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- Our 360's getting corals.
We're filling it up with all of
the cherry-picked SPS corals from Worldwide.
I got the whole list, like right here.
We'll share it in a little bit.
- We made it.
- Yes. Victor and Josh here
were kind enough to fly up all the way
from Florida to Minnesota
to help put them in.
- 13 degree weather, what's up with that?
It's 79 in Orlando, man.
- It is cold, and it is snowy.
You looked down and you were shocked with it.
Two feet, but it gets worse.
- Yeah.
- I'm glad we put some heat packs.
- Yeah. All right,
so this tank man, has now been up for,
I don't know,
well over a year now,
cycling in various states,
getting ready.
I've cranked the lights up bit by bit,
fought a few pests along the way,
but now I think ready
for all of the SPS that's going in there.
What do you think makes it look ready?
- So, I was looking at the tank earlier.
The way you were saying in the live video last week,
the amount of coralline,
I thought you painted that rock.
- It does almost look fake. (laughs)
- Yeah. It's got some really healthy tube worms.
I can see the health of the fish.
The sand looks more than ready,
doesn't look to be new.
I mean, I personally think,
other than testing the water,
the tank looks more than ready, buddy.
I think I'm very excited, you know?
- Josh came out and said,
"When it's growing coralline algae,
means that the tank can support
calcareous algae,
meaning a calcifying organism.
Probably the best possible sign."
- Like acroporas.
That's what you've been wanting, right?
- Yes. Calcifying organism, right?
And we were actually just talking, Josh and us,
about what makes that coralline grow so much.
It's a little anecdotal, but I got my own reasons.
What do you think makes it grow?
- I think it's the same one that you think it is.
It's coldwater.
- Yeah. I don't know what it is.
It could be magic elixir dust,
it could be the pH increase.
It could be...
- It's the lime water, you know? Old school.
- The Hydroxide.
Yeah. Lime water, kelp washer, you know,
solution,
all the tanks I've ever run kelp washer on
just grow coralline algae
way faster than anything else.
- If you go back to the videos
that you made in the old store,
the 500 gallon tank,
if you look on the floor
there's like, little caves
that the coralline algae made,
- Uh-huh.
- and fishes will go and like hide down there.
It was just so cool to see, you know?
- Yeah.
- That's how strong the coralline algae,
that creates little rocks, you know?
- Well, I was actually told that's what
Fiji rock, the old Fiji rock of old?
- There's coralline, over coralline, over coralline.
- Yeah. The rock is actually just coralline algae.
- Have you ever seen coralline,
where they starts plating?
- Yeah, sometimes. Yes.
- Actually, I gotta send you some of that.
We grow from time to time,
and you can actually send it just like a frag.
- Just like a frag?
- Yeah, it looks like a montipora,
but it's all like, plate and coralline algae.
It's fantastic,
if any of you guys seen it before, you know.
- So, to me like really just a sign
that the tank,
probably the best possible sign,
I now have the patience
to let it get to this point
to be ready because frankly,
we're gonna add a lot of
expensive coral to the tank, so, uh.
- Yeah, you picked up a lot of crazy acroporas,
and I know you wanted to go all SPS,
but I got a little surprise for you.
I snuck a couple of LPS
and a couple suantes I had,
okay, with that.
- I had a feeling that you were gonna twist my arm,
and I'm okay with it.
- I brought a couple torches, a couple hammers,
couple goodies, you know,
I know you wanted some of those.
- In fact, I can like, shift the blame.
Now it's your fault. (laughs)
- If no, we put 'em in someone else's tank.
If it's gotta be only SPS, you know.
We'll deal with it.
- We'll see it coming together, man.
We got a whole ton of corals here,
but tank like, absolutely looks ready.
All right, so what's the process
of putting all these frags gonna look like?
I'm sure everybody's kinda wondering.
- All right, so what we're doing is,
we just, we just took 'em out of the box,
Josh is un-bagging 'em right now,
we number each little plug
so we can recognize the names,
so we don't forget them.
It's very important, you know,
'cause you pick them based on their names?
- Uh-huh.
- You wanna like treat 'em like they're your pets,
you say, right?
Like, a little animal, something like that?
- Uh-huh.
- So, we're gonna keep track of the names,
and then we're gonna glue 'em
on the same exact order that we had
'em in the 1500 gallon tank.
We know which ones are higher,
which ones are lower.
And then some of the LPS, if we allow me
to put some of those in there,
I'm gonna put 'em on the lower side
in little pockets,
when they don't get so much flow,
'cause I see you got two Mp60's,
and you got four Tunze powerheads
on top of the return pump.
It seems to be a lot of flow in there.
- There might be even a little more.
- Might be a little bit of a challenge.
- All right, well, we'll do our best.
So, this is a couple of things
that like, were cool for me,
is normally,
I would've ordered the chorals from you guys,
just shipped 'em up here.
Put 'em in myself, and put 'em all in,
like arrange 'em.
But, in this case, I feel like I gotta take advantage
of the fact that,
the people that grew these things
actually know where they go best.
They know the pattern of the growth pattern,
- How much flow they need.
- They know heighth, the flow. The whole thing.
- And we know how, which ones
are gonna grow more aggressively than others.
I was looking at your tank or what is it called?
The 180?
- Uh-huh.
- I was looking at it,
and I see a couple montiporas,
literally covering another montipora below.
- Yep.
- Like, it's the setosa,
the Seasons Greeting is killing the setosa,
so, what we're gonna do now,
if I know an acroporas, too aggressive.
If I'm not gonna put it next to a one
that it grows very slow, you know?
So those are the things that you wouldn't think of
when you don't do this every day, you know?
- Okay, so, this is the cool part for all of you
where this kinda comes together.
For me, I'm excited to actually
start to grasp the names,
and hold on to 'em, right?
- Yeah.
- And so, one of the things that we're gonna do,
is we're gonna shoot,
they've actually showed a shot,
mother colony shots of all of them
back at the WWC facility.
We're gonna overlay the little frag
that goes on top of it,
and show it to you guys in a later video,
so you can see the names of 'em,
what the adult form looks like.
And then, like, next year, I mean,
we'll come back, and,
or maybe six months, whatever it is.
Come back and show the growth.
The frag layered over the mother colony.
- I'm excited. I'll be very excited to see it
in about six months to a year.
Kinda like, it took me two years to see again,
the 160.
- Yeah, we released that video today.
- The 180, sorry,
and it's just,
it looks incredible today, by the way,
you know?
- It's totally transformed.
I mean, like I gotta give it to Malachi,
who's the guy who takes care of it,
but executes the plan that we built.
And it has totally transformed.
First year, hard.
We actually will have a video on that
whole journey, as well, while you guys are here.
- Yeah, they need to see that,
'cause I didn't know it was looking that good.
I know I was pretty frustrated on the beginning
like we were talking about,
about bare bottom?
- Yep.
But now, it looks incredible.
It simply does.
- So you guys, you're gonna see though,
in this tank, man,
not only all of the corals
that we selected to go in here,
but you'll see the mother colonies,
you'll see the frags,
you'll see the growth
so that when this comes time
for you guys, down the road ,
to put corals in your own tanks,
you'll actually be able to do the same thing they are
as like, oh, that's a fast growing coral.
It's big.
It has this kind of growth pattern.
- He plays, so he grows some branches,
whatever the case may be, you know?
- This is a good place to put that type of coral.
- Yeah.
- So, that is probably one of the
most exciting parts for me,
is like, now let's watch,
and grow these into the same mother-size colonies
that are happening over at Worldwide,
and get 'em big and cool,
and let you guys share in that journey.
All right, so, you've gotta be wondering
what we're doing,
what we're putting in here.
There's bags and bags and bags of corals
that are going in,
so let me just like,
burn through a whole bunch of 'em.
- All right.
- We've got Jason's Fox Jolt.
We got the Yoda.
We have the WWC Jello Shot.
The Brain Freeze.
And, by the way,
when we were going through this in your video,
like, nailed it.
The name, man.
That looks like the Brain Freeze.
- You know, I used to know every single name
known to man,
and now the business has grown a lot,
and I'm still trying to stay connected to it,
and Ryan challenged me to see how much I knew,
and I knew, what, 80% of them?
- Yep.
- That's not bad, you know?
And it's just, I'm proud of it,
so now that he mentioned a lot of their,
I'm picturing the names in my head, you know?
- We're upping your game.
- Yeah.
The ORA Bottle Brush.
The Kobe Bean.
The WWC Acid Trip. (laughing)
The Ultimate Stag Pink Tip.
Mr. Freeze.
Oh, (laughing) the Ryan Watermelon acro.
- Oh, we named it after you! (claps)
Ryan Watermelon Acro.
- That was the lamest name I ever could have gotten.
I gotta come up with a better one.
WWC Yellow Tips.
The Ozzie Slimer.
WWC Too Legit Silver Surfer.
Jason Fox's Flame Ninja Turtle.
Joe Dirt.
The WWC White Walker.
Vicks La'Ripes.
That was a cool one, actually,
How 'bout the Bungee Smuggler.
The JF Homewrecker.
The Hippie Juice.
The Tyree Rouge Melee.
The Blue Monster Icebreaker.
Oregon Tort.
The Black Sabbath.
Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
- Geez. Did you get enough of them, buddy?
You had enough for all of that in there?
- All right. Well there's a whole bunch here, man,
also that you guys brought,
that I didn't even ask for,
that I am pretty excited to see.
- Yeah, we brought you some Fuzzy Naval.
We brought you some Allstar,
Banana Peel, Nuclear Grapes,
Sabotage, King Fiji, Madmen,
Hollywood Dreams.
You didn't ask for any of these?
- Nope.
- But we know they're good growers,
and we just figure,
we just gotta,
we gotta fix your tank, man,
so why not do it the right way?
- All right, so here's where this goes next.
So, we're gonna close out this video,
but after this, we're gonna put in that montage.
They're sending us the videos,
they're coming.
We're gonna show you guys all of the corals
for a future episode here.
You can see it,
and the adult size colony, as well as
the tiny little frag.
- Then, I might see you trimming them as well.
- Oh, yes.
- Oh, a little sneak peek.
- Yes, yes. There's actually videos,
so if you haven't subscribed actually
to Worldwide Coral,
there's three videos of me going down there
that you should definitely go check out.
They've actually got videos now,
coming up here.
We'll release a bunch going forward.
So, I don't know the BRS-360, the one sitting here
in my office.
What I get to see every day,
and nurture,
now coming into your guys' life
with actual SPS corals.
We're gonna grow 'em out.
- And a little bit of LPS.
- (laughs) Little bit.
- Sh, don't tell no one, guys.
- See you guys soon.
- All right.