🔴 LIVE - FATHER FISH IN THE EVENING 12/30/20 STREAM #20

I'm live. See? See? I'm live. I'm alive. Does that count? I'm alive. Mercy Matilda. Two minutes later. I've been playing music and chatting with the girls. We've been having a good time. I thought we were live. I missed y'all. Somebody's got this. Oh, it's me. Hold on. Let me fix it. Ah! How are you feeling Mary? Great. Thank you very much and I am an issue How you doing Mary? I'm hanging in there I had to come up and see y'all yeah we missed I missed you guys so much well I'm glad I came up then yes I think my TV's still on let me turn it down listen when I get up I'm never gone I'm just right like right beside the chair so I know I know y'all always think I disappear but I'm really listening and I don't have my where's my father fish coffee hold on I don't know no Morgan just became a member yes look at that hi Morgan congrats and thank you welcome welcome I'm a member but if you signed up with Patreon it doesn't show your membership on YouTube there's my beautiful little girl welcome Morgan now Morgan you will very much enjoy Discord and getting on there yeah it's a lot of fun more and more people are using it uh we're going to spring for um a gigabyte plan that will allow people to post videos all right oh that's good When do you get on, Father Fish? Pardon? When are you able to get on Discord during your day? Well, off and on. I mean, whenever I pick up my phone, I have it on my phone. I don't have it on my computer. So if I see, I've got it open. So if somebody posts, I'll see that there's a post. Yeah. So I'm on probably half a dozen times a day. Oh, nice. Well, you actually have a question, but Lee addressed us. Ladies, I used L'Oreal hair conditioner on my beard today. It is soft, silky, because I'm worth it. Lee, you're so funny. Love you, Lee. Mine was scratchy, I don't know. Mary, I took my dog to the groomer today, and he came all soft and silky. Oh, Geordie. simple fish keeping you have an actual question father fish I have a question how can you tell whether your white cloud minnow is fighting or breeding good question they look like they're breeding but also like they're fighting just like love funky funky ones what do you got on father fish do all kinds of fancy quivering oh I've got a They do the little cha-cha Now is Simple Fishing the one Who bred all of the All the white clouds In a pond outside And wound up with 350 of them I don't know that wasn't you was it Simple Fish Keeping I don't know about that He's been doing a lot of videos on his channel. Well, here's a friend of mine. This is Michael Lobello. Well, well, Michael. Yes, you are talking. You are talking to 75 people online right now on their live stream. Everybody hit that like button. If I don't call you, apparently you forget about me. Oh, that was tear-fishy. I was thinking about you today. Oh, I want to get in front of one of you first. Are you there? Okay. Yeah. This is Michael. This is Michael Lobello. Mike is active. No, no, no, no, no, no. Lou. Yes. Merle. Lobello. Lobello. Lobello. Lobello. Yes. Labello. Green. Michael is active in the Tampa Club. I was one of the first people I met when I got back into fish down here. And he got me active in all of the clubs and was really responsible for me developing my hobby here in Florida. So he's a pretty special person to me. Well, very nice. that my two young cousins, 15 and 16, met a gentleman the size of the tank. Is that correct? Yes, he did. Yes, he did. Yeah. And a green wall living in California. Yeah, nearly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Seven years. Well, I'm 80, so it's been about 70 years. Exactly, yes. Thank you, Ms. Fitz. Ms. Fitz. I didn't hear you Lou I just said that we've been friends ever since And you folks out there Are being treated to a special We'll talk about that I bid you all a kind to do Also known as Spino Mike we need to see you up here with us Yeah Jump on Jump on YouTube Get to my channel In the morning Hold on, I just covered my fish room today with this screen porch and two 800-gallon polytanks, and I am wore out like a beaten dog. Knee replacement and hip replacement has caused me to now want to curl up in a ball, in a warm ball, for the rest of the evening. So, folks, I will meet you next. I cannot do it this evening. No worries. Come up again. That's all right. We look forward to it. Okay, guys. Okay, I appreciate it. Lou, I will talk to you soon, sir. Is he at least watching us? No, he's not. I don't think he's turned on yet. Are you all ready? Nothing like a dog from the groomer. That's right. Come here, Jordy. I'm on the 8th of the morning. I promise in the future, okay, Lou, we'll figure out the logistics, okay? That sounds great. That sounds great. Thanks, Mike. I am not techno-sexual, okay? You're in the right crowd then. Welcome to RJ's place. Take care. I love you, brother. Thank you, Mike. Take care. Great to meet you. I want to say hello to people. Hello here, Fishy Misfit. Hi, Mary. This is for you. T-Bone. I'm trying to get Jordy up taller. Oh, he's so pretty. John Larson. I'm naming off names when I can here okay cool Lee Joey a fish Jordy you're so pretty muppet the camera we have a new person in here Katherine Camara yeah oh and another one um RJ there's another one named RJ also I think it's what it was RJ's place from Australia welcome Chevy Ask your questions, Kareem. Go ahead. Thank you, Ms. Fenn, for your super sticker. Yes. Appreciate that very much. So, Father Fish, people would like to know if they can ask questions in the stream. Mm-hmm. And that's what we're here for. Absolutely. Glad you're here, Kareem. Randy Roman. Sorry, I can't stand if I don't say hello to everybody, so I just got to do it. Well, you need to. I'm trying. Panos is here. hopefully they all get a hello who have I missed let's see here I'm doing it again Lee a fish Raven Greg Morgan T-Bone Lee again T-Bone oops sorry I'm repeating myself Irene says she Brazilian oh nice and lives in Ohio isn't that cool though how many people we have from all over the world oh well let me get some links Kareem to help you Michael Long drop some links for you simple fish keeping a fish i'm repeating it a million times i've missed y'all so much over the past day i'm dropping some links to y'all if you have it does it really does videos i couldn't get on this morning my internet was down oh yeah i forgot about that so is everything okay now well i i think so i think i'm actually back on my internet power's back on it was crazy and i couldn't even get cellular data on my phone everything oh no just a storm came through yeah just a you know not a thunderstorm just a storm with heavy, heavy winds. I think there's 35,000 still out in this area. Oh, wow. Y'all got a pretty good storm. How come New Hampshire was so warm? Are you guys as warm as them? Oh, it's warm. You're warm. Okay. I was on top chat. It's 54 degrees right now. Thank you, Lee. Karina, come here. Karina, come here. Just earned herself are rich. Yay. Why do you suppose that is? Because she just, or she, he, just went out to the lake last weekend and grabbed two buckets full of mud. It stunk a bit, but it didn't matter. They got it and put it in their tank, I guarantee it. Good job, Kareem. That's wonderful. Now all you gotta do now is cap it with sand. Let us know what videos you watch, too. Tennessee H2O. Father Fish, Corrine asked a question. Did you see her question? No, give it to me. Fish, have a great night. She was saying, I heard you can use mud in the substrate. Right. Well, she got some. Yeah. So, absolutely. You put it down and then cap it with two inches of sand. Right. I don't care what you got in your tank. Very slowly and very carefully fill the tank so you don't stir that up and then you never stir it up you never change it you never clean it you never touch it you leave it absolutely alone except to put plants in it right that's right Chevy, I don't care if you've already got sand in your tank just go ahead and cap it again with two inches more of sand and we'll be happy I don't care what's in your tank right now everybody stop go get some sand and put two more inches on it there you go you won't be set oh thank you Greg the window who is this one that helps with the plants to anchor better you have another super chat Father Fish says Greg the window welcome and hello and thank you yes hi Greg thank you yes Father Fish don't tell them about the plants and how deep to plant them for our newcomers oh yeah okay so when you get if you're setting up a new tank and you've got dirt in the bottom and a sand cap and you want to plant it put the plants press the roots in halfway down into the sand do not push them all the way down into the dirt That dirt is still very raw and very strong, and it can burn the roots. So you want to be gentle with this. The roots will find nutrition. That's their job, and they do it very, very effectively. So if you put your plants, if you've got two inches of sand on top of your dirt, put the plant in one inch just halfway down into the sand and then they'll they'll work around and they'll feel around they'll smell it and taste it and know just where to go to be able to get nutrition without the roots getting burned up after a few months you can put them down further if you need to but keeping it up keeping the plants about an inch below the the surface it's just a good rule of thumb if they come up if you've got big rooted plants push them down a little further you don't want them to float to the top like if you have a really big mother amazon sword you may need to push it down further than one inch to really get it but what i usually do is i'll get the roots in and then i'll pile up sand around the base to to give some added security to hold to be sure that that it's going to hold down can you talk more about the mud from the lake she would like to know if she needs to add anything to the mud i told her i think it's just as good as the soil that you would recommend you don't really need to if you want to if you want to thin it out aerate it you can put peat moss in with it um that'll help to aerate it if If it's thick and dense, like clay, then you might want to aerate it. Mix some peat moss in it to get it kind of more loamy. And then put it down in the bare tank, about an inch, a little better. And then cap it with a couple of inches of sand before you fill the tank. Fill the tank carefully so you don't stir it up. then you can plant carefully. Generally, if you're collecting wild mud, it's a good idea to mix some peat moss in with it, just to kind of loam it up a bit, because the wild mud tends to be rather dense. Thank you, Foxy. Yeah, thank you. Super thicker. Roxanne, I love you. Yes, good to see you, Roxanne. I love you, my daughter. Sorry. Yeah, she's a three. Back from the hospital and doing well. She has to take things slow for the next few days. Bit of a scare, but she's okay. So we're just real happy you're back, Roxy. Yes, absolutely. How many inches of mud? At least one. You can do more. At least one inch. you can put two inches in, uh you can put six inches in, but there's a point to it if you've got one in, it's on the size of the tank if you're putting it in like a 55 gallon tank one to two inches if it's a 20 gallon tank one inch like that he ain't scared, did you just see that? No, I just had a sneak in from Calvin, he came and gave me a sugar but here he comes back, let's watch, I'm not scared, no I missed it, I was looking ah there you go, very sweet, hello Chris Dubbings, glad you're here, uh Emily dropped the link for Father Fish, I thought I highlighted the Teespring, yes I got it, get that Emily Stevens, hello and yes, what she said was perfect about planting the plants in the sand i got sidetracked, sorry, Calvin walked in, i went somewhere else right now crazy setting up my first dirted tank baby mystery snails 400 ish new blue dream colony black bar endler and RC explosion and just ordered 80 in plants wow nice yeah all right correct hey with that mud and that sand on top that's going to be amazing yeah that'll be great you bet top soil and then you have a question about do you we plant in the sand not the soil right yes plant in the sand not the soil that's especially true if you're mixing additives in the soil uh because uh a lot of those additives are going to be like um fertilizer they're going to be they're going to be strong uh if you've got just straight mud with some peat mixed in it kind of a loamy you can you can put the plant in that um but if you're capping it you need to cap with two inches of sand for several reasons one is to make sure that you have enough substrate in there to be able to create an anaerobic layer anaerobic start below two inches in sand so you You need two inches of sand on top of the dirt in order for that dirt to be in an anaerobic environment. In other words, in order for oxygen to not be able to permeate down to it. That's important because in an anaerobic environment, waste breaks down into components that are easy for plants to take up. So plants have to, plants can only take up nutrition that's broken down by anaerobics. They actually, those little tiny hair roots actually have the ability to create an anaerobic environment. But if you've got one built in, that's going to create a lot more opportunity for the plant to be able to feed better. guys have not seen Remy yet he never comes oh he's so pretty i show you uh you've not seen his brother Randy was talking about he mixed blue ball and echo complete over dirt should i still cap it with sand i actually did uh randy like everything i put in there no matter what like i've got stratum and some other things in here and i put sand on top of it you can you don't here we're back yeah i came back i've gone back i've got a bad connection here i don't know why it does that but it usually comes back you don't have to cap if you're using some um substrates that are not organic and that's kind of the key if it's an organic substrate and you really want to cap it to keep the organics out of the water column otherwise you wind up with a lot of nutrition in the water column and that promotes algae growth obviously it will also promote growth for those plants that take their nutrition directly from the water column like Anubias, Javafern, and the like. Nevertheless, if you are able to keep nutrition in the substrate and keep the water column relatively free of nutrition, it'll give you a better, healthier environment. It'll be less prone to disease, less prone to pollution, to the water fouling and so forth. So try to cap if the substrate is not organic then you can use that as a cap. You may need to make it an inch deeper than otherwise if it's coarser than sand in order to ensure that the water does not get uh water does not easily pass through it now the purpose of sand is to slow down the water passage through the sand to the point where the oxygen is pretty well used up by the time that water gets down two inches or so Father Fish, Dr. Nance said he sent you some photos at 4:30. He's wondering if you would... Yes. I'm recommending another video. Oh, no, my phone just froze up. Doreen, I'm recommending another video for you. She's having some frustration with her tank and the ammonia and lots of advice that she was seeing that has been frustrating to her. I've got to restart my phone. But she wants to add ammonia lock every two days to combat the ammonia in her tank not being cycled. I will bet you dollars to donuts that you do not have enough sand cap in that tank to prevent the pollution from leaching into the water. that's about the only thing that would cause that kind of substantial persistent ammonia build up. Put an inch or two of sand in the tank and that will resolve the problem. Three. I love three inches. It's the perfect that's the name how to create a perfect aquarium the first time you try i i've suggested that video and provided the link father fish so emily is saying that uh her city water currently has one ppm ammonia straight out of the tap actually what you have is uh um you have chloramine You have ammonia that is added to the city water to create a chloramine molecule. It combines with the chlorine to create a liquid molecule that will not gas off, which means when you add the chlorinator, dechlorinator, which you need to add double strength, it will break the bond and get rid of the chlorine. it will not get rid of the ammonia the ammonia then needs to dissipate if it's one ppm of ammonia that's really not enough to be concerned about that's that below one ppm is zero ppm so one ppm is the lowest ammonia solution you can possibly have the next lowest is zero no ammonia i would not worry about one ppm of ammonia it's not going to hurt a thing particularly if you have plants in the tank if you have a deep substrate in the tank that ammonia is going to disappear rather quickly all right um she just has gravel so that's in her 20 her current 20 setup she just has gravel well add two inches of sand maybe three maybe three mary and jess said three well and if the sand moves around so it's nicer to have three because it'll cover it more evenly Hello, the Carver family. And it's great to plant it. It's like the perfect amount to not breach, because you don't want to breach that line where the sand meets the soil. Give you more. I want to ask Karina a question. Karina is saying, just plants doing really good, but not cycled yet. How do you know your tank is not cycled? What do you mean by that? John Larson is asking, did you remove the jelly and fertilizer around the roots when you put new plants in your tank? I have one point zero for the longest time. Corrine, ignore it. Ignore it. It's of no significance whatsoever. eventually as the tank gets old enough it will create enough nitrifying bacteria to burn off ammonia at the first site of it. For now it's not at a point where it is in any way an issue. Did you guys see what Jason said? I did. I was reading it. That's what I was wondering about the fish to read those. it's got a couple of comments there comments maybe where did it start at um 6 28 read them back joey was there one before that 629 i think no i think you've got it that's 629 yeah so 629 basically says i'm seeing an odd die off in my tanks only the mollies bodies are fine angels fine zebras fine parameters are within good ranges what what is dying the mollies are dying The rest of the fish are fine. The platies and angels and zebras are fine. The mollies are dying Mollies are a brackish water fish. If you have soft acid water, they're not going to do well. They are raised mostly in Florida in hard alkaline water. We need to look at the condition of your water. My hunch is that it's neutral pH with a hardness of well under 100. If that's true, then your water is simply not hard enough. You can solve that in a number of different ways without hurting the other fish. You can add some crushed coral, or you can add some calcium powder. You can add a cuttlebone just floated in there. There are any number of ways to get calcium in the water. If your pH is tending to drop, then you need carbonates. Carbonates hold the pH stable, and that could be another issue. You can also add salt to the tank. I typically do not recommend salt because it's really hard to adjust it when you do water changes. And you don't want to add much. A level tablespoon per five gallons of water is more than enough. You just want to barely raise that PPM level. So a couple of things you can do. my hunch is that's the reason you're having trouble with mollies it could be something else but that's about the most common problem if all of the other fish are doing well and if you need any more videos you can go over to my channel and go to the Father Fish playlist those are all my favorite ones from Father Fish sorry Petroman. I want you to all pay attention to Petroman. Petroman has a very different approach to fish keeping than I do. And he is extremely successful. Basically, his approach is a far more scientific far more management related approach for example he uses RODI water that's pure water with no minerals in it of any kind to which he adds minerals at a very specific rate very specific level in order to get precisely the mineral content that he wants if this is an approach that you want to take i recommend you be in touch with Petroman he's one of the leading people on these uh streams on these boards who knows how to do this and is able to do it extremely effectively so you know there is no conflict between what he's doing and what i'm doing they're simply two completely different approaches mine is for the lazy fish keeper is or you're and you have a you have a super sticker from jason i don't want to kill my fish because i forgot something or alex is here hello alex and i'd like to thank um Lori and jewel for dropping links again tonight for doing a wonderful job thank you jason very much yeah thank you as ever mary we need to sing our i found my way i found my way i can't sing very good tonight my lighter oh hey bogey hey because who which one is that that's Bogey I'm gonna have to update that song to every evening oh look at the face y'all gonna make me break out a puppy I've got to see Jordy's beautiful self and Bogey of a call well normally you guys have the animals and nowhere to be seen they just all of a sudden decide they have to crash the party I think that sounds good Karina Kareem Remy never comes up to me unless he wants to be fed you don't see him in the morning because he's been fed and he's like sleeping somewhere that would be good Kareem RJ's place but I I'm kind of I'm a little bit off tonight I'm not keeping up the chat as good as I should be but uh Kareem says tomorrow for sure I'll do the wild mud two inches then two to three inches of sand put water in slowly then I have to wait for it to cycle so I can add the fish right okay no no no you can put fish in it right away just make sure it's capped well and you've got as many plants as you can stuff in there what do you recommend for her tank right now that she's like worried about with her guppies well that's right and also how do you know when it's cycled is the next question she has it right Larry D Yeah, that's what I asked her. And she doesn't have a good answer, does she? Yet she's all worried about it. Let me tell you about cycling. Cycling is a fantasy. It is a ghost that people chase down the calendar out of fear that if they put their fish in the tank too soon, they'll die. A good friend of mine, Merle Cohen, many, many, many years ago, Merle Cohen brought more fish into this country than anyone else ever has. He had one of the largest wholesale import businesses in the country for many years. He said that he never acclimated fish, never. he put his the fish that came in he put them in his water and moved it right along he did not lose fish from failing to acclimate they went in hard alkaline water whatever they came out of and unless he had a fish that was caught in the wild out of 3.0 water he never had a problem acclimation is for the most part a fantasy it occurs over a very very long period of time as an aquarium builds up its ability to manage waste that doesn't happen in a day or a month or even a year that can take two three even four years for it to really reach that level in the meantime if you're doing moderate water changes periodically based on having um an ammonia buildup or a nitrate buildup then you're controlling the environment i put fish into brand new tanks on day two. Day two. I do not feed those fish heavily. I feed them extraordinarily tiny amounts of food, because I know if I overfeed them, that will create ammonia and the nitrate buildup. The nitrates are not a problem. Ammonia is. If you want to control ammonia, control feeding. Feeding creates ammonia. Nothing else. Excess food is what creates an ammonia problem in the tank. If you have a buildup of ammonia, you're feeding your fish too much cut it back and then cut it back again and then cut it back again if you feed your fish an amount of food equal to the size of their eye once a week you're giving them enough food they do not need a lot of food every tank that is set up as a balanced tank creates food for the fish to eat. That's what being cycled and being balanced means. It means the tank is creating food for the fish, not for big fish, for little fish. It's creating microscopic food like paramecium or other tiny tiny microscopic shrimp like algae like rotifer like all of the little things that live in the sand in the dirt and then and on the plants all of it is food for the fish she also has a question about quarantining her new fish do you guys have any advice for that pay attention where you're getting your fish from if you're getting your fish from a reputable store you've been in it many times you know how they keep their fish you trust what they're doing you do not need to to isolate your fish if there is any question about where the fish have come from it's always a good idea for a few days at least to keep an eye on them just to make sure they're okay if you're getting your fish from a reputable supplier there is no benefit at all to isolating your fish from your general population okay um i think she said she gets them from the big box stores um she doesn't have another store to buy from right now well buying from a big box store is a crap shoot the problem with big box stores is they do not have protocol for keeping their fish healthy in fact they have rather the opposite protocols the protocols and big box stores for keeping fish is to get them sick and keep them sick and sell them sick so that they can die and you'll come back in to buy something else when you come back to make your guarantee. It's a perfectly atrocious, irresponsible, ethical system that's used by virtually every big box store in the country. i recommend you do not buy fish from a big box store you're buying trouble if you do um father fish for real just came up and she I just wanted to mention this real quick but uh for real fish keeper said I just found out my grandmother passed away I love you all and I wanted to get on here but I can't hopefully I will get to talk to y'all soon love you fish fam we love you too for real That's the young lady that joined us the other day I'm so sorry I'm sorry to hear that Did we get all Jason's answered? We got everything? I don't know Did you have all of Jason's stuff? I think so I just wanted to make sure I don't see anything else He says yes I thought that we did Okay, just make sure Like I said, I'm kind of swimming headed So y'all just ignore me We've had a lot of questions, but I think it's always helpful for everyone. Even when you think you're not doing great. Hey, Coffee, what have you been up to? I haven't seen Coffee in a day or two. Mary, I was telling Father Fish before we came on, I'm going to be going to my ear, nose, and throat doctor in the morning. Are you? Yeah, I started getting eye pain with this cold weather and messing with my sinuses. And like every time I blinked, my eyelid was hurting. oh no yeah that's not good and that just happened since you had the the c word that when it started or i think it's linked to my i've got like i had an ear infection that just never really went away and it's just yeah whenever i get a cold stuff or weather changes putting pressure on my sinuses and stuff i just need to get it figure it out and address yeah yeah here's mama y'all i'm looking at wrench stuff here she's pretty that's moomoo okay go away you're looking at what father fishing sir wrenching oh wrenching oh yeah there's more there's some more wrenches that could be jason c hello sandy it's the one i'm looking at right now and then there were a couple others i'm scrolling up blue jab time coffee are you talking about getting a test i had my test this morning he said blue jab time been running around it was pretty interesting there's rj's place jason jason c welcome welcome where is uh yeah link just recommended rj's place yeah yeah and we got we got kareem um there's one hey uh father fish larry d was that asking about um uh sandblasting sand i know i've got the kind from tractor supply and you know sometimes it does appear yeah it appears like it's kind of sharp but i have quarries and stuff and i've never had any problems with it are there any other sandblasting sands that you recommend or well they're all the same thing i mean okay they're they're uh bituminous coal a very hard coal that's ground into a powder or into a very tiny crystal so it's yeah it's a crystalline structure it's not going to be a problem bacteria grows on every surface of it and that effectively softens it i was going to say i haven't had any problems with it and i use it in a lot of things i got nervous when people were saying that it can be drawn into your your about or you know with like any magnetic properties it does for me it does you know if my goldfish go by and spit a mouthful of it by the intake but other than that i haven't had any problems with it people say things and then you're like oh no yeah going but now my favorite sand i have admit comes from the big box stores it's a little expensive well i got my last bag from um it's that imaginarium or the um top fin black sand i absolutely love that stuff it's so clean Red Packer is saying good evening Molly Fish do you think it's necessary to remove fish waste from the substrate. If you have a sand cap, that fish waste will break down and go down into the sand. You'll never even see it. I have tanks that have been set up for 10 years that have clean, perfectly clean surface, sand surface, that have never been cleaned. I've never siphoned moan off of them, never clean them at all. The waste breaks down and it goes down into the if it's not doing that, you need to add more sand because that means it's going to full up. Add another sand and it'll do that. It'll disappear. You won't see it. Let me just make another comment here because we've had a lot of questions here And I've kind of come on a little hard about these issues. And what I'm trying to communicate, right, what I'm trying to communicate is do not let yourself be bamboozled by the naysayers in the hobby who say, oh, you have to do this just this way. And you have to do that just this way. are you going to kill everything they're the people who don't know how to keep fish alive and manage to kill most everyone they get they're speaking out of their own experience they have not yet learned to keep fish in a way that's natural and healthy and and happy And so they're uptight neurotic. Do not let the uptight neurotics govern how you keep fish. It'll make you crazy and you'll give it up. If you want, as I suggested, if you want to take a very hands-on approach with a lot of detail and a lot of management, follow somebody like Petraman. There are others in the hobby who do a very high level of management. If you want to do a much lower level, follow somebody like Alex or like me to do a more low level. Now, alex has a lot more science behind his, but he's doing basically the same thing I'm doing. Lucas is another one. Follow Lucas. He has a very simple system, LRB. These are all, all of us are doing basic, simple, natural systems that essentially maintain themselves without very much effort at all. And that's the way it ought to be. Unless, as I said, you want to take a very diligent, intensive, hands-on approach and be aware of every single detail. There are those doing that. You need to follow them. Those are not the persnickety ones. Those are not the ones you say, oh, don't do that. You can't do that. Anybody who says that doesn't know what they're talking about, and they're trying to make themselves seem important. Ignore them. They're. I hope that's clear. Is it okay if I direct Jeff's tank's question to Petro? Yes, because I was like, yeah, that's a question. At 654, Father Fish. You kind of already directed people towards Petro. Is that okay, Petro man? Can I do that? Riddle Jeff is asking about um remineralizing the RODI water and what degree hardness do you recommend yeah i don't do it uh Petro man does it it depends on what kind of fish you want to keep and what condition would it keep them at that's the whole purpose of doing it is to make is to meet some very specific uh targets for very specific kinds of fish so you know it's not it's not a simple basic universal it's it's based on your attempt to recreate a very specific water condition for specific fish that you're trying to create that condition uh to form what time is it y'all it's almost time we're down i just want to tell everybody yeah we're gonna hello josh b and laura sutton um alex is gonna have a stream after this you guys it's gonna be his first um stream yard stream like father fish is doing here i hope everybody will come over and yeah i'm gonna try to go oh yeah i'm gonna be that'll be wonderful and we had two or laura just came in hello and Josh B, Laura needs a wrench she's been here a few times well i'm gonna have to run to the barn Mary but i'll chime in once i get back yeah i'm kinda running me i wish i was running to the barn and hello Diane a couple of people sneaking in ladies hey Alex do you want to drop that link do you want to drop the link to your stream so Mary Alex has never done StreamYard Not the StreamYard He usually just does, I guess, YouTube, just the live chat or the live streaming So this is going to be his first one where people can come up and join him. Father Fish, I hope you're going to come to Alex's, and we want you up there visiting us, please Because your hair's looking fabulous tonight That would be wonderful. You better come on over, Cassie and Joey Come on I missed my dinner well I'll come in when I get back from the barn I'll drop in support is easy we are at 6.58 yeah if you can come on at like 5.30 I'd be good oh y'all I was in top chat the whole time I hope I didn't miss you were in top chat the whole time earlier comment when I said switch to live ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding you too all right everybody do the hand bell that's right cassie can do it look at cassie she can do it the bell, that's right here we are i need to get a belt yeah we talked about sand a lot tonight you people that are new folks that's right when we're when father fish is at work at the shop he rings the hand bell when we talk about sand here we go tap it with sand glitter that's a sand ball not a snowball i'll see you over at alex's alex i'll be there in just a minute give me a bathroom break and i'll be right there y'all come see us love you thank you joey thank you cass thank you love you joey oh i saw a panda loach today mary oh and petco they had panda loach did they really go back and get them get one of them oh get them go joey oh i didn't bogey was trying to drink out of my father's fish mug hey he's got taste you wanted some coffee i'm not doing anything special here he's being crazy yeah echo had panda loaches you better get some panda loaches but they didn't have them labeled go cassie it's your birthday y'all wore me out on my birthday i haven't been right ever since what's your shirt saying Hollister I really like it go find the fish get down show them how you do it he's the master get up there and show them that fish face there it is better than all of us he is the greatest y'all beat that beat that love y'all be there in a minute Alex