🔴 LIVE - Monday morning at the zoo

We're here at Father Fish. What's going on here? I did rotate. He doesn't want us to rotate. Am I live? I'm live. We're here at Father Fish. Just walking in the door. This is a Monday morning video. And I'm going to turn the camera around and figure it out. Right there. Coming in the back door. This is the back of Father Fish. we try to keep it orderly but rarely succeed I see them low on sand need to call an order of sand in that'll get here tomorrow they're probably closed today let's see if we can get rotate the vise that's saying rotate and I'm rotating on the wrong way what it's doing is it working I don't know why it says rotate All right, the whole idea here is to show some morning activity that'll be available as a video throughout the day. And a few people have popped in. You can read them. Mustang. Good morning. Mary-Faith Flynn. Hi there. And Betsy just got here. Okay. Hi, Betsy. Hi. I won't show you. I won't do it live stream. Okay. Okay. What's going on? I have a man interested in wondering how much the lovebirds are. Uh, 40. Okay. I'll send him a text. What is that pot? Must be Frank's. Must be. I never saw people talking about a pot. I can't show pretty Betsy. I'm in the witness protection program. Really? Well, she probably actually is. Probably. Yeah, here's the guy right here. Kevin Rodriguez. This is what I posted. He said. Oh, so he came in. How much for the lovebird? Oh, like this. How are we doing this? Okay. Yeah. Oh, great. All right. Yeah, $40. Okay. Super. Yeah. Yeah, I've had a couple of people ask about them, but nobody... Nobody. Nobody's come over to get them. We've got three, is that right? I have three at home that I should have brought today, and I didn't. Lovebirds? No, parakeets. Parakeets, right. Yeah. But he was asking about lovebirds. But a lovebird, that's the first inquiry I had on a lovebird. And we have three of them? Four. We have four? All the same, green. Yeah, they were out in front of one of the parakeet boxes. Yes, they tend to want to... But they're not doing anything. I think they're all, like you said, they're all females. Probably, yeah. I know. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah. Because they're nice. They're not nasty. No, they're not. Alright, you done? Yeah, I'm all done. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to get seen this afternoon. Okay. So I'll have it here in the morning. You don't have any frozen mice yet, do you? No, I'm gonna pick them up this morning. Okay, I'll bring them back. All right. I need to get that animal out of here Well, at least stop doing this all over. Well, let's get started. Yeah Thank you Betsy, there's the back of that seat See ya, Betsy's a sweetheart, she is a love, she comes in and volunteers Seven days a week for about an hour in the morning morning taking care of all of the animals, she doesn't feed the fish, well she does some, I've seen her have to do a little of that, but she uh does everything else and just keeps them all healthy keeps eyes on them routinely and she just uh she's a deer, let's see who else is here here we go, this is so tiny a surgery, I need to put my, I need to put my glasses on, all right I'm just looking around so far everything looks pretty good, the water level on these tanks is something I'm always dealing with because it's always a little low or overflowing, right now it's a little low and it's just not coming out quite good enough, well that's all right, got some new rainbows and rios, I think they are a bunch of rios, new rainbows, I need to get a lot more rainbows low low on rainbows, oh these are the shellies, look at that, look at that, dart right in there we've got shellies everywhere here, I think there's some in here, yeah there are, right there in front oh there she went, there's another one dart, dart, another one back there is there all kinds of but mostly there's some more shell dwellers I've got four species of shell dwellers These are sunspot shells Still young, they're not showing their spot yet And then there's a calvus or two in here along with a bunch of other stuff. those are redhead tapajos There's an ostrich, some rhino ancestors. I like that they are African These are, these are all golden top minnows They're a little native fish Pretty, but it's hungry There's a cassette hook there that holds little people It's so hard to get that, to get any size on them I've had these for at least a month now Look, these are gross These guys are just so shy. There are Lamprologus speciosus in here, and Nanostoma prevens Nanosplendens, I'm not seeing any of them, just a very shy fish Beautiful, super pretty little thing What else is going on here? This is, we got the big fan on today, so I should shut that off for the benefit of the his string and we go back here oh see finally sold all the turtles i don't have any any big turtles left this is turtle tank and it's devoid of well it took a while had to go back and start over again weird all right this eventually just came by and dropped off a couple of fuzzy mice or uh they're ball python i mean yeah ball python up front so we'll pick these up where i left off and i think what we already have is history i think i lost everybody well that figures i'm looking in here to see if we have any of the um Epistogramma showing themselves and there are 10 of them in here and i can't find it i've seen two they're hiding really well this of course is their black water tank it's a 200 gallon black water row is here hi row i got back on it it dropped off i had to go back in and set it up again so anyway i wanted to show you i've got a a genuine monster oh there he is look at that is that a beast or what that's about an almost two foot bichir uh del easy no it's not del easy uh what is it called i don't remember this tank is so dirty it's got algae all over the glass anyhow i'm trying to sell him but i want to sell him to somebody who's gonna it's a female somebody's gonna see if they can't breed it got one nice discus here more coming we've got a whole bunch of discus on order there it is hiding somewhere well here it is right there little pigeon blood sign here angels this is kind of oddballs right now nothing especially interesting here's some hoplose we thought bunches of hopluses and then I've got dragons, there's a siren back there probably can't see him very well and an African lungfish right there. Oh, I want you to look at these puppies I've got more on the other side one of my customers throughout the years and prettier ones on the other side. I took a lot of them out move them so it wouldn't have them all in one place but it's really a nice selection of some pretty fancy guppies and lots of bettas so albert de boer hi hat trick okay we we got back i'm back right and here are we caught some halfbeaks you're probably not gonna be able to see them and there also are some of those baby gar that we caught a couple of weeks ago up at the Peace River but they're really not there they they hide they're hard to see i don't have much light on there this kind of makes it tricky all the way around let's double check this stuff these are um natives mostly flagfish and topminnows you saw the topminnows earlier there's more of them and more flags i don't see a lot of Formosa. We're going to have to stock up on Formosa. There's two mollies down here. There's a darter. There could be a bunch of darter in there, but we're not seeing them here. Not much of you guppies. I have some baby chilies in here. I've seen one. They're real tiny and we're not going to be seeing them for a long time until we get a little size on them. we have betta nest and there should be eggs in there everything actually looks fairly together this morning that is that is that is birds here's um our mixed cichlid tank somebody brought in the gorgeous tinfoil barbs albino i think they're wonderful and we've got a couple of a couple of red parrots back there hiding and everybody else looking for food, got a 10 inch pike in here that we just sold, well let's see as we'll go in the back and look see what it's doing back here these buffalo heads i really need to move them and get them set up they were born here last year and i want to get them they were born down here sold the colony when the babies showed up so i'm going to put them back down in here but i i want to get these salvinia out first i want to try to get to that today i don't know what's in here the frontos some cats plecos a couple of pikes more plecos that's about it that's a denisonii and some oddball cichlids a big denisonii here i don't know what's in there maybe nothing looks kind of ratty uh these are all my natives a few fish in there And these are cichlids that were growing here, severums of them. It's probably a gulf somewhere. These are Africans, Malawis. This is the 55 that's suffering neglect. I've been pulling plants out and selling them, so it needs to be replanted. I've got an order in this week with Dustin for some new plants. This is feeders, peacock bass, way back there, oh there's a little clown knife, here he goes. There's a red-tailed cat hiding back there in the corner. Feeders, a bunch of clown knives in here somewhere. Well there's one right kind of in front under that log. kogeckos four of these and they've been spawning they've been breeding rather we've got um i've had eggs let's see looking at who's here oh nobody came back that's sad all right marijuana uh i penguin shark two arowanas in here there's one seem to be doing all right see the other one one up low you see a dead one with a lolly up there oh right there okay i guess unless that's the same one i think it's the same one there it is okay one two there they are and uh reef tank i found a zoanthid yesterday that i'm just kind of excited about I bought some mixed import zoanthids um these have popped up they are pastel blue they cut the light clear enough to see them look at that color i never saw a color like that very pale pastel blue pretty nice these are leathers and lots of clownfish these tanks have a lot of algae in them and i kind of do that deliberately because it seems to provide some nutrients for the fish i think they pick at it also provides a medium for copepods so it's while it's unsightly the fish are extremely healthy in here and i'm able to keep them long term with without any problems all right i think we're let's go up front see what's up front here's the main boa i'll give him his lights in a bit this if i can do it there are frogs in here see there's well come on flip there's one up there there's about a dozen frogs in here let me get this thing cooking i've got a fogger on here there it goes we are fogging a few little turtles not what you see i want to see the one frog up top but they're more in here tell you what if i can figure out a way to set this camera let's see beat this guy i don't have anything to set this camera on. What I can do is cut these open. Get my scissors I guess. I need some kind of a something to hold this camera so I can do this. It's hard to work one-handed and kind of working one-handed anyway. Scissors of course you're not cutting like that doing nothing. Bited it! There little frozen mouse. I hope he's frozen. All right let's see you're gonna get it thought out wouldn't it think I'm gonna put this on a pair of tweezers because I don't want to smack in my hand and it's really cold I really need to get it thought out or put it in there for this let's see what else is here this is a tank of Elasmobranch that's been kind of ignored we put a bunch of litter in here kind of lake litter and all to try to get some some little microscopic life going to feed them and maybe it's working I don't know you've seen the stats no this is the back end of the the whatever it's called the log in the water display you don't see any more frogs they're green tree frogs in here there's some barking frogs remember what else and they're all hiding Betsy fed them some oh there's a green tree you know that's a piece of leaf and I thought And this beauty is for sale, and you've seen this a hundred times, great thing, great, great thing. And they're getting thought out, I think, so I'm not telling you what it's called. These are Silver Stats, a couple of Silver Stats that are a real nice size. All right, let's see this guy, got my tweezers, I don't know if I'm going to be able to do this. He's been snapping at people, and now he's ignoring a mouse, so that's not nice, I don't this problem ends here. It is. I guess I'm just going to drop it in there. All right, we're done. Get the lid back on. Breaking it, which I can't do. Stuff is for the birds. A couple more tanks for sale. Nice stands too. That's a 60 and that's a 55. A chiller, big chiller. Big 1200 chiller. All right, let's see if we can get the chat up here and I'll read it and then we'll sign out. oh i have my glasses here that would be helpful but i don't think i do yes i do good all right hatrick lance jones albert devore diddly anton slabbert garbo gnarly lee wilcox everything's going well so far this is to sir father fish this is kind of a private come on let's see Well nuts. Now I've lost the text again. It doesn't want to come back up. There it is. Sir Father Fish. Everything is going well so far. No loss. No constant 30 C. There's always hope and thank you as always. I'll keep you up to date. Lee's struggling to try to keep a large colony of Neons alive. He's in England. And he's got a little bit of fungus. So we're trying to talk him through that and help him deal with it. mainly deal with the pain of it all do i sell 120 gallon tanks when i have them i don't sell new i don't sell any new tanks there's no money in it i can't buy them as cheaply as pet smart can sell them uh gnarly likes going to the zoo me too all right we did that thanks for coming in sorry about the buffering problem don't know what happened and wasn't smart enough figure out how to deal with it quickly so i lost most everybody who was following but this will be posted today so it sometimes it's more interesting than other times um nothing exciting happened today so there was no real uh no no real drama uh but kind of a typical morning so thanks for plugging in see you all later bye for now see if i can figure out how to get out of this stop streaming