Trapping RARE Aquarium Fish For My BACKYARD POND!

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In today's video, I use a MONSTER 16ft fish trap to catch rare aquarium fish in one of my favorite spots! @RobsAquatics and I had a 1v1 challenge to see who could catch more fish and lets just say I had a bit of an advantage! My massive fish trap ended up catching African cichlids, catfish, fire eels, Texas cichlids, AND MORE! Rob also caught some cool stuff including a colorful orange crawfish! We also did some netting in the creek and caught some crazy fish we need help identifying! Should we give this fish trap another try?
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Three two one and it goes all the way to the bank. Oh, look at that big one
It's a giant akara, yeah, look there's the mouth
Oh my god. Hey, no. Yeah, that's right. No. Oh, it's just a baby
There's a big blue one right here big blue african. Oh, oh my god. What is that?
What is up BMP nation welcome back to another awesome video guys today
We have a nighttime fish trap 1v1 me versus rob. It's been long overdue
You guys have wanted us for a long time to see who's the best fish trapper out of the two of us
We already know it's me, but we're gonna do the video. Anyways, just to prove it
Uh, so we each have a fish trap. I have this one
um, oh
Oh, yeah, you probably do need the extra help. So that's my fish trap
That's rob's and we're gonna see who can catch the most fish
I honestly didn't mean to unravel it right then it just kind of came out. But yeah, this is my fish trap guys
I'm, not even kidding. It's a 16 foot fish trap and we're gonna use it today
It's the it's the debut world's biggest fish trap and we found it and I just can't wait to use it, dude
I mean look at this thing. It's like a slinky. How does this even work? Oh, dude, that is insane
Okay, so each trap has its own individual
Little little thing dude. I can't wait. This is what i'm working with today. You know, it's nothing nothing crazy
It's it's you know humble with my skills
We're gonna put them to the test and see if I can catch more than rob in all seriousness
We're here at one of my favorite spots recently
Loaded with african cichlids because you know using a trap this big I wanted to catch as many fish as possible
The coolest fish as possible. So we're here at this little spillway spot that we recently found and uh,
This place is just loaded with cool cichlids like africans oscars south americans like jack dempsey's
I actually got a dm from a subscriber the other day saying he caught four jack dempsey's here and not gonna lie
I'm a little jealous because I love me some jack dempsey's and I still haven't got one here
So that's what i'm trying today. I'm trying to get me some jack dempsey's, but we'll see
Hello, look at all these rocks that they could be hiding in look at that play co
He's just sitting on the rock. Oh, look at this rob. Look down here two cichlids
Are those jack dempsey's guys? I think i've just spotted two jack dempsey's literally right off the bat. Check this out, please
Oh, he just dipped but you guys see there's already two
Insane cichlids, I guess we're gonna have to rely on our fish trap today. Look at those
There's one big one and then a second big one right next to it
We have no idea what those are. They could really be anything. They could be oscars texas cichlids. We've caught here
It's one of our best spots and what better way to use our new 16 foot fish trap than you know this spot
So yeah, we're gonna bait our traps up and place them in the water
And yeah, i'm just really excited to see what this monstrosity of a fish trap will catch look at this thing
Okay, we brought a lot of bait because we know it's a big trap
I guess we'll just sprinkle a little bit of fish food. This is literal fish food
So it's gotta work. So there's side holes here. And then once they get to here
It's front holes that go all the way into the middle. Wow. So if a fish is in there
There's no way that it's gonna get out. I guess what i'll do is i'll put fish
Fish food all the way up in there. Oh my god everywhere. Honestly. Yeah, we're just gonna load it up guys
It's literally on amazon for like 20 bucks. Go get yourself one. We'll literally load this up with fish food
Oh my god, this is gonna work find a hole. All right
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I'm gonna tie this off so they can't escape boom simple little knot like that. Do I just throw it in?
I don't really know if there's a strategy behind this but I might just toss it in the water right here. Ready?
three two one
Oh my god, she's sinking
She's sinking dude. This thing is ginormous. Oh my god. I've never seen a trap that big it covers the whole freaking canal
That's gonna work guys. We're gonna leave the the end right there one trap literally covers this whole entire area
I cannot wait to catch me some aquarium fish today, baby. So check this out guys. Our trap literally starts right there
And it goes all the way
To the bank. I mean dude, it doesn't get any better than that. There's fish already next to it
Look, there's one right there. This is my fish trap. So where do you think you're gonna place your little fish trap there?
What's the winner get who whoever wins? What do they get from this? I say they get like ten thousand dollars
I don't have to
Yeah, we've never placed one oh look at all the fish, you know what dude go for it
I'll just drop it in let it punch through those grass mats. Okay, so he's going for a very bold technique right now
Placing a fish trap in the canal. We've never placed it in but that could work in your favor. Mine's over here guys
Right here. It's a really cool little spillway. I mean look at that
So if there's fish in here, there's gonna be fish on the other side while rob just placed his fish trap
I just placed mine now to you know pass the time. We're gonna let this sit for a couple hours
We're gonna go netting in the canal
We're gonna net all the plants here like stuff like this and the fish are usually gonna be sleeping in it
And hopefully we catch them with the net. I'm just really excited to see what we pull. Oh my god
I almost fell in that would have been i'm really excited to see what we pull out of this chain of canals tonight
Uh, usually we get some really cool stuff. So i'm really excited. We have a 16 foot fish trap this time
We're gonna get to netting and see what we can catch guys. Look at this
This is where our subscriber caught the four jacked emcees
Is gone it's just this little pit that connects to these canals as you can see there's a ton of fish down there swimming around
Those could be these baby jacked emcees that he caught. Oh, look at that big one. Oh, yeah
That definitely is how do I catch them? Oh, he's got to settle down. Look at him
I need to get down there somehow
All I need to do is block off this pipe right there because that's their only way out of here if I oh
I gotta get down there
Oh god
Oh, no, you shall not pass
Rob, there's one right here. There's a big one right there
Oh, yeah
I think I got him
I think I got him. I got him. Look at this you guys. I think I just caught a jacked emcee
It's a really big one. Please. Please. Please. I want one so bad
Oh, it's a jaguar. Okay, it's still cool. Uh, this is a jaguar stick. Let's check it out
There's jacked emcees in there though. I just saw a bunch. We don't even have a bucket
I don't really want to keep a jack. Oh my god. I don't want to keep a jaguar
I see jacked emcees down there, which I do want to keep so we're gonna toss this guy back
Have a good time down there. If I get a jacked emcee, i'm gonna freak out. Okay, look at this
There's so many fish i'm just getting that up in here
Please please please please please
Nothing check it out guys. The pit's really muddy now, but we know there's a lot of fish in here
We just pulled out a jaguar saw a bunch of jacked emcees
I think i'm just gonna take some blind nets in here and see if I can catch any because I really want one
Oh, come on
Oh, we got a lot of muck. Oh god, then that's about a break
Oh
Is that what is that? Ew, I think it's straight mud. Oh my god, that's disgusting. No, there's something in here
What is that? Oh, there's a fish rob. There's a fish in the mud
What is in the net? That's a jacked emcee. Please god. Let this be a jacked emcee, please. Please please please i'm begging you
Oh my god
It's an akara
It's a giant akara
Guys, oh my gosh. Now the more common fish like this very similar as an electric blue akara
These are really cool. I have a couple. Oh my god, chill out, but they're really pretty look at the face on them
They kind of look like a green terror. I'm even happier than a jacked emcee
That's a little bit more rare here great additions to the cichlid pond
This pit is producing even though it's some small little area. There's a lot of fish concentrated in it
I saw something right there
Please tell me I got it. What is that? Oh rob. Look at this. What the heck is that?
Look at the gold flakes on them
Oh, yeah, it's got gold dots all over them
We're gonna throw them back but comment down below what kind of fish this is
we don't know if it's like an aquarium fish or if it's native, but
It's a really cool looking fish guys. I think we just scared all the fish in this little pit
This is an interesting spot we walked up and there was literally hundreds
Of cichlids and most of them looked like jacked emcees and other african cichlids
So guys if you want to see a fish trap dedicated to this spot, maybe like a little 24 hour action
Let me know in the comments. I say we explore it more
Let's go to the main canal and start netting around over there right next to our fish trap. There's tons of fish
Yeah, there's a lot of fish. Look at that big one right there. Look at that big one and another one
Dude, our fish trap has culled over so many cichlids already. That's very exciting. I can't wait to see what they are
Oh, look at that piece of wood. That has to be something under it
Guys, there was a piece of wood in the canal
And that's gotta mean that some sort of cichlid was under it because they love structure. I don't know. Oh my god
Look at that dude. Look at the blue on this one. Oh, it's a little juvenile too. He's not even that big
Oh, it's just a baby. That's so cool guys. We catch these a lot here and we catch the orange ones
Those are the most, you know common ones we'll catch he's getting there
He's not a big boy yet
But we're gonna keep him in the bucket
And we're gonna bring him back to the cichlid pond at the end of this video
And to grow him out to be a big boy. We're not even in the fish trap. We still have those traps later
But yeah, we're already catching us some cool fish
Let's see. Oh my god. What is that rob?
Oh, that's so gross
Oh big scoop there has to be something guys we're seeing so many fish
I think they're just really fast a lot of creepy crawlies. Oh, what is that?
Is that like a root no
Oh my god. Oh my god. It's moving. What is that? It's an alien. Ew
Is that just like a massive bug? Wait, i've caught these rob. Yeah, it's a fish
I've actually caught these before it's been so long. What? Yeah. Look there's the mouth. That's really cool
Now they're kind of like they're they're like an algae eater. I think I forgot what they're called guys. Forgive me
That's so crazy. He looks dead. Oh, you just kicked there, you know, he's alive now just like a little stick bug fish
Long little beak. That's cool
There he goes just sink to the bottom. Look at that. He just sucks onto the bucket
Not a jack dempsey, but we're on the right track. That's something cool guys. We're here at the trap
I'm taking a little snake peek because i'm curious. I want to see because last time we looked there was a lot of fish
There's fish all around the trap. Let's look at the actual. Oh
I see one
Look at that. He's right there
That's a big old orange african cichlid. Oh, yeah, he's done already in the trap. We got him dude
I want to pull it up. Should we pull it? No, no, no, no, definitely not. Oh, I want to pull it up
Okay, let's just hope he doesn't find his way out. This trap is very complex. So I doubt it but
Yeah, it is another one right next to it where
Yeah, look see that one
To the left of the orange one. That's another african. I think look at the look at the crawfish
Oh, yeah, hey
Rob, should we take a little sneak peek at your trap? Yeah, we could try. Oh, it's deep down there. Oh my please
I caught a bunch of shrimp shrimp. I mean we'll throw it back out there and once we check the actual big trap
We'll check it in see if you caught anything. But uh, at least we got something in that one
Guys, there's a freaking intruder at our spot. Come here
Hey
Oh my god, hey, what do you think you're doing? Hey, you better stay away from our fish, bro
Dude, that must be one of the strays they're feeding here. Oh, is he playing dead you playing possum?
That is like the most disgusting animal. I think he's like, how dare you insult me?
Oh, I got the water all over my face. What is that?
Oh my god, what is that? Rob? What is that?
It's one of those things we caught is it a golden wonder killer fish or something? Oh, I think it is that's sick
Oh, that is cool. What a beautiful fish. I think this is actually native guys to florida. This is the biggest one i've ever seen
That's pretty neat. Look at the gold flakes on it on his uh body right there. It's so pretty
We're gonna throw him back because he's so cool
Not really
We just don't want to keep him. Oh my god. I see one right here
Oh
Dude, yummy
Oh
Help, please tell me that was worth it
Oh, what is that look at that? Oh, it's a giant mabuna. That's a pretty sick one here. Let me thanks, bro
What are you doing? I'm gonna go find our friend. You're not feeding that to the possum. No. Yes. No, buddy
Where are you? I have an offering for my lord my lord
my lord
He's on x-games mode right now
Thing is scaring me get me away from that. He's so mad. He's like, yeah get away from me. That's a mabuna
That's the parent
Uh, the little one we caught earlier I think is an offspring from one of these guys, so that's really cool
We're catching all sorts of them. All right, guys. This has been one rough night
You guys haven't seen that but we've been here for over almost two hours netting around
It's just such a hard place to fish. I mean the the banks are really steep. And yeah, our nets don't have handles
So that doesn't help. So what we're gonna do we're gonna rely on our fish traps
Now we have my 16 foot fish trap marinating
We've already caught multiple africans from what we can see. And yeah guys, we're gonna give it another hour
We're gonna come back here check our fish traps and see who won this challenge
The loser has to kiss the possum. So oh i'm really excited. I'm ready to lose bro
So yeah guys, we will see you in an hour
All right, ladies and gentlemen, it has been about an hour since the last time we saw you
We're back here at the spot and we're here to check the fish traps. We're gonna check rob's first
Uh just to get that out of the way, you know, I mean odds are I probably caught everything out of the canal anyways
So last time we checked your trap rob you caught shrimp. You see all the fishes down there. Oh, dude
I kid you not. I just saw jack dempsey like I see him. No, I see him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I see him
Oh, dude, pull up your trap right now quick. There's one right next to it. Maybe his friend swam in
Hopefully please
Oh, what is that? I don't know. Oh, dude
There's something in here. Get away from the crib. Yeah. Yeah, that's a good idea
I think you guys are trying to sabotage me, dude. I think you actually caught something this time
I mean, I would be yeah right here. Look. Oh, there's two of them. Nice. Yes, dude. Nice
You got orange african cichlids. That is actually really cool big red zebra. It seems I mean it makes sense if they're in here
They're over there as well. Yeah, this seems to be like the staple of this canal. There's another really nice
That's a red big one, dude. Oh, yeah, he's pretty just like giant. Yeah, he's pretty handsome
There's another one right here to the right. Look
Oh, that's a crawfish. It's a
No, yeah, that's right. No
Yeah, no
I'm, kind of the best wait what?
I've only caught like two of these before look at that do a little pinch test bro. That is so
That one hurt
What is with the orange this is a feisty little guy, yeah
Now I know the blue ones are actually near the florida. I don't know about these orange ones though. Be free
Oh, that's trying to get after the fish that's really cool. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, at least you didn't get stung
Oh, really? All right. Now we actually haven't even looked at my fish trap. We walked past it. I don't want to get spoiled
Oh my god, what? Oh, look at the fish swimming out. Oh
It could be holy crap. Look down the line. Look there's one these guys swam actually back up to the top of it
Remember the they were all right
Oh, hey get away get away pull the trap fast before he eats the fish. Oh my god
There's a big blue one right here big blue african. Oh my god. Oh, it just keeps going
Oh, the turtle's trying to get in on it. Yeah. Oh, look at all the fish
Look at this big obi right there. Oh, yeah, that's a monster right here
All right, rob just had the idea we're gonna take the fish out as we pull it up
So I just saw a bunch of fish here all the way up at the top
And dude, this trap is so hard to get the fish out. There's not a lot of holes for us to enter
Look at that. There's three giant africans right here. There's an orange one
Big old orange. Oh that tops yours, bro. No, it doesn't. Yeah. Oh, it's an obi
Big obi bro and a blue one. I'll grab both. Look at that. Oh, that's so sick. Dude. Those are nice
Those are monster. Okay. I'll give you that those are nice
Oh my god. Oh my god. Look at this little baby. Oh, baby, dude. See like how do we get this out?
Oh, it just went into the other one
So it's just one big trap everything we caught should be at the bottom now
All we gotta do is just pull it up I think oh, oh my god, what is that? What is that rob?
What the heck is that? Did you see it?
It's big
Oh my god, it's giant. Do you see that? Yeah, is that a freaking fire eel? It is. Oh my god. Oh my god
Oh my god, what do I do? I don't know
Oh my god. Oh my god. There's so many fish down here. Look. Oh, it's massive. Oh, yeah
Oh, he got his nose stuck in it, yeah, i'm just gonna keep pulling him out look there's a bluegill throw him back
Yeah, you can't keep that. Okay. There's lots of cichlids
lots of cichlids
little babies
There's a snail i'm trying to get this eel out. Look at him. He's going crazy another mbuna right there
All right, eel buddy. You need to calm down. Let me get you out of here. Oh
I got him in the bucket. What is that?
Is that a pleco?
I don't know
it's a
It's a catfish it's got spines it's spining the trap. Oh, I got him
What is that?
Oh my god. Oh, that's a little cool spotted little catfish. Oh, yeah, that's pretty sick
I have no idea what that is. He's really cool though. That's really cool
Okay, let's just keep going through another big giant mbuna
Big old obi. All right. Come on. Come on
snail giant snail got in there somehow
Oh, dude, baby, texas cichlid. Oh nice. Oh my god. That is so sick. Look at the coloration on that one
Two more africans. These are babies dude. I don't like how it's so hard to get these fish out, bro
Look at that another little baby. I'm gonna check each little pocket here
I think that's everything there was crawfish normal crawfish
All over it, but I don't think they actually went in right now where we're at
These canals connect to the everglades where we catch them all the time look at this
Oh, that is a pretty eel. Oh, he's gorgeous. Oh, he's gorgeous. Look at it
All right, we're not gonna stress them out. We're gonna get them in a cooler right now on a bubbler
We got lots of fish in here you guys i'm really excited guys comment down below who you think won. I think I did
Nah, I don't like this trap guys. I don't think i'm gonna use it again. It's just way too hard on the fish
It's hard to get them out of it
But yeah, we'll see you guys back at my house when we put these guys into a pond
All right guys now we're back in my house now
I know we didn't show the fish too up close as we were pulling them out of the trap
It was just very chaotic. We wanted to get the fish out and safely get them in water as fast as possible
But now we're back home. We're gonna start with this fire
You know, we're gonna net it out of this cooler and then run them to my koi pond where the other five are that's right
Guys, we have six in total now. We gave him the cooler all to himself. Oh, oh no. Oh, no, they're slimy
Get in the net. Okay. There we go. Look at this thing
Oh my god, he's so cool
Look at that
Oh, wow. Okay. There he goes
Look how sick that is. See his nose right there. He got it caught in the trap
So it's a little busted but that will heal dude. That's a giant eel. That is the coolest thing ever
Now we're gonna head to the back to the cichlid pond and put all the cichlids in there
I think that's where the rest of these fish are going. So let's head back there
Oh, I forgot about this guy. Look at that the little stick fish
That's what we're gonna call them guys, but we're gonna put them in this pond because this is where we put the other one
Oh, there's an axolotl. Oh, hey, buddy
Look at that guys little axolotl. Oh, that's adorable. I think that's the one I caught. Yeah
Guys, those are those salamanders
What are you doing? Sick little fish going in
Look at that thing. It's not even real. Okay. Now we've made it to the cichlid pond. Check it out
It's so crazy at night when they're all sleeping
It's just full of cichlids and we have more to add to it tonight, let's just see handfuls here
Oh, I forgot about this thing
Honestly, we could probably just add this catfish to it because probably if we caught him in the same area
I don't know. I feel like he would do good in here. So there he goes. Oh, look at the whiskers on him
Oh, he's pretty cool. That's really cool. All right, and then we got this big old mabuna. That's a really cool one
Oh, yeah, there's the akara. There's another mabuna
sweet new additions
In you guys go. I had no idea we caught this many. Look at these guys
In you go another ob
Really cool fish. Look at this little guy. He said oh he got away. Look at the handful of fish we got here
Look at that
That's just so cool. Look at the colors in they go. This guy right here is a texas cichlid
Beautiful colors on them already as a baby. So add them to the pond. Look at them. They're all like different sizes, too
This is so cool, dude, look, it's one of your friends. Oh, oh, hey buddy, you're gonna be mingling in here
Oh, there's another one. Oh, yeah, those are the ones I caught. Yeah a little pied. Oh, there's an orange one back there
Oh, there he goes. All right. Well, you're gonna have a lot of fun in here big guy
I'm gonna set you on this little tube
Go meet your friends
Okay. See you buddy little 1v1 action me versus rob if you want to see it again
Uh, i'm gonna win again
But yeah
If you want to see that just leave a like leave a comment like the video if you guys enjoy subscribe down below
I'll see you guys in the next one. Peace out
