there's a few things I want to talk about in today's video and we'll get to
those in a moment however today I want don't mind the mess we'll talk about
that in a second today I want to talk about the shark eggs and they're
absolutely phenomenal and incredible transformation that they've made in just
three short weeks now you guys will remember originally when I showed you
these guys there were just tiny little squiggly lines inside their little egg
pouches what they've gone through in the past three weeks has been mind-blowing
to me and I can't wait to see what happens over the next three and a half
or three to three-and-a-half months that it's going to take for them to actually
hatch from these but what I want to do today is show you where they're at right
now this is pretty exciting now it was really difficult for me to get really
good shots of these because I do want them to be submerged under the water
plus I don't want to stress the other fish out in the tank it's difficult to
get a view of the eggs through the mesh and the net and the glass etc so I got
to take them out and show them just through the glass with that said I'm I'm
battling a very curious and highly venomous lionfish what I learned about
these guys though is he does have a sense of security and almost like my
freshwater stingrays he's not going to attack me if he doesn't feel threatened
so as long as I moved slowly cautiously and I'm constantly aware of his location
I'm going to be fine but I do not trust the snowflake eel at all not as not in
the very least he's buyer to curious he thinks everything is food and he will
bite me so for him I got to make sure he's nice and filled up before I even
take a peek at these eggs unfortunately it's really difficult to see through the
camera the products progress if the eggs have made with the human eye in person
though I don't even need the flashlight just the lights from the aquarium or
shining through it so brightly that I can see perfectly you will notice the
lionfish keeps coming up really close and he's far closer that he might look
on camera at times he was brushing up against my hand luckily though the only
venomous areas on his dorsal fin so there's nothing really I need to worry
about as long as I keep an eye on those and it was almost as if
though he was trying to hug me he was coming up sideways and and bringing up
his pictorial fins and his all of these modified wings that he has and almost
like trying to engulf me like he wants to hold on to me I don't know if he's
trying to be friendly and give me a nice little hug but I don't think I'm gonna
like the end result if it gives me a little poke so again gotta be cautious
but if we look at these eggs isn't it absolutely insane the growth they've
gone through in just three weeks there now have mouths they have these
beady little eyes they're moving around not as much as they used to but that's
normal however they have a full body shape
there there are at least four times the size they were in just those three weeks
so imagine in three months from now now I don't plan on doing updates on these
guys every week or every other day or anything like that we'll probably post
some stuff to Instagram like I have been but I needed to show you guys how
absolutely incredible this has been now I do know that a lot of people think
that these eggs are gonna hatch in this aquarium they're not I think it covered
that in the past video anyway but I also mentioned that I'm going to
be building them a brand new aquarium out here in the new fish room area like
I previously mentioned though I have to build the stands but I'm really behind
on doing so you see my trailer that I go and pick up all my lumber and all
supplies the tags on it expired I didn't realize that till I hooked it up to the
SUV and I couldn't drive it so I had to wait a couple days get those renewed and
it put me behind by a few days but I have everything now I'm gonna start
putting it together today and tomorrow just the stands I'm gonna work on but
the saltwater tank I'm talking about it's gonna go right here I plan to make
it four feet this way three feet that way so 4 feet long 3 feet front the back
and then 2 feet tall making it around 180 gallons I'm probably gonna use this
sound system here which holds about 40 gallons this used to be on the tank that
they're on now but I recently built them a new sump more on this in the future so
in total with these stuff as well as the tank could probably be about a 200
20 gallon system that's if I use these I might use something bigger I might plumb
something through the wall cuz I also have to build an entire filtration room
everything in there is getting revamped of course the 375 is gonna come here I'm
gonna build matching 42 inch tall tanks so they're gonna be almost eye level and
it'll be more uniform in here as well which will look a lot better once
everything's in here the saltwater system however is going to probably be
for the Sharks to hatch in otherwise I will put the snowflake eel as well as
the lionfish in here to start and maybe hatch the in their original aquarium
here so they don't have to go through any transition or acclimation period or
anything like that by far these guys are gonna be the most sensitive luckily
though these are coral cat sharks and in the aquarium they rarely get to about 24
inches they have the potential to get to 28 inches which is almost three and a
half feet but they'll probably stay in between 24 or 20 to 24 inches which if I
build this hundred eighty gallon tank it would be perfect for them for life in
fact I could keep the two sharks as well as the snowflake eel and the lionfish
all together it'd be a pretty incredible predator tank in my opinion well of
course keep the scape pretty minimal with just focusing on maybe a center
island of some sort that's quite small just so the snowflake eel has some words
go in hi Altima Toledo I've been spending more and more time with this
aquarium just to get to know the fish a lot better get to know their
personalities and their boundaries and I must say that the lionfish is far more
curious and interested in everything that I do and very surprisingly gentle
again I don't trust this guy bat it back here though not in the least he's
sneaking through the area he goes he's actually quite active a lot of people
say they hide a lot but in there a nocturnal feeder but this guy is out all
day doing this sort of thing zigzagging through all the rocks and hiding in all
the crevices and whatnot but you know I gotta say I do not regret these shark
eggs I think it's gonna be an absolutely incredible journey watching them hatch
and you know bringing you guys along for the ride now I know that many of you
guys will never be able to keep sharks or keep lionfish or
eels or anything of this aspect and I really don't expect you to and it when
it comes to the coral cat sharks I don't I'm not trying to promote for you to
keep them originally as I said in the first video I just want to bring you
along for that experience for example when we were breeding discus I you know
I've read them and you know we got about a thousand babies out of them and I
brought you guys along for that journey as well and taught you and showed you
everything I knew I know a lot of you who will never be able to breed discus
or will never have the interest but it's pretty inspirational educational and and
it is simply a curious thing to follow along I don't think the Sharks will be
any different in fact I don't really want to disclose all the plans that I'm
doing out here but like I did say the 375 is going along that wall Frank and
the Beiser here will be going underneath of it I know that that sounds kind of
weird right now but once I build off the stand and it's all together I'm going to
enclose Frank's aquarium so it looks like it's built into the sand it's gonna
look pretty cool then of course the saltwater tank will be the same height
now with Frank's tank underneath of it that means that giant some putts
underneath here right now you guys remember that that's that absolutely
stunning Bashi tank it needs a good cleaning and I got turned the lights on
so you can see it but beautiful tank beautiful sump I should say obviously it
can't fit underneath the 375 because Frank will be under there so I'm going
to plumb this tank so this room will be just as quiet as that room I'm gonna put
the sump on the floor now again absolutely disgusting mess out here but
if you could imagine everything that you see here is gonna be gone we're gonna
start over we're gonna put the sump here it's a 5 foot long sump so it will come
to about here leaving us with about 4 feet or or if I set 3 feet that way no
problem this canister that pumps on the 2,000 can go up against the wall there
so that the entire bottom will be the sum for the 375 and Frank's tank this
will still be underneath of it and then I'm gonna build a shelf that is 750
and build an entirely new filtration system for the 2000 gallon aquarium be
something like this but three times the size so that will mean that this closet
here will be filtering about 3000 gallons of water through it and it will
make maintenance on all the tanks and water changes and whatnot tremendously
easier because at the end of the day one of the things I really wasn't counting
on because of my excitement for just being able to have such a thing and to
share it with you guys is at the end of the day when the camera goes off I have
to take care of all these tanks and it takes a tremendous amount of work and
time at the seven-days-a-week type job so moving forward I'm definitely making
adjustments to make it a lot of things more automated and easier to take care
of anyways guys that's the update on the shark tank I hope you guys are as
excited about it as I am I got to get so much done and I have to get somewhat
caught up on so much in that that fish room that I think the Sunday though I
will bring you up to date with what's going on out there and I'll show you how
I'm building a few things ultimately though if you're excited about those
shark eggs you don't subscribe to this channel yet make sure that you do see
don't miss they're hatching I guess I can quickly explain the mess
everything's being cleared out of here to make moving the tanks a lot easier -
carpets everything so there's nothing to trip on if I need to slide it or
anything like that I'm just kind of preparing in the in advance I also last
night I put all the tanks that eat prepared food that dry prepared food I
put them all on automated feeder so they're all being fed twice a day so
that takes a little bit of work load off of me so that I could focus on the new
fish room and get more done out there even though feeding them isn't a big
deal I'll admit I sometimes forget