in one of the uh in one of my last videos we went to a local fish store
in sackville nova scotia and picked up some new fish oh right before i left i was planning
something else out it's for this tank wait to see what i'm doing as for the octopus sharks
i just if you haven't seen the last update on the octopus i just followed through with everything i
said i was going to do for my friend and wait tc's face why am i so why am i casper it's summertime
is this what i look like wait a minute i can fix this ah color nice anyways today i want to look at
now i'm too dark no i'm too i'm put okay i'm going to unbox this to show you what i actually got
we're going to start out with the predators that we got for kevin's
aquarium oh one of the interesting things is the predators that i got for kevin uh they've
all been in therapeutic copper levels in their aquariums for months now uh so i considered uh
quarantining but they've technically been quarantining for for months
uh and in a copper solution so all i really need to make sure is that the water in the bag
doesn't get in the tanks we'll likely also add the predators to kevin's tank today
because just opening this up and you guys already seen half of this it's not going to take much
so this is the snowflake eel well as you noticed there's four of them this time we kept snowflake
eels in the past and look what they do they will attempt to get out of the water now to cope
with the new bioload uh going into kevin's tank here's what i did i took one of my do-it-yourself
over-the-top overhead filters filled it with bio blocks and whatnot added it to that tank
it added a tremendous amount of filtration to that and everything's gonna be fantastic
it's gonna float acclimate them get them to the temperature of the aquarium even
though the temperature of the air is good enough now his main competitor for kevin the
bullying who became a bully is this absolutely phenomenally gorgeous just absolutely phenomenal
no wonder i like these white with black spots black with white spots you guys know i'm color
blind but i don't think that has anything to do with uh my selection of fish i always
go for like black and white or high contrast fish i just think they're absolutely beautiful
okay kevin's over investigating he's not much of a bully but i didn't trust him with like
a really small fish look at the these guys are going nuts they want out don't blame them uh so
added in uh three cave systems for all of the uh snowflake heels they should be fine you'll notice
that everybody kind of has same color patterns and same colors as well i didn't mean for that
to happen but i love the snowflake eel i love how friendly they are um kevin's just you know i wish
everybody liked him more than they do but it's not his fault uh and i can't expect everybody to like
what i like but you know i just really really like kevin kevin is uh uh this is his forever home he's
not going anywhere and it kind of sucks because he's gonna be a massive puffer fish and he's
gonna have a lot of needs so will the clown or i'm sorry so will the snowflake heals but so um will
the panther grouper and i do not want to glorify him he will grow up to two feet long this is an
absolutely massive predator fish that will gulp down anything that could fit in its mouth i highly
advise you don't get one if you cannot properly provide feels so much better to get
what i actually want to get without having to worry if the p if everybody on the internet can
actually keep them that's some seaweed and algaes what the heck would this be for huh
what would this be for well this is where it gets exciting because i think it would be absolutely
i can't keep saying absolutely phenomenal it's like the only word and phrase in my
vocabulary but i think wouldn't it so have you ever seen a planted saltwater aquarium
maybe not often i think it's so cool and i'm really good at growing algae have you seen my
aquariums i'm gonna take some glue and build probably just a couple of structures like this
and attach all of this all over it and just have two big ones let it spread throughout the tank but
i'm doing this for two reasons one it's gonna look really cool too with the fish in the bag
are going to need something to attach to not this why'd they give me this this is an algae
or macro or whatever they're calling it that requires uh iron in the water so it's likely going
to die in my tank um some glue and the babies oh where are they all look look look look look
what is that that my friends is a seahorse that's the boy
we have a breeding trio of seahorses one male two females we're going to set them up in a planted
uh saltwater aquarium and see how that goes again stiff warming sip warning these guys are
incredibly difficult to keep have high needs um and i will warn you all along i'm not going to uh
glorify much of this i will get excited of course but at the end of the day uh for the
last few years i've been keeping fish that are hobby safe and really my personal hobby
has just been suffering because i love so many other fish and i've always been
so scared to keep a lot of things because i'm worried that it'll popularize them and
you know unfortunately a lot of new people in the hobby might get into like some super
advanced animals and just end up killing them and i don't want to be a part of that so
listen to my warnings i feel i feel like i'm off the hook if i warn you anyways let's get the
fish in so typically speaking you'd want to drip acclimate salt water fish to not only match the
temperature of the aquariums but also match the salinity i've already tested they're all pretty
much the same so what i'm going to do is the plop and drop method i want them out of that water
into this net and into the tank i put the net over a old bucket i cut the bag over the bucket
everything falls into it water goes through it fish stay in it
this means that anything in the water which i'm not worried about because it
is copper treated but i don't want any copper in this tank uh we're gonna do
oh and i fed um i fed kevin this morning a big meal so he's not hungry we're gonna
do the snowflake eels first because these guys are like well they're acting ridiculous
they really want out and i'm kind of worried about um once i open this bag that they're
gonna try to flop all over the place or something so i'll try to do this or flop all over the floor
try to get out anyways wish me luck here look down let's see hopefully they don't get out i'll
have to act fast if they do and just grab them oh that's gonna be so gross i'm not into reptiles or
anything like that so this could potentially be really hard on me
okay okay okay oh leave the bag over it
and
come on guys you see them
one two three like snakes look they were in the bag just losing their minds but now that they're
out they're like oh i'll get it when i want to don't really feel like it right now that's typical
now the panther grouper such a beautiful fish i can't believe seeing like it's one thing to see
things on the internet or read about it in a book it is so different to see these animals in person
i mean look at the shape of his head i'm just and how crisp the spotting is and
how he's got the typical grouper body but man what an what an amazing opportunity i
had to i've i used to see these guys in books and just fantasize and be like no they get too big
i'd never be able to afford a tank that big or have room for that size or anything like that
man take it from me never say never come on i hope that kevin isn't a jerk
to this guy because he's so beautiful once i see kevin come over kevin's considerably bigger
the grouper's head down that's normal activity for a grouper
he'll uh figure it out here in a minute i might have added them too soon and there might be a
slight temperature difference he also might just be uh a little shy or whatever kevin kevin doesn't
care he's just like bro do you got any more of them shrimps come on man just one more shrimp
come on i'll do whatever you want he's disgusting so nerve-wracking adding a new fish and worrying
so the grouper does typically uh prowl with its head pointed down for the most part more of an
angle at times so i'm not too worried about this uh we're minutes in so kevin this is kevin's
first interaction so this is when i know whether i've got to take this guy back um or he can stay
and thus far look at what a gentleman kevin you are what a gentleman oh look him now he's
going up now he's looking at these guys he's like bro what are you do you know who i am i'm kevin
look if he's like a puppy trying to get into a small space oh no he bit at him
oh kevin please don't eat those they're not spaghettis
just a second i'm really sorry i typically don't like to interfere
but i might have to go grab him by his tail be like kevin get out
come on kevin leave it oh he's just mouthing it yeah he's just mouthing it seeing what it is
stressing i'm sweating i don't know if you guys are
so he knows that's a fish oh wow that was so cool so your fish not food
um the snowflakes have places to hide so it should be okay but kevin's going in for another
little nip at him yeah you know i've got to let him learn that this these guys look the
the snowflake will is is looking to fight back that's only one kevin there's four there's three
others go spread the love man i hope this works out this is gonna suck if it doesn't but how
do you know sometimes you add fish and one just gets beat up but with kevin kevin's a killer look
at the teeth on them oh we found another one oh another little slur i'm getting them food this is
i'm not i'm also going to put in a few more rocks in the back so they can uh hide in there as well
places kevin can't get i want to i should stop like he's literally tasting them like are you food
there more hiding places
for the snowflakes just for now you know it's not really taken away from anything but here kev
kevin come on eat this fish your friends not food i literally just fed him for shrimp today four
four regular size shrimp like human size shrimp come on guts eat it what a jackass
i can't believe this eat more come on kevin do you want even more keep keep keep filling your gut
here don't forget this piece come on kevin keep eating explode jesus look you're ridiculous
how much more look he's coming up for more stop wow at what point do you call it a day
with your big boy who's your good boy no don't bite me no
no kevin you're on camera i have proof if you bite me over here where'd you go boy who's a good boy
me me okay i suspect everybody's gonna go up yo fine let's let them acclimate i'll update you guys
in the near future on second thought everything you guys just watched was technically filmed about
eight days ago i'm gonna give you the update right now kevin and the grouper have become best friends
they're doing absolutely fantastic with that said kevin will not leave
the snowflake eels alone it's to the point where they hide and they will not
even come out to eat which is not uh very common for a snowflake they are typically
aggressive eaters oh one of the things i kind of want to point out was the color of the tank
it's freshwater lights on a saltwater tank so it's not going to look it's they're all identical
like so for example this tank is the same lighting as this tank this is the african cichlid aquarium
so when you put fresh water lights and or freshwater spectrum on a saltwater
tank you know it's hit or miss whether it's going to look good or not i like it
but it makes the tank kind of look drab and almost dirty so maybe at some point we'll put a
saltwater light on here anyways since kevin won't leave the what he likes to call live spaghetti
alone i'm not gonna take any more risks uh it's been eight days and they don't come out they won't
eat and when they do kevin thinks that he can just go ahead and bite at them um and he's not doing
any damage or hurting anybody i mean look at this guy he's in perfect shape but when it comes to
kevin i mean with with that beak of his he's one bite away from like literally biting them in half
uh so uh today uh or tomorrow look at oh boy baby just poking his head out like why can't we eat
poor guys um i'll figure something out with them but kevin cannot have them in his aquarium anymore
but like i said my relationship with kevin has been uh and has become incredibly complicated it's
to the point where uh i've had to list kevin and i uh as in a complicated relationship on facebook
but with that said sometimes stalking works sometimes it doesn't i mean uh tyrese got
along with the oscars that's typically not supposed to happen with the fahaka puffer and
oscars and you know uh just because it works for one tank doesn't mean it'll work for your tank
etc etc a lot of this stuff in the aquarium hobby is just based off experience and trying
things and seeing if they work but as you know they're caretakers we do have to intervene
uh and put the safety of the of the fish above all else and one of the things what i do when
i'm looking at a new fish and adding them and the risk of any sort of aggression or fighting and
those in the cichlid hobby know exactly what i'm talking about one of the things i'm looking for
sorry for the reflection um how is the fish how is the new fish acting is it out swimming around
is it like he doesn't even have a a torn fin or anything uh is it eating like did you say eating
i'd love to eat right now i bet you would um is it acting normal and at what point do we
intervene at what point do we do we step in and say okay this just isn't going to work out i feel
like eight days uh it was a long enough test for these guys i rarely ever have compatibility issues
but it's always on my mind not everything goes perfectly not everything goes to plan and like
i said as a hobbyist we have to intervene and we have to kind of step in at times and uh you know
i could probably actually leave the snowflake eels in there but you know i don't want to come
out here one day and kevin's bitten one of them in half or something because like i said it wouldn't
take much for uh guts mcgee to do that and i don't trust him i trust him but i don't i'm i love you
kevin i'm just not in love with you anyways the grouper's doing fine and to be fair i'm i'm
starting to think that like these two should just be homies and just have the tank to themselves
because that grouper you know how oscars grow an inch a month for the first 10 months or so
a grouper grows several inches a month so i mean next time we update him he might even be the same
size as kevin and we'll see where that goes but you need a name and i think you will be stephen