How We Bring Dozens of Bags and Hundreds of Fish to a Fish Swap!

[@wendihamlett105]

Love the fish rack idea. I bet it saves a lot of stress on the fish because they are not getting picked up and moved around constantly. Thanks for sharing!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Exactly - everything is so visible already!

[@steelwaves6968]

Really interesting- thanks for the behind the scenes! Love that you put a picture and description of the fish you are offering. I get frustrated at swaps as a beginner because I often don’t know what some of the bagged fish are and have no idea what they really look like. I end up spending a lot of time on my phone frantically trying to look things up before they are snatched up by someone else!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

It saves everyone a lot of time!

[@lynnseiber9216]

All my fish made it safely and are happily in their quarantine tanks. Eating great and no one even swimming weird. Thrilled with them all!!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Great to hear!

[@JohnWood-tk1ge]

Interesting! The swap I went to last year is happening again in August in Schenectady NY,the really good thing is it’s growing. A certain U-Tuber from New Jersey is coming so maybe some day the Professor and Farmer Jo might show!

[@markhunter2244]

Excellent and informative insight into what involved in preparing fish for a fish swap.

[@Maggie19701]

Fast bagging.Super nice guppy’s Don’t see those at Petsmart or Petco all of our mom and pop stores are gone or have horrible Conditions

[@davidshoard3271]

Great Video, interesting to see how you prepare your water

[@Coyo-Tea]

That was absolutely fascinating to me. We don’t have anything like that in the UK in fact dedicated fish stores are few and far between sadly. No local fish clubs either. I wish it was like it is over there. My local fish store is part of a garden centre over 30 minutes drive away. I do have some very happy memories of going fish hunting in dedicated fish stores with my dad when I was a kid though.

[@Whips_World]

It looks vaguely familiar 🤔 😁 I already said this once over on The Small Scape's Saturday Morning Live Stream video, but... Huge, giant shout out to dave fromIowa (dave's not here, man)! Jason and Joanna hooked me up with $25 of dragon stone all thanks to you, Brother... and of course Jason and Joanna too! Speaking of whom, Big thanks to Joanna for helping me lug everything out to my motorized roller skate, and to Jason for refusing to take my 💰

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Glad you were there my man!

[@Cauthos]

Great video! I've only been in the hobby for a year and this was really awesome to see what a swap looks like and how you guys prepare for it. I need to go to one sometime.

[@88chevyiroc]

I picked up those extra rainbows you brought last Sunday, and all 5 are doing great 👍 quality fish, and a your a pleasure to deal with. Thanks again!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Great to hear!

[@katerinamafiosa]

great, informative and SUPER video :) thanks for the photo-op LOL :) great seeing y'all as always!!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Haha - nice seeing you! 😀

[@johnlasco894]

That was so cool. You guys are dedicated! Thank you for sharing this.

[@lizettebusquets4305]

I had planned to go to the swap, then my grandson tested positive for Covid and that was that. He's fine, but I had spent some time with him and staying home was the right thing to do. It looks like it was awesome! Will definitely try to go to the next one and also to Chicago Aquashella.

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Sorry to hear that!

[@audrameyer9558]

That was very cool to see. Thank you for sharing! I will sell fish at my aquarium society meetings, and catching the fish beforehand is the worst part! I start 6 hours before I need to be at the meeting LOL. Some days you get lucky and catch them fast, others not so fast 🤣

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I hear you - the worst is pulling stuff out of the tanks to get at the fish.

[@nijuy3]

Hope there’s a swap meet here in Vancouver

[@JKFishKeeping]

Man, I do enjoy these types of vlog style videos. Thanks much! Gotta make it down to Greenwater one of these days.

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Thank you!

[@andrewmiller3767]

Interesting to see how you do the swaps! Great looking booth .

[@MattsAquatics]

You guys should do more vlog style videos. It would awesome!😎 Question. Do you guys buy your fish bags off of Amazon?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Thank you. Jehmco.com for the bags!

[@MattsAquatics]

@@PrimeTimeAquatics Ok👍

[@littlemidwestrebornsdolls]

That was really fun to see! Great job, and thank you. Gina Hetlage

[@lakeshiamills1454]

Thanks for sharing this! It's very helpful for me, since I'm starting my breeding journey and going to hopefully be attending more swaps and auctions soon 🙂

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Good luck!

[@lakeshiamills1454]

@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you! I'm quite a ways off ☺️ but by next year I should be ready to start

[@alexlaraplecos7715]

We need more events like these👍🏼

[@shuanaroden5226]

Wish they would do thing's like this in Tasmania

[@onlywei]

Hello, since you have so many tanks, have you ever tried setting one of them up with an anoxic plenum just to try it out?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I haven’t yet. So many of them are stocked with cichlids that either have heavy bioload or dig (or the tank has the potential to shift in that direction).

[@onlywei]

@@PrimeTimeAquatics isn’t that the ideal use case for anoxic? You can’t have too many plants with those kinds of cichlids, so anoxic denitrification can be used to control nítrate a instead!

[@roscoeturner4099]

Very interesting. Thanks.

[@JoeCoffee9476]

Thanks for sharing this video. I was disappointed that I could not come this month. Gas has been a killer this summer. It looks like there was a very good turn out. Are you planning to go to the GCCA rare fish auction on 8/14? Their next public swap is 9/18. Those are always great! That Hilton is such a cool place for a swap. Do you know if they still do the Livebearer Society auction after the GCCA swaps? Next month (8/21) is Greenwater's Anniversary Celebration. It should be a great time!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I won’t be at the rare fish auction, but should be at the swap. I believe the CLBS still meets right after the swap!

[@terrymartins2552]

Loved seeing this behind the scenes video!!!

[@omarbjn89]

I have a question, is it okay that the sponge filter at 3:24 has very little bubbles?? Would it really even function properly like that?? Many thanks

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Not ideal - we catch stuff like that doing filter maintenance every week though so it’s running at a better speed now!

[@MissChelle]

How do you find out info about these swaps? I’m in Australia and have no idea where to start looking. ❤️🇦🇺

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I think I just googled it in the beginning?

[@joshiewhite]

Duckweed really will grow anywhere...

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I guess so!

[@pelhamsaquatics]

Very nice! I wish there were swaps in my area…I have to ship my fish that I sell. I would rather do a swap, shipping is stressful 🙂

[@Freedom_Fighter72]

Thank you for this, very interesting....what kind of fish broke the glass?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Well, it wound up being a different issue. More in that during Wednesdays live stream. Haha

[@gigi3242]

@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank goodness for the quick thinking. Thanks for the video, was very interesting.

[@jeffhester1443]

Obviously a lot of work, but it looked like so much fun. Thank you for sharing that fun with all of us. By the way, what in the world fish cracked that tank?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Well, that’s an interesting story that we will discuss Wednesday. Haha

[@snowballstrikethebudgies9698]

Where do you pre order fish and do you have to be a member of the club to buy them?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

You can pre-order at primetimeaquatics.com. I usually have them up about 4-5 days before the swap. Nope - don’t have to be a member and there is no entrance fee either.

[@itsadreamfrodo6461]

Would have been curious to see your sales numbers for a month and two full days of work at the end.

[@larrydsAquatics]

Looks like a great time

[@racereadypowerhouse]

Do these happen in Canada?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

I’m not sure?

[@johncameron4194]

How many of these do you do? Is there a guarantee on fish? Do you sell all the fish you bring?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

They run monthly and we are there most months. We QT all of our fish for four weeks before we bring them to swaps to maximize success. It’s rare that there are problems, but when there are we work through it. Since I keep the fish for four weeks to make sure they are eating and disease free that reduces the chances tremendously that fish would be sick. Yes. If we bring it we sell it. It’s rare that we bring fish home with us - we usually sell out.

[@johncameron4194]

Thank you for the feedback. I’ve never been to one so this was new to me. Again very interesting

[@jacks4733]

Fascinating!

[@sergeiz.5815]

No coffee and pancakes before packing up the fish ?

[@kasperaquatics]

Absolutely love the Route 66 signage. 🙌🏼

[@johncameron4194]

Very interesting

[@scotmcpherson]

Going head first into catching and bagging those fish huh ? 🤣

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Too funny

[@renitahamlett9013]

I recently noticed I have duckweed in my tank hellllppppp🤣

[@joewwilliams]

I'm sure my beard has been home to some duckweed from time to time!

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Just part of the process 😀

[@sergeiz.5815]

What happened to (happy Monday videos:)?

[@PrimeTimeAquatics]

Don’t worry - they’ll be back!

[@elvinsworld11]

Nyc

[@sergeiz.5815]

That's a lot of work yikes