HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIMONA-ANDREEA

Well, we have a birthday girl. It probably are. Somebody gave me the number. I'm sure I've forgotten. There are 1.5 million birthdays every day. But the only ones we really care about are the ones celebrated by the people we know and love. So, we had a special request just a few moments ago. I went into the Father Fish show and was looking around at the messages, and I saw one from Miyagi Fish. He said, today is my wife's birthday, my wife's birthday, and I want to make her very happy, and I have a request to you. Could you make a short video with a happy birthday wish and release it on your YouTube channel? And when it's posted, give me a message here and I will surprise her. Well, I decided to go one better than that. I decided to do a live stream, birthday stream for Simona and Andrea. Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Simona, happy birthday to you, and many, many, many, many, many, many, many more. Well, that's great fun. I hope you're there, Simona, and I hope you're, this will, this will be available for posterity. uh it will be once we sign off uh it will be available as a live stream uh in in the historical record on our channel so you will be able to go back again and again and again and wish simona a happy birthday now let's see who's here and what do you got to say for yourself ricky let's Orange Fur. Hello, you're in. Juriel Cabrera. Jurielly. Jurielly. Cabrera. Yes yes. Wonderful. Who else? Silver Creek. Hey, Silver Creek. Ricky Criddleball. Dave. Markio 306. Dirk Meyer from Berlin, Germany. We gotta give Dirk a wrench. Turn you blue. Right there, it was on Andrew, there was that Dirk there. was Dirk, Oscar Jungle Tank is here, hello Hello 3G, you're very Welcome Miagi, I'm Drew Gilbert, somebody else needs a wrench, ta-da, good that's wonderful, delighted, he's happy, it's nice to make a lovely young lady, happy 38, yeah that's young I'm 82. So I'm not young anymore. But I'm getting younger. I'm 82. I'll be I'll be 83 in two months. And I'm getting younger by the day. Wonderful. Tommy's here. Where's Tommy? I didn't see Tommy. Caleb Shirley. Hey, Caleb. Excellent. Okay. Um, let's see. While I got y'all here, a little news. We are, we are, um, I don't know what word to use. Revamping, restructuring, reorganize. After hitting 50,000, we realized that we have a responsibility for quality. Quality in the production of what we're doing. We've had people bugging us, bugging me for years about improving quality. So here's the first step. We just bought a brand new, very expensive camera, which we're not using right now, but will be on all of our videos. We are going from two videos a week to one a week, and we're going to put more effort into it and make it something quite special. So hopefully you will see a substantial improvement in the quality and the content of our videos going forward. This next video is about breeding egg scatterers in a natural aquarium. There are a million ways to do this, but we decided after asking members of our Father Fish show to submit videos to us about their experience breeding egg scatterers, we began to see that the most effective ones were those people who have food webs in a deep substrate. So that's what we're going to feature is how to breed egg scatterers and raise their babies in the same tank, a community tank, with a food web and a deep substrate. This will be interesting. It will be published, I think, I'm not sure, we haven't picked a date yet. It'll be this weekend. It could be Sunday, it probably will be Sunday. There is that. We will be doing four shorts a week. What we are discovering is that shorts bring new people to our channel. Almost all of the new folks that are coming in have found us through the shorts. So we're going to be doing one short a day, four days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. And then Sunday, we will have our new video, and we will have, of course, the live stream. And there's always the chance that something like this will happen, and we'll surprise everybody by popping in with a happy birthday or an announcement. And it will be completely unannounced, unpremeditated, spontaneous, and available only to those special people who have an ear tuned and an eye peaked, looking out and listening for Father Fish. Yeah, shorts are interesting, Ari and Fer. I didn't think much of it for a while. It's not worth anything in terms of views particularly, but it reaches a lot of new people. And that's what we need, is to reach new people. So it's a guaranteed way to do it. So that we're real excited about. Howard Van Tassel is here. And his family And Daniel's Malawi cichlids. Letting nature do it. Correct. I guess I gave you that. a wrench. It'll pop up soon. We will see more big fish videos, Ariane says. Well, yeah, I'm thinking about this. Here's the problem. I live in a 20 by 20 foot cubicle. It's a tiny cottage that I moved into in order to get from Florida to Maryland to give me a place to land. Things have been cracking since I've been here. Income has been increasing, I'm hoping, by the end of the year. We're anticipating by the end of the year being at 100,000 views. At the rate we're going, we can do it. We're doing 2,000, about 2,000 subscribers a week. That's astounding. That's 8,000, 7 to 8,000 a month. So in six months, we could be at another 50,000. So that's the game plan. We'll see how it all works out. But if that happens, if the store continues to grow and income continues to grow, I will have the resources to be able to buy a country home. The plan is to buy one of these wonderful old Eastern Shore country homes with some land to move some family members in with me to build a double-paned glass greenhouse with large vats and large tanks. Once that happens, I already know the fish that are going in the first 2,000-gallon tank. And they will be in a tank that will be deep substrate, heavily planted with no significant water change. There will be at least half a dozen two-foot fish in that tank. You can make suggestions. I already have a few. Happy to get them. So there's a dream and a vision. That could happen. That could happen next year. And that's my plan. I'm 82 years old. I can't afford to mess around. I'm doing what I have to do to regain my strength and stamina. I'm on a brand new food plan that I've lost 15 pounds in the first 10 days. My insulin use has dropped in half. My medications are decreasing. I'm feeling stronger and healthier than I have in years. If I can keep this up until the end of the year, I will have the body of a 40-year-old. That's low as I need to get 40. So that's the plan. Lots of exciting things for the future. And you are the first to know about it all. So isn't that exciting? And that's my birthday gift to our birthday girl. God bless you all. What else is going on? Let's try to keep up with everybody. Ramir Abugo Ramir Abugo let's give you a wrench make you a moderator who else is here JD is here Simona happy birthday Simona Coral Crafts lady listen i've made a decision i've made it a Coral Crafts lady you are a moderator but your wrench isn't showing maybe i don't think I just gave it to you, didn't I? If your wrench doesn't show and you've been one in prior live streams, it is because you have not signed up as a subscriber to my channel. When you do so, be sure to ring the bell so that you will get notifications when I come online, or for that matter, when a new video is posted. we will see more big fish videos that's the plan letting nature do it says Daniel that's it thank you Andrew well you know it's something to work for something to work towards something to be excited about i i would like to do as much as possible with the gears remaining to me so that i can go out not with a whimper but with a wonder that would be magnificent i want to go out magnificently so that's the plan john st francis saying simona happy birthday probable calls Claude Tin Smalz is here hello Tin Smalz Mark Purdy hello hello press alpha the quiet life for a blaze of glory precisely i'm into the blaze of glory right i ain't going out with a whimper foxy's fishes hello roxy delighted to see you far late 69 didn't i just give you a wrench i did not i thought i did i do now you got it what are you saying uh newbie here just discovered your channel wish i had a few days ago before i ordered a heap of substrate for my old tank not used in 10 years well put it in your garden and start over again i'm still with my parents organ fur so my tanks can't leave my room and i can't use too much power so i'm using lights and filled every corner of my room with tanks bravo organ fur vibes aquatics patty's aquatics hello hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, DJ Guppyfish Miami saying hello, no heaters needed, nice trim, happy, thank you, I'm working on it, it's getting there, isn't it, I actually bought a razor, haven't known a razor in 15 years, I bought one of those fancy five-blade jobs, which are harder to cut yourself on. I think. I trust. I hope. We'll see. 44 watching and only 20 likes. Now, now, now, now. Vibes. Christian Schmidt is here. I got Monte Carlo rooting in soil below two inches. Bravo. Bravo, Christian. Roots, roots and carpet plush. Wow. Too cool. Too cool. No filter. Crystal clear. All right. Boy, I got flies in this place. Foxy says Peplum and I will be zending at our first show ever this weekend, the Catfish Cataclysm. Oh, that's wonderful. I'm real excited for you. Do well. Be magnificent. sell everything bring nothing back i'm going to be at the Keystone Clash in September anybody who can make that look forward to seeing you there christmas in july says rocks got that one angel chill try the white worm culture i'll tell you i found out something interesting i tried it with Uh, uh, box potatoes doesn't work. It's too thick. Uh, rice works real well. Oatmeal is the preferred material. I really like rice. Um, if you go to a Chinese carry out and get a, get a, buy a quart, buy a quart container of plain white cooked rice. bring it home put let it cool put some some yeast baker's yeast on top just a thin layer and then your starter white worm culture put a lid on it try to get one of those i'm going to sell some i got a bunch here those uh perforated lids that have a fine mesh on them i've could put that on and then once a week sprinkle more yeast. I had one a couple of years ago that went for almost a full year without needing anything done to it except what I just suggested. I tried the potato and it dried out. It just it doesn't work. So I'm going to scrap that and start over with with rice because i really need a culture i'm finally getting all my tanks together i had a friend over today who cleaned i bought a i bought a wet vac and when that wet vac all the duckweed out all the duckweed is gone the little bit that's going to be still there we'll be able to keep up with i'm replanting all of the tanks deciding what to do with which um it's going to be nuts i'm excited about it so what else what else what else caleb is here charlie r for a 400 gallon concrete pond how deep the certain sand i would not do dirt i would just do sand and the reason is in an outdoor pond you're going to get so much coming in that you don't need to do dirt it'll it'll be there you'll have leaves blowing into it you'll have dust falling into it you'll have the wind blowing dirt in it of all kinds of insects falling falling into it don't do dirt just do like fort it's uh if you can I don't know how deep it is 400 gallons if it should be 250 four to six inches of sand four inches is adequate start with four and then over the years you can add more sand to build it up in order to keep them all down but don't don't don't bother to put dirt in it it's just one more thing to hassle over and you really don't need it you can start with three inches. Just plan on adding an inch at a time, basically once a year. You won't need to do that forever. For the first two or three years, and then maybe year five and year ten. So give that a go. See if it works better. Good idea. I need to get one of those crackling fans. Get rid of the flies. Good idea. Who else is here? Oh, there he is. You've got your wrench poor old crabs Doobie doo. Whoops. Any advice on leeches? Just on tiny white leeches and et cetera. Of the, let's just, as an arbitrary number, if there are a hundred species of leech, two are problematic. The rest are detritus eaters. Unless it has a diamond head, it is not anything to worry about. It will not, however, kill anything, with the possible exception of shrimp. I have heard people say that it attacks shrimp, and if it breaks that shell, they can certainly die um if it attaches to a fish just pull it off catch them with a net use your tweezers and pull them off easy enough bristle nose had a group of babies a couple months ago but not another any ideas i'll tell you what tj fish are funny that way they they will probably spawn And if Roxy is here, she and Peplum would know better than me. But if you keep them with their babies, they're not going to spawn as often because all they're looking for is to get a family going. They may spawn again in six months to a year. If you take the babies out or take them out and put them in a separate tank, they're more likely to spawn again sooner. Make sure you keep the female egged up. Keep them well fed. Tavarega. Hello from Romania. Hello, Tav. We've got to give Tav a ring. Ad as moderator. You are turned blue, Tav. Yep. 3G. Brian and, yeah, Sam Fox, you and Brian, hug each other for me. Amen to that. Amen to that. Hello from the Nook, says Jungle Nook. Foxy posted her link. Be sure to go there. Be sure to go to Get Guilds and find their store and buy some fish from them. They've got lovely, lovely stuff. And they do a very, very special job of shipping. So you're not going to have any problem at all. Andrew Gilbert says, What plants do good with painted turtles? Oh, dear God. Well, I've got kind of painted turtles. What does really well with turtles is lots of plants. If you put one or two sprigs in there, they're going to eat them down to the nub. If you put 50 to 100, it'll be more than they can handle. You may need to replace after a while, but if you put enough in, the growth will surpass their ability to keep up with it. So consider that option. Debra Walletich, just for the half-moon king betta with a regular female. Squeeze the eggs, pick them up, watch. No babies, four days now. Well, they weren't fertile. Sometimes the new young males are shooting blanks. It may take them another month or two to fully mature to the point where they'll be able to take the female out, feed her up, get her heavy. When you see an egg spot at the vent, a white, tiny white spot, that means she is ready to breed. Put her back in the tank, and eggs should go in the next 24 hours. Just do that routinely. It'll happen. It'll happen. I doubt the eggs were old. I'm sure that he was simply not fertile. Can you keep it? Well, if you have a lot of plants, you can keep them in still water. The purpose of the water is to ensure adequate water flow in the tank in order to create oxygen-CO2 exchange at the surface. with a lot of plants they cause that that circulation by their aspiration it's very slow but it's very constant so if you load it with plants it'll work it is possible to get more excuse me more fish in there than um than can be handled without it i like to use a sponge filter because it kind of does double duty but an air stone is perfectly adequate i had a bowl of crab cream of crab soup earlier and i don't think it went all the way down but it did now let's see Noel wants to know basic fundamentals i lost it that quick can you put discus in a dirted tank absolutely i'm going to be doing it here pretty shortly in the next couple of weeks i've got the tank picked up picked out uh i'm getting it ready we're gonna make it happen let's see where is here it is basic fundamental medicines just to keep if you were to list say three glad you asked that question vibes i have medications let me show you i've got some right here. These are basic medications. This is fenbendazole. This is metronidazole for parasites, for bacteria. I have had them. There's no date on them. Yes, there is. They expired November of last year, the metronidazole did. Fenbendazole probably doesn't. I've had for probably five years i've used them once my recommendation is you do not buy any medication unless and until you need it and then buy it uh if you'll call me i'll give you the link to be able to buy the best quality don't buy it from a local big box store it'll be crap and it won't work and you won't be getting anything that'll help call me and i'll get you i'll get you what you need uh and i won't sell you this stock problem uh there is an organization in florida that that deals solely with professional fish farmers but they will ship out in small orders to anyone the name is FTFFA Florida Tropical Fish Farmers Association store FTFFA store look it up and then check out their product line they have things that are hard to find hello another one I get probably 20 of these idiot calls every day from people trying to sell stuff, and they never answer. If they don't answer in the first five seconds, I know it's a system call and a hang-up. Ah, what I wanted to say. Somebody made the comment, there will always be cranks. That's true. I've made a decision about that this week. I had two or three people come in just whining and moaning, carping and bitching as loud and as hard as they could, being as mean as they knew how to be. Now, in the past, I've taken that and I've said, oh, all right, let's talk about it. Never did a bit of good, never converted a soul, never solved a single issue because the issue was They were here to raise hell, period. So, my policy, my new policy, which I have already adopted, if somebody posts a link that is obscene, outrageously insulting, attacking, vile in some other way, profoundly, deliberately ignorant, I'm not talking about being stupid, I'm talking about deliberate ignorance, I'm going to block them from ever being able to post again. Gone. Done. Fini. I don't need it. I don't want it. I'm not going to tolerate it. So, you might pass the word. Anybody who's coming in for the purpose of raising hell is going to be stopped dead in their tracks and not be able to get any further. I'm done with it. It ain't worth it. it just creates chaos creates problems makes people feel bad gets people upset enough done and i don't need it in my brain wait for that crystal lopez i thought i gave you a wrench idea lives posted his channel andrew gilbert just need to save money for enough plants or grow some you bet i do have a great deal on plants if you go to my store uh which somebody indeed supposed to link to guess i can do it oh dear i messed up again um i got the link i'll do it i'll do it i can do it here's the link uh if you will go there uh you'll find a deal for 15 species of stem plant 15 bunches five plants in a bunch and you get at least up to this point two extras. Now, as of this week, we're changing our shipping policy. Obviously, I don't raise all these plants here. I deal with a farm. These are all submersed, submersed, not immersed, submersed grown plants. They're all plants grown in water. They come to me, it takes two days for them to get to me within two days. I take them out of the bag, spread them out on a table, and then we select one of each up to 15. We've been doing a couple of extras in case some don't make it. But the reason some have not been making it is because I've been holding them in my refrigerator for up to four or five days. I'm not going to do that anymore. I have enough orders right now to be able to fill the entire order of stem plants that are coming in. So that's what I'm going to do. The stem plants will be shipped out once a week on Thursday or Friday morning. So you're going to get them as fresh as they can be. I take them out of the bag. I will mist them, re-bag them, seal the bag, pack them, and ship them the same day, if at all possible. I have about a two-hour window, hour and a half to two-hour window to do that. So I've got to do a lot of prep work ahead to get set up to be able to do that quickly. I'm shipping out, I will be shipping out about 25 orders a week. That's subject to change if more orders come in. Right now, that's the level at which I'm ordering. I have a few other things coming this week that are, one of which at least, is profoundly exciting. I have some very large-leaf Madagascar lace plants coming in. Large-leaf Madagascar lace plants. That's the one with the holes in it, the grid holes. Stunningly beautiful plant. I haven't put a price on them yet. They're going to be about $40. They're not going to be cheap. I will have a dozen. Won't be a lot of them, but they're going to be available. And I have a bunch of other really nice things as well, including some, some large, very large sword plants. I have a lot, Amazon, and one other, I can't remember what it is, but big, big, like 18 inch, 12 to 18 inch sword plants. and they're mother plants they will many of them will have runners on uh they go for i think 25 dollars they'll be available this week uh so i've got to get them off i tried twice to get to that i didn't do it i need to do it this evening to get them posted jay priestly lives in australia Yeah, I'm looking for somebody who will do the deep substrate supplement in Australia and make it available. I do not take a cut of that. That's an independent business. I will send referrals as I get them. I've got a lot of interest in people buying, but I need somebody down there who can actually put the formula together. package it and sell it i'll provide support for that to help make it happen looking for somebody willing to do it and who just said that i have my discus in a dirted tank i don't know i've lost track now uh miyaji said thank you again father fish for your time and quite made her happy now i'm gonna sign off because here it's 1 45 at night i have to go to work in the morning See you guys. God bless you all. And God bless to your lovely wife. Good night. Good night. Ray Kwan. Hello, Ray. Give you a wrench. Exotic water is here. Sub Holt. Budakaria. Budakaria. I have a four foot long, one foot wide, two foot deep tank with three. That's a nice tank. Three big white carambys. That's the osphredimites. two-grown goldfish. What substrate? You can use, I would do, just do deep sand. I was thinking about that today. I don't know. My guess is that the osphredimites are going to eat plants. I'm not sure about that. They are a magnificent fish, and the white ones are spectacular. How big are yours? Three big white osphredimites. They get two to three foot. They get immense. Other than water conditioner, any other must-have chems, says Doyle. No, not really. I don't use anything. There is a Russian name, which I can't pronounce. And Farleg 69 is retracted. Let's see. Subhojit, I need to make you a moderator. Got it. Exotic water is tearing. Why, why, why? Oh, God. Three outdoor ponds, each with five medakas, all dead in one pond. Huh. That's unusual. I don't know what would cause that. It's a tiny fish. I hope you were not putting food in there. No food at all. In an outdoor pond with tiny fish, absolutely never feed them. Never. Absolutely never. Not anything. There will be enough food developed in that pond to feed them for life. Any food you put in runs the risk of fouling them. Do not do it. Ghosts of rock. Do fish only grow to their tank size? No. They will grow as big as they can in a too small tank and die. If that's growing to the tank size, then I guess so. But no, not really. They will keep growing to the point where they literally outgrow the tank. In other words, they get too big to be able to sustain themselves in the tank. Have some ketapang. I don't know what that is. Ketapang. I'm going to find out. Oh, you were from Ketapang. Ketapang is a city in West Kalimantan province. Is it located? Best thing to do? I don't know what it is. It's a town. I don't have, I don't know what that is. What time is it? We're getting carried away here. You know, that's really strange about losing all of the fish in a pond. It is possible they were killed. You might consider that option. You may have a parasite, not a parasite, well, a parasite. You may have a predator in there that killed them. Something toxic. I don't know what it might be. yeah possible something toxic gotta keep an eye on the other ponds make sure it doesn't happen again if it happens in another pond it's either toxicity or some kind of predator or parasite parasites usually not going to kill everything in a pond a predator can like an insect predator that's particularly uh aggressive okay i'm gonna shut this down because i'm it's getting out of control yeah get gills is a legit platform i'm on it as well and and i get orders all the time uh they're probably i don't know 35 40 different stores on it most of them are youtubers and some of them are really really they're all good but some are super like Pepple and Creek just really super Russell, 3G rather, says, I treat my discus like any other fish. Amen to that. There ain't nothing special about a discus. It's just like any other fish. You treat it like a normal fish, and it'll act like a normal fish. Grumpy gills. If you're doing a deep substrate, it'll be grumpy gills. It'll be cycled in 24 hours. It happens very quickly. However, you then enter animals gradually. Not a thousand all at once in a new tank. If they're tiny, half a dozen. Wait a week. If everything's good, another half dozen. Do it slowly. Do it gradually. You can get up to whatever number you want if you don't try to do it all at once. Rick Incredible. Hello, hello. Ray Kwan, how do you feel about UV sterilizers? There's no need to kill green tanks. Green water is the healthiest tank you can possibly have. If you have green water in your tank, that tank is as healthy as it can possibly be. So what do you need to do about it? Well, add some daphnia to it. Add something else that eats green algae. Don't kill it. Because if you kill it, you will kill more than that. You will kill everything in the water column. And then you will have the worst tank you could possibly have. No. The word is no. No to UV sterilizing. If you want to use it in a hospital tank, that's perfectly appropriate. Lace. Yes, lace. The lace plant. That's what you're talking about. Absolutely. I've got to get those up tonight. I've got to get out here and do that. Okay, you guys, appreciate y'all. God bless you. Press Alpha, thank you. Okay, we're good. See you Sunday evening. We'll have a new video coming out. My very best, very favorite video that I worked so hard on and so proud of. Put it out as a short. and it did exactly what the video did. It bombed. Everything I think is magnificent that I produce has little or no interest in the fish fat. So I'm going to stop now. I won't stop doing it. I'll keep doing it. Because I love doing it. But, what can I say? Check out the shorts. A lot of good videos. The algae video is Taking off looks like it's going to go big. I think it's going to be a great video Check out all the new vids. We've got a lot of them. Appreciate you all. God bless. See you again on Sunday. Bye for now. We're going to get out of here. End the broadcast. Bye.