Jimmy, we're in helping people with time. 22:19.900 --> 22:27.526 Okay? Right now I'm having an argument with a heater, and the heater is smarter than us at this moment. 22:27.628 --> 22:28.440 All right? 22:28.970 --> 22:32.126 That's pretty truthful, right? It is, because you've worked on it with me. 22:32.228 --> 22:33.038 We'll get there. 22:33.124 --> 22:36.026 We'll get there before the end of the podcast. 22:36.058 --> 22:36.522 Take a breath. 22:36.586 --> 22:43.194 No, before the end of the podcast. I just want to see if anybody's got any we will get there information for us that could help us out because I feel like a real dumbass. 22:43.242 --> 22:44.686 Calm down. I promise you. 22:44.788 --> 22:45.994 Just my blood pressure. 22:46.042 --> 22:47.534 All right, so we have the hang on the back filter. 22:47.582 --> 22:48.462 Oh, sure, that's cute. 22:48.526 --> 22:54.782 We have internal filters that they put inside the aquarium that generally have a piece of sponge or another cartridge. 22:54.846 --> 22:55.170 Yes. 22:55.240 --> 22:57.570 Tetra makes internal cartridge filters. 22:57.650 --> 22:58.182 Yes. 22:58.316 --> 23:26.286 Then we have canister filters where you take the water from the aquarium, pump it into a canister, and that goes through layers of media sponges and then comes right back out to the other side of the tank purified. And the most simple sponge filters where you just have an airline that blows bubbles that slowly absorbs water through the sponge. And my favorite filter of all and. 23:26.308 --> 23:27.930 Where do you get the best sponge from, Rob? 23:28.010 --> 23:31.402 The best sponge from your 1964 cadillac. 23:31.466 --> 23:34.740 That's right. From the seat cushions. You just rip it off 100%. 23:36.310 --> 24:08.342 Don't tell Swiss tropicals. That's what everybody uses. But the stuff that we're talking about is a sump, and sumps are more DIY. You can't go to your normal local fish shop and just say, hey, I'm looking for a sump. And they get one out of the box and hand it to you. It's more of the custom design yourself. Or you'll get one that's at least pre cut so you can put your own elements in it. So think of it as the DIY filter for your needs. So if you have let's pretend you have a 55 gallon tank. 24:08.406 --> 24:11.254 I do have a 55 you have to pretend underneath. 24:11.382 --> 24:17.354 You could have a 4400, 425 gallon tank. 24:17.402 --> 24:23.086 I would rather have a 400 gallon sump. Wouldn't it be awesome? Think about how clean your freaking water would be. 24:23.268 --> 24:26.282 I can just see you. You'd be the one guy that would make a sump. 24:26.346 --> 24:29.470 I keep all my plea tails in the sump and then nothing up in the tank. 24:29.630 --> 24:42.994 Excuse me, what is this? No, it's a sump. The first step is you use quilt batting, and then the next step is you have it biologically uses jimmy's balls. Bacteria. 24:43.122 --> 24:47.234 Well, there's plenty of bacteria on my malls, I'll give you that. That is disgusting. 24:47.282 --> 24:56.378 So back to the analogy. We have a 55 gallon tank underneath. We have a smaller tank? Traditionally, yeah. 40 to 25 gallon would be kind of the range you want to be in. 24:56.544 --> 24:58.794 And if you're a print, the idea. 24:58.832 --> 25:05.126 Is you pump water from the tank into the sump and then pump it back in the aquarium. 25:05.318 --> 25:07.374 So select the circle of life. 25:07.492 --> 25:09.360 Circle of life. 25:11.010 --> 25:14.398 I like the better. We used to dub in music and get in trouble. That was more fun. 25:14.484 --> 25:16.510 Yeah. I don't think you were ever going back on YouTube. 25:16.590 --> 25:17.026 Really? 25:17.128 --> 25:26.734 No, it's such a waste of time. We're doing this for fun. And people that listen to the car is way more fun than trying to see your ugly mug on YouTube. 25:26.782 --> 25:28.370 We should go on pornhub. 25:29.030 --> 25:30.680 Ooh, there's an idea. 25:31.770 --> 25:33.238 Wouldn't that mess people up if we. 25:33.244 --> 25:38.162 Got to tone down the tangents? Yeah, but what if we had just breeding fish on pornhub? 25:38.226 --> 25:45.740 I know it wouldn't be a young guy's pornhub channel, and the titles could be like, Hottest Fish Ever. 25:46.350 --> 25:49.034 We'll just have nothing but a channel of molly's doing it. 25:49.072 --> 25:49.962 Yeah, exactly. 25:50.096 --> 25:50.998 I'm in. Chicken. 25:51.014 --> 25:51.654 Chicken, boying. 25:51.702 --> 25:54.214 Boy, I'd subscribe to that. I would do that in a hot minute. 25:54.262 --> 26:03.982 And you know what would be sad is we'd be number one in a week, because people like you or dementia will be going, you got to check this shit out. I'm going to send it to you. And here's a link. 26:04.116 --> 26:08.510 It will just dust off your old 70s records to get some obscure music in the background. 26:08.590 --> 26:09.380 Oh, yeah. 26:09.750 --> 26:32.474 Anyways, back to it. So it's a tank underneath your tank that acts as a giant filter. It gives you way more ecological flow. You can use it as essentially an equilibrium for your tank. So instead of having the forgiveness of a 55 gallon tank, you now have tacked on an additional 40 gallons. So if something craps out in your tank, you have that much more water. 26:32.672 --> 26:37.062 So are you saying that I could put at least 10,000 goldfish in that tank? 26:37.126 --> 26:41.834 That's the idea is you can overstock on purpose. Still don't recommend it? 26:41.872 --> 27:06.354 I think it would be really cool. And I'm just saying just to mess with people. I love my fish. I'm not going to hurt my fish. But wouldn't it be fun, like over in your pet store, if you had a ten gallon tank with a 300 gallon sub in the basement and you had 500ft of goldfish in a ten gallon tank, and it's crystal clear, and you tell people, oh, yeah, you can do this at home. I think that'd be fun. It would be fun for me. 27:06.392 --> 27:10.998 No, I feel like you're the guy that has an ornate sock collection, like. 27:11.084 --> 27:15.878 One of those people, when I was single, socks were my friend. But that's another story. 27:15.964 --> 27:22.902 All right, back to sumps. So the elements that you put into a sump. So there's three layers of filtration. 27:23.046 --> 27:25.050 So you got your quilt batting. 27:25.470 --> 27:33.046 That's the objects we got to. Know what they do. So you have mechanical, mechanical, chemical and biological. 27:33.078 --> 27:38.400 It's one of my favorite bands. Chemical my chemical rumors. Okay? 27:38.850 --> 27:44.734 Stop it, Jimmy. Stop it. We got to get back on the bandwagon. So I know you're rusty, but we can get through this podcast. 27:44.782 --> 27:49.074 So mechanical, mechanical, chemical, chemical. What was the other one? 27:49.112 --> 27:49.694 Biological. 27:49.742 --> 27:51.140 Biological, right. 27:51.510 --> 28:09.210 So the first step, like you said, is quilt batting. That would represent mechanical or bunch of old socks. Bunch old socks, yes. You need something to actually filter particles out of the water, debris, detritus, extra food, anything to grab and actually polish the water. 28:09.280 --> 28:13.994 So you can do polish an old dog blanket, something like that. 28:14.032 --> 28:15.930 I would use something that's probably intended for water. 28:16.000 --> 28:26.462 Okay, so back to do they still make do you remember when you go to buy that cottony fiber cotton stuff that was called filter media? Do they still sell that stuff? 28:26.516 --> 28:30.778 They do, but it's quilt batting. Well, now it's all polyester. It's 100% polyester. It's a certain grade. 28:30.794 --> 28:34.538 It's more organized now. It is. It's all in the sheets where it's not in a big puff ball. 28:34.554 --> 28:35.674 Yeah, it used to be a puff ball. 28:35.722 --> 28:37.502 When I started it, it was a big puff ball. 28:37.566 --> 28:40.574 So you could again, quilt batting. 28:40.622 --> 28:41.422 Quilt batting. 28:41.566 --> 28:43.342 It has to be 100% polyester. 28:43.406 --> 28:46.770 And you can find that cheap online or at your local store. 28:46.840 --> 28:54.210 That way instead of just cleaning it out, you can throw it away and grab a new piece. You can wash it, I mean, a couple of times, but eventually it's going to get gross. 28:54.290 --> 28:55.330 Kind of like your underwear. 28:55.410 --> 28:57.462 Especially my underwear. Three times. 28:57.516 --> 28:58.310 Throw it away. 28:58.460 --> 28:59.474 Just like wheel batting. 28:59.522 --> 29:00.520 That's right. Okay. 29:00.910 --> 29:21.054 You can use sponge material, like from the car. Yeah. You can cut out all your cadillac, put it in there. Otherwise you can get these batting sheets on Amazon. You can get any size that you want. So you can put a wall, like a mat and filter, right. And then you just take the whole sheet out. You clean out the sheet, you put it back in yourself. 29:21.252 --> 29:52.822 When I moved my tanks over at my house, I had my matin filter set up for over a year. And it took me longer to take it out and rinse it and put it back in than anything. It was like five minutes per tank. And I moved like twelve tanks. And it was really easy with a garden hose just to spray it out in the crystal clear. I love that matt and filter. I got that from our friends down. Meaning where they at? duluth. Where they at? Who our friends? Amazon our friends. 29:52.876 --> 30:09.982 Oh, duluth for sure. yep, 100%. So there's a bunch of different options for mechanical, but using the sponge or quilt batting is by far our favorite. You can also get filter socks. Like you made the sock joke, but that's the real thing. 30:10.036 --> 30:13.066 I have filter socks with, and I put in carbon in it, the filter. 30:13.098 --> 30:42.150 Socks, you can again purchase those directly on Amazon. You can get they have essentially it's a plastic ring with the essentially plastic, like, polycloth underneath. So you just drop it in to a piece of acrylic or glass or plastic that fits the hole, have the water pump in the sock, and you just simply clean out the sock, unroll it backwards, rinse under the faucet just like you would a sponge, and keep moving on. They're cheap. So, again, easy to replace. 30:42.230 --> 30:55.818 Yeah, I love using them for charcoal, for carbon. And what I like about it is that it's so darn big that you could put a lot of godding carbon in there, and it's easy to rinse out. And I just like it because it's cheap. 30:55.914 --> 31:29.362 Nice. So that takes care of the first layer. So when water pumps in, it's got to go through something. The next layer is the chemical, and the first layer has to be mechanical because you don't want the rest of your sump to be gross. The other layers you can do chemical or biological in different orders. That's up to you. So just to start, chemical. So the options that you have to treat your water chemically would be carbon. Is one of them putting in a carbon bag what I use I have a roll over here, Jimmy. This is gutter sock. 31:29.426 --> 31:31.934 Gutter sock, guter sleeve. I think they call it gutters. 31:32.002 --> 31:46.858 I get it 100ft at my local maynards and you not one end. You pour your carbon into it, not the other. And then I can cut it, right? Then when I'm done with the carbon, I just throw the whole bag away and just cut myself another bag. 31:46.954 --> 31:55.150 Yeah, he said Maynards, but it's minards. And that's our local hardware lumber store. That's huge up here in the midwest. 31:55.570 --> 32:02.370 They even have it all the way down to West Virginia when I flew. Did they really? Yeah, it's getting huge. Kind of like the Dairy Queen of. 32:02.440 --> 32:11.814 I love the Dairy Queen of hardware stores. I love the Dairy hey, you know what's funny is that the other day this has nothing to do with fish. I don't care. 32:12.012 --> 32:14.840 So you and your goddamn to engines listen. 32:15.370 --> 32:44.510 So a lot of people don't know what the Tasty Freeze is. So when John mellon, John cougar mellencamp came out with Jack and diane the song, everybody's heard Jack and diane the song sitting outside the Tasty Freeze, john mellencamp said he had no idea that nobody other than midwest people knew what hell a Tasty Freeze was. He would go over to Taiwan and they go, what's that tasty Freeze? Well, they probably don't talk like that. I just did that. I'm sorry. I should have won. What's that? Tasty Freeze. 32:44.850 --> 32:47.680 I like how you go from one accent to the other. I'm sorry. 32:49.490 --> 32:59.586 Not better? No, not at all. So everything is regional tasty freeze up here is like a Dairy Queen. Which Dairy Queen is like, I don't know, frosty, I don't know. frickin. 32:59.618 --> 33:02.790 There's a lot of ice cream on this episode. I feel like you need to have a bar. 33:02.860 --> 33:03.798 I need an ice cream. 33:03.884 --> 33:19.382 Your sugar is low. We need to hurry through this. So that's one element of chemical here, you use zeolite. That's another one. In fact, they mix zeolite in the carbons nowadays. That's what you see the white pebbles mixing with their black pebbles. 33:19.446 --> 33:27.882 Yes. That's kind of like when people mix their cocaine in their heroin. And it's called a speed ball. It's a speedball for your aquarium. 33:27.946 --> 33:32.750 So the carbon represents nzolite represents ammonia absorption. 33:35.090 --> 33:41.954 But I thought you're going to say something like black and white and unity for all, and I thought you're going to go on a tangent like that. 33:41.992 --> 33:43.502 That's why you get the equal mix. 33:43.566 --> 33:44.420 There we go. 33:46.170 --> 33:59.750 Besides ammonia, it also removes harsh chemicals. So, for instance, if your mom decided to go to your tank and lyse all your tank, hopefully the carbon will help absorb some of the toxins from the water. 33:59.820 --> 34:04.620 My mom wouldn't even pick up my damn socks. Of course, they're kind of crusty under the bed. 34:04.990 --> 34:06.182 Your mom learned to knock? 34:06.246 --> 34:10.986 Yes. A lot. My mom's gone now. I wish. 34:11.008 --> 34:15.162 Adam, if you're listening to this, we miss you. It's been a long time for Jimmy. 34:15.306 --> 34:16.558 I am just excited to be out. 34:16.564 --> 35:10.858 Of the house now that you're out of the house. So that's one form of chemical filtration. Another form is uv filtration. So people can get a uv filter to put in your sump. Generally, like the internal filters we talked about before, is the common way of getting uv filters. You can get a couple hang on the back, but they're very expensive. The cheapest way that Jimmy and I have found, particularly in sumps, if you can get by with it, is getting a uv submersible. I've been drinking uv submersible bar. They range between anywhere from the lowest I've seen it's, $12, all the way up to $40. And you could drop that right in your tank. But the problem is it's not covered. There's still ultraviolet radiation coming from the light, much like a tanning booth, and it will bleach a lot of plastics, a lot of objects, including tanning. Your fish. 35:10.954 --> 35:11.262 Yes. 35:11.316 --> 35:18.942 So make sure that if you have uv filtration in there, that it's covered and the excess light isn't bleeding through to your fish. 35:19.086 --> 35:27.778 I got one of those. Robbie found them somewhere. I don't know where he found them. But anyway, the interwebs, that thing that. 35:27.784 --> 35:29.054 You figured out, the ebays. 35:29.102 --> 35:46.266 Oh. So Robbie was on the dark Web and he bought these things and he gave me one and I put it in my Acrylic unit down in the sump. And my sump is Acrylic, and it made my acrylic sump foggy, kind of like smoky, milky white. And did it. 35:46.288 --> 35:46.522 Really? 35:46.576 --> 36:12.738 Yes, just where that was. Right. Sitting. So what I ended up doing is I went and bought a bigger piece of pvc pipe and put it in there, and then that took care of the problem. So if you buy one of these, put a kind of a sleeve on it, because in that sump, there's a lot of movement. So I wasn't worried about the water going through there, but it did make my Acrylic unit kind of foggy like milky white. So I don't like that. 36:12.824 --> 36:16.674 Now, if you have a deeper checkbook than Jeremy and I, the best way. 36:16.712 --> 36:18.662 Everybody'S got a deeper checkbook than you and I. 36:18.716 --> 36:42.778 This is true. That's why we're podcasting. I'm just kidding. Get a uv filter that's in line, meaning it's just a uv filter and it goes between your plumbing. So if you have a pipe, it just flows right through the uv filter, either after the sump or before. I definitely would prefer the after. That way you're not going to clog it up with fish yet. And it's already mechanically filtered, like we spoke of before. 36:42.864 --> 36:45.010 Poopy, cocka, booby, cock. 36:45.110 --> 36:59.182 Now, for other sumps, saltwater sumps, there's a lot more different types of media that you can put in. What is that? The smaller pellets? I want to say it's bb's. 36:59.326 --> 37:00.850 Bb'S sand. 37:01.590 --> 37:03.490 What's the fancy name for sand? 37:03.830 --> 37:04.494 Silica. 37:04.542 --> 37:06.290 There you go. silica. 37:06.790 --> 37:08.786 I went to high school in North Dakota. 37:08.898 --> 37:10.530 You didn't drink either, clearly. 37:10.610 --> 37:11.222 No, not today. 37:11.276 --> 38:15.546 Shame on me. anyways, moving on for freshwater. So that, again, a couple of options for chemical filtration. Then the most important and why the sumps are, in my opinion, the best types of filters is the biological filtration. Most of you there listening have heard about the nitrification cycle. Just a brief overview. Fish poop and pee. Fish poop and pee turns into ammonia in the tank. And ammonia's got to go somewhere. So you have bacteria, beneficial bacteria in a tank that eats the ammonia, turns it from nitrate to nitrate, and then eventually you'll do a water change or plants take it, but you need that bacteria to break down ammonia. Otherwise that's how you quote, unquote, crash a tank, kill fish and have a bad time. So with a sump, the more surface area you have, the more beneficial bacteria, which means the more fish you can put in to shit and piss, because you have that beneficial bacteria. So in there, anything with surface area, people buy bio balls. They're a common thing on the market. 38:15.648 --> 38:16.662 That job is dirty. 38:16.726 --> 38:31.902 It does. They're plastic balls and they're generally hollow or honeycomb in nature. That way they have the most surface area for bacteria to grow as possible. They're expensive, getting just they are small bags of them are lots of money. 38:31.956 --> 38:36.786 They're not cheap. You made some on the thing you got over there, right? 38:36.808 --> 38:44.770 So, give you an idea. The balls I made were about a quarter. That's how big around each ball. Takes me a half an hour to 3d print. 38:45.270 --> 38:47.810 So you print these on your 3d printer, right? 38:47.960 --> 38:55.078 Each ball is 30 minutes to print. So if you need, I don't know, a bucket of balls for your sump, good luck printing for weeks. 38:55.164 --> 38:58.390 Leave on leave on Monday, come back Thursday. Maybe it's done right. 38:58.460 --> 39:04.406 So, not recommended 3d prints unless you have a lot of extra scrap, filament and a lot of time to waste. 39:04.438 --> 39:06.534 Or you've got a better 3d printer than Rob. 39:06.662 --> 39:11.594 Yeah, do a huge sheet like you have some industrial cnc machine and you want to leave it on for a week. 39:11.792 --> 39:20.942 I think you should buy one of those new 3d printers that they're building houses with. that'd be cool. Have you seen that they're building houses for hud right now? 39:20.996 --> 39:22.190 Yeah, they've done in our area. 39:22.260 --> 39:24.570 Yeah, they're pretty sweet, pretty cool. 39:24.740 --> 39:38.754 But anyways, more options for biological. So, again, what are the objects that we can use with the most surface area? Well, bioballs some plastic material to make it. We recommend going to your local dollar store and buying packs of pot scrubbies. 39:38.802 --> 39:39.698 Scrubbies. 39:39.874 --> 39:59.370 That is the cheapest thing that is safe for tank to put in is plastic pot scrubbies. Make sure when you grab them, you're getting just the generic cheapo plastic pot scrubbies. Not the ones with preloaded, with dawn. This detergent you want just the generic sniff them if you want to test them. If it smells like soap, don't put it in your tank. 40:01.230 --> 40:02.742 Kind of like when you get dressed. 40:02.886 --> 40:04.890 Up, smell your pot scrubbies. 40:04.970 --> 40:05.726 There you go. 40:05.828 --> 40:07.038 That's what we're saying. 40:07.204 --> 40:14.282 So, yeah, you can stuff a lot of pot scrubbies in there and you can find them three for a buck some places. And they're pretty cheap. 40:14.346 --> 40:15.902 I've used to find them ten for a dollar. 40:15.966 --> 40:29.646 Here's another thing that people can use, too. If you find those little shower what do you call those? Those little shower things? And they're all mesh net and they're in a big loopy. 40:29.758 --> 40:31.486 Oh, loofas. 40:31.598 --> 40:32.222 Loofas. 40:32.286 --> 40:34.630 I like, yeah, he said luffy. And you were so close. 40:34.780 --> 41:09.442 Yeah. I want to lay next to you naked. Well, that's close as I'm going to get to you. Anyway, there's a new comedian I saw the other day, and I'll tell you about this off the air, okay? But anyway, the loofies, the Louis, I feel like I've been doing roofies. The loofas. If you take those apart, our buddy Joe, a Joe Shrimp shack, he will take those, unravel them and cut them up and use them for transporting shrimp. He'll put them right inside the shrimp bag so they got something to hold on to. 41:09.496 --> 41:10.402 Pretty genius idea. 41:10.456 --> 41:12.222 Yeah. And pretty inexpensive. 41:12.366 --> 41:22.902 Yeah. So check out for pot scrubbies and loofas. Some of the more natural stuff, lava rock. Lava rock is very porous, very light, and if you get true lava rock, it should be more or less PH. 41:22.956 --> 41:43.150 Neutral yeah, I got some large loop of lava rocks over my landscaping that I bought down. When we're in South Dakota, I wish I would have bought more because they are just so useful and so beautiful. And they also are very good at scratching up your legs when you walk by. So they're good for skin grafts, stuff like that. 41:43.220 --> 41:51.114 There you go. Another one would be my brain just gave up the moving beds. 41:51.242 --> 41:54.254 The moving beds, like the sand moving. 41:54.292 --> 42:38.190 Beds, not sand moving beds. What they do is they make smaller bio balls and they're generally a lot lighter. They're made with a light, clear plastic or white plastic. You can just look up moving bed filter media if you want to search them on like an Amazon or wherever you buy your fish goods, you get a bag of them and they're light enough in the water that if you put them into a square box with bubblers, they can actually continually move and cycle. That means that the bacteria will grow on them, but not enough to keep debris and other detritus on them. So they do even better than any other filter media. As far as biological filters, moving beds are the strongest. 42:38.530 --> 43:02.840 Back in the don't know who made it, but it was all the rage for a while. It was a clear, probably three inch in diameter tube that was twelve inches long. You pump the water through it and the sand just continuously rotated in there and that was the biological. But what happened with those things is that they would clog up and you could never get them unclogged again. 43:03.530 --> 43:05.602 Oh, the diatom filters. 43:05.746 --> 43:16.826 Well, that's the mechanical no, that's the powder that you use. I had those too. Yeah. No, this stuff was just actually looked like the sand in your aquarium right there. 43:16.848 --> 43:18.106 I'd love to see it. 43:18.288 --> 43:32.158 It was a long tube and stuff, and you ran a power head through there and that whole the sand kept on moving and that's where all your bacterial was at. But then what would happen is we had no way of cleaning it out, so it eventually would clog up after six months. 43:32.164 --> 43:33.482 Oh, it was a sealed unit. 43:33.546 --> 43:39.070 Yes. It was all the rage for a little bit and then people go, I can't get it clean because I can't take it apart. 43:39.150 --> 43:48.754 So there is this cool decoration thing and you can giggle this on your inner tubes when you're not driving in the car. They call it a sand waterfall in the tank. 43:48.802 --> 43:49.350 That's cool. 43:49.420 --> 44:10.170 So essentially you put a nice thick water sand in the bottom of your tank and you have a plumbing system much like a sponge filter, where you have an airstone sucking up the sand, loose, light sand, and then it blows out the top of the spigot and it just cycles. And it looks like a waterfall inside of a tank. But instead of water, it's sand. 44:10.830 --> 44:14.234 I've seen the waterfall and I've seen a volcano, right? 44:14.432 --> 44:18.590 They do these and I don't think you can buy them. You have to custom make them. 44:18.740 --> 44:55.770 There is so much stuff I've been watching on the Internet, on the DIY stuff and watching especially overseas in some of these third world nations where they're taking whatever scraps they have and they're doing these beautiful things for ponds. They're taking styrofoam and cement and pieces of glass and making their own freaking pond that stands on top of the cement outside their homes. And it's absolutely gorgeous. You can get so sucked into it so hard of all these things that you can build for your house and it's just unbelievable what people come up with. I love the Internet when it comes to that stuff. 44:55.920 --> 44:56.570 Fun. 44:56.720 --> 45:32.546 Hey, we're talking about sumps. I just want to throw out one more thing, and I know a lot of you already know this, but if your sump for some reason like mine, is sitting on a cement floor, take a one inch or two inch piece of styrofoam, cut it to the bottom of your sump and put that underneath your sump. Because if your sump is sitting on the basement cement, it just sucks all the cold onto the cement and it's so hard to try to keep your tank heated and it's just another tip just to get it up off there. Because when it's sitting on top of the stair Form, it doesn't lose heat like it does when it's sitting on top of some mansion. 45:32.578 --> 46:46.858 There you go. So generally with the sump, again, you have the biological we talked about just the cycle of the biological bacteria. More surface area. The more surface area, the more fish you can put in your tank. Technically speaking, the other ones are naturals. So plants, if you can find somewhere in your sump to get away with growing plants, that is probably one of the best ways of natural filtration. In large saltwater sumps that we see, we see main growth in freshwater sumps, we see a lot of those. ivies be careful if you have cats because they'll kill them. But ivies bamboos any type of plants that you can put, even terrestrial plants where you can have them grow, like a hydroponic deal is extremely beneficial. Even some of the rougher stuff, like guppy grass, some of your mosses, if you have a section that's safe to put them in without clogging, your sump filter. All of those are fantastic ways of making sure. And then all your tannins. If people have a piece of wood that doesn't look good, but you know it bleeds a lot of tannins in there, you can find a corner of your sump to put them in. Just make sure that that's not going to break down and cause more waste in your filter or get clogged up into a pump. 46:47.034 --> 47:06.354 A trick I learned here not that long ago is if you like that tannin look and you've got a piece of wood that's kind of deteriorating, put them in one of those socks that we just talked about and then you won't have that little tiny pieces of wood and stuff floating in there and stuff, but you'll still get the tannins released out of it. And that works really well, for sure. 47:06.552 --> 48:11.580 The other things that we haven't talked about, the actual mechanical parts of the sump. So generally speaking, people drill holes into their tank so they have an overflow. So if you're pumping water into a tank, the other side spills the water out. So if you don't want to drill into your tank to release the water down into your sump, you can actually build a mechanical overflow that keeps a prime. You can buy these. They're generally very expensive. If you can find the overflows, I've seen them for $200 for just a piece of plastic. There's not a motor in it. There's nothing real proprietary. It's just a designed overflow to put in your tank that has a siphon. You can build this. There is a YouTube video that joey, the king of DIY, has done years ago, and it's pretty well foolproof. I've used them on a lot. You just got to go with a certain gauge of pvc you want to make it out of. And for, you know, $20, you can build yourself a reliable overflow that's not complicated. And we'll have that link in the description of the podcast for you. 48:11.950 --> 48:14.074 So you've talked down about the three. 48:14.112 --> 48:20.662 Things, the filtration rate, mechanical, mechanical, chemical, chemical, biological. 48:20.726 --> 48:23.846 What about the most important part? The emotional. 48:23.958 --> 48:24.774 The emotional. 48:24.822 --> 48:27.450 How it makes you feel better because you put more fish in that tank. 48:27.530 --> 48:36.958 That's true. That end, somebody will use it for time out. So if you have a fish that's been naughty, guess what? He gets to live in the sump overnight until he learns his lesson. 48:37.054 --> 48:47.058 I know that's what I did with my grandkid the other day, and they put up no, I didn't for Henry. No, he's cute and he's not at my house very often, so he gets in trouble. 48:47.154 --> 49:32.510 Never. No candy and out the door. Yes, as well you should. Pump size. So as long as the water reaches up, any pump size can reach from a bottom of a tank to the top. People are concerned about over budgeting their pump. If you're really concerned, get a pump with a controller where you can turn the speeds up and down so you have the control of flow. You don't want to overflow the tank in case the overflow gets clogged. So slower is better. You're already having a bigger sump. Make sure that you're not overdoing it and giving yourself a bunch of leeway, because the one time that overflow gets clogged, well, suddenly now you have a wet basement. 49:32.590 --> 50:10.640 Right? And the other thing, too, when you're looking at the different pumps, depending on how far you have to. I mean, I know people that have sumps in their basement and they're pumping the water 10ft up to the main floor. And then you need a very strong pump. And that always talks about says head. And so the head will tell you how far it will shoot water up in the air. So, I mean, if you are trying to push water a large amount of space, say 10ft, then you're going to want a pretty strong pump, and you have to look at the head adjustment. Right. 50:11.410 --> 50:53.802 Anybody that wants to put a tank above upstairs and then the thump in the basement, either the tank is so big they have to, or they really hate money and they love giving it to their insurance company. That's integrity. Stay away from it at all possible. Some situations we understand you have to, but that's just malarkey. We had a user from the podcast Notorious letting us know that K One is the keyword to look for the filter media, that is, the white plastic moving bed filter media we talked about for earlier. And yeah, that is the correct term. 100%. You can find it small amounts or in absolute mass supply on Amazon is. 50:53.856 --> 50:57.534 For aquaponics, aquaculture, hydroponics and growing pot. 50:57.652 --> 50:58.126 Interesting. 50:58.228 --> 51:00.570 I just threw that in there. I don't know, maybe you can. Maybe you can't. 51:00.650 --> 51:45.100 Damn. Now, I wanted to grow pot. Some tricks do's and don'ts do. Make sure to put your heater in the sump. People argue with me just for fun. You're wrong, I'm right. Tough. Put your heater in there, but know that your heater has to be below the pump. Let's pretend that for some reason your sump is running out of water. If your heater is above the pump, you could easily have your pump rise above the water line and burn out. We don't want that because have you ever had a titanium heater explode? Not cool. 51:45.410 --> 51:49.934 I've got a titanium heater that doesn't work that I'm really upset about. 51:49.972 --> 51:57.278 All right, now you get to talk about it. We can go back to the parking lot. Robbie, do I get to pull up the brand? 51:57.374 --> 51:57.902 Robbie. 51:57.966 --> 51:59.682 So let me start. 51:59.736 --> 52:00.578 I want some help. 52:00.664 --> 52:19.346 Aqua Top is a fantastic brand. I love aqua Top Products. They make one of the best hang on the back filters. They have a full line of very nice lighting. Their glass heaters are fantastic. But for some reason, Jimmy was given for free a case of 500 watt. 52:19.378 --> 52:21.318 Titanium 500 watt titanium heaters. 52:21.334 --> 52:22.294 Aqua Top Heaters. 52:22.342 --> 52:42.990 The guy said, take them if you can get them to work, god bless you. They're brand flipping new with a $55 price tag on them. He bought them. He couldn't get them to work. I called up my buddy robbs, who lives down the street. robs comes, yeah, I can get that to work. Comes over, gets it to work for ten minutes, and it's never worked again. 52:43.060 --> 52:45.614 I did get to work longer than you did, right? 52:45.652 --> 52:46.654 I will give you that. 52:46.772 --> 52:48.066 I want the jury to understand. 52:48.168 --> 52:54.594 So anyway, I have four of these. There's not a water spot on any of them. They're not used because they've never worked for the guy. 52:54.712 --> 52:57.214 So Robbie made one was open, the rest were all brand, right? 52:57.272 --> 53:23.818 So Robbie made this complete sense to me. He says, you got to make sure it's completely submersed. And you know some submersible ones where you'll have it stick out. And I went, oh, okay. So he's completely submerged it all the way down to the bottom of the tank and it worked. You could sit there and watch the thing heat up. My Acrylic unit, it went up about four or five degrees and a half an hour while we're standing there. And you can see the heat. Heat kind of smolders off the top of the heater. 53:23.914 --> 53:26.842 Yeah. You see like the heat waves, the little ripples. 53:26.906 --> 53:37.098 Yeah. And I was like, Well, robbie's god, I can't believe he showed me this. I've been doing it for 37 years. And I go down the next day to 64 degrees. And I went, Robbie sucks. 53:37.194 --> 53:37.994 Robbie sucks. 53:38.042 --> 53:44.450 And then Robbie came over and said, I'll show you how to do this. And then 45 minutes later, he leaves one underneath his arm and says, I'm going to call the damn people. 53:44.520 --> 53:55.762 I am. So if you're from aquatop and listen to our podcast, just assume that I'm still having problems. The model is Ex 500, right? We finally got that off our chest. 53:55.826 --> 54:00.600 Yeah. And there's three sentences on the box on how to. 54:02.410 --> 54:37.506 Reading it right? Now read it one, properly. Place heater into the aquarium placement via the diagram. Plug heater into wall outlet, creating a drip loop for safety. Three, press the temperature control button to enter set mode. It'll begin to flash. Press the button to reach the desired temperature. Once reached, wait three to 4 seconds until it stops flashing and the temperature is set. Four, the unit is heating when the blue light on the lcd display where the actual temp is in the aquarium. So the blue light is on and. 54:37.528 --> 54:38.818 It'S set to four degrees. 54:38.914 --> 54:43.320 We put it in. Jim even made sure it had a Poop loop. And nothing. 54:44.250 --> 54:50.018 We got the blue light on. It says it's 84 degrees and it's 64 degrees. 54:50.114 --> 54:52.354 So Love aqua Top Products They're probably. 54:52.412 --> 54:54.778 One of my God, help me, but somebody helped me. 54:54.864 --> 54:56.234 But Jim, we need some help. 54:56.272 --> 54:58.826 I got four of them and it works so good. 54:58.848 --> 55:26.638 They're not cheap either. Let me tell you what. Let me tell you what oh, here, review. aquatop heater worked for about a week. Stopped heating has yet to set. 78 degrees. Heating, 92. unplugged. Try different outlet. No success. We have multiple aqua top products. Never had any issues with them. Obviously a flaw in this 1500 watt design. You're not alone, Jimmy. What's. 55:26.654 --> 55:28.454 The next one to say, same deal. 55:28.572 --> 55:30.962 Yeah, two units of failures. 55:31.106 --> 55:33.462 Heaters don't last more than a month. Terrible experience. 55:33.596 --> 55:41.766 And it's all just the 500, all the 500 watt. The other watts all have five stars, like 4.64.8, you know? 55:41.868 --> 55:43.962 And right now, they don't even have the 500 watt available. 55:44.016 --> 55:47.610 They probably discontinued it because Jimmy got a podcast. 55:48.830 --> 55:53.818 If I called them, would they be nice to me and just say, hey, dude, here's a free heater? 55:53.994 --> 55:58.618 No, because you just told them you got them for free. You done Frank yourself, Jimmy. 55:58.714 --> 56:00.862 What? I got it for free? 56:00.996 --> 56:03.502 Yeah. I mean, you paid good money for. 56:03.556 --> 56:05.134 Maybe if I paid $200 a piece. 56:05.172 --> 56:08.494 For them you paid good money pieces from a reputable healer. 56:08.622 --> 56:10.946 I just upset, all right? 56:10.968 --> 56:12.354 So anyways, back to it. 56:12.472 --> 56:16.814 Make sure my fish have got little muffins ear muffs on because it's so cold in that tank. 56:16.862 --> 56:32.650 Less from cobalt will be kicking me. But I'm all for putting your heater in the sump. Make sure it's below the pump. Never ever have an equal or higher than the pump, or you will have a bad time in burnt out heaters in your sump. End of story. 56:32.720 --> 56:38.058 Well, God bless you if your heater worked in the first place, because mine doesn't work, and I don't freaking care. 56:38.224 --> 56:41.980 I love you. Other things you can hide in there. 56:43.310 --> 56:44.778 Your mom's birthday present. 56:44.864 --> 56:46.190 You could put your heat in there. 56:46.260 --> 56:47.786 If you really wrap it up and pile. 56:47.818 --> 56:51.246 Yeah, you got to, like you know what I'm saying? For sure. 56:51.348 --> 57:00.654 I wouldn't do cocaine, though, because I've watched enough of these stories on TV where people are mules and then they swallow the condom full of cocaine and they burst in their stomach. Do you want that in your tank? 57:00.702 --> 57:13.778 No. Another thing that I get, people have been trying out is putting those little breeder baskets. If you don't want them breeder baskets unsightly in your tank, you could put them in the sump and float them in your sump if you have enough room in your sump. 57:13.874 --> 57:18.362 Yeah, because there's nothing better than a baby fish loves to do with the swim. 900 miles an hour. 57:18.416 --> 57:22.490 No, they're in the net, so they don't get that high of flow. 57:23.150 --> 57:24.138 Says you. 57:24.224 --> 57:28.410 I've done it. Have you not seen the breeder basket in my own sump? 57:29.150 --> 57:37.680 I'm not familiar with yourself. It just sounds dirty. I've not been out of the house for a year. I'm sorry, people. 57:38.210 --> 57:59.542 For shame. Now what? don'ts right. If you're going to use a sump overflow rig, make sure that you're not putting, you know, breeding fish in a tank with a sump. Because you get what we call sump mollies. If you have live bears, specifically wait. 57:59.676 --> 58:00.770 Back up the truck. 58:00.850 --> 58:01.522 Some mollies? 58:01.586 --> 58:05.526 Some mollies. Are they related to ditch goldfish here. 58:05.548 --> 58:06.454 In the same family? 58:06.572 --> 58:09.026 Honestly, they all live in a trailer park. 58:09.058 --> 58:50.398 So what happens is your live bear we'll pretend it's a Molly, right? Gives live birth. Normally, fish would eat it or it would hide in whatever decorations you have. But if you have a sump, they're retarded and they flow to the overflow like a magnet. And you will find nothing but I don't know, a million, billion mollies in your sump at all times. You'll just see them all right, in that area where you have the first part of mechanical filtration all waiting for you, swimming, like flying, holding on to dear life with all that flow in the first chamber, trying to get mechanically filtered out. And by the way, thriving because they're eating all of the shit that gets caught in the throat. 58:50.414 --> 58:55.602 That's because food is being jammed on their throat at 40 miles an hour on a daily basis. 58:55.666 --> 59:04.060 My friends would come over and be like, bro, you got somali's. I'm looking for some mollies. And the dude, I got sump mollies. And they look at me like, the hell is a sump, molly bro? 59:04.510 --> 59:06.262 It's like a ditch goldfish. 59:06.326 --> 59:11.306 Come over here and they look I just take the cap off my sump and they look down. I'm like, hot damn, that's a lot. 59:11.328 --> 59:13.802 Of I'm going to go look in your sump before I leave today. 59:13.936 --> 59:32.562 In my sump right now, as we speak, I have the matin filter. So I use the big piece of sponge to go over the entire first section, first column of the sump, you will see placo full size, because my plato had babies. They fell through the sump, and they've been living in the stump ever since. 59:32.616 --> 59:34.498 You're a dick, right? 59:34.664 --> 59:38.370 That's what you'll see. You'll see shrimp because shrimp litz. 59:41.530 --> 59:44.406 You're going to see a puppy a. 59:44.428 --> 59:46.434 Little grown into shrimp, a little border. 59:46.482 --> 59:48.306 Collie puppy that fell in there. 59:48.348 --> 59:58.086 And you will see like one third size Molly's, because that's what fell behind, including probably some of adam's feeder guppies. 59:58.278 --> 01:00:01.174 Well, we'll get everything out of the feeder gupies. We don't care about the antlers. 01:00:01.222 --> 01:00:13.134 Oh, not to mention because I decide to take my overflows and push all my duck weed down the overflow chute. You'll see maybe £9 of duckweed in my sump I have to scoop out. 01:00:13.172 --> 01:00:14.774 I need some of that for my pond. 01:00:14.922 --> 01:00:16.066 All for you. 01:00:16.248 --> 01:00:44.038 Oh, my god. I'm just going to go dig around in your sup. It's one of my favorite things to do is when I first started traveling to Florida, I would go to cigarettes farms and hang out there all day long and just irritate the piss out of those people. I still do, but it's just now I'm older and still irritate the piss on them. But their sumps would have, sandy their sumps would have every time you go in and look, there'd be like, oh, yeah, a 14 inch knife fish. 01:00:44.134 --> 01:00:49.306 Well, the problem is with their sumps is they have this huge recirculating system, right? 01:00:49.328 --> 01:00:51.434 I mean, it goes through the entire place building. 01:00:51.552 --> 01:00:53.590 So they have sumps the size of. 01:00:53.600 --> 01:00:55.534 Your car, anything that jumps out. 01:00:55.652 --> 01:00:57.070 Yeah, that's where it lives. 01:00:57.140 --> 01:01:00.158 It lives there until something you got. 01:01:00.164 --> 01:01:10.046 To ask Sandy more. If they just do like once a year, they do like a sump sale. Hey, everything is a key word. Like, what are these? These are sump mollies. Yes, those are sump to go snipes. 01:01:10.078 --> 01:01:11.646 You got any ditch goldfish? 01:01:11.838 --> 01:01:13.650 You got any ditch goldfish? 01:01:15.110 --> 01:01:16.270 I'm going to call Sandy. 01:01:16.350 --> 01:01:21.746 I shoot you not. Last time I was at seagris, right up front, they have this little it is a ditch. 01:01:21.778 --> 01:01:22.306 It's a ditch. 01:01:22.338 --> 01:01:27.602 It's a ditch and it's filled with water. And I look over, shoot, you know there's angels, there's all kinds of shit. 01:01:27.666 --> 01:01:35.450 Sore tails in the ditch, pretty much. And you see a sore tail go by and it's like not serious. Nine inches long. 01:01:35.520 --> 01:01:36.058 Oh, yeah. 01:01:36.144 --> 01:01:38.154 And it just looks at it. It's the most beautiful one you've ever seen. 01:01:38.192 --> 01:01:39.334 It's a freak of nature. 01:01:39.382 --> 01:01:44.266 You put your head over there and so they look at it and it's gone down a quarter mile down the ditch already. 01:01:44.368 --> 01:01:47.354 You can never catch it behind poisonous snake or venomous snake. 01:01:47.402 --> 01:01:47.854 Right? Yeah. 01:01:47.892 --> 01:01:51.550 You don't want to dive in there is tempting. 01:01:52.450 --> 01:02:07.800 The first time I was there, like, I'm pointing something out to them that they don't know about. I said to Julie, hey, do you know you've got like a twelve inch knifefish there? And she goes, yeah, he was like four inches when he jumped in there. I go, what's he eat? She goes, Whatever jumps in there. 01:02:08.490 --> 01:02:10.646 Whatever they're feeling like, can you imagine, like, working there? 01:02:10.668 --> 01:02:12.770 Be like he probably eats $3,000 in guppies. 01:02:12.850 --> 01:02:21.046 Oops, I dropped a goldfish. Yeah, hilarious. So, yes, if anything gets caught in your sump, it is now sump x. So sump mollies are a thing? 01:02:21.148 --> 01:02:21.794 Sump molly. 01:02:21.842 --> 01:02:29.606 Some mollies. You give them to his gifts, just throw up with a bag. Like, what is that? That's a bag of sump molly's. Enjoy. And they just look at you retarded. 01:02:29.638 --> 01:02:35.114 Yeah, I'm sure. Would you get Jim? I got some sump moss. Sump moss? 01:02:35.162 --> 01:02:38.170 100%, dude. Sump moss grows better than normal moss. 01:02:38.250 --> 01:02:38.638 Really? 01:02:38.724 --> 01:02:39.438 That's a fact. 01:02:39.524 --> 01:02:46.958 So you think we should probably start growing illegal things in your sump? Wouldn't it be hilarious if bro, that's sump pot. 01:02:47.124 --> 01:02:54.258 That's the thing, though. I know people that hydroponic pots out of their sump. Yes, pots. Pots as in marriage I want. 01:02:54.344 --> 01:03:26.000 Right. I saw the cool thing on the Internet again, on YouTube, where the guys, like I said, where they made their own tank and then they took seriously ten inch bamboo and they got ten rows of ten inch bamboo above the tank and they drill it five inches and they got a cup in there and they're hydroponically growing lettuce and stuff. So there you go. Lettuce above their their fish. And of course it's just being sustainable living in the third world country, and it's really beautiful and really cool. Nice. 01:03:26.610 --> 01:03:39.780 All right, so we talked about dos. What's some dons? I'm going to let Jimmy go first. What are some dons? Sumps. Don't you have this wonderful acrylic overflow system with a nice sump? Yes. What would you recommend to not do. 01:03:40.710 --> 01:03:41.858 To not do ever? 01:03:41.944 --> 01:03:42.580 Yes. 01:03:42.950 --> 01:03:47.780 I think we already talked about the thing that smoked up my thing? 01:03:48.230 --> 01:03:49.218 Yeah, the uv. 01:03:49.314 --> 01:03:50.438 Yeah, the uv thing. 01:03:50.524 --> 01:03:53.346 Uv filtration. Make sure to have it covered. 01:03:53.538 --> 01:04:06.058 Also, if you're going to put your heater down there, which Robbie wants to do big time and stuff, take your heater and really zip tight or attach it, because it will move. 01:04:06.144 --> 01:04:09.834 It will move sometimes if it's in the appropriate area. Suction cups won't work. 01:04:09.872 --> 01:04:31.746 Yeah, suction cups don't work. If you have a glass heater down there below, what will happen is it will sit there and bang enough times where it will actually break and then fry everything up. I would use a titanium heater or one of those I call them rubber heaters. It's a hard rubber, plastic I'm all. 01:04:31.768 --> 01:04:38.542 About the glass heaters. But you get the bumpers, right? You can buy bumpers for them that are heat rated. 01:04:38.686 --> 01:05:02.250 And so I would do that. Also, on your sump, you always want to try to mark where you want your water levels. And here's why. Because you're not home all the time, and you go to Florida to get drunk for a week. I ain't saying any names, but it's me and my son's home, and he's watching my fish tanks and my dogs, and he calls me and he's going, yeah, there's some damn noise downstairs. He doesn't talk Southern. He's not from south. 01:05:02.830 --> 01:05:03.934 Just keep rolling with it. 01:05:03.972 --> 01:05:10.538 Yeah, your son Billy, billy Bob thornton, he goes, hey, make a noise. slurp burger. gurgle gurgle. slurp. 01:05:10.554 --> 01:05:11.034 Slur. 01:05:11.162 --> 01:05:28.902 And I go, oh, the sump is going dry. Put some water in there. How much? I said, we'll just fill it up. And so he filled it up, which was fine until he pushed a button to stop the flow to feed the fish, and then it overflowed on the floor. And then all of a sudden, I'm the bad guy, right. But I was in Florida. I didn't care. 01:05:28.956 --> 01:05:29.682 For shame. 01:05:29.826 --> 01:05:37.522 So you want to mark the minimum and the maximum of water height on your sump. 01:05:37.586 --> 01:05:45.994 So your sump was designed by a professional, right. And there is an appropriate law water level. Mine was done by redneck ass myself. 01:05:46.112 --> 01:05:46.874 Yes. 01:05:47.072 --> 01:05:51.654 And I have multiple I have one sump running nine aquariums. 01:05:51.702 --> 01:05:59.822 Right. And you at least have a glass one. I do. And so you could easily take, like, masking tape and put on there. 01:05:59.876 --> 01:06:00.362 Bingo. 01:06:00.426 --> 01:06:09.602 But the people that buy, the ones that are completely they're acrylic. Well, there's also some that are just solid black, and then you can't see the water level. 01:06:09.656 --> 01:06:10.462 Yeah, that's poopy. 01:06:10.526 --> 01:06:11.298 Don't buy those. 01:06:11.384 --> 01:06:12.254 Get clear sumps. 01:06:12.302 --> 01:06:13.438 Clear sumps. 01:06:13.534 --> 01:07:10.302 There's another good don't don't, don't. But mine, I have multiple tubes coming down from nine aquariums going to one sump. So when you have those stuffed in there, not only you need to be aware of the level, but why. If you have, for instance, eight of those nine tubes exposed and the water is free falling into the sump, good. If you have it above covering the tube, it creates a backflow that doesn't allow as much water to flow through and then causes that tank to overflow above it. So definitely how'd you learn test the waterline. I have my nine tank racking system with the sump right above my floor train, so I get to make all the mistakes I want and not pay the costs. Now, I did that and I had a very dry sump, and I had a grindy pump, so I still had to pay something. 01:07:10.456 --> 01:07:11.666 You had a grindy pump? 01:07:11.698 --> 01:08:12.406 I had a grindy pump. So that's definitely a don't. Now we have one from a listener notorious says pre filter sponge in an overflow box helps to prevent fish from ending up being a sump. Molly also a screen over the wear teeth for shrimp. I'm going to agree with 50% of this. Having the presponge filter and overflow, awesome. You just got to make sure that it is another piece that can clog. So make sure to check your sponge filters regularly, because the moment that sponge filters are clogged, there's more water on your basement floor. Right. The screen over the wear teeth for shrimp work, but using any type of mesh or screens over the overhead bulkhead filter clogs, even if it's algae growing or you got lazy or again, you went on vacation in Florida and your son had to take care of it. Duckweed diligent duckweed. 01:08:12.438 --> 01:08:14.634 A dead fish, dead shrimp, duckweed will do it. 01:08:14.672 --> 01:09:08.362 The whole thing. And make sure that you're not just using loose bulkhead filters. When we talk about a bulkhead filter is the hole in your aquarium where the water flows into. Generally, you have to have some sort of great system on there. Make sure not to cover up those and make sure they're in place, because fish do get rambunctious and can knock that head out. And when they knock that head out, like you said, debris duckweed, fish themselves can all clog it. I've had one that was not put incorrectly, and a medium sized plato got stuck in the overflow tube and of course, emptied the water out of my sump. But then he was crushed in that tube, so it killed him and he died in the overflow tube. So, yeah, be vigilant. There's pros and cons of this filter, for sure. 01:09:08.416 --> 01:09:18.686 Yeah. Everything I watch on TV, people always try to come up with a little bit better. I just watched one today, too, where they're talking about that he doesn't like screen because it's too fine. 01:09:18.868 --> 01:09:24.050 Yeah, you can do a more open screen. There's variable screens you can put on. 01:09:24.120 --> 01:09:56.922 And the thing is, like with a baby nursery, which I'm building right now, I'm going to use foam after watching all these different videos. But he took on the plastic container that he has a nursery in. He made a six inch slit that was one inch high. Just to avoid something like that. Just to avoid all the amount of chances of it. Getting sludged up is a good word. There you go. sludged up. 01:09:56.976 --> 01:10:19.538 So Victoria went in more description. He has made a design or borrowed a design and 3d printed it for a he calls it the leaf stops leaves from clogging in his weird teeth. So that's kind of genius, just for when he goes on vacation, puts a kind of a buoy around where the water would go to catch leaves. So damn decent design, my friend. 01:10:19.624 --> 01:10:31.110 Yeah. If you've got a lot of live plants, you're always going to have a loose leaf that's going to mess up your day. There are so many great designs that people have come up with and stuff and you could take it and make it your own. 01:10:31.260 --> 01:11:12.926 You basically go out there, find a piece of filtration or something you want to add to your tank, and that sump is the creative repository for you to be your own aquatic engineer and filibuster it into place. Just make sure if you're going to try something that isn't pre done or has a design already built and you want to try something on your own to see work out the kinks. Have a floor drain, right? Yeah. Have a cement basement instead of carpet. Do it in a garage where that water can flow out. Because let me tell you, I've done some unique building of my own and it's been life saver having that floor drain. 01:11:12.958 --> 01:11:40.086 Yeah. Hit or miss. And the other thing, when you say don't this may sound really cruel, don't let your non aquatic person in your life help you decide what to keep and what to throw in your fish room. Because the other day I'm looking for little tiny pieces of I bought the matin filter from our friends from Swiss tropicals. Yes. There we go. That's what I was looking for. 01:11:40.128 --> 01:11:44.842 Also, best place for sponge filters ever. They have some the most creative designs. 01:11:44.906 --> 01:11:45.326 Yes. 01:11:45.428 --> 01:11:48.442 Including jimmy's Square cadillac filters. 01:11:48.506 --> 01:12:23.290 Yeah, I love them. So anyway, when I made matin filters for my for my 20 gallon longs and you have to kind of trim them to fit and I had all kinds of little pieces and I said to my wife, I said, where in heck did they go? I know I had them. Oh, I threw them. Why would you want to keep them? And now I'm making this baby nursery and I need little tiny pieces of filter and I don't have them. So don't let other people decide what you should keep. Get yourself a couple of plastic totes and keep all that oddball stuff that you think you're not going to use. 01:12:23.360 --> 01:12:36.266 You have the scraps from every sponge, from every piece of plastic, from every loofa, from every pot scrubby I've used all over and over. A really unique way to have a media bed to grow good bacteria. 01:12:36.378 --> 01:13:21.946 How many times have you all of a sudden right now is downstairs in rob's house here he's got a pair of rams. And what I love doing for rams is taking a little clay saucer for a little tiny flower pot and throwing it in the bottom of the tank because that's where they love to lay their eggs. And pretty soon my wife goes, oh, I brought a bunch of those little pots downstairs and put some plants in them, but why don't you go buy your damn own? Because now those are clay ones and you could go buy a plastic ones for next to nothing on the Internet. And the clay ones are kind of expensive. And she took all those from me. I was like, okay, I don't come down up to your kitchen and grab the turkey baster more than one time. 01:13:22.128 --> 01:13:23.466 More than one time. 01:13:23.568 --> 01:13:26.686 I now have my own turkey baster. It's her old one and she has a new one. 01:13:26.708 --> 01:13:28.650 And I bet she has her own potting materials. 01:13:28.730 --> 01:13:29.360 Yes. 01:13:30.050 --> 01:13:33.034 So this is aquarium, guys, therapy. And it's a good session. 01:13:33.082 --> 01:13:33.454 It is. 01:13:33.492 --> 01:13:34.450 We're going to meet next week. 01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:36.660 Keep people out of your damn fish room. 01:13:38.870 --> 01:14:00.322 Go to Aquarium Guys podcast, bottom the website. You'll find the discord. There is a bunch of people beginning to post pictures of sumps. We'll probably have I think it's going to be like hashtag Sump Channel just to talk about sump design. In fact, I'm making sure it's here. So go check that out. Otherwise find us on Facebook. 01:14:00.386 --> 01:14:04.150 I think it should be hashtag sump. There's all kinds of sump. Mollies, some mollies. 01:14:04.230 --> 01:14:11.482 Yeah, no, that's the club, bro. I'd be part of the Sum Molly group. We have a gang sign and everything. Basically just a middle finger upside down. 01:14:11.536 --> 01:14:14.390 Yeah, there we go. You never won. 01:14:14.560 --> 01:14:44.710 So that's a crash course now, actually building your sump, that's more building tanks for silicone in spacers and all that. Me. I think the last DIY thing you could do is instead of if you just have a bear tank like you have a 55 gallon and that wants to be your sump, instead of you going and taking the time of cutting pieces of glass or plexiglass silicone them in place so you have the barriers and levels of the sump. Go and get that. What's that plastic grating, Jimmy, that they use for lighting the square grates. 01:14:45.850 --> 01:15:32.230 It's called a lighter diffusers. And they come in two foot by four foot. And you've all been in an office where they've got the four foot fluorescent lights and they've got that grate, that white grate. You can go to your local hardware store. You can pick those up for seven dollars to twelve dollars, depending on the size. And if you are careful, because they do get sharp, you can take your wire cutter and you could just kind of snip snip snip make it work perfectly for what you want. They're big enough so the water never gets clogged on those things because they're probably a good three 8th of an inch square. And then you can put your bio balls in there and your filters and then maybe even a small playground for your sump guppies so they can live over there where it's nice. 01:15:32.300 --> 01:15:40.966 All right. Real question, Jimmy. You know that guppies and molly's cross, right? Kind of like a horse and donkey. 01:15:40.998 --> 01:15:42.534 Makes a mule, makes a zonkey. 01:15:42.582 --> 01:15:43.180 Right? 01:15:44.110 --> 01:15:44.966 Well, that's a zebra. 01:15:44.998 --> 01:15:55.334 That's a zebra. So what is it? Is it gollies or muppies endlers? No, when you cross a guppy in a Molly it's a Muppy or golly. 01:15:55.462 --> 01:15:59.054 It's a muppet. I don't know. A Muppy. I don't know. Never heard of such a thing. 01:15:59.092 --> 01:16:00.714 You've never crossed a guppy in a molly? 01:16:00.762 --> 01:16:01.262 No. 01:16:01.396 --> 01:16:09.698 Jimmy, you need to get more mad experience. No, you need to have more sum mollies and guppies. Like I said, they'll make a sum golly. You know what I'm saying? 01:16:09.784 --> 01:16:18.040 I'm not against orgies, but I'm just bad at multitasking. I've told you that. That is so weird. Why would you let your guppy and molly do it? 01:16:20.410 --> 01:16:23.734 Remember, it's the rainbow month that we're all supposed to be that's right here. 01:16:23.772 --> 01:16:24.166 Yes. 01:16:24.268 --> 01:16:28.466 We have to be accepting of our guppies and Molly's crossing, I think, whoever. 01:16:28.498 --> 01:16:34.150 They want and how they identify. Right, perfect. So what's a very odd a very odds to me is a cross between. 01:16:34.220 --> 01:16:36.690 A plateau no, that's its own source. 01:16:36.850 --> 01:16:42.240 I know, but it looks like a cross between a plateau and a sword tail. Very honest. 01:16:42.610 --> 01:16:46.570 Yeah, people like Italian too much. What's that, Latin? 01:16:46.650 --> 01:16:50.938 And you know what ENDLER is? It's a cross between a turd and a rock. 01:16:51.034 --> 01:17:03.060 Oh, and on that note, we'll catch you on the next one. We're going to do a couple more of these in a batch here, get you more of the stuff you crave. Basically get your assholes off my ass. All right. 01:17:03.510 --> 01:17:05.090 You're so rude. 01:17:05.430 --> 01:17:08.062 We got a lot of demanding fans. 01:17:08.126 --> 01:17:14.422 I had people that said to me, why aren't you guys doing a podcast? I said, Call Robbie and give him shit. And they did. 01:17:14.556 --> 01:17:15.190 Yes. 01:17:15.340 --> 01:17:16.994 Well listened to. Well played. 01:17:17.042 --> 01:17:18.006 They did. How dare you? 01:17:18.028 --> 01:17:23.882 That's right. So anyway, hopefully our lives are back in order where we can start getting a few of these more out to you. 01:17:23.936 --> 01:17:28.266 Well, be sure to post jimmy's direct address and personal cell phone number so you can call him from now on. 01:17:28.288 --> 01:17:30.326 Yes. And you could all camp out in my front yard. 01:17:30.358 --> 01:17:32.110 Do you ever get that po box we asked for? 01:17:32.180 --> 01:17:32.846 No. 01:17:33.028 --> 01:17:35.390 How are people supposed to send us our snake. 01:17:36.930 --> 01:17:42.462 Snake? We're not even worth our snake. But you know that if we you can send some baby powder in there. 01:17:42.516 --> 01:17:47.278 You know, if we do, they're just going to send us dried out feeder copies in the mail forever. 01:17:47.374 --> 01:17:47.838 Forever. 01:17:47.934 --> 01:17:48.350 Forever. 01:17:48.430 --> 01:17:49.220 Oh, God. 01:17:50.070 --> 01:17:52.158 I found something. Molly's. 01:17:52.254 --> 01:19:12.746 Molly's. Hey. And if anybody out there has got any Molly stories or some ditch goldfish or some, I want to hear about it. Give us a call. Give us an email. Light up robbie's phone. I don't care. But be fun to hear other people find. I mean, the one thing that I have found that is most fascinating to me, which I don't think I've even talked to you about, I found on the YouTube this group, and it's called Ace. Ace. It's a bunch of foreign gentlemen, and they're just in the river system, walking up and down the river system with these bamboo nets that they've made. And they are grabbing goldfish and angel fish and all kinds of crazy fish, and they're just collecting them out in the wild. And I am just totally so turned on by watching it and so relaxing. They got this beautiful music in the background, and you can hear them talking a foreign language, and it's kind of like watching a Bob Ross video. You want to take a nap? Put that on. And you're watching them. They're collecting big angel fish and orandas and cambodian bedas, all in a river system. Which body of water in a river system where they were invasive. Yeah, it must be but I mean. 01:19:12.768 --> 01:19:15.214 It must be done at the seagrass ditch. That's what they're doing. 01:19:15.252 --> 01:19:18.080 Yeah, but it's in a different 100%. They're all talking different. 01:19:18.530 --> 01:19:22.720 No, they just do that for the film. It's a segregch they're doing. 01:19:23.490 --> 01:19:27.534 Could be over by the high school or the college or whatever the hell you fund your goldfish. 01:19:27.582 --> 01:20:05.438 All right, before we leave you all, we love you. We'll do more podcasts, we promise. Get off my back, aquatop. If any of you, or if you're a friend of an aquatop executive, send them our way. We want to figure out these damn heaters. And if you do fix our issue, you know what? I'll throw up some advertising for free, right? I'll be aqua Top bitch. Help us. Thanks, guys, for listening to podcast. Please go to your favorite place where podcasts are found, whether it be spotify, itunes, stitcher, wherever they can be found, like subscribe. And make sure you get push notifications directly to your phone so you don't miss great content like this. 01:20:05.604 --> 01:20:09.360 And the titles could be, like hottest fish ever. 01:20:09.970 --> 01:20:12.654 We'll just have nothing but a channel of Molly's doing it. 01:20:12.692 --> 01:20:13.582 Yeah, exactly. 01:20:13.716 --> 01:20:17.834 I'm in Chicken chicken boing boy, I'd subscribe to that. I would do that in a hot minute. 01:20:17.882 --> 01:20:27.574 And you know what would be sad is we'd be number one in a week because people like you or dementia will be going you got a chicken shit out, I'm going to send it to you. Here's a link. 01:20:27.692 --> 01:20:32.130 And we'll just dust off your old 70s records to get some obscure music in the background. 01:20:32.210 --> 01:20:32.500 Oh, yeah.