🔴 LIVE - Streaming From Okeechobee

Well, I'm jumping the gun here a little bit, but we hit a really cool spot. We're out east of wherever we are, east of Arcadia. Let's see, nobody's here yet. Maybe I'll just, hmm, well, we're east of Arcadia, Redfish, Bluefish, about half an hour, and we just hit a spot that is absolute gangbusters. we've uh it's a little muddy ditch an extremely muddy ditch full of algae i'm going to show it to you he's just gone nuts did you give up you got 40 40 in there and how many in the jar we don't have 20 anyway this is um a muddy ditch the mud comes right up to the surface You cannot push a net through without getting it full of mud. So show us the technique. We've developed a technique. Actually, I developed a technique many years ago. Because these guys, they live and breed in less than an inch of water. Right up on the edge. So here's the technique. Put the net in the water. Give them a place to go. Right? and then and then splash scare them into the net and it works like a charm the trick with this is to keep the mud out okay so what i saw i've been watching them do this what is that a tadpole what a big tadpole i already hit where we just were yeah there may not be anything here there's one right there there's another is two one two can you see it yeah look at these things there There's one, there's two. Let's look at them. There's another, is that? No, that's a Gumbasia, I think. Wow. I keep finding them in pairs, honestly. Well, they get up in there in pairs. They hang out in pairs. Yeah. They're probably walking. So that's the technique. And we got, these are, I'm pretty sure they're Eleisonrema evergladei. Pretty little fish, aren't they? Half an inch long, and that's full grown. That's as big as they get. Let me get these two in water. Isn't that cool? It's still cool. Really? I've got to get back in the van so I can see what we're doing. Yeah, all right, I'll pull down. So this is, I've been looking for a spot like this all day. Frank's been telling me, pull over, look at that pond. Pull over there, that's gorgeous water. He goes on and on and on. And I just ignore him because I know what I'm looking for. And we found it, and it is just amazing. I mean, if we had the gumption and the energy, we could probably collect 1,000 here easily. This is maybe 100, probably 200 yards long, total distance, a 200-yard ditch. And it's just loaded. But there's no competition. yeah if that we probably did 40 yards yeah that's something and we're right on right on the highway right on 70 going into Okeechobee the orange trucks are up and down the road today they're harvesting orange in all the fields today all the groves all right i'm back i'm a muddy mess but i'm happy gotta find some big bass sunfish we've got about 70 or 80 yeah we did really well hello from australia hi paul and alice is here hello alice gotta jump the gun today but we got such a cool place i really wanted to show it off uh it's a good example of what collecting is really all about it's getting into those oddball places that you would not otherwise really want to go because it's nasty i mean i am muddy i'm i'm mud all over and i i i'm having to uh wrap my hand today because i erupted a boil pygmy sunfish yes i think i'm gonna start selling them online. You may as well. I've got probably a hundred now. Just tell us some. I think we also have Okefenokee. I'm pretty sure we've got both. Hi, Chevy. Let's see. Anything else cool? Top Minnows or Killies? We did not get Top Minnows or Killies here. This is a spot that Top Minnows killies can't live in it's too dense too shallow and too dense it's only an inch of water and it's pure mud with solid algae growing on the top i mean fish can't swim through it you see little channels of water kind of going through it but it's perfect for Etheostoma it's exactly the kind of environment that they uh that they're looking for so it's it's ideal and it's given us exactly what we were looking for see who else is here let's see dragon lair sean who is this again i have trouble reading anything that's microscopic just started watching you love your videos have you ever kept peacock gudgeons yes and i love them did you mention them in a note earlier somebody had peacock gudgeons uh giordaniella yes we have giordaniella we got them back at the shop we did not get any here but i do have them uh i think i should be pretty close within another week or two i ought to be able to start selling pretty much all of the florida natives with the exception to some of the other sunfish they're hard to get and i haven't found a found a spot for him yet yeah we'll get we'll get them going uh um let's see last sunday i was talking about the channel uh and remarking how it's kind of going through the roof well it is continuing to do that um it's it's one video but then i get the second hit which includes about 25 others so i i'm getting about uh four to five thousand hits a day on the one video and then no total of four to five thousand a day about two thousand on one and then uh another two thousand on everything else I've in the last seven days about 800 people have uh have signed up so it's just really going gangbusters I figure um I'll start making money at it at the current rate in about five years when I hit a million but it's fun let's see now Texas fish or Chevy fish bikers and pythons is here Toronto's been trying to find me on the stream and he hasn't yet it looks like he still hasn't I don't know Jordanelle Florida gorgeous little fish yes Frank eight in one scoop reconnecting okay I'm back a deep substrate um you know blue people tell me deep substrate is dangerous let me suggest something to you Juno the people who are suggesting that who are saying that ask them if they ever had a deep substrate I'd be willing to bet they are talking through their hat because they're flat out wrong welcome to live chat we did that we've gotten a bit of subscribers see yeah I doubled I've I was at 2200 this morning I've gotten almost a thousand in the last eight to ten days uh bikers and pythons right see Chewie's gonna be doing something in half an hour oh he's kind of bummed Texas fish I'm kind of bummed that puts a red river pupfish on the threatened species, so now I can't work with it. That is a bummer. Call your fisheries department and see if you can get a permit to raise them Most fisheries departments will do that, which will give you essentially a license to be able to collect them. That is doable. Talk to them until you get to the right person or work through a local university biology department see if they're willing to help you can get around that as a as a breeder hobbyist you can also get a permit typically for a hundred dollars a a year as a farm in most states. Who is this? Kay. Hi, Kay. Excited to be virtually collecting with us. Who else is here? Sam Dam. Hello, hello. Okay, we can go forward now. Yeah, I'm back. Well, you know, who said this? This is a really good point. Jordanella says that a deep sub-surface is only dangerous if you've got big fish come in and dig it up suddenly after it's been undisturbed for years. Well, you know, that's really true. You've got to use a bit of common sense if you're going to do something like this. It's a fairly delicate thing. now by delicate i don't mean that it can crash and burn i mean you can't mess with it you have to kind of leave it alone mark is a new subscriber loves the channel we love you too mark glad you found us paul just changed from bare bottom to five inch sand all right what should it do with the box filter and the sponge filter. I like to use them. I use sponge filters in all of my tanks. Occasionally, just for show, I'll have no filter, but I find that the sponge filters are always beneficial. Can you give a shout out to my beautiful wife, Amy Seymour? We just got married and she's my world i'm a lucky guy almost look she lets me buy whatever tank i want uh amy there's there's amy dear you need to understand something the way this works is he gets to buy a tank when a commensurate gift comes your way. So it's quid pro quo, if you like. If he wants a big tank, he's got to get you something of comparable value. Now, Chimo Blue, what you need to understand is that if you really want to grow your hobby, you need to get Amy fired up, excited, and involved in the hobby. so take her into the fish store and buy her whatever she wants and help her learn to keep it. In other words, get her excited about it. The reality is that couples who do fish are are almost always successful because they develop a natural division of labor in which the guy is doing all the mechanical stuff and the gal is doing all of the uh the maternal it's a maternal paternal kind of division she's doing the feeding and the care and the maintenance he's doing the keeping it all working and flowing and in good repair that works out really really well particularly as you get more complex systems like coral reef tanks where it really becomes important to have that division of labor so congrats guys proud of you i hope you enjoy doing the hobby together mark honert hello my favorite florida native oh ellisoma absolutely i'm just nuts for him uh cara chara do you know how corys affect a deep sand bed my corys make the tank murky even with just two in the bed um you need more sand you need a minimum of two and if it's murky or cloudy add another inch and keep adding it until it stops doing that the corys should never make it murky if you're doing sand and the sand is murky then you need to cap that sand with more sand and just get it deep enough that you get the murk down below the level of the cap the cap is the relatively clean sand that's an inch to two inches on top of the dirty sand so if you get all that that's the deal big eyes hey good to see you there you were going to say take her into the bedroom you don't need that kind of who said that You don't need that kind of command, do you? Now. I mean, that's between you guys. Just work it out. What I said is, take her to the fish store. Because that's going to grow your hobby. All this other stuff just grows the mouths to feed. Oh, who's this? Kay? Kay? J.K.? Okay, I can't read. Kay and Beaufort? Greetings, Maestro. Started using liquid carbon. Healthy plants, no algae. You miss your algae. I've never used liquid carbon. You know, Blue, only joking. I'm sure you are. I'm sure you are. I'm sure I would be too. Uh-huh. I love your videos. Thank you. This is K.A. K.A. Basement. Basement? Okay. Charlie! Uh-huh. maybe I'll consolidate my other dice with minimal sand hard to get it currently oh god let's see my my juice I've got 15% battery I'm gonna plug this sucker in or I'll be dead in a minute give me a second here I'm gonna get plugged in I mean all right we're back and we got juice 22 here 15 likes uh any kind of sand will do clara beach sand desert sand uh any kind of sand sand is sand just any sand will do giordaniella eventually the light dusty sand should settle in of the substrate and quit making things cloudy that's absolutely right absolutely right you you can take over here anytime, Jordanella. You nailed it. Jamie Lee says, hello. Hello, Jamie Lee. You look really cute. Your picture on my phone is about a sixteenth of an inch, but you look cute. Liquid carbon. It's just diluted glutaraldehyde. I don't know what that is. It's a biocide. Works by of course Not really healthy. It sounds like alcohol will work too. I think I'm going to go with the deep substrate. Never do it before. And people tell me it's a bad idea, but I believe you. All right. That's what we're doing. We're turning the world. It's you and me. It's all of us against the world. Right. And we're going to win. Jordan Ella. Yeah, but it was, it was, it was valid, meaningful, legitimate, and appropriate help. And that doesn't always happen, Jordan Ella. Good job. Stephan Law says hi. Hi, Stephan Law. Nice to see you. So I'm having trouble getting a new video. I've got a couple of videos I want to do. The shop has been so busy. I've been straight out non-stop. I mean, it's gangbusters. I'm doing more business in the last two weeks than I've done in any other two-week period since I've been open. But it's just, it's straight out. I don't have time to do anything and I gotta get some videos made. So I'm working on it. Can you use kids play sand? You can use it if you put it in the tank dry before you put water in. And then put the water in very carefully so you don't stir it up. Play sand has a lot of clay in it. It tends to be very dirty, dusty, a lot of fine particulate matter. So just be careful. If you're going to put it in after you've got water in, then you need to rinse it heavily. It's good sand. It's fine. It's just got a lot of clay. clay is very beneficial uh but you want to put it in before you add water father fish in the wind Who said that? That's funny, Kaylor figures. Right, how long to wait for a saltwater video? Oh dear, sand dam, well you know I, yeah it's a good question, I need to get something together and I haven't yet, I've just, I've been buying freshwater fish, I just got um, lord how many two dozen German discus, really really nice, I just ordered a bunch of Tanganyika cichlids they'll be in tomorrow, so that's a bundle of money right there, I got to get one more order of plants and then I don't remember what I'm doing next but it might be salt water, I need to get the salt water going, I finally, I've got the tanks all clean, they're ready for fish, um I've got a couple of good coral tanks that are doing pretty well so I'll, I'll be doing it, um maybe give me a week or two. I should be ready in a week or two to do salt water. Can you use, we did that. We did that. I have a snail outbreak. Will one assassin snail work? Yeah, it'll take a while, but one will work. Two will work twice as well. Three will work that much better. Get four or five if you've got hundreds of snails, and that'll take care of it in a reasonable amount of time. K.A., I also use a deep substrate, five centimeters of substrate on bottom and five centimeters of sand and on top five cm of three mm sand. That's nice. Yeah, I like that. The really super fine sand, I've used it as a double cap as well. And I really like the look of it. I like the feel of it. It just, I haven't recommended it because that superfine sand's a little hard, a little hard to find. But I think concrete sand is the right structure. I just got an order of it, so let's see. Sand dam, just talk about the mechanics. Organics, okay, I'll do that. I'll do that. I need to do that. And what I can do is take you over to visit a good friend of mine who has a coral farm. And he's just loaded with information. His name is Brian. We'll do some salt stuff. I think a lot of people will appreciate that. Sam says the demo could wait. And Jordan Ellis wants to know how I do salt. I'm like Father Fish up and out of Kalar. Yeah, that's right. The pair of us. Up and at them. That's it. Texas fish. I found if you wash just the top inch, it'll keep your tank much cleaner. And you get the benefit of the clay on the lower part. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. But I'm digging the hole for the pond. Dragon layer. Filled it halfway and it's not level. Oh, dear God. So trading back to finish it. Finesse it, he says. That is finessing. You're absolutely right. How we doing there Frank? Frank has been collecting his butt off back there. I'm getting plants now. Oh, we got plants. Yeah, there are some neat plants here. Did you see those little tiny... Yes, right. You know what? You can tell where the sand is because that's where it is. It's not anywhere where the silt is in a thick layer. That makes sense. They look really cool. You got some of that? Yeah, I got a bunch of them. Great, great. All right, so Greg's going to take over driving here. And I'm going to switch over to the other side of the car as soon as he's ready. He ain't ready yet. Good day, Father Fish. Chewy, hi, Chewy. Nice to see you. See, you keep going here. I'm keeping up pretty well, I think. I don't know what I've missed. Somebody keeps calling me. I'm using all my high-speed. I need to do something about that. Buy more, I guess. Have I heard of BioHome Ultra Media? If so, what do you think of it? No, I have not. I don't, I'm not into any of the prepared medias. I do my own. I just don't want to spend the money on it, frankly, because I do, I do so many tanks that it would cost me a fortune if I had to buy it all. and uh you know at a given point in time it doesn't make any difference it's all the same after about six months you really haven't got anything more than you would with dirt my phone's temperature is too high charging will continue oh it stopped charging okay just unplug the charger i better leave it back in my battery power is at eight percent i may die here folks charging stopped because temperature is too high and i'm 80 percent so we may i may lose you see a planted salt tank i really love it i do as much macroalgae as i can and i try to get local stuff from here in the gulf my favorite media my favorite media oh i don't know my favorite media probably peat moss oh thanks yeah the van has some crown molding in it a little just a little nuts uh been using yeah no we're ready been using collected white pumice for my media that my dad collects from lava fields oh that's cool nice i think i'm i think i'm going downhill here now i'm losing juice and it stopped charging because it overheated and i'm down to about three percent so i may lose everybody momentarily we've been online for about half an hour i'll tell you what if we drop off let me do this anyway let me cut off for now and i'm going to come back on it about half an hour because we're going over to Okefenokee and I know Okeechobee I'm sorry we're going to Okeechobee Lake and I want to show you some of that so let me sign off for now what we'll pick back up in about a half an hour see you all soon thanks bye bye