All the fishroom builders wishing this video had been around a long time ago! Dean the perfect educator, Nick the perfect presenter and Harlan the perfect camera person. 🐐🐐🥇🥇
Amen to that! I'm in the process of moving and this video and others of Dean's fish room are giving me so many ideas on how to improve my breeding set ups!
Dean's fish room, is fish room goals for many an aquarist I'm certain. If I were going to start keeping fish again at any point. His room would be the one I'd try to replicate.
After a few years break I'm back into fishkeeping and watching videos on youtube. It's great to see new passionate people like you on the scene. I can tell you genuinely love the hobby and want to make it better. You and Dean make a great team for educating people on how to do things right. Great work!
I’m a water engineer and I work on modeling large water distribution systems. You are correct in the fact that the free chlorine or chloramines (depending on treatment of the utility) breakdown and are lower towards the ends of a water system.
Thanks Nick, I really appreciate the time Dean gave you. I am setting up a new fish room after a few years not being able to keep fish. I want to have an automatic water change system and the information you gathered from Dean has been really helpful. Thanks again. I will be watching this video a few times. Thanks Michele
I love watching all these wonderful fishy videos, they make my frog and reptile pond , with little blue eyes , look so inadequate an old an vintage, been looking into modernising by adding a solar powered pump an making a filter only got into this 1 yr ago but it's become the best diversional therapy and great past time ,Thank you enjoy your videos, 💙🦘
Govee makes a WiFi enabled water sensor. Also has an audible alarm. You'll get an alert anywhere you have Internet access. They also has an audible alarm built in as well. I bought the 3 pack about 2 years ago and the batteries are still over 50%.
Nick really has nothing to learn from MD. MD doesn’t even know what fish he has. He’s great with plants, but not fish. He’s also an adequate aquascaper, so he has that going for himself.
KDF 85 catalytic carbon filter will remove chlorine/chloramines and does not impact water psi much. I use one on my RO filter connected to 55g drum w/float. If I don't need RO water I just disconnect the RO membrane and still have dechlorinated water.
@deansfishroom @keepingfishsimple - Nick’s suggestion of using a sump pump with float is a good idea. I also use a product called PumpSpy Wi-Fi Smart Outlet sump monitoring. If you rig your sump pump with a battery backup, you’ll have the redundancy of a pump failure and if the power goes out or pump fails, you’ll get a text message and push notification. They sell other sump components too but I’m only familiar with the monitoring device.
Coming from the saltwater side I’m having anxiety with that bucket and pump with no alarm. A aquarium controller with sensors and controls would be more re assuring.
Instead of using a large tank for water storage a catalytic carbon filter will remove chloramine in a pretty short contact time frame. Whole house systems can go for 6 months without replacement and if you run 100+ tanks it is probably more economical.
I would be very careful using those as they can potentially remove trace minerals as well. I happened to me and I had tins of fish deaths until we figured it out.
Winners makes a overflow sensor I have used for my outdoor pond and it is wifi controllable. Don’t know if it would work in this application how Dean wants it. They also make hvac ones for moisture but most aren’t WiFi controlled without paying $1000
PLEASE HELP!!! I’ve been building a very similar system over the last few months and am about to buy the submersible pumps but would love to avoid buying the wrong size. I should be able to do water changes to 30 tanks from my phone. One to supply HMA filtered water from a 1000L container, and one to pump away waste water after it overflows from the tanks, runs through a drain and back to a waste bucket. Please can you recommend how many GPH or LPH deans waste water pump is that he uses in that bucket/container?
Yes. I use carbon block (CTO) filter to remove chlorine and chloramine from my tap water for my koi pond. The chlorine/chloramine removal rate is depend on the iodine value of the carbon block filter, but you can increase the effectiveness by running carbon block on series of canister housing. 😀
Hi Nick I keep impulse buying fish and saying to myself its an investment how can i properly and efficiently breed stuff like guppys plecos and corys stuff you need skill to breed
That's a shitty way to describe the piping... "I couldn't put it there because there's a wall there, there's a wall here... So I went through the ceiling, across the room, then back again." *Drilling through floor and a ceiling is more complicated than just going through a wall*
His room is in a basement which means the walls might be concrete or cinder block. Easier to attach a pipe to a ceiling panel than drilling through stone.
