What a beautiful aquarium. Such cool innovations on your part. What a dream!
@FishEZ4 жыл бұрын
Listened to the Aquarium Guys Podcast and just had to come see it. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
@fherglmx3 жыл бұрын
Listen to the aquarium guys and me too had to see it...is gorgeous.. thanks for preserving this for future generations.
@kyle2121214 жыл бұрын
Incredible set up!
@moutaintopfish1597 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the information
@Jonny_Black3 жыл бұрын
I keep seeing this tank on my instagram-- it's so beautiful!! So glad I stumbled across your videos. Love it!
@PawlikLab3 жыл бұрын
Thanks -- can't figure out why I get so few views, so please spread it around!
@davidvento54812 жыл бұрын
I mentioned in the comments of your older video there’s a British aquarist (“M D Fish Tanks” here on YT) who advocates and demonstrates building “bio-active” aquaria. These are closed units who use terrestrial plant roots (in addition to aquatic plants) growing in the tank to do all the filtration. Some plants he uses are ficus, pothos, philodendrons and ferns. He claims no other filtration is needed and he doesn’t even do water changes on his “bio-active” tanks. Beautiful tank btw. I have a smaller rectangular “Fisk” aquarium with twin herons on each corner.
@PawlikLab2 жыл бұрын
Great! I collect the Fiske and Mott catalogs as well -- if you send me a photo of your tank, I might be able to find the catalog reference.
@davidvento54812 жыл бұрын
@@PawlikLab I’ve actually seen it in a Fiske & Mott catalogue at the shop up in Hudson, NY when I purchased it. The aquarium is rectangular; fairly large approx 36”x24”x24”. It has twin herons on each corner with some stylized cattails & marginal plants and the bottom has a similar filigree as yours. It lacks the flower pot holders but rather has stylized iron “sea-shell” finials in each corner. The bottom itself is metal (iron?) and there’s a hole right in the center. It also weighs A TON! lol Amazingly all the glass is original and i just recently noticed in addition to whatever “cement” they used the whole frame is assembled with screws! This will make refurbishing it somewhat easier. Not sure about a fish tank but I think I’d like to make it a paladarium with a very old, concrete fountain in the middle to circulate the water. There’s a cement statuary foundry out on Long Isl. that has new castings from old molds. He also sells original pieces from old fountains & ponds that were once on estates. I know he’d have something amazing! I wish it had the bottom but I can improvise with either the oak leaf table base or a cement base consisting of 3 seahorses all back-to-back. The cement guy makes them from old molds as bird-bath bases.
@phinhager65093 жыл бұрын
Thank you, really beautiful. The kessel is meant to be supplemented with warm LEDs of you want that nice natural light look, and uses much less power than an equivalent halogen.
@alexswaekauski32734 жыл бұрын
This is really a beautiful aquarium thank you fir sharing. And a really amazing job on the initial restoration and now this upgrade. In the previous video I believe you said you had 4 male and 4 female bettas in the tank. How did that go long term? Did they continue to live relatively peacefully?
@PawlikLab4 жыл бұрын
Yes, all was well until I added some new algae eater fish, and unfortunately introduced a disease that killed them. Bettas seem to be very sensitive to diseases. I waited a month, then restocked and now I have 2 males and 3 females, and they are all fine together, and very active -- this group never fights. I won't be introducing any new fish anymore!
@volteface694 жыл бұрын
Merci pour cette vidéo !!! 👍👍👍
@PawlikLab4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Guy -- you're my biggest fan!!
@joer3493 Жыл бұрын
What's the weight of something like this?
@PawlikLab Жыл бұрын
Not sure, but very heavy -- it's sitting on bricks embedded in a concrete slab! My guess is that the aquarium is about 300 lbs plus 45 gallons of water.