🔴 LIVE - FATHER FISH IN THE MORNIING 1/4/21 #04 # LIVE

In the town of Baltimore lived a man of the sea, and he told his life he served one year too, till we found a queen, and we smiled, we found our way, father filled one life's dream, we all love it, it's his great life's dream, he keeps his tank so clean, the plants they are so green. We all love his fluffy beard. It is so white. His eyes, they are so bright. He always keeps it tight. And my friend, no more anymore. They still snore. Switch him on, replay. We all love Father Fish's great life dream. His tanks, they are so clean. His plants, they are so green we all love his fluffy beard and it's so white always keeps it tight so bright good morning guests good morning and hi joey and mary in the chat nice to have you all here and hello everybody good to see you guys yeah nice to have you back you've been away for a while Yeah, I take advantage of my holiday. Well, I know you had kid things going on a number of mornings last week. Yes, they switched the schedule over the holiday for our kids swimming, but it's back to evenings now. Oh, that's nice. They figured if they would do it in the morning, then we'd have the rest of the day to enjoy our holiday. Great, great. Well, I hope everybody had a lovely holiday. The holiday weekend is over, the two weekends, so we're kind of back in the traces now. It's starting to get percolating again. Looking forward to an exciting new year. Very excited about the current growth that's going on in the channel. We're averaging about 100 new subscribers a day, and our views have gone way up, more than doubled. So we're at about 5,000 views a day, which is not a huge channel by any stretch. But it's growth in the right direction. So we're very pleased about that. That's big. Okay. Hatrick says she's lurking. We're going to have a great show. Mary is taking her daughter to the doctor for an exam. And somebody is calling me on the phone. Father Fish. Hello. 10 o'clock. Thank you. All right. I wanted to come see you. Right. Come see me. Dreamweaver. Hello, Dreamweaver. Petraman. Fish and tank decks. Tisha. Oh, Tisha is very excited these days. She's going to be moving into her beautiful new home in fairly short order. I don't know. a week or two from now already planning our fish room nice, I'll see it, nice to look forward to you bet Jay Oliver's, oh thank you Jay Oliver sharing sharing and facebook uh sharing is is one way one of the major ways that we have of reaching people outside um outside our subscription list. YouTube posts our links to the subscribers and not very much beyond that. The algorithm is set up to be able to break subscribers into various groups depending on their activity and if a video gets more play than it's given to a larger group of subscribers, it's not automatically sent out to every subscriber. That's not the way it works. So a very active video will go out to the entire subscriber list and if it goes ballistic, it may get played beyond that, but typically does not. So we really depend on our subscribers to share the videos and the you know, streams and whatnot, in order to be able to reach new people. Oh, got some family in Bradenton, Michael says. And I have to make my way to Father Fish sometime soon. Yeah, Bradenton's about a half an hour north of us. A little better, not much. Oh, is it half an hour? Yeah, it's pretty close, yeah. Well, the northern, no, it's not even. If you're all the way up on the North End on 75, it's about a 40-minute drive to Father Fish from there. Made that drive a lot of times. I was just trying to see where it was, how far north it was. I don't see it on the map. It is just about one hour south of Tampa. Okay. If you see the Braden River, Braden River is the north end of Bradenton. It separates Bradenton from Parrish. Yeah, I did a lot of traveling in that area for soccer. We went to Clearwater and Tampa and St. Petersburg and Bradenton. Right. We had soccer tournaments in Tampa. Neat. Yeah, that's all mostly in the Tampa area. Bradenton's just about one hour south of Tampa. Yep, I remember visiting Tarpon Springs, too. That's probably on one of our... That's further north. That's almost an hour north of Tampa. Tarpon Springs is pretty neat. That's an old Greek fishing village. There was a movie made about that. I can't remember what it was called, But it was about the sponge divers in Tarpon Springs who are still there and still collecting sponges and selling them. You can go out on the pier any day and see sponges drying on the docks. It's really a very, very neat little town. Nice Greek restaurants. There's quite an ambiance. It's a neat little town right on the gulf. Yep, they were selling sponges when I was there. Right. That was probably my first introduction into what the heck is a sponge and where does it come from? Right. They're really neat. The sponge is actually the skeleton of, well, a sponge. It's not a coral, and it's not an algae. It's actually an animal. It's not a slug or anything like that. It's a creature that grows kind of exponentially, gets bigger and bigger, that filters water. It's a water-filtering animal with a relatively soft skeleton. it's skeleton is well sponge spongy um when you when you take them out you leave them out until they die and then and then they usually beat them on the deck to beat off the organic stuff off and then they soak them a bit to get them clean but if you leave it in the water it'll rot It's a natural kind of organic material, sponge, the sponge material is, that will rot if left in the water. So synthetic sponges obviously don't do that, but sponges that are real sponges, once living sponges, will deteriorate if left in the water. Petro-Man, when you set up your saltwater tank, are you going to use RODI water with the salt? He's asking you, Cassie. Do you want to respond to that? Yeah, I did. I was just planning on using my water. I want to keep things simple and not go out of my way, I guess. The issue is, and it's kind of interesting and really important, when you set up a saltwater tank, you can set it up pretty much with any water you have. If you're setting up a big tank, you may not want to go out and buy 100 jugs of distilled water or RO water. I don't want to do that. So you can fill it up with your tap water and dechlorinate it, put the salt in, get the salt levels right. But the best rule of thumb subsequent to that, following that, is to always top off and do water changes with RO or DI or distilled water. And the reason is, as water evaporates, it leaves the minerals behind. The H2O evaporates. Whatever minerals are in the water don't evaporate. They stay in there. So if you're continuously adding hard alkaline water, eventually, in a year or two, that water will become so hard, it'll be difficult to introduce new animals to it. The fish that are in it, the other animals, will probably be fine because they will have adapted to it. But over a long period of time, that water can become so hard, it becomes like the Dead Sea or like the Salt Lake in Utah. It becomes so dense that it no longer can sustain the same kind of life that it did when you set it up. So it's important for the sake of avoiding those kinds of pitfalls to use reverse osmosis water, distilled water, RO water, water, in other words, that has no minerals in it. Right to do water changes and to do top offs Okay, my water Yeah, we just started adding like chlorine to it, but it's like such a minimal amount. You can't even detect it on With a strip like if you're trying to search, you know, that's your water. You can't even detect it Yeah, that's good here in Venice the water the water company adds free chlorine, which evaporates very quickly. So if the water sits for an hour or so, the chlorine, particularly if a bubbler, and there's something to move the water to get it to the surface where it can evaporate off or dissipate, it'll be gone pretty quickly. Yeah, that too. I'll probably be sitting in that aquarium for a while before I add any fish in it. um i do have like a source like i don't need to go out and buy our water though because we have um a special filter for our water so that we can drink it so it's basically like just so filtered that it's there's nothing left in there no minerals you know nothing oh that's good pure water i wouldn't say it's like RO or DI or distilled it's just like super filtered But that would take a long time, too, to fill up a 40 with that. Yeah, exactly. Let's see. The other thing I wanted to mention is water that has ammonia in it. It's referred to as chloramine. The ammonia is put in the water in some municipalities to bond with chlorine. Now, it's basically a very unhealthy thing to do because both chlorine and ammonia are extreme toxins in sufficient quantity they can kill. One would never drink ammonia or drink chlorine or you'd be dead. They are put in the water presumably in very tiny amounts, but the difficulty with adding ammonia to the water and creating chloramine is that that chloramine molecule is no longer a gas as it was when it was just chlorine. It is now a liquid, and it will not evaporate. It will not dissipate off. It will stay in the water until the chlorine molecule is broken and the chlorine is able to gas off. The ammonia then has to be removed separately. Typically, it's a small enough amount that it does not create a problem. But the very fact that the water is ammoniated is itself a disturbing trend because it points to a laziness on the part of municipal water supply companies that are not willing to measure adequately the amount of chlorine they're putting in the water in order to ensure that it is safe. They simply dump a bunch more chemicals in there to more or less guarantee that the toxins are going to remain in it until and after it is delivered to the end user. So if you are receiving chlorinated water, I would be prone to call the water supply and complain bitterly about it. They will admonish you not to feed that water to your pets, curiously, because it's considered toxic. Yet they don't have the same kind of warnings for human consumption. So it's a bit audacious, to say the least, that a water company would be poisoning their water and doing it at all, for that matter, rather than taking the extra effort to dose their water properly so that it can be delivered safely. You had a question about plants earlier by James. What did he say? Can you find it? Yes. He would like to know which is easier to grow, Mario Green or Hornwort? And he has the Latin names for those plants. That's a good question. Easier. Which one's easier to grow? Jane Wittes. Does it grow easier? Is it easier to grow? Yeah, I prefer Myrio to hornwort, but on balance, hornwort is probably easier to grow. It's a surface plant that is getting light directly, not diffused through the water. And so it's going to, it's also exposed to the air. So it's going to grow the way an immersed plant will. I just like it. better. It's a personal thing. It's an aesthetic thing. I think Myrio is prettier. I think it looks better. I like it better as an aquarium plant. It doesn't cover the water the way duckweed does and some other surface plants. Can that be floated or planted in a substrate? Yeah, it can be put in the substrate. Did they look the same? I'm not sure. I know hornwort, but I'm not sure what myriophyllum looks like. Yeah, let's get a picture up. I had hornwort and tried it, and the goldfish ate it. So I didn't get to keep it for very, very long. Well, now I've done it. I've got to find it now. I like hornwort and anything that looks like hornwort. Yeah, I like it too, actually. Let's see. I think it's the nickname. So that's Miriam. Looks like a raccoon. Yeah, it's a stem plant. I'd say that looks like hornwort. The hornwort I had was, like, very thin. This is Miriam. Yeah, I'm just comparing it. I would say it looks like the hornwort. Say, let me get the hornwort. I think that's why he's asking, because I'm sure, like, they look the same. Which one would be better to try to grow? Here's hornwort. I don't know about that one the one next to it looks like hornwort is that like what it looks like out of water I can't see did we freeze I think we froze I don't know about that first picture that second picture for sure is hornwort and they look the same to me so I'm guessing it's why is that why you're asking James because they look similar let's wait for father fish to come back all right what did I miss I missed anything re-ask your questions if you'd like and I'll try to get them asked when father fish comes back okay yeah they look similar i that's why i figured you were asking i when i was looking it up i kept seeing Myrio Green as well and probably wondered the same thing like which one should i get i don't know about being hard to keep because like i said my goldfish ate it um i had little pieces of it like left over for the longest time and it got stuck down in the anubias so i would say it's pretty hardy and probably low light but you could always try both see which one does better the money wort i tried money wort uh it didn't work so good for me this is why it's nice to have joey up here or mary so when father fish loses his speed we're not left all alone but he seems to like it this way so we're trying it out this way we'll see if how long it lasts and rohan what are you starting this year you said you were going to start more projects but i i don't think i saw you tell us what you're starting what's the well what do i use for my live stream equipment i have a desktop computer and two monitors and the webcam is what i'm using right now uh it has a microphone but i guess it's horrible and it sounds like i'm in a tunnel when i use it so i don't use the webcam mic and i i bought a separate microphone hopefully it's good i don't know i kind of keep it at a distance but when i'm when i'm doing like my videos i keep it this close for my videos and i talk into it um because otherwise like my audio doesn't pick up the best i don't know father fish says i'm always really loud so i don't keep it close to me or i just keep it at a normal volume and in the past he's told me to turn my volume down and then i feel like you guys can't hear me when i do that so let's see how much longer are we gonna wait for father fish a few more minutes the laptop mic and camera work i believe it would that's what i used um when i first started streaming with father fish i had um i had a laptop that well i had two laptops i had my old one and i had this one one like this um and that worked fine i don't think you guys complained about my microphone with that laptop So the laptops are good, too. And then because I have like an iPhone and it has this special input with my headphones, like I couldn't plug in my headphone with a mic into the laptop. So I never used it with a headphone mic. So let's see. I hope that answered your question. I think when you are starting out with the videos and the streaming you just try to use what you have and find out where your weaknesses are and try to um get equipment as you can like add the equipment you need and my webcam I it's just like a um you know nothing expensive nothing too fancy just something off of um amazon what's the name i can't see the name right now on it i think we threw the box away but just an inexpensive webcam like I said though like just get what you can get the one you think would work for you if you can afford something that's a little bit nicer and get what you can afford glitchy um I would say this webcam I don't think it's been glitchy just it had that microphone issue where the audio was terrible it was hard like I was doing um my zoom meetings on my phone and like i could hear the audio really good on my phone but not good on my laptop so the sound coming out of my laptop when we were doing zoom meetings was terrible i couldn't hear the instructor say anything and i would have to set up my phone just so i could get better sound so i could hear it better through my phone speakers because my laptop speakers were terrible so sometimes buying um less expensive laptops aren't aren't a good choice you know like you kind of get what you pay for you got like really bad speakers so the string thing at the back and how many tanks do i have well i i was on here before and these are the christmas lights that i made out of paper for those of you who haven't seen um i did talk about them in my Christmas decorations video um it was like an idea that I got off of Pinterest and I was volunteering at my my kid's school and decided to make those for my youngest son he was having a Christmas party and um his teacher is a guy or was a guy last year still is a guy but he doesn't decorate his room so i was like the house or the class parent and i took upon myself to go in there and decorate the classroom and make it festive for the kids so it could be a little special for them and i liked them so much i made sets of them for my house and then yeah i made more for uh other teachers and staff at the school who wanted them as well so and then my tanks i have a 40 gallon that's set up right now in my dining room and it's right next to another 40 gallon um that's empty and my plan was to make one fresh water and planted and the other one salt water so it's just been sitting there waiting and I've ordered some um I've ordered a light I've ordered salt what else I've ordered the basics right now so I can just get it filled with water um and just taking my time to do that so that um it's not stressful I guess you know you're not spending a lot right away so that's I kind of space things and set a goal and try not set all up at once, let's see, all right, what am I missing? It's hard to read the chat when you're talking, so thank you Rohan. Um, the other tank I have so I have I guess two tanks set up that are planted in their fresh water and the 20 gallon had my goldfish and I rehomed the goldfish and now I'm trying to set it up just to be a community tropical fish tank in there, um just get more smaller fish that I that I'd like and maybe can't put in the 40 and can like highlight a a particular uh like nano fish school in that one um but it's going to be a community tank with a male betta fish I have right now in there, he's all by himself right now, let's see what am I missing? I don't know what happened to Father Fish so you can see Father Fish has like better streaming equipment than me and he still gets kicked off his own stream, normally he's back by now, this was not a good day I think to give Joey a day off, come back Joey, does anybody else want to come up and join me and find the link again repaste the link, maybe Joey could come up even though she's taking her day off and lurking, just a thought, or we can give it 10 more minutes and and then I saw a refresh. I don't know what that was. I think he's trying to come back. See, Rohan, I don't like big fish unless it's a goldfish I'm not into the cichlids. I mean, if they stay, I just like the smaller ones. And then you can put more of them in your tank, the smaller they are. I like the idea of having more fish. Well, thank you. Thank you, Michael. I don't mind being up here. um i like being chatty when i have another co-host father fish doesn't like us being chatty though when he's on so i hope you all have had a good start to your new year mine's been pretty good i guess i'm gonna try to keep it that way so the link is there if anyone would like to i i don't know if you can click it and join without father fish you might have to give you permission yeah um unfortunately the laptop i wanted i just needed something that is like a workhorse um because i do a lot of graphic art and the program i use is adobe illustrator and i also use adobe photoshop when i need to um work on photos um and i've taught myself everything i know um so it takes a lot of memory though it takes a whole lot of um processor um speed and memory to keep up so i just needed a laptop like a gaming laptop to keep up with all of that and those cost a little more and my husband got me something that i don't think can keep up and i ended up not using it so i think it'll be my son's laptop now i don't even know where it is unless this is it yeah that is it sorry my husband has a laptop that looks similar so this is the laptop it's an acer that's the one he got me um and i don't use it i still use my old one that's about to die because it still has um adobe illustrator and all my tools that i need we never got them installed on that guy so i see the stream trying to update i don't know that's other fish trying to rejoin this is unusual normally he comes back by now yep yep that's your man am i freezing i i see it do this so maybe i'm freezing when it does that yep but i wanted an apple i would love to have an apple i don't know colder weather is expected i guess if you live in canada store lake well to me it's a pond it is a large pond and it's still sitting there looking pretty don't really have any updates on it i keep hoping for uh the water water lilies lily pads i don't know what do you call those water lilies to grow grow in there i'm blurry i'm really blurry that's weird clear on my end yeah my neighbor keeps killing those water lilies so his side is completely free of water lilies and being taken over by algae i don't know what to do with that guy fish they're in there i i don't see them uh we catch bass i don't i know we have carp and i know we have like bluegill fingerlings um unless i'm out there feeding them every day you don't um don't see them they don't come up to the edge blurry that is odd is my water uh is it hard So, this is where, oh, I don't know, this is where there's contradiction with the water. I have really, really high pH, so I have high carbonates. Oh, I need to drop out maybe. If I drop out, I'll try that. But yeah, I'll answer this question and I'll drop out. I have really high carbonates, but a GH of around 3 to 5, so my water is soft, but can buffer pH really well. All right, so Father Fish, would you like me to close my window and so you can try to get back on? All right, I'm going to shut this down. We'll see what happens.