Okay, just a little quick intro to this one to kind of explain. What's
Happening, I'm sure you can all relate to how much this issue sucks
And how we all go through it at a point in time in life, basically all my fish arrived [don't] worry. They're all fine
That's not where the [story] is going all my fish arrived for my 150 gallon tank
And I have never ordered fish via the mail before I've never had fish shipped to me
I've always gone to a store that have already had the fish shipped to them and just buy them from a local store and bring
Them to my house. This was a little bit of a different situation because exotic reef imports shipped them to me
I was excited to vlog the [whole] experience, and I did. I woke up at 10 a.m.
When the fish arrived and I immediately pulled out my camera and vlogged the entire experience which took from 10 a.m.
To about 10 or 11 p.m.
Of course I did have to run some errands in between to get a few extra things
That I didn't have on hand
But I vlogged it all so it wasn't like I was just sitting there for 10 hours doing the same thing
I had a lot of different things happening to get that tank ready that day. Long story short
I lost all the footage
I thought I had imported the footage onto my computer, so I deleted them off my memory card
and I hadn't imported them to my computer and
They were deleted from my memory card, so I deleted all of the footage from that day an exception of the last few clips
So I'm going to include the last few clips in here
But other than that.. Now that was my very first time getting fish shipped to me like I said it was my very [first] time
Stocking my 150 gallon tank
[I] never had any fish in there before this was a lot of
Firsts, so I still want [that] experience to be vlogged
I still want it here for you guys to see so how do I do that without actually having the footage? I uh.. I uh
[I]
Recreate it
Okay, good morning. Guys it is
one, I mean wait that's not what I got my fish 10 o'clock a.m.. As you can tell I just got a fedex
Notification or ups or whatever it was [that] my fish are on the front porch, [so] let's go check them out. Oh
They're right here. Let's bring just one box. [I] don't need the other box of fish
I'm so excited to open this look "live tropical fish"
My name is on it. as you can see they were wrapped in a black bag
so they don't get stressed the darkness helps them stay calm during traveling and
That one looks dead. It's just one. You know [I] ordered seven so I
Swear, I don't know why they all are just gravitating towards their back this one too okay. Just needs a good shake, maybe
There we go [now] he's up what a good fish. Okay
So as you can clearly see we have all seven fish that I ordered here basically now
We're going to acclimate the fish. [I] always recommend doing this for saltwater
Fish especially if you're getting them from a place that doesn't keep their water
Parameters the same as you do then you want to slowly acclimate them
You don't want to just throw them in the tank and put them into shock because things like the salinity and the ph
Specifically can really put them into shock if it's different from the bag that they're in right now
So you want to slowly do this and this is really important for the more sensitive species when it comes to clownfish and things like
That you can float them in the tank until the temperature levels out
And then add a little bit of your water to the bag and then release them after about ten minutes
That's good enough for the less sensitive species, but when you're doing fish like tangs and wrasses and angelfish box fish Etc
You're going to want to do the drip acclimation system. So let me show you how to do that for all these
Good fish basically what you're going to do first is take your fish and put it in a bucket now the important thing to do
Is when you're going to release the fish into the bucket you want to put the water
Slowly in to the point where when the fish goes in it has enough water to be fully submerged
So if a bucket this deep is going to be too deep to fully submerge your fish get a smaller bucket
Don't make them flop around in the bottom of the water
Okay, one hopefully your fish bag won't be tied with a hair tie and two hopefully your fish your saltwater fish won't be from Petco
But I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry pet Schmo well
I'm just going to rip a hole in the side, and then we're going to slowly release the water
Until it's deep enough for your fish to go in
peacefully. Slowly add the water from your tank to
This. Now the way
We do this is called a drip acclimation
System first thing you're going to need is an air pump does not have to be a nice one
It could be any kind of air pump about five feet of airline tubing. This is like ten feet
but five feet of airline tubing should do plenty
Now you're going to cut up airline tubing where you have five feet for the drip system
And then a little bit left for the air pump. Now first thing
I'm going to do is I'm going to add some oxygen to this water because as we start drip
Acclimating the fish the fish may get stressed and we want to make sure they have plenty of oxygen during this time next
We're going to start drip acclimate
I'm going to put this frag rack in my tank
And this is just going to be something that's going to hold on to my airline tubing
You don't have to use a frag rack you do plant weights anything just to make sure that the airline tubing
stays in your tank
so what we're going to do next is get the airline tubing you could tell that that even though it's out of focus and you're
going to put one side in the tank make sure it stays the next thing you're going to do is you're going to start the
Siphoning effect you're probably going to have to put your mouth on this and I'm trying to make this sound as normal as possible
Put your mouth on this
Like a straw and it'll start the siphoning effect, okay now once you start it
You're going to see the water is going to come out really fast. This is not dripping
This is too fast so what you're going to do is you're going to tie a knot in your airline tubing
Now it's dripping
now if the drips are still too fast you can do another knot and now you're literally going to leave it in there dripping until
The water at least doubles, and then check it see if the salinity matches your tank and then you can
Not you won't pick your fish up like this, but you know pick your fish up and put 'em in there
He's dead
Okay, so in here. We [have] a bristle tooth kole tang these are one of the hardier tangs
They don't tend to get ich as much.Oh my God
I'm just now noticing that this really big fish bag is not only blacked out
But it is wrapped in duct tape like what do they [think] that fish is going to do
I'm feeling pretty confident in putting the Kole Tang in there already, so I think we're going to do that
There we go
Are you okay that freaked her out or him out? I don't know why I automatically assumed
It was a girl. Cuz she did not like being moved
So It is know on day three and my tang is coming out a little more my Christmas islands
[white] tail yellow eye kole tang
long name
Right over there right behind the angelfish
He's coming out a little more now grazing
So that was my really weird footage for the day
[I] hope you guys enjoyed seeing all my fish you [know] finally if you don't know yet. There is Nala merchandice
[I'm] trying to individually think every single person that tells me that they buy my merch, but I mean it's hard
So I'm sorry if [I] missed you. I'm sorry if
I didn't tell you thank you, but thank you. I had a video that came out a few days ago about it, me wearing my little
nala pocket tee in it and then of [course] the phone case. Can you see it? It says you can do it you can do it
Thank you to everyone who has checked out the Merch who's [Gotten] merch
It's still available for about [ten] more days, so please check it out
If you haven't yet, if you want to get some nala merch, it is out there like I said for about [ten] more days
so I'll put the link in the description and please check it out and just
Thank you, if you want to watch a video in the meantime with me in it you can check out
I can't talk ever I need to go to like speech therapy. I swear
I can't talk and that is not an insult to people who need speech therapy
I'm saying I really need it if you want to check out a video in the meantime with me in it you could check out
my friend Paige's video me and my friend paige make the Walmart version of the
Unicorn Frappuccino from Starbucks, so it was a really fun video
I had so much fun with her its in the description and I'm going to put it the link at the [end] of this
Too so yeah something for you guys to watch if you'd like
And thank you guys so much for watching and you'll see me next time
I've been doing youTube now for like 7 months, and I still don't know how to end my videos
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