(upbeat music)
- [Dustin] What do you wanna do?
- I would like to you know maybe as a summer program
when we are not having our meetings,
is just have a get-together, and you know
maybe a Saturday and we go and pick
three or four fish rooms to go visit.
Just go visit each other's fish rooms.
- [Dustin] And you've never been to Larry's.
- I've never been to Larry's.
I'm excited about it.
- I've been to Larry's.
Larry's was my favorite out of all the fish rooms I saw
and I saw some great ones that day.
Tori Brown's, Bob Grauer's, clicked links around,
checked out all of those.
We are gonna go to Larry's for a second time
and he's got some really cool stuff.
He was showing me pictures last night actually.
Check that out.
Larry's got a unique style.
Let me put it to you simple, fish tank people.
When I grow up, I want to be like Larry Brown.
Enjoy his fish room.
What's up fish tank people?
Last but certainly not the least
the best fish room coming up.
My troop right here in Denver.
This is Larry Brown's house.
I've been here before, but look at his style.
Larry couldn't meet til later cause he was
at the St. Patrick's Day Parade in this sweet beast.
His fish tanks are just as fun.
Larry Brown's house.
This guy's got the best style.
- [Denver] Larry Brown's the bomb.
- He's the bomb, Mr. Brown how are you?
- I'm fat and sassy.
- Fat and sassy.
- If it's fish, I'm lovin' it.
- If it's fish I'm lovin' it, he said.
what did you say a minute ago?
I've been fishing for awhile.
- I've been fishing since way back.
- [Dustin] How many years you been keeping fish, sir?
- My mother was a charter member of
the Colorado Aquarium Society in 1947.
- [Dustin] Oh man.
- I was six.
And I had black platties at that time.
- Folks, when I saw Larry in the audience
at the Colorado Aquarium Society, my heart skipped a beat.
I love this guy, okay, do the math.
This guy has been keeping fish
for quite a long time.
That puts him around 77 years old.
You come find me, when I'm 77 years old
and I'd better be doin' what he's doin' at this age.
I love this guy.
- And, I've had fish ever since.
When I was in the Navy, I was in
Gulfport, Mississippi so I had some empty tanks.
I went and caught fish out of the gulf.
I kept fish, crabs, critters, whatever I could find.
- [Dustin] You've got some fish my friend
and I want to come up here and show the entrance-way
cause I feel like it's important.
The dogs are gonna say hello.
Hi buddy.
(dogs barking)
It'll be alright.
And then we walk in here like this, though.
That's great, man.
Mr. Brown, what size are these cubes here?
- [Larry] Supposed to be two foot by two foot by two foot.
- [Dustin] Those are cool.
Got some nice, big crypts in there in that pot back there.
- [Larry] Yes.
Lot of stuff growing on that stump
I can't get that stump out of that tank
since I've set it up a little different.
So that stump has been there forever.
- [Dustin] That stump right there?
It looks darn good though.
- [Larry] With the crypts on it.
- [Dustin] Crypts, Anubias, Bolbitus all of it.
- [Larry] Bolbitus is a great plant.
- [Dustin] You're tellin' me.
Jungle Vall...
- [Larry] I got something to add to Justin's pot last night.
- [Dustin] Uh oh, bring it.
- I've been having a lot of trouble not getting enough
light through the glass.
I've got to keep the glass on the top clean
so that the light gets through the glass.
I've had trouble with the coral because of that
and I figured out that one of the reasons is that the
lights are working great, but not all the light
doesn't get to where it needs to go.
- [Dustin] No, it's gotta get through the glass.
I completely forgot that you had saltwater as well.
- [Larry] I specialize in everything.
So I don't specialize in anything.
(laughs)
- [Dustin] So I see that you have water around.
Is this what you use for top-offs and water changes?
- [Larry] I've been using our own water for salt-water
mix only.
- [Dustin] Okay, is all this water over here
oral as well?
- [Larry] That is not oral.
It is for adding, topping off, changing,
whatever I'm preparing.
I do not have automatic change my friend
But I have work-out club.
Get my exercise.
- [Dustin] Workout club, get your exercise.
(laughs)
- [Larry] Probably two hours a day in here during the week--
- [Dustin] Two hours a day.
- Not necessarily on the weekend, but I do what I can.
- [Dustin] So did you intentionally heat the rooms
that your wife would leave you alone in here?
- [Larry] I do, without having 20 or 30 or 40 heaters
I just heat the room.
- [Dustin] Makes a lot of sense.
I love our (mumbles).
- [Larry] Coral banded shrimp.
And engineered golbies.
These are not of any kind
but these golbies will come out and feed.
They're engineered golbies because they
dig up the sand, they rearrange everything.
Here comes one.
- [Dustin] Oh wow, those are cool.
- [Larry] There's three of them in there.
That is breeding size.
When they're young, they swim free swimming like
coral catfish, ut those are gobies.
- [Dustin] Those are awesome.
- [Larry] The shrimp will live together if it's a pair.
- [Dustin] Really?
- [Larry] If no pair, only one shrimp.
- [Dustin] But that's a pair.
- [Larry] That is a pair.
- [Dustin] I've always loved coral banded shrimp.
- [Larry] So our club has gone to...
oh show every month they have bowl show
couple of different species.
They're doing a clam Bowl Show now, once a year.
- [Dustin] Yeah?
- [Larry] Here's my secret.
I'm going to bring saltwater clams to the Bowl Show.
They said to pick up your bowl and take it.
- [Dustin] The Bowl Show.
- [Larry] And planted tank and it will be a popular choice
and pretty hard to put a criteria on it.
- [Dustin] Oh man, Caulerpa, that's going to be really cool.
- [Larry] Red algae.
- [Dustin] I love that red algae, that's great.
- [Larry] Green grass on the left side there.
- [Dustin] That's great looking red algae there.
- [Larry] We'll see how they judge that for.
That will be interesting.
- [Dustin] Comin' at them with a curve ball.
- [Larry] We're gonna surprise everybody.
- [Dustin] Why not, that's great.
Just spent these guys down here.
- [Larry] These are supposed to be feeders
for the big frontosa, guess what?
It's not happening.
- [Dustin] Frontosa doesn't care.
- [Larry] There's a big female, a big male in there
a very big male in there.
- [Dustin] That is a big male, wow.
- [Larry] Most of those fish were born in there.
These are linea nigra frontiata humpback linea.
- [Dustin] Everybody in this club has big frontosas.
I've seen a lot of 'em.
- [Larry] My favorite are the Mimpimbwe Blue.
I don't have a lot of breeders anymore but I have
five (mumbles) that can be blue in here, okay.
(mumbles)
- [Dustin] Pump's older than me, close to it.
What now?
- [Larry] Ameca splendens with the black and yellow tail.
But they go good with the cichlids.
(mumbles) Actually they're meaner than the cichlid.
- [Dustin] Really?
- [Larry] They're, they are what they are,
the one in the cave it's because he was
way, way meaner, these will go after German red peacocks.
German red males over here with some more younger babies
in there.
- [Dustin] Oh wow, look at them.
- [Larry] They're kind of in custody.
- [Dustin] With all the babies underneath him.
- [Larry] Yeah, they're loose in the tank.
Usually you put the female in the trap,
but I took him for a bone skull
so left the female in there and she did her thing.
- [Dustin] What are these?
- [Larry] These are a metric climbers and (mumbles)
We had a theme plant theme presentation.
Your fish has to match a theme.
So my theme is blues is my business is good.
It's a blues song with Blue Johanni
So I don't know if I can pull that off or not.
You're supposed to take like damsel fish in a tower.
Or you have convicts--
- [Dustin] I got a theme tag, I like that, blue tang--
- [Larry] That's a theme tank for the wine glass
with a giant wine glass with a giant grommies
in a giant, theme tank.
- [Dustin] Theme tank, I like that a lot.
- [Larry] Yep, that's a great idea too.
- [Dustin] I've had a ghetto tank.
I've had a pissed off tank, but not a theme.
I like the theme.
- [Larry] At Sara's one time
You'll need to talk to her about it
we had a theme tank.
So, she made a baby cradle
and she's a good worker.
So for a ten gallon tank
she made a baby cradle.
and then we put whatever baby fish we had.
We had (mumbles) And maybe this and that
I don't know what.
The judges really liked that.
(laughs)
Had a theme glass catfish
I liked my baby fish, the judges didn't.
(laughs)
Jerry Shrimp.
- [Dustin] Jerry shrimp.
- [Larry] There's some really shrimp around
and some yellow sakura shrimp.
I'm not really so good with them (mumbles)
A renewable resource.
Put the net in there, put an algae wafer in there
and pretty soon there are 30-40 shrimp and
(mumbles)
(laughs)
- That works, it really works.
- [Dustin] Don't let me forget to
leave you with some plants.
- [Larry] This come from ADA, most of this stuff in there.
- [Dustin] Those are cool ferns.
- [Larry] and we always go back to bolbitis.
- [Dustin] We got to, what's this really triangular
looking fish down there.
It's heading to the back?
- [Larry] It's an Abromite.
- [Dustin] Those are cool.
- [Larry] I was...
Its a rescue
and I was given that Abromite because
someone bought it at auction
and it was fightin' their fish.
- [Dustin] Geez
- [Larry] It was eatin' their live ones
Even when it was little.
- [Dustin] Oh really?
Like I said, I want to be like Larry Brown
when I grown up.
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