I'm Irene with girl talks fish, here to celebrate 100, 000 subscribers with you guys thank you so
much when i pinged you on the community post asking how we should celebrate
a good portion of you said i should buy a mermaid costume to celebrate well a lot of you asked for
a traditional Q&A video so we're gonna do both Mr. Gamer actually purchased a mermaid costume
for me that is family friendly but he is not here right now so you gotta wait till the end of the
video um me and the kids are gonna run a bunch of errands i'm gonna answer all the questions first
and at the very end i will open up the silver play button wearing the costume now if you're just here
for that go ahead and skip to the end but if you are a true hardcore fan i highly recommend
you listen to all the questions first get to know me a little better and don't sneak a peek
so LK wants to know what would be some nano fish that i'm not interested in keeping and
that would be i would say annual killifish that are small any brackish native fish as
well as probably any nano fish i've already kept before such as celestial pearl danios green neon
tetras that kind of thing i'm always looking out for something new that i haven't tried before
another question from LK is would i ever do another aquarium with fake decorations and no
live aquarium plants and the answer is yes if it was easier for me to clean the tank or the fish
just are the type that like to beat up on them i absolutely would it's easier in a lot of ways
just because i can just keep off the aquarium lights and not have to deal with algae at all
but i would definitely probably like add something like pothos or something
just so i can get some of the benefits of the biological filtration from them
and final question from LK is would my next betta fish have long fins or be a plakat and
definitely applicant i am tired of dealing with tail biting Raul wants to know about my most and
least favorite aquarium plants and i would say most favorite would be dwarf aquarium lilies
because they have that rare red color and they can really grow leaves at all different levels
becoming that centerpiece plant for your aquarium versus the least favorite would be marimo moss
balls because at least in my aquarium even though i was constantly rolling it, they just kept giving
these algae-like cladophora strands off of it so i really didn't like that Chloe wants to know what
are the easiest fish and my favorite fish that I've ever kept and i would say easiest is probably
still betta fish they don't really need a lot and i feel like you get a lot of bang for your buck
my current favorite type of fish would be my dwarf red platies they just... that red color is so
brilliant against a green planted tank i love how i guess they're peaceful but they're still very
spirited and of course they make lots and lots of babies which is always really exciting to see
Be H says you have a really great screen presence oh thank you uh wants to know if i did well in my
communications classes in college i actually only took engineering related classes in college and
stuff supporting that so but my parents did sign me up for toastmasters back when i was
in high school so that helped me with my public speaking Katya had a similar question which was
did i have an experience making videos before YouTube like was i in theater or anything
and the answer is no actually i was in marching band instead of drama and i actually just you know
one Christmas i decided to ask my husband to get me video editing software because i thought it'd
be a cool hobby to pick up and started posting videos on YouTube and that was that Jinx wants to
know if I've ever been recognized in public before and i would say only like maybe if it's a local
fish store or my local fish club then people come up and say hi to me or maybe ask to take a selfie
Prajeet actually had the opposite question which is have i myself had ever been starstruck before
and absolutely my first Aquashella i ever went to i got to meet Cory and Jimmy from Aquarium Co-op
for the first time and i was totally awkward I'm like not even sure why they decided to hire me
afterwards because yeah i probably didn't give off the best first impression so i was like and
then Jason must be a long time viewer because he asked me if i ever miss wearing my sunglasses
and yes back when my channel was called A Gamer's Wife,
I used to wear sunglasses kind of more of a privacy kind of thing but nowadays i hate
wearing eye makeup i actually have contacts on and so my eyes kind of get irritated from it all
right let's talk about our next category the fish keeping hobby. Conconrocks wants to know how in
the world i can stay so patient when you have to wait for so many things in this hobby things like
you know cycling your aquarium or aquarium plants that kind of thing and i would say
this is probably not relatable to most of you but it was like being pregnant the first time
versus the second time like the first time around everything's so new and you're recording like what
size fruit your baby is and the pregnancy seems to last forever while you're waiting for your
first child versus the second time around you're like i already know what's gonna happen you know
i didn't keep track of any fruits at all and i was busy chasing a toddler as well so
time seemed to pass a lot faster and i feel like that's the same way with aquariums my
first aquarium everything took so long versus a few aquariums afterwards i was like you know what
it's worth waiting for quarantine for sure lots of mistakes can be uh vetted out if you are patient
SN wants to know are there ever times in the fish keeping hobby where i just want to quit
and i would say absolutely yes in fact recently i went through an eight-week YouTube course and then
there was construction on my house and then now I'm helping to lead a Bible study and so whenever
things in my life get really really busy i tend to not think about my fish as much and i don't
take the time to enjoy my aquariums I'm just like feed them clean if absolutely necessary
but just kind of low maintenance until i have the time for the hobby to pick up again for me
SweetFlyBoy wants to know how many close friends or family members have i gotten in the hobby
and I'm ashamed to say not many like my best friend I'm about to help her set up her first
betta tank the real way and then my mom i actually got her interested in floating plants she saw my
i think it was the red root floaters video and got really really interested in them she's always been
into like orchids and African violets and growing plants so she didn't want any fish but i kind of
led her through the way of how to keep floating plants and she was very successful in them she's
like what do you do with everything when you outgrow the bowls Jake's Aquatic World
wants to know what was my proudest moment in the hobby and i would say hands down when i finally
balanced that 20 gallon Back-to-Basics planted tank that was the best feeling ever and i hope
you guys are one day successful in that as well and then Genoveva wants to know what is my dream
tank that i have yet to build and i would say definitely something larger i would love to i
know this channel is all about nano fish but i would love to someday keep something like
severums or fancy goldfish or a dojo loch or maybe even clown loaches but that would have to be
huge and I'm not sure where we would put that so one can dream and then we get to the miscellaneous
category so Gab has obviously listened to my interview on the Aquarist Podcast thank you Gab
and they wanted to know what kind of pet would i not keep despite it being legal uh i don't
think I'm a parrot kind of person they just live way too long very high maintenance insects you
know i grew up in Houston and I've been around creepy crawlies a lot i just don't like them
so i probably wouldn't keep those either really anything that's exotic, hard to find a vet for,
hard to take care of, takes a lot of time... I'm probably not interested in
Jayyson remembers that i was in a book club and wants to know what my favorite book
genres are as well as my all-time favorite book and that's really hard to pick because
i don't know i just gone through lots of phases of genres all throughout my life like i used to like
biographies, horror, um crime heists, and now I'm in a sci-fi fantasy kind of phase and i would say
no all-time favorite book but out of all the books my book club has read in the past year
probably my favorites were The Nightingale and Elantris by Brandon Sanderson so check them out
SN had a similar question which is one of my all-time favorite movie and again my tastes are
constantly changing but probably some movies that I've watched over and over again include
Spirited Away, Inception, and Thor Ragnarok that one makes me laugh a lot Argenis asked
me are you a believer and yes i am um probably the shortest version of that story is when i was six
i was suffering from a lot of night terrors and it was kind of the first time i ever realized
like wow there are things in this world that my parents cannot control or help me with and so i
asked Jesus to save me and they went away simple as that and finally we have our last question from
Zafra who wants to know how would i be different if i hadn't joined the hobby and i would say you
know realistically i probably would have picked up a different hobby just because I'm one of those
people who constantly likes to pick up new things learn new things you know try different kinds of
stuff but maybe the flip side of that question is how has the fish keeping hobby changed me and i
would definitely say I've gained lots and lots of patience I've learned how to research things but
also test them for myself especially you know if there's a lot of controversy around it and
then I've learned not to talk to my friends about fish ever so you know basic life skills like that
Hi here's what you've all been waiting for: the mermaid costume! Thanks to Mr. Gamer for
picking out this wonderful mask for me, and yes I do have the YouTube play button so let's go
ahead and open that um and I can only see out of the mouth so hopefully I won't cut myself
ooo
oh-oh-oh okay okay
here we go
[laughter]
there is a long letter which i am not going to read basically says
"congratulations on the milestone"
thank you Susan the CEO of YouTube she's congratulating on hard work the YouTube journey
amazing milestone but what we really care about is this hunk of metal or whatever it's made out of
tada!
oh my goodness that's so shiny oh it's probably showing like the rest of my house hah
wow this is so cool it says can barely read it presented to Girl Talks Fish for passing a hundred
k subscribers ah i can't believe i finally got to open it thank you
so much everyone whether you've been with me since the beginning when i was A Gamer's Wife
all the way to as recent as last week love having all of you in the Girl Talks
Fish family and i hope i continue to make many many cool videos for you guys in the future so
take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see you in the next video
Mr. Gamer: okay you ready? Irene: okay
omnomnomnom [laughter]
Mr. Gamer: ow Irene: ah no more hehehehe
ah [laughter]
Mr.Gamer: you've got that mascot thing going
you're laughing hysterically and all i can see is a fish going like this
[laughter]