I Couldn’t Believe What This Coral Costs!?!

Ajouté : 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]All right, guys. So, I'm back at the Detroit Wreath Club here with Zach.

[00:00:03]>> Hey, guys. How's it going?

[00:00:05]>> And they actually got a really cool shipment in. I'm really excited. He's going to kind of show us some of the highlights of what you got. So, my eyes see a lot of different stuff. So, start explaining to me some of the cool stuff you got.

[00:00:17]>> Here's some of the weird areas first.

[00:00:19]>> Look at how cute they are.

[00:00:20]>> Oh, >> he said they're sexy shirt.

[00:00:23]>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, Jacob, one time at Keys, Jacob showed me these.

[00:00:29]Did he? Yeah, cuz our How could you forget the name?

[00:00:31]>> Cute.

[00:00:32]>> No. Oh, we definitely need some of these. I actually I want this tank just on my office. Like, how cute.

[00:00:39]>> How big do they get?

[00:00:40]>> That's it.

[00:00:41]>> Oh, they just >> they're like 12 drown. Yeah, >> that is so cool.

[00:00:45]>> They are sarin shrimp. Very, very unique. Never had them in before. We're doing some different compatibility tests. It's like they just look so freaking cool.

[00:00:54]>> They really do. They look like rock formations. Like it's crazy.

[00:00:57]>> Like almost like coral, right? like all little like the they're all feathered and >> yeah.

[00:01:02]>> And even the tentacles are too. They've got the little coloring on them. That's so cool.

[00:01:07]>> Here we've got a great layout for big groups of inverts. One of the things that nobody else can do is get huge amounts of direct imported inverts. One of the most soughta ones, blue tuxedo urchins.

[00:01:17]>> Oh wo.

[00:01:18]>> Really pretty little urchins. They've got a blue sheen to them. This white light doesn't do them justice, but they're great for a reef. They can get in all the little crevices and clean even in between frags, but they're very delicate. They don't bulldoze things like some of the other urchins do.

[00:01:32]They're just every reefer's favorite, but they're like $40, $50 an urchin at most stores. And so we they're 15 bucks here right now. We got a hundred of them in here. We have room to just really get a big supply and get you guys some great pricing on stuff like that that uh helps keep the reef clean.

[00:01:47]>> Yeah. So now I'm looking. At first I just thought it was just coral pieces.

[00:01:51]Now I'm actually seeing all the little ones you're talking about.

[00:01:54]>> They're like cockroaches. If you see five, there's a hundred. Yeah.

[00:01:58]>> Oh wow.

[00:01:59]>> Yeah. Sometimes it takes a while and we always always a guessing game. Are we actually out or do we have more hiding somewhere? But they're spread through all the coral tanks here and everything just because we don't try to keep them all in one spot so it's easy. I mean, yeah, that's easy for a short period of time, but we want them to be able to eat the whole time so that when you bring them home, they're full and they're they're wellnourished. They're not on the brink of, you know, starvation. So >> yeah, that definitely makes >> spread them out and let them work here while they're waiting for a new home.

[00:02:23]>> He's popping out. Oh my god.

[00:02:24]>> So I've got a very cool tank figured out to house a Neil. This guy is so much fun.

[00:02:29]>> What kind is this?

[00:02:30]>> This is a Brazilian yellow mo. Stays very small. Max is out at I want to say like 2 ft. So you can keep them in a fairly small enclosure.

[00:02:38]>> Look at his little face. I'm telling you what, there's definitely something about eels. I definitely see the attraction from them. They're so personable, so cool.

[00:02:46]>> Are you a snake person then? Yes, most people.

[00:02:49]>> That's literally what I do.

[00:02:50]>> That's what I I I didn't I Everybody's got their niche. I don't know yours is the legacy. But if we just watch, he's gonna look at him.

[00:02:58]>> You don't even have to try to feed him.

[00:03:00]He just will he'll he'll he'll go searching. He'll find it. He'll grab it and he just he's a pig. A lot of fun to watch. Super nice coloration. This is one of the rarer heels around.

[00:03:11]>> Wow. He's pretty cool. So, what's a price tag on something like him?

[00:03:15]>> $1350.

[00:03:16]>> Okay.

[00:03:17]Not a cheap eel. The dwarf ones are highly soughta, so they've kept the price high. You used to be able to get them out of Hawaii, too. Obviously, we know that's shut down. So, >> Oh, yeah.

[00:03:24]>> Oh, man. That was cool.

[00:03:26]>> That was cool.

[00:03:27]>> We also have They're not here cuz we ran out of housing space, but one of my buddies is keeping them safe for us until we can transport them here. Uh, we got a couple really big blue ribbon eels on the last shipment, too.

[00:03:38]>> We've got some video coming out of those. We'll have him here soon, but it was a last minute thing. I got him and I had already committed to the blue ribbons and so we ended up double booked. So, >> I'm telling you that that is really cool. You can never have enough yield.

[00:03:51]>> These tanks look really full.

[00:03:53]>> One of my favorite classes of fish is fairy rasses. Um >> Oh, those are beautiful.

[00:03:57]>> Obviously, reef centric people here.

[00:03:59]Rasses that are just super inverse safe.

[00:04:02]We want to have the sexy shrimp, all the little critters in there. It's like these guys are programmed to go after everything you don't want, but I've never had them touch anything I do want.

[00:04:10]So, it's a it's like the the perfect class and and they're very compatible in general. There are some rules to follow.

[00:04:17]Um Reef on the forums has a great compatibility chart to use, but we have some of the greatest colors here. We've got the solar rasses, >> uh blue with the orange and yellow head.

[00:04:26]>> Literally a whole rainbow just in one fish.

[00:04:28]>> Blue box. I mean, these things are just like a mosaic painting with fuchsia, pink, red, orange, purple, yellow.

[00:04:35]>> So cool.

[00:04:35]>> Couple exquisites around here, but they're being a little shy. No, that one has like >> that's a Halloween that's the same type.

[00:04:43]>> It's going to be way cooler. Actually, a lot of times when those ship a bunch of them will shed their orange spines. They look very sickly, but you can like they're all moving around and everything and it about 2 weeks later. So, they're about halfway. You can see the orange spikes starting to fill in.

[00:04:55]>> It will be covered in those orange spines.

[00:04:56]>> And it's such a great name, too.

[00:04:58]Halloween.

[00:04:58]>> Little bit. Oh, look at this one up here is really pretty far along on in his regrowth of this bike.

[00:05:04]>> Those things are so funny. Like you said, you almost need a little thing saying these are all the things in there cuz you don't see them at first until you're looking for them.

[00:05:12]>> We we Yeah, we never know everything that's in here.

[00:05:14]>> There's always a surprise to find. And of course, a bunch of captive bread clown fish. Only 20 bucks a piece. Close to 100 to choose from.

[00:05:22]>> Yeah. All the little Neos. So cute. I love these.

[00:05:25]>> The firefish.

[00:05:26]>> Yes.

[00:05:26]>> Yeah, absolutely.

[00:05:28]Quite a good What a good variety in the back, too. at Legacy. But there's so cute with the little alalfa.

[00:05:35]>> Absolutely. Cleaner rasses. A bunch of cleaner rasses.

[00:05:39]>> Just a good little thing buzzing around your tank.

[00:05:41]>> Yeah, that's really pretty, too, with that blue.

[00:05:43]>> We're filming too early for the na go rasses. Rasses tend to sleep late. I don't know why.

[00:05:48]>> Okay. Hey, you know what? Takes all kinds, right? Early risers, late risers.

[00:05:52]Here's our awesome tang friend.

[00:05:55]>> Koi tang.

[00:05:56]>> That's the one. Did I remember that right?

[00:05:57]>> That is the koi tang.

[00:05:59]>> Yep. That's Steve's baby.

[00:06:00]>> Yeah, that's a pretty fish.

[00:06:02]>> That coral is gorgeous and huge.

[00:06:05]>> Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's been growing for a while. That's actually would be chopped up a little bit now. You never really notice. We chop about 4 in off the side and it seems like in a month it's back to where it was. But, um, >> so >> waiting on new saw blades, so don't like to cut them with old blades.

[00:06:19]>> Sure. Makes sense.

[00:06:20]>> The lobeia, super cool. I think those came in J all the January shipment.

[00:06:24]There might be a couple that were came in March, but all those come from the Great Barrier Reef. really cool to do in the bottom third of the tank. This whole tank's the $59 frag. So, it's 593 for 150. They go down to $45 when you get six or more. Always have some big LPS in here. These AN Bower Bankees are getting really, really nice. We've been farming those for quite a while.

[00:06:42]>> Yeah, I feel like I can tell a difference in some of these that I think were here, but now are also like a lot larger since the last time I was here, which is really cool to see how that happens. You know, like how long it takes.

[00:06:53]>> They go through a lot of transformations in the first few months. Is that supposed to look like that?

[00:06:57]>> It's called war coral. And so, yes, it's sort of like a war between the two colors. And you get different varieties, but like here's a weird one that I've had for a long time. And it doesn't matter how long you grow it. The entire body of it is blue. And just the new rim of growth is always red.

[00:07:14]>> Wow. That is >> just always segregated that way. I've had others that are all red and I've never gotten blue out of. So, it just sort of seems like there's a lot of different little slight variations of it. How crazy is that that you know these corals and rocks and formations?

[00:07:27]There's so many different types and kinds and I it just blows my mind trying to keep track of it all. That's a cool bubble tip. See, I'm learning >> those there. So, are those like a mushroom? Cuz it definitely looks like a mushroom. Those >> No, these are actually paleiththoa grandies. These are one of our most asked about corals probably. It is probably the most poisonous >> really >> thing in here. It's really really strong with the paletoxin. So we're really really careful when we frag it. It's also just incredibly slow growing. Maybe a palip a year. It's a variation of a cinnamon sun polip which is more common and like here not common like these are still really cool and you can see like you know you get the purples and the kind of tan natural tones and they get big but when you get like that's extra big plus it's got that toxic green. I have not cut those yet but I I I eventually will. I get bugged every weekend. Um, and I do have some nice green ones that I think are ready for a cut in the seahorse tank here pretty soon. Just not not quite as nice as that.

[00:08:28]>> What is this guy?

[00:08:29]>> Look at that. So, that is a giant orange shoulder tank. Absolutely one of the prettiest fish we got in on this shipment. Let's see if we can get him out. Or actually, you know what? I bet this guy I have the same fish down here and I was taking pictures of him this morning. He loves the camera. So, let's let's try him.

[00:08:46]>> Wow. You said what kind again?

[00:08:48]>> Orange shoulder tank. Orange. Okay. Duh.

[00:08:50]That really makes sense. I uh How do you get that name?

[00:08:53]>> I did. Nobody Nobody Nobody had a creativity job at the >> gaming department.

[00:09:00]>> You are going to be orange shoulder.

[00:09:02]>> It was probably mostly people naming him based on describing their dinner that night, right? So like >> he is so cool. Just huge >> and such a cool size. Yeah, that's impressive.

[00:09:12]>> Oh my gosh. He And the blue highlights are great on him. He's got just great color. Now, what does something like that go for?

[00:09:19]>> 550.

[00:09:20]>> Okay. Well, that's not I thought a lot.

[00:09:22]>> I bet you 550 a lot more than that.

[00:09:25]>> And about half that is probably honestly the shipping cost. That's a lot of freight. That pretty much goes in a box by itself.

[00:09:31]>> Yeah. No, we we know. We know. It cost a lot to ship water, let me tell you.

[00:09:36]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:09:41]>> Just come out and say hello. Angel fish always take a little bit to get really interactive and bold. This guy's just starting to Hold on. Where'd he go?

[00:09:52]>> Oh yeah. Wow. So pretty.

[00:09:59]>> Gosh, he's gorgeous.

[00:10:01]>> Indian Ocean Regal Angel.

[00:10:05]>> I'm telling you, man.

[00:10:07]>> Yeah. Beautiful.

[00:10:08]>> Not a huge sh either. Um, we've been eating pretty good coming out for Nory and stuff.

[00:10:14]>> Guys, these fish are so beautiful. And just when you think you've seen the prettiest one, next thing you know, you got another one that just knocks it out of the park, right? I love this.

[00:10:23]>> We got the big Achilles in here, but we did add a new display little herd in here. We've got the bacalis antheus. Uh, these pink with the yellow. It looks like they were, if you get close to the color, it looks like they're like pixelated in like a graphics part because of the way it just like dots of little color that fade from yellow to pink. So, they're just stunning. And we got a a whole bunch of them. So, we've got probably another 15 of them for sale in addition to the ones we're keeping here still. And we've been blowing through them pretty quick. Um, >> love it.

[00:10:53]>> Super hardy, eating frozen from the minute we got them.

[00:10:56]>> That's great.

[00:10:57]>> Um, one of the nicest antheus I've seen.

[00:11:00]Absolutely gorgeous. So, what are these stripe guys?

[00:11:03]>> Those were part of the Aasia control.

[00:11:05]Those are called stripies. Again, the creativity blows your mind. They're commonly referred to as butterflies.

[00:11:11]Technically, I believe they're like a class all their own. They come from Western Australia. Generally, re safe, but munch aasia. So, I think they helped get rid of some of the the bigger ones.

[00:11:21]They're maybe the harder to get to ones.

[00:11:22]There was a patch up here where the bia just got blown off. It seemed like they would never clear that area. So, I think they helped with that. Well, we were we were throwing anything we could at it.

[00:11:30]So, yeah, we're excited. This guy bleached out just a little when we first put him in and the seasons changed. This tank is always very susceptible to heating up, but the color is starting to fill back in. You see?

[00:11:40]>> Beautiful. Yeah, it's huge.

[00:11:42]>> Very healthy. He just needs to bake that back in and let those keep nutritionally filling up those zoaxials to make them populate in and fill in all that tissue.

[00:11:49]So, >> yeah, that's a absolutely huge piece.

[00:11:52]>> Called just like yellow orange shoulder tang or is that completely different looks like to me? That would be a mimic tang, but it's also it's like an orange shoulder mimic tang. The like those names kind of get thrown around and mixed together where the actual science like between them. It's almost like mimicking is something that some tangs do, which is where they're mimicking angelf fish patterns, I believe. But yeah, this usually they a small size are very yellow. That's fairly common. But this dude is way past that. He's already got his dark coloration on the tail.

[00:12:23]Definitely an orange shoulder. It's what else you would call it would be up to who you talk to. Um, >> so like >> it's an orange shoulder tang.

[00:12:32]>> Same thing smaller. I think this is gonna stay yellow, which they do sometimes. Excuse me. Uh, it's pretty rare, but he's so fat and big and he's already started again getting his like his the dark on the hind >> at this point. Normally he would be much darker and he's not.

[00:12:47]>> That's kind of exciting. Yeah, >> he's super cool. Will he be one little fish?

[00:12:52]>> Or he is he nothing. I I could never catch a fish out of here if I try.

[00:12:57]>> All right. So, actually, we can follow that. That's exciting. And we can see if he does darken up or if he does keep that orange. That'll be fun.

[00:13:05]>> There is a Gosh, this dude is really funky. He came in on the last shipment and I did not little guy in the back.

[00:13:12]Expect him. That little yellow and black super fancy little cleaner wrap and I was like, "Oh my god, everybody's going to want him." And I throw him in this.

[00:13:22]Yeah, I'd rather film him for a while and just enjoy him. And >> he's beautiful.

[00:13:28]>> It's one of those things. It's like there's not really a price that I'd feel reasonable charging that would make me actually want to get rid of it from.

[00:13:34]>> Listen, you're greeting to the choir here. We do the same thing. You just like, nah, you price it out of the ballpark and >> put it in the keeper rack. That's what we do.

[00:13:44]>> These ones are gorgeous.

[00:13:46]>> I literally was going to say I love the whole rainbow you have going on. I had a little I had about 10 more corals on it, but getting it back into there and in place is tough. Like these lights come out, but like my arms only so long. It was a challenge, but I we're going to slowly take one rock each, you know, out each time we get a shipment in and kind of fill this in.

[00:14:04]>> Um, so cool.

[00:14:05]>> Oh man, I can't wait to see it fill out.

[00:14:07]>> Is this one also a tank?

[00:14:09]>> Yeah, that's a Sohal tank. So, we get those from the Red Sea. That's probably going to be the boss of the tank. I mean, they can get like 24 in big open water swimmer tanks. It's like you wouldn't put that in with an Achilles because they would just both want to be the alpha unless you had just an enormous tank or didn't mind taking the risk I guess. But yeah, he started very small so he didn't really mess with anybody. He's been very polite.

[00:14:29]Hopefully we don't regret it one day.

[00:14:32]>> 900 gallons is a lot though, so I think he'll be okay. This tank is still in some stages of clean out but looking just tremendously better. We can see all the polyps kind of fluffing out of everything. We've just been dosing it with phytolanton >> filling it with different macro algaes.

[00:14:45]But one of the thing is with when you want all that to grow, it's really hard to keep the stuff you don't want to grow away. And so we got 16 of these very smalls size longspine urchin that have just decimated.

[00:14:56]>> Do you have more than just one? How many? There's two of them in here.

[00:15:01]>> I know.

[00:15:02]>> We're actually Oh, look. He's hitched on that tonga branch.

[00:15:06]>> There's also a really cool pipe fish in here somewhere with little food. It's like actually a banded one. Uh which is nice. Look at that tiny yellow feather duster on that rock. You see a bright yellow speck that's a little I mean so there's a bunch of them on that rock. Most of them are like a dark blue which is like a more common color you would see. But that one for whatever reason is just randomly bright yellow and it's cool.

[00:15:27]Hopefully it'll reproduce.

[00:15:29]>> But that that grows with the coral. As the coral continues to grow, it grows more. You know, it'll like I don't know if it lays eggs or if it just kind of splits or how it reproduces. But >> how fun. I love that one. So cool.

[00:15:42]>> Isn't that funny? Every once in a while, this is a cross one.

[00:15:46]>> They're so crazy.

[00:15:47]>> You can tell we're down to I think we got 30 on that last shipment with them until we're down to probably three or so.

[00:15:54]>> Yeah. All All amputees doing very very well. Here's an example of >> Oh, wow.

[00:15:59]>> So, this is a farmed coral that we've been growing since 2024 at least.

[00:16:04]>> Oh, wow. So, that's a super slow grower, obviously. Uh we've got multiples at this point, but yes, it is a slower grower and it took I mean a year and a half to stabilize. There's something about the certain colors of chalicees, they just take forever. They're going to bleach like crazy. Like we start them at like 60 PAR and just take them up slowly over like several months, but yeah, we're finally like we just released Oh.

[00:16:25]OH, >> DUDE. He must have got stung by a coral or something.

[00:16:33]>> That was crazy.

[00:16:35]Something spooked the crap out of him.

[00:16:38]>> Oh my god.

[00:16:40]>> You right in the face.

[00:16:42]>> But yeah, that's, you know, an example of some of the collector grade kind of highest grade stuff.

[00:16:47]>> That is really cool.

[00:16:48]>> 5.95 on the frag.

[00:16:50]>> Wow.

[00:16:50]>> It's a good size frag, but those colors are just crazy. You don't normally see that gold.

[00:16:54]>> It is so fun to learn and and you know, appreciate and get the knowledge behind all the different pieces. And Absolutely. It's there's a lot. There's There's a lot. The really bright green.

[00:17:04]Yeah. What's that?

[00:17:05]>> That is a uh green slimer. So that's probably >> one of the oldest acroppora in the hobby that's probably been around for probably 40 years. People have been growing that in captivity. That's just like an end cut from a huge colony that we took down out of a guy's tank who's moving. When you have a big grown-in colony, they're beautiful. But especially with something like that, it's entirely grown at a density of branching to take advantage of the light and flow where it existed in this tank, right? And so you almost have to take a piece like that and just chop it to bits and start from a lot of small ones or the chances, you know, unless you're, you know, trying to have a bunch of power heads and you think, you know, study thermodynamics, probably better off letting it grow and cuz it can't move once it's there. It's like, you know, so you can't put a plant out of the light and think it's going to, you know, so um just an offshoot for now that will start growing and take off.

[00:17:59]>> Yeah. Super. I love the color.

[00:18:01]>> This toad stool, too, is really like blue and purple. It's usually they're just like brown, but this one is really colorful.

[00:18:08]>> That does have a lot of really pretty color.

[00:18:10]>> What type of fox face is that?

[00:18:12]>> It's a magnificent fox face. Very, very similar in all regards except that coloration. He's really white. A lot of times they have more gray in them with just a little white accent, but he's like for whatever reason like super white.

[00:18:25]>> Yeah, cuz I think we have a couple, but the gray goes more down.

[00:18:30]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You just have almost like a band of white at the front. Yeah.

[00:18:33]I tend to pick the weird fish. And a lot of times they're not even like the prettiest. It's like more like I'm like, "Oh, somebody's going to say that's not really a magnificent." I was like, "But I like them." Like I I don't want to get beat up on the price or something. I'll just keep them >> and then everybody's like, "I want that fish." should have >> in the display now.

[00:18:49]>> Too late.

[00:18:50]>> Is that a big clown fish?

[00:18:52]>> Yeah, that is a big clown fish who has been sent here by their owner for killing too many tank members. And so he's in here for a little supplementary entertainment for this guy.

[00:19:04]>> Look at that. Oh, >> it's gorgeous.

[00:19:07]>> Whoa. What the >> Who is this? Or what is this?

[00:19:11]>> Wagong shark.

[00:19:12]>> Wagong.

[00:19:13]>> Northern Wagong. I imported this guy 2 years ago.

[00:19:16]>> Wow, that is so cool.

[00:19:18]>> I had uh my buddy had me order him for him and then he fell in love with our Neptune grouper and had to have that. So then he traded this back in and got the Neptune grouper. So I've had it again for about 4 months. It stopped growing.

[00:19:28]So it is full grown we presume. Uh which is a little bit shorter, maybe 6 in shorter than anticipated size, but well within expectations.

[00:19:36]>> So cool.

[00:19:37]>> I love his face.

[00:19:38]>> I know.

[00:19:39]>> That is the biggest competition I think I might have ever seen personally. He's not very good at this game.

[00:19:45]>> He's going to go for the shrimp. Yeah.

[00:19:46]>> Is that the definition?

[00:19:48]>> He's blind.

[00:19:48]>> I mean, >> he's blind.

[00:19:50]>> He's blind and dumb. Uh, not entirely blind, but pretty pretty darn blind.

[00:19:55]>> You don't want to be there when he snaps. At least I don't.

[00:19:58]>> Oh, >> there you go.

[00:19:59]>> It's like a ma ma.

[00:20:01]>> Yeah. Actually, it's so funny, too, cuz he's got those kind of weird kind of tently.

[00:20:05]>> So, again, snake person. Perfect pet.

[00:20:07]It's going to spend a lot of time. Most days he's on this glass, belly up to me, head to here, waiting for me to drop a shrimp on him. The feelers kind of sense that motion and they just are like an ambush predator. They're in the sleeper shark uh class. He's suitable for anything like I mean a 240 would probably not probably a 300 or above.

[00:20:25]I'm sure there are people who keep them in 240s.

[00:20:28]>> That is a very cool looking thing. I love how crazy the his little face is >> for what it is.

[00:20:33]>> I think they're fairly It's a $2,500 shark to give you an idea. It's like a, you know, it's a shark, so >> Mhm.

[00:20:40]>> there's some expense and extra care that goes into >> a little rare like they're not >> Yeah. Like if I unending uh demand, I could probably get like 12 a year. Okay.

[00:20:50]>> Just simple and beautiful this guy.

[00:20:53]>> Oh, yeah. Powder blue tang.

[00:20:55]>> A that is pretty and so cute.

[00:20:58]>> Fox face lows. Absolutely stunning.

[00:21:02]>> Yeah, it's really pretty. Dejarini sail fins from the Red Sea have the the polka dot like freckles and the yellow in their pattern.

[00:21:11]>> I love that. So pretty cool.

[00:21:12]>> Look at the blonde nassels are just stunning.

[00:21:15]>> Another one that looks similar to that.

[00:21:17]>> Yeah. Yeah. This is what they normally look like. Okay.

[00:21:19]>> That's like a normal cleaner rat.

[00:21:21]>> Yeah. Which is why you picked the other one. I was like I mean these are beautiful but that one is Yeah. the next level.

[00:21:26]>> Now is this guy this saying the same as that one just younger?

[00:21:30]>> Nope. That is a I don't know how to say it right. mouse ellipse is how I would say it. Uh the Latin name white freckled tang. I've seen it called black with big white polka dots on its face. That's an aanththerus. So more like the body shape of the powder blue. But actually I can see where the color pattern is not but most of its body is going to be black.

[00:21:47]>> It is crazy to me the amount of tangs that there are. Every time I'm like surely must have seen them all and that by now I see three different more types of tangs and I'm just always blown away.

[00:22:01]Now, is Tang a species of fish in and of itself or how is it classified?

[00:22:06]>> There's three different genuses that fall into the tang family. I think surgeon fish would be kind of a another overlap where there's some things that are surgeons that aren't tanks. You know, it gets a little but for reefing, you know, hobby type, you know, we're talking about aanththerus, which is the ovalshaped, the sideways ovalshaped body, powder blues, hippo tangs, naso tang, zebra soma, which would be the zebra is the ovalshaped upward like the sail fin, the yellow tangs, scopus tang, and then the bristle tooth is chatnodon.

[00:22:38]I don't know how you say it, but bristle tooth tangs. That's going to be like toinis and twospot bristle tooth. Most of them have bristle tooth in the name, but those three all make up. They're herbivores. They're reef fish. There are some differences. You know, when you get into the bigger aanthus, there's like kind of open water tangs, I would call them, where they're traveling a lot more open water. They need really high pH.

[00:22:57]You know, you can't have a system with a canister filter is never going to work well for a big open water tank. It's they want the turbulence of, you know, a big bashy skimmer. They want a naturally very high pH where they have a ton of oxygen in the water and they're going to want more room to swim. The zebra soma are much closer to the reef. You're going to see them much more frequently.

[00:23:15]Yeah, little differences. This is a hybrid powder blue. So, the powder blue over there is what they traditionally look like. This is >> Oh, look at that.

[00:23:21]>> We're calling it the suede blue uh powder blue. Uh we've got one that size and we've got the one smaller one down here. Just a few differences in kind of the the patterning. a really defined continuous blue line all the way around the tips of the fin is kind of cool.

[00:23:35]It's hard to get in a picture because it just looks like, you know, there's less light on it. But in person, you can really tell it's like a much richer kind of coloration.

[00:23:41]>> I do hate that you can't ever get what you see with your eyes. That thing is >> how fancy some of those dams are. Isn't that cool?

[00:23:47]>> That is >> just a little orange tailed red de or blue devil.

[00:23:51]>> That's beautiful.

[00:23:51]>> Hard to believe one day he'll be a mean fish, >> right?

[00:23:55]>> Looks cute right now.

[00:23:56]>> I know. Isn't it so funny? the ones you least sus suspect.

[00:24:00]>> The Diana's hogfish are cool. Just little interested pickers. As they get bigger, they can mess with small inverts. Don't put them with a sexy shrimp, but generally, you know, >> actually, I think we did get a couple of those nice >> at Legacy yesterday. I got I got to look and see them.

[00:24:13]>> Look at this. This is actually a herm.

[00:24:15]This is already sold, but we got five females and one male of the square spot antheus. So the big one with literally with the square spot Yeah.

[00:24:23]>> is the male and then all the yellow ones are the females in the in the community.

[00:24:28]So they're gonna be going to a 300galon reef this weekend.

[00:24:30]>> How fun. That's so neat.

[00:24:32]>> You used to be right. You are now wrong.

[00:24:35]Uh I think it was 2014 it got reclassified as a butterfly. Singapore butterfly fish. Either way, coral destroyer. Do not put them in a reef tank. But very cool, cute little fish.

[00:24:44]If you are not keeping polyps or don't care to lose some, >> this guy is super cute. Yeah, little tiny baby scopas tank.

[00:24:51]>> Like you can't hardly see him with the black background that he just blends.

[00:24:54]>> Some days I wish I could switch it to white. That's so I can switch.

[00:24:57]>> Um it has a similar pattern to like that koi.

[00:25:00]>> Yes, it's that koi is a hybrid of that and a black tank.

[00:25:05]>> Oh, that makes sense.

[00:25:07]>> So it goes from a $75 fish to a $7,500 fish.

[00:25:10]>> All right. So you want to stay cheap similar product.

[00:25:16]Man, there are there are scopas that I think are just as beautiful. Maybe not as that one, but as a lot of the koi on the market. Koi tanks are a great fish.

[00:25:23]We do have a really cool fulls size hidoni carpet anemone. Super pink.

[00:25:27]>> That is so cool. This one's new.

[00:25:29]>> We've had that one about a month. Y and then this one is about as small as I've seen them so far. If you can imagine that. Usually takes up two full sides of the basket. This is a magnifica anemone and one of the craziest colors I've ever seen. It's like yellow, green, and then purple through most of the tentacles.

[00:25:46]And then the tips are just crazy blue.

[00:25:48]>> It's so funny. It's like a shag rug.

[00:25:50]>> It's so pretty. And that nem will get about that big.

[00:25:54]>> Wow.

[00:25:54]>> Yeah. Very cool.

[00:25:56]>> Doesn't this one right here look like one of those plants that you buy this time of year? Like they're always in like the garden store. The with the leaves. The leaves like have the same with the red popping through. You don't know the name. I forgot was >> it just went out of my head too. But yes, I know exactly what you're talking about and yes, >> but you know what that's what I love because honestly there's a lot of similarities with I think coral and even plants you know they're living things and you know when you you can divide them you can do like all these things.

[00:26:28]So to me that is what's so cool how so many things in nature kind of like connect and have so much similarities that you wouldn't even think before but then once you start learning it's like oh yeah you can kind of apply the same theories. So cool >> it really fish coming out now.

[00:26:45]>> Oh yeah there's a lot of fish in here.

[00:26:47]This is a school of leantheus.

[00:26:50]Uh we'll be getting some of these later in the month. These come from Africa.

[00:26:54]Usually get about 80 of them at a time because people just love them. So I have a question. That big one over there, like what would be the price if you wanted to get that?

[00:27:01]>> About 1,200 on that guy.

[00:27:02]>> Wow.

[00:27:03]>> And it goes, you know, it really varies on color. So we get beautiful of that species, but they're neon green instead of like that. And they're like 250 bucks.

[00:27:11]>> So that's much more rare.

[00:27:13]>> That's Yeah. The really hot pinks and the rainbow reds as they call them. The purples and blues are usually at just a tick lower. Those are some of my favorites as well. And you can even probably find them down to 75 bucks, but we don't generally go after the really plain stuff. It's just if you get it takes up a lot of room, so most people if they want one, they they don't. It's a centerpiece of the tank.

[00:27:32]>> Looks like the cookies during Christmas that you buy.

[00:27:36]>> You're making me hungry.

[00:27:38]>> What about like this guy?

[00:27:40]>> A thousand. We had another one that came in at the same time that was full grown, probably this big.

[00:27:44]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:27:44]>> Normal color, which is still pretty.

[00:27:46]It's, you know, a more natural green fading to blue or maybe vice versa. That was also a thousand for size. I would say they're probably more like 4 500 normally pretty, but this is just we've never seen anything like it. So, >> we'll keep this as long as we need to.

[00:28:02]>> Now, on these, I got a question. So, you're obviously you're buying and you're you're importing and stuff. So, do they show you pictures? Like, did you know this was the colors you were getting or did you just order something and got the surprise?

[00:28:13]>> For sure. Yes, I get pictures. Of course, every every supplier sort of is different. And so with some things, you don't want to go with the person with the best gallery where they're going to show you an exact every what you see is what you get on every photo and they're all edited, frankly, because it's going to double your cost. It just has to you have to double your detail, right?

[00:28:32]>> I know how hard that job is.

[00:28:34]>> That's the hardest thing here is keeping up with the website and you know what?

[00:28:37]This coral doesn't even look the same anymore. You know, whatever. I would much rather do it. And so that particular one came from our Australia guy. They're awesome. They do not care about photos. They send me stuff that looks like it's under a fluorescent workshop. And I just I saw it in the corner of a photo. I said, "Oh man, what is this?" I just saw that it was different and they kind of had it in a special little like area. And he was like, "Oh man, that's a wicked." He gave me the price and I was like, "Oh god, I could really regret this because like it looks different but not good in the picture." And I was so thrilled when I got it. So >> I love that.

[00:29:08]>> And that's Yeah, I I prefer people who send me photos so I can just judge the health and kind of go like I can see the difference. Sometimes you get people and you're you're just like, "Okay, the saturation's at 100, >> you know, you've complet your hand is orange in the photo, so what am I actually looking at?" Yeah. You know, so yeah, I I like the more natural photos and then you get a few really exciting surprises.

[00:29:27]>> That's fun. I like it, too.

[00:29:28]>> This is another one from them that turned out really cool. Just that big Ghani coming off the side of the rock.

[00:29:33]This actually is one piece of solid rock that came out of the the ocean. It's like a plateau, so it's like an old piece of dead coral. It was 76 lb, just the coral. And then we built a little base around it. And so like it's fully kind of livened in now and we're starting to cover it with stuff. But we're going to do some nonphotosynthetics all along the bottom of it and then just a bunch of grow corals on top and kind of keep this circular pattern. Eventually we'll have all the baskets out as we find more set up more and more tanks and how we keep it all showy. But kind of a neat piece.

[00:30:02]>> I love it. And that's exciting too cuz now you can just watch it come to life.

[00:30:06]>> Yeah. And normally we catch and sell fish on here, but we had to shut that down in the tank because they there's just no way. I mean, there's they they go right up under there and 40 fish can hide in there and you have no chance of getting Yeah, they've learned that.

[00:30:19]Well, >> these are kind of cool. These are starting to come together. These are just display tanks, but just kind of an idea of some of the stuff you can do with a small reef tank.

[00:30:27]>> Yeah, I love this.

[00:30:29]>> Super low maintenance >> for a display tank. Like look at this is, you know, perfect. I come in here and this is what I'm thinking right now.

[00:30:34]Like, oh, this would be so cool. I could 100% have this in my house.

[00:30:37]>> Yeah, even with all the great equipment we have on that it's,000 bucks to set it up maybe. And you could do it a lot cheaper, you know, if you didn't have premium everything, but very easy. 1 hour a week is all you really need to care for it. And daily feeding, you can do a lot with it, especially if you're into the reef. And small tanks don't matter. You They don't have a bio. They don't need to, you know, you can grow it out and start fragging the frags and you've paid for a tank upgrade. That's actually that same that white spot.

[00:31:01]That's I got two of them that were tiny like that. So, I put that in. He'll outgrow it pretty fast, but uh for 3 months he'll have a he'll graze through the tank.

[00:31:09]>> So cute. Yeah, I am all about this for sure. Oh, look at how cool this is. This looks so neat.

[00:31:13]>> These are meat corals. These are one of the more protected ones we get in and you can't re, you know, you can't frag them. So, the limited supply of permits really really choke holds the the market and they stay fairly expensive. These are $600 range uh meat corals. We keep them in here just because it's a great showcase piece, but this we sell them out of here. The other stuff we don't.

[00:31:31]If you can't frag them, how do they reproduce or how do you >> just sexually? So they're >> I don't know if they've done it with meat coral, but there's like a lab that's done it a few times. Sexual reproduction of corals like this, like spawning events, is just incredibly challenging to reproduce and incredibly expensive at this point to reproduce.

[00:31:48]And then you've got a single-sellled scalenia that you're growing from there.

[00:31:51]So there are people doing it. I saw a batch of them for sale and it like each one came with like a I want to say a birth certificate they called it, but it was like a you know what I And it was like a it was like a certificate of spawn and they were like this big and they were like five five six hundred bucks.

[00:32:03]>> Oh my gosh.

[00:32:03]>> Oh my god.

[00:32:05]>> But yeah, I don't think this is going to be a great camera item, but there is a really cool painted frogfish underneath this rock. He's like an inch and like bright yellow.

[00:32:14]>> I love how this whole thing just looks like a tree >> the way all the Yeah. And the flow kind of wraps around it nicely. And we have this awesome like Duncan completely out of the light, shadowed 100%, but we we do a pretty nice heavy feeding in there and he's just he's loving it.

[00:32:30]>> Oh yes, >> dude.

[00:32:33]>> Oh my god.

[00:32:35]>> Look at that.

[00:32:36]>> Isn't that the coolest thing?

[00:32:38]>> That is amazing. So is He's your pet.

[00:32:42]>> No, he's for sale.

[00:32:43]>> He is.

[00:32:44]>> I love getting them in. And so like they're kind of expensive for a 1inch pet now. He he'll get about this big. I think he's 2.75. They're not cheap. Um, it's not that bad though.

[00:32:53]>> And what I really like to do is like get him like hand eating. He's a little young for that yet. We're just making sure we put lots of pods in there and some ghost shrimp now and then and a lot of monitoring.

[00:33:02]>> He's adorable.

[00:33:03]>> It's a cool fish to just watch.

[00:33:05]>> All right, Zach. Well, thank you so much for showing us around. I tell you what, guys, DRC is amazing. I love this place.

[00:33:12]I love you guys showing us all the new stuff you get. Honestly, it's like I'm going shopping, kidney store. I've already got a few things in my mind that I'm going to be like, Steve, he probably honestly he probably has more than me. I know he tags a lot of stuff too here.

[00:33:28]So, but I'm telling you what, if you're in the area or even if not, definitely check them out. This place is amazing.

[00:33:34]You know your stuff. We appreciate you.

[00:33:36]And uh honestly, look forward to the next shipment because we're going to definitely be checking it out.

[00:33:41]>> Absolutely, guys. And uh remember, we are open Thursdays now. So, not just Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Thursdays from 3 to 8 as well.

[00:33:47]>> Awesome. Well, we'll get down here and check it out.

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