but uh
thanks for coming that was nice no problem I was there to hear you talk and everything you were
there yeah uh me and my wife were there we were like about third row Brian was the only one there
because he was speaking in areas oh right so so this is actually another tour of a fish room that
I did while I was in Ohio doing a talk and I was visiting fish rooms and stores and whatnot I think
you guys are really going to like this uh how this gentleman breeds his fish and such a small
area yet it's so organized and clean I think just check it out I have a fish room over here [Music]
oh yes you do yes I do um now you take a look at we'll start with the stands so it seems to me as
though that's where you kind of enjoy and then this is where things get serious both I I don't
know I enjoy them all but I built these stands out of wood they're really heavily enforced and I
screwed them and glued them and they can hold the weight and don't bend or anything like that oh you
did them with bolts yeah if you use bolts on the ends too so you could probably put a car on some
of these yeah and it would really hold up um I was looking you used these uh PVC and slate yes quite
a bit that is for mouth breeders a lot of them uh the the male will display above the slate and
then what he'll do is you know the female will lay the eggs and he'll you know fertilize them
and it just seems like that's like a little area that they like you know instead of doing it at the
bottom of the tank they seem to depict those areas out and and they display in it what they doing
um if I could just turn around and just show you one thing all these rooms are being run by this
all these tanks excuse me have air from this one linear pump and then there we have PVC all around
the room for all these tanks and there might be I don't know 20 20 22 tanks or something in here and
um you just tap into it and it's all off the one the only maintenance I do on that is just clean
the filter you know every so often and that's really it and I mean they're quiet running pumps
the linear pumps and uh they do provide enough and that's not even the biggest linear Parts no
so yeah so what I have here is uh probably I have 11 20 gallon Longs that are set up I also have
um let's see 210 40 breeders and I have 275s that are over here in this fish root too all
getting oxygen they're all getting air excuse me from the from the same problem
uh see okay I I when I clean these I mostly clean these by gravity because I probably have four
different 50-foot hoses and by gravity and then I just refill them I do about 80 water changes
every two weeks and starting tomorrow I'd be doing them again and um some of the names on
the tanks uh for example over here there's a green green pair of green tears that are in there that's
the mail right there I wasn't expecting Central American I was thinking oh yeah though there's
a little mixture now I'm trying to Branch out a little just from Africans and believe it down here
are what they call the real red tears down here they're still small there's about 13 of them in
there that way I'm hoping I end up with a male and female yeah eventually they'll go into 125
gallon tank but they're very peaceful with each other right now when you buy cichlids and you
and you are looking to get a pair out of them how many babies would you typically recommend to give
you the best dog as well okay I would definitely say six to eight uh eight obviously being better
than six because it decreases your odds I buy a lot of mine either that are Bap that another
club member had bred or I will send a buy some locally or I'll send away to a lot of you know
places that are in other states and um I try to get at least seven if I can I try to get seven
a lot of times the Bap they give you six right but if I order them somewhere I try to get seven so
the main focus of this fish room is to reproduce the fish well I enjoy the Bap a lot I'm involved
with the program breeders award points award uh points and uh I do like it but I like to fish too
yeah most of them are are single species tanks for these are what they call the uh morii but these
are the albino yeah and the other tank over here I have the blue ones and they reproduce nothing but
albinos in fact all these were a little fry that came from their parents and I've grown
them up and uh the Dolphins Blue Dolphins yeah there are blue dolphins in here mixed in with
um some placidochromis alomo bc10s wow these are pretty aren't they and then I really like these
blue zebra angels foreign I have two of them down there and then I have some more in a lower
tank this is actually a a pair they've laid eggs but I haven't had good success with Hatchet they
won't hatch yeah uh well they've hatched but I haven't been able to raise the young to be honest
so I'm gonna try with uh uh brine shrimp like Ryan shrimp which I'm setting up to do that now
I try to provide some cover for them all these fish does anybody still do the um the boiled egg
and you use the uh the center of it the yellow the yolk I don't grind that out I don't I've ever done
that so I don't know to feed the to feed the fry that mostly what I do is I use a lot of flake food
good quality flake food and I'll use pellets on some of the bigger fish I'll use some frozen brine
shrimp and that's usually what I'll use um I'll do some blood worms once in a while we also do have
Micro worms for some of the fish too but I need to get more into the doing the brine shrimp um
these are l397 red tiger plecos there are those are quite expensive and all the ones in here
are babies they were all or babies they all we raised them all you know from from the parents
there's probably about maybe at least 25 or more in here it's kind of hard to part with
them I know people want them and I know I can get good money for them but oh my this room is
heated by the way yeah but each tank has their individual uh heater in there too okay so most
of them either have a Sponge Filter or they have a a canister filter box yeah canister box
you got a lot of babies in all of them yeah so that's something to
do it to that um I don't think they make these nets anymore but they were great when they made
them yeah there's different size than that so you could move babies from one side to the other
that's um these days well did you make this one no I bought all these I've had these for years
for crocheting and netting I I well I suppose the material is down here yeah but we tried to
make some that were really like this but they just they're a little bit more flimsier this is just uh
stiffer yeah but then we I bought these like these and I wish they would still make them because
everybody comes over says do you have any extras to sell and I don't think they make them but it's
really good to keep the the babies in for me you know and then when I clean it I'll just move them
into another tank while I'm cleaning and I just move it back in so and then the really small
babies that would go through there we use these plastic type of things we just lock it in with
these clips and then we have air stone and that's for the really smaller babies usually and then
they'll move into this size now and then a larger size then oh okay and like down here if I may just
say these are just a gazillion of uh yeah babies oh you did breed the green Terrors yes we had
than where we capture them and there's a few we just kind of let them go and these um who could
call us not Tiana babies that are still in here I'd be repeat some of them those other fish would
be a lot of care and Dragon Blood peacocks and yeah these are half a chromos tomatoes
hemochromis XL exsul in there I haven't got reddish yet now a lot of these Africans have
the same breeding rituals and even you know mouth-roading and whatnot right what
would you say out of like a lot of well over history what is some of your favorite fish to
breed because of the way they do it or what's like the most rewarding enjoyable to watch
I'm really really excited when the l397 uh red tiger plecos red because you know they
were just so little when they first came out and we put them in their own area so I really
enjoyed that part of it um I like I like the uh fish because I like some of them that are rarer
fish for example this one here is enterochromis redback scraper and um quite a few there's quite
a few males in there that's the most dominant male but that's no longer even out there in
the lake so you have to get it from somebody that has them and I mean it's kind of keeps
them alive you know even though they're not in the lake you can't find them in there anymore
are they are they classified as endangered yes they are oh wow uh are they listed as extinct
and wild uh they I've been told they're extinct in a while okay yeah so you need to keep those and
you need to breed them sure otherwise we won't have them over here these are Neil Lamborghini
the cave and in fact my wife Diane today was uh they're very cichlids right yes and she she uh
found some babies and has them in one of these containers over here uh they probably can't see
him because they are so astronomically small yeah but she puts them in there puts them in
there with an air stone and she helps me out a lot I give my wife Diane a lot of credit
uh what happens is they start to get bigger I'll move into an aquarium uh these fish here
and or some of them I'll be AP I have a lot of them now there's been a lot of them that have
been breeding lately and they I move them into their tank once I get room to put them in there
um this here these are l264 Sultan plecos yeah they're nice I love those fish but I've
never been able to breathe I mean I've never seen them lay any eggs never seen any babies
um they probably need to maybe move there's a couple plecos that are swimming around in
there too but they're really they maintain their spots and I've had them for a couple years and
what's kind of rewarding too I'm going to go back to the gracillus I had those for probably
two years and never had any babies and then all of a sudden they had have had a couple of groups
now so I don't know if they've read them before and I didn't see them or sometimes it just takes
patience yeah you know changing the food a little bit or or changing the area around a little bit
up but like I say most of the ones that I've done a lot of other jewelies too
so summer cave spawners but most of the fish I have are our mouth
and uh the heaters I like are the Jaeger heaters I found those to be the best for
me they they don't seem to overheat I mean they think they'll last a long time
they seem that those Eli meters do seem to be the most at least as far as I can
remember the most trusted for the longest time that's what I've experienced yeah
I can't remember the last time I had a tank that overheated well they're just time tested as well
they've been around forever sure and everybody has a new heater coming out and everybody loves
it it's the best but they're not time tested in the hobby but these eheims are and they haven't
changed their design I've never seen one look any different than it looked like 10 20 years ago
yeah those green tears they they're actually a beautiful beautiful fish
um and uh especially they call them the green tear obviously and most people when they hear
that they get a little bit oh no they're gonna they're gonna kill everything else
and I keep them by themselves and he doesn't beat up the female that happens with some of
the tanks is there are some little babies in there yeah little stragglers yeah
but some of the fish the male wants to breed some of the peacocks or some of the the other fish and
they'll become so aggressive you know trying to get the female to breathe that they may actually
harm her or perhaps even kill her but they get along like a happily married couple in there so
a lot of fish with those types of names Tim tend not to live up to it like even the Jack Dempsey
right I've had those yeah I mean they can be a little aggressive I guess but I think that
when these fish were being named there wasn't much to compare them to and now we've got some
really nasty cichlids out here but yeah so the uh what What's the future of your fish room looking
like you're going to continue just doing this to be honest with you I used to run tanks down the
middle but you know I thought it was the room was too crowded you have to get down and and see it
so I put in these chairs so sometimes people come over they'll just sit down in the chair like this
yeah and then they want to turn it around yeah now I have this uh step stool type of thing because
my wife is not very tall well it'd be great for me too moving around the room if she wants to do
something she'll move it around the room she helps you out here yeah he's like a partner
perfect she's fantastic I think it's great when you're in the hobby if you have a wife that is
a partner that is interested in the hobby as well and you can share it together and we do
share this together she comes at the meetings the auctions and she's also involved with the fish you
know she'll feed them and she takes care of them she really likes the the pleco type of fish a lot
and she likes the Angels a lot and uh it's good to have somebody involved like that yeah absolutely
oh my friend thanks for having me over and allowing me to bring my friends with me to
kind of learn from you and you know see what you got on the go and I think that you might have
think some people's interest in taking reading a little more seriously it's a tremendous hobby how
to do it and yeah if you had to give them a leave them with one last thing you want to say or maybe
you want to promote your club or you know maybe a piece of advice or something I'll let you I'll
let you end this well I'd say it's a fun hobby it doesn't have to cost a lot it doesn't have to take
a lot of time and uh it's fun to watch them to do this and it's something you can do all year round
you know the summer winter whatever there's clubs that are out there and you can join the clubs and
there's a lot of help if you go online you know uh the DIY and the other things to how to raise
a fish how to feed the fish how to build things and stuff like that so there's a lot of help
for those that are out there and a lot of club members will help you um to enhance your your
knowledge of the hobby so what what is your local club that you're a member of I'm a member of the
Ohio cichlid Association the Medina uh County aquarium Society the uh Akron aquarium society
and the northeast Ohio aquarium Society so I'm a member of four clubs and I'll actually go to some
other clubs auctions I'll go to the Erie auction and I'll go to the Youngstown auction as well so
yeah maybe I'm filming this backwards but maybe I'll maybe I'll get you to introduce yourself
because I kind of just turned the camera on on the way down the stairs Diane come here for a second
yeah my name is uh John tessar and this is my those are my two dogs
and uh know that they they really don't take down deer by themselves this is my wife Diane
and she helps me on everything and and um it's enjoyable to have a partner that that is right
there with you itself right okay good for you guys thanks for thanks guys thanks for having us
um if you guys enjoyed this video uh make sure you check out a lot of these clubs he's talking
about and really consider joining and not only joining but supporting them uh there's a lot of
cool things that go on with them that many people don't know and I I I was getting the fear that
the aquarium clubs are becoming almost a Dying Breed these days and I just want to bring them
back into the Forefront and uh show you just how cool these really are so if you do have a
local Club in your area especially if you're in Ohio we've got four that he just mentioned make
sure you join and support them they certainly could use it anyways if you did like the video
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