- Today, I'm at (crowd chattering)
my first fish expo ever.
Let's check this place out. (energetic music)
And with doing the expansion with the aquarium,
it's so important for me to understand
what this fish world's all about,
so it's gonna be an amazing day.
Well, the first fish (crowd chattering)
I ever kept were actually Bettas actually,
and look at this one right here.
This thing is ridiculous, I mean,
the colors have gotten so incredible in the last 20 years.
It's absolutely amazing.
These are basically like the leopard geckos
of the fish world.
Hey look who I ran into here.
- Hey hey, what's up guys.
- Brett, the famous guy from "Tanked".
You're absolutely amazing.
What have you been up to, man?
- Man. I've been up to a lot of things, man.
I got my podcast called "Going fishing with Brett Raymer."
Drops every Friday at
two o' clock on YouTube. - Why am I not on this?
- We need to get you on it, man.
- Let's do this. - We need to get you on it.
Slap it on AR, it's a new vinyl sticker
that me and you are gonna do a little acuate to basically
stroll over the sticker - Stay tuned.
- And you get a lot of information
SlapItOn.com launches in April.
It's the Brett Rayner aquarium AR collection.
- You gotta check that out.
When it launches in April, I'm gonna be shouting
this out and we'll be doing some stuff in the future.
Stay tuned for that.
- Stay tuned.
- [Bryan] And of course, (crowd chatter)
every aquarium that I see me inspiration for the expansion,
and that's why I'm actually here is to get inspiration.
I mean, these fish are just awesome.
I cannot wait. You know, every day that goes by
I get more excited about adding fish to my life.
They asked me at 12 o'clock to get in this
enclosure so that I could be the mannequin
but not sure if I'm gonna do it.
And even Zoomed's here.
Now I finally feel at home with reptiles.
What's going on, man?
All right. (man laughs)
Yeah. How you doing, man?
All right. This place is dope.
(dramatic clang)
- Hi guys. - What's going on?
Look who it is. How's it happening.
You totally got me. (man laughing)
Hi. - Hey.
- First we've got Will Nathan Summer over here,
our awesome team.
You guys, how you guys doing? - Good.
- You guys have the vision thing?
- Yep. Right over there.
- Right, we gotta see.
You're doing a, like a challenge thing, right?
- Right behind you, actually.
- Right behind me.
Who? Who's going up again?
- Tanner's one of the guys.
There's a lot of awkward spacers about.
So Tanner's one of them, I'm little nervous about that one.
- Let's all vote. Who wins? - Yup.
- Oh yeah. Well, I'm gonna vote for will.
No Tanner. I love you, but I'm gonna
vote for Will still. (dramatic whoosh)
I'm here at custom aquariums and custom cages,
which actually, Vision cages falls underneath
and they have some amazing enclosures here.
I mean, look at this. This is, is so cool.
Got a ball python here.
Got cool little reptile set up over here.
There's actually a skunk in here.
It's actually a summer skunk.
And then of course we have a Paludarium over here.
Well, this is the Paludarium, which looks actually cool.
So we're definitely gonna be working
with these guys on future stuff.
There's no doubt about it. (dramatic whoosh)
Take look at all this cool coral live rock
and anemones and stuff like that.
It's like, it's crazy. It's overwhelming,
to be honest with you. I definitely feel lost.
There's so much to look at and so much
to actually figure out.
Take a look at this, guys.
There's actually sturgeon fish in here,
and we've got albino sturgeon fish as well
as dionysus sturgeon.
Now Sturgeons can literally get like nine foot long.
These are giant, giant fish.
I absolutely love. We'll definitely gonna be adding
sturgeon fish to a giant four, 5,000 gallon aquarium
after the expansion. So it really cool to see them,
and hey, you know me, I love albinos.
It looks like I'm gonna be adding albinos as well.
Again, I've been out of the fish road for a long time
and I've never, I didn't even know these exist.
These are albino Piranha, that's right.
These are the red belly Piranha but albinos, I didn't even
know that they existed, but they are absolutely ridiculous.
All right.
There's a YouTuber that I follow that I'm kind of friends
with that I've never met that I'm excited to meet
- What's up man?
- What's up, man?
- How are you, man? - Nice to meet you.
- It's good to meet you, dude. - I'm good.
It's like, I was excited - Yeah.
- To come down and see you, man. How you been?
- I'm good.
- I know how you're feeling buddy.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning,
and I've been thinking so much my head hurts so bad.
I know exactly how you feel.
Jessica would have an absolute field day with this.
There's no doubt that she would- I'd go broke
if she was here, cuz she'd buy so much.
These clown barbs are super cool.
You actually see 'em in the pet shops.
Oftentimes really small.
They get really big
and then there's actually arowana
and albino arowana.
It's the thing that I've blown away by is how
many albino fish there are. There were no
albino fish when I first started.
It's really opening my eyes
to what we could potentially do with the expansion.
And then there's discus. I mean take a look at these.
These are some of the most incredible fish.
They're an Amazonian fish.
They need a little bit of an acidic water
which means it's just a little bit extra special care
but wow, just look at how amazing these things are.
There is no doubt.
We were gonna have a big discus tank for sure.
They are incredible. (dramatic whoosh)
(upbeat music)
And there's so much variety here.
Whether it be fish, plants, all kinds of different products.
It's really been quite amazing to see how a fish show
actually goes. Again, I've done tons of reptile shows,
but this is my first fish show and I am definitely inspired.
I've been thinking about these Phish for a long time.
These are what they call glofish. Way back in the day
they used to inject them with dye
which I didn't appreciate at all.
But these are actually what they call GMO glofish,
and that means they're actually produced like this.
It's basically they insert jellyfish colors into fish
and then they breed, so we're definitely gonna have
a ginormous tank of glofish at the expansion.
Another really cool fish is actually the African cichlids.
They're really colorful, almost like a marine fish
but they are fresh water.
Absolutely amazing.
And then of course there's the plecostomus
which are gonna be important for keeping the tank clean.
- Woo! Mr. Muncha.
- I found my boy Greg here.
The podcast. - I love my job.
- Right?
You guys know him. (Greg laughs)
Of course I'll put the link in the description like always.
It's always great to see my buddy Greg down here.
You having a good time?
- Listen, I'm a geek.
So I'm having all these- 8000 geeks here
talking fish, talking ponds.
A lot of 'em are aquarium guys
but we want to say the ultimate aquarium is a pond.
How many people have a thousand gallon aquarium
but it's easy to get a thousand gallon pond.
- That's right.
And he's got the best ponds in the business.
(dramatic whoosh)
Well you can never go wrong with goldfish, right?
Especially there's so much variety in the big bubble eyes.
Cool patterning.
It's definitely good to have a ginormous pond
with a bunch of Koi and goldfish in it.
I ran into a mermaid and you may think it's crazy
but in the big swim tank that we're gonna have
we actually might have a mermaid. Would you like to come?
- I would love to. I would love it.
- All right, we're good.
This is about the size
of the tank that we have that's Marine.
So pretty soon we're gonna be able to actually
add fish to it.
And the cloud fish is what we're gonna definitely do.
These are actually what they call "look down" fish.
They get pretty big, and in the expansion,
we're gonna do a giant enclosure with "look down" fish
because they school, they go back and forth.
They're really, really amazing when they get big.
Speaking of which look, it's my tank.
This is actually the tank that we bought
and have set up in the basement,
and they have a bunch of really cool fish in here.
So really gives me the idea
of what it's gonna look like when it has fish in it.
These are super popular at shows like this.
These are little coral frags, and it's
it's kind of like ball pythons.
You know, they actually breed them for color, sizes,
you know, shapes everything else like that.
And they're nice for shows
because they're easy to transport.
So it's pretty cool to get some of these.
Oh no.
Look who I spot over here.
- What's up brother.
- What up.
- How are you, dude?
How you doing? - Yeah, how are you.
- How you doing, man? - I'm good.
Chill and chill.
How about you?
- I'm doing good, man.
Of course my boy, Blake here from Blake's Exotic,
you know him but I'll put a link in the description
as always. Having fun?
- Having fun, like always.
- So I heard you just put in an elephant enclosure.
- Yeah, I wish. (Bryan laughs)
- No, he did an otter pond that's absolutely amazing, but
I guarantee you he's gonna have elephants
before we know it.
(upbeat music)
Doing reptiles my entire life, there's only so much
that you could do, but going into the fish world,
and aquatic world, it opens up a completely
new world for me.
And it's really exciting to see the creativity
that all these people are bringing to Aquashella.
She what an amazing event. (excited music)
And of course we're gonna be doing a lot
of 'scaping when it comes to this aquarium.
So it looks like our entire crew is gonna have a lot
of 'scaping dudes, just like these guys.
Take a look at some of these plants. Oh my gosh.
And then of course the awesome fish.
I tell you what, I'm having a great time. First fish show,
and this isn't my last one. I can guarantee you that.
And there's a ton of really cool YouTubers here.
Of course, Dustin from Dustin's fish tanks.
I appreciate you. So are you having a good time?
- Yeah, what's up, having an absolute blast.
What's up fish tank people?
Having a ride here at Aquashella.
Second time down here.
Fabulous show, fabulous vendors, fabulous people here.
So we're having an absolute blast.
Absolutely and I'll put a link in the description
to all the YouTubers that I find today.
(dramatic whoosh)
- [Man] Really?
- Yeah. I just, yeah, I definitely want to-
- Well, hang on, we've gotta take-
- I want to pursue this for real.
- So guys, I literally thought the coolest thing
at this show was this booth here
with all this type of stuff.
And my man here is cool enough.
He's going to actually give me this thing.
I think that's crazy
- Yeah, anytime.
- Are you kidding me, man? - No, for sure.
- Are you sure, man? - Yeah, definitely.
- Oh my god, please. I'm- again, link in the description.
Show this man some love, plus,
I mean you can get something amazing.
I can promise you this is gonna be at the Reptarium.
We're gonna do something really cool with that.
So you guys are gonna get a chance to see it
in the vlog all the time, but look at how
cool this stuff is.
Gotta get on this.
I mean it's absolutely incredible.
Thank you. I'm gonna give you a hug.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Thank you brother. You're the best.
- You first time meeting you
but I feel like I've known you forever.
- Aw man. Thank you so much, brother.
I again, man, just the best dude.
- Seriously. - Any time.
- Oh my god.
- I'm freaking out, man. - That's so cool, dude.
That's so sick.
- Well, this place looks pretty cool.
What do you say we go take a look?
I've been to a thousand reptile shows
but I've never seen anything like this.
Again, it's cool that there's so much
interactive stuff going on here at Aquashella.
Definitely an event that I'm gonna certainly come back to.
(whimsical music)
Well, that was pretty wild. I remember days back when I was
in my teenages, I went through-
Forget, that's it forget about it.
Hope you guys enjoyed (upbeat music)
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while you're down there, have a wonderful day, reptile army.
Remember, be kind to someone
and I promise I'll see you in the next one.
- [Man] I thought you weren't (crowd chatter)
supposed to be getting that.
- Dude, I'm so excited about this man.
I'm getting to go home- - [Man] Me too.
Now I just have to figure out where to put it
cuz this has to be on display.
You know, this is dope, man.