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vacation was awesome we had great
weather new york city we went down to
the jersey shore
we went to atlantic city not gamble
what else did we do had coffee
absolutely fish
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uh-huh
here we are guys
absolutely fish
this place
is beyond
all right this is the best retail place
that i've ever been to hey guys how's it
going
just coming back here
and i'm gonna show you what they have
back here from the back
to the front
okay this is uh
sand all that stuff
okay so
take a look these are rows here see they
have fish on both sides
this is what i'm getting today right
here they said they had some fox face i
don't know if this is the size this is
probably what i'm getting right here
can't deal with my algae anymore guys
so let's just take a look down here
check out all these fish they have in
here
it's awesome
look at this guy
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this is another
and they keep their systems perfect in
here
there's no ick
no nothing in here
this guy sweet lips i remember them
i had one of them once
tom i'm here for the fox face what's
your name bud i'm brad brad i am is
patrick around today um yeah the owner
yeah yeah
you don't you don't have to get them
right now in the back are those your 79
dollar ones the two and a half inchers
yeah okay great
colored angel right there
that's an awesome fish in here
look at this little trigger
oh
what else we got here oh look at that
tiny little tang that looks like a biota
tang
because it's so little and it's light
colored here's all the frags i got tons
of frags in here
right my only concern is this is going
in a 75 with a
group of established
fish a yellow tang what are these going
for
120 okay i was looking at them before
they look really nice yeah
hmm but i'm looking at
nice big guys yeah yeah i like this i'm
just concerned about how long i've been
here yeah
these guys just ate
and they all ate ravenous
so that's incredible right yeah
unlike my other videos when i get fish
overnighted i usually acclimate by just
putting them right in i float the bag
and put them right in but because this
was a local retailer and it only came
about a half hour away there isn't an
issue with ammonia build up so what i'll
do then is
i'll acclimate by floating the bag for
about 20 minutes to get the temperature
right
and then i will do a drip acclimation
for about 45 minutes
it's tough guys with adding new fish
considerations
are a lot of luck
and you need a strong incoming fish that
will be able to deal with the stress
from the other inhabitants depending on
which one is going to torture them for
the first few days sometimes more all
right after the acclimation process guys
you can't see it here
but the yellow tang
really gave it to the
fox face it did not like it in the tank
at all
right now it's looking really good
because it's keeping its distance
but for the first hour to
the fox face had to hide up in the gsp
if the fish can't handle stress the
first few days to a week chances are
he's not going to make it there's not a
real lot you can do in these situations
you know the fish is in a reef tank you
know sometimes retailers will tell you
to move the rocks around you can't do
that in a reef tank
so what you have to hope for
is that this is only temporary and when
i noticed over the few days it began to
get less and less i also noticed that
the behavior
of the yellow tang was kind of like all
bark and no bite and as soon as the fox
face realized this he was able to
be out in the tank a little bit more
still hiding still swimming away from
the tang if he got aggressive but it
didn't seem to affect him as much as the
first day
regardless of what you read about the
fish and what fish get along with other
fish it doesn't always happen the way it
is in textbooks there's just a dynamic
that goes on in the community of fish
if there's one dominant fish in there
who's got control of the whole community
and a new one comes in
it's going to get abused as far as the
other fish in the tank it's as if
nothing happened nothing changed the
only problem i had was with the yellow
tang
so it's been four days
the fox faces color is really coming out
he still hides a lot from the yellow
tang he's eating some of the nori
he's eating a little bit of the food
that i feed now so i think i'm out of
the darkness so to speak and i think
he's going to make it