what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
it to you on a green house saga Sunday's Snyder continues how's everybody doing I
hope you're doing well in today's video we're gonna bring you up to speed on
what's going on on greenhouse 2.0 we actually broke ground sorta we're also
gonna talk about my first firing as a general contractor of greenhouse 2.0 but
it is Sunday it is species Sunday I want to bring you all out to the greenhouse
in a minute and show you a plant that's been out of my life but is back in my
life now so last weekend was aqua shell abroad and I got to tell you those folks
put on an amazing show and I'm super stoked to be doing those moving forward
it was awesome for me to actually meet people in person I'm actually so
socially deprived that I teared up on two occasions one was when I spoke to a
woman who had actually lost her landscaping business to a similar lady
as the one that killed my greenhouse failed point Oh everything happens for a
reason I'm a better person because of it regardless the hug a woman and have a
almost cry moment with her was special I guess I'm not the only one in the world
that has people killing things that are trying to work on the second time your
boy Dee got choked up was during the kids aquascaping contest beneath this
rapidly aging 37 year old man lived the 12 year old boy is absolutely obsessed
with fish tanks and I got to relive that 12 year old part of myself during the
kids aquascaping contest real quick this is Alonzo you can see the footage
here okay the rules in my aquascaping contest which are going to be free and I
have vowed on camera multiple times that I will be having an any live event that
I go to three kids live aquascaping contas I'm
just going on record with that what are the rules doing my aquascaping contest
is this if you're a kid and you're under the age of 15 you can borrow whatever
plants you want this is Alonso Alonso came up to a 20 high that I had stacked
full of plants he took his arm dug in grabbed the most
massive wisteria that I had in the entire tank he then took that plant over
to his little ten gallon from our friends at planet aquarium he tried to
plant out he took the plant back out dripping all the way across the floor
put it back into my aquariums and then took out another smaller one and tried
it I got hit up by his dad later on he said thank you so much for having the
aquascaping contest I really boosted my kids self-esteem folks very few of you
know you're put on this earth to do that is why your boy dusty was put on this
earth was to be the Johnny Appleseed of aquariums so anytime I can do this with
his young kids it's truly moving I had an absolute awesome time watching these
kids just bright-eyed ready to roll scape and tanks and poisoning them at a
young age so with that said we're back in the box making videos talking to
myself with the smash success of aqua Shella over it's time to head home and
work on green house 2.0 now as most of you all know aquarium there's somewhat
of a strength of mine but new construction is not everything that I'm
doing at this point is a challenge there's a great quote that says there's
no growth without discomfort and I never built new construction before so we are
in the thick of it with green house 2.0 what's the first thing that Dustin I
wish I was a pink dolphin would like to have on the property its water okay my
original design for this is to have six yard hydrants similar to the ones I have
next to green house 1.0 over here I wanted to have these dug and trench and
rolling water water everywhere everybody knows with aquariums the easier it is to
do water changes the more success you're gonna have you can apply that in your
own aquariums as well as me with the next greenhouse so I wanted to get water
lines dug fortunately I had to wait on the state of Kentucky what's his MO I go
and do it all this water here we submitted the plumbing permits while I
was on vacation it took two weeks but I finally got my plumbing permit approved
now here's the rub here's the inexperienced
part from your boy D the lot that I own out there in Nicholasville is not up on
grade I want to have these yard hydrants six of them to be exact doing 32 gallons
a minute all over the property the problem is this I wanted to get these
trenched 30 inches deep into the ground and then coming up out of the ground
problem with that is this the ground is not up on grade look a
wise man knows he is not wise I do not know squat about new
construction I got a father in law his name is poppy you might remember him
from some of the greenhouse FairPoint old videos although he was overshadowed
by the lady when she handed me the black book of death
regardless anything that I have to do I run by my father-in-law papi papi
doesn't talk much but when papi talks you listen papi told me this I asked him
I said hey papi what's a text papi papi ain't calling a text papi I'm like
you'll pop you what's up man hey question for you I'm about to do these
water lines all six of them I'll sneak them probably shouldn't I get this up on
grade first he sends me back a long detailed engineering mind text basically
saying yeah dude you want to get that sucker up on grade so I get my permits
I'm ready to put water and then I realize if you want to do what you got
to do it right so I decide to get the site up on grade so I'm actually still
in the process of getting quotes to bring the site up on grade because what
I didn't want to do is this I didn't want to put six yard hydrants out there
have water running and then all of a sudden have guys with massive equipment
coming through and potentially knocking over one of my six yard hydrants that I
just spent about ten G's to do so I'm taking a step back taking a step slower
delaying myself because I don't exactly know what I'm doing to get water out
there so I'm gonna do this I'm gonna bring the site up on to grade and then
once it's up on degrade I'm gonna have them trench and put my water lines all
around so what else is going on besides the plumbing well I wanted to get the
plumbing running sooner than later but while the Plumbing's going on I figure
we're digging trenches why not get the electric going here's the situation this
is the plot from our friends from our friends at banks engineering this is the
property line it's 150 feet this way from the road to the back of the
property line this is land owned by my man Mitch can of who I actually bought
this lot from he owned all the Lots around here he's also a builder that
comes into play here in a second now while I'm rolling here I want to get
water onto the property also want to get electric I find out that while I'm at
the property the actual electric is from bluegrass energy not kon are you
familiar with Kentucky no the K u sucks and blueberry's energy should be a
better way to go there is a pole over here that is where the electric comes in
from Blue Grass energy coincidentally way over here is one from K use so I
lucked out I got bluegrass energy now we got to dig a ditch all the way across
from here I hit up Mitch I'm like yo man I got to bring I got to bring electric
across your property in order to get it to mine Mitch is cool Mitch's down mitch
has been Alaba dude the work with you is like yeah no problem man we'll split the
cost that's dope with the cost right so Mitch gets out there he says when you
gonna start he text me at 7:45 in the morning he's like how we're gonna start
today I said can you hit me with any more good news this morning
I go out there at 8:45 at night on a Friday night you want hustlin that's
hustlin I'm at 8:45 and night the Sun is going down I go out there and there is a
man named duck yes this man introduced himself as duck duck is sitting on the
back of a machine that has trenched about three-quarters of this line back
here along the back I'm super stoked duck is getting it done meanwhile I'm
still battling with the person who I have contracted haven't given any money
to but have contracted to do the plumbing duck is out here digging
ditches okay Monday I called the guy who I wanted to dig the ditches for the
water now to be fair I have now adjusted my plan because I wanted to bring this
site up on grade the guy that I was gonna have bringing the site up on grade
wasn't calling me back so on Monday I'm looking at this and I'm going now wait a
minute here ducks been out there he's dug three quarters of a trench and I'm
about to get power why can't this guy come out here and even give me a quote
I'm bringing it up to grade then dig the ditches for this I decide in a quick
caffeinated rant that you know what if he's not calling me back and he's not
giving me prices and he can't communicate he is now first firing
happens before I even get water on the property he's out Mitch's in I go out
there on Monday the trench has been dug all the way out there and bluegrass
energy the lady Tonya is actually standing there I don't talk to her cuz
I'm on the phone with somebody else she gives me a look I give her a thumbs up
in an on my head like this she goes yeah you're
so we have an electric line trenched all the way from here mitch is now the
person that I'm probably going to have do the digging on this property right
here but I'm still about to get it up to grade no I'm not a builder I'm a fish
tank dude if any of you all know anything about bringing a property up on
the grade or have any advice please let me know here's where we are at this time
I'm actually gonna bring this property up on to grade at the highest point it
only needs about 8 inches dirt at the lowest point it needs about two and a
half feet of dirt I've gotten a quote for about 6 G's to get this done I also
asked my father in law and my paid engineer should I get this compacted
they said absolutely so we're going slow and we're gonna get it up on the grade
sooner than later folks I could talk about the greenhouse 2.0
all day long I got one last thing to tell you and that is this I don't talk
about my wife much but she is good at designing stuff as far as colors we have
elected and I've actually paid the deposit down on the new building for
green house 2.0 we're gonna roll with ash gray and we're gonna roll with ivy
green or as I like to call it Dustin's fishtanks green on the roof so some
decisions are being made but it folks it is Sunday
it is species Sunday can I talk about some plants with you instead of the
green house let's do it but it's Sunday it's species Sunday
where does your boy dusty go when he's stressed out about playing general
contractor in greenhouse 2.0 he goes to greenhouse 1.0 and he sits like this and
he stares at plants and he watches the plants and folks this is this is a plant
it's all good this is a a plant that I'm excited to have back in Busa philanderer
named after Alexander the Great's horse busie phallus where he conquered almost
all of antiquity this is why we play the game folks because boost unlike a lot of
other plants gives you this crazy iridescent look that simply can't be
beat I gotta tell you this stuff I used to get it and it was wild collected and
it was a lot cheaper than it is today now this stuff is actually farm raised
how can you tell simple it's got like longer growth a little bit better growth
on here it's been
underwater for quite a while it's not as raggedy-looking but boosah Flandre oh my
goodness when I advise people on how to take care of boosts and simple think of
boost like you think of anubias I like higher calcium content in the water
that's one of the benefits of living here in the bluegrass is because we have
higher calcium content in our water anytime generally speaking with like a
bacopa or a boost or an anubius or any other like Burley stem plants you want
to think higher calcium content we have higher calcium content here in the water
in Lexington which is why the horses run so fast around here
but this boost right here is simply can't be beat
you can notice the long root growth on it now I like to attach boosts if
Alandra to a rock or to a tree however it can handle its roots like anubias its
roots can go down to the substrate not its rhizome but I want to just show some
of these on here I do have what you see is what you get boost available on my
site these are portions that will be
available as well but you can check these out
boosts has this just iridescent shimmer to it that I really like but it takes a
while to get that out we do daily water changes on it just to make sure any of
the missing trace elements are added back in it daily but you've got so many
different varieties they all have fake names like this is called Theia or
whatever this one right here is called red stem obviously it's got a red stem
so the names are basically made up if you can see some of the varieties of
this but I'm super excited about this because in greenhouse 2.0 I'm actually
going to be cultivating and growing this out on my own because I don't like the
fact Etowah it's been so savagely taken out of the wild it is what it is these
may have alternately been wild collected but they haven't grown out in captivity
which i think is nice so yeah folks do me a favor drop me a comment on what you
think about busa Flandre how you keep boost I keep loosing highlight you can
see new growth popping already here in here I use highlight good water flow
it's a slower grower so you want to have good water flow that's the same thing
with anubius but drop me a comment on what you think about busa fletcher let
me know if you're a general contractor and you have any advice on getting
greenhouse to point o up on grade I'm in a good time
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