🔴 LIVE - FATHER FISH IS BACK

How do you like your green beans, real long or cut in half? Oh, it doesn't matter. Well, goodness sakes, look at everybody. I got about, let's see how many. I got 20 people watching so far. Let's see. Will's here. Alice is here. Alice has been waiting for weeks. So happy to see you, Alice. Redfish, Bluefish, well, hello, John. Nice to see you. Paplin Creek Aquatics Chattanooga Hi Chad Good to see you Susan Hello Susan Thank you for all your notes and encouragement Finally she says Yes Finally It's been Forever So good to be back Jody There's Jody and Jody It's Jody Jody Hi Jody Jody Nice to see you girls Sandy Hello Moreno Thank you for your lovely note. Sister Lachmo, glad to see you too. Well, it's wonderful to be here. Wonderful to be back. Oh, here's Punchy Paints. Let's see. I'm missing some. Let me go back up and click on live chat. It's at a top chat. I can get everybody. Thanks. Hello. Chevy Fish. Hi, Chevy Fish. Don Gallagher. Now we're getting everybody. all i gotta do is control my mouse a little bit takes this fish setting up another deep sand bed right now he says all right did i get everybody i noticed Punchy Paint says it's online there's Zen ginger let me let me go back up here make sure i'm on well i don't want them on whatever maria Hello, Maria. LRB. Goodness gracious. Nice to see you guys. Thomas C. I've been through an enormous struggle. By the way, the background you're seeing is my backyard. This is a room that I rent from a wonderful elderly gentleman who's 92 and far more active and busy than I am. uh in fact he's preparing dinner right now we're having steak and potato and green beans so kind of excited about that that'll be ready when i sign off let's see i don't know what would be the best way to do this i'm running two computers here one is um i found before if i thomas c is saying i got 100 pounds of sand ready for my first try at a father fish substrate what size tank is it thomas great steak looking forward to it right punchy come on over be good to have you you need to get out of the cold anyway cody Son, hi Cody, son. Big J, hi Marie having a struggle with myself here figuring out which computer I want to look at, I've got YouTube up on one and I have StreamYard on the other so we were talking about 40 breeder, guessing how much I need you don't need that much are you going to use soil in the tank? If so, you need about an inch of soil and make sure it's thoroughly soaked so it stays down Don, yeah, 50 pounds is more than enough for a 29 gallon You probably won't need all of it. It won't be bad to put it all in, particularly if you're going to do a dirted base. Then just put the whole thing on top of it. Make sure if you're doing dirt, I just had somebody the last few days mess up on this. They didn't wet the dirt thoroughly, and they put it in on top of some gravel. There was a little water in it. So when they started putting the sand in, the dirt was coming up through the sand because it was in water. So no water, thoroughly wet dirt, and then cap it with a good solid two inches of sand. If you still have trouble, if you still got dirt coming through, add more sand before you put the water in the tank. Chevy Fish, yeah. I didn't have enough sense to be worried. I was in the hospital for almost a week. I became septic, was hallucinating, was not in my right mind, didn't know what day it was. don't remember whether i knew my name i'm not sure i did but when when i was asked what day it is i thought for a minute and nothing came and i said that information is currently not available come back in five minutes so they dosed me pretty heavily with antibiotics for about three days straight and knocked it out of my system. It turns out I had been carrying bacterial infection for a very, very long period of time, six months to a year probably. I was weak all the time. I felt drained and didn't really know why. Creative subconscious, Susan says, you just haven't got a clue i solved the world's meme problem while i was hallucinating i hallucinated global memes in contact with a global meme um syndicate and solved their problem for them it was fairly amazing oh johnny knuckles visiting family in venice we are not open until the first um johnny i'm so sorry it would be wonderful to show you the shop i'll tell you what i i went in today because i had some people who were picking up several very large fish and i didn't trust anybody else to bag them i have people there every day if you'll give me a call in the morning i will arrange to have someone there during the day uh you can call me and find out what time they'll be there you'll be able to at least get in and look around be happy to do that thank you chevy fish let's see now i'm jumping way ahead well i'm feeling so much better i got home saturday a week ago uh who was it said i was look i'm looking better somebody just made that foolish comment i do feel better chevy fish yeah i um i've been sleeping basically for a week my hand is um it's actually doing pretty well the brace came off in the hospital they didn't want that dirty old thing in the bed but it's still stiff and some sore but it's moving good and i'm feeling okay about it that's it's they said six weeks it's been not even a month so it'll be a while before it's 100 percent yeah sepsis is very serious i didn't begin to believe how serious i had a a kidney stone that was completely blocking the urethra They went in, they operated, and put a stent around the stone so I could urinate through that stent They didn't want to break it up because I was so badly infected They didn't want to get more infection in my body, so they just built a stent around it I'm due back in on April the 9th to have it finally removed. A land of the living, it feels the way Nocturnal. It really does. I can tell you right now, I'm going to miss a lot of comments here. I have tried to stick with two or stick with one, and I'm just going to stick, I think, with the Stream Yard. Well, I am keeping safe and healthy. Today was the first day I've been out. And I don't have that all gone feeling anymore, that feeling of being totally drained. I feel like I can eat and gain some stamina and some strength. I'm weak. I can't walk very far, but I actually went over to the shop and worked for probably half an hour straight out, and then I went to Publix and bought some groceries. Just threw myself in the middle of it. Came back and took a shower. Need to change the category on YouTube from entertainment to pets. Greetings, everyone. Hope you're all safe. That's interesting. my category on youtube is entertainment i didn't know that thank you um fishkeeping jamaica i will look at that and figure out how to make that change paul emmer was down to see me did i miss you paul i guess i did look into comments paul fishkeeping jamaica i have been very ill um i was seriously ill probably for six months without knowing it um but i'm back i'm regaining strength what i'm trying to do right now is um avoid this new bubonic plague um by staying in so i've quarantined myself for two weeks till the first of april and have shut the shop down we have people going in every day who are taking care of the animals so we're in the we're in good shape there um i do have people going in if anybody is going to be around and wants to get in and visit the shop i probably won't be there but if you'll call me i'll be happy to uh make arrangements for you to be able to get in there are people in every single day thank you chewy i didn't have the sense to be worried i guess griffin hi griffin you only wear a mask when you have the virus i thought you would that's interesting i thought you wore it to keep from getting it um i was amazed at Publix today the meat rack was virtually empty i was able to get one really nice steak but everything else was gone not even chicken so they're loading up every day and up to go out every day now i'm not going to be at the shop for another another week week and a half probably i've still got recuperating to do and mainly i want to start building up some strength there are things i want to be able to do on this channel that i'm just not physically capable of doing like getting into the creek and catching stuff and digging up dirt and i'll be a little boy again, which I really very much want to be able to do. Need aquarium stands from liquid iron. Go, Marino. You funny guy. Funny guy. Well, yeah, we're a little nuts. That's true. Sister Lockwood's in New York City. Nice. What are you doing in New York, Sister Lockwood? Oh, you were visiting family, weren't you? You were going to get back to the shop. Going to move here? Oh, that'd be wonderful. Well, I need to tell you a little about what's happening with the shop. We have not made any final decisions, but the day I got out of the hospital, I decided I'm done. I can't do it one more day. So I called up my landlord and told him I finally hit the wall and was going to have to close the shop down. Since then, I've been talking to my staff, and they would like to keep it going. One of the problems we have is in the current location, there's no heating or air conditioning. I put a lot of money into it. We just can't make it work. So, I'm going to suggest to the landlord that if he will put a commercial HVAC system in, that we will stay there. I do not believe he's going to do that. In which case, that means we have to decide whether we can find a place that's suitable to move to and then go through the immense ordeal of moving. In addition to which, we'll have to put together enough cash to make the move work, to pay the rent, and to do the rebuild. So there will be a lot involved if we make the move, but we haven't made any decisions yet. It'll be another couple of weeks before we do, but I will keep everybody posted. Thank you, Fish Keeping Jamaica. Appreciate the prayers. Always appreciate prayers. You're sitting in your room staying away from people That's what I've been doing, sister Same thing Mainstream media is nuts Yeah, that's the biggest part of the problem You know, I've been watching the president's daily reports On the government's antivirus efforts And it's so impressive What he's been doing And the people he's been able to get involved and they go through the details of everything they're doing and all the issues they're struggling with and then the media chimes in with their completely asinine questions. 20-year-old girls who have no idea in this world what's going on in the world are asking questions like they're the most important thing in the world and they're idiotic, purely idiotic. I am amazed that someone with the, how can I put it, the chutzpah of our president tolerates the kind of absolute inanity that he gets from the press as well as he does. I don't think either of the Roosevelts would have tolerated it one bit, or Truman, for that matter, or a lot of other presidents we've met, they would have, well, Lincoln would have locked them up because he did. He just locked them up. But it's, you know, I feel like we can make a difference. I feel like we're turning the tide on this thing by hanging in there and really being serious about it. We're going to bust this thing and be able to come back stronger than ever. This is a real test for us. A real, real test. And I just appreciate so much the fact that so many of you are hanging in there and doing the kinds of things that just make it fun for people on the line to hang in there and to find things that are interesting to do. what is that like i'm reading somebody's um note somebody's notification my store on get gills is open and i will honor orders um it's getting warm enough most places to be able to ship out i'm gonna also once i get back on the first we'll start adding more things and see if we can um Yeah, I heard Jersey was about to shut down. Apparently, the governor was really irritated that so many people were ignoring the need to stay in And he just decided to shut it down Can't blame him a bit. Getting in the creek, Texas fish, my favorite thing You betcha Man, and do I miss it I've not been able to do it for nearly a year. It's been a long time since I've been able to muck around in the creek get in a ditch, and catch some fish Boy, I just want to get enough strength back to be able to do it. My 80s are going to be little boy years. I'm just really excited about that. Let's see. Let me move on down. I don't know. I don't want to go back, but maybe I should I know I've missed a bunch of stuff. kaylor happy to see you and enjoy your videos cody sun found a koi creek wow where holly did you find a koi creek that's pretty cool you know without ac and Florida it gets up close to 100 in that shop in the afternoon in the summer and it's all summer long it was just unbearable trying to do anything last summer i knew then i wouldn't be able to do it again yeah i want to do that i'm really excited, Texas fish about getting in there i need a i need a cohort i need somebody to go along with me and film or somebody i can film that i just um i'm a little apprehensive about going by myself and i really don't i'm not good enough with a camera to be able to go in the water with the camera because i'll wind up dunking it behind a hatchery oh that is so cool you should be able to get some really neat stuff polly that would be great fun well in back of me i don't know if i can show this to you the creek runs right in back of me i don't know that we can really see it try it what if you can if you can look through the bushes there is a creek with of running water in it should be able to see it maybe you can see a reflection somewhere there yeah there's the far bank right above my bed so there's yeah there's the creek it's called curry creek c-u-r-r-y it's a tidal creek so we get uh we get tarpon i haven't seen any manatee we do get tarpon coming up in it and redfish it's not very deep it's only about five foot deep on a deep tide chewy says i found out something about one of the channels that i follow for history the creator has a degree in biology from oklahoma interesting oh johnny knuckles sounds perfect to me i had a young man who just wanted more than anything else in this world to work with me. I used him many, many times in many different ways from the time he was 19 until he was 31, about 12 years. And he was suddenly killed in an auto accident. This was last, gee whiz, last spring, last spring. So it was not a year ago, six, eight months ago, going last spring either it's the end of the summer i guess i'm losing track of time again um and i just miss him so desperately because he was so gung-ho uh and at a time when i was feeling really bad he was trying to get me out to go collecting with him i was just not up to it couldn't do it and he he wanted so badly for me to go out and i just couldn't do it and and just really felt bad about it and then he was gone so all of the promise and hope and everything was was taken away with him it was it was just really very sad and hit me very hard dolphins i know i don't know that dolphins are going to come up bull sharks certainly could they'll come up in shallow water i haven't seen any sharks and i don't think dolphins are going to come up they stay in deeper water they not deep water but they're in you know maybe 20 feet of water i don't think they'll come up that far well that's pretty interesting showing am i in the jungle yeah i kind of am in the jungle i actually am at the the back corner of a trailer park uh an old double wide trailer that the the man who owns has been in for i don't know 40 years i guess and it's just all overgrown right up to the creek so there's nothing on three sides there's a house in front of ours but you really can't see it so it's it's kind of idyllic it's very isolated and uh and just a really wonderful, wonderful location. Sean says he's back, and this is Sean. Been shutting down, Susan, shutting down. I know you've been shutting down your fish. Turning from a guppy lady to a crustacean lady. That's funny. Self-planting crayfish. Impossible to get rid of. They are a trip. I've seen small gators back here. I know there's some here. I've not gotten in the creek but once it's a hard sandy bottom so it's going to be nice being able to get out there and I know there are a lot of neat little fish I've got a couple of traps I want to set, try to get some other things going so I can catch some of these, my goal is to set up native tanks to get out in the bodies of water, dig up the dirt bring back a bucket of dirt and a bucket of plants, water, and fish, put them together and let them run. I'll probably do sponge filters because it'll clear the water quickly. But I want to show you how easy it is to do native tanks, and it should be great fun. Johnny Knuckles says it didn't take much to convince his wife after two days to want to move. But it'll be wonderful, wonderful to have you, great fun to have you. Now, sailfin and mollies. Yes, there are. There are plenty of self and mollies in here, and they're pretty easy to catch. It's hard to catch big ones, but the little ones are easy to catch. Yeah, I think people get so uptight about having their tanks perfect that they miss the joy of having a slice of nature in their home. So that's really what I want to try to create, that natural environment without any fuss or muss. I mean, you can literally set up a tank in just a matter of a few minutes. sailfin says they're really there are no sailfin and mollies in Orlando that's interesting can't imagine it's too cold have you gotten up into the ditches and creeks and stuff i'm a little surprised because uh orlando is is is on the same whatever that's called as tampa and i know tampa's loaded with sailfin and mollies i don't know maybe you need to get out a little further one of the problems with water in urban areas that said it's badly not polluted that certain species won't even try to survive the other thing about sailfin and mollies is that they're brackish water fish so you need tidal creek or water that occasionally has saltwater intrusion in order to have a good supply of them. Sean is talking about pygmies. Oh, you mean these silly pygmy crayfish, pygmy sunfish. I would love to get some pygmy. I've been looking for pygmy sunfish for a couple of years, but we're going to get them. I have friends in Tampa who have collections of them. Once I get back and get in gear, I'm going to start putting that together. The everglade eye is one that I just absolutely adore. I've caught them before in numbers. I'm going to find them again. Nocturnal aquarist found them, and there are plenty of them around, multiple places down here. The pupfish I have is also interesting and extremely common, a little hard to catch. The best way to catch them is either with a minnow trap or a cast net. They're in very shallow water, though. The pupfish is in like four to six inches of water, but they're extremely fast. They just dart around. I've had them brought in a couple of times by local kids, and they do real well. You know, last year I was able to breed them and have two or three of my customers have populations, growing populations of them in their tanks. So that's worked out real well. And it's a delightful little fish. You can't keep it with much because they're just so aggressive. They don't bite, but they chase to the point where they chase fish until they run out of gas. The banded pygmy sunfish. I've never found them either. They're a little further north here in Florida. I've seen them. I have friends who have them in their collections. We're going to get them. We're going to get them. They really are cool. There's so many very neat fish. Using a dip net with a six-inch handle, I have what's called a vat net. It's a three-foot-wide net that stands about 18 inches deep, square bottom, on about a six-inch pole, and I push that through grass flats, or I'll hold it a foot out from the bank if there's a lot of plants growing right up on the bank, and splash the water, and the fish will dash into the net. Johnny's back to visit me Yeah, do call me in the morning You have my number, I'm sure Let me post it In case What can I write on here Well, we got a good time We're in good shape Eggs from the Amazon Sister Lockwood was asking about Eggs from the Amazon That would be Peru And they would come out of the Alkaline lakes Up in the Peruvian mountains I don't know that anyone is harvesting them in numbers that they can be brought in. If you heard of them being brought into the States, I never have. I know it's what the flamingos turn pink on. The flamingos go way up there to eat, see. Hernandez says in this latitude, there are no tropical fish, but some cold water species. Yeah, there's a lot of really cool stuff in cooler climes, though, particularly the darters. The darters are just so amazingly, spectacularly beautiful, and they really cannot be kept like here in Florida. It's a perfect fish to keep in a vat or a pool or even a tank outdoors in the shade in the summer, And then they'll survive through the winter, so long as it does not freeze solid. Ordering from Amazon website. Have you seen them listed on Amazon website from South America? I'm simply not aware of their availability. I know they come out of the Salt Lakes and out of San Francisco, out of the bay from the old salt flats. which I understand are being abandoned, are being filled in, tragically. It's a major economic source of food for tropical fish, and it's a smaller shrimp than the Salt Lake City shrimp, the Utah shrimp. Well, Alice, we'll see if we're keeping this door. I think we really want to. It's just going to be a matter of figuring out how to pull it off. But we've got some good people working on it. If it can be done, we'll do it. Sean is saying the ones from Brine Shrimp Direct. I just got a can of them from Brine Shrimp Direct. I don't remember, but I think they're Utah shrimp. Marine cold water fish like the wool field. Dr. Marley of Vancouver Aquarium. No, I'm not familiar with them. I'm familiar with the wool field. wasn't aware of that spawning activity um i can't keep um cold water species here in florida just my my shop gets too hot they just don't survive one of the things that i have wanted to be able to keep and i've tried a couple of times is sticklebacks i love sticklebacks they're such of cool little fish um but they just don't hold up in um in warm in warm water uh they catch them uh in tennessee i guess up in the mountains they come in with um shiners with bait fish and i've found them mixed in with bait fish tried a couple of times to keep them i've never been successful at it the sticklebacks up in in washington state yeah it's a cold water fish and it's a wonderful fish. There are brackish. They're also fresh water sticklebacks. There are sticklebacks in England and I think in parts of Europe. I know it's a popular fish in England. Are there legalities about sticklebacks? For God's sake. People in Canada are nuts. Redfish says they'll jump from aquarium to aquarium and decimate the shrimp. That's interesting. I bet they're good jumpers too they're very sleek little fish well thank you Susan I usually come away from a live stream feeling energized it just it's like it pumps energy into me I find it such an enjoyable experience but thank you for your concern they fly like torpedoes never noticed that I've never kept them long enough to really be able to study them. I had them as a kid. I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and we caught them all the time there. And I would keep tanks through the summer. Montreux Creek has insects on it and it's black in places. Robert's talking about a piece of woody guy that has insects on it and looks black in places. Wondering if I should use it. Well, Well, I will put it in a tank by itself. You don't know what the bugs are. You know, they could be fish-eating bugs. There are such critters. Put it in a tank by itself and study it. See what it looks like. Thank you, Ellis. I know you are. And you're part of the joy I derive from doing this stream. I just appreciate your enthusiasm so much. Colonial Beach. I was on the eastern shore, mostly in Cat Island, set an aquarium up near a window that doesn't get sun and keep your tank cool enough for those shrimp murderers. Well, it'd be a good tank to have plants in, too, because they make, they nest in plant tubes. They actually make little tubes that the female will swim through and deposit eggs. The male goes behind her and fertilizes them. Alice saying that she hadn't received my letter. This is why. Today, I brought home all the letters. So I'm going to make an effort now to address all of them. There are about 25 or 30 I need to do, and I'll see if I can't get them all. That's my goal for this week, to get letters out to everybody with a Fatherfish sticker. Yeah, I'm a lefty. Vinnie the Mooch, nice to see you, Vinnie. first timer oh i know it makes me crazy sandy how long it takes to upload a video mind and i've talked to my supplier about it and they say well that's the way it is you know i'm running as fast as i can uh a 10 minute video takes an hour and 15 minutes for me a 20 minute video is two to three hours it's just ridiculous can't wait for uh what's it called five five k that'll speed up life you've been checking your mail every day and i haven't even sent it oh dear i'm so sorry reena it's night here you have to go to bed i don't know any of you except the lrb channel nice to see you thank you for thank you for plugging in good to have you with us have a good night's sleep i'm keeping alice up i know she's struggling to stay awake i'm sure what did she say she's scolding me i'm sorry well don't want to freeze your butt off to see your fish i've seen you outside in the dead of winter you can do it besides which it's good for you it depends on internet speed but even the best speed it's a slow process i don't know how you upload a half an hour video in 20 minutes susan that's amazing alice is a trooper if i use the ipad it's super fast that's interesting yeah check um check bait shops for shiners uh very often there will be other species of fish in with them it's a great way to be able to collect oddball stuff they wouldn't live if you shipped them nope they would not cody son let's see how many people How many people got 32 watching? I just lost my screen. 36. Valleyfish is here. Hello, Valleyfish. Yes, I can. I've got a little tank here that I finally brought one over. I'm going to be setting it up. I haven't decided what to put in it yet, but I am going to do that, Taylor. Looking forward to it. Probably it'll be natives. Susan's going to lay down for a while. Churches, I love you. We're going to be signing off here in a few minutes. Can we set up a stickleback tank? I would love to do it. Saying to Bob, he could. Yeah, he sure could. A rice cooker is bad every day. What's the healthiest way to cook? There's nothing wrong with a rice cooker. It's a good way to cook. A shell-dweller tank. That would be pretty cool, Sean. That's a really good idea. Pygmy sunfish. Another very good idea. Sticklebacks in every creek in Wisconsin. Wow. How neat is that? Sand Creek says, no, don't go. goodnight susan or good evening have a good church service i really miss you guys and i'm glad i'm feeling well enough to do this now i just haven't had the gumption but i'm back and i'll get another one i'll get another one out by midweek so we'll try to get back on track here and where alice has been a fit pump it out earlier in the day so she can she can catch us thank you sister life. I appreciate your prayers. Hey, Thomas C. Nice to see you too. Good to be back. I am so grateful for all the calls and contacts and prayers and thoughts while I was trying to get back to the land of the living. It's been very inspirational and has certainly caused me to realize how many really good friends i have here on on youtube i appreciate you all very very much and nagging on facebook yeah i'm gonna go now thank you all so much for tuning in plugging in being a part of this conversation it's always fun to be with you i give you one last look at the creek before we go sun's down a little maybe you can see a little more alice says it's a jungle and she's right about that it really it really is a jungle it's a jungle out there right at the bottom is the creek you see the should be able to see the water a little bit of it that's the far bank you're looking at so thank you all for plugging in good to be with you nice to be back And I'll see you a little later in the week God bless everyone Stay safe, stay healthy Stay home, be good No, I have not heard from Roe Chevy Not a word I hope things are alright with Roe Thank you, Ellis You'll see me again soon And I'll get your letter Yours will be the first one I put in the mail How's that? Sand Creek Aquatics sent a $1.99 super sticker Thank you, Sand Creek how nice of you i appreciate it very very much griffin fish room good night thank you can i end the broadcast in 10 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 bye bye everybody see you later in the week