Sitting here in front of my computer.
Looking up on my fish room and.
Remembering some of the good times this podcast and just remembering some of the fantastic people that I've met through this podcast. And I want to dedicate a moment.
Of time to a dear friend that.
I made through this podcast. I made quite a few of them that have stuck with me since I started this podcast and just changed my life for the better. This particular friend I knew from the.
Very beginning of the podcast, at least.
Within the first few episodes, friend that meant a lot to me, that had such a tenacity that I looked up to pretty, pretty big. And I'm gonna miss a lot. He was in a couple advertisements. He was definitely in the community. And I had the opportunity, of course, meeting him in person a couple times. And a lot of the relationships that I have are online primarily, but I feel like the moment they transcend that and we, you know, get to talk.
For hours on the phone about our.
Ambitions, about our goals, about where we've been, it supersedes anything that the podcast connected us by. And James Buckley, I'm gonna miss you, man. I'm gonna miss you a whole lot. James is probably the one person in my life that above everybody else, no matter how he tripped, no matter what struggles came his way, he always seemed to pick himself up and just have the attitude of no matter what life threw your way, it wouldn't stop you. And I definitely admired that and wanted that virtue myself. Buckley, we're gonna miss you, buddy. Buckley took his life a couple weeks ago and we now have a Buckley sized hole left in a lot of our hearts. Lindsay, our prayers go to you. If anybody has any memories that they have to share of pictures, clips in the Discord community, anything you want to share with Lindsay and the family, go ahead and just message me in the Discord or anything else you want to share with them, I'll be happy to pass that along. We're gonna miss you, Buck.
Welcome to the aquarium guys podcast with.
Your hosts, jim colby and rob zolson.
Oh, my God, we're back.
Jesus. I never thought we'd get back before we jump in.
I'm so excited to show you again. I'm so excited to show you my new favorite product, but I'm your host, Rob Zolson.
I'm Jim Colby and I'm confused what he has in his hand.
And I'm Madam Al Nashar and I'm very confused.
Yeah, this is going to be a.
Bit of a freeform jazz episode again. If this is Your first episode, go to another episode. Have fun with those.
18 is the best.
Also being older than 18 is probably a good start for this.
This podcast, usually my first question I.
Ask people ask me, it's like, what was your podcast like? Well, I think one part dick joke to two parts fish. What we aim pretty much. So welcome if you're, if you're enjoying this, but I finally found a product. You know, it's been so long since we've been in this hot seat. We got a lot to cover and updates in our lives, but number one, I have this. Cool. I don't know if you can see it on camera. We're live on Discord. By the way, you can join us via the link in the description of this podcast. But again, aquariumguyspodcast.com bottom website will also provide you the link to Discord. So for the fans that are watching, I have this tiny little vial. It is a product from Zoo Med and I'm a big fan of Zoo Medium. I wish they would sponsor us. This one is micro micro floating beta pellets. And they're a good beta pellet. I can't say I've had any problems with the beta pellet, but it's not really the food.
It's more of what comes with it.
So you get these cool little vials that look like drug vials.
Exactly.
And you get the tiny little coke spoons.
Yes.
So zoomed.
I finally can clip my fingernail.
If someone you're listening to, this is a friend of Zoomed, I want you to reach out to the CEO and let him know that we love coke spoons and we don't have to just.
Buy the beta product.
I would buy these in a pack all day. I overspend to get zoomed coke spoons because if I was trying to tell people how to feed, it's ridiculous to try to like, oh, give them a pinch. What's a pinch? Nope. I can say, hey, take this coke spoon and give them 1, 2, 3 coke spoons a day. You know, I can, I can give them measurement.
This is the perfect feeding mechanism.
I like Coke.
We joke, but these are the perfect little feeding scoops you met. You could measure them level like you would like a kitchen thing, but they're just so small and perfect. It comes a little coke spoon.
So that made my day.
The coke spoon made you.
I actually know one of the main zoomed reps for the central, probably the central of the United States.
Well, I think get a bunch of.
These, we'll double down get him on and message him and tell him that we need packs of coke spoons immediately.
Okay.
You know, I've tried to explain to people when you're feeding your fish that your fish are. Their stomach's only about the size of their eyeball. Unless they're on cocaine. Then they're really hungry.
Yeah. Then they're.
Then they're starving.
Then you want to throw and Oreo cookie in there. Just throw the cookie in there. Because that's what I like.
You know, people did message me. We did this, a delightful episode. And it's one of our members of the community named Bones. Say hi, Bones. Hello, Bones just happened to be part of the audience today, so I pulled her in and we had plenty of people messaging us, like, blown away that fish can get stoned. That's one of our episodes. Didn't know that. And I just want to put out there that I did get people asking if what other drugs people could do with their fish. And I'm like, I'm not going to do those podcasts. So before you message us, if we actually gave our fish coke. No, they're just. They just look like coke spoons.
I'm not going to waste. I'll give coke to my dog, but not damn fish.
No skiing in the fish room.
Yeah, no, no. No skiing whatsoever. No.
No skiing at all.
Hey, hey, Jim, before I forget, have you been seeing that there's videos of like coke washing up on the beaches of Florida.
Isn't that great?
You can, you can literally just go pick up bales of this and just drive home with it.
Yes, I would definitely do that. I just watched a thing about the submarines they're using right now and they're bringing the cocaine the close to shore and when the tide is from the right direction, they'll release the cocaine so it floats in the shore. So, you know, that's probably a pretty good idea for Father's Day. You know, you could have been out there getting coke for your dad or something.
So I am.
I wonder if I know somebody with a cocaine submarine. I might.
Is his name Pablo Escobar? I think he's in jail.
I'm looking through the chat here. Just get questions for the audience that is listening immediately. I got hepatitis. What is Jimmy's favorite angelfish as of this week?
This week, I am really excited. I got some new leopard. I the green leopards I been trying to get for a long time. They used to be very available, long time ago. I now sitting on half black angels. I also have half black Clown angels. I'm just trying to get into the, the weird angels to see because they're. It's just as much work to raise a. A dollar angelfish is A$10 angelfish. So I'm just trying to get into the higher end stuff. I bought some baby discus not too long ago. They're doing very well but they're a holes. They won't eat anything but live brine shrimp. You give them blood worms, give them black worms. It's like no, no thank you. So they're jerks.
Try live black worms.
You know, live black. I might as well feed them frickin filet mignon because it's cheaper than live blackworms at the moment. And I did talk to.
Really?
Yes, I talked to one of my friends down in Florida on Sunday and he said that live black worms is hit or miss and running about $25 a pound if you can get it. He said. But he's, he said every 10 times he orders it, he gets it three times.
So that's a great segue. For our next question, I got a question of what do you feed your fish and shrimp and then check shrimp scrimp. Excuse me. In our discord says check out my, my shrimp I've been working on.
Those are beautiful.
So I've been feeding. What have I been feeding?
Doritos?
No, I've been actually doing a bunch of test products. We got that test food from the people we can't talk about. It's been working well. And I got more for you that you ordered the other day, Jimmy, by the way.
Cool.
So I got to send you home with more test product. But otherwise for normal stuff I like cobalt shrimp and veg pellets for that grow out for small plecos and for shrimp, how about you Jimmy?
Well, you know I had. The last time I had shrimp, which has been a few years I had a certain of all things cherry shrimp, I had blues, I had the golds cherry shrimp wouldn't eat for beans and so I started feeding them live brine shrimp and my God, they went frickin nuts for live brine shrimp. So if you've not tried live brine shrimp and you hatch out in your hatchery, try feeding it to your shrimp. I also have clown loaches that are four and a half, five inches right now. They will. I can, I'll give them a whole half gallon jar of live brine shrimp. After you hatch it out, they just grow like a son of a gun. It's surprising how the bigger Fish will still go after baby brine shrimp. So also just bought some Daphnia from our friends down at Forest Lake Pets down in Forest Lake. Right, Perfect.
Get a culture going.
And I've got four or five cultures going right now. You can go online and buy some live cultures of Daphnia. But it's unbelievable the amount of money that people want for live Daphnia. If you can get a culture going, keep it going, you'll save yourself a lot of money and then your fish will go into breeding mode very quickly.
When were you back down at Forest Lake? I could have brought you the vinegar eels.
Oh, yes. I snuck down there to go to the chiropractor about a week ago. The chiropractor down There is in St. Paul and he is a chiropractor for the Minnesota Vikings and he is able to help me out tremendously. I was having plantar's fasciitis on my foot and he's able to pop my foot, of all things, and make me walk again. So I call him Dr. Baby Jesus.
And then, Adam, what do you feed?
What do I feed?
Yeah. Because you, I think, have like one or two tanks left.
I have one tank. So last time I saw Jim was a couple. What was it, like, three weeks ago?
Probably all three. Four weeks ago. Yeah.
We stopped at Forest Lake. My wife was not there, and I picked up a pair of ram cichlids, got him to breed in four days. All of you that don't think.
You know, seeing Adam in the pet store without his wife along is like seeing a kid with a 20 bill going into the candy store. He just like, I gotta spend some money.
I did it.
I could. I could have bought a lot of other shit. There was a lot of listings. But then I picked up that pair.
They had a lot of. A lot of baby stingrays. They had what? Yeah, eight or ten baby stingrays that were just born.
So nice.
They had those running around. God, that must have been about a 400 gallon tank, I think that was in.
Oh, I thought it was bigger than that. They had some fly river turtles in it. I really like it. That store is. That store should be a top store for everybody. That's in Minnesota. They should just go there first. Honestly, it's one of the best, better stores.
They.
They continuously invest, reinvest back into the business. They're really into reptiles, which my wife just got in the reptiles about six months ago. Asshole.
Adam, you're welcome.
So what happened with our house is one of my wife's friends, they had a leopard gecko, they wanted to give it away and it was in a 75 gallon aquarium. Just take it and go. Had a stand. So I thought well I'll take the tank. And she took the lizard. Not lizard. That so far has cost us $2,500 is what we spent in the last freaking three or four months. And then every once, I mean and here's Adam, he's such a dick. So at, at 11:30 at night we'll be sleeping. All of a sudden you hear badoop the phone will go and my wife will roll over and she goes Adam. And he sends us more lizard, you know, pictures on was it morph market, you know my wife spent 180 on a male leopard gecko and spent another 120 per female and stuff. So she's got some high end stuff and it's starting to pay off but you know it really cuts into my cocaine money.
Tada. All right, next question. Love the warm welcome to everybody. Can I get a message for my wife? Absolutely. Welcome to the podcast. King Aquatic's wife.
King Quack's wife. Yes, Give us a call when your husband's gone and we'll give you a proper welcome.
There you go. Well now you got a correct welcome.
You're gonna come home, we're all gonna be sitting around your table naked eating pizza for your wife.
All right.
Does Jimmy keep his cholo wood in stock?
I do. I have boxes of cholera.
I was gonna say you keep it by the case at all times.
That's the only way to buy is by the case. And what's amazing is is you go on Etsy for God's sakes and you can buy a piece of chola wood for a low, low price of like 12.99 for one little cholo piece. So definitely much cheaper by the case. What I'm finding is that slowly my chola wood is disappearing because my wife is taking it and putting in her reptile tanks. And it does look pretty cool.
It does, it does. Well, does Adam still have wild type endlers on hand?
Yes I do.
That's the only tank you have on hand, right?
No, I've got, they're in a 55 and then in my 10 gallon I've got some cherry shrimp, a pair of red tail goodyids that I picked up from Fernando's aquatics at the, when we, when I saw you at the MAS show in March. And then I have my breeder pair of blue rams like true breeding pair of blue ram which Is hard to find all in the 10 gallon tank, so. And they're fine.
And I still have Adams endlers as a backup because that's what the homies should do. When you got a line that's kind of hard and rare to find, what you do is you give your homie some, right? And that's what we call an insurance policy. So in case Adams ever shits out, he'd be like, hey, dude, you got.
A couple of those?
And let's hope I do.
You know, you just start up again.
Just start up again?
Yeah, you know, just like this. The Daphnia reading about stuff and everybody saying, you know, keep at least two or three cultures. I thought, well, I'm gonna start with six just in case, because I know how I am. Sometimes I just wander aimlessly away from my fish tanks for three days and come back and find them crapped out. The guy down in Forest Lake has got his own pond, and he brings them in and he says, there's 200 in there. And if there's 200 in there, he means 4, 500 in there, right? Now if you went out to buy 500, it cost you 30 bucks plus shipping to have them shipped. He's selling them for like 7 bucks, 7.99 or something like that.
There you go. Question. Has Adam ever licked a toad or frog for the fun?
No. Mostly because I know that it messes with you. All right. I did have a friend that just. I offered jimnies, but he's him and his wife said no. One of my friends imported some wild dart frogs, and they told me no. And I could have gotten pairs of them. I mean, they're only venomous for like the first year and a half, right?
We got grandkids, so we got to be careful and stuff. We just watched a movie the other night, about five years old. Josh Jamal did, and they were licking toads, and that was pretty funny.
I was hoping they'd had that Colorado river toad in Forest Lake, but they didn't. On a better note, I am going near Nebraska to the Henry Doerley Zoo in August, so I might try to swing and see if we can pick up some river toads. Do you want one, Jimmy?
Good.
I'm good, thank you.
I have some if you want some.
Bones has got.
I just posted a picture in chat.
There you go. Next one. Robs, have you had tapahos? I'm probably spelling pronouncing that incorrect. The tapahoe cichlids, like red headed geophagus. I have, actually. I had the red headed ones that I just described. I think I had some other ones that I couldn't identify or didn't care to identify because I was just reviving them because someone abandoned the aquarium. The redheaded ones that I had were great. I don't know if the. I always call them geophagus balsanias. That's not the correct term.
You know one thing, the humphead geophagus.
That look just like the redheaded ones. Those I enjoy a lot. I think those are technically a type of tapahoe. But yes, those were. Those were a lot of fun. And they definitely move the moose and.
Dirt, but from one end to the other. You know, for Christmas I should. I should get the three of us like a class somewhere and they can teach us all these scientific names of these fish that we butcher week after week.
Nah, because then we'll just sit there and go, that's right.
But it's amazing.
And I don't want to listen to scientists because they're always wrong with the shit.
Oh, settle down, settle down.
Next one is can we get around from the boys telling us what projects they're working on? So Adam, start with you.
So right now I am in the process of breeding like 30 snake pairs. I'm breeding pictus geckos. Morning geckos. I just got some really nice bamboo rat snakes. Yeah. I have coxie and pultura now and then. I think bones is Peterson some. I've got the rams going and the red tail goods, but they haven't bred yet. The red tail goodyids haven't bred yet. So I'm a little bummed. I want those things to be breed and that's probably why they haven't done it yet. But they're not egg layers. They're supposed to be live bearers. And I just haven't seen anything yet.
It's amazing when about it, when you try to breed something, even if it's easy, they don't. Isn't that right, Jimmy, with your playcos?
Absolutely.
And then when, when you don't want it or don't want to or don't care about them breeding, they breed everywhere. I just got a bunch of. Oh, what these fish company makes fun of them all.
The.
What were those? The ones you guys put in the giant cylinder tank and watch the prawns eat the exodons? Nope. Although that's hilarious that you put them in that tank. The little tetras. They got them so cheap.
Born these areas.
Oh boy's eras Tetris there You go. I got, I got some Boyney's areas Tetras and my experience, I've had them a few times. I have not had bad times with bony zeros. Tetras, they're a tetra that you can keep with semi aggressive cichlids. Right. They, they maintain their own and they're generally not that aggressive. They're known as some plant eaters. But I've never had a planted tank that they mowed down well until got them from, you know, really good healthy specimens from Deeds Fish Company. And they grew up huge. They absolutely decimated in a 125 gallon planted tank and mowed it down to nothing. I, I moved them into smaller tanks and I just wanted to find them a different home so maybe I could, you know, find someone else that needed them. And I sure enough, I found them a different home with a family that wanted to start a fish tank for their kids that had no plants. So they still have them to this day. But apparently just before I got rid of them, they dumped eggs everywhere across my 10 gallon rack. And apparently the eggs got sucked into the overflow, dispersed themselves between all of the 10 gallons.
So you have them everywhere?
I now have small. Well now they're halfway grown out. Bueny's Aeris Tetra is growing in about every one of those tanks.
I love those little mistakes. I happen like that.
Right. Anyways, what project are you working on, Jimmy?
Hey, Robs.
Yeah, Jim.
Do you have that, that plant? The Bucket of Surprise for Rob's.
The Bucket of Surprise. You have to narrow it down. You're talking about the plant?
Yeah, the plant. I sent some more up with you so you can put it in with the Buenos Aires.
I don't need any more. I have, I could send you with cases of it. I'm not kidding you. I have so much that I could probably ship you a Rubbermaid tote full of it.
Will the Buenos Aires eat that?
They do. And yeah, they numb it down.
That's why they glow in the dark.
Now have you ever seen a Buenos Aires with like, I don't know, a dick sized turd? That's, that's right. That's what happens when they eat the plant. Anyways. What do you got going on, Jimmy?
I'm, I'm sorry. I just have this picture in my head right now that I can't think real street. I, I, you tards. I'm working on CO2 unit and stuff. So I have been doing some research and talking to some people. One of my, one of Our friends is. Is putting a huge CO2 unit in his facility. And so he's been helping me out quite a bit. And So I have 250. I ordered a hundred, ordered 150 and 50 of two different types of Amazon sword plants. And I don't know how I got 250, but she sent me 250 and billed me for 250. And so I've got those planned and they're doing very well. But, you know, they. How they do it overseas is the roots are in the water, but the plant is outside the water. So once you put them in the water, they generally kind of shed first couple of weeks and stuff, and then they start regrowth. But talking to our friend, he was telling us that the CO2 makes all the difference in the world for the growth of the Amazons from what he has been doing, because he's buying. He's buying the plants from the same place I'm buying the plants from. So we've been comparing notes and whatnot and stuff. And so when I do the shows, I hear a lot of people bitch that, you know, they buy plants and they fall apart. And so I wanted to sell truly submerged plants at the show and be able to show it. So we are actually documenting how we're doing it. And so we'll have a small video that we can show people what's going on so they know that they're getting plants that are fully submerged. But it's amazing how these plants still come in and I freaking still get snails on these things, just driving me insane. So I bought some clown loaches, and clown loaches spend a lot of time just zipping through the plants eating snails. So that's what I'm working on.
Nice. How. Any results on growth or is that top secret?
We have not got the equipment yet. I just ordered the last piece within the last two days and so we'll get it started. My problem is I have multiple tanks that I need to put it in. So I had to buy some, we call them spreaders or shipper, I don't know, splitters and stuff. So then I ordered a huge tank of CO2. If my house is on fire, I have a huge tank of oxygen and CO2, so I wouldn't go in running to save anything and just let it go.
So let it go. Blow up part of the insurance policy?
Yep.
Did you find. Did you find that big tub that I was telling you about at Home Depot?
Yes, I did. You should tell people about that really quick.
Oh, So I don't know if anybody knew about this. This was on the turtle boards and then on a few of the fishboards. Home Depot has some big ass tubs for sale. They're like 100 bucks. They're like 4 foot by 3ft or something like that. They're thick walled. You can use. I figured you could use them for outdoor ponds. If not, you could also use them for growing plants, turtle keeping, all kinds of. They looked really nice. And a hundred dollars for a tub is ridiculously cheap. So that's cheaper than a cattle tank at this point. So I figured people should know about it.
And there's people that had posted pictures, right? They had them on pallet racks because they're not that deep.
No, I don't think so. I want to say they're like 2ft high.
So I mean, that would make a great. I mean, if you're doing plants outdoors or something, or java moss or something, I mean, throw a couple strands in there and let that go. And then once the.
Imagine the plant in it.
Yeah. And then. And then once the plant spreads and then you get all your mosquito larvae, then put your rice fish in there and you get yourself a little. Little gold mine working there.
Yeah, that would work 100%. So the projects I've been working on, I've been trying to work with my buddy Quentin. We started a little side hustle that we call fish crate. We've been making these artisan mini ponds. So the idea is that people outside want to have like rice fish ponds, little goldfish ponds. Plans to put like, I don't know, CPDs, White Cloud Mountain, minnows, anything outside. Right. You've seen those patio ponds we've talked about many times before. These are like patio ponds. Plus they have a better stands. We have a square unit that is about 16, I think it's 16 gallons and a bigger trough unit. I got some pictures there in the Discord Chat for those that want to check it out. Been trying to get those built and sold. We got a bunch done. We got them in stores, but honestly we were finding out that they are difficult to sell in our area because we're in a very small populous area. It is a bigger item that they have to put in like a back of a pickup or an SUV to haul. It's not necessarily that it's heavy, it's just awkward. Most people that want them, want them shipped out. Unless we find a way to build this kind of like an IKEA kit, it's going to be harder to scale These are, you know, in the department of 200 to $300 items with cedar and different beautiful wood. Handmade, hand stained with our custom stains that don't leach and be toxic in the. The water. They're all sealed. They're. They're quite nice. I got them indoors in my fish room. So you can use indoor or outdoor. But that's been a lot of fun as a project for sure.
And also make a beautiful bird bath.
Honestly though, I didn't think of that. Honestly. Well, continuing going down these questions and thank you for these, by the way. As we've been going down down the list, we literally told the live audience to start participating questions. Most of the time we have a good showing, but the questions that we have, people aren't really ready for. They've been certainly dumping on them us today. So next question. Rob's Do I need to clean my aquascape dildos when I take them out to use? Okay, come on now you just rinse.
Them out in your mouth.
Rob would clean him with his mouth.
Yeah, those are aquarium dildos.
All right.
You. They're only used for the aquarium. That's disgusting. See, not the Bueny's eras tetras, the literal weed whackers. Yeah. I'm finding out that the specimens I had definitely weed whackers. Plant eating bastards. Yes. I cannot do anything but agree with you guys. I got some Cali Tawa. I'm probably butchering this again. K A L I space tawa dwarf rainbows. Does anybody have experience with them? These are the kind of like the white belly blue top and then red tail rainbows. I have not had them. I've want them for a while. I have a bunch of people that have had them. They are fantastic specimens.
I would treat this guy, get him before you.
I would treat them like a Wapoga rainbow. I would treat them like a Bosmani Bosmani rainbow. I would treat them the same way. And the only thing I can do is long term keep rotating their food. I've learned that the hard way that if you give them sustained high protein food all the time, that they will eventually have digestive issues. So make sure to rotate their food, keep their. Keep their food changing.
And are those the ones that spawn in these little mops? Right?
Yes.
And so you can take the mops and just keep grabbing mops out of there. I've seen a lot of people taking mops and wring the water out of it and throw them in another tank and going, God, not does not ringing the mop hurt the eggs, but obviously doesn't hurt that much. I'm like, why are people that mean to little fish eggs?
I. I got a message here. Sick porch pond. I'm like, yep, that is the patio ponds that I posted in there. Got a question from Scrimp. Have you seen oe neos before wholesale? I don't know what that question means.
Orange.
Oh, orange eye. I guess that is orange eye, isn't there? I haven't paid attention, but on lists I know you have more than I have, Jimmy.
I have not seen them on the list. They're beautiful.
Well, that's kind of cool.
Is it?
So it's a cherry shrimp, just a.
Red neocardenia shrimp, but the eyes are orange. I've seen them and I've seen them in private trade, I've seen them retail, but I haven't really paid attention enough to really look for them wholesale. Yeah, if you got. Actually Scrimp does sell. He's a really high end shrimp connoisseur. I'm pretty sure he breeds because everybody that has shrimp breeds and I know that he does sell in our discord. So if you want to see some absolutely elite high end shrimp scrimp, that's S K R I M P in our Discord does sell them. So come check them out. Sorry about the asking about the Aquascape. Dildos are supposed to be for the pissy Aquarius thread. My apologies. Well, good sir, that's a fantastic segue. See, I think our next segment of the podcast has to be the. The pissy Aquarius. Now Adam has a what we've considered anger issues. Anger issues and very opinionated person. So this is his therapeutic session when he gets to come on the podcast and delegate his opinions. So what we've done is we've had our Discord community in our by the announcements thread in our Discord post a bunch of questions specifically for Adam, known as the Opissi Aquarist. So we'll have to get to those. But before we get too far, generally Adam has something to bring to the table that he's been most disgruntled about as of recently. So as of today. As of today. What's. What's on your mind, bud?
So I sent you and Jim the picture of there the video of the asshat that was feeding expensive ass betas, quote unquote. They're my calls to a piece of shit giant narami.
Now. Yeah, just. Just to paint this. It's a viral video going around and we're not going to supply you the link because we don't want to like add to the spin. You can find it on your own. When they say giant Grammy, it's the species of giant gourami which does get very massive. And what they did is they said it was cull Betas. That's how that was put.
Which is bullshit. That wasn't col betas.
It was just a bunch of. Someone ordered.
It looked very beautiful.
Yeah, someone ordered a bunch of high end betas and they got it in bulk. They put them in a cup like a bunch like we're talking like no water. And they just put all the flat betas live in a cup and then they just, you know, douse them in like it was putting shrimp into a arowana tank. Right? You're just dumping them in. And then of course this giant betas just whapping and eating really high end betas non stop.
The giant Grammy.
Excuse me, Giant Grammys. Eating. Eating betas non stop.
Yes, that's. That pisses me off because it makes the hobby look bad. Then we turn around and have to deal with all the assholes that deal with that because then they're like, oh look, people feed live fish. And first of all you can feed live. That's not the problem. I don't have a problem with it. But don't feed high end betas because then you got the beta retards that are gonna. You might want to edit that one out.
I think so.
Continue. Oh God.
You got them. That the, the ass hats that believe that Betas need to be in a 10 gallon tank, 40 other fish and it's got to be well planted and well lit and all that other shit and 14 heaters in it. Those people are gonna get all pissy because the giant Grammy people are feeding Betas to their giant grammy. And then he's like, oh, these are beta calls. Every single one of those was at least a 5 to $10 beta. Easy 5 to $10 in the states. You could have shipped that to me in a wet paper napkin and I could have had every single one of those sold for like $20 a piece of.
So what I want to do, how I want to add to the pissy Aquarius. I want to buy some sort of equipment to put on Adam and I want to on the screen, his blood pressure as he talks. I just wanted. I just want to see his blood pressure climb.
That's a good idea.
Until he explodes.
That's a damn good idea.
You know like a beep beep.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
Exactly. Just have like a pistol meter, piss o meter. Pistol meter up in the corner with his blood pressure going up to the. And we'll see how far we can push him until his head.
You know what, we're going to go.
Down, down by Rochester and I'm going to set that up in his office. We're going to put on a low pressure cuff and just have a camera pointing to the meter and we'll just have it like on. On the live stream. Piso meter.
I like this.
This is good.
I think that'd be very helpful for people to understand that Adam is very passionate about this.
Yeah, he's not lying. His. His blood pressure is right there with it.
Do you not see the problem?
Okay, like you get brought up a point. You gave us your opinion. And even though I agree with your opinion, the format of the show is I have to be a devil's advocate. So in the light of this, especially when I'm getting messaged by some of our community, I have to ask you that. Do you feel the same way when people eat expensive food at a restaurant and you're jealous of it? You know, like, oh, they get to eat steak and you're eating ramen. Like, is that. Is that what it is? Like you have to feed your fish tetramen or. And then they are feeding lie like high end betas to their shits.
So it's okay to feed first of all, goldfish. Is it okay to feed goldfish?
Okay, so first of all, Adam, fish goldfish.
Yes or no?
Yes. In moderation. But see the problem Tetris is they're lacking vitamin B neon Tetris.
Let's go to the price scale. Where's the cutoff?
I think where's the cut off? That's what.
Yeah.
Where's.
Jimmy's trying to get like, where's the cut off? Like what's what fish is. Is out that you have to feed to another fish. Like, is it. Is it $6? Is it $10?
$20?
Clearly was your line.
Probably like 2 bucks is probably pushing it.
$2. So it's a money.
I play the advocate.
Yes.
Please, Bones, please.
So I'm gonna make the argument that most domestic beta people don't call nearly as much as they should be and are more willing to hawk the fish for the $10 that they get to pull something out that probably shouldn't be making it into the hobby.
Well put, girlfriend.
Like.
Like baby mice. If can you feed Baby mice to these things to the Grammys. They'll eat it. They're big. Yeah. I mean, I don't know how long a baby mouse can tread water, but I pay money.
Well, they sink right to the bottom.
Okay, how do you know?
That's a little too close to home, apparently.
All right, so you wouldn't feed them neons. Neon's too much money.
No, neons are worthless fish.
Oh. Oh, this one's my favorite right here. We got notorious in the chat saying, are you just jealous of the gourami not kissing you?
No.
First of all, I don't give a about giant Grammys.
They're.
They're a waste of a species of fish if there ever was one.
You know what? They probably are delicious.
The average person that has a giant gourami is overcompensating for a small man issue and all that. I'll just leave that. They're the same type of people that have giant Oscars and giant arowanas and the same that have giant and venomous snakes. Every single one of those people is overcompensating for something.
Get them.
Go get them.
Go get them, Adam. Yep.
Go get them.
What am I over compensating for?
You are not overcompensating like a mother. There you go.
Bones has a massive aquarium. Strap on. That's just saying.
I've been slanging silicone since well before I got here.
There you go.
Oh, yeah. A little bit. A little bit silicone.
Oh.
But all I'm saying is, is that when you have these. Are you guys. By the way, I can't see you. Are you guys blocked so that I can't see you? So I can't see you laughing?
Oh.
Oh, forgive me.
I don't know.
There's the camera. Now you can see us laughing. Enjoy that. Yeah, yeah.
There's a certain type of people that. That have these giant things, and 99% of them don't have them because they like them. They just have them because they're ass hats that are overcompensating.
All right, so is this people that.
Drive around with those fake balls on their truck, you think, Adam?
Maybe.
Well, they usually have lifted trucks, too.
Lifted trucks. Head on backwards. Cigarette hang up. And then. And then the fake bulbuls.
And they're white. Yeah.
You can get fake balls for your crocs.
There you go.
For your crocs.
I needed this tonight.
Thank you, croc nuts.
Yeah, thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Also, send me that link for croc nuts before we continue on.
I Do not have a lifted truck. Do you want to see. Do you want to hear the most redneck piece of thing that I've ever seen somebody do?
Is it aquarium related? Because we have a lot of questions. You have no idea. Not at all.
So the worst thing that I've seen somebody do is they had, like, a 1980s Bronco and it's all rusted to, and then they lifted it. They put it three feet high.
That's cool.
And the quintessential ass hat that you would expect to drive. The lifted thing with, you know, the back backwards hat tattoos.
I'm now convinced you're jealous of. Of lift hits. Yeah.
You know, he's the guy that was driving that vehicle. And I'm like, yep. I would have assumed that's what it was.
Guys, I'm gonna take this moment to say that if you. If you want to help with Adam's blood pressure, please go to Discord and top be a sponsor of the show for 299. You can listen to this episode uncensored and a lot of other VIP content only that supporters can do. Come join us. And it helps support Adam's Zen addiction. So I promise you, after this podcast, we will get him a zit. Oh, we say you need it. We will get you a Zen pack right after.
I just want. I just want to give him a big bowl. Like, you know, you keep M M's in, but just high blood pressure medicine. And just take one and take one until you freaking just pass out.
All right, next. We got a lot of questions, guys. We gotta. We gotta work on this. I didn't know people would just blow up like this. Since we started this feeder Betas just like Nana used to feed. I'm going through these. These are good. Feeding him with the C betas. Oh, we got the video in chat.
Awful.
Somebody found it.
That's.
That didn't take long.
Oh, that didn't take long. Yeah, there it is.
I already had it saved. In my defense.
That's beautiful.
Come up in conversation.
Enjoy that.
Okay.
There's a difference between calls and, like. Like, I could see calling for a deformity. And you're domestic betas.
They're all deformed.
My. My. My favorite right here. Any beta is a feeder. Sue me.
That's that.
Thank you, Bones. Adam is why I come here. You got a fee? Oh, you gotta treat your fish to cheddar's every once in a while. Excellent. Thank you, guys. All right, next one. How does Adam feel about long fin Oscars?
Okay. So we're going back to now. You're. You're the same type of ass hat that has giant fish overcompensating for something. Bones is one of the few people that is that it has these because they probably. She probably likes them.
You're scared of her, and I have a giant dick.
Adam.
Well, both worlds.
Okay, good. But like, best of both worlds, long fin Oscars. Why are you taking and putting on something that doesn't need shit given to it? Because it's already.
I love that.
Scrimp asked this question in the chat on shit. He also posted an example of longfin Oscars and he gave us, like, one of the most sickly ones without ick.
They all have ick. They're always sick, they're always dying. And they're like $50. And there's always one. I'd sell the shit out of those two dipshits. Oh, could I throw it in my 10 gallon tank? Knock yourself out. Give me $50. It cost me 10. I don't give a shit if you're going to be that stupid.
Excellent.
You know, I think like, the longfin Oscars is kind of like throwing extra pillows for decoration on your bed is kind of basically worthless. Adam's not gonna sleep for a week after this. You know that, right?
Wait till I start doing my week, my monthly show.
He's just gonna be shaken. Oh, man.
Piss o meter.
The piss o meter. Are stingrays on the table as feeder fish if your fish is big enough. Asking, asking, asking Rob. Asking if. If you. If you do this at Rob's.
Oh.
Oh, thanks. Anyways, how do you feel about stingrays as possible feeder fish there, Adam?
Sure.
Knock yourself out.
Like, all right.
You might as well at this point.
What?
The one thing that pisses me off is like, is it one thing?
There's many things.
There's many things. But like the. One of the things. Have you guys ever seen, like, bat rays?
Yes.
Oh, no, don't.
I'm Batman. One question. I've heard two different ways that these things are bred. I want somebody on here to tell me which is the truth. Are they bred that way and they're like deformed stingrays?
Or.
Or are they, like, cut. Because somebody said that they cut them.
A deformity. It's a cleft. But there have been people, just like people in Southeast Asia. Not to marginalize the part of the hobby, but they'll, like, cut the threads between tail and pectoral fins. So the bulk of rays that you see are born with it. Like a cleft palette. But there's some people who know that people are collecting that. So they'll take a. A pup and cut its face up.
Now, see, those people are the same that are feeding the Betas to giant gouramis. They're bad for the hobby. Like there's gonna be a 20 minute rant. One of my first episodes is gonna be how we are personally destroying the hobby. And it's dumb like this long fin Oscars feeding betas to giant Grammys and disfiguring stingrays. And then. Oh, I.
It's just people, Adam, trying, trying to make a buck. I mean, you look at.
I don't care about that.
Like, I mean, look at, look at Glofish that they, they take the cheapest white skirt tetra, which you can buy for 39 cents wholesale, and. And they put some color into them and then they just keep adding color and more color and more color and. And it's all just a big money grab. I mean some of them are beautiful, but I mean we could have a two hour discussion about how people either love or hate Glofish. And now they're doing, you know, the Glofish and glow sharks and glow barbs, glow angels, glow angel fish.
All right, we.
We got a lot to cover, boys. Let's keep it going.
Going.
So next question is. I just at mentioned you in the chat there. Adam Frog wants to know how many, how many of the Aqueon brand beta beads should I put in my 10 gallon aquarium?
Actually, so I was gonna talk about this on the podcast. I've used those things. They're really good. I went into them fully expecting them to be.
What are we talking about?
I'll show you too, Jimmy. This is what it is right Here it is this product here it is basically what you would do when you do like a Walter white tank because you want like blue glass in the.
Bottom of your aquarium, but they're like plasticky squishy balls.
Yeah.
Here's the thing. So I use these things.
They contain beneficial bacteria and enzymes add to.
It.
They're soft biodegradable gravel, but they're like gel rubbery. Yeah.
So how long do they last?
I actually did an experiment. They last damn near a year.
Really? So.
Yes.
So they come in colors pink, blue, purple, and.
And then here's the other thing. So I fully expected these things to be garbage and bullshit. And I was going to rant about them because I wasn't fond of Aquion products. But I put Them in the beta tanks that I have and the Betas love them. They were like playing in them and, and I actually saw that the enrichment. Now the Betas in with a. Just a bare bo vase and I don't care if you don't like that it's in a bare bottom vase. It's been alive in there for hold on. Years.
I'm going to get pissy now. I'm changing the pissiness here. I'm going to read the description of this. Beta beads. Aqu? Aon's pure beta beads contain beneficial bacteria that help maintain a healthy environment. In an unfiltered aquarium, the beneficial bacteria adds in maintaining a balanced environment while enzymes break down organic sludge for better water clarity. These soft biodegradable balls create a fun enrichment activity for Bettas while encouraging their natural foraging behavior. Watch your Betta play in the beads like a fun ball pit as they dive in and out. Replace the beads monthly and remove uneaten food for optimal results. If beta beads shrink prematurely, this is a quick indicator that the water hardness is not optimal for your beta. We recommend changing the water with soft deionized or specifically filtered beta waters. Bye now.
I got kind of turned on just you talking like that. So quick question for you, Adam. I mean, I don't know the consistency, if they're sticky or whatever. Could I.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's a legitimate question.
I'm buying these and I'm gonna throw them against like yard signs and see if they stick.
There you go.
We're gonna drive around.
Are they like paintballs? No, I'm saying if you had a layer of these in a small tank, do you think like, like zebra Daniel's egg scatterers. If they laid eggs, do you think the eggs would fall into the. They appear better beads and, and be protected from the fish?
I actually think they would. I mean I, I really, I thoroughly enjoyed them. I mean they're, they're like eight bucks for a baggie of them. So they're kind of expensive.
Well, not if you only replace them once a month.
Dude. That's better than.
Yeah, well, you don't even need to replace them once a month. Like I literally had them in the tank for at least six months and then never had a problem, did water changes. They were great. I would get those again for. And. And they're one of the top sellers. Like I was actually impressed with an equion product.
Excellent. So beta. Beta anal beads for Adam. I didn't expect that. We all expected that to be A pissy one.
And when he kept saying that he.
Uses them, I was very impressed.
Interesting. Wow stuff.
All right, all right, Back to the back to think. Also, Bones, I'm putting you on chat duty because I have to read over the. The actual pissy Aquarius thread now. So please, if there's something worthwhile, bring it up.
Oh, that's my favorite one right there.
There.
How much duckweed should I add to my tank?
Yeah, how was that one thing?
You'll have plenty tomorrow.
How's that one Duckweed. That's all you need.
The one. The one duckweed.
The one duckweed.
All right, next one. Roselle wants to know what are some things that Petsmart does, right, Adam?
Nothing.
Wow.
Not at all.
They will offer you, they will get you. Sometimes you can buy really quality animals really cheap because they, the people are stupid.
No, you know, I will give them credit where credit is due. They bring in really great middle aged hot moms. All right. And they do that well.
Yeah, they do.
They do that well.
You know what, what confuses me a little bit since my wife started buying geckos is she's been buying them from petsmart or Petco when she first started, but now she's buying all these high end ones. But what was interesting is the amount of paperwork that, that you have to fill out to get a gecko. And, and here's my favorite thing. So she, she buys these two small geckos a year ago. The guy said, you have to have. You can only put one per tank. She goes, Then why do you have 19 in your tank? And he sat there and he couldn't answer. But then there was five or six pages that she had to fill out about how she was going to be a good gecko mom and whatnot. And she said, you know, I can adopt a freaking baby cheap than this and faster.
You know, I would.
I could probably get you a mostly white baby.
No, I don't.
If someone works for Pet, Petsmart or Petco and they have that form, I want you to submit that form. And next podcast we're going to read that aloud and I want us to all fill that out on how we're going to be a good.
A pet.
A pet parent, you know, and then they also, like, Adam, what you, you know, this Petsmart or they only do what for the rodents, all male or all female.
I think they do that for all their mammals too.
Yeah, birds too.
Yeah. So they'll only have one sex or the other, but here's how you do it. Guys, you go get the one sex at the one store, then you go down the road to the other one and you get the other sex. And then ta da. Like, they don't think I'm gonna drive 20 miles to get a pair of zebra finches. Dumbasses.
Well, and then that's not always foolproof because Pet Land and them will tell you that they're sending girls and that's not what the they do. Not a hamster, not a rat, not a. Nope.
Yeah, no, nothing is. Nothing is. I don't, I don't even buy shit from them. Like if I want something I go to a local swap or I just get a hold of people that I know for the shit that I want.
There you go.
They're just, they're just a waste of. They shouldn't even exist.
Well, I mean, if you look at it in the last few years, the amount of livestock that they don't carry, I mean, it used to be you go in there and they'd have a lot of livestock. And now this is becoming a pet food store, basically, you know, and that's.
How they go out of business.
Yeah, I mean it's like having a zoo with no animals in it and people come to look at different animals. I mean, how are you going to sell, how are you going to sell that fish aquarium or how are you going to sell that bird cage if you don't have a bunch of birds there, a bunch of fish there? And I've seen their aqua stuff gets smaller and smaller, smaller over the last few years. And then you've got some people who are local who are kind of taking over that and selling a lot more, which is good for the small guy.
And you can a big box store that's in like between the Petco Pet Smart Realm can lose their live animals if you miss enough of their like animal walks or you miss an order date or whatever. They dock you points and you get evaluated biannually so they'll come in. And it's very common that people are like, mike, Petco lost their saltwater section. And that means like a manager in that building wasn't doing what they were supposed to be doing and the corporate entity just came and snatched them. Or like you'll see places missing reptiles or small birds or sometimes they're only vending dry goods. But yeah, enough people complain and they miss the ball enough times they lose their live animals.
Didn't they get it? Didn't they have one in. I know that they just, they had a petsmart where they literally got the entire live animal. It was like a live reptile order. And they just went and walked it out to the dumpster and threw the whole thing in the dumpster and they got busted for it. Like they were still in the boxes with the labels on them and that. And it's bullshit. You shouldn't be doing that either. Like that gives us a bad name.
I have a video of a corporate box store employee dropping dry ice in the turtle tank.
Tank.
If you really want to get angry today.
Why?
This is not what we had in mind with the pissy Aquarius, by the way. I just want to put that out. We don't want actual anger, just factious. Adam. Anger.
Yeah.
So they did this to kill the turtles.
Thankfully nobody was injured at this point in time. So I don't know if it was a small piece or what, but yeah, it was terminated. But it was still something that was. Just happened. Facilitated, whatever. But it's really insane, like the level of negligence that happens in that chain. Right.
They probably hired him from Burger King. And this is the Burger King guy that. That was peeing in the oil.
All right, let's knock out more questions. Let's do speed round here. Adam, how much is the annual aquarium facility license in Minnesota?
There better not be an aquarium facility license in Minnesota. That ain't a thing.
Next.
Next one by the same person. Omnibeta. How. How many species of frogs does the DNR require a permit for. For selling in Minnesota?
Jesus Christ.
Another question by Omnibeta. How many feet in. In sections of lily pad can I remove before I need a permit for the state of Minnesota?
You just got to do that. Do that in the dark, people.
No shit. Like it's. It's only. It's only. You're only in trouble if you get caught.
You're such a. You're such a. All right, next one frog pussy wants to know, can I change my Aquion filter cartridge every week? Why are my fish getting sick?
Because you have an Equion filter cartridge.
Because you have no bacteria in there.
Now we're doing some shotgun ones. The government banned the zoomed basking ball. Zoomed basking bulbs. And Reddit said I can just use fluorescent white lights from Walmart. Why are my reptiles all slow and sluggish?
Cuz they have mbd. First of all, your goddamn problem is you're listening to Reddit. Reddit is just goddamn liberal propaganda with dipshits and dumbasses on it. I literally got rid of Reddit.
Adam, breathe In. Yes. Breathe in.
Okay.
In with the good air, out with the bad.
You know, this is what we came for.
You're talking about the bulb and stuff. So my wife just switched all. All of her lizards out to the sun room, and she thought, well, out in the sunroom, they'll have plenty of. Of natural sunlight and stuff. And she didn't turn the lights on right away. For two weeks, we didn't get any eggs. And then she bought some new basking lights for those things. And now we're getting 15 eggs a freaking week. There you go. So if you don't think, you know, it didn't work. The white lights from Walmart probably wouldn't work very well.
Basset's Yarn wants to know, why do my Grammys make out all the time? Are they gay?
Yes, your gouramis are gay. And you are one step above incompetent.
There you go. An anonymous user wants to know why anal beads are superior biological media for an aquarium. Apparently he didn't hear the one about aqui on before this. Think.
Think about all the bacteria up your butt. How about that?
Okay, bonus question, since that one was already answered, how many Aqueon beta beads can you fit in your ass?
Well, Robbie, you can try that because you try to. I mean, how much is how much. How much air tube did you get up there one day?
All right, moving on. Pan Nosha. I think that's how you say the name if you use it. Well, come on, guys, can we do some better questions here?
How many snails do I have to add before I don't have to clean my tank?
That's from. That's from King of the Bog. There you go.
I love that one.
You know what you need? Four MTSs and like, six of those new Zealand and you'll never have to worry about anything again. And the New Zealand in your water?
Is that the scientific name? The New Zealand?
The New Zealand.
Those little New Zealand. The snails that you were talking about.
How many YouTube videos do I need to make to seem legit as a fish tuber?
I don't know. Am I legit as a fish tuber?
You're not a fish tuber.
We're a podcast, people.
12.
There you go.
Excellent. Next question by Omnibeta. Can I really boil rocks I grab from a perfectly good, wild ecosystem?
Yes, you can boil them.
This is.
Okay, here's what I've done. And stuff it. I put them in the oven. Seriously, I've. It doesn't smell Good. If there's any algae on the rocks. It doesn't smell good, but so I.
Think what, what omnibus trying to do, because these are all like ironic questions.
Yeah.
Is if you do these, if you boil it, put in the oven and they happen to be like a geo or have a small air pocket in them, they can explode.
Yeah. Don't put in the microwave there.
You actually learn something through these. Next one from Panosha. Again, if I'm saying that name correctly, I just call him Pan when he comes in the chat. How many plecos do I need to eat all the algae in my 10 gallon tank?
Six.
Six. Six total playcos.
Like if. Wait, wait, wait. Now are we talking bristle noses or are we talking the big ones?
They just said plecos. That's up to you.
So. So you need at least six of the regular standard plecos in a 10 gallon tank to keep it clean. And then they work really good. If you have angelfish, you know, in, in your breeding pairs of angelfish and discus, they work great with those.
In a 10 gallon tank.
Yeah.
Yep.
All right.
And put lots of algae eaters there.
Too before we get an actual beginner. Aquarius listening to this. Don't do any of that. He's being a dick. All right, moving on. Dragon wants to know what is his favorite Cory and why is it the longfin pepper cories?
Bonfin pepper. Why the I like long fin pepper Coreys?
I don't even know you care about that question.
They're one of the like, oh yeah, let's just. Why don't I like it albino and as Corey's. Yeah, those are stupid too. You've got the like cool Coreys, like the Adolphi, you know, the brocus. What were those really cool ones I showed you and Jim? I showed Jim these really cool ones at Forest Lake. And here's what Jimmy goes.
Yeah, okay.
He just walks away like they were nothing. And they were like really cool and super rare and like $50 a piece because they're super rare. And Jim's just like, yeah, it's like.
I'm not paying $50 for a frickin Cory catfish.
But they're cool Corys that are rare. Salt, Hyper Corey. Everybody has those. I had those things breeding in almost toilet water. They're almost as bad as convicts, you.
Know, I want to put this out. I had a conversation last night with Adam on the phone, like, hey man, don't forget tomorrow's the podcast. You guys like.
Yeah.
Pretty excited. By the way. I'm. I'm gonna clean up my language. We're gonna. We're gonna do a professional podcast tomorrow. And I'm like, the.
You are.
He's like, why? Cuz Discord's preparing a bunch of questions for you. Damn it. And then we just moved on.
I just. I just wonder when. When Adam and his wife go in for parent teachers conference, if that's ever brought up. Like, you know, I asked your child what seven and eight, seven plus eight was, and he said, you. What's the matter? And we'd like to talk to you about that.
You know, actually, I'm not allowed to speak at parent teacher conferences. I don't. I'm not even allowed to go. What?
What? And for those of you who don't know, Adam's wife is a teacher and she can't teach him to.
Is this for real? Did you get kicked out of parent teacher conferences? Are you joking?
I am.
I'm not allowed to go.
That's hilarious.
And. And is this because a court. A court order or is this because your wife just doesn't want you there?
Wife doesn't want me there.
That's a. That's a good call.
It kind of reminds me of Bert Kreschner. Kresher.
Yeah. Talking about double fisting a beer at the parent teacher con.
Yeah, he.
He grabbed a Diet Coke, he thought, and then he opens up a freaking Coors Light or something.
Just a beer. All right, next question. Notorious wants to know. I it call cleaned my aquarium last week and made sure to use bleach. It was extra clean. Why is my fish all die today?
Take the bleach out. Probably not.
Probably not. No, the bleach.
Bleach works great.
I think you.
Bleach works great, but I think you have to do like. What is it, like three.
Three water changes.
Three water changes before it's.
I did it with my last time. I was trying to get rid of those damn trumpet snails and I put in 2 cups of bleach in. In my 20 gallon tank. I never took the tank apart. I just drained it, filled it, drained it three times and stuff. And then watched the trumpet Malaysian snail population explode after that.
Did that even kill him?
No, it didn't kill him. Slow them down for a bit.
Yeah. No, next time what you need to do is you need to double the bleach and then not even put a water change. You need to be constantly stuck smelling that bleach all the time. That's how you keep your tank clean.
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Diesel wants to know, Adam, do I still need to clean my aquarium dildo when I take it out to use? What do I do if my fish named Fred got into territorial over my yellow one? This is theoretical, of course.
Theoretically, can fish even see the color yellow?
I don't. Our fish.
I thought red was the. Was the one that they had problems with.
Red they can't see. I know they can't see red.
Yeah. Every time I put my red net in there, they look at it and go, that's a net, isn't it?
Red light that they have a problem with.
Red light they can't see.
Yeah. I don't know. That's more questions that I don't. I have zero idea of. UWU wants to know, how much rainbow gravel do you have to put in my tank before you notice?
Who did we talk to not that long ago that was doing that, where they'd go in there and just put in, like, one red piece in somebody's tank. Was it you?
Yeah.
And then they would dig it out with the forceps, and you'd come back the next day and do it again.
Just do a little pinch. Just do a little pinch of clown puke to your homie. So that's how you get it done. But you can only do it to, like, your homie that looks, like, really detailed and anal, has, like, a really nice scape. You can't do it. Your homie that has kind of like a. I don't know, slightly jank tank or a blank tank. You got to do it like something that he cares about. I can just feel Adam just vibrating over there.
No, I'm. I'm just. I'm calling.
You know, I like that it said, how much can I pay y' all to.
To tran. Adam?
Every time the DNR is mentioned. Last night, we were watching. You were talking about drinking games. My wife and I were talking about drinking games, and we were watching Antiques Roadshow, and so we started drinking to the word wow. We made it. We made it 45 minutes before I had to. Yeah, I. 45 minutes, and it was, like, six beers. I had to quit. I was hammered. But this one gal said, wow about six times. I'm going, who in the hell came up with this idea?
Well, wow.
Wow.
How much?
I like the antiques.
Oh, yes.
Oh, here's one from uwu. How much copper do you use to treat a pair of seahorses?
Can you use.
Yes, yes. Put copper in the seahorse tank.
Can you do that?
Yeah. How much do You. How much do you use to treat them?
You know, and. And what year penny would you throw in?
Yeah, yeah, give us two cents on that. Make sure to use the wheat pen.
Pennies. Yes, only the best it. And if you have those Rare San Francisco 1922 Pennies that are worth thousands of dollars, throw them in the tank too. No, if I ever find that. I know it looks like if I ever find him, I'm gonna castrate him, feed himself his balls, and then I'm gonna.
Wow, we're getting that. You want to listen to what he just said to please go on Discord, become a subscriber. 299 will get you what he just said right there.
Now, I would pay 2.99 not to hear that again.
You're right. For those that don't know, copper is completely lethal to seahorses. And Adam had a cus. A customer go in his store with his breeding pair of seahorses.
He didn't buy anything. He just killed my seahorses.
He had a. He had a non patron going to his business and to get mad because he wouldn't say, sell them seahorses. So that's how it goes.
You don't sell gravit, you don't sell pregnant seahorses. Horrible. You know what I mean? I'm being smart.
Yeah.
How many arowana do I need until I have enough testosterone for a giant around me? Four. Thank you, bones.
Four. As long as they're over eight inches. If you don't. So.
So wait, what. What kind of arowana are we talking about? Are we talking about the self image American ones, or are we talking about the actual ones that will. The. The really nice ones, the Asians?
Well, I'm just trying to pick up some tea, Adam. So if you want to break it down by like, so Asian count for more testosterone than a giardini. Or like, do I just have to go with the straight black arrows and hope for the best?
Well, so first of all, straight black arowanas are kind of nice because you don't see those very often. Kind of nice.
Usually they curve to the left, which gives you more tea.
So, like, silver arowana is douchebag. And then. Then you go to blacks, which is like, I'm showing off and I have a little bit of. Well, they're not really expensive anymore, but they used to be, you know? And then if you go to Asian arowanas, then I'm gonna give you like king dick waving championship. You get a medal for that. So Technically, you're not supposed to have those.
Adam, what would I get. Adam, what would I get as a prize for having a silver arowana that's been dyed blue? Have you seen those? Have you seen them?
No.
Are they. What do they look like?
They.
They have a faint blue to them, and they have. They sell. They sell them red and they sell them blue. They're silver arowanas that have been Easter egg died, basically. So do I get a prize for that? For being.
Yes.
Being cool? Okay.
Yes. You get my friendship.
All right, next question. I'm going to modify this one by.
Ooh.
Instead, I'm gonna ask what is your most favorite and least favorite glowfish color? Now, I gotta read the list of colors for you so you get. What's going down there is Starfire Red, Cosmic Blue, Electric Green, Sunburst Orange, Galactic purple, and Moonrise Pink Pink.
Didn't they have yellow ones?
That is the sunburst orange is the yellow ones.
The yellow ones always look like. Like, I am not a big fan of blowfish, but the yellow ones always look like. Like they're kind of grown on me a little bit now that I'm starting to see them with angelfish and. And then one of us bred them with Koi Angel. Didn't he breed him? Yeah. So there aren't the. Aren't like redacted.
Redacted.
Oh, sorry about that.
No, you're good.
I know somebody who bred them.
There you go. Well, the name will be bleep. Don't you worry.
There's a bunch of things that need to be bleeped.
Yeah, that poor editor is getting tonight.
Do I need to give him extra money?
Yes, yes.
The.
Please.
So what's the most popular Starfire Dan? You. You sell them?
I'm bet.
Oh, the electric green.
By far, the green is the best.
Celery green by far.
Okay.
Yeah, because you can see that color, I'm assuming.
Not if you know the fish, you can't tell color. Right.
My favorite's the purple. I think the purple look cool because when they look old, they're like. I don't know, it's like a cool, velvety curmudgeony purple. And when they're new, they kind of got that still a glow look to them. Like they change shades. It's so much fun. You ask, like, what is that? It's cancer.
What? It's.
Ah. It's not cancer.
Has anybody found out if the. If the glowfish live a little less than a regular one?
They've Done research on it. And on average they just. They're about the same. It's kind of odd. Yeah.
Now and, and I. And see, that is like genetically, you know, those. What really pissed me off before was when they would catch them all and they die. Inject them.
Now that.
Painted tetras. The painted glass tetras.
They have painted glass tetras. And then they took the white tetras.
Yeah, they're the Indian humphead tetras. And then they juice them.
They. They inject them.
But no, they used to have the white skirt tetras. They called them fruit tetras. And those were dipped. Those are just put in a big vat for weeks on end until they absorbed it. And then they would slowly go back to white in your tank.
They stopped doing the absorption and they just do the dipping. So just hard acid dip and whatever.
Lives.
I'm.
I you not. It's awful.
God. But that's some. I hated that. I would never bring those in. Jim would go and he'd like, you want those? Nope, I would never buy them. And then he go, he goes and he just, he'd be like, all the other stores sell the out of them. And I'm like, I don't care. But like painted glass fish, the ones that were dye injected, I brought those in a few times, but I found that they did a little better if you kept them with, with brackish.
Jimmy and I.
The painted glass fish were actually hand painted with a stripe of blue or green or red on top. They actually. I've thought, I've seen videos of that.
Jimmy and I were.
Wait, I thought they injected it.
No, no, they have, they have ones that they do inject and they have ones that actually paint.
Oh, I didn't know that.
And the paint lasts about 2, 3 months and it falls off.
The ones that are injected last a lot longer.
Okay. Why haven't they put those glass fish with. With the glow gene in them again?
It's just there they use species that are really easy to propagate and that are hardy Indian glass fish. Aren't that, that are cheap too? Aren't that easy to propagate? Not.
They're.
They're not that cheap. It's like white skirts. People don't know this. They're still like, you know, 10 cents. Like it's insane.
Yeah. You mean you buy a hundred of them for 39 bucks. 30, 39 cents a piece, but then you, you turn that into a glowfish and what are they even wholesale? They're what?
40 bucks paying at the store, like, 13, 15 bucks for them.
Right?
You know?
Yeah.
Next one.
I bleach.
Oh, I cleaned my aquarium. This is the guy that had the bleach. I bleached the fish, too. I wanted to make sure they weren't sick. I did not do that. Okay, I'm not. I'm not acknowledging it, just laughing. Next one.
Oh, how often have an aneurysm?
How often should I have.
Should I change the sponge in my scorpion enclosure? It's starting to turn black, and it smells bad.
Your sponge?
Why do you have a sponge in the scorpion enclosure? I don't know.
Watering.
Is that for watering?
No, you give him a shallow dish.
Oh, well, maybe that's why.
Maybe somebody's doing it wrong. Maybe somebody's birth control sponge thing.
Yeah, obviously.
Oh, wait.
What kind of scorpion?
No, it doesn't say scorpion. It just says a scorpion. A scorpion.
When I lived in, like, I've had the really cool ones. Like, I have true emperor scorpions right now. And then I am. I am trying to find the. The true death stalkers again.
Oh, I have Hot and Tata, if you're interested. Hot and Tata, or however you say.
It, Is that the true deathstalkers that'll kill you in, like, ten seconds.
Yeah, sweet.
I want some of those.
Yeah, put it in Adam's shoe. That's where you find.
Yeah, All y'.
All.
I got Adam on some scorpions. I got Jimmy on some frogs. I'll take it.
My. I'm gonna insert a couple words here to fix this for Notorious. How many baby stingrays should I feed my Wells catfish per week? It doesn't matter if it's cheap or expensive. I just want my best for my sir. Gorge a lot.
Gorge a lot.
Six to eight.
Six to eight a week.
Oh, wait.
All right, now, wait.
Aren't those catfish illegal?
Yeah, that's. That's the word I. I put just to make the joke funnier. He just put catfish. But you got to put, like, a big catfish to make that joke because.
How about a red cat?
You might have to edit this. I've heard that there are Wells catfish in the US But I've never seen them.
Oh, they are.
There are for sure.
Like, but I thought that they were, like, blanket illegal across the entire US.
They'Re federally or a lot of other.
Things that are here.
Well, yeah, I'm not editing this out. Wells catfish are federally illegal across the US and you can look up news articles of people getting hit all the time in.
Port them in.
You should just call ICE if they're there.
Yeah, because they're looking for 3,000 illegal immigrants a day. They can get some catfish in there.
You know, times the true.
What was that Rob Dan said?
Timestamp.
Because that's a. That's relevant to the political news of the day.
Oh, now, true Asian Arowanas. You almost never hear of people having those.
Oh, no, no. That's the same thing. You hear it all the time. Yeah, they're everywhere.
So I can get.
I know people that have them.
Well, I know people that have them too, but I was just trying to not out the people. Do you and I both know the same people?
I mean, maybe.
Okay.
I know somebody's got Bigfoot in their backyard.
Yeah. All right, moving on. Diesel is. If the guy who killed your seahorses has a charity that saved impoverished kids with cancer, would you. Would you still want to wish him ill?
Yes.
The answer is yes. Are you saying that improvisation.
Second of all, you. I. I'm legal. I was born in this goddamn country.
That doesn't matter.
I'm legal. I'm not going back.
Doesn't matter. If.
If the answer is yes. Are you saying impoverished kids with cancer are less important than your seahorses?
Yes.
Okay.
That deserves to die.
Next. Next comment. The baby seahorses had cancer. All 500 of them. Don't care. What's the over under on the sea kids or seahorses with cancer?
Three.
Okay, guys, this has been great. I really do enjoy this Pissy Aquarist. We hope that this actually will be a little mini podcast that we can do more often and actually make its own little podcast. So if everything goes correctly, we'll spin up a podcast where Adam has his own little show. He can pull up news articles of what's going on in the world of pets and, you know, clearly give his completely biased and outrageous opinions on a more consumable and small short form fashion. So if you are interested, please keep an eye out where podcasts are consumed. Spotify, itunes, I mean, the bathroom wall, Amazon, wherever they're gonna be posted. And keep. Keep an eye out here, because we'll announce it here first.
We have somebody that listens to Deep Fried and this one at the same time. That's pretty good.
That's. That's. That's scary. All right, now before we end the podcast, we do have to go over emails.
The last time we went over emails, he started from like 1972 or some goddamn it ain't.
It was like it Ain't as bad. All right, this one's. This one's a bit rough. Sup boys? I was hoping you knew what might be going on with my amber tetras. There's a dark reddish brown streak appearing on one or two of them. I have about 24. It begins on the gill plate and ends roughly above the anal fin area. It appears to be be local deep within the vascular area, but does not be superficial like a regs red street or septicemia. I first noticed about two weeks ago. The fish are acting fine. I treated with Prazipro. Yesterday I re treated with another dose of Prazipro. Kill plates seem to be pinkish and the fish is now lethargic and breathing slightly heavier than normal. I'm gonna go a little further. Other than proudly pro doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing. My water parameters are ammonia are zero nitrate. Zero nitrate, 20 ppm. So looks like we're keeping up with normal water changes. Temperature is kept at 78. School is 24 to 26. Ember tetras species only tank with netes and godforsaken MTs and pond snails. I have had these fish really roughly six months with zero signs of disease other than some very mild fin rot which are treated in quarantine with Canoplex before moving to this tank. Thanks kp.
Can I see a picture of it?
Absolutely. I'm trying to get the copy.
It's too late now. He's probably. They're all dead. What they got guilty.
I'm gonna post it right into the live podcast chat right now for everyone.
What do you think, Dan? Gil Flukes.
That picture there looks kind of fine.
Maybe I'm retarded, but these look fine.
Yeah, I don't.
These look fine. That's nothing wrong with them.
Anything wrong other than they probably grew out and you can see a part of their gill.
They're called Amber Tentress because they glow like the normal color on them when they get bigger.
Help guys. I bought these fish and they really. They just seem to have this red and blue line and I don't know. I've been putting medication in the tank. I don't know what's going on, man. You got Neon Tetris, but no, you shouldn't have red and blue.
You maybe have Cardinal Tetras.
I don't know. They. They seem completely healthy to me. But I think the behavior tokens and what you're seeing is probably.
Could they be near breeding age?
Possibly something that end. I would keep the light off. It looks like you have those things under a fluorescent light. That can only be described as what Adam was starting to use once they took away his zoom headlights.
Oh, the Walmart that I got a.
Whole that I bought boxes of the I asked all my friends and I bought boxes of them and I'm gonna gladly put them on there. And then every one of these fruit loops ass hats that was like, oh, they're destroying the environment. I'm gonna watch every single one of them burn and I'm gonna laugh with glee. Don't take my goddamn lights away.
I don't know. And also you said fin rot. So I look at the fins and these fins are picture perfect. So I don't know if you just took care of it or what, but I wish you the best. I see nothing wrong. Check the hanging.
Could be breeding behavior.
I would also keep the light off. It's that those, those, those pictures are so bright. My dude. Hey you guys.
I was walking by my dick biter cage the other day and it bit me in the dick.
Something wrong with them?
There's something wrong with the dick biter? No, but honestly behavior and especially when you see, see your fish hyperventilating or stressed out. Tetras stress themselves out during a lot of different things. And when the, when, like when you walk by, when the light is there, when you're there, when a fly farts in a corner, they'll stress out. So I don't know. I, I just wish I, I wish I had more for you. But what you sent us looks to be decently healthy.
Throw some live plants in there and watch them color up even more.
And you, the plants in the background look good too.
I I.
There's the temperature, the water tests, everything, everything you provided us tell us that you're doing the right thing. So I'd stop medicating and just yolo it. They're cheap fish. Next one V wants to know. Hey guys. The name I will use in this email is Venus. Okay, I, I just said V just to try to make it anonymous, but clearly I was doing a good one. I am 24 years old in northern Carolinian who officially filled up my aquarium as of water as the day.
I feel like we're being catfished.
Right now I am creating a 29 gallon community tank will be fully planted with around 21 plants. My last aquarium belonged to my mom back in oh six. Just like my other southerners. My real experience with aquariums with local Walmarts. I enjoyed you guys getting into the aquarium build outs from Walmart I always was curious how those things went. One of the biggest things I wanted to reach out to you guys with a couple questions is my community tank. I plan to have six coolie loaches, six neon tetras and a male beta. Curious if you guys think that these are good beginner community fish. I like shrimp Betas notorious for eating shrimp. So yeah, everything you listed there, coolie loaches, neon tetras, betas, all fine. Shrimp are going to be snacks and you already listed that. Lastly, I would love.
Oh go ahead.
The cool loaches probably would be better in a slightly brackish tank, if not completely brackish.
I think Dan can speak better to this because he gets them in more often. The banded coolie loaches years ago used to be terrible sensitive. Now the shits that I'm seeing that like these fish co get in are much hardier than they used to be. I saw a bunch of bandits in the store not too long ago. How are they doing the the more recent stock?
I mean everything we kind of run with like three parts per thousand at at the least. So especially loaches. Give them salt.
Yeah. If you want to see your koolie loaches. If you want to see your six Kooly loaches, you should get 40 of them. Yep. Because they bury themselves in the gravel and you never see them. T.
I also would love to hear a podcast dedicated to koolie loaches and different types of loaches because I think they're charming. Little water puppy noodle snakes.
Puppy noodle snakes.
The episode dedicated to beta fighting was very informative and interesting. Thanks guys for being companions along for the long car rides. I think your plan is great. I think that it's the definition of a great starting, starting community fish tank. And you want an update on the the Walmart build outs that we talked about. So there was two Walmart units that we purchased for Dee's fish company. I found them online, got them into the store. You guys got one of them set up and running and the other one you really don't have the space for. You guys are trying to sell at the moment I think. So if you guys want are in the Minnesota or North Dakota area and you would like a piece of history and you would like a Walmart unit, please reach out to deezfishco D E E Z F I S C O you can find them on Google otherwise their website deezfish co and they will happily sell you that Walmart unit for a steal of A price.
Even if you don't want to put water in it. It would make a really good storm shelter because it's so heavy that you could just crawl underneath it it and be fine during a tornado.
Yeah. Discount for losing your testicles for lifting it.
My favorite design that they did on that is they, they made the thing as heavy as possible without water and then they put it on four little tiny feet that just. You kind of wonder how this. Our friends that own the other ones and stuff. It pushed through the floor after about a year through the wooden floor. So if, if you're gonna buy it, put it on cement if you can.
All right, next one is from Potato. I just got my fish tank yesterday and it's cycling. I need tips for my tank. Maybe decor. Just regular tips. Thank you. And you know, Potato, thank you for not giving us a paragraph of every tiny detail of your aquarium and just sending us a damn picture. We posted in discord. And to describe it, it's just night blend of what we can see is a pea sized gravel. You got looks like at least one Anubis and maybe two Anubis and then one other plant a nice little rock cave in the back. I see a small heater. This looks to be about a 10 gallon tank. You have the correct form of thermometer. That's actually a glass thermometer. And those stupid stick on ones even though they're better nowadays. You have hang on the back filter. Filter that's running. You just need to fill up your.
Tank all the way and we see.
Your reflection in the glass and why.
Yeah. Why are you. Why are you nude?
Yeah, why are you standing there naked?
That's not appropriate. So Potato, I don't know what you need for tips. Looks like you're doing everything correct. I definitely let that tank cycle. If you're looking for. For some media, use us like a stress time for the biological bacteria to get it kicked off. Wait your. Wait your time and then go to your local fish store to pick out something. I like to go to a local fish store and get inspired by what they get in on the random rather than me having a plan and then trying to order something that may not look good.
And if you've got a good local pet store like we do here in town, they might even squeeze a little bacteria out of one of their sponge filters for you to take home and put in your filter. And that really kick started. I find that that works. I mean the stress zy works better than anything. Yeah. I mean if you. If you have somebody who has an aquarium. You know, the last thing people want to do is put in poopy caca water and stuff. But that's the best thing you can do is throw that in there, put.
In the poopy cocka water.
Yep. Let it go in there and it will kick start it and you'll be just fine.
I got a couple other simple ones where people just said hey, doing a great job. I got another one, you know, from other countries saying returning hobbyist. Thank you for getting the info sightful guests. And we're doing what you do. We get a lot of different feedback on the email. We do read everything and we save those emails. That's a slower, we really don't get response because we read all the emails to put on on to the podcast. So if you want a live feedback, go to discord message. We have people on here 24 hours a day answering questions seven days a week from all over the globe. We have direct answers for you very quickly. But if you want something written on the podcast, please send it into the email aquariumguyspodcastgmail.com and we do save all.
The emails in case some of you are gonna like track us down and kill us so we can come after you.
Thanks for Bring it Adam.
Bring it.
Okay, I do have one that I don't know if I read. I'm pretty sure I'll just read his first name. Simon says the number of tanks I have slowly racking up. My question is what's the point is to cheaper to buy a linear piston pump considering the cost of PVC pump which everyone mentions, but also the cost of buying Tetra Whispers at one point or one large pump which to say is better of running seven or running one. I'm a big sponge filter guy. I have two display tanks that have appropriate size hang the back filters as well as a sponge filter. And my basement guppy meth lab is all sponge filters. Well, I'm sorry, I'm ranting more than Adam bitching about the government. I don't know, there's a whole like dichotomy of the sentences breaking up here. But I I, what I did is I just messaged the guy. I I, I was stupid. I was like hey, call me and talk to him on the phone. And he showed me a little tour of what was going on in his basement and gave him a link to the was it Aqua Miracle on Amazon for a link. Your piston pump showed him how to do a ring the whole deal there and hopefully that saved him quite a bit of money. He was just trying to try to balance out what good pump to use, how to get it installed, and if it's better than just buying a bunch.
Of whisper pumps, I think once you get past six tanks, you should go to something like that.
Oh yeah, yeah.
That's kind of the rule of thumb. And it's not even six tanks, it's. What is it after you go past. Was it eight taps? He even asked what's a tap? A tap is a line with bubbles. So if you have two bubble lines in one aquarium, that's two taps for that one aquarium.
Yeah. And if you go and read the specs on these things, they'll tell you how many taps will do. But also you got to realize if you are running very deep tanks, you need a heavier pump because they won't push the air down to the point bottom.
Yeah, make sure everything's airtight too. If you have any air leaks in that, it's just going to come out. So make sure that you don't have like a sponge filter sitting up at the surface or a line disconnected somewhere.
And you'll get to the point where you, you know the tone of that pump. And if that pump starts winding too high, you've got too much pressure and you need to bleed a little off. And that's just something you, you kind of learn by your doing it. But you don't want any, you don't want a tremendous amount of back pressure on that thing because it will kind of burn itself early off in life, won't last quite as long.
All right, question just come up. How do you run two taps on one pump? Again, you need a splitter. So if you have a small pump, like for instance, you buy those cheap whisper pumps, have two, two taps. You don't have to have a splitter, you just connect your cords. If you want to have four taps and they only have two, two lines off of the whisper pump, you get a splitter for one for each line. Then you have four taps, two for each exit on the whisper pump. Yeah, those, those linear ones, they'll come with, you know, if you want, don't want to use PVC and you don't want to get those actual.
What do you call those?
Tap and die, tap and die, to drill into them regulators, then you can just use. They come with nearly a 10 piece splitter and they come with 10 taps right off the go. If you're the smallest flavor, if you're.
Running a whisper that has two outlets and stuff, you can buy a a five way gang valve and put one on each side of it and you'll have five taps on that. So it all depends on what you want to do.
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Have you ever seen a bueny zeres with like, I don't know, a dick sized turd? That's. That's right.
Wow.
That's what happens when they eat the plant anyways. What do you got going on, Jimmy?
Retards.
And I have a giant dick.
Adam, you need four MTSs and like six of those new Zealand and you'll never have to worry about anything again. And the New Zealand in your water?
Is that the scientific name?
The New Zealand? The New Zealand.
Those little New Zealand. The snails that you were talking about.
So are you saying impoverished kids with cancer are less important than your seahorses?
Yes.
Okay.
That deserves to die.