what's up fish tank people Dustin's fishtanks bring it to you for
my kitchen how's everybody doing I hope you're
doing well in today's video I want to show you around the pond I want to show
you some of the great plant growth action we've got going on I want to show
you some of the plants that somehow I am killing I also want to show you a number
of different aquarium plant species that I'm growing in the pond and I think you
will enjoy and I also am going to talk about why koi are so expensive I've got
some good examples of some high grade koi and some not so great high grade koi
that I have out in my pond and I've had them long enough you'll be able to see
the difference but first we're starting in my kitchen for a reason I want you
guys to really get the full effect of my pond and in fact during part of this
video I might actually shut my trap so you guys can hear actually just how kind
of Zen it is so with my man Andrew behind me I want to roll out and just
kind of show you all how this works and just kind of how I roll out of the house
is just a focal point of my place so this is the view down to the pond I
absolutely love it the catalyst behind this video was simple last night
I was sitting here wife and kids go to bed early daddy doesn't sleep you can
sleep when you're dead or in the words of Ronald spots and they
got sleep faster so I sitting right here working on my stuff and I was thinking
of myself like I could literally just straight-up sleep out here so I want you
to kind of take it in from where I sit there's not one but two cups of coffee
out here if that's any indication how much time I spend out here but this is
where I post up this pond is super zen to me and a lot of things are going
right a lot of things are not going right so I want to talk about those as
we walk out here but I just I got to tell you as you roll this
the more planets I have around the better this is a ficus and you're
actually gonna see a lot of really great plants in some videos I got coming up
from our friends at McClure's but it's a variegated it's not a Poteau somebody
commented on it but this is a really fun plant likes a lot of water and then
these are your standard piece ELISA just grow like crazy but as we before we roll
out here I do want to get a shot of this this is the plot plan this is a
greenhouse design that I've obviously been working on from our friends at Rao
brothers note the atrium style roof so it opens to the sky and then you can see
the sketch they've got for me on my court I haven't committed to them yet
but this will be a 36 36 foot wide green house right here phase 1 in the plot
plan so a lot a lot of scheming a lot of planning but still also chill real quick
oh by the way my wife is so sick of seeing engineered prints laying around
she could scream but I'll be out of here eventually so here's what's going on
with coffee in hand I've got more of these or do they called peace lilies
this is some sort of a drug kina I'm not exactly sure if I'm pronouncing that
right those are real fun they can be handled for almost full water up out the
top and I want to give this this plant some love too this is a ficus with some
thinner leaves and then Andrew our friend is still sitting here chilling
we've got this bad boy right here this praying mantis so very fun now I'm gonna
get into some of the plants first but I'll be honest this is not my strength
this is not my specialty with the above water plants I stay in my
lane with the aquarium plant so if anybody has any knowledge please let me
know but let's start with the good and we'll work into the bad this is a I
believe I thought it was a type of hibiscus people are telling me it's a
mallow this plant has just gone absolutely off the chain let me give you
some perspective like there's my fist next to one of these blooms and it just
keeps blooming Andrew make sure you get a shot at down low there you can see
that it's growing down into the water it was planted very
and little not that or two years ago in the pond came in and it didn't do hardly
anything and didn't bloom until way late it's got tons of blooms left I want to
point out some bad news though look at how the leaves are being eaten down
there and not too fun not too sexy so this plant is actually blowing up and
has gone in rapid speed faster I cleaned out some weeds I still got some more
work to do but I didn't water them good enough so this is some sort of uh I
don't know some sort of a tall grass that I need to get watered better I
actually have some duck weed down in the pond which is a new surprise to me it
doesn't grow in the bottom part of the pond however because the fish eat it and
we're gonna talk about the fish in a minute here but I'm gonna make Andrew
follow me around acrobatically over here and just kind of focus down this way if
you will we have a problem going on here though this is my red stem Talia and I
absolutely love this plant but a big giant bunch of beetles have started
eating it and I don't know how to kill them
luckily this plant puts off like a new leaf basically every day but if you
click look over here you can see this up anybody has any advice on how to get rid
of these guys these predators suck I mean those are terrible and they're
tearing up my plant the good news is I can just simply go and trim this back
and it'll be no big deal the plant will come up I also want to point out this
down here this is a horse tail rush that's just been growing absolutely
bonkers so I'm loving that this is the red stem Talia I actually broken into
three now this plant will not survive the winter so it does come into the
greenhouse but have actually separated into three plants so I'm really really
really loving it have loved it and look at it's actually growing out over here
out of the pond so as we roll over there so we've got
the good hibiscus let me show you the bad hibiscus right here now this is of
no fault of any viewer I take people's advice and I listen to what they say and
somebody said put the hibiscus in the pond now we've had unseasonable high
temperatures here it's always hot it's Kentucky and
summer but this right here this hibiscus took a horrible beating and I'm not sure
why and you can click the links around Eric Shore look at the clips here before
this plant was killing it I mean just like on fire awesome and it started to
lose some of its leaves and lost a bunch of the bulbs I don't know if it's a
nutrient deficiency down here or what it is this what this has been this was like
submerged down to probably about there and then yeah it was blooming like crazy
it still got a couple of new growth but if anybody knows anything about hibiscus
let me know so this that's the good here's the bad
let me show you a couple more plants and then we'll talk about some of the koi I
and some of the live aquarium plants I got growing in the pond and the
differences in them alright now I want to show you a couple of really sweet
pond plants some aquarium plants that I'm growing in the pond some conversion
of that and yes of course we're gonna show you some of the koi I just threw a
little bit of food in there we'll keep them active for a minute alright so this
is a spider Lily right here this is an absolutely awesome plant please note how
the fish come near daddy they are not afraid of daddy being in the pond cuz
they're my boys but this is a spider Lily it's actually gotten through its
better days but you can see if you're following me on Instagram Dustin's
fishtanks add Dustin's fish eggs on Instagram you can see the evolution of
this at one point I had six flowers out one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten so it cycled through it's a spider lily I do not know its scientific
name and I apologize for that while andrew is here I want to show something
this down here look at this growth coming out of this plant right here
we've got this sword this is underwater converted growth that's going on and
that's not really a great example so I feel like I can give you guys some other
ones because this is kind of we had a little overflow we had some plan to
basically came in on an import that work just didn't hold up well so we threw him
in the pond and the results have been absolutely amazing I want to show this
right here if you can get down close here we can get this sword right here
look at this sword you can see the underwater
growth happening right here and I'll pull this out I believe this is ad
accumbens sword Josh is my sword ninja but notice above water growth is fully
going away and then now we have all this underwater growth so all this could
actually be cut I'm leaving it because I think it's still doing the plan good but
this is fully a fully converted I actually shorter growing sword so it's
kind of tight good root structure on there too so this is kind of what we've
been doing with the pond and then one of the things that I want to show and this
is interesting this is a part there we battle with with aquariums but this is
what this plant would do in nature this is a bacopa yellow flame and this plant
looks dirty that is actually just like reddish a reddish hue that it's got it's
got a little stuff on it but this plant is in here it's actually a couple of
them but this plant is in here but look at the tips on this if you look closely
the tips on this this plant started to come up out of the water and that's no
bueno when your aquarium because the plant acts completely different so we
actually put this deeper down into the pond but the bacopa yellow flame was
starting to come up out of the water you can see another example of it here this
one we just had to sink again because it kind of grew up at the top but they call
it yellow flame because it's got the the pinkish red flame on it like that so
really enjoying watching these plants do what they would do in nature note the
good roots on that or wherever so that's the bacopa yellow flame i also want to
point out the Strela stellata we have down in here we're lucky to be shooting
on an overcast day I'm gonna be showing this right here this is one that
actually we won't be selling because it's two to beat up on the bottom there
so that's this is not for sale but these have their really awesome like spinard
leaves underwater growth coming so this will fill back in and then be able to be
sold but right now it's just kind of chillin growing out in the pond but
enough about the plants folks let's talk about the koi fish now I've done other
videos about the quality of koi and how you can see the difference in them I'm
gonna grab my food people ask me what I'm feeding I feed whatever my friend
art at Western Carolina water escapes tells me to feed when it comes to koi he
tells me to feed nijikawa I'm feeding ichikawa he tells me to feed
him dog food I'd feed him dog food whatever are
to do that's what I do so with that said art is the guy that I get high grade koi
from he gets them from I believe the Sakai fish farm in Japan Japanese made
great cars Japanese make great koi so I want to show some of the differences in
the quality of the koi that I have now that I've had them for a couple of years
so I'm gonna throw some food in here I slammed the food in they come up quick
come on boys let's go and the big one there's the Hera walkie all right so the
Hera walkie was the first to go the white one with the metallic sheen on it
is developing a really nice head I got that from koi acres farm two years ago
and it's slowly losing that orange in its face which is fine because it will
have an all-white head with the orange metallic body so that's a really sweet
high grade koi in my humble opinion not a champion or whatever but it's a it's a
above average grade koi look at the all-white one that used to be eight on
Cho so that used to have a white dot on its head that white or excuse me a red
dot on its head that red dot has disappeared now it's just a plain white
fish so you never know what you're gonna get when they're fingerlings so bid see
that bright orange one right there with all orange that is a 15 cent goldfish
still gangster still rockin in this pond I want to show some other fish though
look at the alright so we got our new that's our new one that we added right
there with the darker orange with the almost black dots in it or whatever that
is a Goro mo and that's what I consider a high grade fish I got that from art
and then there's another Goro mo in here which is the lightest orange colored one
over there with a purple coming off the top it just kind of broke water it's got
the white I'm trying to get it over here it's got the whiter dots it's a lighter
color orange with a purple in the middle of its head that's also a Goro mo but
that's from color back koi so I'm curious to see the difference between
these two fish as they go along you can also see the jungle violin there and
then finally the biggest difference in the quality of koi can be seen with the
Kohaku they say that the koi hobby begins and ends with the Kohaku the
Kohaku is the big orange one right here with a diagonal face that guy right
there and then there's this other guy right here with the red
the little peek assure ed dot on his nose that fish I bought as a fingerling
it's now the second biggest fish in my pond it's cousin over there is the other
one looks just like him and then you've got this darker red one that's I believe
a China grade koi that one out there with a little Rudolph nose on him right
there that fish hasn't grown hardly at all compared to the other Kohaku they're
from Japan so there's a big difference in the quality of koi coincidentally
this guy right here with a four white with the four orange dots on him he is
actually a seven dollar koi from BDR ponds here in Lexington and he's turned
out real nice I hand-picked him out of about six hundred plants excuse me i
hand-picked him out of about six hundred tiny little fingerlings a couple years
ago and then there's one of the babies if you can catch that so that's an
update on the pond do me a favor drop me a comment on your favorite species of
koi if you've noticed any difference in your koi with the quality of them let me
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