Predatory Fins is live!

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:01]So, the theme here is some fish are gold and some fish are silver. Just like that shark hanging on the wall. We got this other gold shark over here.

[00:00:14]I think it looks good, but stinks.

[00:00:18]So, yeah, guys, we're getting ready to open up. I say we should be open to the public once we come back from Asia.

[00:00:27]hopefully the Fourth of July weekend.

[00:00:31]Everything to the town requested should be done. We did a lot this week already and we're getting there. Kevin is literally I think all he needs to work on now is the fill and all this mess can be gone.

[00:00:47]We have a Jaws here with no teeth. Right now we're trying to figure out what color to make. And maybe you guys can give some suggestions. So, I'm thinking the uh gold or black with some some cool teeth and then it's going to be right here for people to go behind and take a picture getting eaten at predatory fins. This guy is going to stay here. It's look it looks great. I think once you open the door, that's the first thing you see.

[00:01:13]The store we don't really have much to sell. We have a couple of these arowas, the noise. We actually found them once we put everything in storage.

[00:01:26]And you got some little guys as well, but I honestly I can't tell. Like the blue one looks so nice.

[00:01:38]I wish the real one looks just like that.

[00:01:41]We're going to have some driftwood. But, uh, that's one of the reasons why we're going to Asia is to get a bunch of stuff to sell at the shop.

[00:01:50]And not only decorations, but stuff that you guys would need for the aquarium hobby. Lights, pumps, heaters, everything.

[00:02:00]We had to take everything out of the top there and put in storage.

[00:02:05]Actually, it's good because we painted the wall, made everything look nice. I think this week we're going to paint the offices and we should be pretty good to go.

[00:02:16]Uh, just to let you guys know, I'm not sure if it's live yet, but we're going to have a 10% Memorial Day sale. And if you're a veteran, you also get 10%.

[00:02:27]So maybe 20%.

[00:02:30]For veterans, anybody with the military ID.

[00:02:34]Ah.

[00:02:43]I think when we're going to put this guy and that one in these two tanks over here, we're trying to figure out like where all the tanks are going to go.

[00:02:53]Right now, we have one octopus tank being built for this area right here for like a giant octopus. And then I have two more tanks that going to go in here.

[00:03:05]here. And this is probably going to go somewhere else. And I decided to just keep these guys and enclose them in the wall.

[00:03:14]This is already done. We have them for so long. Might as well just use them.

[00:03:19]So be more saltwater tanks, more stuff to see. And then for this side, this is not going to be here. This is going to end up going. It's going to be a different tank with rounded edges for the paddlefish and sturgeon. And then we have a row of tanks to go right here, top and bottom.

[00:03:38]So yeah. What do you think, Joe? Should be open for the Fourth of July weekend.

[00:03:42]You think we're going to be ready?

[00:03:43]>> It'll be hard for you.

[00:03:46]>> It'll be hard. But we do have a lot of fish in stock and a lot more coming in.

[00:03:54]Um I know I've been promising to do a stock video and I haven't because we just haven't had time. But there's a lot of really cool fish right now from these geos to hacky to Goliath.

[00:04:05]We got a couple sturgeons. Some of them are pre-sold already. Albino Florida.

[00:04:11]There's literally a lot like Harry Puffers, you know. So some flag tails, a lot of stingrays. If you want get a discount on Stingray, dip into the stingray at 10% you can even get $100 off.

[00:04:36]Y'all buying alligator gars. I know we sold a lot of them this week, the golden rose lines.

[00:04:44]So yeah, there's a lot of fish in stock and I know we have more coming as well.

[00:04:51]We got some big gulpers, but I'll be here all day showing you guys all the fish that we have. It's probably easier um to do a whole stock video, but I got to help Joe keep painting so we can get out of here. It's Sunday.

[00:05:19]We're trying to go home, but this guy's looking really cool.

[00:05:27]You spent all your money on this. Uh where which one?

[00:05:35]Let's see here.

[00:05:38]Try to read some of these comments.

[00:05:41]Axelato. No, we don't have Oxelato, but I have a friend that breathes Axelato.

[00:05:50]Are you and Joe married?

[00:05:53]Bro, look at Stewie, bro. How can I marry Stewie? Yo, smile like a Stewie.

[00:06:02]No, I'm Peter Griffin. He's Stewie.

[00:06:07]How old is Bubba? I don't know. He looks old as hell, but I don't know.

[00:06:13]He's got a young personality, though.

[00:06:19]Someone was messing with his fin yesterday. I was trying to watch to see who it was. Probably one of the peroon sharks. Come on, Bubba. Everybody want to say hi. Come this way. I know you seeing me. Let's go. Can swim a little bit faster or no?

[00:06:37]Are you excited?

[00:06:39]You want to go to the other tank or you want to stay here?

[00:06:45]He I don't know. It feels like he's judging us. He's always like he's got that face of like he's judging you by looking at you.

[00:06:56]I got to move these guys cuz they eat so much. They don't let anybody else get food. That turtle.

[00:07:08]Bubba. He's got a wonderful personality.

[00:07:10]Yes, he does.

[00:07:13]It's almost like he knows. This is like loved.

[00:07:20]The turtle is awesome. That's like probably my favorite animal on here.

[00:07:26]I wish I had um a tank like Florida where I could get in the tank and interact with them, but we've been so busy. I would love to to play with this guy and get him used to like human interaction.

[00:07:49]Yeah, buddy.

[00:07:55]So, some of these guys will go to the 40ft tank and some of them are going to stay here.

[00:08:03]But this tank is amazing. I just can't wait to have the salt water in here and with sharks, eels.

[00:08:13]Actually, I don't even know if we're going to put eels here because one of the tanks they're going over there is for a giant eel.

[00:08:20]So, we'll see. I think mainly sharks, stingrays.

[00:08:25]Let's see how they do.

[00:08:30]But just give you guys a quick tour here. So basically I think this is going to be the saltwater section and we're going to have at the end we're going to have a a bunch of cubes for salt water as well. So it'll be this.

[00:08:46]This is actually a lot of tanks.

[00:08:48]Then we don't plan on carrying everything salt water. It's mainly like the rare and hard to find fish. And all this is going to be freshwater.

[00:08:58]And we have blacks, black tanks and blue tanks for different fish.

[00:09:04]But it's looking good. It's a lot of plumbing though.

[00:09:11]Oh yeah, that's a lot of plumbing.

[00:09:16]Uh Sheila went to one of my friends house because she was beating up the fish and I didn't really have a tank for her and I didn't want to put her in a small tank. So, right now she's in a giant pond enjoying life in Tennessee.

[00:09:32]Um, maybe I'll get her back. Maybe I'll just let her enjoy her life there because it's a it's a beautiful pond.

[00:09:38]She gets an unlimited amount of food.

[00:09:43]And um I don't know, she just was beating up the fish. Maybe she just got old and she's like, I can't take this anymore.

[00:09:55]Uh, let's turn this this way. All right.

[00:09:58]Couple more questions so I can help Joe.

[00:10:04]Come down to see you open up. So excited. Desire Kitchen. Yes. Yes. Come down. Uh, I'll make an announcement when officially open, but I am hoping and planning for the Fourth of July weekend.

[00:10:20]Suanne, how are you? When you had at your shop in Florida, did you ever think you was you would turn out into this?

[00:10:26]Yes, I always dream of making something bigger. Always even bigger than this. I don't know. I'm not satisfied. Um I was like that when I opened my moving company or any other business I do. I always try to do go above and beyond. I don't want to be better than other people. I want to be better than what I was yesterday.

[00:10:50]So I don't think this is enough. I think we still can can do bigger than this. For what we've done and what we can accomplish and the connections that we made through the years, I think we can do something even bigger and better than this.

[00:11:06]Like I have a bump on my eye.

[00:11:13]Any shipments from Vietnam? Uh, not yet.

[00:11:15]Soon.

[00:11:17]Do you ship? Yes, we ship all over the US.

[00:11:23]First responder discounts, too. Yeah, fireman gets uh gets discounts, too, bro. No problem.

[00:11:31]But you're only buying cheap fish, so you don't even need a discount.

[00:11:40]Scrapyard. My Sabrina Pike I picked from you couple months ago. He's doing great.

[00:11:46]Putting on some size already. That's great.

[00:11:48]I love to see stuff like that.

[00:11:56]>> Opening a store like that would be my dream, man. Hey, nothing is impossible to be honest with you. Uh there's there's many I was just talking to somebody about this. If I do a video on how we started to where we are now, basically from when I met Lisa, 25 years old, to now I'm 40. All I did was work.

[00:12:20]So to see to get this, I had to bust my balls every single day and working day and night, day and night, day and night.

[00:12:29]Um because I believe when you want something really bad, you can you can make it happen.

[00:12:40]What do you feed the juvenile Africanas?

[00:12:42]I'm having a problem with them not eating. Uh, blood worms and black worms.

[00:12:48]They can be tough though if the water's not perfect. They're very tough fish at that size.

[00:13:02]>> It's men stuff. We got to do big. Got to be bigger and better. literally the way of mankind. Yeah. I just knew a lot of people that are like satisfied, you know, they'll reach somewhere and they're just satisfied and want to just enjoy life and and uh take it easy. And there's not nothing wrong with that. Um but the way I am, I feel like life is too short. One day we're not going to be here anymore.

[00:13:26]You know, I hate looking on Facebook.

[00:13:28]It's always like, "Oh, this this person passed away. This person passed away. Oh my god, I hate that." Like I told my wife, I'm like, "When I go, don't even say anything. Just take me to the Amazon, drop me somewhere, and let me run free." You know? So, going back to the um to trying to do bigger and better, if you stop, then it's like then what's the point of of trying so hard, you know? Like, I was going to be better and then hopefully my kids will do even better, you know? That that's the plan.

[00:14:06]You remember me from court competition?

[00:14:08]I don't remember anything past two hours ago, but if I see your face, I probably will remember you.

[00:14:19]James, stop. Sup, bro? I've watched your videos for a long time. Much love from Australia. What's up, James? Thanks for the support, bro.

[00:14:28]I wish you could ship to India. Love your videos. Love for India. Thank you.

[00:14:32]I wish I could too, but unfortunately shipping to other countries, it's a whole another ball game.

[00:14:42]Uh, how long does groupers you got can stay in fresh water? I I honestly I wouldn't even put them in super all fresh. I would have put them in like low brackish and in reality all fish can take that like low to the point where it barely even reads it. Um, it's just they need stuff and salt water like the magnesium and other nutrients that that they need to do well. So, I wouldn't put them on straight fresh anymore catfish shipments on the way.

[00:15:12]I was just talking to Colombia right now.

[00:15:15]We have a shipment coming from Asia.

[00:15:16]Brazil is on the way. There's so much.

[00:15:19]There's so much and we're so busy trying to get this done. Uh, I think that the stock is going to look better. I mean, there's a lot of fish in right now, but I think it'll look even better once we come back from Asia because this is going to be a lot of fish. And now we're going to have double the tank space.

[00:15:39]Actually, when when we finish this, the goal is to work on the back because the back is, you know, as old as we've been here. So, we want to do things different. uh centralize all the systems to be able to add more fish, maybe add more tanks, three rows.

[00:15:58]But there's a lot there's a lot that we want to do.

[00:16:05]Come to South Africa. I would love to one day.

[00:16:12]Some of us survive, some of us some of us conquer. Okay.

[00:16:19]ever get a chance to come to New York, I definitely have to stop by the shop.

[00:16:22]Love what you guys do. Jeffrey, you're welcome to come by, buddy.

[00:16:27]You work in a fish prison. Yes. All these fish are inmates.

[00:16:38]We miss your Aquaella Dallas here. Met you last time you were there. I know you're busy with the shop. Yeah, it's it's I don't know. It might be one of the last events that we did because it's a lot of work and I know once we finish this one, there's other projects in mind already. Um, that's going to take a lot of my time.

[00:17:00]Uh, I'm looking into doing like a franchise option for bread to fins and different places. Maybe one per state.

[00:17:10]Obviously, we got to partner up with the right people, but we can't look into anything until this place is up and running. So, there's there's more on the way.

[00:17:20]We just got to get this done.

[00:17:23]Where New York are you? We're in Long Island.

[00:17:28]But it was a fish hobby before it wasn't jobs. I don't feel like it's a job because I enjoy it.

[00:17:35]But as you get bigger, you have to find the right people to help you get bigger or help you get to where you need to get.

[00:17:45]So like we had a good secretary, then she turned out being not that good cuz she was waiting to get fired to collect an employment. That's what she wanted.

[00:17:55]Uh so now we're trying to find a secretary. I actually posted something recent.

[00:18:00]Wanda's gonna help, you know, greet customers and help the business. It's very hard to find the the good help. Anthony is a great kid. He's leaving to be a nurse.

[00:18:10]Joe is here uh almost full-time. We have people for the weekend. Eventually, when the store is open, we're going to need more help at the storefront.

[00:18:31]So to to reply to your to your message, what was a fish hobby before it was a job? It was a hobby. I've been keeping fish since I was a kid. I was pretty much born and raised on a place like Key West. So I was always into into fish and fish keeping. And I love monster fish. I just think they look like pretty sore creatures.

[00:18:53]And the fact that you can just get fish from all over the world and they can coexist, that's like that's like us, you know?

[00:19:08]Some of these fish are just like us.

[00:19:19]I'm gonna bring some Chick-fil-A nuggets for y'all. That's for Kevin.

[00:19:24]I'll do grilled chicken.

[00:19:28]Do you quarantine the pre-order fish same as other fish? Yes. Uh there's a lot of pre-orders that that came in and we have the fish in stock, but they're almost done with quarantine process. So maybe tomorrow or Tuesday we start invoicing everyone.

[00:19:45]Sup?

[00:19:49]Jesus is king and he loves you. Yes.

[00:19:57]Kev, Kev, bro, you're one of my favorite YouTube channels. The fish unboxings are match. Big love for England. Thank you, bro. You know what? Fish unboxing my my kids love watching um the fish guys. It's so funny.

[00:20:14]I I love when they're watched because it's like I I rather them watch stuff like that than some bad cartoons that pop up or things like this. But the Fish Guys, they they're funny. I think they're great for for kids. Uh both of my kids love watching them.

[00:20:32]What else? I don't really have much time to watch YouTube, but I tried to catch up with Paul and all my friends from Florida. Chandler, Zach. It's just I really don't have time. I have no time at all.

[00:20:50]>> We're in New York. Are you We're in Long Island. New York.

[00:20:59]We're having to fish a guy. What's up with big multicolor parrots? They're coming uh from China. But they they have to find them, too, though. Those those fish are not like that easy to find. If you just want red or yellow or red and white, that's different. But you want try color ones. You see, every time we get it, it's just either one or two or none.

[00:21:30]Just submit your name in the hall of fame. Getting Asian legal in US. I think eventually will happen. Um whether it's us or other people to do it eventually happen my red luc stingray I got about a month ago is doing great fantastic active healthy and eats like a cow that's great to hear thank you when is your next Asia video videos uh we're going right now June 7th 7 or8 Hey.

[00:22:08]So, I'm sure I'll bring the camera. I I'm not sure if we're going to just video is not what we're going to be focused on this this trip, but I'm sure we're going to find stuff to film.

[00:22:20]Do you ship fish tomorrow? No, I don't think UPS is working tomorrow.

[00:22:28]What is your favorite shark?

[00:22:35]to keep.

[00:22:38]Uh, I love the great whites like that guy right there.

[00:22:42]But, um, the zebra for me had the most personality.

[00:22:50]>> When you open fish store, spend like California.

[00:22:54]Yes, I would like to do one in every state and maybe even other countries.

[00:23:04]Sophia, I didn't forget about you. It was just zero time. I even opened a YouTube channel for my kids because they love like being part of it and we didn't have any chance to keep going cuz we were so busy. Like every day, I kid you not, for the past two months to get this place up and running, I've been going to sleep between 3:00 to 4:00 in the morning, waking up 8:30, 9 every single day.

[00:23:37]Rod, are you getting more discuses soon?

[00:23:39]We we will. Discuses are very fragile fish, so we when we do get them, we have to kind of keep like a whole system just for devil.

[00:23:51]Are you going to get back to one video a week when the shop is finished? Yes. I was actually just talking to someone um he came by the other day. seems like a good kid and um for us to post more often often because it's very hard to to maintain social media uh family life, you know, personal life and a business all at the same time. It's very difficult to do it all.

[00:24:23]The famous Marty M. Yes, man. Rod, your kids are growing so fast. Yes. looked, life goes fast. Reality, you know, life goes fast. We've been here for four years.

[00:24:34]Um, when we came here, my first son wasn't even able to walk on his own. And now to see both of them running and jumping and talking and it's crazy how time flies.

[00:24:50]It goes by very fast. So, you got to enjoy at the same time. I always said that to everybody, you know, as as you work, you got to enjoy it, too, because that time, you don't get it back. So, like all those years that I worked day, night, day, and night, day, and night to get to where I am, I'm not going to get that time back. Like Lisa and I never went to a honeymoon as as we look at this fish.

[00:25:12]Um, sometimes you got to sacrifice to to to get to where you need to be.

[00:25:24]John, no disrespect, but I really want like a female secretary. I think women answer the phone better and they greet customers better, you know? I I think that that's what I we're going to look for.

[00:25:52]menson. I don't know if we're going to get more of those. Uh the balloon mollies.

[00:25:58]That was the only batch that I saw available.

[00:26:02]Uh but this week I I want to give I want to do some giveaways and I probably would even announce it. Uh any order over like 300 bucks, I'll probably throw an extra fish in it. Um, mainly demali and small stuff. I got some crabs. Not not those crabs. Crabs for fish tanks.

[00:26:27]Um, but I just want to give it away and empty the tank because we have a lot of fish coming. So, like these guys.

[00:26:39]Uh, let me see what else.

[00:26:42]while I give away some of these guys.

[00:26:52]But giveaway is actually difficult because I don't know what tank you guys have. So like I need to know like some of these the bleeding heart and I forgot what the other one are.

[00:27:05]I want to get all these things emptied out.

[00:27:10]All right, but Joe and I are getting ready to go. We got the bumblebee groupers over here. We got the baramundis over here. Actually, there's a lot of cool fish in stock right now.

[00:27:21]Eventually, all these hoses that you see here is all going to go. The reason why we haven't changed this is because basically all these systems are going to be redone from this one to that one to that one. Everything's going to come down and something new is going to take its place. So that's why whenever it's hard plumbed the water line to come to each individual tank because we're going to have to redo it again.

[00:27:47]So, but we're getting there. It's going to happen. All right, let me help Joe over here because it looks like he's inhaling a lot of smoke. His nose is already red.

[00:27:58]>> Oh, you did? Oh, looks good. Let's take a look. You're a good painter, Joe.

[00:28:07]I actually like this better than than it was before.

[00:28:10]>> Me, too.

[00:28:10]>> Right.

[00:28:11]>> I didn't think I would, but it it looks better.

[00:28:14]>> And you don't see the the the stuff on the face anymore.

[00:28:20]>> I like it.

[00:28:20]>> Yeah, >> I like it. The tarpon look really came out really nice.

[00:28:30]The crab's uh crab is hanging in there. Doesn't look like he's alive.

[00:28:38]But yeah, I think that just maybe one more coat on this and that. What do you think?

[00:28:45]>> Yeah, but he's he's looking shiny.

[00:28:51]All right, guys. Uh we're going to close the doors, go home. It's Sunday. Wait, today's Sunday, right? So, I don't even know what day is today. And uh be here early tomorrow, but I think by the end of the week, all this is going to be cleaned up.

[00:29:08]And by July 30, July 4th, we should have this place up and running for everyone.

[00:29:17]All right, thanks for watching the live.

[00:29:19]Don't forget if you make an order, just put it on the notes. Send my free fish.

[00:29:23]Just say like that. Send my free fish.

[00:29:26]and um they'll come up to me and ask what to put and I'll I'll go catch some fish for you guys as a gift. All right, let me close this door and get out of here because it's Sunday.

[00:29:43]It's raining. I got to walk my dog. Even outside looks great. Look, we got the bushes, we got the trees, got the fence. There's actually lights outside right now. So, this whole place is lit up at night. It's looking good.

[00:29:59]I'm proud of what we done. It's just once we finish that, then we got to come back here, work on this system, and get going.

[00:30:08]All right, guys. If you have any questions on any of the fish, feel free to message us or email us this this week. It's going to be a very busy week.

[00:30:15]We're not shipping tomorrow because of Memorial Day. I don't think UPS is working, but all shipments are going out on Tuesday for Wednesday arrival. We'll see you on the next live.