Hi I'm Irene with girl talks fish and i work for aquarium co-op and so a lot of people ask
me like oh what is it like to work with Cory and Jimmy and what's Robert like and in reality
i am a remote worker in Colorado so i have actually met very very few of my co-workers
but i found out that Cory and Zenzo were going to Aquashella - Orlando and so i thought hmm that
might be a good opportunity to not only help out but get to know my team members a little better
so i flew my entire family out to Florida and we unfortunately i booked a really really late
flight so by the time we actually got to the hotel and i put the kids down to bed and got everything
unpacked it was like midnight and then i had insomnia because i was like all wired and like
super excited and nervous so yeah that's kind of the the foundation for my day in Aquashella
next day Saturday morning i meet Cory and Zenzo for breakfast and then we head down to the brand
new Aquarium Co-Op booth which is much larger and it's like lit up by LED lights it's really cool
we were next to extremes i got to meet Andy and Keta and then we just started stacking
mounds and mounds of free t-shirts to give away
wow
giant pile of shirts
look at the new booth, guys
and we got Xtreme
and then that's when all the madness happened now in my past career as an engineering marketing
person I've definitely worked huge tradeshows before but that was the engineering industry
in the aquarium hobby you know Cory is kind of like a mini celebrity so there was just huge
lines wait of people waiting to meet him i mean basically we're the busiest booth in the whole
show i believe and it was just non-stop trying to make sure we weren't blocking traffic also
handing out the free t-shirts like i don't know how many times i would be calling out to people
like hey do you want a free t-shirt what size can i get you just not a second to even take a breath
Zenzo you didn't even show up on camera and then because Zenzo and i are kind of YouTubers in our
own right we actually had several people stop by and watch our pictures and wanted to thank us for
the videos that we've made so that was really cool i would say the funniest comment i kept getting
over and over again would be people saying wow i had no idea you were so tall
spoilers alert i am a tall woman there you go and then right before 1pm Cory had his talk
on the main stage only it wasn't a talk it was a game show which is really cool
and my job through all that was to basically hold a giant pile of prizes and run around the
room passing the prizes to the people who won them so really fun definitely got my workout in thank
goodness the Aquarium Co-Op shirts are black cause i was just sweating everywhere
while Cory was wrapping up the end of the presentation with some Q&A i actually headed
back to the booth to restock all the t-shirts for the second half of the day and then Cory
and Zenzo went ahead and ate lunch first so by the time i got to eat it was probably around
2:45 or 3 p.m. the restaurant was absolutely packed and it took me 45 minutes to basically
get my salad and pay for it but i think it was a much needed break because i was starting to lose
my voice by then just having to speak loudly so that i could be heard by people who are wanting
to get a shirt or to come see Cory my voice is starting to go a little thankfully the line got
shorter and shorter by the end of the day and by that point i was not like physically tired per se
even though i had been on my feet all day long but the insomnia was really starting to catch up to me
and i was super sleepy um and really i feel like the Saturday show should have ended around 5:00,
5:30 p.m. because it was starting to get pretty dead um so the three of us like Cory and Zenzo
ended up kind of scattering and actually went to go explore Aquashella for the first time that day
i didn't film everything just some of my favorite favorite booths that really caught my attention
both MB Betta Aquatic and Badfish Florida had amazing betta fish selection but i ended up not
getting one because my family and i were going to Disney World the next day and i just didn't
want the situation where i had this better fish and I'd have to be in the hotel for a few days
and not be able to take it home to a nice comfortable aquarium heated aquarium right away
so because of that i ended up just getting a betta fish pin which i can put on my laptop bag as well
as a clown loach plushie which i love because i just don't know if I'll ever be able to keep clown
loaches um without you know having the space to have an enormous tank whoa oh yeah they're so tiny
and personally bred by... introduce yourself again yeah this is the famous Ben
red-footed tortoise and his name's Michelangelo
it's funny because i originally went to Aquashella because i wanted to help out the team and get to
know my co-workers a little better but then i ended up meeting all these amazing people and
like seeing these really cool fish and animals and i was just it just got me so excited in the hobby
i feel like the past couple years I've been stuck at home with my same three tanks and so i got a
little bored of fish keeping but now I'm super you know fired up i want to go traveling more i want
to see more fish rooms and cool stores and even hopefully more conventions so i can meet people
like you so we can both inspire each other in the hobby let me know down in the comments which fish
conventions you plan on attending this year and yeah hopefully I'll start making some plans and
see what can work my schedule take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see in the next video