225 Gallon Planet Aquarium Installation! From Start to Finish!

What's up, Reapers? Jed here. I know what you're thinking. Where is Blaine? Well, Blaine and his beautiful wife just had an amazing child. So, he's going to be out for a little bit. So, I'm going to be taking over today's video, which today we are doing an install video, which we know you guys love. Here, we're installing a 210galon [music] Planet Aquariums over in Merit Island. Let's go check out the tank. We're going to walk you through the whole process and how we go about maintaining it as we are going to be maintaining this with our beautiful service fans in the near future. So, let's go check out the tank. Here we are. We are in our warehouse right now. Uh it's kind of like a storage area. This is where we do all of our setting up uh for the aquarium. This is our planet aquarium. 210 gallons. It is 72 24 30 tall. Is an insanely beautiful aquarium. There's also a canopy for this aquarium which is behind me, but we already started. Jean, you know, is always a workhorse. He always likes to get projects going early. So, we already went ahead started the plumbing of everything underneath. We're using a Bashy Pro sump underneath to get a roller mat in there. And it is really clean with the black and white down below. Let's go ahead and take some up close shots of it. [music] We are now here in our retail store in our aquarium showroom where we have so many different types of aquariums, many of which are available on our website if you're not a local customer here to Orlando. We have Innovative Marine, UNS, Red Sea. I mean, there's a bunch of different types you can get on our website. So, again, go check out topshelfquics.com to get your new aquarium. Something new that we've had in our store now are Planet Aquariums, which is what the aquarium we're installing today is. So, we have this beautiful white aquarium behind me, which if you're local or not local, come on. Come on in and get it. But the reason we're in this showroom right now is I want to show you the custom rock structure that's going into this aquarium. So, we've had this tank for a bit and it's about the same dimensions. This one is 30 in front to back versus 24 front to back, but in terms of length and height, it's all the same. So, this is a beautiful custom rock structure done by Kevin, which you have seen in a billion of our videos. Now, something cool that's also on our website is Kevin's custom rock structure. If you look at all the different tanks in our showroom, a lot of them do have custom rock structures in them. They are all skewed, so you can get that exact structure on our website. They're shipped. They're packaged really nicely. So, if you aren't local and you got to deal with, you know, going across the country with it, we do a really good job of packaging it to make sure it gets to you unbroken. So, if you also want to go check out that on topshelf aquatics.com, go ahead and do so. So, today is Tuesday. We have a different install going on today, but that's about all the prep we have done. So, we will see you guys in 2 days at the install. All righty, guys. We have made it out here to Merit Island where we're going to install this beautiful 210gal planet aquarium. It's 72 2430 tall. It's going to be a beast. It's going to be a tank that we're going to be maintaining in the future. So, I can't wait to show you guys. Before we can maintain it, we got to install it. So, let's go check it out. [music] All right. So, cool thing. We are doing Hydros on this aqua. This is kind of our Hydros Proac, the X10 Pro Pack. Um, but what's cool is we can actually set it up ahead of time before we get on the tank before we put it in its final location. I can plug it into a random outlet in the house, get it all programmed, so that way they can work on the plumbing, the rock, the sand, the water, all that. Then once they're ready to get the electronics on there, it's already programmed and ready to go. So, let's go ahead. Let's get this baby set up. So, right now, we're getting the hydro set up. As I said before, we can plug everything in over here, get it all coated, and then move it over to the aquarium. Making the collective right now. We have one, two, three brains going on the tank. Uh, but we're going to get all these outlets programmed, the sensors, the drive ports, the engine ports, everything get ahead of time. So that way this install is going nice and quick. We'll be out of here in like 30 minutes. Not that fast, but it'll be quick. [music] All right. So, while I'm still waiting on the hydros to upload all its changes, we're getting our carobc sand in. We are going with reef grade on this tank. It's a little bigger, coarser grain. Uh, it's going to be still great. Nice uniform color look for the entire aquarium. And then eventually we're going to get our custom rock structure in there done by Kevin, which if you want your own custom rock structure, there's a billion of them on our website. Or you can just hit us up and we can make it designed exactly for your personal aquarium. [music] All right, for this tank we have three XR30s. They're getting mounted on the rail right now, which is going to be hung in the canopy of this aquarium. Nice out of the way. Obviously, when you do a canopy, you can't do the tank mounts. So, we got to hang them from the canopy. They'll be out of the way. It'll be a nice even spread throughout the tank. It's going to look insane. [music] All right. So, this tank looks a little different than a lot of the customs you've seen on this channel, just because this is a Planet aquarium. This is not a full custom tank. This is a way though that you can get a beautiful looking full cabinetry set without going, you know, the $100,000 or $70,000 range a lot of times that you see on this channel. So, this tank is a bashy sump. We still have a lot of the same equipment, still fully loaded that wise, but [music] it's not 100% custom dimensions. It's not the sump is, you know, 2 in bigger than a normal stock size or the tank's, you know, 72 and a/4 or something like that. Everything is, you know, pretty stock or it's a little bit manipulated. Bashy sump is actually a standard thing that you can get from them. So, everything keeps the cost on a lot, so you can still get a beautiful final result like this one you're going to see here. This right now looks like a whole bunch of wires. I promise it makes sense in my head and it makes sense technologically as well. But, we ready to get all this is all programmed. that's ready to go underneath the aquarium and make it look all nice and pretty. [music] So, let's bring this concoction of hydros over to the aquarium. [music] All right. So, we got the sand, we got the rock. Now, we have a hose into the tank cuz we're ready for water for this tank. As it fills up, Jean will be pretty much done the electrical at that point. So, by the time that the water starts flowing down the overflow, we can kick the pumps on. We like the efficiency here at TopShelf Aquatics, but Dyke just ran out to the truck to turn it on, so we'll start filling it up. Cue the time lapse. [music] So, like I said earlier in the video, we are here at Merit Island. It's about an hour away from our store, but that doesn't mean that's as far as we go. We in two weeks are going down to Miami to move an aquarium. We've gone up to Georgia. We've gone out of state. We've gone to Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania. I mean, we go all over the country. So, [music] if you want an aquarium and you're not in the Orlando area, don't worry. We can make it happen for you. If you want aquarium maintenance, if you want that dream aquarium, but you don't have time or you don't know how to take care of it, we also have that going. We have a huge fleet of vans now all across Florida that we are a little bit more restricted on, but we have our Tampa route going. We have all the way down to Naples, Port St. Lucy, and even up to the Ocala area. If you have an aquarium in the Florida area and you want top shelf, you want the professionals to take care of your aquarium to make it a beautiful aquarium like you've seen before and done by us, make sure you hit us up and we'll make your dream aquarium a reality. Even if it's not one we installed, we can still turn it around so that you have a beautiful reef aquarium in your home. A beautiful talking piece, centerpiece to your home, and just what you've always envisioned for your home and for your aquarium. Got like a one knuckle left of my finger left to go to fill the water up before it drops down into the sump. The hydro is almost set up. Really, that's all that's left is the UV. And then we got to go and finish up all the coating. But she's about there. I [music] really don't think this can be that much longer, but she is almost ready. The water's really clear with the bag here. Making sure. Oh, see, you hear it going now. Actually, just in time. So, let's go ahead check out the water going down to the sump. Let's finish this thing up. [music] So, like I said, this tank is going to be using three XR30 lights. One, two, three XR30s. We got it mounted on a canopy. Beautiful wire track to hired all the wires. Just got to get our power supplies mounted. She's about ready to go on the tank. [music] Hey. [music] The team has killed this once again. This is a beautiful custom [music] planet. Sorry, not a custom, a planet aquarium. Little different here on the channel. I think this might only be the second planet that we've done, but as you can see, it still turned out absolutely beautiful. The team absolutely killed it per usual. The wire management is great. The rock structure is great. The tank looks amazing, clean. Can't wait to see this tank in a couple months cuz we are going to be maintaining it. So, we'll make sure we come back and check in on it. For the billionth time in this video, if there's an aquarium that you want to install or dream aquarium that you've had in mind and just don't know how to implement it, go to topshelf aquatics.com, go to the form, fill it out, it'll come to me. We'll make your dream aquarium a reality. If you stuck all the way to the end of the video, make sure you like, subscribe so you don't miss out on any future uploads. I I think that's how we end things. Yeah. [music]