what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com all over the place and
the hobby but then some of them are really hard to find you can hardly ever
get take the Peruvian blood fin tetra versus the regular blood fin tetra blood
fin tetras are all over the place Peruvian broad fins not so much in
today's video we're going back to the Amazon to talk about species variation
in the wild but first a quick note on yesterday's video shout outs to
everybody who dropped me a comment on the German blue Rams and who is
successfully keeping them at a pH above 7 obviously a captive bred fish is gonna
be more readily available to take a higher pH I still think the keeping her
hands above 7 is kind of running the risk but if you're doing it by all means
congratulations and if you didn't catch that video hit the subscribe button
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helps me helps you the whole thing by the way on the ramps front I didn't get
called out by our boys down into period of traffic holes my man Jacob said come
on son you know where you can get those captive bred Rams that will handle a
higher pH so hey Jacob I'm calling you out dude where my Rams that none of the
jungle
okay so this story starts like most good stories back in the jungle this story
starts the first time I went to Peru back in 2012 no this was in the
suit-and-tie wrap that's cleaner than a bar soap Dustin's fishtanks era when I
was selling voice over IP phones and I would have loved to have seen the look
on my customers face when my autoresponder said thank you for your
email I'll be in the jungle of Peru and I think with a loincloth and a spear
catching fish I'll return your email when I get back if I come back okay so
the first time that I go to Peru I go on a river called in an ivory but the
second time I was on the novel River first time his Annan I now I'm making
this statement because everybody uses the term Amazon as a blanket statement
but the reality of it is the Amazon River is so big so massive and so full
of so many different tributaries and tributaries and sub tributaries and it's
important to note just the exact River that I am on with this I'm on a Nanai
River and I want to make a quick personal note here the first time I went
to Peru I was there with a man named David schlesser David schlesser was a
dentist by trade but gave that all up to pursue his love with aquarium fish he
actually collected and ranches and he wrote a book on piranhas and I was there
with him and you can imagine just like me sitting on the back of the boat in
the Amazon with a man with this much knowledge just a super great dude was
curing a dallas-fort worth aquarium for a long time I don't know if he's even
still alive and if you do know the whereabouts of David schlesser please
don't tell him Dustin says hello last I heard he wasn't doing so well so David's
Lester you're the man and all the old school people drop a knowledge like that
on a guy like me a Perot was truly an effort I'm we're on the nanai River and
I'm pointing out an emphasizing the Nile River not only because the cord to say
but because the Nanaia River has a lower ph and a lower pH not only means a great
variety of different species and you would get on different tributaries of
the Amazon like the Napa River which I went on the second time but also for all
of you what is in for any of you thinking on going a trip with our
friends of margarita Tours and mr. Devin Graham signore Devin as he is called I
recommend the Nanai River if you're a wuss and are afraid of mosquitoes the
lower pH means no mosquitoes the novel so much mosquito heaven Nanaia river
collecting fish all day long we're on the Nanai River you can click the links
around here and check out links to all the old school videos I loaded when I
was on the deny River but we're on the Nanai River collecting fish all day and
we decide that night we're gonna take in an eye but the boat up the Nanaia River
further upstream and we're gonna park it and they park it the crew does right
along this obscure random spot on the edge of the river up against the forest
the night along the forest on the deny River was like nothing I had ever
experienced before nothing any of us Gringo's had probably ever heard before
you see we pulled our boat right up against the edge of a giant forest and
I'm sitting there at night and all that's connecting me to the forest is a
giant rope and I'm on the boat in the water and I'm glad to be on the boat in
the water because I got to tell you at nighttime I'm hearing some of the
craziest wildest sounds I've ever heard in my entire life and never heard before
so I'm actually comforted by the fact that I'm sitting on a boat with the door
that closes and there are no mosquitoes and the idea because what's going on in
there is madness that night I went to bed early like I always do because that
following morning we were gonna hop on an obscure path I was gonna take us to a
link off of the edge of the Nanai River and let me share with you this one thing
if you can take away one thing from over the thousand YouTube videos that I've
done about fish tanks let it be this nothing in the world compares to waking
up on a boat in the Amazon rainforest nothing compares to it the look of the
sky the look of the water as steam rises up off of the water the sound of some
crazy birds you've never heard before in your life the smell that hits you your
hand feeling the dew on the handrail as you drink a cup of coffee and soak in
just pure mother nature bliss nothing in the world compares to it it is sacred
and I hope every single one of you at some point in your life takes the
opportunity don't wait for the opportunity takes the
opportunity and goes down and sees this with your own two eyes videos don't do
it justice but on this fine morning folks there's no time to wait
Dustin's in a Bergeon Lake Territory in a lake on the Nanaia River that I'm
probably never gonna see again Down Goes the coffee and off runs Dustin into the
woods to go check out a lake with the crew we're gonna use a massive sanding
net to pull up fish that I've never seen before
Jane till I like the Amazon now let's get back to reality for a second hey
let's pull this back into our fish tanks you see in hindsight when I look at this
it makes the species variation that we see in the Amazon and in our own
aquarium hobby abundantly clear think about this for a second you have this
one lake that is probably 300 yards removed from the main channel now this
lake over time can evolve and the species in there are not interacting
with all the species going on in the main canal this water parameters could
change you could see something different involved you can see a certain species
over a long period of time or maybe not even that long period of time that
species will develop into its own unique little blend right there in that tiny
little lake now that's one little tiny lake that I got to experience there's
thousands of them there's thousands of them this is happening all over the
entire Amazon River Basin and I want you to think about something for a second
here and I talked with David schlesser about this and I gave him a shout out
earlier in this video and the simple thought is this what if our favorite
species take the neon tetra what if the neon tetra was actually just from one
tiny little lake and developed there and that was where the cool blue white and
red strand of tetra developed and then of course we took that tetra now it's
brutally bred in captivity and what-have-you but think about that just
one tiny little area one tiny little pocket those fish are moved from there
and then bred in captivity the neon tetras might
all around the area isn't that crazy to think about when I think about it I
experienced this exact same thing when I was down in the Napo River with Mike
barber we rolled probably 300 yards offshore donde esta aqua negra yeah my
Spanish is terrible now what happens they take us to the black water in the
back where I watch Mike pull up 11 marble hatchet fish these fish are in a
pocket of their own they live in their own tiny little lake way off of the main
path and then can develop their unique color patterns and variations all on
their own in isolation Darwin and its best look I called this tetra Tuesday
because I'm thinking about Tetris and the variation with touches but this
applies to so many different species that we know and love and stare at and
our tanks so do me a favor folks pick your species look in your tanks or a
fish you might have kept in the past and drop me a comment on what you think
about where that fish was from maybe it's from some obscured link that slowly
evolved over thousands of years and that's why it's got such a funky style
to it or maybe it's been captive bred and slowly strands have been developed
to give it some long fins or red eyes or whatever the heck it is
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