so this is the story on how i bought my fiance for dream fish which by the way tamara is my
fiance now she said yes not important a little back story every time we go to living reef tamara
just has to play with this longhorn cowfish in their display tank she was in love with
it but there's no way i was buying it mostly because it wasn't for sale but more importantly
it wasn't in my plans it would mean i'd have to set up another tank for it plus it reminds me of
cheese anyways i head to the store on a mission to set up a planted saltwater shrimp tank and i
know it ends up being absolutely phenomenal what's that first thing tamara sees when we get in there
is a longhorn cow fish worst part was this one was for sale great now i got a bun what made
it even more worse was how happy and excited she was for it as if the ring wasn't enough
it's not funny the ring was enough so i get some more supplies and hang out for a bit
at the store just talking shop i wonder if they have any starfish it says they got one right here
do you want one i say we get some more shrimp uh starfish and other critters and we get that
little box phase fish for the uh the box fish do you want it yeah i don't know if you've
ever seen this before but you ever pick one of these up and drop them no watch what they do
where are you gonna drop them just right here looks like an octopus so basically when you drop
these if if they ever ended up in an open water column for whatever reason um they want to get
to the bottom as fast as possible because they can be eaten so when i drop it it's going to take its
legs and put them up like this so it falls like a rock okay right so watch from the side here
hopefully this works this might make a lighter out of me oh he's doing it there's a brittle
oh yeah yeah so they do that so they can get to the bottom really quickly and then best they can
get back under a rock oh look at him there he is yeah tough guy like i said he might walk around
and act like he's trying to fight everything yeah but they generally don't he just walks
around as a tough guy now could i have oh is that a peppermint yeah yeah that's a peppermint
why do they call those one sexy shirt i know why but it's funny because they walk
they walk around you always do this they walk around all sexy like yeah i told her
that and i don't think she believed me and she really wanted one but then i was like
oh they're so small and you know they might not do well with the others what do you think
i think they're pretty sexy i'm going to try to stay in the
the the genius of lemoda i believe it's pronounced i think it's pronounced lamoda or something like
that if you have any of the scientific names up here maybe it says it no and that would be the
cleaner shrimp it would be the red well i think we want to take your this some shrimp what else
let me make a decision here i definitely think i should have some sexy shrimp do you think so far
and they're pretty affordable so i mean if it doesn't work out
i'm thinking about making a couple of caves around the town yeah maybe it goes something like this
i think something like that i just get those three pieces
i don't want to be too high it's going in the tower what's this one of these
let me get a box of those that's not that big it's average
yeah i'll get these three rocks sorry i'm taking your best [ __ ]
that's why i told you about cracking anything yeah it turns out these are forty dollars a pound then
i head home i glued some algae to the rocks and i got them in the tank added the shrimp and then the
longhorn cow fish after his quarantine period he was curious of the shrimp for a few minutes then
left them completely alone and the shrimp basically started cleaning him like they do now
that was about two months ago which brings us to today now first and foremost the tower that used
to be there that we literally built specifically for this tank was pointless i took it out nobody
used it it was more of an eyesore i kind of liked it to be more symmetrical with the seahorses
as well as my shrimp slash longhorn cowfish tank now before we get too crazy the longhorn cow
fish is going to outgrow this tank they do get relatively big growing to over a foot in length
but they are absolutely adorable so with that said we're definitely going to need a new tank however
he will do fine with shrimp uh and a tank like this isn't this tank just so much fun it's one of
the most interactive aquariums i've ever touched but more on that in a minute now believe it or not
just looking at it as is you wouldn't guess but there's 20 shrimp in there and the downside to
salt water shrimp is they're not cheap but what's in here we've got two blood shrimp we've got 14
cleaner shrimp and we have six peppermint shrimp and if my ged education serves me as it should
that means there's 20 shrimp in here total and i don't want to brag but some of them are breeding
i'm basically a saltwater shrimp breeder now but like i was saying this tank is incredibly fun to
have it looks super boring there's just one tiny little speck of a fish swimming in there name
reveal later on in the video but watch this these are cleaner shrimp they are used to i'm not gonna
feed them i'm just gonna show you if i put my hand in here they will attempt to clean me or at least
interact with me to a certain extent now i don't think uh all shrimp are boring and whatnot
but there's no fresh water shrimp on the planet that will consciously
come up and play with you and come into your hands that are so easy to take care of they're hungry
and uh they're just so interactive and interesting to watch look at all their feelers you can feel
those their legs feel so ticklishly but they'll eat out of your hands they're just absolutely
incredible one of my favorite aquariums of all time and if i have to admit it uh was a
cherry shrimp tank look at this oh i love it ah don't touch me though it's such an enjoyable and
rewarding aquarium and if i taught you one thing it's how to grow algae you guys could do this do
rocks you know put some algae on it i'm literally using a light bulb to light this tank just as much
as i am with the seahorse tank and that tank has really taken off although i am upgrading them to
some awkward illumination that i've had um for a few years i just haven't really been using
them and that will really make these guys truly take off what you do bro you want some in my hand
you know some of this now the longhorn cow fish is definitely more of a classified as an expert fish
they are pretty delicate they're not incredibly simple and easy to feed look at everybody oh are
you a girl you are a girl she was holding eggs a little bit while ago so that's a peppermint
that's a cleaner and the reds will come out and they are absolutely phenomenally gorgeous
deep red with little white spots just gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous shrimp i forgot how amazing a
shrimp tank could be and how easy and simplistic it can be i mean these guys are in a regular
salinity in a regular tank nothing fancy's being run and definitely a fantastic introduction to
the saltwater hobby especially if you're already a shrimp keeper you've got to have some saltwater
shrimp what's wrong with having a saltwater shrimp tank you don't see them very often or
at least i've never really heard of them but we do it in the salt freshwater hobby just never in
uh we do it in the freshwater hobby just never in salt or at least i never see it
just awesome awesome tank expensive but awesome the only thing that i would caution you guys about
is you know be a little cautious about mixing species and how many you put in the shrimp tank
a lot of the times more than two shrimp just don't work out they'll fight and they'll go to war but
like i said i've got 20 in here and they've been in here for what two three months now and
i mean i still got them all everybody's in perfect condition absolutely gorgeous i feel like i need
more though i need more i want to start a shrimp empire they're not all that easy to breed in the
home aquarium but they breed the same way as the freshwater shrimp does so many of you guys are
gonna already be familiar with this the one that i'm trying to focus on right here is just packed
full of eggs underneath of her right now she's holding on to them right now that's a peppermint
look at how many eggs that she's got come on over here and show us come on over mama come on
and they recognize human language see the eggs oh man you chunky monkey anyways i need to know
your thoughts on this aquarium i'm a little self-conscious about it you know me having
a shrimp tank you know 2 000 gallons just right there and all these big fish and then i got this
little rinky dinky shrimp tank i'm in love with it it's taken me months to show you and admit to it
so let me know what you think about it uh let me put a t-shirt on and let me show you remember
when we said we got the longhorn cow fish and remember how i said that it's going to need a
bigger aquarium or at least it's going to need a new aquarium i don't know how long it's going
to last with these shrimp etcetera look who's out one of the reds came out they're more of a hider
all of these shrimp are unique uh just incredible but anyways longhorn cowfish needs his own tank
it's tamara's fish this is my tank it needs his own tank i didn't just buy the fish i had to get
another aquarium so let's go check that out i also see george farmer on instagram all the time with
the shirt off doing his thirst picks thirst videos better stop before i start i would never do that
say your aquarium
so this was more of a last minute thing just like it was with the longhorn catfish
wasn't really planning but grabbed a tank that fits a specific space in the house
but most importantly it's going to keep my cats out of here because if you guys don't
know i've got a pair of savannah cats this is my female mariah who hates the camera
where she just doesn't like my loud voice she prefers kisses and soft voices but
they're mischievous oh there's the boy so not only does this aquarium keep the cats
out of the tank itself because like i said it's got a full top having this aquarium in
the house keeps tamara out of the gallery i think she's on a mission to slowly take the
aquarium gallery over by adding fish out there all of a sudden the sea horses are her the shrimp tank
the longhorn cowfish they're all hers and i've got to put a stop to it so i've got this set up
right now um and i've got it with some cycled media in the back it's up to temperature the
salinity is great i could technically move the longhorn cowfish into it immediately
i've also added some frets turbo start to it which means that i can add the longhorn cowfish into it
immediately which we're going to likely do in one of the next videos but the escape is simple it's
just some basic uh skeleton uh coral essentially like base rock i guess is what you would call it
i kind of piled it up so it slopes down this way and slopes that way you guys know i love to do
escapes coming from the corners i'm just absolutely i didn't mean for it
to kind of like shape this sort of thing but i also went with the everything white
because i thought the yellow cow fish would contrast with it really well but this is his
aquarium well it's a cow fish's aquarium which is tamara's aquarium so i guess that's that
oh and that shrimp tank joey wasn't that an octopus aquarium what happened to the octopus well
nothing absolutely nothing besides it attempted to literally ruin my life
but let me explain you guys will remember we had an atlantic white spot octopus uh a true
nocturnal species that i personally thought that i could cope with and keep and it would do just
fine in here but being a truly nocturnal species it was certainly a challenge not only does it
literally never appear on camera unless i'm out here four o'clock in the morning filming it and
trying to capture footage for you guys to kind of learn about them and i fully warned you and i got
it to start eating in the mornings at like seven o'clock and then eight o'clock in the morning and
and then it would stop and it was always resetting itself to like only eating at three or four in the
morning until i just gave up and i was like okay setting my alarm three four o'clock in
the morning i'd be out here feeding the octopus so a lot of times i couldn't get back to sleep
doesn't matter kids gotta go to school gotta get up at seven gotta live my life i just
couldn't deal with it anymore uh so there is no more octopus i'm never getting another one
i do not recommend them i i was incredibly excited to see one in person to you know hand feeding it
and my time with it was incredibly special but i certainly don't recommend getting one uh and you
won't see me doing it again learnt my lesson he's totally fine he's with a lunatic that is loving
that lifestyle but me as a father i just can't do it anyways that is the story of getting my fiance
almost a girlfriend i'm not saying that anymore uh her dream fish as well as setting up a planted
saltwater shrimp tank that i personally believe is absolutely phenomenal but again
i can't wait to see what you guys think and say uh but there's a few of you that's
waiting around waiting for the longhorn cowfish's name his name is tony tony tips
fades off into oblivion
oh he also has an italian accent
okay is it recorded it looks good all right
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