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like hell Whigs house he's written articles for tropical fish highways I
would like to go down the stairs because everybody can see kind of like how I
walk into these and there's the man hello you could say I its replacement
you're talking yeah we're going in here Mike give me a quick
the quick tour around in here I know you're in the middle of moving and
that's that's all good I walked in there like so where's the rest of it then you
turn the corner here mr. Gary Lang so we're in here man
what do we got going on what do we got over here what are these guys thank you
huh you got a little rare Mexican good deed
here that's corrected on the odd ax and then there's another little Mexican good
deed and then that just to make sure I didn't neglect the Africans you've got
the public a chromosomal listen you can see there's a female inside the Cape
there how nice they got the gravel piled up against it to kind of give them a
little protection all the live bears right and then I got some of these I
thought I got some of these in Peru what are what are these
that's Perlina previs okay and Pierre Elena's I remember yeah no really enough
that is balonus and Pierre Lina's are neat because they spawn on the leaves
like a little cichlid in the mail garden jump up on them and then no no these
guys these guys don't jump the Cabela's jump like that's a splash tetra that's a
film a okay and they actually lay their eggs underneath the the lid very cool
what else we got over here euro and you're all about you got the little lot
of the little fish you yeah a lot of little fish you can tell on my nice
clean tank hey we listen everybody's got taxes a
little dirt on them what we got up in these are some natives that I collected
that's a cardinal shiner and then a couple of fat those are some red fin
shiners and that's Morris right here mix of fun little tatras and a pissed I was
in there and a couple little raised floors and this is a native plant here
which collapsed last night when I was pulling fish out of here but
this is that justice I was talking about at the auction oh cool it's actually I'm
layering it so as you can see at each inner note it's putting up a new little
plant with oh cool supposed to be a pond coming inside and then just a bunch of
mixed tetras over here and then these ones are the Peru gold stripe correct
it's correct Wow those are cool do you get those in from
Iquitos so where'd those meadow this writer from my local breeder
he doesn't like shipping fish hello here in st. Louis yeah nice those are cool
you selling these on aquavit or what yeah what's your handle on aqua bid I'm
spinning FIM and if any on aqua bid loving that what else we got over here
what were those good deeds you had that little red good deal when I show that
yeah there's the mail back there and that's uh as my nephew calls them they
come from a location called Guadalupe Aguilera and my nephew 14 year old
nephew called him Christina Aguilera there you go
let's roll over here and then I want to go out to your display room very I like
too bad this one here with the yellow back yeah
oh wow I didn't say I want that red fin back yeah those are cool or just it's a
really sharp don't we keep in planning just you do the high female-to-male
ratio are you much here with most of them that are coming in now there are
mostly males I don't know if they're pulling back two females or if they're
hormone treating him you get a very smart out of that group of eight I only
got one female Wow it's a rough life for her yeah I gotta
show this guy right here yeah
and you got to suggest I always like to ask people how they filter this all
central air it's all central air that one little pump is running everything oh
really I got one of those in my crown I love those yeah that's great hey we're
having a conversation over it and right next to it talked on the phone yeah yeah
those are great rollin I'm switching over cue all these
manta filters and all the tanks and we were talking about this this is actually
we call it they call it the Berlin filter or the Hamburg filled hamburger
man food so how it works is it it pulls though you have a pump behind either air
pump or some sort of water flow out and then it pulls everything in this way and
then when you breed fish wherever you can always find stuff behind so a fun
thing you get another example of out here around here I love these little
guys yeah this is an old style better tank I'd like to get those in there
here's a bigger version of it oh wow and when I don't catch that one don't see
the fry are all feeding off of it of course we just scare them
well hey good they're out and what are these what are these fish that's a
Heracles Tama so cleanses they come from central Mexico wow those are cool and
you got two sets of them three there's actually three pairs in there there's a
pair here that's got wigglers she's you can see her tail sticking out there this
is obviously the dominant pair here they've got half the tank there's the
third air in the middle wonderful and then we were talking about these help me
out so that's ended on it's multi punked out okay Molly funk taught us okay and
then there's another example of the filter we were discussing and then these
are they explain to people that the cuckoos spawning or how that works my
buddy Brian had it but they essentially spawn when the other corresponding yeah
basically when the cichlids spawn the catfish kind of hang around on the
outside and then they raced through when the female blade is going around to pick
up the eggs and they'll lay their eggs and grab and eat the cichlid eggs
so the cichlids pick up the catfish eggs instead of cichlid eggs and then the
mother mouth proves the the catfish eggs and raises the baby catfish
and my favorite part that I've seen so far the Bristol
super bumpkins I love these I've seen photos of these trying to figure out a
way to get one of them home with me here the they've got I mean give us your
spiel on the British bumpkin so I mean they have to be nope obviously no been
in the fin what more colours what's the give us the again basically what you're
looking for is a fish that's more like this one here it's got the the four
colors the blue the red the black and the white okay
and you can see that you know on these bronze coloured ones
the other thing with the Bristol Street bumpkins the other secret everybody
always calls the bronze ones and then they have trouble breeding the calicoes
in order to keep the Calico going very well you need to breed the bronze into
it every once in a while Oh keep the plain colored ones in there with them
it's just a really pretty fish and this was the first time I had ever seen him
in my life unfortunately my strain has developed a
notch at the top of the caudal fin that you don't see on most of them are you're
not supposed well it's I mean that's the whole yes so I mean like so that one
technically has the the notch and I don't yet see buddy but it's you know
fish though so if you purchased all you didn't bring any of these these are
except for the biggest one these are and two tiny ones with the red on them all
the rest of them the ones that I've raised Wow
those are great man yeah I love the way that they have the the fins just around
just the different different night is really cool because I've seen I've seen
photos of mine ever actually seen him in person caught my eye right away and then
our favourites the old are these just the convex these are hundred and red
points saundra and red points excuse me yeah these are closely related in the
same same genus but these are still an undescribed species okay and these were
collected originally this is my oh yeah with the generation now in this tank
these were collected by rusty Wessel back in the early 90s and I've had him
ever since this probably think it's the convict no no no no
not anywhere near his pleasure and as you can see I've got three pairs in this
tank and there are sort tails in here and catfish and there's no torn fins or
anything so they're nowhere near as aggressive okay and then in here one of
my first items and again love of oh look there you go nice garden eggs what size
of this I mean obviously they're spawning at that size yeah they'll get a
little bit bigger they get to be about 5 inches Bob Bauer had one monster and I
saw go up here these are actually wild caught white clouds so they're not quite
as easy to breathe this the ones that we have in the tanks now they look pretty
uh pretty good though once it's just a mix of a couple different little tetras
this is a little lush well Shelton Weller from Lake Tanganyika how do you
do you do maintenance on these you this I see you got across the floor yeah
basically I've got a five gallon bucket with a line that goes to the floor drain
and is drain into that said I love these right you kids right here yeah probably
my favorite Bowl fit really yeah those are sweet they're I love their round
body yeah and you keeping them in with Cory Tom I don't they don't care what's
the type of queries are though that's corydoras turn a CW oval three doesn't
have a common name or a scientific name Wow what's that little spotted guy back
there that is a speed Oris species CW 111 I've got some more of those in the
fish room and another thing I love these little low boys right here nice and this
is a good example of a Hamburg filter what all we got in here and we just got
some little various little babies growing out whereas Boras little live
bears more little libraries and this is a pair of better Persephone actually
you've got a male that's got a nest in this log here oh cool build a big nest
nice little piece of Anubis is actually called the dwarf betta so that's why
there you can see there by the size of my finger there's really tiny zoom in
there and then what do we got done here some sort of a Shelly yeah that is a
lamprey locust multipass eos or Neil laughter locust multi-class Giada's and
the weird thing about this tank is that I've got natural shells on this side and
I've got the PVC pipe on this side and these are the dominant fish they built
this mountain here in the center these fish cannot cross over or these guys
will attack them huh but these guys can go over here without
a problem really and you can see all the detritus and everything gets piled up
over on this side which is really funny so these guys can go over yeah but not
the other way not the other way and then what I'll do is I pull these shells out
now clean out the you know take out some of
the fish and you can take the shells out and or the PVC pipe out open them up and
you can get the females out real easily that way because once they get into a
shell you can't get them out so because he's actually a better way to go for
that yeah if you're trying to breed them to sell them and then what happens is
this side I'll catch all the fish that are over here and then within about a
week these some of these guys have migrated over and then all of a sudden
they become the ones that can't goes back over so it's like the other side of
the tracks yeah exactly exactly all right then you got a project out of
you over here as well good deal that's all the tanks that are
going going back into this room huh I like the fish room the other room and
then over here nice mix endlessly you have Barb's and Danielle's and Tetris
fuse little cichlids awesome and then some very old corridors part Vedas well
Mike I'm I've read your stuff in tfh man you got any high-level like 101 advice
for the fishtank people just general advice that you could say to anybody
watching here and just keep him finished what I always tell people are there are
three things to success good food do your water changes every
week how big I always do 50% I do 50% on every tank every week and the fry tanks
I do 50% two or three times a week and then the last thing is live plants in
the tank live plants in the high plains it doesn't matter what it is as you can
tell most of my plants are java moss java fern that kind of stuff but you
know whatever you want to do a lot of tanks I'll just pot plants and put them
in I actually have something from last night that I still have two meetings
there you go Baghdad that's that's the three things you do those three things
good food water changes and then live plants and you'll succeed awesome Mike
thanks a ton for having me over man thanks doesn't know I'm an tank on
everybody