what's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com dustinsfishtanks bringing
it to you from inside for 320 gallon aquarium that I'm dying to set up hope
everybody is doing well today I want to get a little soapbox with you I want to
talk today about two of the most important groups of people in this
aquarium hobby and something that I am scared to death about with the both of
them my call at this video a while back on the passing of dr. Herbert Axelrod or
Herbert Harada as he has been known by some and whether you love him or hate
him you cannot discount the massive impact that Herbert Axelrod had on this
great aquarium hobby and particularly yours truly you recall it is dr. Herbert
Axelrod who is the founder of the tropical fish hobbyist magazine one of
the hobbies magazines it got me deep into the hobby and while magazines have
certainly lost their lack luster in today's day and age in the digital world
I do believe we do have to pay some respect to all those people who have
come before us and paid the way in this great hobby perhaps it's because I was a
history major in love history or the fact that I've been actually to the
jungles of Peru and collected fish of my very own with my own two bare hands
including a couple the fish you see in this 220 here both in the hot Sun and in
the rain but I have a better appreciation for the people that came
before us let's keep in mind folks those fish you bind the pests are weren't
always available in captivity at some point somebody went into the wild and
grabbed them and ship them back ask me about the time I shipped back six and
the nine angels only to have two of them left
fast-forward to 2017 we live in a digital age we're happy you're watching
this on a handheld device dusties in the box and can get any information you want
six different ways from Sunday in six seconds and while this is beautiful my
concern and I believe the concern that many people in this industry is that
because of this we are losing a significant portion of the younger
generation coming into this house why would you want to take the time in the
minimal amount of effort to make something beautiful with your own two
hands when you could pull it up on a screen and in five seconds get whatever
you want people are forgetting the quote from the late great takashi amano
creating nature is the ultimate luxury enter one of my favorite people
in the hobby meat Kourosh kourosh is me 22 years ago I first met karashi at Reba
Palooza this past summer with him and his saint of a mother drove all the way
from near Dayton Ohio to come check out what I was doing at the repo Palooza
rewind about last week or so I see them on Friday at the aquatic experience
again and my man kourosh is competing in the kids aquascaping contest kourosh is
everything pure to me in this hobby he's not in the biz he doesn't have a YouTube
channel with an O so catchy here to my sleep makes me want to shoot myself
what's up fishtank people know karashi is all about one thing he's not trying
to get chicks he's not trying to drive he's trying to buy some fish and set up
a fish tank we need more crashes in this house did a live stream I was in a good
mode some people who are actually able to catch it it's now been deleted said
it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen me do so thank you for that
I'd love to kiss all your little fish tank faces the premise of it was this I
was sitting right here and I was going through the questions reading them off
you know everybody's a little named or whatever and I'm reading them off and
somebody says is that real is that a set is that fake and I proceeded to channel
my inner Bill burr and go on a rant how in fact everything is fake this is fake
this plan is fake this whole basement is fake those plants over there are all
fake I'm not even really dusting everything around me is fake this is
just a fake video doesn't exist that video I made about my hair is getting
disappear of just a fake video they're actually out of my garage being store
because I tricked you all and I went on and on and on in this wonderful rant
about how everything is actually fake it's not fake it's real but I didn't
realize that the kourosh is of the world might actually be watching this and not
get the joke and be completely honest with you folks making that video was one
of the most cathartic things I've ever done I actually felt fantastic after
letting that video fly because I thought it was funny too but what your boy deed
for God is I forgot that the young crashes were watching not so much
actually my man crash but people like him young kids like him look I
got two daughters my goal is to make sure they don't get pregnant around the
stripper pole and I raised him right I probably wouldn't have done that rant in
front of them so I forgot my obligation and my responsibility to the kids in
this hobby the story doesn't stop here folks you've got to go up a generation
you've got my generation you got the cool Rajah's what about the ninja fish
tank legends with forty to a hundred tanks in their basement what about the
guy who opened a retail shop and struggled and rode it out while the big
chain stores came in these my friends these guys and gals aren't getting any
younger have you ever spoken to someone who knew
so much they had you on the floor drooling it happened to me twice the
aquatic experience let me give you an example don't have to look far for this
one my man mr. Gary don't carry Lange now look I've got plenty of videos about
Gary stuff his advice to people getting into the Hobby about water changing
obviously he is a world-class premier rainbowfish keeper you can click the
links around and check out some of his fish room my point of bringing up gear
is this year he gets Gary doesn't need to let people into his house and
basement to check out his fish Gary doesn't need to go give talks at the
aquatic experience Gary is doing this because he isn't a joint cumulative
effort to help bring younger people into the hobby I'm gonna tell you something
that makes me kind of nervous last April I was out in st. Louis for
the library's convention and me in my 30s I was one of the youngest guys there
this scares the heck out of me we're we're all young kid so I want to leave
you with this question folks I love your advice how can we bridge the gap between
the old school Wiseman ninja sensei's a fishkeeping and the younger generation
how do we make sure that we have a new fresh crop of young people coming into
the hobby and continuing to take on drop me a comment your thoughts on this folks
I'd love to hear it I'd love to do more about it myself
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