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zebra wall decor living room- hey everybody, cory from aquarium co-op. today, we're visiting dean's fish room and let's go ahead and get started. so, let's start, let's just start here. we'll start here. and so, this rack, i guess, it's kind of cramped in thisroom, if you guys can't tell. how big is it, dean? - [dean] it's, like 96 square feet.
- [cory] 96 square feet.- [dean] it's small. - [cory] and you're gonna see, i guess, what dean can pull off in, you know, it's not quite 10 by 10, but, you know, it's a jail cell, right? (laughs) - [dean] pretty much, yeah. - [cory] alright, so,got some discus here, and you were telling me that, what, they ate their eggs thismorning or something like that?
- [dean] yeah, there's two pairs that, these ones had fry. they are getting betterand better at raising. they're still really young,so, i expect, you know, another six months, they'll start-- - [cory] and how oldare they would you say? - [dean] i would guess thatthose are just about a year old. - [cory] 'cause this thing,you know, i'm assuming this is the male here--- [dean] yeah.
- [cory] is like biggerthan my hand type of deal, so young seems ... well fed, but maybe young, i guess. - [dean] yeah, he shouldget another inch and a half. she should get another inch. they should both getanother inch and a half. - [cory] and then, are these,these ones here the same-- - [dean] yeah. - [cory] like, you got'em at the same time?
- [dean] yeah, actually, initially, i bought the two females as a pair. - [cory] okay. - [dean] and they kept laying eggs, and i said, "well, okay,but the eggs aren't viable." and then one day, i sawboth of them laying eggs. - [cory] well, that'll tell you. - [dean] so, i realizedthey were two females, so then, i went out andshopped for two more males.
- [cory] and so, did youalready buy them big, or you can just spot'em when they're young what you think are male? - [dean] i bought 'em about this size. and how did you determinemale at that size? like, just by observing behavior, or? - [dean] behavior, the look. you can obviously tell this is the male. he has the great big bulk.
and also, if you get a goodlook at the breeding tube, but you have to get really close. - [cory] right, right, right. - [dean] the males are alwaysslanted and pointed forward. - [cory] and pointing forward? - [dean] or, one way. pointing one way. yeah, they should be pointed forward. slanted and pointing forward,the females are blunt.
i actually saw that malespawning with another female, so i took him. - [cory] hmm, and was thefemale just not very good? 'cause i would have been-- - [dean] i already had the female. - [cory] i would havebeen tempted to be like, "i'll take the female, too," 'cause it's, they were compatible, in my opinion, or whatever.
- [dean] no, i already had the female. i didn't have, i can't dedicateanymore tank space to that. - [cory] sure, and so, these down here. what about these discus? - [dean] those?- [cory] what are these? - [dean] well, mydaughter kind of wanted me to breed some discus, so one of the things that i've learned is you can't miss anyfeedings with a lot of fry.
so, this is a spawn thati had pulled and raised and then ended up goingaway for the weekend and came back and therewas four left alive. - [cory] i see. - [dean] so, those arethe four that made it. the rest-- - [cory] and they get their own 20 gallon while they raise up, huh? - [cory] how old are thoseright there, roughly?
- [dean] those are about two and a half, three months old. - [dean] and they don'thave the tank by themselves. there's mega clown plecos in there. - [cory] oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - [dean] they just happen tobe about the same temperature. - [cory] i'm gonna have toget in closer to get those mega clown plecos. any activity out of those yet?
- [dean] i don't thinkthey're big enough yet. - [cory] true, yeah, nowthat i think about it. yeah, they're like fourinches or so, yeah. and then, down here. what's going on down here? - [dean] that's a school of aspidoras. can't remember the-- - [cory] i remember theycall them the six ray is the common name, i think.
the six ray. but, i don't, i don't remember the-- - [dean] i started initiallywith three of these; two males and a female. these are all my own offspring. - [cory] nice. - [dean] they will spawnmore in the fall for me than this time of year. - [cory] and you find, like,when the pressure drops
and things that actually do that, or-- - [dean] yes. - [dean] i can induce them, ifi know a big storm's coming, i do a couple water changesthe few days before. they will spawn, but notvery many viable eggs. - [dean] and you'll see these scattered through a lot of my tanks, 'cause i have had many babies that i-- - [cory] looks like wehave the finnex light,
the stingray, is that what we're-- - [dean] yeah, almost every tank in here's lit by the stingray. some of 'em, it's right down on the tank. most of them, it's up above so it's out of my way all the time. - [cory] right? everything's so uniform. that's what i'm jealous of, you know?
even stuff's labeled. i mean, who labels stuff? geez. - [dean] that's just so i remember. (laughter) - [cory] fair enough. i guess on this rack, we can go, if we can go up tall now. so, up tall, let's goto this top right tank.
so, obviously, rainbow fish and they're the wapoga red lasers. and, where, oh, yeah. i was gonna ask you where you got 'em. i think you got 'em from me, right? - [dean] i got those from you, yeah. and there are eggs in the mop right now. i don't know if you can zoomin close enough to get 'em. - [cory] ooh, that'll be tough.
i don't know. - [dean] probably not. - [cory] that's something i'llhave to look at the computer and see if it actually came out or not. - [dean] what i normally dois i will leave that mop in until i see babies swimming on the surface and then i'll take the mop out and hatch. - [cory] do you rescue the babies also? - [dean] i try to, i try to.
'cause the parents, they will eat them. - [cory] well, yeah, that's what i was-- - [dean] and if you catchthem on the first day, there's only a couple babies and then they'll usually hatch out for about eight to 10 days straight. it looks like here that, are all of these tanksrunning canister filters? is that what's goingon, in addition, or ...
- [dean] this rack that you're looking at i want to all run canisters, also. eventually, i will switch them all to, i have enough eheims now. i got a couple used at the swap meet. so, i'm going to switch themall to eheims eventually. and that's just, it'smore so for water flow than filtration. i think the sponge filtration is fine,
but i wanted more water flow. - [cory] and then, i think this is cool. what temperature areyou running your discus and then, i want you totalk about these heaters. - [dean] the discus are 84 degrees. this one's 84. this is about 78, the catfish. i believe these are in the82 range, the rainbows. - [cory] and, do you turn, are you,
so, are you using theheater to make them 82 or is it because they'reso high in the room, they're naturally-- - [dean] no, all the tanks are 82, 'cause we're in my basement and it tends to stay about 65degrees year round in here. - [cory] okay, so the heatersare doing that for them? - [dean] yeah.- [cory] yeah, okay. if i don't heat them,
actually, the unheatedtank in here will run about 68, 70 degrees all the time. - [cory] and then, next door,it looks like you've got the praecox rainbows,so, the sister species. - [dean] yep, those are alwaysone of my favorite ones. easy to sell, easy to breed. same thing goes, wheni see fry on the top, i'll pull the mop, start hatching them. - [cory] so, i think it's, you know,
we've kinda shown this first little rack. there's not an inch ofwasted space, by the way. you guys know i'm not the skinniest man. i can barely walk through this door. but, every inch of space is utilized. so, we've seen, you know,i guess all of these tanks, for the most part,besides that discus tank, are kind of breeding tanks. and then, we'll show you,you know, in my opinion,
some of the impressive part, the fry tanks. there's fry everywhere in here. and, so like, here, these are, which ones? theses are the praecox, so that's ones we were just talking about. and is this, like, howmany mops make this? - [dean] that's one. - [cory] one mop made that?
- [cory] wow. - [dean] but, you can see that they hatch over a period of about 10 days, and i would guess at a fish farm, these would be sized andput together by size. - [cory] sure, so thatway they don't outcompete and things like that. - [dean] but, i don'thave room to do that, so these will outcompete a little bit,
but, eventually, as i net'em to sell them or whatever, net the bigger ones, theother ones will catch up. - [cory] and how many doyou think are in there? 'cause that seems likeway more than one spawn. like, i would have guessed, like, 60. but, that seems like waymore than what's in there. - [dean] yeah, i wouldsay there's probably near 100 in there, maybe. - [cory] and it looks like you're running
the matten sponge filters in the back? - [dean] all the tankson this level are matten, and i really like them. the only disadvantage is they create such a current right here, because it's sprayingforward all the time. so, if the fish get uphere, you can just see 'em, they get blown all over the place. or like the little guys,you can really see them.
these are baby angels. this is two spawns. - [dean] they're five days apart. one was a really small spawn. the other was a really big spawn. and i just decided toput 'em all together. - [cory] and how long willyou leave this many fry in this 10 gallon like this? - [dean] until they get about this size.
they'll outgrow it. there's not as many fryin here, but pea size. pea size, they're ready to move. - [cory] and these arethe super red angels? - [cory] is that what these are? - [cory] we'll show thoseon another rack comin' up. but, yeah and then, so i guess while we're on this row here. - [dean] those are baby rams,
probably 100 or so in there. - [cory] 100 german bluerams in a 10 gallon. - [dean] a relatively small spawn. usually if you get up toabout 200 or 300 in a spawn. - [cory] and it looks like, yeah we do run heaters into these tanks, and then how often do youwater changing in this density? - [dean] twice a week, about half the tank.
- [cory] okay, that's morededication than i have. i automate, which we'llhave to talk about. so, this is, you know, the guts of this fish room, right there. there's a lot of gadgetsgoin' on right there to make this happen, butwe'll go over that in a bit. then here, we can probablydo a lot of teaching for me, 'cause i know these are, you know, different grades of crystalshrimp and stuff like that.
- [dean] all of the, these are the prl, pure redlines, is what they call them, crystal red shrimp. you'll see if you catch thislittle one on the sides, solid white. - [cory] oh, wow. - [dean] there's a few solid whites that are coming out of there. - [cory] and is solidwhite more sought after?
- [dean] much moredesirable, i mean right now-- - [cory] yeah, i don't know ifi've seen a solid white one. - [dean] or the ones like theone on the very back there, which has the red around the head, and pretty much a littlewhite dot on the tail. - [cory] yeah. - [dean] these have struggled, but they're starting to come back now. they haven't produced alot of females for me,
and these are very similar, just two different tanksof pretty much the same. - [cory] so, one thing i'm noticing, is that it appears likeyou'll let algae grow on the side of thesetanks, but not of these. or, is it naturally that .... - [dean] no, it's ... i only scrape the front. these, every time i move thefry out, i scrub the tank.
- [cory] wow, that seemslike a lot of work. - [dean] it takes like, it takes like 30 seconds. scrub it, let it settle. drain all of the water. - [cory] okay, cause i was, in my mind, i was thinking you were takingto the sink to scrub it out. - [dean] no, i do it right here. i just use a plastic, like a dish brush.
just scrub it really quick. i drain it all the way. if i'm gonna, if i'm movingfry from another system, i'll put in a third of theirwater from that other system. they get a two-thirds water change when i fill it back up. then the heaters, i'll plug in so one switch will turn thewhole bank of heaters on. so, i can just turn 'em off
- [cory] oh, yeah. - [dean] at the power strip. - [cory] looks like, you know, if we zoom in on these heaters here, looks like they're mostly at 82-83, well this one's 85. - [dean] yeah, and actually-- - [cory] the rams i guess. - [dean] the numbersaren't super accurate.
- [cory] oh, calibration, yeah. - [dean] no of 'em comeperfectly calibrated. - [cory] what have we got goin' down low? this is my nightmare here. these tanks are on the floor. - [dean] these are-- - [cory] i gotta geton my hands and knees. - [dean] i literally haveto put a water pump in these to change 'em.
but, it's pretty automated. it just, it's ready to go. - [cory] just drop it in. - [dean] just drop it in. set this in a bucket or athis case set it in the drain. plug it in, and it's draining. this is just a power head. this tank is just a catch-all tank. it's where they're not breeding,
they're extra fish, they're extra plants. - [cory] it looks likerasboras and danios mostly. - [dean] yeah, those are dither fish. there's a lot of dwarf cichlids in there. they hide. - [cory] oh yeah, ican see like one hiding behind that pot back there. - [dean] right. there'd be one or two under here.
- [cory] oh yeah. - [dean] so it's just ... - [cory] everything's gottalive somewhere, i guess. - [dean] yeah, don't have a lot of room. - [cory] that tank's impressive - [dean] these are all f1sfrom wild caught borelli. - [cory] yeah, ca-sig-a-rella, yeah. - [dean] and it's from acertain river drainage. i can't remember the nameof it right now, but--
- [cory] how many are there? 'cause there's a lot! - [dean] there's about 180, last time i, when i moved them there, there was 180. and i've only seen onecasualty since i moved 'em. - [cory] that's a pretty good rate. - [dean] they get probably a twice a week water change too. i just pump it into the bucket.
- [cory] sure. yeah, then we've got, oh, get up here off the floor. i'm gettin' too old for the floor tanks. - [dean] yeah, me too. - [cory] so, some sterbaicorys here, it looks like. - [dean] settin' up, tryin'to get them to spawn, 'cause i'd like to have baby corys in the bottom of my frytanks to clean up the mess.
it really keeps thebottom of the tanks clean. - [cory] well, all the tanks, you know, look very clean, completeopposite of my fish room. i'm the mole master. - [cory] and then, justunlimited female, the pistos? - [dean] yeah, pretty much all female, a couple that had their fins burned off. - [cory] yeah? - [dean] see this one?
that was in a unfortunatesituation that happened for a couple weeks while i was gone. - [cory] mm-hmm. - [dean] but they wouldstill be okay for breeders. - [cory] right, cause it's not genetic. - [dean] it's not genetic, yeah. it was environmental. - [cory] and then-- - [dean] i don't know ifthese are gonna come out.
- [cory] i can see-- - [dean] she's backunder there pokin' out. - [cory] i can see the male, just a glare. if we can get it on. - [dean] i don't know ifyou're gonna get to see her. - [cory] well, i can-- - [dean] oh, there you go. - [cory] yeah, zoom in on her, but these are thepelvicachromis kribensis,
and the taeniatus, orit's like the yellow form. - [cory] and then, did you say you, do you have fry on these? - [dean] yeah, i do have fry on these. - [cory] okay, we'll showthat, like the next racks, may be more amazing than this rack, so we'll save that suspense. and then, must be a pair of apistogramma? - [dean] yeah, cacatuoides,the orange flash ones.
- [cory] oh, there wego, right in that cave. - [dean] man, i'll put thishere so you can step up. - [cory] alright, nowwe're goin' to the ceiling. - [dean] watch your head. - [cory] oh, yes, that's a-- - [dean] you have no idea howmany times i've whacked it. - [cory] that's how you got so smart, 'cause you've whacked your head on that. you accomplished the impossible.
there's four rows of tanks. - [cory] like that'severyone's dream, right? is a fourth row, but we did have to get on our knees and on a ladder, so ... (clicking) oh yeah, now i rememberwhat you have up here. - [dean] are they out? - [cory] they are, they are, totally.
so, these are the claro plecos - [dean] yeah, and it's interesting, i just switched how thatwood was set up yesterday. - [dean] i used to have itjust leaning up in the back, and yesterday decided tolift it up off of the, and put it on top of those, and all of a sudden, they'vebeen out all the time. - [cory] yeah, and they'rehanging out underneath it. - [dean] and one ofthem looked like it went
in one of the spawning caves. - [cory] yeah, there it is. - [dean] we'll see. - [cory] see, that's what happens when you put a tank on the ceiling. it get's so dirty like this. i think you can actuallysee they went poop once. - [cory] compared to all those other tanks that are immaculate.
but, the claro pleco is thetrue, true dwarf bristlenose and you've probably seen thosein my fish room, as well, but i'm sure, i'm sure deanwill beat me to breeding them, 'cause he just puts inway more effort than i do. and then, using the polycarbonate tops? - [dean] yeah, on some tanks. - [cory] oh, yeah, i didn'trealize that some were in glass. yeah, down below is glass, and that's-- - [cory] if you saw, or haveseen these knobs before,
i stole 'em from dean. that's where i learnedto grab those knobs. oh, you should show them the dimmer. - [dean] oh, okay. let's see, which is the best one to video? probably that one. so-- - [cory] these are all the finnex. - [dean] all finnex lights.
i cut the cords, so i voided my warranty. and, we'll just trace this cord, we can trace it around back and up to this junction box right here. - [cory] that looks safewith water. (laughs) - [dean] yeah, it'sfine, it's only 12 volts. so, half of that'spositive, half's negative, and that comes over to here, where a power supply,
one power supply thatdoes all of these lights, comes in to the dimmer and then it goes to the various things. so, i can just turn all thelights all the way down to off and all the way back up to bright. - [cory] that's pretty handy. - [dean] i tend to run them about a little less than half way. - [cory] and why is that?
- [dean] i don't like algae. and i'm not really in the plantgrowing kind of mode here. - [cory] you're a fishguy, not a plant guy. - so, for the video, they're all up full. so, i did that. there's three dimmers in here. one on this rack, one on thatrack, one on the back rack. - [cory] and so, yeah, if you guys saw the aquarium co-op video on the dimming,
i stole that idea from dean here. dean's where i get all my good ideas. so, we're just raiding his fish room for all the good ideas today. - [dean] yeah, and so thisis just a bigger dimmer. the small dimmer is upon the top of this 20. but, it's on, you won't be ableto see it without a ladder. - [cory] but, i guess, let'sgo into the next rack here and this is, i love this,because everything is so,
like, every rack hasbeen different, so far. like this one is literally a baking rack. - yeah, but it's, it's a nsf rack, sothat means it's kitchen and it's designed for 3,000 pounds. so, it freaked me out a little bit because what a lot of people can'tsee in this fish room is behind this rack, there's a four foot pieceof paneling that hinges out.
that's where my water heater is. - so, if there's ever any problem, this rack has to moveto fix the water heater. the furnace to the housesits behind this paneling, and this just pulls outand slides that way. so, i had to work thatinto, you know, the whole the whole room. - [dean] so, this rack i wanted to be, i was, at first, gonnaleave it on the wheels,
but i figured they would get flat spots and then i wouldn't beable to roll it anyway. - [cory] right. - [dean] so, i just decided if i ever have to get in the furnace, put tanks here that are easy to move out. fives are easy, the 15 would be easy. this would be a little tough,but we could move it out. - [cory] so let's juststart on, in my opinion,
the coolest thing here, and that is this, i don't even know what to call it. fry raising station? - [dean] it's the fry system, yeah. - [cory] so, it's, you know,a lot of things going on here. - [dean] yeah, you'relookin' at a 20 long. - [cory] with sponges in it, apparently. - [dean] yeah, it doesn't really need the extra sponge filters,
but i always have them in casei have one when i need one. - [cory] makes sense. - [dean] so, they'realways cycled sponges. it's got a heater in it and the heart of it is, kindof, the powerhead water pump, whatever you want to call it, and the sponge that is the blue. - [cory] okay, fine sponge, yeah. - [dean] so, that ispushing water up to here,
through the pvc, where these valves control thewater going into the trays. and there's all sorts of various trays. these trays here are actuallyones that i used 30 years ago. - [cory] that means you'reat least 30 years old. - [dean] at least, yeah. and, we'll get a, we'll get a close up ofone of them right here. so, this was a microwave dinner tray.
- [dean] and, compared to today's, this is very strong plastic. - [cory] well, 30 years ago,it was built to last, right? we didn't know plasticwas totally gonna kill us. - [dean] so, i cut ahole, i glued a screen, the screen was made, well, 30 years ago, wasmade from my wife's nylons. now, it is made from apiece of coffee filter. so, it's super fine mesh.
just glued it on with pvc glue and it seems to be holding super strong. it floats in a pvc thing that, this is glued. it's not just pushed together, 'cause i pushed 'em together, and eventually, they-- - [cory] yeah, they sink--- [dean] fill with water. - [cory] and you got a problem, yeah.
- [dean] the little rings are just so-- - [cory] that's my favoritedesign right there. - [dean] i can hold 'em in place. - [cory] yeah, he's got these little pins. - [dean] that you just drop through. - [cory] if you were totake these two pins out, these rafts kind of leavethe dock, so to speak. - [dean] right, theycould move around, yeah. - [cory] so, what do we have,
so we've got, looks likewe've got air coming in, and we've got water dripping in, but what fry are we lookin' at here? - [dean] okay, so, theseare rams, a small group. - [cory] okay, german blue rams? - [dean] yeah, and theseare the orange laser cories. - [cory] yep, which youguys have probably seen, i did a video on harvesting them for him. these are the pelvicachromis--
- [cory] the taeniatus ones--- [dean] yeah, whatever. - [cory] the yellow form ones. - [dean] and a kind of anunsuccessful hatch here of angels. - [cory] yeah, not that many in there. - [dean] no, those'll probably get mixed with something else eventually. - [cory] and so, like,that one, i noticed, doesn't have air in it.
is that, any reason why, or-- - [dean] just so i could showyou what i did with the air. so, this is a zip tie thatis designed for a screw. - [cory] right, yeah. - [dean] it just happensthat the rigid airline tubing slides in it perfectly. - [cory] well, that's the milliondollar secret right there. - [dean] and i can just turnthem and put them in here. the air is really onlyto break up the biofilm.
- [dean] it's unnecessary. i don't think it'snecessary, except for that, because when i'm feeding these, all the brine shrimp, thelittle tiny powdered food, it gets a lot of biofilm andit will seal off the top, so the air is, that's all it's really for. and it's just designed, you know, i can swing them out of theway, swing them back in. can pretty much move them wherever i want.
- [cory] but, yeah, imean, so one 20 long, and we have hundreds of fryfrom four different species, you know, maximisingyour three square feet out of your less than hundred square feet. there's a few stragglers in the bottom. some catfish. i think there's a couple early spawns. when they first spawned,there was only three babies. i think they're in the bottom down--
- [cory] yeah, i think i, yeah. i see the reflection of them hiding out. - [dean] that's mainly, thebottom always stays clean and, you know, really, theonly maintenance i do in here is i stick the siphon in andsiphon half the water down, and i clean the prefilter on, and this is just for flow. it really keeps that bottom clean. - [cory] that makes sense.
- [dean] 'cause i don't have anything other than that down there. - [cory] and so what happens, like, i'm seeing over here, we've got, like, a little hang on tank, and then more things going on? - [dean] oh, yeah, this. i ran out of space. - [cory] okay, 'causei was gonna say, like,
what happens when you needto put more fry in here? where do these go from here? - [dean] so, this is another hatch of, of baby rams. and they're just, they'll probably be free-swimming in two days. - [cory] and how many youthink are in that batch? - [dean] i haven't really determined, but there was at least 300 eggs.
'cause it doesn't look likethat many, but they're so small. - [dean] no, they're clustered around and under the rock, though. i have to be really careful. if i move the rock rightnow, it would crush them. - [cory] oh. - [dean] so, i gotta waittil they're free-swimming and then i can grab the rock. - [cory] i see, so whatwe were seeing is like
the already hatched out egg casings. - [dean] right, right. - [cory] and then, looks like you have the blue container here. - [dean] that's methylene blue. it's about a gallon. i think it's a vase. - [cory] did you steal it from your wife or did you buy it for fish?
- [dean] i actually bought it. - [dean] and there's angels on here. angel eggs, and theyare wiggling right now. - [cory] see where i can zoom in. yep, you can see that. - [dean] in the back, there'sa small batch of angels. it's more, a lot more of them fungused. we'll get to where i have four pairs and kinda determining which pair's
the most viable right now. - [cory] yeah, 'cause dedicatingthat much space to that, that's half your fishroom almost over here. - [cory] then looks like we've got, what, orange flash in here? - [dean] yep, mmhmm. - [dean] there's some fryin with them right now. - [cory] i see that. will she stay yellow whilethere's fry in there--
- [cory] or is she ready to breed again? - [dean] she actually has spawned again before i had a chance to get those fry out and they were cannibalized by the male. - [dean] so, you can seeher picking on those fry 'cause she want's them outta there. - [cory] and so, does that mean one day you're gonna get in and remove 'em then? - [dean] oh, yeah, have too, soon.
probably this coming week. - [dean] and then, i haveto find a place to put them. - [cory] and then it looks like there's a barrier between this tank. so, i guess they must fightwhen they can see over there? 'cause ... - [dean] yeah, that's ... - [cory] just so they can't see in? - [dean] i just have, i thinka lot of fish like the pistos,
they need something to back up to. - [dean] so i wrap that tank endwise, and they were just tooskittish with just the little-- - [cory] and is this a five gallon, is that what this one is? - [dean] yeah, yeah. - [cory] alright. - [dean] so they were just tooskittish without that there, and so they calmed downonce they got that there.
- [cory] and these arethe what, the fire reds? - [dean] yeah, that's fire red agassizis. - [cory] and this is, youknow when we're talkin' about, i always tell people, "you needto buy big groups, 'cause," so, dean's got some inhere, lots of males. and then he's got more males up here, you started off with what, six? and ended up with what, six males? - [dean] six males,and we thought for sure
we had picked-- - [cory] yeah, but luckily-- - [dean] two, or three and three. - [cory] one came into my store, and she's already spawned, so we know it's a female. so, even though he'sseven of these deep now, he can finally start makin' 'em, so. this one is obviously the dominant male.
he keeps this guy pretty - [cory] now are you--- [dean] subdued over there. - [cory] intentionally leavingthat other male in there? - [dean] until i get viable spawn, yeah. - [dean] 'til i see babies,then i'll pull him out. and then, so this must be the actual wild pair of the borelli. - [cory] so crazy to me you're spawning stuff in five gallons.
i'm always too chicken to like, "oh, i'm gonna kill 'em in a five gallon!" - [dean] no, they're fine. you get as good spongefilter going in there, they'll be fine. - [cory] definitely wild-caught in hiding. but yeah, so that pairspawned the 150 of 'em. and then, oh up top, i didn't. i should look at those guys,
'cause i haven't even seen these guys. so, i'll get on the ladder here. oh yeah, the head crusher. - [dean] so, what you have, is you have an electric blue female,and a german male. and the only reason is, is because i don't have a lot of room for extra fish in here. so, i had a pair of electricblues, but i lost the male.
and so i had three pairs of the german red and lost one female, so i just said, "you know what, those guysare gonna like each other." - [cory] and have theyliked each other yet, or? - [dean] no. - [cory] not yet. (laughs) - [dean] but, you know,eventually those might end up in that tank down on the floor. - [cory] yep.
- [dean] and something elsewould go in there to spawn, or raise, or both. but, i don't have a lot of room for a lot of extra fish to hang out. - [cory] alright, andthere is another rack. this is, quote unqoute, the "big rack". and this is where a lot of fish are, 'cause this is where your 40s are. - [cory] so i guess, let's start,
tell me about the red angels over here, 'cause you're giving a lotof space to these red angels. - [dean] well, we originallygot 12, i believe. and then we had one pass away, and we ended up with five pairs. - [cory] that's pretty good odds. - [dean] yeah, that's pretty good odds. so right now, each pairbasically has 10 gallons, but it's shared.
and that actually workswith angels really well, because like this pair here, when a cory gets in there,they don't have eggs, and they're protectingthem from the other pair. - [cory] if i can get,if i can block the-- - [dean] the glare. - [cory] here we go. yeah. - [dean] so, part of our idea is to
get the white out anddevelop more of a red, or a dark orange and black angel. - [dean] at first, none of these pairs were very prolific at all. these are all about, whatdo think, about a year now? - [cory] maybe, i-- - [dean] maybe a little under a year. so, but they're graduallygetting larger and larger spawns, and more prolific.
they're more better hatches. - [cory] gonna have more than you know what to do with here soon. and you know, we might endup narrowing it down to, you know, one pair here, and-- - [cory] or at leastone tank-worth of 'em. 'cause giving up one ofyour tanks out of what? how many tanks do you have in here, 20? - no, i don't remember.
let's see, there's five, 10, 11, 12, 13. 14, 15, 18, 19. we already get to 19. - [cory] oh, okay. i guess i forgot all the 10s racked. - [dean] 25, 35, 36, 37. - [cory] so, 37 tanks inunder 100 square feet. - [cory] so, a tank everytwo square feet almost?
- [cory] or, three square feet. - [dean] a few of 'em are head bangers, but life will go on. - [cory] so, this is acool tank, obviously. there's a lot of money in this tank. - [dean] there's electricblue rams in there. - [cory] and so, that mustbe from the previous spawn. - [dean] that's from the previous pair. that was before the male bit the dust.
i only had i bought a pair of those. i ordered 'em from a breeder, rather than try to get 'em from a store. i wanted it from a breeder that actually was raising 'em. - [dean] so i got, youknow, one pair from him. - [cory] and are yougonna use some of these to make more generations? - [dean] yes, that's the idea.
and, how do you like the intake sponge? - [dean] the prefilter? - [cory] yeah, the prefilterthat's made to do it. - [dean] it's amazing, actually. - [dean] because you can reach in there, literally if you just popped it off, and take it to the sink to clean it, the filter part stays fairly clean. i don't have to do much to that.
- [dean] and that particular sponge, tends to hold the stuff while you're gettin' it out of the tank. - [cory] wow, i would'vethought for sure-- - [dean] unlike this type of sponge, so this is, it looks the same. - [cory] it's made by the samecompany, but it is different. - [dean] this is a lot coarser, doesn't seem like it is.
but even this one, comparedto the five inch one, it's different sponge. - [dean] i can get thatwithout a cloud in the tank, but this one, it's a mess. and i've heard of peopleputting plastic bags, or wrapping them. no, i'm not into that. - [cory] that's what i do. (laughs) - [dean] i just lift it outta there.
- [cory] then, looks like more rams. - [dean] yeah, those are the german rams. there's a few super red plecos in there. - [dean] but again, even like, this is a good example right here. if i had cories in this tank, all that stuff on thebottom would be not there. - [cory] that's amazing to me.
i haven't seen it, so it'shard for me to believe, but i believe you,'cause i see what you do. - [dean] plecos will grind it up and you'll end up with this, which is easy to siphon, but cories will grind it up so fine that it comes into the sponges. - [cory] wow, i've gottatry that, 'cause that's, well, i run gravel, so it's gonna end up
in the gravel regardless for me. - [dean] this is a good example. there's cories on the bottom of that tank. - [cory] and true enough,there's, you know, there's a little bit of dust, maybe, but nothin' like that physicalpoop like you see up there. and, you know, dwarfcichlid, dwarf cichlid, they're not the same dwarf cichlid, but, you know, i bet theirpoop's fairly similar.
- [dean] it is, yeah. - [cory] and these are all the-- - [dean] these are the lobe. - [cory] the pelvicachromis, yeah. lobes, yeah. lotta those, too. and the females are starting to show now. - [cory] mmhmm, yeah, now you can start pulling out sexed pairs.
- [cory] there's anothertank of lobes, it looks like. lots of lobes. - [dean] and this alsohas these guys, the-- - [cory] oh, the l333s. - [dean] yeah, there's-- - [cory] yeah, there's some right there. - [dean] there's some in the sticks, there's some in the caves. yeah, i made dean take these,
'cause i want him to work with them, 'cause they look amazing. they're hard to get oncamera, unfortunately. they're all hiding perfectly. i can only see tails everywhere. - [dean] we can movethat, maybe they'll move. they're pretty cool little fish. there we go, here. - [cory] yeah, they're amazing.
they've grown! - [dean] yeah, quite a bit, quite a bit. - [cory] they've definitely grown. - [dean] these are the small ones. i think the big ones-- - [cory] there's one under there. i don't know if it's big or not, but ... - [dean] nope, that's a small one. i think the big one is in the cave.
and that's, i think, thedominant male to be, or whatever. - [cory] those guys are amazing. i want you to spawn those badly. - [dean] yeah, those are cool fish, too. - [cory] and then, itlooks like panda cories? - [dean] yeah, i thinkthat's what those are. - [cory] yeah, they look like pandas. and are those, so doyou have those in there 'cause you're gonna wanna spawn them
or because you want them togrind down the waste for you? - [dean] yeah, i actually got those, they were in a smaller fry tank, but they outgrew the fry. - [dean] i probably got those when they were a half inch long. - [cory] hmm. there's a cool pleco there. - [dean] yeah, that's a 201.
- [cory] and is it just one of those, or do you have a colony of those? - [dean] i only have one, but i have three little babies in that, in that 10 gallon ram tankthat we looked at before. so, just project in the future then. - [dean] yeah, i got thethree babies from barbie. - [cory] oh, okay, yeah. and then, so i'm,
let's see, i guess we gotta go up-- - [cory] for more tanks? - [dean] i don't know, you might end up scaring the zebras, but we'll see. - [cory] yeah, we'll try and, 'cause this is, you don'tget to see this every day. i'll get up here on a ladderand hopefully i won't ... oh yeah. so, it's not, you know, the most well lit,
but, lots of zebra plecos. this is your colonyyou're raising up, right? - [cory] and how many are in here? - [dean] i think there's four, maybe five. four or five. - [cory] it looks likesome cherry shrimp also. - [dean] yeah, and thatwas kind of an experiment. i don't know if it's gonna work out. i just think, everybody says cherry shrimp
can go up really high temp, but, i don't think that'sgonna end up working out. - [cory] oh, it looks like these rams right here are on eggs. - [dean] great. - [cory] yeah, there's a big old thing of, and it's on the-- - [dean] on the saucer? - [cory] it's on the saucer
and you can see the breeding tube. - [dean] yeah, she's got her tube out. - [cory] yeah, so that's the breeding tube on the female there that's, so they must have just laid,or at least, today, at least. - [dean] yeah, 'cause theyweren't there earlier today. - [cory] and so, they justlaid all on this saucer and there's a lot of eggs. i don't know how many is there.
someone on youtube shouldcount that and let us know so that way, we knowwhen dean raises 'em up, how many he actually kept alive. and there's another pairover here, it seems. or at least, yeah. - yeah, here's a good way, i used to, what i considered, colony spawn these. i would put, like, 10 females and maybe fivemales in a 40 breeder
and i'd put the little flowerpots all over the place, pointing away from each other, and get the females all conditioned, throw the males in,feed 'em, water change, and you'd have eggs in everywhere. then, you take all of 'emout and raise the babies up. - [cory] you were more likemass production back then. - [dean] it was like a ram factory. - [cory] and then, whathave we got up here?
- [dean] those are some lobe. - [cory] okay, are those the original ones that made the other ones? - [cory] oh, just, okay. - [dean] they're just somethingthat i netted out early. - [cory] and then, what'sin the super secret hidden tank down there? - [dean] that has those,what is it, apisto panam-- - [cory] oh, the panduros, yeah.
- [cory] yeah, they'rehiding way in the back there. - [dean] yeah, those are,again, they're very shy. but, have not produced anything yet. - [cory] and this little,what is it, a two and a half? is that what this is? - [cory] there's the wapogared laser fry in there. i don't know if i can get it on camera. they're pretty small. oh, there we go.
how many are in there, do you think? - [dean] i don't think thismethod was very successful, but i'm guessing 50, 60? i think next time, i will hatch them and move them to the tray. more successful fry rate, i think. - [cory] 50, 60 soundsdecent, but, you know, you're the man when itcomes to breeding fish, so, low yield.
looks like brine shrimpfactories or hatcheries. - [cory] and you, if iremember right, is it, you feed brine, is it morning and night? - [dean] twice a day. - [dean] so, i'll point on there, this one has very little eggs. it's already been drained and sorted. so, tonight, i just drain that through the sieve and feed it.
this one is in the hatching process. i usually hatch for 36 hours. so, every night, i start one,and every morning, i will, like, tomorrow morning,i will settle this. the brine shrimp will be about to here. i'll drain it, i'll keep the water, but i'll separate the eggs out. i'll pour it back in andit'll get to about this level. feed half of it in the morning,
and then i'll have brineshrimp for them at night. that's commitment, morning and night. so, how many times do you feed in the fish room a day, then? 'cause you still have afull time job and all that. - [dean] my first feedingis at 5:15 in the morning. - [cory] that's aboutthe time i'm going to bed after editing videos. - right.
and then, i get home about 2:30, 3:00. the fry i will give dry food. all of the fry, including these. sometimes, if it's rainbow fry, i will use dry food and vinegar eels. i found that they workreally good for rainbows, to an extent. once i get them on baby brine, they don't get any of themicroworms or vinegar eels.
and then, the lastfeeding is brine shrimp, and that will happen about 8:00 at night. - [cory] and i see lots of,i'm gonna give myself a plug, like, even the breederuses the fertilizer. - [cory] so, i'll put a link to that if you guys want some of that. and then i see, so this is a question ialways like to ask people. so, you've got your liquidtest kits, i see, there.
how often do you actuallytest water in here? - [dean] not very often. - [cory] 'cause i, like,in my own fish room, i'd say, like, maybe i'm testing once or twice a month, tanks that i think mightbe having problems. - i probably use that most for if i see a problem, i'll test, and, if i get a shipment of fish in,
i know it's gonna haveammonia in the water, but sometimes, i still wannaknow what the ph is close to, so i know whether i canjust net 'em and move 'em-- - [cory] so, if you wereto get fish in the mail, then, do you just net and drop 'em in, or, what's your acclimation method? - no, i usually get them to temperature. i think temperature is very important because netting and droppingthem could sometimes shock 'em,
even though a lot of people do it. temperature, i think, is one of the keys. and then i will check the ph. if it's anywhere close, thenonce they're to temperature-- - [cory] which is, like, how far off? - say like six to seven, that's good, that's close enough. but, if it's six to eight, or, 'cause a lot of fish, you know,
around the country, a lotof 'em are at a higher ph than what we're used to here. - [cory] right, liquid rock water coming out of florida, or, texas, or-- - that's the other thing,if it's super hard, then i might acclimate them really quick, you know, over a half hour. and so, that's usuallywhen i use the test kits. or, if i see something going wrong.
usually, if something's going wrong, that means something iscrashing in the tank. - and sometimes, you justhave to figure it out. - [cory] yeah, let'ssee, i wanna talk about more utilized space, tiny little totes underneaththe bottom of these things. that's how you know you'rein a breeding fish room, 'cause you start labeling things of, that's an entire tote of breeding caves,
and the next one is an entiretote of fry traps and boxes, and there we've got sponge filters. - [dean] and i have noidea what's in those, so-- - [cory] that's 'causethey're not labeled. - [dean] that's fish junk. (laughs) - [cory] it would be moreimpressive if you pulled it out and it was, like, "oh yeah. "i'm hatching out discus down here," or something.
- [dean] no, no. i actually thought aboutusing some of that space for growing shrimp or mosses because they don't need the light, but that might be what happensunder there and under here. - [cory] sure, yeah, youdon't have to get on the floor to clean a tank down there, yet. - [dean] but it has to be something that i can physically liftthe weight of the water.
- [cory] and this is the most multipurpose bucket that'sever been made, i swear. there's a lot goin' on in this bucket. huh, so it's an actual waterpump that's connected to the flow valves.- [dean] it is a water pump. it's not a sump pump, it's a water, like, - [dean] it's a water pump--- [cory] an aquarium pump. - [dean] the reason it's nota sump pump is the level. i needed this to be pretty low,
and sump pump takes anothertwo or three inches of head. there we go. and the sump pump works flawlessly. i could give you a demo. what tank should we drain? how about the cory tank? that works good. so, we take the lid off, obviously. now, there's twodifferent hoses hooked up.
there's a larger diameter,a smaller diameter. that just depends on thespeed that i wanna drain at. - [dean] okay, usually,the larger diameter, i'll use on the 40 breeders, the 20s, the smaller on this rack. there's always water in those hoses. - [cory] right, you've told me about this. i've never seen it in, i'venever even seen this happen. - [dean] so, there'salways water in the hoses,
so i'm gonna use thesmall one to go in here. so, i usually come up and i'll kink it, shake a little bit of that water out, pull it out of here. now, there's water in there, stick it in the tank. obviously, there's some air there, right? - [dean] that's gonna go right down. and then--- [dean] siphoning.
- [cory] you've just got a wand. - [dean] yep, just a wand to drain. - [cory] and there's the sump kicked on. - [dean] the sump kicked on. - [cory] to pump the water out. - [dean] so, you know, i can siphon, i can get the garbage, whatever. catch a fish, if i want. and then, i kink it.
i can move to the nexttank, or back there. - [cory] that's pretty ingenious. - [dean] put it back in the bucket, and it's ready to go for the next time. - [dean] the sump will come on. the sump is the hardest thing, because see, i don't havewater and a drain in here. - [dean] so that's a problem. - [cory] that would takeup too much valuable space.
- [dean] this water literallygoes out of that bucket, up the wall, all the way to the ceiling, you can see it's the smaller pipe, goes into the other room, goes back down, and it ties into the washer drain. - [dean] and the wateris pumped all that way. it does not have a check valve. - [dean] so, when it runs, the only thing that's gonna come back
is what's in that verticalspace of the pipe, which is about a quart. so, when the pump comes on, i mean, you can run it manually, just by lifting up on the pump. it'll run. it'll click off. and you'll hear some water rush back in. - [cory] that almosthelps you keep the prime
on your hoses and stuff, though, 'cause you've alwaysgot water in there, too. and yeah, occasionally, ifind stuff in the bucket. - [cory] sure, that's-- - [dean] shrimp, catfish, babies. - [cory] a few hundred rams, you know, whatever makes their way into there. - [dean] whatever got sucked in. - [cory] yeah, that's ...
i swear, this has gottabe the most efficient under 100 square feet i'veseen so far in a fish room. like, if i was to do this with mine ... - [dean] couldn't do it. - [cory] well, therewould be so many tanks, i couldn't manage 'em all-- - [cory] like yours is crazy efficient. and you can see other diy or quick tip tuesday videos.
i stole this one from dean, as well, the night lights for hisdiscus and stuff like that. so, you've seen that video. dean came up with that idea,or at least, taught me that. he's taught me a lot of things. - yeah, the whole key behind that is is fish are never intotal, total darkness. rarely. i mean, even in a storm,there's lightning,
there's the moon comes back out, so when they're watching fry, you know, having a littleambient light in the room is a good thing. - yeah. alright, well, i think thatcovers the actual fish room. might do some other videoson some other stuff, but, that's the mostefficient 100 square feet you're ever gonna see in a fish room.
i challenge you to show mesomething more efficient with more fry and more things spawning than what dean can do. i can only imagine whatdean was able to accomplish when he had much bigger fish rooms, 'cause this is, is this yoursmallest fish room you've had? - [dean] it's tiny. - well, i'm not, i mean,we're basically sitting shoulder to shoulder here.
but yes, it is tiny, but, you know, i knew you've run some big ones, but maybe you had other small ones, 'cause this one's pretty efficient. - [dean] this is probably thesmallest i've ever had set up. - alright. well, yeah, so go ahead andput your questions down below, like, subscribe, check outour other videos like this, and i'll try and put some linksif we do some other videos,
like on how to spawn therams, and things like that, 'cause you probably wanna know from a guy who's got, you know, hundreds, if not a thousand rams sitting around, how he does it, so, check for that.
- [cory] 96 square feet.- [dean] it's small. - [cory] and you're gonna see, i guess, what dean can pull off in, you know, it's not quite 10 by 10, but, you know, it's a jail cell, right? (laughs) - [dean] pretty much, yeah. - [cory] alright, so,got some discus here, and you were telling me that, what, they ate their eggs thismorning or something like that?
- [dean] yeah, there's two pairs that, these ones had fry. they are getting betterand better at raising. they're still really young,so, i expect, you know, another six months, they'll start-- - [cory] and how oldare they would you say? - [dean] i would guess thatthose are just about a year old. - [cory] 'cause this thing,you know, i'm assuming this is the male here--- [dean] yeah.
- [cory] is like biggerthan my hand type of deal, so young seems ... well fed, but maybe young, i guess. - [dean] yeah, he shouldget another inch and a half. she should get another inch. they should both getanother inch and a half. - [cory] and then, are these,these ones here the same-- - [dean] yeah. - [cory] like, you got'em at the same time?
- [dean] yeah, actually, initially, i bought the two females as a pair. - [cory] okay. - [dean] and they kept laying eggs, and i said, "well, okay,but the eggs aren't viable." and then one day, i sawboth of them laying eggs. - [cory] well, that'll tell you. - [dean] so, i realizedthey were two females, so then, i went out andshopped for two more males.
- [cory] and so, did youalready buy them big, or you can just spot'em when they're young what you think are male? - [dean] i bought 'em about this size. and how did you determinemale at that size? like, just by observing behavior, or? - [dean] behavior, the look. you can obviously tell this is the male. he has the great big bulk.
and also, if you get a goodlook at the breeding tube, but you have to get really close. - [cory] right, right, right. - [dean] the males are alwaysslanted and pointed forward. - [cory] and pointing forward? - [dean] or, one way. pointing one way. yeah, they should be pointed forward. slanted and pointing forward,the females are blunt.
i actually saw that malespawning with another female, so i took him. - [cory] hmm, and was thefemale just not very good? 'cause i would have been-- - [dean] i already had the female. - [cory] i would havebeen tempted to be like, "i'll take the female, too," 'cause it's, they were compatible, in my opinion, or whatever.
- [dean] no, i already had the female. i didn't have, i can't dedicateanymore tank space to that. - [cory] sure, and so, these down here. what about these discus? - [dean] those?- [cory] what are these? - [dean] well, mydaughter kind of wanted me to breed some discus, so one of the things that i've learned is you can't miss anyfeedings with a lot of fry.
so, this is a spawn thati had pulled and raised and then ended up goingaway for the weekend and came back and therewas four left alive. - [cory] i see. - [dean] so, those arethe four that made it. the rest-- - [cory] and they get their own 20 gallon while they raise up, huh? - [cory] how old are thoseright there, roughly?
- [dean] those are about two and a half, three months old. - [dean] and they don'thave the tank by themselves. there's mega clown plecos in there. - [cory] oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - [dean] they just happen tobe about the same temperature. - [cory] i'm gonna have toget in closer to get those mega clown plecos. any activity out of those yet?
- [dean] i don't thinkthey're big enough yet. - [cory] true, yeah, nowthat i think about it. yeah, they're like fourinches or so, yeah. and then, down here. what's going on down here? - [dean] that's a school of aspidoras. can't remember the-- - [cory] i remember theycall them the six ray is the common name, i think.
the six ray. but, i don't, i don't remember the-- - [dean] i started initiallywith three of these; two males and a female. these are all my own offspring. - [cory] nice. - [dean] they will spawnmore in the fall for me than this time of year. - [cory] and you find, like,when the pressure drops
and things that actually do that, or-- - [dean] yes. - [dean] i can induce them, ifi know a big storm's coming, i do a couple water changesthe few days before. they will spawn, but notvery many viable eggs. - [dean] and you'll see these scattered through a lot of my tanks, 'cause i have had many babies that i-- - [cory] looks like wehave the finnex light,
the stingray, is that what we're-- - [dean] yeah, almost every tank in here's lit by the stingray. some of 'em, it's right down on the tank. most of them, it's up above so it's out of my way all the time. - [cory] right? everything's so uniform. that's what i'm jealous of, you know?
even stuff's labeled. i mean, who labels stuff? geez. - [dean] that's just so i remember. (laughter) - [cory] fair enough. i guess on this rack, we can go, if we can go up tall now. so, up tall, let's goto this top right tank.
so, obviously, rainbow fish and they're the wapoga red lasers. and, where, oh, yeah. i was gonna ask you where you got 'em. i think you got 'em from me, right? - [dean] i got those from you, yeah. and there are eggs in the mop right now. i don't know if you can zoomin close enough to get 'em. - [cory] ooh, that'll be tough.
i don't know. - [dean] probably not. - [cory] that's something i'llhave to look at the computer and see if it actually came out or not. - [dean] what i normally dois i will leave that mop in until i see babies swimming on the surface and then i'll take the mop out and hatch. - [cory] do you rescue the babies also? - [dean] i try to, i try to.
'cause the parents, they will eat them. - [cory] well, yeah, that's what i was-- - [dean] and if you catchthem on the first day, there's only a couple babies and then they'll usually hatch out for about eight to 10 days straight. it looks like here that, are all of these tanksrunning canister filters? is that what's goingon, in addition, or ...
- [dean] this rack that you're looking at i want to all run canisters, also. eventually, i will switch them all to, i have enough eheims now. i got a couple used at the swap meet. so, i'm going to switch themall to eheims eventually. and that's just, it'smore so for water flow than filtration. i think the sponge filtration is fine,
but i wanted more water flow. - [cory] and then, i think this is cool. what temperature areyou running your discus and then, i want you totalk about these heaters. - [dean] the discus are 84 degrees. this one's 84. this is about 78, the catfish. i believe these are in the82 range, the rainbows. - [cory] and, do you turn, are you,
so, are you using theheater to make them 82 or is it because they'reso high in the room, they're naturally-- - [dean] no, all the tanks are 82, 'cause we're in my basement and it tends to stay about 65degrees year round in here. - [cory] okay, so the heatersare doing that for them? - [dean] yeah.- [cory] yeah, okay. if i don't heat them,
actually, the unheatedtank in here will run about 68, 70 degrees all the time. - [cory] and then, next door,it looks like you've got the praecox rainbows,so, the sister species. - [dean] yep, those are alwaysone of my favorite ones. easy to sell, easy to breed. same thing goes, wheni see fry on the top, i'll pull the mop, start hatching them. - [cory] so, i think it's, you know,
we've kinda shown this first little rack. there's not an inch ofwasted space, by the way. you guys know i'm not the skinniest man. i can barely walk through this door. but, every inch of space is utilized. so, we've seen, you know,i guess all of these tanks, for the most part,besides that discus tank, are kind of breeding tanks. and then, we'll show you,you know, in my opinion,
some of the impressive part, the fry tanks. there's fry everywhere in here. and, so like, here, these are, which ones? theses are the praecox, so that's ones we were just talking about. and is this, like, howmany mops make this? - [dean] that's one. - [cory] one mop made that?
- [cory] wow. - [dean] but, you can see that they hatch over a period of about 10 days, and i would guess at a fish farm, these would be sized andput together by size. - [cory] sure, so thatway they don't outcompete and things like that. - [dean] but, i don'thave room to do that, so these will outcompete a little bit,
but, eventually, as i net'em to sell them or whatever, net the bigger ones, theother ones will catch up. - [cory] and how many doyou think are in there? 'cause that seems likeway more than one spawn. like, i would have guessed, like, 60. but, that seems like waymore than what's in there. - [dean] yeah, i wouldsay there's probably near 100 in there, maybe. - [cory] and it looks like you're running
the matten sponge filters in the back? - [dean] all the tankson this level are matten, and i really like them. the only disadvantage is they create such a current right here, because it's sprayingforward all the time. so, if the fish get uphere, you can just see 'em, they get blown all over the place. or like the little guys,you can really see them.
these are baby angels. this is two spawns. - [dean] they're five days apart. one was a really small spawn. the other was a really big spawn. and i just decided toput 'em all together. - [cory] and how long willyou leave this many fry in this 10 gallon like this? - [dean] until they get about this size.
they'll outgrow it. there's not as many fryin here, but pea size. pea size, they're ready to move. - [cory] and these arethe super red angels? - [cory] is that what these are? - [cory] we'll show thoseon another rack comin' up. but, yeah and then, so i guess while we're on this row here. - [dean] those are baby rams,
probably 100 or so in there. - [cory] 100 german bluerams in a 10 gallon. - [dean] a relatively small spawn. usually if you get up toabout 200 or 300 in a spawn. - [cory] and it looks like, yeah we do run heaters into these tanks, and then how often do youwater changing in this density? - [dean] twice a week, about half the tank.
- [cory] okay, that's morededication than i have. i automate, which we'llhave to talk about. so, this is, you know, the guts of this fish room, right there. there's a lot of gadgetsgoin' on right there to make this happen, butwe'll go over that in a bit. then here, we can probablydo a lot of teaching for me, 'cause i know these are, you know, different grades of crystalshrimp and stuff like that.
- [dean] all of the, these are the prl, pure redlines, is what they call them, crystal red shrimp. you'll see if you catch thislittle one on the sides, solid white. - [cory] oh, wow. - [dean] there's a few solid whites that are coming out of there. - [cory] and is solidwhite more sought after?
- [dean] much moredesirable, i mean right now-- - [cory] yeah, i don't know ifi've seen a solid white one. - [dean] or the ones like theone on the very back there, which has the red around the head, and pretty much a littlewhite dot on the tail. - [cory] yeah. - [dean] these have struggled, but they're starting to come back now. they haven't produced alot of females for me,
and these are very similar, just two different tanksof pretty much the same. - [cory] so, one thing i'm noticing, is that it appears likeyou'll let algae grow on the side of thesetanks, but not of these. or, is it naturally that .... - [dean] no, it's ... i only scrape the front. these, every time i move thefry out, i scrub the tank.
- [cory] wow, that seemslike a lot of work. - [dean] it takes like, it takes like 30 seconds. scrub it, let it settle. drain all of the water. - [cory] okay, cause i was, in my mind, i was thinking you were takingto the sink to scrub it out. - [dean] no, i do it right here. i just use a plastic, like a dish brush.
just scrub it really quick. i drain it all the way. if i'm gonna, if i'm movingfry from another system, i'll put in a third of theirwater from that other system. they get a two-thirds water change when i fill it back up. then the heaters, i'll plug in so one switch will turn thewhole bank of heaters on. so, i can just turn 'em off
- [cory] oh, yeah. - [dean] at the power strip. - [cory] looks like, you know, if we zoom in on these heaters here, looks like they're mostly at 82-83, well this one's 85. - [dean] yeah, and actually-- - [cory] the rams i guess. - [dean] the numbersaren't super accurate.
- [cory] oh, calibration, yeah. - [dean] no of 'em comeperfectly calibrated. - [cory] what have we got goin' down low? this is my nightmare here. these tanks are on the floor. - [dean] these are-- - [cory] i gotta geton my hands and knees. - [dean] i literally haveto put a water pump in these to change 'em.
but, it's pretty automated. it just, it's ready to go. - [cory] just drop it in. - [dean] just drop it in. set this in a bucket or athis case set it in the drain. plug it in, and it's draining. this is just a power head. this tank is just a catch-all tank. it's where they're not breeding,
they're extra fish, they're extra plants. - [cory] it looks likerasboras and danios mostly. - [dean] yeah, those are dither fish. there's a lot of dwarf cichlids in there. they hide. - [cory] oh yeah, ican see like one hiding behind that pot back there. - [dean] right. there'd be one or two under here.
- [cory] oh yeah. - [dean] so it's just ... - [cory] everything's gottalive somewhere, i guess. - [dean] yeah, don't have a lot of room. - [cory] that tank's impressive - [dean] these are all f1sfrom wild caught borelli. - [cory] yeah, ca-sig-a-rella, yeah. - [dean] and it's from acertain river drainage. i can't remember the nameof it right now, but--
- [cory] how many are there? 'cause there's a lot! - [dean] there's about 180, last time i, when i moved them there, there was 180. and i've only seen onecasualty since i moved 'em. - [cory] that's a pretty good rate. - [dean] they get probably a twice a week water change too. i just pump it into the bucket.
- [cory] sure. yeah, then we've got, oh, get up here off the floor. i'm gettin' too old for the floor tanks. - [dean] yeah, me too. - [cory] so, some sterbaicorys here, it looks like. - [dean] settin' up, tryin'to get them to spawn, 'cause i'd like to have baby corys in the bottom of my frytanks to clean up the mess.
it really keeps thebottom of the tanks clean. - [cory] well, all the tanks, you know, look very clean, completeopposite of my fish room. i'm the mole master. - [cory] and then, justunlimited female, the pistos? - [dean] yeah, pretty much all female, a couple that had their fins burned off. - [cory] yeah? - [dean] see this one?
that was in a unfortunatesituation that happened for a couple weeks while i was gone. - [cory] mm-hmm. - [dean] but they wouldstill be okay for breeders. - [cory] right, cause it's not genetic. - [dean] it's not genetic, yeah. it was environmental. - [cory] and then-- - [dean] i don't know ifthese are gonna come out.
- [cory] i can see-- - [dean] she's backunder there pokin' out. - [cory] i can see the male, just a glare. if we can get it on. - [dean] i don't know ifyou're gonna get to see her. - [cory] well, i can-- - [dean] oh, there you go. - [cory] yeah, zoom in on her, but these are thepelvicachromis kribensis,
and the taeniatus, orit's like the yellow form. - [cory] and then, did you say you, do you have fry on these? - [dean] yeah, i do have fry on these. - [cory] okay, we'll showthat, like the next racks, may be more amazing than this rack, so we'll save that suspense. and then, must be a pair of apistogramma? - [dean] yeah, cacatuoides,the orange flash ones.
- [cory] oh, there wego, right in that cave. - [dean] man, i'll put thishere so you can step up. - [cory] alright, nowwe're goin' to the ceiling. - [dean] watch your head. - [cory] oh, yes, that's a-- - [dean] you have no idea howmany times i've whacked it. - [cory] that's how you got so smart, 'cause you've whacked your head on that. you accomplished the impossible.
there's four rows of tanks. - [cory] like that'severyone's dream, right? is a fourth row, but we did have to get on our knees and on a ladder, so ... (clicking) oh yeah, now i rememberwhat you have up here. - [dean] are they out? - [cory] they are, they are, totally.
so, these are the claro plecos - [dean] yeah, and it's interesting, i just switched how thatwood was set up yesterday. - [dean] i used to have itjust leaning up in the back, and yesterday decided tolift it up off of the, and put it on top of those, and all of a sudden, they'vebeen out all the time. - [cory] yeah, and they'rehanging out underneath it. - [dean] and one ofthem looked like it went
in one of the spawning caves. - [cory] yeah, there it is. - [dean] we'll see. - [cory] see, that's what happens when you put a tank on the ceiling. it get's so dirty like this. i think you can actuallysee they went poop once. - [cory] compared to all those other tanks that are immaculate.
but, the claro pleco is thetrue, true dwarf bristlenose and you've probably seen thosein my fish room, as well, but i'm sure, i'm sure deanwill beat me to breeding them, 'cause he just puts inway more effort than i do. and then, using the polycarbonate tops? - [dean] yeah, on some tanks. - [cory] oh, yeah, i didn'trealize that some were in glass. yeah, down below is glass, and that's-- - [cory] if you saw, or haveseen these knobs before,
i stole 'em from dean. that's where i learnedto grab those knobs. oh, you should show them the dimmer. - [dean] oh, okay. let's see, which is the best one to video? probably that one. so-- - [cory] these are all the finnex. - [dean] all finnex lights.
i cut the cords, so i voided my warranty. and, we'll just trace this cord, we can trace it around back and up to this junction box right here. - [cory] that looks safewith water. (laughs) - [dean] yeah, it'sfine, it's only 12 volts. so, half of that'spositive, half's negative, and that comes over to here, where a power supply,
one power supply thatdoes all of these lights, comes in to the dimmer and then it goes to the various things. so, i can just turn all thelights all the way down to off and all the way back up to bright. - [cory] that's pretty handy. - [dean] i tend to run them about a little less than half way. - [cory] and why is that?
- [dean] i don't like algae. and i'm not really in the plantgrowing kind of mode here. - [cory] you're a fishguy, not a plant guy. - so, for the video, they're all up full. so, i did that. there's three dimmers in here. one on this rack, one on thatrack, one on the back rack. - [cory] and so, yeah, if you guys saw the aquarium co-op video on the dimming,
i stole that idea from dean here. dean's where i get all my good ideas. so, we're just raiding his fish room for all the good ideas today. - [dean] yeah, and so thisis just a bigger dimmer. the small dimmer is upon the top of this 20. but, it's on, you won't be ableto see it without a ladder. - [cory] but, i guess, let'sgo into the next rack here and this is, i love this,because everything is so,
like, every rack hasbeen different, so far. like this one is literally a baking rack. - yeah, but it's, it's a nsf rack, sothat means it's kitchen and it's designed for 3,000 pounds. so, it freaked me out a little bit because what a lot of people can'tsee in this fish room is behind this rack, there's a four foot pieceof paneling that hinges out.
that's where my water heater is. - so, if there's ever any problem, this rack has to moveto fix the water heater. the furnace to the housesits behind this paneling, and this just pulls outand slides that way. so, i had to work thatinto, you know, the whole the whole room. - [dean] so, this rack i wanted to be, i was, at first, gonnaleave it on the wheels,
but i figured they would get flat spots and then i wouldn't beable to roll it anyway. - [cory] right. - [dean] so, i just decided if i ever have to get in the furnace, put tanks here that are easy to move out. fives are easy, the 15 would be easy. this would be a little tough,but we could move it out. - [cory] so let's juststart on, in my opinion,
the coolest thing here, and that is this, i don't even know what to call it. fry raising station? - [dean] it's the fry system, yeah. - [cory] so, it's, you know,a lot of things going on here. - [dean] yeah, you'relookin' at a 20 long. - [cory] with sponges in it, apparently. - [dean] yeah, it doesn't really need the extra sponge filters,
but i always have them in casei have one when i need one. - [cory] makes sense. - [dean] so, they'realways cycled sponges. it's got a heater in it and the heart of it is, kindof, the powerhead water pump, whatever you want to call it, and the sponge that is the blue. - [cory] okay, fine sponge, yeah. - [dean] so, that ispushing water up to here,
through the pvc, where these valves control thewater going into the trays. and there's all sorts of various trays. these trays here are actuallyones that i used 30 years ago. - [cory] that means you'reat least 30 years old. - [dean] at least, yeah. and, we'll get a, we'll get a close up ofone of them right here. so, this was a microwave dinner tray.
- [dean] and, compared to today's, this is very strong plastic. - [cory] well, 30 years ago,it was built to last, right? we didn't know plasticwas totally gonna kill us. - [dean] so, i cut ahole, i glued a screen, the screen was made, well, 30 years ago, wasmade from my wife's nylons. now, it is made from apiece of coffee filter. so, it's super fine mesh.
just glued it on with pvc glue and it seems to be holding super strong. it floats in a pvc thing that, this is glued. it's not just pushed together, 'cause i pushed 'em together, and eventually, they-- - [cory] yeah, they sink--- [dean] fill with water. - [cory] and you got a problem, yeah.
- [dean] the little rings are just so-- - [cory] that's my favoritedesign right there. - [dean] i can hold 'em in place. - [cory] yeah, he's got these little pins. - [dean] that you just drop through. - [cory] if you were totake these two pins out, these rafts kind of leavethe dock, so to speak. - [dean] right, theycould move around, yeah. - [cory] so, what do we have,
so we've got, looks likewe've got air coming in, and we've got water dripping in, but what fry are we lookin' at here? - [dean] okay, so, theseare rams, a small group. - [cory] okay, german blue rams? - [dean] yeah, and theseare the orange laser cories. - [cory] yep, which youguys have probably seen, i did a video on harvesting them for him. these are the pelvicachromis--
- [cory] the taeniatus ones--- [dean] yeah, whatever. - [cory] the yellow form ones. - [dean] and a kind of anunsuccessful hatch here of angels. - [cory] yeah, not that many in there. - [dean] no, those'll probably get mixed with something else eventually. - [cory] and so, like,that one, i noticed, doesn't have air in it.
is that, any reason why, or-- - [dean] just so i could showyou what i did with the air. so, this is a zip tie thatis designed for a screw. - [cory] right, yeah. - [dean] it just happensthat the rigid airline tubing slides in it perfectly. - [cory] well, that's the milliondollar secret right there. - [dean] and i can just turnthem and put them in here. the air is really onlyto break up the biofilm.
- [dean] it's unnecessary. i don't think it'snecessary, except for that, because when i'm feeding these, all the brine shrimp, thelittle tiny powdered food, it gets a lot of biofilm andit will seal off the top, so the air is, that's all it's really for. and it's just designed, you know, i can swing them out of theway, swing them back in. can pretty much move them wherever i want.
- [cory] but, yeah, imean, so one 20 long, and we have hundreds of fryfrom four different species, you know, maximisingyour three square feet out of your less than hundred square feet. there's a few stragglers in the bottom. some catfish. i think there's a couple early spawns. when they first spawned,there was only three babies. i think they're in the bottom down--
- [cory] yeah, i think i, yeah. i see the reflection of them hiding out. - [dean] that's mainly, thebottom always stays clean and, you know, really, theonly maintenance i do in here is i stick the siphon in andsiphon half the water down, and i clean the prefilter on, and this is just for flow. it really keeps that bottom clean. - [cory] that makes sense.
- [dean] 'cause i don't have anything other than that down there. - [cory] and so what happens, like, i'm seeing over here, we've got, like, a little hang on tank, and then more things going on? - [dean] oh, yeah, this. i ran out of space. - [cory] okay, 'causei was gonna say, like,
what happens when you needto put more fry in here? where do these go from here? - [dean] so, this is another hatch of, of baby rams. and they're just, they'll probably be free-swimming in two days. - [cory] and how many youthink are in that batch? - [dean] i haven't really determined, but there was at least 300 eggs.
'cause it doesn't look likethat many, but they're so small. - [dean] no, they're clustered around and under the rock, though. i have to be really careful. if i move the rock rightnow, it would crush them. - [cory] oh. - [dean] so, i gotta waittil they're free-swimming and then i can grab the rock. - [cory] i see, so whatwe were seeing is like
the already hatched out egg casings. - [dean] right, right. - [cory] and then, looks like you have the blue container here. - [dean] that's methylene blue. it's about a gallon. i think it's a vase. - [cory] did you steal it from your wife or did you buy it for fish?
- [dean] i actually bought it. - [dean] and there's angels on here. angel eggs, and theyare wiggling right now. - [cory] see where i can zoom in. yep, you can see that. - [dean] in the back, there'sa small batch of angels. it's more, a lot more of them fungused. we'll get to where i have four pairs and kinda determining which pair's
the most viable right now. - [cory] yeah, 'cause dedicatingthat much space to that, that's half your fishroom almost over here. - [cory] then looks like we've got, what, orange flash in here? - [dean] yep, mmhmm. - [dean] there's some fryin with them right now. - [cory] i see that. will she stay yellow whilethere's fry in there--
- [cory] or is she ready to breed again? - [dean] she actually has spawned again before i had a chance to get those fry out and they were cannibalized by the male. - [dean] so, you can seeher picking on those fry 'cause she want's them outta there. - [cory] and so, does that mean one day you're gonna get in and remove 'em then? - [dean] oh, yeah, have too, soon.
probably this coming week. - [dean] and then, i haveto find a place to put them. - [cory] and then it looks like there's a barrier between this tank. so, i guess they must fightwhen they can see over there? 'cause ... - [dean] yeah, that's ... - [cory] just so they can't see in? - [dean] i just have, i thinka lot of fish like the pistos,
they need something to back up to. - [dean] so i wrap that tank endwise, and they were just tooskittish with just the little-- - [cory] and is this a five gallon, is that what this one is? - [dean] yeah, yeah. - [cory] alright. - [dean] so they were just tooskittish without that there, and so they calmed downonce they got that there.
- [cory] and these arethe what, the fire reds? - [dean] yeah, that's fire red agassizis. - [cory] and this is, youknow when we're talkin' about, i always tell people, "you needto buy big groups, 'cause," so, dean's got some inhere, lots of males. and then he's got more males up here, you started off with what, six? and ended up with what, six males? - [dean] six males,and we thought for sure
we had picked-- - [cory] yeah, but luckily-- - [dean] two, or three and three. - [cory] one came into my store, and she's already spawned, so we know it's a female. so, even though he'sseven of these deep now, he can finally start makin' 'em, so. this one is obviously the dominant male.
he keeps this guy pretty - [cory] now are you--- [dean] subdued over there. - [cory] intentionally leavingthat other male in there? - [dean] until i get viable spawn, yeah. - [dean] 'til i see babies,then i'll pull him out. and then, so this must be the actual wild pair of the borelli. - [cory] so crazy to me you're spawning stuff in five gallons.
i'm always too chicken to like, "oh, i'm gonna kill 'em in a five gallon!" - [dean] no, they're fine. you get as good spongefilter going in there, they'll be fine. - [cory] definitely wild-caught in hiding. but yeah, so that pairspawned the 150 of 'em. and then, oh up top, i didn't. i should look at those guys,
'cause i haven't even seen these guys. so, i'll get on the ladder here. oh yeah, the head crusher. - [dean] so, what you have, is you have an electric blue female,and a german male. and the only reason is, is because i don't have a lot of room for extra fish in here. so, i had a pair of electricblues, but i lost the male.
and so i had three pairs of the german red and lost one female, so i just said, "you know what, those guysare gonna like each other." - [cory] and have theyliked each other yet, or? - [dean] no. - [cory] not yet. (laughs) - [dean] but, you know,eventually those might end up in that tank down on the floor. - [cory] yep.
- [dean] and something elsewould go in there to spawn, or raise, or both. but, i don't have a lot of room for a lot of extra fish to hang out. - [cory] alright, andthere is another rack. this is, quote unqoute, the "big rack". and this is where a lot of fish are, 'cause this is where your 40s are. - [cory] so i guess, let's start,
tell me about the red angels over here, 'cause you're giving a lotof space to these red angels. - [dean] well, we originallygot 12, i believe. and then we had one pass away, and we ended up with five pairs. - [cory] that's pretty good odds. - [dean] yeah, that's pretty good odds. so right now, each pairbasically has 10 gallons, but it's shared.
and that actually workswith angels really well, because like this pair here, when a cory gets in there,they don't have eggs, and they're protectingthem from the other pair. - [cory] if i can get,if i can block the-- - [dean] the glare. - [cory] here we go. yeah. - [dean] so, part of our idea is to
get the white out anddevelop more of a red, or a dark orange and black angel. - [dean] at first, none of these pairs were very prolific at all. these are all about, whatdo think, about a year now? - [cory] maybe, i-- - [dean] maybe a little under a year. so, but they're graduallygetting larger and larger spawns, and more prolific.
they're more better hatches. - [cory] gonna have more than you know what to do with here soon. and you know, we might endup narrowing it down to, you know, one pair here, and-- - [cory] or at leastone tank-worth of 'em. 'cause giving up one ofyour tanks out of what? how many tanks do you have in here, 20? - no, i don't remember.
let's see, there's five, 10, 11, 12, 13. 14, 15, 18, 19. we already get to 19. - [cory] oh, okay. i guess i forgot all the 10s racked. - [dean] 25, 35, 36, 37. - [cory] so, 37 tanks inunder 100 square feet. - [cory] so, a tank everytwo square feet almost?
- [cory] or, three square feet. - [dean] a few of 'em are head bangers, but life will go on. - [cory] so, this is acool tank, obviously. there's a lot of money in this tank. - [dean] there's electricblue rams in there. - [cory] and so, that mustbe from the previous spawn. - [dean] that's from the previous pair. that was before the male bit the dust.
i only had i bought a pair of those. i ordered 'em from a breeder, rather than try to get 'em from a store. i wanted it from a breeder that actually was raising 'em. - [dean] so i got, youknow, one pair from him. - [cory] and are yougonna use some of these to make more generations? - [dean] yes, that's the idea.
and, how do you like the intake sponge? - [dean] the prefilter? - [cory] yeah, the prefilterthat's made to do it. - [dean] it's amazing, actually. - [dean] because you can reach in there, literally if you just popped it off, and take it to the sink to clean it, the filter part stays fairly clean. i don't have to do much to that.
- [dean] and that particular sponge, tends to hold the stuff while you're gettin' it out of the tank. - [cory] wow, i would'vethought for sure-- - [dean] unlike this type of sponge, so this is, it looks the same. - [cory] it's made by the samecompany, but it is different. - [dean] this is a lot coarser, doesn't seem like it is.
but even this one, comparedto the five inch one, it's different sponge. - [dean] i can get thatwithout a cloud in the tank, but this one, it's a mess. and i've heard of peopleputting plastic bags, or wrapping them. no, i'm not into that. - [cory] that's what i do. (laughs) - [dean] i just lift it outta there.
- [cory] then, looks like more rams. - [dean] yeah, those are the german rams. there's a few super red plecos in there. - [dean] but again, even like, this is a good example right here. if i had cories in this tank, all that stuff on thebottom would be not there. - [cory] that's amazing to me.
i haven't seen it, so it'shard for me to believe, but i believe you,'cause i see what you do. - [dean] plecos will grind it up and you'll end up with this, which is easy to siphon, but cories will grind it up so fine that it comes into the sponges. - [cory] wow, i've gottatry that, 'cause that's, well, i run gravel, so it's gonna end up
in the gravel regardless for me. - [dean] this is a good example. there's cories on the bottom of that tank. - [cory] and true enough,there's, you know, there's a little bit of dust, maybe, but nothin' like that physicalpoop like you see up there. and, you know, dwarfcichlid, dwarf cichlid, they're not the same dwarf cichlid, but, you know, i bet theirpoop's fairly similar.
- [dean] it is, yeah. - [cory] and these are all the-- - [dean] these are the lobe. - [cory] the pelvicachromis, yeah. lobes, yeah. lotta those, too. and the females are starting to show now. - [cory] mmhmm, yeah, now you can start pulling out sexed pairs.
- [cory] there's anothertank of lobes, it looks like. lots of lobes. - [dean] and this alsohas these guys, the-- - [cory] oh, the l333s. - [dean] yeah, there's-- - [cory] yeah, there's some right there. - [dean] there's some in the sticks, there's some in the caves. yeah, i made dean take these,
'cause i want him to work with them, 'cause they look amazing. they're hard to get oncamera, unfortunately. they're all hiding perfectly. i can only see tails everywhere. - [dean] we can movethat, maybe they'll move. they're pretty cool little fish. there we go, here. - [cory] yeah, they're amazing.
they've grown! - [dean] yeah, quite a bit, quite a bit. - [cory] they've definitely grown. - [dean] these are the small ones. i think the big ones-- - [cory] there's one under there. i don't know if it's big or not, but ... - [dean] nope, that's a small one. i think the big one is in the cave.
and that's, i think, thedominant male to be, or whatever. - [cory] those guys are amazing. i want you to spawn those badly. - [dean] yeah, those are cool fish, too. - [cory] and then, itlooks like panda cories? - [dean] yeah, i thinkthat's what those are. - [cory] yeah, they look like pandas. and are those, so doyou have those in there 'cause you're gonna wanna spawn them
or because you want them togrind down the waste for you? - [dean] yeah, i actually got those, they were in a smaller fry tank, but they outgrew the fry. - [dean] i probably got those when they were a half inch long. - [cory] hmm. there's a cool pleco there. - [dean] yeah, that's a 201.
- [cory] and is it just one of those, or do you have a colony of those? - [dean] i only have one, but i have three little babies in that, in that 10 gallon ram tankthat we looked at before. so, just project in the future then. - [dean] yeah, i got thethree babies from barbie. - [cory] oh, okay, yeah. and then, so i'm,
let's see, i guess we gotta go up-- - [cory] for more tanks? - [dean] i don't know, you might end up scaring the zebras, but we'll see. - [cory] yeah, we'll try and, 'cause this is, you don'tget to see this every day. i'll get up here on a ladderand hopefully i won't ... oh yeah. so, it's not, you know, the most well lit,
but, lots of zebra plecos. this is your colonyyou're raising up, right? - [cory] and how many are in here? - [dean] i think there's four, maybe five. four or five. - [cory] it looks likesome cherry shrimp also. - [dean] yeah, and thatwas kind of an experiment. i don't know if it's gonna work out. i just think, everybody says cherry shrimp
can go up really high temp, but, i don't think that'sgonna end up working out. - [cory] oh, it looks like these rams right here are on eggs. - [dean] great. - [cory] yeah, there's a big old thing of, and it's on the-- - [dean] on the saucer? - [cory] it's on the saucer
and you can see the breeding tube. - [dean] yeah, she's got her tube out. - [cory] yeah, so that's the breeding tube on the female there that's, so they must have just laid,or at least, today, at least. - [dean] yeah, 'cause theyweren't there earlier today. - [cory] and so, they justlaid all on this saucer and there's a lot of eggs. i don't know how many is there.
someone on youtube shouldcount that and let us know so that way, we knowwhen dean raises 'em up, how many he actually kept alive. and there's another pairover here, it seems. or at least, yeah. - yeah, here's a good way, i used to, what i considered, colony spawn these. i would put, like, 10 females and maybe fivemales in a 40 breeder
and i'd put the little flowerpots all over the place, pointing away from each other, and get the females all conditioned, throw the males in,feed 'em, water change, and you'd have eggs in everywhere. then, you take all of 'emout and raise the babies up. - [cory] you were more likemass production back then. - [dean] it was like a ram factory. - [cory] and then, whathave we got up here?
- [dean] those are some lobe. - [cory] okay, are those the original ones that made the other ones? - [cory] oh, just, okay. - [dean] they're just somethingthat i netted out early. - [cory] and then, what'sin the super secret hidden tank down there? - [dean] that has those,what is it, apisto panam-- - [cory] oh, the panduros, yeah.
- [cory] yeah, they'rehiding way in the back there. - [dean] yeah, those are,again, they're very shy. but, have not produced anything yet. - [cory] and this little,what is it, a two and a half? is that what this is? - [cory] there's the wapogared laser fry in there. i don't know if i can get it on camera. they're pretty small. oh, there we go.
how many are in there, do you think? - [dean] i don't think thismethod was very successful, but i'm guessing 50, 60? i think next time, i will hatch them and move them to the tray. more successful fry rate, i think. - [cory] 50, 60 soundsdecent, but, you know, you're the man when itcomes to breeding fish, so, low yield.
looks like brine shrimpfactories or hatcheries. - [cory] and you, if iremember right, is it, you feed brine, is it morning and night? - [dean] twice a day. - [dean] so, i'll point on there, this one has very little eggs. it's already been drained and sorted. so, tonight, i just drain that through the sieve and feed it.
this one is in the hatching process. i usually hatch for 36 hours. so, every night, i start one,and every morning, i will, like, tomorrow morning,i will settle this. the brine shrimp will be about to here. i'll drain it, i'll keep the water, but i'll separate the eggs out. i'll pour it back in andit'll get to about this level. feed half of it in the morning,
and then i'll have brineshrimp for them at night. that's commitment, morning and night. so, how many times do you feed in the fish room a day, then? 'cause you still have afull time job and all that. - [dean] my first feedingis at 5:15 in the morning. - [cory] that's aboutthe time i'm going to bed after editing videos. - right.
and then, i get home about 2:30, 3:00. the fry i will give dry food. all of the fry, including these. sometimes, if it's rainbow fry, i will use dry food and vinegar eels. i found that they workreally good for rainbows, to an extent. once i get them on baby brine, they don't get any of themicroworms or vinegar eels.
and then, the lastfeeding is brine shrimp, and that will happen about 8:00 at night. - [cory] and i see lots of,i'm gonna give myself a plug, like, even the breederuses the fertilizer. - [cory] so, i'll put a link to that if you guys want some of that. and then i see, so this is a question ialways like to ask people. so, you've got your liquidtest kits, i see, there.
how often do you actuallytest water in here? - [dean] not very often. - [cory] 'cause i, like,in my own fish room, i'd say, like, maybe i'm testing once or twice a month, tanks that i think mightbe having problems. - i probably use that most for if i see a problem, i'll test, and, if i get a shipment of fish in,
i know it's gonna haveammonia in the water, but sometimes, i still wannaknow what the ph is close to, so i know whether i canjust net 'em and move 'em-- - [cory] so, if you wereto get fish in the mail, then, do you just net and drop 'em in, or, what's your acclimation method? - no, i usually get them to temperature. i think temperature is very important because netting and droppingthem could sometimes shock 'em,
even though a lot of people do it. temperature, i think, is one of the keys. and then i will check the ph. if it's anywhere close, thenonce they're to temperature-- - [cory] which is, like, how far off? - say like six to seven, that's good, that's close enough. but, if it's six to eight, or, 'cause a lot of fish, you know,
around the country, a lotof 'em are at a higher ph than what we're used to here. - [cory] right, liquid rock water coming out of florida, or, texas, or-- - that's the other thing,if it's super hard, then i might acclimate them really quick, you know, over a half hour. and so, that's usuallywhen i use the test kits. or, if i see something going wrong.
usually, if something's going wrong, that means something iscrashing in the tank. - and sometimes, you justhave to figure it out. - [cory] yeah, let'ssee, i wanna talk about more utilized space, tiny little totes underneaththe bottom of these things. that's how you know you'rein a breeding fish room, 'cause you start labeling things of, that's an entire tote of breeding caves,
and the next one is an entiretote of fry traps and boxes, and there we've got sponge filters. - [dean] and i have noidea what's in those, so-- - [cory] that's 'causethey're not labeled. - [dean] that's fish junk. (laughs) - [cory] it would be moreimpressive if you pulled it out and it was, like, "oh yeah. "i'm hatching out discus down here," or something.
- [dean] no, no. i actually thought aboutusing some of that space for growing shrimp or mosses because they don't need the light, but that might be what happensunder there and under here. - [cory] sure, yeah, youdon't have to get on the floor to clean a tank down there, yet. - [dean] but it has to be something that i can physically liftthe weight of the water.
- [cory] and this is the most multipurpose bucket that'sever been made, i swear. there's a lot goin' on in this bucket. huh, so it's an actual waterpump that's connected to the flow valves.- [dean] it is a water pump. it's not a sump pump, it's a water, like, - [dean] it's a water pump--- [cory] an aquarium pump. - [dean] the reason it's nota sump pump is the level. i needed this to be pretty low,
and sump pump takes anothertwo or three inches of head. there we go. and the sump pump works flawlessly. i could give you a demo. what tank should we drain? how about the cory tank? that works good. so, we take the lid off, obviously. now, there's twodifferent hoses hooked up.
there's a larger diameter,a smaller diameter. that just depends on thespeed that i wanna drain at. - [dean] okay, usually,the larger diameter, i'll use on the 40 breeders, the 20s, the smaller on this rack. there's always water in those hoses. - [cory] right, you've told me about this. i've never seen it in, i'venever even seen this happen. - [dean] so, there'salways water in the hoses,
so i'm gonna use thesmall one to go in here. so, i usually come up and i'll kink it, shake a little bit of that water out, pull it out of here. now, there's water in there, stick it in the tank. obviously, there's some air there, right? - [dean] that's gonna go right down. and then--- [dean] siphoning.
- [cory] you've just got a wand. - [dean] yep, just a wand to drain. - [cory] and there's the sump kicked on. - [dean] the sump kicked on. - [cory] to pump the water out. - [dean] so, you know, i can siphon, i can get the garbage, whatever. catch a fish, if i want. and then, i kink it.
i can move to the nexttank, or back there. - [cory] that's pretty ingenious. - [dean] put it back in the bucket, and it's ready to go for the next time. - [dean] the sump will come on. the sump is the hardest thing, because see, i don't havewater and a drain in here. - [dean] so that's a problem. - [cory] that would takeup too much valuable space.
- [dean] this water literallygoes out of that bucket, up the wall, all the way to the ceiling, you can see it's the smaller pipe, goes into the other room, goes back down, and it ties into the washer drain. - [dean] and the wateris pumped all that way. it does not have a check valve. - [dean] so, when it runs, the only thing that's gonna come back
is what's in that verticalspace of the pipe, which is about a quart. so, when the pump comes on, i mean, you can run it manually, just by lifting up on the pump. it'll run. it'll click off. and you'll hear some water rush back in. - [cory] that almosthelps you keep the prime
on your hoses and stuff, though, 'cause you've alwaysgot water in there, too. and yeah, occasionally, ifind stuff in the bucket. - [cory] sure, that's-- - [dean] shrimp, catfish, babies. - [cory] a few hundred rams, you know, whatever makes their way into there. - [dean] whatever got sucked in. - [cory] yeah, that's ...
i swear, this has gottabe the most efficient under 100 square feet i'veseen so far in a fish room. like, if i was to do this with mine ... - [dean] couldn't do it. - [cory] well, therewould be so many tanks, i couldn't manage 'em all-- - [cory] like yours is crazy efficient. and you can see other diy or quick tip tuesday videos.
i stole this one from dean, as well, the night lights for hisdiscus and stuff like that. so, you've seen that video. dean came up with that idea,or at least, taught me that. he's taught me a lot of things. - yeah, the whole key behind that is is fish are never intotal, total darkness. rarely. i mean, even in a storm,there's lightning,
there's the moon comes back out, so when they're watching fry, you know, having a littleambient light in the room is a good thing. - yeah. alright, well, i think thatcovers the actual fish room. might do some other videoson some other stuff, but, that's the mostefficient 100 square feet you're ever gonna see in a fish room.
i challenge you to show mesomething more efficient with more fry and more things spawning than what dean can do. i can only imagine whatdean was able to accomplish when he had much bigger fish rooms, 'cause this is, is this yoursmallest fish room you've had? - [dean] it's tiny. - well, i'm not, i mean,we're basically sitting shoulder to shoulder here.
but yes, it is tiny, but, you know, i knew you've run some big ones, but maybe you had other small ones, 'cause this one's pretty efficient. - [dean] this is probably thesmallest i've ever had set up. - alright. well, yeah, so go ahead andput your questions down below, like, subscribe, check outour other videos like this, and i'll try and put some linksif we do some other videos,
like on how to spawn therams, and things like that, 'cause you probably wanna know from a guy who's got, you know, hundreds, if not a thousand rams sitting around, how he does it, so, check for that.
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