Buying New Fish For Aquarium

Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel and today we got some new fish. So let's start by taking a look at what will be the most common and maybe the most boring fish we got today, but I'm still really excited to have some of these in the fish room again. And that's just simply a group of fancy mixed guppies. I love having fancy guppies around, but I just don't have any in the fish room right now. And there's a nice group of baby and juvenile fancy guppies with a bunch of different mixed colors and different tail lengths and stuff like that. These were brought in from some customer that just donated these to the store. These guys came from a colony and he was turning them into the store because he just had too many. I scooped them up, took them home, and now we've got a bunch of guppies. Some of these guys will be going in a five gallon aquarium that belongs to my grandma. Right now it's got no fish in it and I know she loves guppies, so a couple of these guys in there will be awesome. The rest will kind of sprinkle around and get a little colony started. Next up we got a trio of horse face loaches. So they're kind of going crazy right now, but these guys are really cool loaches that will bury themselves in the sand and they just have a really cool look to them. And of course, as the name suggests, their face kind of looks like a horse, really pointed and small. These guys are juveniles. They'll probably get a couple more inches on them. And they'll be going in my 20 gallon long planted tank with my white fin rosy tetras. But these guys are super cool. Try to get you guys to look at them without spooking them too much. And I'm just really excited to have these guys in the fish room. Bit of an oddball and these guys will be super awesome when we see them because they'll be buried in the substrate most of the time. So next up, let's ignore the fact that I'm wearing different clothes and everything about this shot is different than all the other ones. We'll just ignore that. It's not important. But what is important is the next fish we've got here. In this bag we've got a group of nine black ruby barbs. So these guys are super cool. Can't see them right now, but the males get a really nice black red hue on them and they're just super awesome little schooling barb. Less aggressive than a tiger barb and just really cool fish. These guys will be going in my 36 gallon aquarium and I can't wait to add them. Next up we've got something really cool that I never really thought about getting before and that is Thai micro crabs and they are really micro. You cannot see them in this shot, but I've got a group of eight or so in here and they are going to be going in my three gallon cube aquarium. Right now it just has a couple shrimp and these guys will be perfect in there. We may not see them very often, but they're awesome little critters and I'm super excited to have them in the fish room. Not the biggest fish haul today, but last but not least we've got a pair of empire gudgeons. So these guys are really cool. I've hopefully got a male and a female in here and they'll be going in one of my 10 gallon breeding setups. Can't see them too well in the bag right now, but I promise you that eventually these guys are going to get some really cool colors on them and their behaviors are just going to be super awesome to watch. So let's get things started with our horse face loaches. They're going to be going in here with my school of white fin rosy tetras. As you guys can see, these guys have put on some nice nice colors since they've been in this tank. They kind of started out as a white-ish clear tetra, but now they're starting to get some of that deep red color that these are so named for and they just look super awesome. So we got that group in here, no other fish. The tank itself is growing out super nice. Got to do a little trimming, but the crypts are settling in perfectly. We've got a ton of vallocinaria runners happening and most importantly we've got a really nice sand substrate that the horse face loaches will enjoy. Hopefully they don't burrow too deep and disturb the dirted substrate beneath. Hopefully they don't uproot any plants. Never kept these guys before, so we'll see. Really you won't see them very often. You might just see their heads barely poking up above the sand, but they're going to be super cool fish to add to this tank. So we'll get things started here by turning the light off just to make sure the acclimation is a little bit less stressful on these guys and nothing too fancy here. We're actually just going to float the bag with these guys in it, get the temperatures acclimated, and we'll get them in here in 20 to 30 minutes. This tank right here is where the empire gudgeons are going to go in. It is very freshly set up so it doesn't look its best. You can see the leaves have barely even started to change the water color and there's a ton of bubbles and everything and there's even still some floating botanicals. I just set this tank up. These guys are going to be going straight in here. Don't worry, it's seasoned with beneficial bacteria so they'll be just fine going into this fresh setup, but it doesn't really look its best right now. If you guys want to see more about setting up this tank and me redoing this tank, I'll have a video about that coming out later, but let's get the fish acclimated to this tank. So this will be another simple float acclimation here. Nothing too stressful on the fish, should be just fine. Again, fresh setup, but there is plenty of beneficial bacteria in here from the filter that was running on it before, and also I seeded it with some beneficial bacteria from some other tanks, so there should be no big deal adding them into this new setup here. Let's make sure we get this light turned off. There we go, and we'll just float the pair in here for 20 to 30 minutes until they are acclimated to the water temperature here. Black ruby bars will be going in here. 36 gallon tank does need a big maintenance session, and I'm just putting that off until after these fish have been settled in for a bit, but the tank is going to be perfect for them, and we're just going to float acclimate them, and if you guys are wondering why we're not quarantining, these fish have been in the store for multiple months, and I'm pretty confident that they're not going to be bringing anything in to my pre-established fish here. So we're just going to float acclimate these guys. Turn off the light first, of course, and gently just get these guys float acclimating into what will soon be their new home. As for our crabs, acclimation will be a little bit more delicate. Those guys will be going into this three gallon tank right here, which just has a little hang on back filter. This tank's been running for a very long time, so it's really well seeded with tons of beneficial bacteria and molm and stuff for them to pick through, which is very important when you're setting up a tank for these little guys. They definitely need a lot of little particles and things to graze on, so this will be perfect. It's always a smart idea to drip acclimate any invertebrate, and these guys will be no exception. So we got these guys just on a drip line right here, and we'll let them sit for probably 30 to 40 minutes. As for our guppies right here, the best ones that we pick out will go in this tank right here. This is my grandma's five gallon aquarium, but they're out of town right now, so I'm taking care of it and keeping it in the fish room. So we'll get maybe four or five in here, make sure we have a nice little group of them that look nice for my grandma, and then spread the others around, probably mix the rest in with my mutt and the colony. So I'll be mildly selective picking out the best individuals from this group, putting them in here, and getting them acclimated to my guppies are so easy to catch, which is a perk. Alright, so there's five males. We're just going to do a little group of males for her. I don't want this tank to get too overpopulated, especially because it's just a five gallon, but these guys will be no problem. And we just got them drip acclimating right here. If you wonder why we're drip acclimating these guys and not the other fish, mainly just because convenience. They were already in a pitcher and it's easiest to do that instead of transferring them to a bag. So we'll let these guys drip acclimate while we're waiting for these guys to float acclimate, and I'll be back when we're adding them to their respective tanks.