- Hey everybody.
This is Cory from Aquarium Co-op,
I'm here with Shawn Armentrout of Aquatic Madness,
he does the On The Road fish series, you might've seen
some of the videos.
We're gonna put a link to that down below,
right above the comments section.
And, what are we gonna see today, Shawn?
- Well, we're gonna see lots of large Central
and South American cichlids, lots of large tanks,
anywhere from 125 up.
The largest I have is 400.
- [Cory] A tour of Shawn,
Shawn's fish room, here.
So, we've got six 40 breeders growin' stuff out in.
True fish breeder,
tanks on the floor.
This is just a tour to show you how big these tanks are.
Eight footer, here,
eight footer, here.
Kinda walk through here.
More tanks down below.
Turn the corner here.
Oh yeah, just tuck in a little 75 gallon, here why not?
You got Mr. Attitude here, in the 210.
Another eight foot tank right on the other side.
Another 125 down below.
Oh, and don't mind if I do,
a bunch of 40's, here, for a quarantine and fry
and stuff like that.
He puts 40's on end.
You know, why not?
Another 300 gallon, here,
this is the Marineland Double Deep,
so we're lookin' at three feet front to back.
Turn the corner.
Oh, another giant tank, whaddya know?
And why not?
Start stackin' up 125s and 120s.
Come through,
back out towards the front here, got a 20 long.
Double stack of 75's.
So, yeah, lots of big tanks.
An unusual fish room for sure.
- A Blue Dovii.
He's in a 210 gallon.
He's a six foot by two foot tank.
He is eventually, and when I say eventually we're talkin'
within the next couple'a weeks, he's gonna get moved over
into this tank down here, which is my 300 gallon,
which would give 'em six foot by three foot.
Plenty of size for 'em, here.
This has worked great for him so far, but it's time
to move him above.
- [Cory] He's a beast.
- Get him into somethin' new.
I'd say, right now, he's probably pushin' about 22 inches.
20 to 22 inches.
Until I get him outta the tank and we move him,
I really don't have a clue.
And as for how much he weighs,
I couldn't tell ya, but I'm intrigued.
Is there a reason you gotta bite me like this?
(laughter)
- [Cory] There's no doubt that he's beautiful
and he's the thickest one I've ever seen, for sure.
- He's just, I mean, he is absolutely,
anywhere I go in the fish room,
no matter where I'm at, he's following me everywhere,
all over the tank.
He just wants to constantly bite my arm.
(chuckles)
- [Cory] And so, can you get in there and clean with him
or does he attack you?
- No.
If you want a fish with attitude,
if you want a fish with personality,
Amphilophus are one thing,
but a Dovii, I mean, there's no comparison.
Actually 285 gallon.
It's a six foot long
and the depth of this tank is 30 inches,
and then it's 30 inches tall.
In here, as you can see, they're all over here because
they know me. (laughter)
This guy here, he's been with me the longest.
This is a, used to be, Vieja Zonatus or Paratheraps Zonatus.
- [Cory] Uh-huh.
- [Shawn] And again, those have been reclassified
as Paraneetroplus.
The black ones, here, I have three of these.
These are a Paraneetroplus Heterospilus.
The little dude is a Chancho, Amphilophus Chancho.
These guys are absolutely just beautiful.
They're in the family of the KAH-KEE-SHA,
I hope I pronounced that correctly,
and this is a cross eye.
They're in the same family as the Umbee
and the myersi.
- [Cory] He's being aggressive there.
Are they just aggressive as an Umbee or?
- [Shawn] I do not find them nearly as aggressive
as an Umbee, honestly.
They can be kept in a, he's getting aggresive now
because he think's I'm gonna feed him.
- [Cory] Sure.
- [Shawn] These guys are the Herichthys bocourti.
I've got a pair of those.
And then this is my female of my Peruvian festae pair
that produced all my fry.
A few months back I had a big flood.
I had to move a lot of fish out of the inside of the house
'cause we had to completely gut it.
Tanks became too full.
I mean, I had some casualties.
I just didn't know what else to do.
I didn't have anywhere to put them.
So I ended up losing my male.
But that's her, so I'm actually growing out a male
to breed with her.
So hopefully I can have some beautiful fry here again soon.
And in here somewhere is another one of the
Red-finned Loaches.
- [Cory] Okay.
- [Shawn] And a beautiful eight-inch
Vampire Fleco.
- [Cory] Yeah, I saw him, he was hiding out
over in this wood here but way in the back.
- [Shawn] Yeah, he only comes out when it's feeding
time as well.
That's about it, and again it's another community tank.
And you don't see any gray fins.
The big guy here is quite peaceful.
He's happy as a clam as long as he's in charge.
He's the big one on the tank, the big guy on the block.
This is his tank.
He's first in the pecking order.
Second in the pecking order would be the female festae
and then so on and so forth.
And again with this community tank
they'll work out that.
If they've learned to co-exist with each other
they'll work out that pecking order amongst themselves.
- [Cory] Makes sense.
- [Shawn] It's eight foot long by four foot wide
and only 16 and a half inches tall.
Inside it we have a huge hodgepodge of species.
Several bitchers.
We've got Clown Loaches.
The Red-finned, I forget their Latin name
but they're the Red-finned Botias.
See the loaches?
- [Cory] Yup.
- [Shawn] There is four of the Burmese
Border Loaches as well.
- [Cory] All right.
- [Shawn] We've got some Red Head Tapajos,
Orange Head.
- [Cory] They're eaters, yup.
- [Shawn] Some Winemilleri geophagus.
I got an M. altifron.
- [Cory] They're hanging out and they're looking at me.
- [Shawn] Lift the top off a bit.
- [Cory] Oh yeah.
- [Shawn] A couple of Islantums.
Got a breeding pair of Blue Jean Jack Dempseys.
And that's just it.
I mean, there are a lot of fish in here,
and until they all come over to this side and eat
you really don't see 'em because it's so huge.
- [Cory] They're filtering over slowly but surely.
They know food time.
Oh there we go, there's one of the Flecos.
He's starting to make his over through the drift wood.
You can see him coming through.
Kind of just keep walking all the way around,
get you the side shot here.
This is most people's normal aquarium.
This is the side of it.
You can see more fish hanging out
in every nook and cranny.
This guy didn't come and visit us
but now he's hiding from the camera.
That's what fish love to do to me.
We can see more coming through the wood works here.
And we come across the other side.
We can see more fish.
There's a Jack hanging out there.
He didn't wanna come out and show himself off.
So, yeah, this is a fun 400-gallon tank, that's for sure.
- Two by 30 inches tall?
No, it's 30 tall, it's 300 long.
It is a Keurig as well.
And in here we have some Bitchers as well.
These are four Delhisi Bitchers,
and kind of a hodgepodge as most of my tanks.
Unless I'm specifically trying to breed a certain pair
they come into a community tank.
We've got a female Red Tiger Motaguenses.
- [Cory] Okay.
- This is a Chancho, Amphilophus chancho.
Wild caught Bard Midas.
This is my Amphilophus Red Isletas, sp Red Isletas.
He's one of my favorite.
- [Cory] He's a beast.
- She's one of my F1 fry
from my Red Devil collection.
My true labiatus.
And then these, hey I heard that.
The male and the female are from my Festae pair,
my Peruvian Festae pair.
We've got a female bromo that's had an infection
a few months back and it deformed her face,
but she's clean now.
She's just left with the ugly face because of it.
What I love, and you don't see 'em out there very much,
is this is just your typical Paraneetroplus
but it used to be Paratheraps fenestratus.
And that pink thing is actually a Piebald fenestratus.
And it's just a color morph.
And I actually had a male and a female
and I bred them and so I have several
on my fry rack and I have one of these
in each one of the tanks as well.
And then we've got a Vieja which again is
Paraneetroplus regani or regani.
This is an eight foot by two foot by 30 inch.
It's 300 gallons, so it's a 300 long.
This is my True Labiatus collection,
and that is Labiatus is Red Devil, Amphilophus labiatus.
These have gotten collected over the years.
This latest group, these three orange ones here,
and then there's a Bard Blue one in here
that's actually spawning at the moment
laying eggs with my original male.
All four of those came from Jeff Raps last year
and in fact it might have been longer.
Time flies when you're in this hobby.
But the big large male, you can see his tail
in the reflection here.
I've had him about six years.
He was my original male that I got six years ago.
This is just another different collection point,
and that's the reason why she doesn't
have the lips like the ones from Lake Nicaragua.
- [Cory] Yup, yup much more--
- [Shawn] And then this one, same with the one
behind her, that's another wild caught,
and he as well is from Lake Nicaragua.
His lips are about as large as his but
you just can't tell as well because he's so dang tiny.
- [Cory] Sure.
- [Shawn] But like I said when we're at the other tank
my biggest reason is I wanna get out there
true Labiatas.
Usually when I do that the big guy--
- [Cory] Yeah, he's not happy about that.
- [Shawn] He gets in the way and he won't let you
look at anything.
- [Cory] They know if someone's watching them.
We'll back up.
He's running the interference pretty good.
For keeping fish in an eight-foot tank,
a lot of people might be trying to keep,
at least I found a lot of people will try
to keep these species in 55 gallons, 75,
and the attitudes I don't think work well on that
situation a lot of times.
- [Shawn] You can't do that regardless.
A Red Devil pair you cannot put in a four foot tank,
whether it'd be a 55 or 75 gallon.
She needs to have room to get away.
And I think one of the reasons why it works here
is because why I'm not getting a correction
between the males and females
is because there are other fish in here
to take that--
- [Cory] Yeah, working as a stopper maybe.
- [Shawn] That's one of the reasons why this F1
which is the one in the back is in here
because he was in here originally at
little three-inch fish, used to be a didder,
and there were three of them.
And unfortunately I used an F1 Red Devil as my didder,
but he survived.
And since he survived he's gonna stay
and I love his colors.
I wish his orange was a little brighter orange,
but the black in that is absolutely amazing.
So I'm kinda hoping this little guy over here
stays the same but give me a little more orange as well.
And as you see it's being run.
Yes, I do have an AC110 on the house side
but that's just sitting here staying,
keeping the beneficial bacteria in there
so that I can put it on the pond
when I move the Dovii and when I do a big swap
of this tank.
But mainly it's being run via two air sponges.
In here I've got three of my F1 Labiatus,
two females and a male.
I've also got a breeding pair of quetzalcoatlus.
And that is sp quetzalcoatlus.
A lot of people say it's the same fish as a zonatas
but they have not been lumped together
as the same classification yet,
so it's its own right now.
I've got my female Hogaboomorum in here as well.
She's just in here because the male
was not being nice to her,
so she's over here playing around.
The Quetzalcoatlus, I call 'em Quetzas for short,
they were in another tank
and I moved them in here just to finally get them
to start spawning again.
So I'll be doing some more changes,
I'll be moving, the Red Devils will be coming out
same with the Hoga so that this tank alone
will be theirs and I can get some Quetzalcoatlus fry.
- [Cory] Hey guys, thanks for watching.
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