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Hi, I'm trying to figure out, I have a computer above the one that I'm, you know, that I've got the video on, and I'm trying to get the other one to open up the video on my home page. do you know if there's a way to do that seems to me i should be able to do it youtube tv if i go to a camera that's not going to give me what i want there's nothing on the bell as it's shown up channel membership youtube studio switch account i could switch account that might work actually to do well maybe i can't drawing all this attention now And I'm trying not to. I'm trying to figure something out. I need a little help. What I'm trying to do is I've got a monitor above the laptop that I'm taping on or that I'm videoing on. And I'm trying to get the video on the monitor so I can read it from there. That way I can have my eyes up and not be staring down. like this but i can't figure out how to get it open so how do i open my own video on another computer that's the question and i really need to figure this out now live on your channel here we now live on my channel so it's live on my channel i've got my channel up on the other computer but nothing is showing up so where do i find it if i save it it saves and what do i find nobody's helping me we want to check well crap i want to get this stupid thing working right and it's not showing my video on my site so if i go out let's see how about if i log off let me do that i can't period i had to log off settings instead it's not yeah save images copy blah blah blah how do i log off it's just sign out there we go okay now if i search for father fish open it 10 watching oh i got it i got it i got it i had it now i've just got my mouth open do something oh dear well all All right. I think we've got the chat, which is all I really need. Yes, we do. I think. Live now. Caylor's Aquatics. Hi, everybody. Amateur Aquatics was first up. I saw you. Okay. We have a terrible, ugly background, but I'm not going to worry about it because I just want to get into this a little bit. I was going to come on later, like around 8 o'clock, and it's right now what time it is quarter of five and i close my shop at five i have one customer here who just brought a stunning flower horn in it's a nine flower gorgeous thing um and i got to deal with him give him some credit he's back there looking at fish right now so that'll i'll have to take a break for a minute to deal with him when he comes back other than that i'm good here for at least half an hour terrible so a amateur aquatics was not able to help me i got what i needed so that's good don't switch don't switch okay i didn't switch i just uh what's funny is the the video is not playing but it doesn't matter i don't need to look at myself go to videos got it i'm there yeah it wasn't showing up use oak leaves for shrimp body fish uh that's uh yeah vb23 absolutely i absolutely recommend using oak leaves for shrimp shrimp like to eat um the bacteria the slime coat that grows on deteriorating or detritus that's a primary food for them so putting oak leaves in the oak leaves as they deteriorate it really creates food for the shrimp so it's kind of ideal now the only other issue with shrimp is that you need to think three-dimensionally shrimp don't swim and they may dart around but they really don't swim up in the water column so if you want to get them moving up getting them off the bottom you need structure for them to climb on that can be plants and plants are just fine so uh you can you can do the oak leaves deep that's a good thing that works um other than that the oak leaves are a great idea do it hi go do do do do go to videos recommend oak leaves type in channel yeah i got it well i can't view it but what i can what i'm viewing is the text and that's really all i wanted to be able to do look for Lundell go Kaler i appreciate it live now yes indeed okay we're good uh by the way I created a Patreon yesterday, and I already have one pledge, which is very nice. I've not done the pledge thing on YouTube yet. I've got to look at that and figure out how to do it. Now, what's happening here? What vegetables can I give to white clouds and platties? For tiny fish, they need tiny food. you can do almost anything i'll tell you what i would do is uh puree buy baby food like baby food spinach baby food uh uh greens uh baby food squash that kind of stuff that's a good a good texture for a little tiny fish and i've i've had real good results with uh with the little jars of baby food it also lasts forever you'll never use it all so go with that and see how you like it our vegetables flowerhorns could be with other fishes as big as them yeah you bet but you don't want to do one on one because one on one will result in eternal struggles I have a tank you've seen some pictures of it it's a 200 gallon with a lot of africans in it and central americans it's got right now probably 50 to 60 fish in it i don't have any aggression in there there's so many fish it diffuses the aggression to the point where they don't know who to go after next so they give up uh i'm not getting much in the way of breeding for the same reason i think but it it is a way to be able to keep fish together that normally squabble just to have a lot of them. Just chock-a-block with them. And they won't have the stamina to duke it out. Can you give us the link? The link for what, Kayler? Oh, I'm sorry. For Patreon. Father Fish, I guess. I could go there and look. I think it's just called Father Fish. Have you used Repashy? It's a great food. I have not used it. A lot of my breeder friends use it. They really like it. I'm really more into kind of fresh foods, natural foods. Repashy is a very high quality food. I certainly don't have anything negative to say about it. I know it's been real effective for my breeders. who've been able to raise babies on it. I use golden pearls a lot for little tiny babies. The real fine stuff, like the 50 micron, the powder. And I find that works pretty well. And low, oh, Pam, right. And I find that works pretty well, high punching, high rise. When eating vegetables, do I prefer fresh or frozen? You know, if it's frozen, it's going to be softer. and it'll break down quicker and easier I don't think it loses any nutritional value obviously fish in the wild are not getting frozen food so if you're going to be a purist about it, although in the spring, if they're coming off of a hard freeze, there are plants that have frozen and they certainly get eaten, it probably doesn't make a bit of difference um the benefit of freezing is that it's going to break down the cell wall structure which will simply make it easier for the fish to be able to eat it but i don't think uh food quality wise there's much in the way of preference hello larry d punchy punchy larry d can i message you on facebook absolutely father fish on facebook and we're getting lists of livestock and product on Facebook. We're going to be listing, for example, the supplements for the substrate, and that'll be available 55 gallons worth of substrate is going to be 25 bucks, and I'll be able to ship that ground, so I'll pay for the shipping on it. It'll be just a flat $25 I have PayPal and as a business I also have a credit card system so I can handle money and we've got we've got people here to help with shipping so yeah look on Facebook right now that's the only source we have for being able to list items there are a lot of fish showing up there so it's it's a pretty good location just sign up it's a business listing um you'll enjoy it it's got a lot of a lot of cool videos on it too you can see some neat videos on it recommend aquarium salt when getting new fish you know i don't uh and the reason i don't recommend aquarium salt um is that i use very hard water so i don't need it i know that the importers when they bring fish in one of the first things they do two things they drop the temperature to like 65 and they throw a mess of salt in so what that does is it absolutely controls bacteria and it controls uh waste deterioration. With new fish, I do very little in the way of acclimating or quarantining. I know there are absolute laws in a lot of fish rooms about quarantining. The reason I don't is because I don't buy imported fish, or that is to say, I don't import fish. I don't buy fish directly from the wild. I buy fish that have gone through a number of handlers, wholesalers and the like. So by the time they get to me they've been so isolated that they really need friends. They need a normal environment and I don't have trouble doing that. I mean I run a shop. I don't have disease in my shop and i put i put new fish directly in my tanks but again i'm not bringing fish in from the wild unless it's some local fish and i put them in tanks that are not on are not system tanks so i'm not running the risk of bringing anything in that's going to infect the other issue though What I find, again, with a deep sand bed is that that really does cover a myriad of sins. It takes care of issues like the problem with bringing in parasites or bringing in disease because there's enough stuff living in that sand to be able to pretty well take care of interlopers as they come in. The system has a way of protecting itself, and I find it really does work pretty effectively. I very, very rarely have a problem. And what I do, it's typically in one tank. I've got something wrong with my eye. It started yesterday, and it's running and itching and burning, like when we had the red tide last year. So if I start rubbing my eye, somebody throws something at me, so I stop doing it. Anyway, salt. No, I don't use salt. It doesn't hurt. The problem is if you do it, then the next time you do a water change, that salt's not going to be there anymore. There's also the danger of building salt up too high. Unless you're using a hydrometer and checking the salinity of the water, you really don't know how much is in there. If you have a problem that salt will help, best thing to do is take it out, put it in a bare tank, and treat accordingly. I don't like to put salt in, again, mainly because I have very hard water, so I really don't need it. If you have very soft water, that's a whole other issue. Good day, you mob. Dr. Black. Hi, Dr. Black. Tiger barbs. Tiger barbs are cool. I don't like them. They're too mean. There are some neat barbs. I got some black barbs, black rosies, I guess they're called, just yesterday. Nice little pretty fish. Oh, sushi, blackie, stuffy, parmy, lots of friends here. Oh, you have 30 people online. oh here we go again with the eye it just itches burns let's see have i missed anything don't forget to like this video thank you very much please and thank you what is your paypal email father fish paypal email is father fish that's easy i think it's one word father fish and the um facebook page is father fish i think i think that's two words healthiest tanks i've seen have four inches substrate you mentioned me too i think it just naturally maintains the health of the tank it creates a a full spectrum of of animal life uh microscopic life in in that deep substrate running all the way down to the anaerobics um they have a way of protecting themselves water systems have evolved over a long enough period of time that they know better how to protect themselves than we do so i tend to trust it i tend to trust the system Hi Sushi Berry Have you tried a warm washcloth For my eye? No and I can't Go get one but that's a good idea I'm sure it would help I think you know what I thought I put some Drops in my pocket But I didn't Oh well I'll get over it Yeah I need to do something Tonight my favorite fish You know when my Well for a long time my favorite fish Was the Abba Abba And I've had a few of them, and I've grown them up. I've gotten them up to about two foot. Never got one bigger than that. Of course, they get a lot bigger. They get about four foot. And then last summer, I managed to get four that were all about 14 inches. And it turns out that wasn't such a good deal because they were wild caught, of course, and they never adapted. I never got them to eat. so they languished for three or four months and then one at a time they they died off uh and that i kind of lost my heart for a bit it's very difficult fish to keep because they're so mean uh you have to keep them by themselves and that was part of the problem i i had two of them together for a while and they're much like each other so it was just kind of a series of complications with but the abab is a pretty cold fish beyond that i like discus i really like discus i like bettas um probably if i were doing one fish i would not do guppies not because i don't like guppies i do but i feel like i can do more with bettas than i can with guppies uh it's a little more specialized, a little less just numbers of tanks required favorite fish. Beyond that, I probably don't have a favorite. I guess I would say bettas. Probably bettas. I'm waiting for somebody in the Orient to start doing a glowfish betta. I think that would be pretty spectacular. I want to see that. Have I tried altums a few times, I have a video of Chris um he had some altums that kind of disappeared somebody else recently had altums, I can't remember one of my customers or one of my hobbyist friends has a tank of about six inch altums that are coming along pretty well there, I've tried them they're hard to keep going for a long period of time and usually get them going for, you know, a few months six months maybe and then they they tend to peter out, um do I have any medicated eye drops no I don't have any here, I got all that stuff at home, I've got some eyeglasses lens, I had best not do that, oh pain relief that would probably help, oh well I'll just struggle with it when I I'm at the shop right now when I leave here I'll go home and doctor myself up, uh do you have any, yeah right thank you, thank you, who was that, JH Aquatics, thank you for the consideration, I don't have anything helpful, thanks, congrats on 521, isn't that amazing, I'm just so excited about that, do you know three weeks ago, three weeks ago I had 52 subscribers, that's 4,470 subscribers in three weeks now having said that, the first day, day two that um um Jeremy put me up, a hundred people subscribed day one uh it's now averaging 10 to 12 a day which i think is a good number i'm i'm real happy with that 10 to 12 a day will get me to a thousand in a month or so um i was watching somebody today who has 15 000 and they're struggling to uh make money at it so my goal is not to try to monetize, but to really do business online and sell some of the items that I've got and just enjoy this process. I love this chat process. It's really a lot of fun, and it's mentally challenging, which is nice. 523. Oh, it's at 523? Okay. I'm still showing 21. Exploded, sir. It certainly has, hasn't it? It certainly has. Every day, I've lived with these numbers every hour of every day for the last three weeks. So I've lived through virtually, almost literally, every second of it. I've certainly lived through every single subscriber. And I try to subscribe back to everyone whose name shows up on my list as a subscriber. Not everybody does. Some are private. They don't show up, which is disappointing to me because I'd like to be able to return the favor. Wonderful to hear you talk about the old ways and things we did 50 years ago. You bet. The thing that just strikes me is I have been disheartened in this hobby, and my business really reflects it. When I created this shop, I did it with the idea that I wanted to honor some of the men and women who have been just important to me over the years. people who developed unique patterns of fish keeping, who had unique skills, to be able to do a shop that somehow would reflect favorably on them. Not always favorable, but I do try to be. So I kind of fashioned Father Fish as an old-time fish shop. The first thing that resulted in was a lot of fish and very little dry goods, because I found that as I was trying to recreate what I grew up with, I was creating more and more natural kinds of systems and selling less and less dry good product to the point where I have almost nothing on my shelves. I've got some chlorine remover but even that I'm not doing the bottles I'm doing little packages of sodium thiosulfate crystals that I've measured out in such ways to make it easy for people to use it for their fish tanks so many crystals and the substrate I'm doing that using basic products that anybody can get from a garden store uh really very little specialized in that i've got a lot of it so it's not always practical for somebody to buy you know 50 pounds of this and 50 pounds of that to be able to do a ten gallon tank and tank which is why i'm doing the uh the supplements as a package deal i think that'll work out pretty well but beyond that i don't sell a lot of dry goods. My customer is back. He's standing here. Let me see what he's got cooking. What do you want to do? Well, right now, I was thinking I was going to get a bag of sand for $20. Okay. And then there's a brontosa and an Oscar. That's $25.45 plus $55 tomorrow. Maybe I can come back tomorrow and spend the other $45. That's perfect. You want to catch him? Yeah, if you don't mind, I'll catch him. Not at all. Okay. Go for it. Thank you. And I'll be back tomorrow for the other 45. That's perfect. Okay. Yeah, I just gave him a $100 store credit for a really spectacular flower horn that he had shipped over from Thailand at a cost of a couple of hundred dollars. So I'm going to try to find some females now, see if I can get it to spawn. I was watching all your videos last night. I noticed you said yesterday, Amateur Aquatics, that you were going to watch all the videos. I've got about 35 now, I guess. Some of them I really kind of put my heart and soul into. The very first one is probably my favorite. That's why do we keep tropical fish? I did that one. That's kind of the foundation piece. And it really goes to this whole issue of what this shop is all about and what I found myself being all about coming onto YouTube. I didn't have any sense of what was going to happen doing this. Got some more people just walked in. Hi there. I'm on a YouTube live stream, so just enjoy yourself. All right. If you need something, holler at me. And I've lost track. Oh, yeah. They had no sense of what was going to happen. In fact, I talked with some friends of mine who are professional videographers and professional radio TV people about doing a series of videos for YouTube until I made that first one. And then all of a sudden I understood something I had not understood before. years ago a friend of mine tried to get me to do youtube videos he actually filmed a half a dozen i had no sense of it i my head was not in that place i wish it had been i'd probably be at 50,000 or maybe not maybe it would have gone in a totally different direction i'll tell you frankly i'm very happy where i'm at right now because it feels right and a lot of people seem to appreciate it and it gives me something to strive for and to work out to work at how many times do i recommend feeding a predator fish like a gar or clown knife i recommend once a week uh twice a week no more that um you want to keep them hungry you want to keep disease down keep the the biological load down predator fish tend to be bigger fish the meals tend to be bigger um i don't like to feed predators more than twice a week once a week preferably and they that's probably about what a predator would normally eat in the wild they'll eat about once a week we know that about snakes and fish aren't that much different didn't shoot bob but i did bring hope some plecos from credit what are we doing valid fish and i missed something just got home from the local fish store uh and he's saying didn't ship but i did bring home some plecos from credit very cool good job valid fish. Definitely the way to go. I do credit my shop every day of the week. I have people coming in bringing baby fish they've raised, fish that have outgrown the tanks, people who are giving up their tanks. I try to talk them out of it. I try to get them into a... I try to get them out of the gravel, because that's where they give up more often than not. Although I have people leaving the area who really do need to give it up. I wish I could catch your own fish. Where do you live? Valley fish. Tell me where you live. They're generous. What's generous? Who are you talking to, Taylor? About generous. Favorite sand to use. I think I was mentioning on the other stream that I'm trying to learn about more different kinds of sand. I've been using filter sands swimming pool filter sand, which is ancient beach sand as it turns out. But any sand from anywhere is going to be effective. The only caveat is calcium. If there's a high level of calcium in it, the calcium will dissolve in the water and will have a tendency to form a skim on the surface that'll prevent water flow so barring that sand coming out of a creek river or should be fine so as soon as i can get some help i want to get out into a local pond and dig out some dirt and some plants and catch a few fish and throw them in a fish tank and we're going to watch it for a while to do a real you know blood and guts kind of natural fish tank i did that as a kid all the time and it was always fun to do thoughts when your dirt cap sand substrate with Corydoras what is i don't know what Corydoras is tell me what that is way valley fish fresh water what do you wish i'd catch oh fresh water where they're bound to be fresh water fish in whatever body of water you live in in or near um and they're bound to be little ones people in colder climates have particularly in the u.s has spectacular darters beautiful little fish little hard to keep because they're cold water fish they don't like to get much above 80 degrees but if you can resolve that issue there's a lot of really nice stuff you're in iowa i'll bet you if i came out to iowa and we got out in the ditches and the creeks we could find some really neat stuff get out there and look around i'll bet you there's some pretty fish close to you look under uh ornamental freshwater fish in Iowa. There probably will be somebody who will have them listed. Pool filter sand is great and super cheap. Yeah, exactly. That's probably the main reason I use it. I'd like to be able to get some different textures and colors. I have used some of the little tiny washed gravel as just to skim the surface with for the look because it does have a nice appearance, cool filter sand it works beautifully, Cory catfish you're talking about Cory catfish on top of dirt let me back up i'll turn your dirt cap sand substrate with oh oh oh okay i'm sorry i misunderstood your question yeah the corys um the corys do real well with sand um they're looking for the kinds of little microscopic food that grows in that top quarter inch in a deep substrate tank So it's really perfect for them. They get algaes, other vegetables They get little worms, other little tiny critters that are living right at the surface. So, yeah, it's perfect. Okay. nature reserve for free out of sight he's carrying sand out in a backpack go amateur aquatics nature reserve so is it native sand's not something they brought in these pool filters here with large American cichlids yeah I do all the time I use it for everything and it's really not a problem the main benefit of it as opposed to gravel is that to achieve the same result that you get with four inches of sand you'd have to have two feet of gravel so if you want to do two feet of gravel, you're perfectly welcome to it'll work just fine, but you're going to have two feet of gravel so there's that I'll see you tomorrow Okay, thank you. Today, too, pretty cool. Yeah, it is, isn't it? That's neat. Save a bunch of money. Hard to do that with this hobby. I was hearing you're suggesting putting the rent money aside to buy fish. Done it with African cichlids. I've done it with African cichlids. You're talking about sand, silt? oh anyone use pool filter sand with large American cichlids yeah it works fine the the benefit of the what i've discovered about diggers we talked about this a little the other day is that unless you've got a pair of fish that are building a nest like a big pair of oscars or something that want to move the entire mountain to the other side of the tank unless you have that african cichlids dig small pits um central americans will dig down a little bit if you've got a hard scape like flat rocks they're going to lay their eggs on the flat rocks they will dig down to a hard surface so for for bigger cichlids make sure you've got a slate or some other kind of flat rock laying flat on the sand and they'll use that rather than trying to dig down to find something flat and hard you did get that didn't you three by two by two bare bottom you need to bulk up on substrate three by two by two three by two six of 18 six months about a 150 nice size tank um yeah it's gonna take about a hundred pounds of sand two 50 pound bags uh depending on what fish you've got in it you've had big fish in it don't try to do the dirt substrate just do uh sand after six months or so it'll all be the same and i grow plants in my big cichlid tanks um with enough fish in there and a good enough vegetable variety of food i don't get the plants chewed up i know a lot of people have problems with it but again i think frankly the deep sand bed helps a lot kayla's saying her plants are lush in it, too. You're referring to bare bottom. Does anyone know where I can get some jungle val for a good price? I'll tell you what's even better, and I can get a lot of it, is Sagittarius. I'm going to be selling plants. Yeah, Lucas probably does have some. I'm going to be putting a big plant list together, And I have one of my hobbyist farmer friends has a pond with sedge that I gave him that came off of another farm of a friend who has since passed on. And it's magnificent stuff. It's like three foot long, beautiful big plant. I've got a little bit of it now. it's a difficult plant to keep in the winter because it dies back, but we'll be having a lot come this spring what are we doing time-wise? I can't tell it's 5.30 I've been here, what 40 minutes, about 40 minutes another 10-15 minutes check out KG's prices, talking about jungle I'm writing I think we're running out of juice here. Thank you, Dr. Black. Yeah, and you do the same. I'll have to sign in to do it there. I will. All right. I think we're good. Anything else anybody wants to try out of the woodwork? Favorite native fish? Hands down. Alabama Everglade Eye And I don't have any. I've not been able to get them for two years. That very tiny little fish doesn't even get an inch long. The female is kind of a mottled brown. They look the shape of a sunfish, but very tiny. They were listed as a sunfish for years. They're now in the elasmobranch category. The male is jet black with a field of blue stars, just the prettiest little fish. It's like a Starry Night, only teeny tiny. Look, Patreon should be able to get it through Father Fish. I think Patreon, I haven't looked, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be Father Fish. Let me open it up here and look. Yep, Father Fish, two words. YouTube is my fish tank. I can appreciate that. I need to learn more about Patreon. It looks like a great opportunity to do some stuff with people. I want to get back to where I was here. I'm probably not going to be able to. There we go. It shows up as my map. Very cool. It shows up as my map. Very cool. Now I'm here. It shows up as my map. Have you signed up for the Team Green Alliance? No, I don't know what that is. Team Green Alliance on Facebook. Let me go up here. I know the anaerobic bacteria remove nitrates I haven't read about them breaking down waste. Can you explain how that happens more than natural deterioration, I guess? Are you asking about the chemistry or the biology? Anaerobic is the absence of oxygen. When waste, here, think of it this way. Think of it, think of anaerobic. as a septic system. That's really what it is. A septic system breaks down waste and allows it to run off in water solids, or in the water. It breaks down the solids into liquid that runs off. So the same idea with Team Green Alliance will help with Oh, good. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Fish Rich. Favorite fish, too, were Lucas, obviously. You know, there's some other guys I really enjoy. MD, I enjoy and appreciate. You know, I'm more drawn to people who are really skilled at fish keeping. Lucas is such a sweet person. I mean, he's just, he gives warmth and gentleness. It's kind of remarkable. He did agree to come visit Florida. We're going to have him down to speak to several of the clubs in the area sometime this spring. We don't have a date yet, but that's on me now. I've got to get back to his wife about setting up a date for him to come down. Anaerobic. To do, to do, to do. So the anaerobics act like a septic system and break down the waste. The roots of plants, a plant root creates an anaerobic environment around itself, the root does. And that's the place in which, if it's a shallow root, that's how that plant is able to break down the waste into components that it can absorb. As it goes deeper and the roots go into an anaerobic layer, it has to do less of that work. And so it's taking up those nutrients that are broken down. I will read up on the biology of it, let you know exactly how that happens. But think of it in terms of septic and the effect of a septic system on waste. That'll give you a pretty good idea of how it happens or what happens. Very good. Okay. We're up to 30 folks here. I don't know if we did that. Well, I'm going to sign off. I appreciate everybody jumping on. I will get to the place where I'll learn how to provide a little advance notice. I'll probably hide the dirty refrigerator in a subsequent video. I'll get my eye taken care of, and we'll continue to have fun. I'll also, I'm going to have to come in with, you know, Lucas and MD, they really are amazing, aren't they? You're very welcome. James just got here that's alright James I'll be back I'm going to do this I think twice a week I was astounded at the hours that the first one resulted it was like 26 hours for that first stream and I need to get hours it's one thing to get subscribers it's a whole lot tougher to get hours so This is obviously a way to do it. Thank you all very much. I want to make sure. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate visiting with you all. And we'll be back. God bless. Bye for now.