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I'm going to take it off and put it on. Moshe, are you there? Yes, I am here. Hi. Hi. I was on last week. I had technical difficulties, but I think it's good now. Can you hear me well? Yes, it's perfect. All right. Yeah, so this is a 75-gallon tank. I recently switched over to your method. We put one inch of dirt, maybe a drop more, two inches of sand, a drop more. um so far so good um you know i went i have um a resurrection jar going i added some uh leaf mulch here and a few other places building it up slowly um actually these two plants here this one and this one i actually pulled out of a local stream uh so far doing so good um i started um trying to breed some rainbow fish so i have them down here in a tank um i don't know if you You can see it clearly. There you go. With the spawning mop, I got around 30, 35 eggs already. Excuse me. I got one male, two females in here. And I put the eggs in a little container over here in the corner of the tank. And we'll wait and see. They just, what I did on Sunday, so Monday, Tuesday, and today, I got some eggs. Maybe I'll take them out tonight. We'll see what happens. And that's pretty much it. Looks great. How's that? Well, I think we're getting things a little organized here. A little. Margie, it's very nice. Thank you. Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. Mostly, what's that, guppy grass in there? It's called octopus something. I forgot what it's called. It's the lattice. Right, right, right. Yeah, nice plant. I really like it. What are these little guys down in front? Oh, these over here? Yeah. Is that the CME's algae eaters? No, the plants. Oh, the plants? This is water sprite? I forgot what that's called. I used to have... They melted recently, but they're coming back now. I forgot what they're called. Like abuse. I'm sorry? Abuse? No, I don't know. Okay. This one here I pulled out of a local stream. I have no idea what it is. Okay. um this is a sword plant it's actually melting a bit i'm not sure why what was that well it'll catch it'll catch a little what it will catch right i i put it in about two weeks ago so i'm hoping it you know it'll melt and come back um and then this one here again i also pulled this out of a local stream i really have no idea what it is um i'm sorry where are you located new jersey okay um this is a tiger lotus behind that uh there's red ludwigia it's called i think um it's not so red but uh i added a better lighting so i'm hoping it's going to become more red um what else we got that's pretty much it um yeah definitely had issues in the past with my gravel tank um but i totally ripped it up i put in the you know dirt and sand and i'm hoping that uh you know things will be great from here well it's looking good you're doing great and thank you for persevering and you know getting that getting it together there that's great yeah all right well thank you you're welcome thank you appreciate it you bet let's see There might be another thing soon. Nicholas. That's me. Hi. Yes. Hello. Hello. Oh, look at this. How pretty. So I have to admit this is not a full father fish tank because I came in late and all that. I've only recently started following you and all that. Okay. But what I did do was I made a father fish planter. That was the best that I could do. So it's got the two inches. yeah you're bare bottom aren't you yeah i was a bare bottom uh with the frequent water cleaning fortunately deep well water so really healthy good didn't have to worry about the you know chemical spikes or anything like that i'm uh mostly a guppy guy this is my female guppy tank really um there's also a uh bristle nose pleco in there somewhere but uh you know how good they are at hiding right uh i was kind of hoping that you could help me out and tell me what plants these are i went to my local pet store and just got a bundle but they did not have any names they could not tell me what they were it looks like it might be bacopa bacopa yeah i've got like four different plants in here i've got that one in the back Right. Now, that one is not. That one is Anubias, and that you can actually glue onto this piece of driftwood. Ah, so it has a die on, does it? Yeah, that's correct. Okay. Along with the rippled kind of leaves. Yeah, that one right there in the bottom, kind of bottom left. That one. That one, yes. That looks to me to be an Anubias. Okay. And what is this? That might be Golden Nicaea. It's a stem plant, and the gold is kind of a giveaway. N-Y-S-E-A would be my guess. Yeah, that stuff is growing like crazy and shooting out these little rootlets everywhere. I love it. Yeah, that's a stem plant. Very nice yeah and this other one is even growing right out the top here i don't know if you can yeah that's that looks like the bacopa i think that's the bacopa yeah it's uh really taken off in in in your method here i was so surprised when i put the plants in at how amazing that that the plants just like started growing like crazy right away right very nice yes okay so next time you come up we're gonna see a dirted tank there correct oh yeah that's that's on the way there i'm uh i have a larger tank upstairs that has a common plecostomus and a few goldfish it's a it's a 65 i have a home for my common plecostomus already don't chew me out so she's on her way to her new home next week alright well nice to meet you we'll be watching your development thank you and thanks for all your advice your channel is amazing I have been sending tons of people your way so I hope you're getting lots and lots of new subscribers ok we want to see you move up move up in the natural world ok thank you Have a great day. You too. Bye for now. Let's see. Nicholas. Hi. Hi. That's my son. Hello. What's your name? That's my son, Landon. Hi, Landon. How are you? Good. Good. Tell us about Jack, Landon. No, it's still Nick's tank. That's just my son. Oh, okay. Nicholas. All right. Trish is here. Where did Trish go? Trish, are you here? I'm here. I didn't expect you to be so quick. I thought I was going to see some more. All right. Yeah, we're just moving right along here. You sure are. Turn your camera sideways. Let's see if we can get a long view. Oh, that's great. There, that's better? Yes, it is. Very nice. Oh, look at this. So I just got interested in what you were doing a month ago. So this is a month old. Wow. It grew, like, it just amazed me how fast it grew. Oh, it's great, isn't it? Yeah. That's so nice. That's your supplement, and that's your plant package in there. I did get a couple extras. Ah. Ah. Yes. Good for you. All right. Yeah. What size tank is that, Trish? It's a 20 high. A 20 high? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I'm in a small apartment, but let me show you, because I loved it so much. two weeks after i started that one i did a little littler one just to um see how it would do in a smaller tank because my small space oh yeah yeah very nice celestial pearl danio babies in there oh really yeah oh wow oh that's terrific so do you have you started a food web in that tank I started a food web in both, actually. Okay, fabulous. I don't know if you can see, kind of on the bottom, I've been putting in some leaves from the local ponds. Oh, yes, I do see. Sure enough. And I've had pretty good success. These Rummy-nose Tetras, I went through a lot of those. They kept dying, but nothing else has given me any trouble at all. Like, they're just so happy. Well, they look good, yeah. These look good. These are the last five of 12 that I tried. And they were not too good. Yeah, you turn the corner around, baby. Yeah. Neons look nice. Yeah, they're really happy. I don't think I should have started with the rummy nose. I think I should have started with the heartier fish. You never know. Yeah, that's right. I like it, Trish. Nice work. Thank you. Thank you for the idea. You're very welcome. I appreciate what you're doing. Thank you. Bye. Oh, well. There's John over there. He quit. He just gave up. I don't want to blame him. The remote mouse, I've not experienced this before. The remote mouse, about 10 feet away from the computer, was sending mixed signals because it was wireless. I'm assuming as a result of that we were not getting a clear true strong signal from the mouse to the computer and so it was acting like it had a mind of its own it had no mind it was mindless right it was just jumping opening things and closing things and just creating total chaos so we've now moved everything to the desk i have a hard wire mouse a hard wire keyboard no it's no it's not a hard wire keyboard but but it's right up on top of hard wire cameras i think which we had anyway but we're a little better off here let's see the tank right here in back of me which is uh a kind of a cube uh that'll That's the next one we're going to set up. So we're looking forward to that. And I'm hoping we can get to that tomorrow. We need to get these things set up in here. I've got about seven of them in here, and we're slow getting going. We did get one. We'll do this one in place. I'll do that one in place. And then behind John is a 55, I believe. No, it's a 40. I think it's a 40 long that one probably will get moved because we're looking to do something different on that wall. But anyway this guy is kind of interesting he, it's a 53, it's a 3 foot wide tank 18 by 18 so it's approximately the same volume as a 55 gallon 6 inches deeper and probably the same the same height, and a foot shorter than a 55. And it's doing okay. I've got a few fish in it that are rescues. A bag or two of stem plants. And I'm gradually, as it kind of grows out and becomes more stable, I'll be pulling out stem plants and replacing them with anubias and swords and valisneria and other sorts of things like that, Sagittarius, so forth. In other words, what I might do is get hold of Tricia and have her walk me through setting this up as a formal aquascape. I don't know that I'm quite ready to do that, but I know I need to be ready to do that. So we'll see if she may just throw up her hands and call it a hopeless case. I don't know. She won't be the first to do so. Let's see. A bunch of strange comments in the chat. See if we've got... Dennis Engel just made a $10 donation to the calls of crazy politicians. I saw this. Colorado wants to tax pets, including fish and ant farm. That's absurd. Well, I tell you, yeah, they need to, in that case, they need to tax termites that are invading people's homes. They need to tax bedbugs. They certainly need to tax roaches and mosquitoes because clearly people who have a roach-infested house have such because of their housekeeping skills or lack thereof. So they need to be taxed for that. That must be considered a pet. And it is every bit as much a pet as a cat running around the house, certainly as much as a cat, and certainly as much as a mouse or a rat. I think in point of fact, what this really is all about is taxing, that is to say, controlling our relationship to the natural world. Now, if you think about this for more than one millisecond, you will realize that government has no appropriate role at all in the relationship between human beings and the natural world. That is not their ballywhack. Their ballywhack is not to protect nature from human intrusion. That's a perversion of the role of government. By doing so, they are being not simply tyrannical, but they are assuming a role that they can only assume by virtue of not allowing the practice of religion as a function of natural human interaction. Now, follow me on this. The role of man in nature is, how shall I say it? I can say God-given. There are some of you too stupid to understand what that means. So I will say it another way. The role of man in nature is fundamental. There is no other role that is more integral to the reality of a human being living on the earth than the relationship of that human being to the natural world. So there is, in fact, nothing other than the imposition of other human beings to try to stand between the natural world and other human beings and somehow be an arbiter of what that relationship ought to be. breathing, for example, collecting rainwater, for example, keeping pets, for example, digging in the ground, on and on and on and on. Government has no role whatsoever from a natural standpoint, from a natural position in the relationship between human beings and the natural world. That is not an appropriate venue for government involvement or government activity. Government is to govern the relationship human to human, if you will, from a social perspective, not to govern the relationship of humans to trees and grass and air and water, the natural environment. And this is all part of that. This is simply a way to inject some kind of authoritarian structure between human beings and the natural world. As such, it is a violation of the essential natural creator relationship between, if you will, between God and his Creations it's an Attempt by government to literally Play God And to be God And as such it Must be overthrown Because it is Fundamentally demonic Demonic being that which Violates the Fundamental relationship Between man and nature Between man and creation Between man and God So how's that for an answer as is that worth 10 bucks to you that's and thank you very much for your generous donation now what in the world is going on over here oh let's see nobody's come up yet uh we got crickets on that join the Father Fish Discord channel yes psycho plant lady thank you so much for boasting that link. Father Fish has my vote. Bravo, Chloe. Thank you. Father Fish from Residence. Moliola. Amen. Donna Arnold. Absolutely. Cornwall. We got a lot of friends here. Remind you of someone, Father Fish? Luke Lovish Fish. Yes. We cannot protect the natural world by being taxed. and you'd have the wisdom to say, thank you, Dennis, I appreciate that. But I didn't see Father Bruce getting so passionate. I would have thought taxing fish on ant farms was a joke, and I thought our political system was fine. Well, it is mad, and it is a joke. It's an insanity, but worse than that, it's an obscenity. It is deeply vile, deeply foul, deeply obscene, deeply vulgar, deeply contemptuous. It speaks to a level of corruption, of moral corruption, that in an earlier age would have been unfathomable. The very notion that we somehow are becoming more moral is itself an outrageous conclusion. How is it possible? How is it even conceivable to imagine such a thing when in the last hundred years, much less the last 50 years, We have slaughtered more of our fellow humans in war and in misguided, I don't even want to get into it, misguided mercy, we'll call it, slaughtered more than at any other time in human history. More people are dead because of modernism, because of our vaunted ability to invent machinations than literally at any other time in history. How is it possible to even consider that we are more moral? We are not. We are less, vastly less moral. Read back, for example, the founders of our own nation and their wisdom, their genius, their moral brilliance. We don't have anyone today, anyone, in a position of elected representative who has one-tenth the wit and wisdom as our very own founding fathers 200 years ago. We are far less intellectually astute, far less moral, far less grounded in ethics and in morality, in basic common humanity than perhaps we have ever been. We are vastly more corrupt in our government, vastly more corrupt, so much so that we are tottering on the very brink of extinction as a species and as a governed people. How utterly obscene to call that in the dance of morality. All right. We're going to move. We're tired of doing that. We'll do something else. How do you set up a father fish Aquarium again says James Good point James We need to do that Don't we yes we do Let me get rid of there's Jenny The day has come when lies have become True amen to that And Jenny is one who should know And I'll say no more About that but get to know this Woman of discord and you will Discover a level of Understanding that is for nobody's up well I can't control that it is completely up to those who are out here John is bitching and moaning and complaining from the peanut gallery back here he wants some action I'm just trying to fill in John Stacey Green most Karens don't even know what they're against yeah right Right. Goodbye. Is the discard political talk or just fish? Well, Mike, they're of a part of each other. One cannot talk about fish. I mean, really understand this. There is legislation afoot in the Congress right now that will control every single fish in your tank. It's under the Lacey Act. And if you move one of those fish that are not appropriately designated across state lines, you will pay $10,000 and spend five years in jail. Per fish. Per fish. That's right. Per fish. That's federal law in the works. They've tried to pass it twice in a row. Failed both times. It's coming back again. Oh, law. Oh, Watson is here. Let's see if I can get Ola up. Ola! Hello. We're outside looking at the ocean. You're outside? Oh, nice. Where are you located? We're in Hilo, Hawaii. Big island. In Hawaii? Oh, my. So in the dead of winter, living in Hawaii, we're looking at warm water outdoor ponds. How nice. What's in there? Algae, right. um baby guppies oh yeah they take care of the mosquito larvae and yes all the little living things underneath the guppies right a lot of endlers um turns out endlers are okay in colder water it's been getting a little chilly here i wouldn't say yeah what is chilly give me a number chili is like 60 60 is chili yeah and if it drops below 60 it's freezing for anybody in hawaii nice but yeah are you on the big island yes we're on the big island um on we're on the puna side near near the volcano oh really wow lots of little earthquakes um I think we're expecting the Halema'uma'u Crater to erupt soon, so we might see a little more lava. Wow. Yeah, I just wanted to share with you some of the growth in the outside stuff. Love it. Very nice. Dr. Rapunzel, so much fun. Yeah, I can't wait to add snails and maybe a lot of plants, the extra growth. well keep us posted as you do that very nice very much thank you very much happy to have you with it let's see mean mean daddy are you there yes i am father fish there you are oh my look at this here it is tell us about so i set this one up on i think i think it was saturday okay i planted it and all the rocks i got from my pond outside um and i put a little beta in on day two like you said okay and i'm always worried it's thick enough uh it looks fine i don't think you have a problem with it it may be the sand may be shallow over here toward the right i don't know whether i'm looking at shadow or not if it's if it's the same let me get my phone i can light it up for you okay ah okay you know i think it's fine you have a very thin dirt layer but it's a small tank yeah it's an eight gallon yeah no i think you're fine i think there's nothing wrong with that at all in fact it's better to do it that way in a very small tank to have a much thinner layer of soil uh rather than a full inch and you've got half inch or less which which is perfectly appropriate it allows you to have less sand too so it gives you a small tank more more viewing space no i think it's absolutely fine not a problem at all right when i started to watch your channel i set this guy up too and okay a couple guppies and mollies and it's all planted but it has a purple light on it oh so it's nice to see yeah yeah plants kind of wash out on purple don't they are blue yeah is there any bad things that come with purple lighting compared to no i don't think so it just does not provide the opportunity for the plants to do photosynthesis but you know make sure they get some white light okay at least six hours of white light and the plants in this tank just these ones over here They're dying? What should I do about that? Let me see the rest of the tank. How much light... Yeah, I see that. They kind of all look a little weak. I think you don't have enough light on the tank. Alright. I think you need a brighter light, and probably the light that you have on, leave it on 24-7. Don't turn it off at all. I have. I haven't turned... I've been listening to your instructions. I haven't turned it off. Okay. Then you probably need more light all right i i would guess that's the issue okay thank you very much looks fine otherwise but but it does seem a little dim well all right i just wanted to show you my new father fish tank thank you very much very nice thank you ma'am i appreciate you all right bye-bye bye-bye they're right that uh Cordell wants to know somebody brought cake yes i do okay I've been saving it for just such a moment as this but I'm not going to eat it because I have a big dinner second plant lady talking about joining the show important to do if you've not been on the show yet you need to get there and check it out it is such a joy who is this? Sean Ray Sean, hello hey, do you see that stuff all over the plants I talked to you about I think last week what is that and how do I get rid of it? Oh boy put a sponge put a sponge filter in there yeah it's just debris yeah see it's got the filtration in the back and I got two large sponges back there you might cut your lights back some about what eight hours six hours yeah yes exactly right okay i'll try that i appreciate you you bet well thank you sean very much see you later bye bye uh stacy green welcome to snook nice to have you on the team james i say i wish i had that much hair growing on me i got my my wig here sky blue get you a wrench bob s what's bob saying never seen a story where people scream in line That's fun, isn't it? I used to do this all the time. A few years ago, I was doing live streams for two hours every morning. And this is what we did. We just sat around talking to each other, people coming up in and out. It was kind of a free-for-all. A lot of fun. Big Birds, starting my first Father Fish Tank this weekend. Well, you're very welcome, man. Welcome to the Natural Aquarium Movement. Well, by the way, we have a new video coming out this weekend that is announcing a major breakthrough in fish keeping. And it's something that many of you are already doing. But it has created an experience that is unique in the history of fish keeping because we're not creating for the first time permanent aquariums that need never be broken down. So new video coming out about that major breakthrough. Mary Valente. Hello, Mary. Nice to have you with us. We'll get you a wrench and get you in the father fish shoal here. Yes, it is fun to see all the different tanks. Stacy Green, thank you so much, Stacy. Bob says, what? I'm no moderator. Sure you are, Bob. Much as anyone is. My local fish shop has taken up interest after I introduced them to your method. looking forward to seeing them establish some tanks to show you on the live stream well look forward to that James that's exciting we need to get more and more shops engaged in doing natural natural environments natural aquariums and it's happening, it's coming the chatter is everywhere everywhere try to try and to fill us Poppy Spyro I'm going to think I'm going to ask you about Flowerhorn and Planete your advice went very good and I'm happy about it I want your personal opinion about Flowerhorn Zenzu specifically I don't know enough about the recent developments in Flowerhorns to know them by that designation let's see who's this Chad Good day, Father Fish. Hi, how are you? Why don't we have a beer? Today is, well, actually, two days ago, this has been three years old with no maintenance. Wow. Now, I love my trumpets, and I have other arrangements here. It's kind of limited, but it's been a functioning ecosystem, and it's three years old. Yes, absolutely. And I tell you, it looks a little sparse, but all you really need to do is add more plants to it, and they'll jump right up because you have a very rich environment. All right. Get over here. And that's a little under three. Well, it's a little over three years, this one. It's a little sparse, too, as well. All right. Yep. And this right here. I just want to, you know, reaffirm to everybody through your education and your help and your knowledge that these tanks are establishable and they are almost maintenance-free. All I do is add water. I'm glad you showed us this because it demonstrates something very important. And that is that in spite of a virtual complete lack of any kind of maintenance, the tank remains healthy and dynamic. It has not a lot of plants in it, but the plants, if you look at the plants, the plants are perfectly healthy. if you look at those leaves on that sword that are falling down, leaves on any plant normally die. That's the function of a leaf. The leaf does not remain on a plant permanently. It has a life, a lifespan, and it's a rather short lifespan on the plant itself. Think of trees. Plants last for one season and are gone. And then new leaves will grow. The same with the sword, the same with any plant. The fact that you have melting leaves is not a sign of ill health. If you look and see green new leaves growing, coming up in this case out of the center, you will know you have a perfectly normal, healthy plant that's doing as it should be I want to show you these trumpets right here and they come up so quick, it seems like the bigger the plant gets or the more the age of the plant the shoots go up really quick there's a prime example right here that that is just like really, and they come up quick you know? yep yep and Father Fish i have never cleaned these filters on this tank never none of my tanks nice yeah you've got some debris you know what would be good start building a food web get some get some leaves and some mulch in there that's going to help clean that up and it'll create a whole new population i put some leaves and i i've got some stuff right here little branches Yes, I do follow your channel and all your other outlets. Facebook, I follow the little chat thing. What do you call that? It's not Instagram, but where you have a well-developed, what is it called, that messaging thing? The Discord channel. Yes, I have that. Father Fish yourself has helped me. You yourself have come on. And I want to relate. I want to share this, my experience with you guys. What I've gone through is very, very good. People are very gentle with you. You know, I'm a very personable person and I don't reach out very much. But Father Fish, the interactions I had with you and your other other people, man, I appreciate you. I really thank you so much. That's very kind of you to say so. bye for now love your thanks love your thanks bye for now bye thank you chad uh who's that's hagan hagan the oldest i hello hagan hello how are you doing i'm good how are you oh look at this yeah there's a little bit of an update since the last time you showed our tank about three months ago okay we set this tank up oh it looks and we showed we showed it once on your show and tell it might have been one of your first ones okay and it was it was cool um the plants have exploded i mean they've gotten so big oh yeah yeah three months time these tiny little plants look at that something great nice yeah pretty angels yeah they're getting bigger they spawned in here too on uh on this plant here we're gonna put them the leaf but they they spawned on that plant um this one here along with the other one right down there those two formed a partnership wonderful i love it love it yeah there's a lot of tannins in the water we don't mind it it's a little more yellow but mostly i believe tannins are there everything is doing great looks wonderful beautiful tank thank you thank you very much well thank you for teaching us how to do it you wouldn't have known otherwise thank you appreciate it take care bye for now bye-bye uh neil neil pinto hey father fish how are you good how are you i said that you know what i couldn't hear you the last two times it seems like the technical issues have been solved we finally got things turned out perfect my six-year-old son maximus has been dying for me to show this tank so i said let me try to get on today okay so we uh we started this tank back in march um i just kind of got all this stuff and then i started to do the research and i learned your method but i already got gravel in here uh so this is what we have so far we got fully planted it's in gravel got the amazon sword a bunch of jungle val in the back some money worts some java fern we got some frog bits floating up there at the top and in here we got a bunch of uh some guppies a couple platys um there's a hill stream loach somewhere here a couple dwarf chain loaches and a but his favorite fish is a coolie loach so we got we got about five or six coolie loaches in here that's cool yeah it's one of my favorites uh have him have him he can do this himself get a bucket of sand and have him put a handful of sand in at a time and do it every day for a couple of weeks just one or two hands full until you get another full inch on top of that gravel, and that will give you a deep substrate, fully developed tank. Can I ask you a question? So, I'm planting, I do want to put sand. Should I take everything out? No, don't take everything out. Leave everything as it is. Like even the plants, just put the sand on top? Because I was thinking I could take all the plants out, put sand, and then replant everything again. No, have your son do this. Okay. Lift the lid up, hold the bucket up hold him up there have him take a handful of sand out of the bucket and release it into the tank okay just one time maybe two no more and then do that every day and just let the sand sit wherever just wherever it falls just let it go yeah when whether it's on wood plants just pour the sand in okay come off if it's on wood or stone it'll come off it'll find its way to the bottom it may sit on the plant for a short time but it'll find its way off okay and to give them a little net or a stick to kind of swish it off of plants you can do that but probably not necessary at all right and how much sand would you say i should put this is how much gravel there is right now um how much how much sand on top of it do you one inch of sand on top of that okay but do not do it all at once let him do it yeah let's do one handful at a time every day or do it for weeks it may take two to three weeks to get a full inch built up right put a tiny amount in at a time right right and it um the plants density is this is this um can i put it more here or should i put is this good no it's perfect okay yeah okay yeah all right because we just had the only issue i had is we i got some uh water sprites a couple weeks ago and ever since i put it in i don't know if you can see it in the corner here it just started to die and it's the only plant that really died like the Java fern's good, the Val is good, the swords are good, but for whatever reason, the money sprite just decided to melt away. I can do that. That's fairly normal. Is it? Okay. Yeah. Okay, okay. The other plants look wonderful. Yeah, thank you. You know what? He really likes fish. I'm surprised he really got into it, and it's nice to see him get excited about something, you know. See, he likes feeding the bloodworms and everything, so the only thing that we've We have to convince Mommy to give us another tank. Make sure he puts the sand in. I will. No, he'll love that. He'll pull it a ton. Oh, he will. He'll love that. You won't understand it at first, but after a while, you'll see what it's doing. You know what? He saw your video, and I think he gets it because he does say, can we put dirt in? But I told him I can't really put dirt anymore. We already got the tank going. When you put the sand in, all the fish and the plants, they make dirt. that gets down below that sand and then you'll see in six months there will be a dirt layer on the bottom nice okay you know what I will definitely do that with him and I will check in in a few months show you the new sand based tank that we have here and have him brag on it I will Father Fish can you do me a small favor can you just say hi Maximus for me and he'll love it when I show up tomorrow excited about your tank. Looking forward to seeing what you're going to do putting sand in your tank. That'll be wonderful. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much. You have a good night. Thank you. All right. Bye-bye. All right. Here's Sean. Hey, I forgot to ask you something. I was just on here. That stuff right there on the valve, I know you said it's stuff floating around, but is that algae as well? It's algae, yeah. It looks like algae. I would say it is. Just too much light. How often would you cut it back to? I got it running 12 hours a day right now. Yeah, cut it back to about 10 and then maybe to 8. 10, do it to about 10? Yeah. Okay. Now, what about that Luigi Super Red? Will that affect it any? If you will put, no, it should be fine. It looks okay. If you put some nails in there. They'll gobble up that loose algae, too. Gotcha. Okay. Well, that's it, and I'll talk to you later, then. Thank you, Sean. You're welcome. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Okay. Who's this? Neil? Are you back? Are you there, Neil? Gone. Okay. So you didn't get rid of that. I don't want to pay him. I won't be allowed back in. We don't want to do that. Let's see. There we go. Okay. All right. How are we doing time-wise here? 9-20. We are over, but we kind of got a slow start. And we got a sermon in the middle. And we got a sermon in the middle, right. So added benefit, little bonus there. Trish and Jeremiah talked a minute ago got to ask about my frog bed. I like it. And I think frog bed is probably one of the more desirable floating plants. because it tends not to take over the way duckweed or salvinia can so yeah i like it it's fine all right how are we doing here dean is going to bed on us as is james so i guess i guess i need to as well i'm glad we finally got it together and got back up here we may really belong here. Although John looks very comfortable over there. I got the good chair. He did indeed. I went to, I took a nap at six o'clock and John woke me up at quarter of eight. By the time I came to, it was eight o'clock and we just weren't ready for it all. We got somebody else up here. Who's this? Tony. Tony Bayou. Oh, Mama. Mama, hello. Hey. How are you, dear? I'm fine. I have been busy today. I see you have. Tell me about it. Are you there? I don't know why this thing is. Well, I did all this today. I had a friend come help me. Yes. Yes, I'm here. Good. I hear you. Go ahead. Tell us what you've been doing. Apparently, we're lagging. we're lagging but here's this tank this is 65 gallons nice oh big tanks big tanks what kind of light is that john wants to know what kind of light you have oh up there that is the fancy uh 200 watt light that big led floodlight that's gorgeous and there's another one there look at that and these i i just ordered another Hygger light with the remote for that tank, for that tank. Okay. This is the 75-gallon Angel. What a pretty Angel. This is the new one. Oh, my. Look at this. This is going to be the 40-gallon Blue Shrimp and Black Bar Angelfish. Okay. Yeah, I got a thing floating in there. I'll cut that, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Excuse the house. but i've been busy oh it's lovely look at that i'm having a little uh hundreds of shrimp in there my word i think i'm having a haze problem yeah a little bit so i'm not sure what to do with it right now well the fish seem to be enjoying it yes they're fine but this is it oh what a great room i love it yes i i don't really ever have losses right and they were asleep so they're a little they're a little okay there's one oh look at him isn't he gorgeous he's come on come in they usually come right to me is that right yeah i like any have them. I'm waiting for it. Here it comes. I want you to see its fin. Look how long. Peter suggested putting a sponge filter or a little box filter in that tank to clear up that haze. Yeah, I have a sponge and then I have a large net. That's not working. You could do small water changes like a 10% water change. No more than 10%. See if that does it Okay yeah I can do that Very nice Tony Really nice Thank you so much I don't know why we have a lag Appreciate you coming up Thank you very much Thank you Father Fish Bye for now Alright well anybody else Last call Final call Wonderful to be with you all Love you all We'll be back Sunday evening at 6 for 2 hours and I'll wake Father Fish up earlier yes and John's going to wake me up half an hour early so we can get it all together I don't know that I would have felt it was kind of an unseen eventuality that I think we finally have hopefully resolved love you all see you Sunday evening bye for now