Hey everyone, Cory from Aquarium Co-Op, today we're unboxing plecos.
$2000 worth of plecos, very small box but super cool so stay tuned.
They're really hot, this is over nighted too, these must be 40 hour heat packs or something.
What they do is they put this like this to help prevent any actual bags from touching
the heat packs.
Four heat packs, that's good, and then lots of peanuts so they don't move.
And then ... Oh Geez, oh my God they're all in the same bag?
This vendor always ... Oh, there's more heat packs.
I got a lot of heat packs I guess, I don't know how many they used but apparently ... Normally,
when I order from this vendor they would all come individually bagged so this is changing
my plans.
The plan was 10 in store, 10 at home.
I can get to these things, they're quadruple bagged but I guess there's a lot of money
in here so why not.
I know, we'll get to it, it'll happen, I swear.
They made a giant mess with peanuts all over the floor.
There they are, whoa look how big that one is.
These are all leopard frog plecos, this is like the score of the century.
Of course the bag shows them off terrible but I can't believe how big they are.
Oh, oh, that's not good.
There's already one down, better get these out asap, what happened to that thing?
How many didn't make it?
Now I got pinched in a full visor, is he alive?
I think he's alive.
All right, I'm going to get these into a bucket and we can take a better look at them and
hopefully ... Yeah, I think that one's just pinched in the corner so grabbing a bucket
and we're going to see what we got.
Oh, they're so stuck.
There's another one too.
They're getting caught in all the folds, not good.
Come on, come on.
Yeah, you can kind of see him right here.
One more I think, come on little guy.
All right, now we can count.
We can count and take a look at them, why not.
So it looks like they're all alive I think and they are beautiful in my opinion.
This is ... I like this fish way more than zebra plecos so I'm super happy to get them,
honestly.
Hey, get some of this.
This is all poly fiber, this can absorb ammonia and phosphate nitrate, nitrate, and if you're
better than I am you know that whatever color this is right now is what it absorbed during
transit, there's a little chart.
Sometimes it'll turn a color you don't know what it is and it's absorbed something you
don't know.
Let's get more of this out.
Water's cold but not too cold.
It's probably 70 degrees, which these guys like to be warmer.
Get all these pieces out.
Some of those are monsters though, you almost never get them this size.
That one's amazing.
Usually you see them this little size right here, but the coloration is really nice on
them and these are all locally bred in my State, which is awesome.
They should do absolutely really well for our water.
I'm going to start separating them out, 10 stay at the store to sell, 10 are going home
with me because I don't want to breed them.
You guys have heard me on the channel for a long time talk about that.
It's ... Last time I think you guys watched me unbox leopard frog plecos, I ordered 25,
only got four and that's not to have anything to do with the colony so now I've got 10 I
want to take home, sell 10.
Honestly, these look so nice I'm going to email the gentleman today and go, "Hey, do
you have more?"
In the past usually he always like, "Nope, that's it.
Everyone bought them."
Because he sells really nice stuff but hopefully he's got more.
Even though it's ... On one hand you're going, "All right, you're already thousands of dollars
in on these plecos, if they don't sell you're going to have a cash flow issue.
If they do sell, great."
But the problem is these are so expensive, you can't mark them up that much and so it
makes a lot of people happy.
We have a bunch of people on the call list for leopard frog plecos and hopefully they'll
sell quick.
Setting the camera down, going to separate out the two buckets, find a tank, and then
we'll go back to my house and I'll show you ... I've got to set up a tank for them there
still too so we'll see.
Here's a nice mix that will stay in the store here.
Lots of different sizes and ... I didn't spend anytime trying to sex them or anything like
that but they look good.
I think they're going to sell quick.
This is the group that I'm going to take home, the other 10, at random as well.
So we'll see how they go, small, large, and I'm already stoked.
Got to get moving because I want to get them home, stress them out the least amount as
possible.
All right, I'm in the warehouse real quick, right before I head home, had to offload a
pallet from a semi because we don't own a pallet jack because we're not big enough to
own pallet jacks but had to bring in tons of boxes.
So we're just ... I don't know, we got to figure out what we're going to do, we need
a bigger warehouse or something because this is the look and this was clean two days ago.
This is how much stuff has been coming in, this is all packing paper and then you can
see here, this is a pallet full of boxes that we use to ship out and then we've already
got all those boxes that we use to ship.
We're kind of running into problems, problems, problems, running out of space.
We technically have some space to walk around right now, we got a little bit we can cram
in some places but there's not much more vertical we can go.
We got a little bit of room back here.
But now that we got to buy these a pallet at a time, like these sponge filters right
there.
Anyway, hopping in the car, getting plecos home, setting up a new home.
Bringing packages over for the UPS to be picking up, that's another semi coming around the
corner to make a delivery to us of dry goods so I've got to set the camera down, got to
help unload and then I can take these plecos away.
Yeah, let me open the door here and get ready.
These are all the other packages that we've shipped so far today.
Got a few more hours to ship.
All right, see you guys in a bit.
All right, I'm finally home, got the plecos and here's what I decided.
I don't really have ... I've got some open tanks up top and I'm afraid to put them in
a 40 breeder up top and I've got some open 20s but I feel like that's too small for 10
of these guys.
I want a 40 and I could move fish around but I think I'm just going to put them in this
tank and put some caves in.
I've had these fish in my possession for almost two years, I'm confident that these guys are
healthy and not sick, and I've got a back up colony so if the leopard frog plecos, which
I don't believe to be sick because it's a breeder I know, were to kill everything I'd
still be okay.
I'm going to put them in here and I hope these are going to work as diddlers to bring them
out because you almost never get to see the leopard frog plecos and I do want to be able
to see them.
Yeah, I'm going to start working on that right now and hopefully get them in.
I put in some coconut huts and you can see at least one ... Two of the plecos, there's
one in the cave as well.
We're just going to let them mellow out.
I put in a heater in this tank, this tank was 78 degrees but I want it around more like
82, 84, somewhere in that range.
The guppies will be able to handle it, they're going to grow faster and - Oh, there's another
one back there.
You can see a couple more of them.
I'm super excited to breed these guys.
Longterm, I'm probably 18 months, two years, from being able to breed them, sex them.
It's definitely, I'm not waiting for it until tomorrow but it's a longterm project.
Got to keep them stable and steady, feed them well, then hopefully make some babies because
I would really love to raise some of those up because I think, to me they're the best
looking pleco.
I like zebra plecos, I just like these more and that's why I've never brought home zebra
plecos, because I knew I was waiting for these guys.
I'm tempted to see if I can get some more from this guy and maybe upgrade the colony
size even.
Why?
Because I just like them and maybe upgrade to a 75 gallon.
I've got that 75 with the African cichlids, down right over there and I could use that,
that might be kind of cool.
Who knows, I got a lot of turtles I got to deal with, which I guess I can show you that
guy real quick.
Here's the incubator I set up, we got the heater, we got the air stone going, it's nice
and humid in there and then you can see all of the eggs I've got.
I've got 10.
The ones on the far side are from the first batch, these six are from the latest batch
and then I left one with the parents to see how that went.
It's kind of loud over here.
I've got water changes going on with the turtles, this happens every day.
I've got the hypo-bungle bee rendered slider and we've also got the diamondback terrapin
up here, I know horrible glares from the lights.
Anyway, hopefully you enjoyed that.
I'm kind of pumped because I've been wanting to get these fish for a long time.
The long story is I sold my group that I had when I first opened the store because I was
afraid that I wouldn't have time to take care of them.
I remember selling them for 40 bucks a piece, they were already like that big, they were
beautiful and great and now they're 100 bucks a piece and I bought them at half the size.
It kind of teaches me one of those lessons, when you really love something don't get rid
of it.
You'll make the time and I've been kicking myself because now it's been five years since
I had them and I'm going, "Oh, I got to get more."
And I could never really get a big group going, it could only be two or three here and there,
last time was four.
This time it's 20 so that's why I kept 10, really I want to keep all 20 but I can't afford
to do that.
Hopefully you found this enjoyable.
Ew, I can sneak another little peak from the side, I put some caves in the side here as
well here so that way when they think they're hiding we can kind of look at them.
There's another one.
I'm stoked, this is the tank that I'll get to see the most often, I put them here for
a reason.
This is my front door right here, you can see I have shipping boxes, so no matter what,
even if I walk to the office, I'll be seeing what's going on in this tank and I can always
keep an eye on them, just see what they're doing and feed them well and treat them like
the best looking pleco they are.
At least I think so.
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