🔴 LIVE - Afternoon Of The Fish

So we're live, are we? We're at BioAquatics. I'm with Andres, and this is his beautiful farm, and he's in there right now catching some fish for an order, and I stopped up to pick up a few. We'll have to wait for him to get finished. Been sitting on 75 for an hour there. Traffic completely blocked southbound it's not moving anywhere i don't see that anyone is here let's see toronto's here and mary's here there are a few let's see I don't have a lot of red points okay mary page flynn lisa hi lisa what are we into today well i'm at bio aquatics bio aquatics is a a wholesale farm, I mean a farm. One of the top breeders in the country has this little operation that is all him. He's got two, actually three buildings that he raises, and there he is. There goes Andre. He's catching fish, getting me some stuff. I'm going to get in the shade here where I can read the comments. These vats are all breeder tanks. I don't know if we can see into them or not. Maybe a little bit, but actually not bad. There are six breeding stations in here. They're about 18 inches apart. And every, I don't know if you can see the babies. Yeah, it's a pretty nice row. How are you? Good to see you. It is a lot of work. This is a very small part of this operation. Let's go over here. I think he's got a bunch of angels over here. He's getting red points for me, I believe, right now. No, what's in there? Tadpoles on the ground. These are angels. Koi, a few blacks, pretty koi. More angels. Good luck, bro, with all that. Are these red points in here? I'll take some little ones if you do that. Okay, angels, angels, angels. Oh yeah, you gonna wholesale them out? Yeah, but a lot of them are deformed or you know, you gotta go through them. Pretty fish, this is a combination of two different species of fish in here, right? There's three, there's Oscar, salvinis, and convicts. Salvini, convict, and what's the third one? Salvini, blue Oscars. Oh, okay, there's salvini and there's convict. look better a little bit earlier on yeah with a little sunlight on them really hot just getting some salvinie for me oh there's a pretty big fish a couple of them nice at one point i'm not going to be using vessels like this get rid of this use tanks right yeah Peplin hello Peplin Peplin Creek let's see who's here Mary Page Ro lisa we've got those guys logan's susan little ones will be fine okay it's a large one lovely give me a bunch of rice fish and then i need a few uh african cats sometimes yeah yeah that's fine oh 25 rice fish ah oh my so he has lots and lots of of um used tanks a lot of these are tanks that he got from me which is what our deal is i come up and get fish from him occasionally in exchange for the the tanks that he's taken all of these 40s are or tanks that i uh that i sold him as well as these actually these 15s are as well i think all of these are tanks from me including the cubes and I didn't realize I'd given them those cubes hmm only have a few of them left so there's a big tank farms are funny places they're typically places where a lot of different kinds of things are going on and it tends to look chaotic but usually the farmer knows precisely where everything is some nice pieces of wood here let's see how we're doing in here yes you did see corey here perfect yeah just getting more fish more tanks i got probably a lot of tanks coming probably another 50 tanks oh really cool plus i'm going to set up all those that are there right a big uh 400 whatever they're yeah 350. so i've got to get those set up there's like 14 of those yeah just trying to grow more breed more stuff and then the fish room back there the corner room that's the plants oh okay i'll put ac in there because i want to do mosses uh-huh i'll cool it down because mosses do well at 78. i've got a big chiller if you can use a a big chiller yeah i'll have to see uh i'll have to see it from inside what it looks like yeah how much power it needs that kind of thing right right Sinos in the back we're not going to be able to follow him in because as you can see it's a metal roof and want to get five feet in here the signal disappears so i'm standing in the doorway right now trying to keep an eye on things let's see you know andres is probably one of the he is one of the top breeders in the country and he only is interested in breeding oddball stuff that nobody else is doing so it's pretty neat how hard is here whose kayak got stolen boy it's hard to read this tiny print oh i catch tiny fish lost this kayak bummer long have i been keeping fish do a great job on how to keep fish and plants i've been keeping fish i'm 79 been keeping fish since i was 10 years old oregon hi from oregon andre i haven't talked to you in a long time nice nice to see you more tanks right oh chris is here hi chris nice to see you it's kind of a an off-the-wall little production today i'm out at bio aquatics with andres ryan and he's getting some fish for me right now he's uh catching a few cichlids and i got some daisy rice fish and some red hondurans red point hondurans so we'll take those back we've got a couple of people asking about them so here we are this is a beautiful piece of property it it backs up to a state park that's all state park there's wonderful big live oaks surrounded by big big old live oaks pretty piece of property appreciate it andres huh can i give you a handful of this red root to throw in something oh nice can i put this in there You're going to have to adapt it because it's going to be full sun right now. Well, I'm going to put it out. I'll put it outside and it'll get full sun. Wonderful. Let me go. Where'd Frank go? Hey, Frank. He's around back. Yeah, I got a box in the van. I'll go get it. Oh, okay. There we are. Lots of cleaning to do. But I'm trying to build stuff and then I'll start breeding again. I don't have a lot of room to do it. I don't have a lot of stuff. Side door. Should be a box right there. let me get it that one's got food in it oh okay that'll work lovely thank you take care ah yeah well we're gonna get it work on tomorrow we'll see i can't talk too much just gotta go pack more stuff it says wednesday is usually a bit busy here comes frank here comes frank poor frank got a bunch of pictures of your orchids bloom right now You're right. Thank you. Thanks, Andre. Have a great day. Good seeing you again. I'm going to sit here and catch up on the text a little bit if I can. Oh, no. Press F5. Do they have any autos? No, I've not been able to get any. I had some people looking for them yesterday and couldn't get them. um Cichlid23 asking about other cichlids I would thank you I got I got a little bit here that's okay this will be fine give the man a hug well he's not the hugging type now his girlfriend on the other hand i hope he's watching i'll hug her anytime she's a sweetheart and she's supposed to be doing some uh here's t-shirts i need to call her up and talk to her about it that we can sell dear sir father fish so lee lee is here sue and i are up late again it's okay she has tomorrow off work well nice to see you guys glad you're here and patrick's laughing oh she haven't fished frank said hi frank said hi chevy fish you probably heard him let's see how are we doing timelines here we got 22 in 14 15 come on 15 right what else what could make my german blue ram suddenly act ill hiding for no apparent reason other fish are fine water is stable and fine. I'm worried. Who is this? Angie. Rams have to have really warm water and they're shy. They can, they will hide from other bigger fish. Hiding is not really so much a problem. um you know they are the critical thing with rams is is don't let it get below 82 you got to treat them like discus they've got to be warm fishroom fever's here hi fishroom fever you got a lot of people here and haven't been around for a while nice to see you instagram patreon and facebook who's doing all this cool stuff chevy fish good girl thank you is he from Maryland? No, it's Chevy. No, no, it's Chevrolet is what it is. Jackie Benamama. Hope your internet starts working properly. Yeah, it's doing okay now, I think. I got out from under the metal roof. Frank found some interesting and darted. Now he's gone. Right. Not while he's back now, but you're right. He was taking pictures of orchids. Native wild orchids. Native wild work. It's cool. Okay, we did different behavior than the night before. Water's above 80 in Arizona. His mate is normal. Is it the male or the female that's doing this? It would be typical for a female. Oh, we're doing, yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to hear about that silliness. I'm into dying on my feet rather than living on my knees, if you get the reference which the male doing it interesting he probably is being dominated by something would be my guess um keep an eye on what's going on it doesn't necessarily need to be aggression it's a shy type fish and he's gonna hide out from anything he thinks will dominate them so well you can't really have two male adult male rams together not in a small tank anyway because they um they'll fight one will completely dominate the other oh sir father let everyone know how you helped my tetras in 12 hours or less uh lee sent me a a note he had some fungus on a neon and i suggested it was just one and it was a tiny speck so i suggested garlic so he crushed up a garlic clove and put it in and everybody ate the garlic they loved the garlic and the next morning he was watching and one of his bigger fish the molly i believe bumped up against the tetra and the fungus fell off and they've been fine since then so i now have accolades from lee for telling him to put garlic at his tank so i'm just glad it worked out doesn't always work out rohan jay yeah i'm finishing up a live stream there there goes the man gone back out to his gone back out to his farm hey he's got a friend i've known andre's for 25 years it's been down here that long see what else do do do what time is it yeah rohan it is a great farm it just and it's something that he has built to fit his needs and his interests so it's you know just it it's an expression of andre's relationship with fish just really kind of remarkable says yeah i'm going i'm gonna go back i think i'll go all the way back all the way back see what i missed andreas is amazing a mad scientist of fish keepers oh that's chris yeah absolutely uh-huh checky bitty mama oh dear she got a problem with her betta's tail oh well is that guy is there so corey there that's right that's right who is that patrick somebody's getting their office ready for a 55 it's Jew of Judah Jdog 67, i think i'm pretty well caught up with everything everybody saying hello this is a this is a much quieter stream than we normally have normally i'm a lot more animated but part of the reason i'm not is because i just finished sitting in traffic for an hour and fell asleep twice so i'm kind of groggy and it was so boring A tanker truck jackknifed on top of a bridge at the busiest point south of Tampa at University Parkway, separating Sarasota and Bradenton. And it's three lanes of traffic solid through there, and they had to take it completely off the highway. So it slowed things down pretty miserably. Fish are starting to come back in. I'm getting a shipment tomorrow from Old World, which is, let's see, Aquarian Co-op's been there too. They're in Homestead, Florida. Two old men who have been raising fish for 50 years, and they're sending me three different species of shell dwellers and some triple red cockatoos, I hope, plus a few other things. we'll see i'll do an unboxing when they get here tomorrow so we'll be able to see everything let's see my ram spawn for me father fish fish wizard wonderful these are fish that uh that he got a young man who who i've asked to help me with video because he's just so he's so good at it His channel is Fish Wizard. I just changed it, and it's a great channel, and he's a great kid, and has spawned his rams. So I do have micro-worm culture. If you need some, come in and pick it up. That's a very good food to feed the baby rams. Angie is saying it's a male and female. He chased her around like mad over the new moon, then settled down yesterday and now this. in a tank with tetra's corys really have startled him last night, may have startled him last night. LFS is closed. You know, they do go in cycles. So if he was in cycle a week or two ago for a couple of weeks, then it may simply be that his testosterone level is down and he's not going to be as dominant. But it should come back. Just feed him as much live food as you can. If he's not beat up, he'll be fine, I'm sure. Mary Page, should we feed garlic periodically? I think it's a good idea. I like garlic. It certainly doesn't hurt anything. It's a good antibacterial, particularly if you can get it in the gut, because that's kind of important. We lose a lot of fish from gut parasites and gut bacteria, so it's a way to clear that up. And it can also do things like control or prevent dropsy and bladder problems. So, yeah, once a month or so, some garlic is all to the good. you can also mix it in with their food. Liquid garlic is good, but just squeezing a clove and mixing it in the food is the freshest, best way to do it. Install Kim's Aquarium in the lobby. Nope. The nursing home is saying, Lee, that they don't want the aquarium in the lobby. So I'm at a loss now. We've got this pretty little aquarium for Kim. I'll tell you what we're trying to do at this point is get her moved out of that hellhole she's in. She's in a prison and get her situated. This is a woman who is a master leather worker. She has worked for companies making leather shoes and other leather clothing and still does that as a craftsman. So I want to try to help her get something going on that will allow her to support herself with her leather work. So working on that. Say Chevy Fest, stay hydrated. Who we talking to keep some hard candy over here. Oh, yeah talking to me Hydration is the difficulty. Here we go. Yuck. Somebody put flavoring in it Please please got it. It says view delete. I don't know what that is. You want to drive? Yeah, I'll drive. Yeah, okay Let me get out of here. Yeah, we can go say goodbye to the farm everybody. There's and Andre's up there we're gonna get in here and Frank's gonna drive oh dear I don't know what's going on here I can't get this thing to advance come on you don't have a charger in here do you what do you yeah somewhere it's down there I think take care Andre well my um chat button is frozen it's not working stuck on here we go they got hidden accidentally oh dear i don't know if i can fix it i may have to go i know how to fix it remove unhide you should be back if he's back throwing my phone around unhide yes fish and fever unhide i just did should be okay right oh Fisher and Beaver did it or did i i probably did what are we doing time wise oh about 3 45 okay mercy what's the problem there's a layer of crushed lava rock under a deep substrate beneficial or unnecessary um it's not i would say unnecessary it it is beneficial to the extent that anything is beneficial uh and if you're putting it understand that you're really loading loading it with sand which is creating maybe more um saturation potential i don't know i would say it's not a bad thing ain't necessarily a good thing certainly not a bad thing oh good rightly behave i won't don't have to do that again Polyfish you deleted Lee Wilcox by mistake oh dear well i think he's back and he promises to be good i've had four angle angle oh here we go okay we're gonna have fun with this one who is this john barrett hi farther fish i've had four angle breading in the last months and they have eaten the young last year i had 500 young now with problem any idea um i just got an emergency alert there it went away. John, so your fish are eating the babies. Well, you know, the simple way to do it is to pull, you can pull the eggs out and hatch them. You can pull the babies out after they've hatched if they're not eating them right away. If they're eating the eggs, then pull the eggs. If they're eating the babies before they come up off the bottom, then pull them as soon as they catch. If they're eating them after they're free swimming, then pull them after they start swimming. So the solution to the problem is to either take the parents out of the tank or take as many babies as you can out of the tank and raise them separately. A couple little clues. You know, I ought to do. I really ought to do a video on breeding angels because there are a bunch of little tricks that just make it so easy. For example, if your fish are eating the eggs, then you take the eggs out once they're finished laying. You want to make sure they're finished. That way everything gets fertilized put them in a separate tank bare bottom tank with an air stone or a sponge filter if they're on a flat piece of slate or a flat rock then you angle it so that the eggs are facing down that way dirt is not going to settle on them and at that level you really don't need to put any kind of drug or chemical in there. They will hatch in two days typically and it will take another two days for them to start swimming. Do not start to feed until they're free swimming. Once you start to feed it's critical to have a sponge filter in with them. You can feed microworm. I will send a micro worm culture to anyone who needs it it's easy to do easy to keep and a perfect food for baby fish so there we have it right take um way faster towards honor all right now go left we want to we want to go through sarasota we don't want to get back on 75. no that way we can you're right sure yeah that's fine sue says you have a wicked laugh i said who said this who said that lee oh lee's wife sue a wicked laugh i see i'll have to work on it he deleted the link yeah but he came back and now he's telling me i'm wicked so i may have to boot him again he said you'd be good and you're not being good frank is uh i put him behind the driver's wheel so now i get to stop at every ditch and puddle along the way plus whatever else he sees he likes and he tends to like everything he sees this is true so it's a little tricky oh he was just letting somebody by oh you going to the creek oh well we're gonna we're gonna right there all right Craig's gonna go in the creek I guess we'll watch him it is about what is this Sue said no Lee said oh dear it's a nice thing we are English it means lovely wicked means lovely I'm glad we have an interpreter we just got that morning here bringing them to yeah I'm just who is that J dog is in Brighton I'm bright at University Parkway best commercial substrate whatever has the most nutrients in it don't get nutrient free substrate if you're gonna spend the money get something worthwhile frankly a bag of enriched potting soil is probably the best thing you can use cap it with sand and Floros is here and who's this John is saying great channel here from the UK we've got a bunch of UK folks today see you know I'm gonna get out we'll watch what you're doing okay you did everything yeah that's fine let's go Hi, Father Fish. Got my order. Oh, Dwight, the tank is all set up now. Thanks again. Great. I hope it all came out well. That's good. Dan Flores. Greetings from Sydney. Hello, Dan, from Sydney. Early morning. So we've got people listening, watching in Australia and in Great Britain. And I know there's some Dutch persons among us, so Holland as well. We had somebody from South Africa last week and somebody else from an African country, Nairobi, I believe. John Barrett says, let Sir Father Fish know that wicked means cool. I knew that. I knew that. one late night viewer from Lithuania oh how nice a late night viewer from Lithuania john's tanks are over 30 centigrade what's that in fahrenheit i don't want to know where i can get a female midnight bettas you want a black female i don't think i've ever seen a black female betta good luck with that one where do you go to find good autos oh well kirk we just have common autos here for two to three bucks each add some ice don't you dare no uh 90 degrees fair do not add ice let it go down naturally and normally i once killed off an entire tank of fish by putting ice in when it got up to 100 degrees because the heater whacked out if i had to let it come down slowly they probably well might have survived pat says it's 86 that's not too high it's really not a problem 86 is a perfectly acceptable temperature for nearly all tropicals they can handle it not to worry let's see let's go let's go see what Frank is up to here he's in the ditch i'm gonna turn the camera around what's he doing somebody else is watching him down down here in the hole there he is back there there he is getting anything oh cool we can use shrimp somebody said there's an otter in there oh look at the daisies how pretty there's frank dipping shrimp he is john put a small fan near it and as the fan blow over the top of the water it will cool down safely perfect john perfect soggy pit says yes the fan is a great way to cool the tank and if you have it blowing right on the top on the water surface it'll do a good job i like that do we have florida flagfish you betcha and do they actually go to town on algae like they claim yeah they do it's a really good fish and i've got we're getting a pretty good collection of native