This guy's hilarious look he sure wants out he wants in the tank
He just sensed it this guy's been trying to jump out of the bag the whole time
Okay, so in the last video you guys will recall me setting up the saltwater aquarium
Which is now up and running now of course we went over everything that it took to set up the tank including
Cycling it and if you remember
I was a little weary about the method that I had to go with see I chose to go with a
Bacteria in a bottle and I mentioned that I would be doing some ammonia testing with pure ammonia
Directly injecting it into the aquarium waters column. I should also mention that the timing behind these videos might seem a little bit odd
There's more time than what appears, but I time these videos out
So they would come out one after the other so there was no real weight in between so bear with me
So this bacteria is going to need a live food source and this bacteria needs ammonia
So directly injecting it will give them that food source
And if this bacteria is true and present
It will oxidize that ammonia down into nitrite and then into nitrate which I can remove through water changes
I'm happy to say that that is actually happening. See I doused the aquarium with enough ammonia to get a reading of
0.4. Milligrams a liter of
total ammonia within the aquarium
Then I'd wait anywheres between 6 and 12 hours test again and wait for a zero reading, and I was getting that downside
I don't know if it was the live
bacteria in the sand the bacteria that was on the rock that released was it the doctor Tim's and the bacteria in a bottle or
Was it the colony? I'm not sure and I guess at the end of the day
I don't care right now because I can add the fish however long-term and for you guys
It's probably a good idea for me to discover. Which one is actually working, or is it a combination?
I
Think that's an interesting video for the future though you see I needed to do this cycle rather quickly because the fish were on their
Way, I only have certain times and days that I could order fish
And then they come rather quickly today is the day the fish are here. Let's go get them
So I know they're in here somewhere I know that I'm excited hope you guys are as well
So you guys know that I wanted a lionfish and there it is we've got a black bulletin lionfish
He doesn't look too. Happy in the tank right now, but I seen other pictures of him and
Once we get him in the tank. He's gonna display quite nicely. Let's go find everybody else so keep in mind. We're doing predator aquarium
Or at least fish that are predator in nature
Look who it is so a snowflake eel, this guy is actually pretty good-sized
Don't be fooled by this rock there
he's actually quite long probably close to 8 inches 10 inches or something along those lines and of course being Canadian and this being a
snowflake
Perfect fit so you guys know that I also wanted to get a porcupine puffer
But at the time Jeff from my local fish store here in Dartmouth Nova Scotia one fish two fish
Simply wasn't able to source it believe it or not. I can't get any fish at any given moment you know it
I definitely tend to have to wait or join a list or just keep an eye out so in the meantime
he offered me another type of predator, and I guess you can go ahead and say that this is going to be a
Secret fish we can't look at it today. I need to introduce you guys to this fish separately
I'm going to set it to up its own video
fish simply has also some specific needs that I don't want to mix mash into this video because I want to show you how I'm
going to acclimate these fish to their new aquariums and
Hopefully it'll be worth it if you want to see that video in a couple days do not subscribe to this channel yet make sure
You do so you don't miss it
He wants out he wasn't the tag he just sensed it this guy's been trying to jump out of the bag the whole time I
love this guy and to be honest with you if
Everything else that I got for this tank simply doesn't work out
I really hope that
I'd be happy with just this guy being in it almost like another Frank tank and being a snowflake eel and being Canadian that haunts
Me I have to admit something about the whole bacteria in a bottle thing and cycling it with
existing bacteria that might be on the
Gravel and the rocks as well as adding it throughout. The bottles. Simply just isn't sitting with me right and
Adding fish to an aquarium right away after doing this I've never truly done it myself before
But I do think it's important to stay well-versed and to try different methods so that I can at least report back to you guys
however to make me have a
Sleep better at night. I'm gonna be doing 30 percent water changes on this aquarium every three days. Let's acclimate these fish
It's gonna be different than all the freshwater fish that I've shown you before
After he's temperature acclimated. I need to drip acclimate him and what that kind of means is
I'm going to not only put him in this aquarium to temperature
I'll meet him here
But then I'm gonna dump the whole bag in him and his contents out into this bucket then I'm gonna take an airline and slowly
siphon out water
Into the bucket until the bucket kind of fills up and this will slowly acclimate the fish
To the salinity that my aquarium actually currently is I'm gonna give them about
15-20 minutes in here and then we're gonna start doing the dress as for the lionfish you have to come in this bucket
Just because he'll puncture the bags may be
Downside to these guys though as they are venomous
They're not a poisonous fish
But rather venomous much like the freshwater stingray all of these burbs along the his dorsal spine here
Hold venom and it's extremely painful so catching him
There's a various methods that we'll talk about but I'll show you the way. I'm going to do it
I don't know why I always gotta buy venomous fish
but it's just a
It's just keeps happening okay, citizens guys floating directly in the water his aquariums temperature or his water temperatures already there
These guys are also
Escape artists as you can see he's not shy he will try to come out of the water
And this is a considered a large one when you're buying one
I think he's still kind of small they do get rather big though
I can't wait to see what he's going to look like we'll see him better in the aquarium, but look at his patterns
He's gonna be beautiful
Alright, so I went ahead and started acclimating the eel in the bucket here as you can see he's quite active
indicating that he's healthy and the
Acclimation period is not causing too much stress for him, but that said I do worry about him trying to jump out
These guys are you know escape artists to an extent they are not shy of coming out of that bag?
Or out of the water, so we'll have to see what happens here
There he goes. We're gonna do this for about 15 to 20 minutes and move on to the lionfish
Okay, I'm gonna say the eel has done the lionfish
Almost there
Let's go ahead and get this guy out Luiz here. We're looking pretty
Guys complement each other so well
I'm gonna get you into this net this net is too big for this thing. Yeah better fit
You need you to come out. Can you get in this net right quick?
It's my first time netting a snowflake you
Don't swim in oh
Wow, oh yeah, I forget these guys like the jump uh
So I guess we're just gonna have to move quick
Your phone name hold that rock and you want to go up to the overflow
Explorer have a good time
This is a wall
This is your entire tank though
You can you can go over here if you want
Saltwater fish are officially not as smart as freshwater fish, and this is concrete evidence
All right
Now the lionfish there's gonna be a couple of ways to net these guys one way is you can?
grab it by your hand and
Have the venom injected into your hand notice that I said you can do that. I'm going to use a net
Yours might want to see this. I got a friend coming to you
You're so active I wonder if he'll always be like that or once you get comfortable in the tank
you'll hide a lot or you will were active because you are comfortable in the tank I
Now own a water snake basically
You ever cool. Oh look you found your decorations. I'll never see you again, why?
And that was the last time we seen home all right lionfish
One big fella do these guys jump I
Hope they don't jump. I don't think they jump. I don't want to hurt him
They look like they have wings though. So maybe they can jump if I open the lid I didn't open whit
Let's open you tried to go in there aren't you not very smart only fish I ever had that wanted to be netted you ready
Okay, I think he I think he's nodding yes, okay go
And you go
Don't struggle just swim out naturally
Whoo
Look at you. Oh, you gorgeous little thing. I hope you stay out like this
He looks
Pretty big he's a decent size, but let me remind you
He's in a pretty decent sized aquarium, so he doesn't he's not that big
But he's gonna get huge
I'm so happy. I changed the scape this this suits these guys so much better. I love it. I hope you guys like it
One of his little horns is missing Wow nope those grow back filaments
Thank you so pretty too much flow in the tank my man. I can slow it down
I'll monitor him closely the eel doesn't matter. Oh. Yeah, well. We have one in here. I promise
He's in there somewhere
But the lionfish I'll monitor him closely for flow we'll see how that goes over time
Let's give him a couple hours in the tank see how that goes
This big he's poking his head and through and all these different crevices in the rocks
So it's all hollow throughout these structures here if you guys remember
They're more like circular rocks a hole in the middle and he's inside of it and every once in a while
If there is a polkas little head out
He's killing me oh yeah, I can watch you for hours, she just gave the tag to you
You're a disappointment
Get up here and swim
Entertain us I'm just kidding
You are pretty I hope you do okay. I think adding the fish to this aquarium
And acclimating them has been a success lionfish as you can see is out about that snowflake
Eel is still kind of in the rocks poking his head
How periodically which is I don't know why it's so funny to me
I apologize if I'm annoying anybody with that, but it's just so it's so funny
But anyways I hope that you guys enjoyed this video so far
I do know that a lot of you guys want to know what that secret fish is and that's gonna be out in two days
in the meantime I'll post some updates about these two to Instagram and Facebook's if you're not following me their links are in the
description below, and if you join me back in two days, I'll
Have the entire video out on what that secret fish is?
There's this tiny little squiggly line attached to it. I want to make sure that both have that
So there's one
Oh he does, too
Wow isn't that
I've never experienced anything like this. I know I'm entirely excited. Here's what we're going to do