so today we're going to a new local fish store technically not new we've been there before
i just don't film every local fish store because not all people want to be on camera but recently
i've spoken to and i've gone to a few of my other local fish stores and i've asked look you
guys know i'm a customer i come here and i shop but i never really film here because i've never
gotten permission and getting permission to film somebody in my opinion is incredibly important
so today we're going to a fish store it's kevin's gotcha store you guys will remember kevin
my obese stars and stripes puffer fish this is a saltwater fish and right now he's currently
in a 180 gallon aquarium all by himself remember when we got kevin we added him to a reef aquarium
he did fine uh although eventually he started eating uh some of my zoa's and stuff but never
touched the anemones in fact he lived with an enemies for like a year then one day
he turned on those anemones ate them all 30 of them i think it was yeah thanks a lot bro so i
take kevin and i put him in 180 gallon tank and i put all of his tank mates in there with them we're
talking two years of everybody getting along that one day kevin starts being a bully which isn't
fair the relationship between kevin and i can be considered as uh complicated to say the least oh
and the fish that were with him uh the fish though that we're going to that's who has them let's go
all right so we made it uh the store is called living reef aquariums this is where we got kevin
a couple years ago oh before we go in i just want to make something incredibly clear i was here last
week and i got permission to come back and film but while i was here i already knew what i wanted
so what i'm going to do is i'm going to give you guys a tour but i'm not going to pretend like
these are impulse buys i've been planning this um but i'm going to give you a quick tour maybe we'll
meet the owner and for that sort of thing but then we'll take a look at what i'm actually here to get
so we just came in the front entrance and originally the entrance was over on this side
but now we have an entire saltwater section which is originally what this was going to be
and they just knocked this wall out and introduced a whole freshwater section to
it i'll give you guys a tour here let's meet the owner first he doesn't want to be on camera guys
that's the thing with me trying to film stories and stuff is not everybody wants to be on camera
but if i can pressure them especially once the camera's rolling it's hard for them to say
no you just kind of did it so we're at 622 sackville drive in lower sackville
lower sacramento nova scotia uh we've been here for about two years now on the saltwater side
uh the freshwater side we opened up about about a year now i would say um and uh lately we've been
slowly converting some of our fresh water tanks back to saltwater as well so i'm here for the
salt all right we'll just kind of take a look at everything give you a quick overview first
he's laughing at something another one there i believe there's four in here
these guys love to get out of the tank look at this guy
this is a panther grouper get up to like two feet
absolutely beautiful fish gorgeous although they lose a lot of that crisp spotting as
they get older the spots get a little bit smaller but you never really know
remember when we had one gave it to a dentist check this out seahorses a trio okay so have you
guys been able to guess what i'm here for what i'm going to get so far i've already shown you them
if you guessed the panther grouper you're definitely right i think that he would go
fantastic with kevin and goes along with that black and white theme with those uh with that
tank as well as being a predator obviously those guys get big so we'll have to address that
uh in in probably two years or so and then the other guys that we're here for are the seahorses
now here's what i'd like to do i'd like to get a bit of this uh kelp and algae and
whatnot attach it to rocks at home and give them a place to uh of refuge use this as an
opportunity to learn more about them as from a hobbyist standpoint just see where we go with it
i think it would be absolutely amazing maybe you can get some of this stuff
oh this is cool so apparently they've got a reading pair of band guys in here these are
bangai cardinals see the black white striped ones here's a better look but apparently they
need to have these spine engines to lay the eggs in or the fry to find refuge in
so hopefully they breed for them that'd be amazing
i don't know if you could hear anything in that video i had to use a different microphone i was
trying to be quiet i didn't want to disturb the customers maybe the customers have no clue who i
am or never seen somebody running around with a camera in there before but a basic introduction
we're definitely going to be working that store uh into the rotation of stores we visit and
maybe we'll do all the stores in one day at some point i do have one more store or two more stores
something like that that we're gonna do here in the near future um and i've been visiting them
for the past couple of weeks making sure that it's okay to film but i've also kind of already picked
out what i want from them a lot of things are not for sale but everything's for sale what did i get
i think i said it in the store but what i actually took home versus what i said i got is not the same
amount what i said i was going to get is not nearly as much as what i did get anyways i got
to set these guys up i got to do some acclimation i got to get everything up and going i'll see you
guys in the next video forgive me for not putting everything in one video i just i don't remember
what i said at the fish i don't remember anything i'm too old for this but i'm not too old for fish