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  • (guitar music)

  • - Another shipment from the airport.

  • What do we got?

  • Not a lot.

  • Really hot out, didn't wanna risk too much but,

  • got a full bag

  • of black ranchus.

  • We'll be getting those into a tank.

  • What else did we get?

  • Hopefully, it's all alive.

  • Yep, this is a bag full of espei rasboras.

  • These guys the porkchops, they're a little smaller.

  • And then, what else did we get here?

  • Uh oh, that's not good.

  • That's a bunch of, supposed to be blue angelfish except,

  • most of them aren't alive, so that's no good but,

  • that's why we don't ship that much.

  • Aw, that's just brutal, that's brutal.

  • Ugh, so I wanna say it's supposed to be like

  • 50 of them or something.

  • I can count one, two, three, four, five, six,

  • seven, eight, nine, 10, 10 or 12 that are upright

  • at the moment, so I wanna work on these first.

  • I'm gonna put the camera down and see if I can't

  • save any of these.

  • So here we are, here's the blue angels.

  • A lot of them are still struggling.

  • They're definitely ammonia-burned and,

  • their slime coats are just shot.

  • You see this guy up here, he's just, covered in gunk.

  • Hopefully we'll pull them through, you know?

  • But when they swim like that, it's not a good sign.

  • What else do we got?

  • Then we got the rasbora espei.

  • They're doing better, I can see a couple

  • of dead bodies in there, but they're starting to eat,

  • that's an important sign.

  • Overall, doing pretty good.

  • And then we got the black ranchus over here.

  • They're doing okay, you know?

  • Their slime coat's a little beat up because they

  • just got through shipping, but that'll repair.

  • Yeah, so not the worst shipment ever, but not a great one

  • by any means.

  • We also got plants in.

  • Show you some other things, like this is the guppy tank

  • that, guppies we had to bring in because we sell so many.

  • I think I might have missed this shipment,

  • this is from last week.

  • This is,

  • 250 rummy nose tetras.

  • Doesn't seem like it when you see it on video but,

  • you start counting them, there's a lot in there.

  • These are neon green rasboras.

  • Here's a group of angels.

  • Trying to think, I think I showed these ones already.

  • These are black neons there in quarantine.

  • Yeah, so,

  • lots of stuff but,

  • more shipments as always, you know?

  • Probably three or four a week at least, so,

  • tune in for more.

  • So I thought I'd show you guys some of my new goldfish

  • that I'm adding to the

  • studio tank, so to speak.

  • I've got two large ryukins down here.

  • One's a veiltail, one's kind of a standard short-tail.

  • These guys are just kind of beastly.

  • One has kind of got an eye problem, you know.

  • So, it's great to go in my tank, 'cause I don't mind,

  • it's basically blind in one eye.

  • That's this guy here but, he's big.

  • You can see my hand here, he's fairly huge,

  • looking at him from top down.

  • But we're gonna put him in as soon as he calms down here,

  • there we go.

  • So there we go.

  • There's one big boy in, you can see he's roughly

  • similar size to the other one there.

  • And a better color honestly, but you know,

  • he does have that eye problem there but he

  • can live with me all the same.

  • And then, this one's a nice calico ryukin veiltail.

  • I mean, this thing is beautiful.

  • Something like this would go over 200.

  • You can see how big that tail is and everything.

  • Doesn't like being held, but soon as it calms down,

  • we'll lift it in as well.

  • And we can just see that tail there.

  • Tell me that's not one of the most beautiful fish ever.

  • That tail is bigger than some of the fish in here,

  • and these aren't tiny fish by any means,

  • but you can see just how big that fish is

  • next to my other big ryukin, the normal one that's in there.

  • Which he's got a little tumor, but that's why he gets

  • to live with me instead of being sold.

  • This guy I just fell in love with and

  • I actually did sell him to a friend once.

  • And now I've gotten it back and I'm excited to have

  • because I didn't want to sell it the first time,

  • but I always sell fish the first time to customers.

  • I give them a week to buy them and then after that,

  • I get to keep what I like and this guy got snatched up

  • before I got to take him.

  • So I'm excited to have him back

  • and have him thriving in my tank.

  • Also got one more kind of medium to large-sized ranchu

  • that I'm adding to my collection here.

  • And it's just a calico.

  • I've only got baby ranchus in this tank,

  • so I wanted one that's bigger, and people wanted

  • to see more of them from the store and stuff.

  • I just loved his face on him honestly,

  • his face was really cool.

  • So he's not tiny and he's not huge like

  • these ryukins are but, he is definitely a,

  • nice size there.

  • Obviously dwarfs that tiny one right there.

  • But yeah, added some fish.

  • I've got a few more and some more things to come,

  • so stay tuned with goldfish.

  • But I'm just enamored by goldfish, as you guys can

  • probably already tell and you probably already know.

  • Yeah, let me know if you guys wanna see more goldfish stuff.

  • All right, another shipment, here we go.

  • Get it open here and see what we got.

  • Every time, how can I do this every time?

  • I think I'm ready, and I forget this rubber band every time.

  • I swear, one day, I won't forget this,

  • and you guys will be impressed, so I don't have

  • to waste your time.

  • But lots of bags, as you guys might be able to see here.

  • I picked a lot of stuff,

  • so I'm just gonna start pulling it out.

  • First, red turquoise discus.

  • We've got, should be six of those.

  • Float them over here in the discus and quarantine

  • them all together.

  • Well let's see here.

  • Which I would only ever do it from this source.

  • This source I trust much better than other sources.

  • Other sources always get quaratined off to the side.

  • But more discus.

  • I'm just gonna, this trip's gonna take way too long

  • if I keep doing that, so I'm gonna find stuff

  • that's not discus here.

  • Cobalt blue discus?

  • What?

  • I don't know, does that look like cobalt blue to you guys?

  • Doesn't really look like cobalt blue to me,

  • that looks more like red turquoise.

  • Let's see here.

  • That's cobalt blue.

  • Huh.

  • I'm not so convinced.

  • What do I got here?

  • Oh here's a little zebra pleco.

  • Try and show you that in a tank when it's done,

  • but let me move some of this stuff out of the way

  • and we'll keep going.

  • All right, I got all those discus out of the way,

  • which I think there was 12 of them or something like that.

  • Then we've got assassin snails, 25 of those.

  • And then we've got frogs, gross!

  • And then we've got pygmy hatchetfish,

  • you don't see those everyday.

  • These guys stay about the size you see them

  • in the bag here.

  • Definitely gonna go in the quarantine for these guys.

  • It's already one dead, but they tend to be

  • fairly sensitive through shipping.

  • I'll get all these moved out and we'll go to the next layer.

  • Next layer, let's see what we've got.

  • We've got Siamese algae eaters.

  • Still not very big.

  • Darn it.

  • I've been having problems getting in large

  • Siamese algae eaters but, not a lot I can do about that

  • if they're not coming to the country.

  • They're just all small.

  • Let's see what we got next here.

  • Corydoras paleatus, salt and pepper cories.

  • 18 of those, they look good.

  • Then we've got, oh yes, here is a jardini.

  • I ordered it 'cause it's a little bit larger size,

  • hoping it would be ready to eat pellets right away.

  • So that will make my employee happy, I'm sure.

  • Let's see, what else did I get?

  • Let's go back over to the goodie box.

  • Corydoras trilineatus, or basically julii cories,

  • they look to be doing all right.

  • And then,

  • we got otocinclus, good.

  • Always need more of those.

  • Ember tetras.

  • I ordered these again even though I still have some

  • because they came in big, which is good.

  • And then, last but not least, more trilineatus.

  • Looks like that's all in there,

  • nope, nope, that's a lie.

  • We've got cardinal tetras.

  • Yeah, I wanna get these all put away

  • and then we'll probably chime in with how they look

  • once they hit some water.

  • Now here's the jardini.

  • Looks like he's got a little bit of hemorrhaging

  • in his tail fin.

  • I don't know if he was getting beat up by other jardinis

  • or if it's shipping stress but, I've got come zebra danios

  • from the hunt and we'll see how it goes.

  • We got meds in the water, obviously.

  • But hopefully we can turn around, get him on pellets

  • and get him ready for someone to buy him.

  • Let's see, down here...

  • We got the assassin snails, then we've also got

  • the zebra pleco.

  • You can see here the assassin snails are overrun

  • by other snails at the moment.

  • Let's see, what else did we get?

  • We brought our other stuff on the sales floor,

  • like we had all these locally bred angels,

  • which this is all from one person, by the way,

  • so when I show other angels, know they're all from them,

  • one spawn.

  • But over here, down a few more tanks,

  • we've got chocolate gouramis.

  • Just brought those out from quarantine.

  • Let's see, what else did we bring out?

  • We brought out, we go down over here.

  • Brought out the green neon rasbora.

  • Those are always cool.

  • Still got the wild caught discus.

  • And we've got, and these goldfish,

  • I don't know if I've shown them on camera yet,

  • but we've got, I've showed them on underwater camera

  • on the Facebook page. (water lapping)

  • But big orandas, these are hand size,

  • and then, big ranchus also.

  • Size comparison, these guys over here are pretty small.

  • Then of course, we've got Murphy.

  • Got the wind blowing on me, so I'm sure this audio

  • is terrible but, I apologize.

  • Yeah, so, back in the quarantine room.

  • Lots more angels, all from the same person.

  • This is one spawn of angelfish, so this tank,

  • and this tank, and

  • this tank here, all filled with angels,

  • all from one spawn.

  • Over here, we've got,

  • supposedly it's a pair of blue acaras.

  • We'll see how that goes.

  • And then, I think I showed these off already but oh yeah,

  • more angels, still from the same spawn.

  • So yeah, that when I say one spawn of angels

  • can flood a store, a few spawns can flood a state.

  • We've got baby black ranchus in here.

  • But that's all I've got to show off for today I think,

  • and we'll chime in with the next shipment.

  • Another small shipment.

  • Late night, at the airport, let's see what we got.

  • Special order for a customer, number one.

  • Oh my god, these are all individually bagged,

  • I wasn't expecting that.

  • So panther crabs, they look awesome.

  • I don't know if you guys can see that yet but,

  • maybe I'll get him in a tank on another video.

  • But they look pretty cool.

  • I would not have thought those were all

  • gonna be individually bagged.

  • So I got to turn the camera off and move

  • a billion panther crab.

  • All right, up next, we have...

  • Looks like a gold nugget pleco.

  • Got three of those in here.

  • Got some gold frogs.

  • These are kind of like a leucistic or melanistic frog.

  • What else do we have?

  • Oh.

  • Oh yeah, I did order this.

  • This is just a normal adonis in here which,

  • right there, it's real small.

  • Now there should be an albino in here,

  • here we go, here's an albino adonis.

  • Look at this thing.

  • Yeah, that's something you don't see everyday,

  • at least I don't.

  • Second time I've ever seen one.

  • Thing's amazing.

  • So yeah.

  • For my local customer coming in to buy that,

  • that thing's awesome.

  • What else we got?

  • Oh yeah, Florida flag killifish.

  • And then, what else?

  • What is this?

  • Oh, keyhole cichlids.

  • And then, I think these are all black moor goldfish.

  • Yeah, some little black moors.

  • All right, I think that's all for fish besides,

  • there's obviously gonna be replications or repeats

  • of gold plecos and stuff like that.

  • But next, we'll do the live black room,

  • show you what, we're limited to what we can get,

  • but we'll show you anyway.

  • So I lied, we have some more fish.

  • We were able to get some pond comets, Sarasa comets.

  • Come on out.

  • They look pretty decent, I'm excited about these.

  • They look to be a decent quality.

  • The weather's already turned, so they probably won't be

  • outdoor fish for people, but they can be good pets indoors.

  • And then, (grunts) 10 pounds live black worms,

  • which this is amazing, 'cause it's been really hard

  • to get black worms lately.

  • We've been out for a few weeks so,

  • that will make a bunch of people happy,

  • especially people have like pea puffers, and scarlet badis,

  • and like a motoro stingray we have which,

  • I don't know if I've shown that off,

  • so I'll show you guys some of the stuff that,

  • I think I missed a shipment.

  • But like over here, you can see in the quarantine room,

  • got this motoro stingray,

  • going through quarantine.

  • So that's pretty awesome, I think anyway.

  • Most people enjoy looking at a motoro as well.

  • What else do we have?

  • We got rid of a lot of stuff in the quarantine room

  • just because we're making room to bring stuff in.

  • Over here, these are those panther crabs,

  • they're pretty sweet.

  • I don't know much about them at all, but a customer

  • special-ordered them, so that's cool.

  • Down here, we got some ryukins.

  • Got a calico, some of those Sarasa ryukins,

  • that kind of stuff.

  • What else did we bring in?

  • We also brought in...

  • I wanna say orandas, right?

  • We got orandas, I think.

  • Oh yeah, light is on, we can show that off real quick.

  • We brought in some more large orandas

  • and you can see here they're pretty stout-sized fish.

  • But yeah, still bolstering up our goldfish selection

  • and more shipments to come.

  • So, that's just a quick little shipment for you guys.

  • Still in the middle of the night,

  • but that's what we got to do.

  • All these little shipments make up for

  • kind of a good selection at the store,

  • and that's what I got to do.

  • All right, we'll see you later.

  • Oh man, this albino adonis is sweet.

  • Look at this thing.

  • Amazing.

  • I'm intrigued by it anyways.

  • I just had to show it off once it hit the tank.

  • It's obviously not settled in or anything but, I like it.

  • I really like these Sarasa comets as well.

  • I just thought they had pretty good finnage,

  • and yeah, they're not looking great 'cause they just

  • came out of a bag, but I thought the color on them

  • was really nice.

  • I like the patterns, I like the finnage.

  • So getting them happy and healthy will be pretty good.

  • Here's the keyholes.

  • I also put the gold nuggets in there.

  • They just kicked up a bunch of stuff.

  • These panther crabs man, these things look cool.

  • They've really colored up to look pretty awesome.

  • So yeah, I'll be interested to do some more research

  • on those and search more for the customers.

  • They're not me anyway, but there we go.

  • Well, I'm picking up another shipment.

  • It is four o'clock in the morning, and my fish

  • are ready to go, so, there I go.

  • Sorry about that, the guy was waiting on me over here,

  • so I didn't wanna keep him waiting,

  • so I had to cut it early, but goldfish and other tropical

  • fish and plants in the back.

  • You probably see on my face, I'm not quite, awake yet

  • at 4:15 in the morning.

  • And now it's time to go put fish away.

  • Yeah, so you probably saw on the thing there

  • it's September 5th, it's Labor Day.

  • So that's how (hiccuping) I spend my holiday,

  • so back to work.

  • All right, so I'm back in my shop.

  • It's 4:52.

  • Gonna start unboxing, that's all I can do now.

  • Box number one, I haven't look through it yet,

  • I just opened it up 'cause I can't open them one-handed.

  • Let's see what we got going on here.

  • Aw, it was broken, that's good.

  • You have to get used to using one hand and a camera.

  • That's never ideal.

  • What?

  • All right, this is getting ridiculous here, open up.

  • What are these?

  • Goldfish?

  • I've never seen goldfish packed like this.

  • I bought ridiculously high-end goldfish.

  • So let me straighten that out.

  • I paid a ridiculous amount for some of these goldfish.

  • Now, whether they'll be amazing and high-end,

  • that I'm gonna see.

  • But I've never seen this cloth bag around it before.

  • I'm hoping goldfish are in here, 'cause this bag is amazing.

  • Like this bag, I've never seen one.

  • I've never ever seen a bag like this, so I have no idea.

  • For all I know, tetras could be in here but,

  • it makes it a challenge, honestly.

  • This is a crazy heavy duty bag, like this is amazing to me.

  • I have no idea, because it's part of the bag.

  • So I got to sit this down and then maybe open it up,

  • 'cause I don't, I'm guessing it's a bag in a bag?

  • It's got to be, right?

  • Like let me feel.

  • I don't know, let me see.

  • I got to put the camera down.

  • So yeah, so it was a bag inside of a bag.

  • I've never seen that before and I've ordered

  • some expensive fish before.

  • So, I don't know if it's just this farm that I ordered from,

  • but this is like, how would I explain how thick this bag is?

  • Even this bag up here is thick.

  • It's made out of like what a, rubber boat is made out of.

  • If you were to, like an inflatable raft?

  • That's what that bag is.

  • That thing's insane, I'm gonna have to keep that

  • just to show my employees and stuff and go,

  • "Have you seen this?"

  • But in theory, some very nice,

  • high-end black ranchus here.

  • Just from looking into the bag, their finnage looks great,

  • they look good, so I'm excited about that.

  • I think I got another bag full of these,

  • so I wanna open the other bag that's like this

  • and I can, well, I guess I can go through some

  • of what else is in here.

  • I have no idea, right?

  • So there's another bag like that,

  • that's that weird bag right there.

  • This is, whoa, what do we got here?

  • These are all ryukins.

  • I think this is assorted ryukins here.

  • So that's, it's hard to see them in a bag obviously.

  • I'm not gonna try and show you guys,

  • but they're all thriving, that's a good thing.

  • They're all alive, so that's good.

  • Let's see what else we got over here.

  • What's this bag?

  • Oh, so heavy.

  • What is this?

  • Oh, are these all my jumbo swordtails?

  • Wow, those are no joke.

  • I ordered jumbo, and these things are jumbo.

  • I thought they mis-shipped,

  • and I thought they shipped me comets, as in goldfish.

  • These things are no joke.

  • I bet if I put on a ruler, that's a solid 3 1/2,

  • four inches, so that's impressive.

  • I like that,

  • yeah.

  • Now, I just hope they hold together, 'cause sometimes

  • they've been raised in brackish water and stuff,

  • and in theory, these ones haven't been but,

  • you know, you never know.

  • 'Cause just 'cause they say they haven't

  • doesn't mean they actually haven't.

  • So here's another one of these crazy bags.

  • This one's much heavier, so I got to set it down again

  • 'cause well, let's see here if I could do this one-handed.

  • These bags are crazy though.

  • They're almost like shower curtain material.

  • Yeah, that's another good example, or vinyl.

  • I'm trying to come up here with vinyl at five o'clock

  • in the morning as I'm working apparently.

  • But yeah, it's vinyl.

  • Now this is crazy, 'cause stingrays, like the stingray

  • that's over there, I got a motoro stingray in that tank.

  • You can see just his tail.

  • But even those don't get shipped in bags this heavy duty.

  • I think it's the money thing.

  • I think there's so much money in this bag

  • that they're just like, "You know what?

  • "I don't care, that bag can't fail."

  • I think that's the logic.

  • So these,

  • are,

  • yuan bao.

  • I'm probably murdering that, I've never heard anyone else

  • ever say that in person, and so maybe I have no idea

  • what I'm talking about, right?

  • But these are yuan bao goldfish,

  • and they're basically,

  • it's like you take an oranda and a ranchu,

  • and you combine them.

  • Sometimes called ingot oranda.

  • But I already see some that I like in there,

  • I mean, some of these are nice.

  • Of course, you guys are gonna have a hard time

  • seeing it here but,

  • oh yeah, oh yeah.

  • Oh, we're leaking lots of water.

  • Where all this water coming from?

  • Oh, it's all in the bag.

  • So this bag, so maybe that's why they double-bagged,

  • but look how much water I got on my floor.

  • Ugh.

  • That's I guess why I run dehumidifiers but,

  • that's a mess.

  • Tomorrow, people are going, "What happened,

  • "you spill water?"

  • And I'm gonna go, "Yep, it's a fish store,

  • "that's what I do."

  • But I got to get rid of this, it's full of water,

  • so I got to set the camera down.

  • All right, so that's box number one done.

  • We got two more boxes to do, plus a box of plants,

  • but I probably won't do the box of plants tonight,

  • 'cause honestly, I wanna go back home and go back to sleep.

  • And we can do plants, plants can wait the extra,

  • let's see, I got to be back here probably at 11.

  • I'll get done about 6:00, 6:30.

  • So that's about five hours sleep, I'll be all right.

  • But let's see what we've got here.

  • All right, more goldfish.

  • What are these?

  • You know, I order it all, but then I forget.

  • Oh, I think these are calico ryukins.

  • Or fantails maybe, I got to look.

  • Yeah, they don't look ryukin, so they look like fantails.

  • Lots of little calico fantails.

  • And then, (grunts)

  • more black,

  • oh what, oh yeah, okay.

  • I was like, "What are these?"

  • These are black orandas so,

  • I love me a black oranda.

  • Love, love, love them.

  • All right, let's see what else we got in here.

  • This is a tropical fish water, oh yeah, guppies,

  • lots of male guppies, okay.

  • I think I had 175 of those.

  • And then, what do I have over here?

  • I think this is more,

  • more black orandas.

  • I loaded up on those because I love them

  • and they're hard to get a hold of for me.

  • So box number three.

  • This one was the heaviest box by far, which you know,

  • somehow, so these three boxes were over 200 pounds

  • for the three of them, and somehow it still,

  • I don't understand how airshipping works at the airport.

  • I swear, it's like how much weight is in these boxes,

  • I pay the same amount.

  • But then other times I'll show up and it'll be

  • half as much weight and I'll pay twice as much money.

  • So I don't know if it's by the flight or what it is,

  • 'cause I swear, a lot of times it doesn't make sense.

  • Ooh, more of the high-end bags.

  • I need to work with my vendor, my transshipper and go,

  • "Hey, who's sending these high-end bags, 'cause one,

  • "I really like the goldfish and two, I like the

  • "way they package."

  • So we'll save those towards the end because they're

  • gonna be hard to open.

  • These are all balloon mollies.

  • I just haven't brought these in in a long time.

  • And they always come in so badly at the normal wholesalers,

  • so I thought, "Let me try my hand with a farm

  • "that I really like their guppies," because they raise them

  • in true freshwater.

  • So I thought, "Let me try balloon mollies myself."

  • That's my metric.

  • What I'll do is I'll,

  • if I can't get them good from the wholesaler,

  • my next step is, let me go straight to the farm,

  • let me try it.

  • If it doesn't work then,

  • then I typically know they're just not to be had.

  • And I have to try a few wholesalers obviously,

  • like I can't just try one and go, "Oh, it didn't work."

  • I got to try, not wholesalers, but yeah,

  • multiple wholesalers and multiple farms.

  • So you got to be aware of that.

  • But I'm looking while you're looking.

  • So yeah, I try it, and if I can't get it to live,

  • even after I go to farms, then I know that,

  • this good quality's not out there.

  • But let's get back to the shipping, shall we?

  • All right, what have we got here?

  • (grunts) This ones a heavy one.

  • What are these?

  • Are they ryukins?

  • They look ryukin-ish but at the same time, don't.

  • Maybe more fantails?

  • See this is what happens.

  • Obviously you're going like,

  • "Wow, this is a lot of goldfish."

  • They shipped all the goldfish this week

  • when normally they don't.

  • Whereas, I know they left out roseline sharks.

  • I know they left out koi bettas.

  • That's stuff on top of my head, I don't remember

  • what else is missing so far that I ordered.

  • But yeah, that's kind of a problem here is that,

  • I might not have needed all these goldfish,

  • but if I only ordered two bags and then those don't ship,

  • oh then guess what?

  • I got no goldfish.

  • So you order heavy, and sometimes it's

  • gonna come in heavy.

  • More cold packs.

  • Let's see what we got here.

  • Yeah, these are short body ryukins, okay.

  • So I did order ryukins.

  • You can see here, lots of bags, lots of goldfish,

  • and all these still got to go somewhere.

  • I know some of them are going to my house.

  • And I'm going to be sorting by size, so what I do,

  • by the way, I'm not all the way through the shipment yet

  • but what I do is, you start with what you know

  • where it goes.

  • So maybe I know where the guppies are gonna go.

  • I know where,

  • the balloon mollies are gonna go.

  • Then you deal with the fires, like,

  • "Okay, well where are all these goldfish going?

  • "Like, there's a lot."

  • So I know some are definitely going to my house.

  • And I've got two 300-gallon totes open,

  • so maybe what I'll do is put all the same vendor,

  • like these high-end bags, maybe they all go into one,

  • 'cause it'd be less likely to cross-contaminate there.

  • Like when you mix different farms, it's more likely.

  • So maybe that makes some sense but, obviously I don't want

  • to mix, I wouldn't mix the super tiny calico fantails

  • with the biggest fish I ordered, 'cause that's gonna be

  • a food competition problem.

  • Yeah, so let's keep moving.

  • Hey, I'm just bringing up thoughts as I come to them.

  • Let's see here.

  • More, more of something.

  • More small goldfish.

  • These I think are, I wanna say little fantails again,

  • I'm not sure what they are but they're similar-sized

  • to those ones over there.

  • And the reason I brought some of these in is I wanna

  • grow them out.

  • I wanna take them from a small size,

  • and watch growth rates, and learn.

  • All right, so I got to probably set the camera down

  • to do some of these, so I'm gonna do that.

  • All right, so these were the two bags that were

  • in these extra thick bags here.

  • We've got the remainder of my yuan baos, or ingot orandas.

  • And then over here, we got more of those

  • really nice black ranchus.

  • Yeah, I'm excited with both those shipments.

  • I'm excited with most of this honestly.

  • Most of it looks to be pretty healthy at this point.

  • So those are all good things, now it's got to get

  • put away this morning, so yeah.

  • So let me let you guys in on a little secret

  • a few of you have picked up on.

  • I've been making hints about it for the last few weeks.

  • Maybe it's time to just kind of announce it.

  • It's not ready to go yet by any means but,

  • I'm working on it.

  • And that is, I fully intend on selling high-quality

  • goldfish online, and so what that means is,

  • I brought all these good goldfish.

  • They got to go through quarantine,

  • and then they'll start hitting the website.

  • You guys can buy them, they won't be cheap.

  • I have no interest in selling mass quantities of fish

  • at low prices.

  • I'd rather sell high-quality and sell very few,

  • because that's what interests me as a hobbyist

  • and that's what I think is missing from the hobby.

  • If you want a $5 goldfish, we can just go

  • to a PetSmart or a PetCo, that type of thing.

  • But if you want a $500 goldfish, or $200 goldfish,

  • or something like that, I feel the options

  • are very limited for that.

  • Besides Dandy Orandas, maybe East Coast Ranchu,

  • there's not that many breeders in the United States

  • and people playing with it.

  • And I saw an opportunity, I thought,

  • "Why not get into this?" because I love goldfish

  • and I have trouble sourcing what I like.

  • I have to basically import myself,

  • and then I saw a good response to that in my store.

  • And people go, "Wow, your goldfish are so nice,

  • "I wish I could get them like that."

  • So I thought, "Let's do that."

  • But there's lots of things to come, like for instance,

  • at the moment, I only plan on shipping

  • the goldfish overnight, no exceptions,

  • and I'm only gonna ship them on a Tuesday, no exceptions.

  • Because I don't think it's fair to me and it's fair

  • to the customer to do it any other way.

  • If you go, "I can only receive it on a Thursday,"

  • what that's gonna do to someone like me,

  • is if I accommodate you, come Wednesday morning,

  • I got to go to the airport, I've got to do all these things.

  • So I might get up at six o'clock in the morning,

  • pack your fish, drop them off at FedEx,

  • then go do everything else I need to do.

  • And the reality is, what I want to do is

  • ship them on a Tuesday, and drop them off

  • at FedEx at 4:00 p.m., right before they pick them up,

  • so they're in the bag the least amount of time,

  • so that, you know.

  • 'Cause I'm gonna spend all this time quarantining,

  • water changing, feeding, medicating, getting these fish

  • as the best I possibly can before I ship them.

  • I don't want to undo all that work with,

  • "Oh they sat in a bag extra long."

  • Still designing packaging, and that's something

  • that I feel is gonna be key.

  • And we're gonna ship it overnight, so yeah,

  • very short window, but at the same time I want

  • really good either styrofoam, or a special bag

  • that's gonna hold in heat, like some of those bubble,

  • foil,

  • wrap things.

  • I wanna make sure everything, like I'm pretty sure

  • I'm gonna use breather bags, I'm 99% sure.

  • I wanna make sure everything is really dialed in

  • so that the fish don't suffer for it

  • and when you guys spend that good money,

  • you get a good value.

  • And all the goldfish that I sell will include shipping.

  • Well, it's a roundabout way.

  • So the way my website works, based on the amount you spend

  • is how much you're gonna pay for shipping.

  • Now, the most you could possibly spend

  • right now is $15, right?

  • But if I have to overnight this to you, it's gonna cost me

  • like 50 bucks, between packing materials

  • and the overnight fee.

  • So yeah, you'll still pay the $15 and I'll pay all the rest,

  • but that's included in the price.

  • But let's say you ordered the goldfish

  • and you ordered two of these, one of these,

  • that type of thing, I got to ship those in a different box.

  • That's all included in that shipping anyway.

  • So I basically paying all the shipping will be a few dollars

  • here and there.

  • They're like, "Well maybe technically,"

  • I'm not hearing any of that.

  • We're, or not, I shouldn't say we,

  • I'm only interested in shipping high-end goldfish

  • to the people that want to give them good care,

  • and are willing to pay a price.

  • That being said, I've got some cheaper options here

  • in the store but I don't think it makes sense to take a fish

  • that I sell for $20 and then tack on at least $40 worth

  • of shipping and materials and stuff like that,

  • 'cause a $20 fish probably just isn't worth

  • at least that $60.

  • So it's probably not even worth the time either.

  • Realize that every package that I ship,

  • it takes a lot of time to do it correctly, and for just $20,

  • that's not even a profit because I got to still

  • buy that fish, right?

  • So for just $20, I'd be better off making YouTube videos

  • or being in the store and something like that.

  • That's why people are gonna, "Why are all your

  • "fish so expensive?"

  • Because it doesn't make sense to ship cheap fish

  • from a business standpoint.

  • That's the only reason there.

  • So yeah.

  • If I leave this in, you guys are getting

  • a real heads up look.

  • I'm on the fence, 'cause I don't wanna announce

  • something like this and then like, "Oh, I thought you said

  • "you were gonna do that."

  • It's like, "Well I am gonna do that."

  • But realize, I might be six weeks out, two months,

  • two years from pulling a trick, so what I don't want to do,

  • is I don't want to want to just, I don't want to

  • race to market and go, "You saw the fish, buy them today!

  • "It'll be great," because they're not ready.

  • Some of that stuff is very small.

  • We're gonna grow it out for a very long time.

  • Some of this larger stuff, we're gonna put

  • through quarantine.

  • It's gonna be for sale fairly soon.

  • But what I do know about high-end goldfish is

  • you can't buy it all all the time.

  • Like most of the time, I've been trying

  • to order this stuff for weeks, literally weeks,

  • and nothing's been shipping, cause I've been wanting

  • to get it into quarantine and things like that.

  • Yeah, I know I can run out of a lot of this cool stuff.

  • So I'm not in a race to sell it.

  • And then, on top of that, I guess I should mention,

  • what'll be on the website is all what you see

  • what you get.

  • So every fish,

  • when you buy that fish, you will get that fish.

  • It's not buy one black ranchu, it's that specific ranchu.

  • So it'll be, for instance, like "Oh yeah, this is gonna be

  • "in tank C and,

  • "it's C2, C3, C4," that type of thing.

  • It's gonna be a very personal level of service

  • and we'll see how it goes.

  • It could be an absolute trainwreck of like,

  • "Oh man, there's too many questions,

  • "there's too much work going into it,"

  • or it works out great.

  • But what I do know is a lot of you guys don't have

  • access to good goldfish, and I feel like I can provide that,

  • and I think some people find value in that.

  • And if you don't no worries, you don't have to buy it.

  • That's the great thing about this is you can

  • just do other things.

  • I don't have interest in shipping tetras

  • and things like that, I did that in the past.

  • I did that.

  • I did over 10,000 orders, online orders,

  • when I first opened the store, and it was all fish.

  • Everything that was in the store was also online.

  • And the problem was, you would think that it would work,

  • but it doesn't because people order things like,

  • "I only need two neon tetras, because I already own four."

  • And that bag plus the water, plus the weight

  • in the box, and the space it takes up,

  • I actually lose money.

  • It would be better for me to pay you $5

  • and refund your money on those two neon tetras

  • than it is for me two ship you two neon tetras.

  • And then heaven forbid, one died during shipping,

  • now I got to reship another one,

  • so there's all these things, and that just didn't work.

  • It didn't matter if it was neon tetras, pea puffers,

  • angelfish, rams.

  • Basically if it wasn't a high dollar value,

  • when you net it out over having employees ship,

  • and work with you, and something like that,

  • we weren't making very much money at all.

  • And when I say very much money, there was lots of shipments.

  • You've heard people like get you tropicals,

  • stuff like that, where you actually lose money.

  • And that's the thing is, you're gonna go,

  • how can you lose money?

  • You're trying to stay competitive on an item

  • we should be competitive on.

  • I shouldn't be competing to get my kuhli loach

  • down to a dollar, what somebody else is selling online.

  • They're selling at a loss, I'm selling at a loss.

  • We're all losing money.

  • I'm not gonna compete to lose money.

  • That's just a loser's game.

  • So I stopped doing that for 10,000 orders.

  • 'cause at 10,000 orders, you can look at lots of statistics

  • and you can figure out, "Hm, that doesn't make sense.

  • "I'm paying people to lose me money."

  • What that means is I pay an employee.

  • He's got to pack it, he's got to do all that,

  • he's got to run to the post office.

  • And at the end of those orders, I've lost money?

  • Why do I keep doing that cycle?

  • And you go, "Okay, I change packaging, maybe I change this."

  • And you make all these tweaks, and eventually,

  • you get down to the bottom and you go,

  • "You know what?

  • "I don't think there's any way to make this work."

  • And it's great when someone goes,

  • "I'll take 10 roseline sharks."

  • That's a perfectly fine shipment, but that might take

  • one medium flat rate box, but so does two neon tetras,

  • one snail, a pea puffer,

  • and two corydoras.

  • I've literally had that order before and you're looking

  • at it going, "This doesn't justify the work

  • "and the shipping cost,

  • "and the space."

  • 'Cause you go, "Okay, I'm gonna have to put that

  • "into two different boxes now, so now I'm losing

  • "money on shipping."

  • Yeah, so it's a no-win situation where I feel like

  • good-quality goldfish at the right price

  • will be profitable for my business, and be helpful

  • to the community.

  • So that's the line I got to blend, and I got to do

  • a lot of work to make sure that comes through correctly

  • because I don't want to skimp on packaging and then go,

  • "Ooh, we lost some of those goldfish

  • "shipping in the winter," like that can't happen.

  • Same time, I can't lose them in the summer,

  • and at the same time, I can't be like,

  • "Oh yeah, they're only $5,000 each, but guess what?

  • "They're the best."

  • So I got to blend all those lines into something

  • that makes sense, and that's the hardest thing

  • to do in business.

  • So yeah, I know I'll start at the top end

  • and work my way down as opposed to work from the bottom

  • and work your way up.

  • I don't want to be in a race to the bottom

  • with everyone else going, "Guess what?

  • "We got the cheapest goldfish around!"

  • I wanna be known for, "We have the best quality,

  • "we have healthy.

  • "I'm transparent, you can see exactly how

  • "I take care of them."

  • You can see all the water changes everyday

  • that are being done, all the autofeeders are being used,

  • all the different types of food we feed.

  • All those things, I wanna show it and be transparent

  • so you know what you're buying.

  • You're buying high-quality fish, yes,

  • but you're buying the way they were taken care of

  • and that's what I feel like isn't available.

  • It's not that my competitors, being Dandy Orandas

  • and East Coast Ranchus, I think they have very good fish,

  • I think they take care of them, but I don't think

  • they're showing you guys the way they should,

  • and that's being very transparent.

  • And yeah, someone can come along and do the same business

  • as I am, if they can afford to house everything,

  • if they can afford to place sort of like this, no doubt.

  • And they'll go, "Well I get it.

  • "All you got to do is water change them eight times a day

  • "and feed them eight times a day,

  • "and you'll have great goldfish."

  • The difference is the execution.

  • Just like lots of people know how to manufacture cars,

  • and make cars, and work on cars, but not everyone

  • can run and entire factory, and that's the difference.

  • And that's way I'm not afraid to show you guys

  • how I do stuff because if you've got the know-how

  • to run the business, you can figure this stuff out anyway.

  • So yeah, that's all I got.

  • Now I got to start putting these away.

  • I'll try and show them once they're in tanks,

  • 'cause I think that's gonna be the best part.

  • So, long-winded rant aside, who knows if this gets

  • left in or not.

  • I'm still on the fence, I could cut it the last minute,

  • go, "I'm no ready," or I can go,

  • "You know what?

  • "Maybe I reward the people that do watch in the middle

  • "of my video and just let them know it's coming."

  • And I know the people that are watching,

  • they'll understand, and they'll go, "Yeah, that makes

  • "good business sense for Cory, even though I

  • "don't like goldfish.

  • "Yeah, I know he's not gonna be ready tomorrow,

  • "but when he is, if I'm really wanting that goldfish,

  • "maybe I'll wait for him," that type of thing.

  • Maybe this is just a long-winded thing I shouldn't

  • be saying and shouldn't be talking about at,

  • well it's probably like 6:15 in the morning now,

  • I don't know what time it is but you know,

  • maybe you caught me at a weak moment, who knows?

  • But yeah, back to work.

  • All right, so let's take a look at some of the fish

  • in the tanks.

  • I've decided most of the goldfish are coming home with me.

  • But we've got our balloon mollies here,

  • lots of nice sailfins, so that's always a good thing.

  • They look to be doing okay.

  • What I'd love to see is when they're starting

  • to look for food, that's always a good sign.

  • They won't get meds till in the morning.

  • Over here, we've got the calico veiltails, I believe.

  • They seem to be doing pretty well.

  • And when it comes to over here, these little,

  • I think they're little

  • fantails, maybe little ryukins, I got to look,

  • but we already got a couple casualties in there,

  • so that's not good.

  • So I'll be pulling those.

  • Meds won't start till, well, there's some meds

  • in the water now, but real meds won't start until

  • we do big water changes tomorrow.

  • Get them to go to the bathroom, get them cleaned,

  • then start meds.

  • What else do we got going on over here?

  • These are the swordtails.

  • Kind of the same as a few of them not doing so well

  • through shipping.

  • We'll see how they come through in the morning.

  • Still alive.

  • But yeah, these guys are huge.

  • I mean, if you look at compared to my finger,

  • they're like as long as my finger is, if not longer.

  • And then we've got lots of male fancy guppies here.

  • The rest got to go to my house and go into totes and

  • got to do some sorting, and in all honesty,

  • I need more capacity, but as you guys will see,

  • I've already been working on that.

  • So when you watch the next fish room video,

  • you'll see I have new racks up, they're all 40 breeders.

  • Guess what?

  • They can hold goldfish, if I had them ready.

  • They're not quite filled with water.

  • They're all filling with water, slowly,

  • but they're not cycled yet.

  • So couldn't use them, but I'll make do.

  • So now I got to load all this up.

  • Not all of it, but these two boxes,

  • the two out of three boxes back into the car,

  • and then go to my house, and then I can unpack from there.

  • And I'll probably show some off while I'm there,

  • so stay tuned.

  • (water lapping) So I thought I'd give you guys

  • a quick look.

  • These are

  • the black ranchus,

  • the yuan baos,

  • and there's some ryukins in here, short body ryukins.

  • And we got to put meds in here, that's gonna happen next.

  • All these meds right here go into the water.

  • Over here, we got some more goldfish.

  • You guys probably seen this a little early in the video,

  • but these guys are, some stuff we brought in

  • out of a pond.

  • There's some pearlscales, baby black ranchus,

  • some orandas, and rainbow shiners.

  • And then, over here in the new tote,

  • we've got fantails, we've got black orandas,

  • and, I wonder if we have anything else here.

  • Well, let me think.

  • I think it's just those.

  • Yeah, fantails and black orandas.

  • But lots of them to choose from.

  • Gonna get meds in here as well.

  • And those with the meds got to soak for at least a week.

  • Evaluate them as they, and each day, I'll come in

  • and I'll evaluate them, check on them,

  • make sure they're not just bottom sitting,

  • things like that.

  • And then after that, we start turning the water change on,

  • start getting those meds out of the water,

  • assuming they get their health checked.

  • But yeah, that's how it goes, you know?

  • So I wanna put meds in and we'll chime back in.

  • So I just wanna show you guys meds.

  • We go to, like this tote is gonna use two of these,

  • this is General Cure, and you know.

  • So we're taking it out of that container right there.

  • Something like that runs, I'm just gonna throw the price,

  • roughly a hundred dollars, $125, whatever it is.

  • So we go through lots of meds pretty quick.

  • And we start dumping in two of these at a time.

  • That's why I always say the meds cost money like that,

  • they're not free.

  • I go through so much medicine to treat something like this.

  • But yeah, I could shoehorn these guys into

  • a really small tank but, I don't wanna chance

  • causing them any harm.

  • That's what it is.

  • So I'm gonna go ahead and treat this

  • and treat the other one with General Cure

  • then I'll chime in with erythromycin and things like that.

  • So next up is the erythromycin, also gonna put

  • two of these in per tote.

  • And this will get rid of any bacterial damage

  • they had in the bag.

  • This will help fight off any mild fungal infections,

  • as well as a bacterial.

  • So I got to put in two of those,

  • and then we'll go over the Ich-X.

  • With the Ich-X, we use 60 milliliters for just 200,

  • there's roughly 240 gallons in the tote at the moment.

  • Also two of these gonna go in.

  • (water lapping)

  • Say the second one in there, and it's very important

  • I put the aeration back in, because when you put meds,

  • it's just a good idea to have extra aeration because

  • it can change the elasticity of the water

  • and stuff like that.

  • Gonna put one more in.

  • All right, so it's 6:22.

  • It's my favorite kind of shipment, and by favorite,

  • I mean most-hated.

  • It's light outside, so that means,

  • I got to crawl into bed with my wife, she's gonna go,

  • "What are you doing?"

  • I'm gonna go, "I did a fish shipment show this week,

  • "You know, groggy."

  • But that's what it takes for me to get the best fish,

  • and I haven't found a way around it,

  • so that's why I do it.

  • If I found a great way to get fish like this

  • without going through this, I would do it.

  • But, I truly believe

  • I got to get them from the airport quick,

  • I got to use medicine,

  • I got to quarantine, I got to do all these things,

  • if I'm gonna look you in the eye and go,

  • "I did everything in my ability to

  • "sell you a healthy fish," and I truly do believe that,

  • by the way.

  • When I tell my employees we can say that,

  • I don't feel like there's other things we can do

  • that are practical.

  • Like I'm not gonna take every fish and scrape it

  • and put it under a microscope, and stuff like that,

  • 'cause it's not practical.

  • I can take a sample size, I can do two or three of them,

  • and then go from there.

  • But stuff's still gonna slip through the cracks.

  • You can't bat a thousand percent every time.

  • The best brain surgeon in the world,

  • the best heart doctor in the world, kills people.

  • And that's all I can do, is I can minimize,

  • minimize the losses.

  • I can rule out much more than most other vendors.

  • That being said, I do agree that Dandy Orandas is great,

  • and I agree that East Coast Ranchu's is great,

  • but it's all about selection, right?

  • So East Coast Ranchu specializes in ranchus,

  • but they might not have the color you like,

  • maybe I do, or something like that.

  • I think more on the market, is just a good thing.

  • Just because we have Pepsi and we have Coke,

  • doesn't mean we don't want a Snapple,

  • we don't want an orange juice, something like that.

  • Options I think are a beneficial thing.

  • So yeah, I think that's gonna wrap it up.

  • I've got to let these guys soak for a week,

  • make other videos, do that type of thing and

  • now you've seen quite a few shipments in a row.

  • But something like this shipment wasn't huge

  • or anything like that, it's a standard size shipment.

  • But now we're into September, so this is gonna be

  • like a regular thing, so I'll be able

  • to film more of them.

  • That's what was keeping me back from filming these is

  • fish selections worse, I sell less, something like that.

  • But yeah, if you guys like it, go ahead and like it,

  • share it around.

  • Let me know if you're excited for the goldfish.

  • I think I'm just gonna air it.

  • It's 6:30 in the morning.

  • Unless I wake up and go, "I am a complete idiot,"

  • I'm just gonna air that stuff about shipping them,

  • 'cause I'm excited about it, honestly.

  • I'm excited, and I hope you guys are too.

  • And I realize, if you're not a goldfish person,

  • don't worry about it, don't worry about it.

  • It's not for you, I get it.

  • But if you are a goldfish person, hoping you're excited,

  • and things like that.

  • So make sure you follow me on Instagram,

  • and you're on our Facebook, stuff like that.

  • You don't wanna miss all the content.

  • There's a bunch of content that's gonna be coming out

  • besides just videos.

  • More pictures.

  • Probably like, with each of these ranchus,

  • I need to at least photograph them, maybe each one

  • gets a video and stuff.

  • Not ranchus, but goldfish.

  • Each one gets a video and all of these things

  • are gonna happen right?

  • I've got to post that somewhere.

  • I don't wanna bombard the YouTube channel with it

  • 'cause not everyone's into goldfish,

  • so maybe it's got to be a Vimeo account,

  • maybe it's gonna be on the Facebook.

  • I have no idea yet, but just know, if you're following me

  • and you wanna see these goldfish or anything else,

  • at 3 o'clock in the morning when I'm putting away

  • an adonis pleco, sometimes I go,

  • "Ooh, that's a good picture, snap!"

  • Post it to Instagram, you wake up to a nice surprise.

  • All right, well thanks for the support guys.

  • Thanks for ordering everything online, that helps a ton.

  • That allows me to further this business and I,

  • whoa, I almost whipped myself in the eye,

  • that wasn't a good way to go to bed.

  • But my hands get moving, I start whipping this thing.

  • But thanks for the support.

  • We'll see you next time.

  • I got to get some sleep.

  • 6:30 roughly by the time I get into bed.

  • If I wake up at, well, let's push it to 10:30,

  • hop in the shower, I can make to my store by the time

  • we're supposed to open.

  • That way my employees aren't going, "Where is he?"

  • They'll see the aftermath, there's still boxes

  • and stuff still laying on the floor there,

  • which my employees are used to.

  • They walk in and go, "Oh yeah, he must have

  • "had a late night," blah blah blah.

  • All right, thank you guys, see you in the next one.

  • Hope you enjoyed this one, 'cause it's a lot of work

  • to make it, but I do the work either way so,

  • thanks for watching.

  • (gentle piano music)

(guitar music)

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