Oh, man
What a day.
Let me explain how I almost killed every fish I have so I walk outside to the gallery this morning and to be honest
It's been kind of warm out here. But I've also been pretty distracted
You see you guys know that the entire gallery is heated by an air pump besides the two thousand gallon aquarium that has in-floor heating
However, whatever the temperature of the room is the temperature of the tanks are as well
Usually I like to keep it about 26 degrees Celsius out here and relative humidity at about 30 percent temperatures dropping right now
However, when I woke up and came out here it was 31 degrees Celsius meaning
Meaning that if I continue to let the temperature out here
rise like that and the aquarium's temperatures rise like that if I didn't catch it
Everybody kind of would just slowly cook
Now it's turned off right now. However, it's usually in an automatic mode maintains the temperature out here
It has the ability to cool as well as heat the room
dehumidify to an extent, so I thought to myself
well
Obviously it simply can't reverse itself from going from hot to cold and that's based on the reversing valve
That allows it to do so, it's probably clogged. Let me run out and check it right quick
uh
One thing you guys don't know about me. It's embarrassing to talk about but I have a really weak stomach for anything
That's kind of gross not really fish related stuff though. I can do almost anything with that
So I come over to the heat pump. That's right here. Now you guys know I'm in Canada
You guys know that this is going to be pretty warm
Come the winter time a nice little warm spot
for
Some pests I look in here what do we see? Oooh god.
I look inside
Just everywhere a
Bunch of dead mice have made my heat pump their home
Causing me some problems that I'm going to have to figure out. Hopefully it is the switching valve, but I have no clue
Ugh
The grass is just what is stepped on something Anyways, I
Don't know what I'm gonna do with that. So I turn the heat pump off for now. , I'll let the room cool down a bit
I'll fix the heat pump. It's not gonna be that much of a problem
Worst case scenario temporarily if it is broken to an extent
I can just come over here and program it to just come on whenever I want to heating the room sporadically as opposed to
Constantly in the meantime. I also have to address the pest issue
I don't know how I'm gonna get those mice out of there, maybe
I'll just give it like a 20-foot long stick and flick them out somehow. I don't know what we do
Anyways, the real focus up to doing some water changed along with mine
The real focus of today's video is the simple fact that the Sharks have already started to eat
Let me show you this quick clip that I took on Instagram a little while back
You're eating three eating Oh
Get it is it too big. I'm sorry. There's plenty in there for you. I just had to get this
I know you guys can't see very good, but it's the first time they're eating at least one the other ones being stubborn
If you're not following me on instagram you get to see all those types of stuff first at Uaru Joey U-a-r-u J-o-e-y
anyways
Something that is even more cool is that I can hand feed these guys. Let's just take a quick look first
I do have the light off right now
because
These guys were not eating with the lights on turning them off
Obviously helped tremendously. I've got two in there one on the back there and then one up here and then hungry hungry. Hippo
That constantly stares at me and makes everything awkward
Anyways, let's get some food. These guys will let me hand feed them
I don't know if they're gonna do it for the video right now on demand, but they've done it. Just believe me
Let's just give them a hunk of some frozen food something quick and easy
Got it. This is so cool. It's so much fun
I'm gonna have to feed gouple guts first of course, and he will eat anything
Anything I offer him he will eat it and even not only eat it. He'll take it from my hand
Look, this is totally frozen. He'll eat a chunk of frozen food because he's
He has eating issues
I Fed him some pellets too He will eat pellets. All right, do this by hand
come on over here
Told ya that's too cool isn't it. Hope you seen that and I didn't freak out too much. So
um
But I notice with the sharks here. Let me see here. You can food up here
Just gonna take a chunk here if they don't take it from my hand
I'll break it apart and they'll eat it, but lets see if we can get them
Get proof for you guys
Hey guys, watch this
Sometimes they'll just go at it.
Come on. Daddy's here eat, eat, eat. How about you. There you go. Yeah
So they mouth it
He's even see that all right, I'm just gonna break off a little pieces
Anyways, bottom line is these guys are eating now. It's pretty darn awesome three goes
He's looking for it. Oh there ya go
You guys eat it
Little shy
Isn't that cool?
such cuties
Again, they won't eat with the lights on just yet
But they're eating that's more. Want some more. I got some more get over here
Thank you. Come on, eat more
Is it just too chunky he likes solid foods
Who else can have this discus you got a water change. Think they'll eat it
No, I also eat this I don't like wasting any of it
So I just keep feeding the fish till it's gone. The bass will eat it
as soon as I open this
They Will come over. Now, I don't plan to get the underwater cameras or anything
But maybe you guys can see them. I can see them down there a little bit
So I just put it in front of the Ecotech wavemaker evenly distribute it through the aquarium. There they are look look look
Stop shaking joey so nervous
See them
Well the minnows wait till these guys get absolutely huge
Downside is I've been constantly affiliating food with my hand. This is not gonna be good long term, man
I wouldn't care if just the heat pump
Was just broken or on the fritz or whatever
Its those damn mice out there
Its all being in stuff. They've been in there for a while. It looks like my bad for not checking on it anyways
Remember when I said the Sharks might not eat we have to accept the possibility that they might pass
Well clearly the Sharks are a thing now
So I need to make get moving on the temporary setup for the lionfish as well as a snowflake eel
I had to come up with an idea for a lid. Let me show you what I did
I have been trying to stay busy out here. Although in. My personal life is kind of hectic right now
Oh, I did take apart the stand we'll revisit that idea in the future
I haven't got anything done in the new filtration room everybody. Here's fine. Oh
these guys lights haven't come on yet, but
Look, they're adorable
No, I'm not sure when their wedding will be we'll figure it out she's definitely got to put on a little bit more size
I might
Do a temporary ad in a week or two because I think Frank's accepted her
so
Maybe I monitor them for a couple of hours. See how they go
Maybe I could just net her put her on this side see how they act doesn't go. Well, I never put her back
I don't know. What do you guys think. I love opening this door on camera
The lid situation okay a snowflake eel is going to jump and it's gonna try to get out of the tank so I
Went and grabbed this acrylic here. This is the stuff that was supposed to be another aquarium
It's supposed to be the hundred eighty. But obvious as you can see you see here
Look how bad it is. This tapes not coming off. It's melted into it its gotta be all sanded
There's like salt damage on it. This is just an absolute disaster the scratches everywhere
This is literally about four hours of work
And this is the absolute best piece that I could cut believe it or not. The downside is though
Is that it's really heavy is gonna be difficult to manipulate while on top of the aquarium again just temporary
Just so I can get it running today or tomorrow type of thing
I'll drill maybe a feeding and access hole when I want to do maintenance
I'll just remove the whole thing
But I'm saying I think it weighs like 40 pounds and distributed around the entire perimeter of the aquarium
It's totally gonna be fine but um
There's no way that eel is lifting up a 40-pound lid. So yeah, I definitely got to get to work on that today
I forgot to wash my hands after I fed the fish. You don't want to smell him
So why am I busy and why am I not getting even more done this weekend on Saturday?
I'm heading to New York for reefa Palooza
At 2:30. I will be speaking
I'm telling you. You don't want to miss my talk be there if you can link in the description to get your tickets
I'll see you guys shortly again
If you're not following me on Instagram, please do we just hit a hundred thousand followers on there?
But I'm always posting some
Things that you don't see on video or you see them there first or we just have fun we go live, etc, etc
I'll see you there, too