- I'm at Aquashella and it is open.
We're gonna have an absolutely amazing day.
I wanna add an axolotl lot to the Reptarium.
But before we get out to axolotls,
of course, I'm gonna do something with reptiles here.
This is beautiful, dude, how old is this one?
- About a year and a half.
- About a year and a half old.
I tell you, absolutely gorgeous panther chameleon.
So there are some reptiles here at the show.
Makes me feel a little bit more comfortable.
I definitely look forward to getting over
to this guy's booth, 'cause he has some cool stuff too.
Lot to see.
This is cool, I actually found my axolotl.
Well, it's actually not my axolotl.
It's really cool, I love this, "Gill Dogs."
Take a look at these things, these things are so cool.
Axolotls have become so popular.
We have to add 'em to the Reptarium.
Put it on your head?
- [Cameraman] Run, Brian, you're being predated.
(Brian laughing)
- It's really cool.
There's actually some Oregon red spotted garter snakes.
Now do you breed these guys?
- I did, I produced these, they were born in June.
- Oh my gosh, and how old are your adults?
- My adults, they're three to four years old.
- Do they have a lot of red spots, really beautiful?
- They're very red, yeah.
I like to keep the ones that are the most vibrant.
They even, some of them,
have like the blue tint to their stripes.
- Yes, what do they eat?
- They'll eat tilapia, pinky mice.
They'll even eat some fuzzy mice.
- That's awesome, you know,
I like to "ax a lot of" questions.
Well, I'm here at Aquashella.
I have a lot to learn about fish.
What do you say we get started?
Fish fact number one, where are beta fish from?
- Majority of your beta fish come from
Vietnam, Indonesia, and Thailand.
Stagnant water like rice patties, shallow.
Some dark water areas.
- And now you know.
I'm here with Heath, he's actually the son-in-law
of the promoter of the show.
And he's gonna show us the five
coolest things here at the show, you ready?
- Yep. - Let's go.
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- I got to hold a snake, which I think is really cool.
I've never hold a snake this big,
'cause my snake at home, it's only about two feet.
- It's pretty cool, he got to hold a big snake
at the show for the first time.
It's a fish show, and the first thing
he chooses is a snake, which I like.
- Giselle, hi.
- This place is really cool about scaping, right?
And that's where I think the reptile hobby
is gonna end up going at some point.
Look at how beautiful this is.
This is like a dark water scaping here.
Which basically will turn this water
more like brown in time.
And then they have all kinds of stuff.
And these guys are actually professional aqua-scapers.
And eventually there's gonna be
professional reptile scapers.
There already are, Ander Obvosly, Will Nace.
There's a bunch of people like that.
As a matter of fact, at animal con
we're gonna have a panel about scaping.
I think that where the fish hobby is now,
is, hopefully, where the reptile hobby
will go in the future.
Look at how amazing these things are.
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I swear to God, most mornings when I wake up,
my hair looks like that.
- How are you brother? - Good, good.
- Now I'm sure you remember when we got a bowl
just like this from Zen Aquatic.
It's just a cool place, man.
It's like look at all the innovation.
I love the fact when you get into kind of something
that's not the same as everyone else.
So much of it here, it's so awesome.
Again, this is an idea thing.
Coming here, trying to infiltrate the fish world.
Trying to figure this thing out,
'cause I hope it'll be a big part of my future.
- He wanted to meet you out of everybody.
- Oh my gosh, well thank you so much, I appreciate it.
- We've been looking for you.
- I love that shirt, that's great, that's awesome.
- He follows you.
- Hello, Brian.
Oh my gosh, what?
- Good to meet you. - Thank you so much.
- We're at our friends over at Custom Cages.
Of course, my buddy Will Nace is here.
So there's a bunch of really cool reptiles,
including this blue tongued skink.
Now, obviously, we're looking for axolotls.
But in actuality blue tongue skinks are kind of
like the axolotl of the reptile world.
One of my favorite fish of all times will be the angel fish.
Where are angel fish from?
- South America.
- South America, I didn't know.
Second thing that he liked is this snake,
which I was admiring earlier as well.
This is actually a speckled racer.
Have you ever held one of these?
- No.
- Isn't it cool, I'll be honest with you,
I've never held one either.
This is really an amazing snake.
I mean, look at the head pattern on that.
So far you've been doing good on the snake front.
Is there any fish that you really like here?
- No, not really, only reptiles.
- Okay, so it's reptiles.
I've been obsessed with jellyfish forever.
I imagine this amazing giant cylinder aquarium,
'cause they gotta be in a roundish aquarium.
Water has to continually to be flowing through,
and have a cool thing where you can like switch the color
because every time the color switches,
the jelly looks like a different thing.
You see this happening here, it's actually automatic.
So it's pretty cool to have one like this.
I need this, maybe, for my desk in my office.
The creativity is absolutely incredible.
I mean, look at this.
I'm not exactly sure what you would put in here
but it just looks absolutely incredible.
I want to start incorporating,
not only like these types of scapes,
but also I love the kind of mist effect that goes on.
It looks so cool, it brings it to life.
What's next? - Frogs.
And like, I think they're poisonous,
but they don't hold 'em.
- Poison frogs, I'm in.
Okay, here we go.
Which ones are the ones you like the best?
- I like that one the best.
- Oh, this one right here?
Oh that is a great frog.
So he loves this frog right here and I absolutely do too.
But I'll tell you what, look at these ones right here.
This is actually a giant waxy monkey frog
that is just absolutely incredible.
What do you think about those dude?
- Those are sick.
- Aren't they?
I mean, they're just ridiculous.
I gotta get me some of those for sure.
I have no idea what kind of fish these are, what are these?
- Painted glass fish eggs.
- It makes total sense.
If I've never kept fish before,
what is the best starter fish for me to start with?
- You can do betas, tetras, guppies.
All pretty good options.
- And I'm a beginner, let's go.
This aquarium is one of the weirdest aquariums.
I've never seen it before.
These are actually Dasani fish.
I don't know where the Dasani fish are from,
but I I think they're pretty interesting.
We're at Morgan Axolotls, it's pretty cool.
I was looking for axolotls here and
I didn't know if I'd find any,
and there's a handful of 'em here.
It's just, it's awesome.
These are actually leucistics.
There's albinos, some normals,
I mean, there's all kinds of variety.
I'm learning a lot about axolotls today.
I am in axolotl overload here.
They're so cute.
The thing that's interesting about axolotls,
that most people don't know,
is that they're actually extinct from the wild.
They actually originally were from Mexico.
And basically, it's almost like,
think about a salamander that's caught in metamorphosis.
And, like I said, they actually are no longer in the wild
but yet people are breeding them like crazy in captivity.
And, of course, Minecraft made 'em super popular.
Now everyone wants to see axolotls.
And I love them and I've always loved them.
So I want to definitely put them in the Reptarium.
What do axolotls eat?
- Earthworms!
- Just earthworms?
- And blood worms, black worms, all the worms.
- I guess it's worms.
All right, Heath, two more booths to go.
- Fourth one is gonna be the, this one right over here.
I think it has some pretty cool ones.
I saw one that was really white and I loved it.
- I know exactly what snake he's talking about.
Let's go see it.
It is actually a palmetto corn.
You guys know that we just hatched out
some palmetto corns just the other day.
They are absolutely incredible little corn snakes.
Recessive mutation.
This guy's got good taste, I tell you what.
And more axolotls, that's a lot of axolotls.
How are, you, it's good to meet you.
How you guys doing, you guys having fun?
Now we're getting into the coral section,
or the coral frag section of the show.
And it's really amazing, 'cause it's always darker.
It's always kinda little.
Coral frags are a little, almost like the leopard gecko
of the fish world in a sense that people collect them.
They're very highly collectable.
There's a million different types of coral frag.
And they're just really cool, there's no doubt.
I would love to have something like this.
It's really cool, but I don't know anything about 'em.
I've got a lot to learn.
Now, I finally found my axolotl.
Well, actually, this is absolutely
adorable plushy of an axolotl.
Back to fish galleries exhibit and they have about
50 axolotls in this aquarium, right here,
which is pretty cool.
So we definitely are gonna get some axolotls.
It's gonna be amazing and, again,
it's just kind of a different animal, right?
When you think about a reptile or amphibian
they're a little different thing.
Need to be kept a little bit cool.
A lot of people actually use chillers on their tanks.
If not, you have to have like a fan.
Maybe sometimes you have to have like an ice bottle
floating around to keep the temperatures down.
'Cause if they get much above like 70, 72 degrees,
they don't actually do well.
But axolotls are amazing, and guess what?
I finally found my axolotl that I'm taking home.
Which one do you want?
- The white one.
- The white one, all right let's buy you a white one.
- You're one of my favorite YouTubers.
- Even 20 for you, sir.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Thanks, brother.
- Thank you.
Have a nice day guys.
- Enjoy it, man, all right?
Take care of it, thanks guys.
- You're gonna feed it once a week.
I think, something like that.
- How are you?
- I watch you all the time.
- Thank you so much, what's your name?
- Thank you.
- I think I have no choice but to get
a fly river plushy for me, not for anyone else.
Well maybe, yeah, for me.
Last one.
- The last one is going to be my mom's booth.
It's the Fritz Aquatics booth.
- Oh, how nice is that?
I mean, he's, he's a nice guy too.
This is a, let's go check it out.
And we're at the Fritz Aquatic booth.
Of course, it's your mom's booth,
which I think is absolutely amazing.
Fritz Aquatics has been around for a long time.
Since I was a kid working at a pet shop.
I, we used Fritz aquatic stuff, so they're really cool.
And, and there's your mom, so.
- Thank you.
- I do know a little bit about fish.
There's a fish called a goldfish right behind me right here.
They used to actually inject
a dye into 'em to make 'em glow.
But now they're what they call GMO.
Genetically modified organisms.
Where they basically take jelly fish DNA
and they insert it into a fish.
And then from there on out, when they breed,
the fish actually glow, absolutely amazing.
I'm here with my buddy, Greg, the pond guy.
What is a group of koi called?
- Troubling?
- Troubling I didn't know that.
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So much, I appreciate you.
Well, this tank looks a little bit familiar.
This is a therapy room and it's pretty cool,
'cause, again, they've got some clown fish.
They got some other blue fish, I don't know what they are,
but there are a lot of little anenomes.
This is eventually how I want
that tank to look when I'm done.
So definitely have to do a little bit of research
about how I can make it look like that,
because, again, it's a cool tank
but this is the exact same tank that we have.
- I got one of them that's glow in the dark.
- You know, kind of reminds me,
when I go to official, like this,
and I'm seeing these really cool koi and all
of the fish in here reminds me how I felt when
I first started to get into reptiles.
That excitement level, you know,
I've always been into fish,
but when I'm around them now,
now I think that might be part of my future.
And I come here and I see just all kinds of,
it's the same exact obsession that I had
with reptiles my whole life.
Now it's kind of going into fish too.
That doesn't mean I'm not gonna be a reptile person.
I'm always gonna be a reptile person.
But I come here and I just get so excited
looking at all these cool fish.
I mean, look at how cool these things are.
You know, I can't believe it's taken me
this long to get into fish.
But you know what they say, better late than never.
I found out so much about axolotls and fish today.
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- They got blue tongues.
- They got blue tongues, wow.
I've never held one of these before.