HUGE MONSTERS & EXOTIC FISH SHOP TOUR!! …(AND A TURTLE!) | MD FISH TANKS

[@MDFishTanks]

So in terms of social distancing guys. Pet / fish shops are allowed to be open and I am allowed to travel for work. I also tried my best to stay 2 meters from the staff at all times although I did forget on a few occasions and then quickly stepped away off camera, washed hands and everything.

[@itschazz8331]

Great for being honest too but I got new fish yesterday and it is very difficult to keep distance. Edit: changed my name by the way :)

[@SpiritAquatics]

I was thinking of the social distancing when you patted the kid on the shoulder lol. FBI OPEN UP

[@LoneWarrior-yo2lw]

I’m really tired of staying 6ft from everybody.

[@MDFishTanks]

@@SpiritAquatics haha. Yeah that was when I stopped and we washed etc.

[@MDFishTanks]

@@LoneWarrior-yo2lw Arn't we all. Hopefully won't be too much longer.

[@WalterSenegalus]

There's something remarkably wholesome about this tour video.

[@MDFishTanks]

So what do we think...Arowana, Catfish, Blood Parrot or Flowerhorn?

[@breadvr3]

Catfish

[@bencarroll3179]

Depends on the tank but blood parrots are the best for me. They can be in community tanks if done well, they don't get that big, their so much personality in a little package

[@bencarroll3179]

Not one of ur options but what about an Oscar?

[@deancox9968]

Second

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

I can't even think about the fish when there's a snake necked turtle!!! I have never seen one and he was amazing!!!

[@cameronadams1125]

That Arowana has some pretty bad drop eye

[@MDFishTanks]

yeah,it's a rescue so im guessing it was caused by the previous environment. I think it's something that can be corrected although if it's not in any pain, not sure if there is a need??

[@cameronadams1125]

MD Fish Tanks most likely and judging by joeys video on correcting it the surgery looks really difficult and I expect you’d be hard pressed to find a vet that could do it

[@crownethorne]

@@MDFishTanks It most definitely needs correcting as he's almost incapable of seeing his food in time to get it in his mouth. He's also severely malnourished. Sad that this has been allowed to happen to such a magnificent fish but glad he's been brought into a professional facility. These types of fish should not be available to the general public without stringent licensing and conditions in place.

[@billschwarz1157]

@@crownethorne they shouldn't be sold at all. I simply cannot understand why they have goliath tiger fish either, 5ft long ffs

[@77slate]

@@crownethorne couldn't agree more, I'd include common plecos on that list too 👍

[@MHAquaticsUK]

People buying fish that grow to big is a big issue, fish I left on fish store front doors everyday!

[@jordanf811]

MD you should definitely do more fish shop tours when you get chance. Really cool videos. Have s good day 👊

[@TonyG737]

Hi it was nice seeing the place I’ve got fish coming from on Thursday really looking forward to seeing what their like & the staff being happy is a good sign. Tony

[@kishor5389]

14:18 Ahhh makes me remember my 12 year old blood parrot which passed away last year😭Blood parrot are truly awesome fish with awesome personality 🤘

[@charlottefalconer8602]

Love Sims! Got sooooo many awesome fish from Sims, (mostly Puffers) and 100% perfect every time.

[@MDFishTanks]

Glad you like them!

[@itsjoyfulone8690]

What a gentleman Patrick is. Great looking shop, so clean and all the fish look healthy. Thanks for sharing.

[@BlueLighteningGojo]

Time for MD to get an even bigger aquarium for all the monster fish in the future.

[@gergojakab7106]

That dropeye on the Arrow is pretty serius... cannot realy see the food :/

[@MDFishTanks]

poor thing.

[@adamman333]

I think your interactions with this lad show that you will be a great dad!! Love the videos

[@aquariumaddictions7672]

The poor arowana has got a serious drop eye in both eyes.

[@Tobias611]

And I thought Joey's eyedrop Arowana was bad, but damn that poor thing can't even see what it's trying to eat, poor thing. What a great fish shop, lovely to see that they employ underage too!

[@MDFishTanks]

Underage?? he's 14. I was working in pubs washing up at 13 and doing paper rounds even younger??? I'm confused?

[@willtusa992]

@@MDFishTanks in America people dont really get jobs till they are 15-16

[@Tobias611]

@@MDFishTanks not every place employes someone under the age of 18, so it's nice to see that they do here.

[@jenniferdeleon7425]

Even in America kids can get a job at 14…

[@SK-sq5bk]

the other one didn't have it so it probably got the drop eye from its previous owner since it is a rescue.

[@Iamdinodude]

A turtle in a completely empty tank with no way to get out the water and no basking light shows a clear lack of understanding for basic husbandry for the species. Selling fish species that only a few people have the realistic means of keeping them without any form of checks as you can purchase these fish online and have it sent to you no questions asked. Young staff keeping there own fish that they stock in inappropriately small tanks. A complete neglect for hygiene and cross contamination through tanks by putting hands in the water without washing in between. Clear water and rare fish might look impressive however the flaws to this place is concerning to say the least.

[@luccalourencini1751]

Well, we don't know what happened behind the camera, to be fair...

[@esequielmascarenas8180]

@@luccalourencini1751 True, but that is horrible husbandry. Everything is overstocked or too small

[@simoncatt95]

Also concerning is that their website screams "wild caught" for all their marines, when everyone knows that captive bred fish are good for the environment, and much more likely to make good tank inhabitants than wild caught. I won't be shopping at this store.

[@anni50ful]

Yes I was worried about the turtle surely it needs to come out of the water at some point ? A rock needs to be added,why are we aloud to stock fish in this country that will outgrow the average tank? It's nuts!

[@faedoyle4147]

So much fun!!!! Thanks Patrick!!! Love it MD thank you as always for bringing us along!!

[@ohrats731]

My vote is for the Congo tetras!I haven’t seen anyone keep a big school of them or seen them full grown. Beautiful fish!! The jardini arowana is of course beautiful too but where in the world would you put a monster fish? lol

[@Rummynose]

I agree! Congo's one of my favourite fish! I've had my four males for a few years now and they're absolutely amazing to watch. Mine are fully grown, and have such stunning colours. They get this bright orange stripe as they get older, and the way they shine all sorts of different colours under the lights... beautiful. They also, out of all the fish I've owned, are the best at schooling. Feeding them is also great, because they're just so fast and graceful. I've never seen any fully grown ones, outside of my own, and it's such a shame, because they are such wonderful fish, and deserve much more attention.

[@Sandysandwich99]

MD I just found your channel and have just been binging all of your videos you inspired me to build my first fully planted no filter no co2 Aqua terrarium and I love it! Love the Chanel!

[@CrazyAquariumGuy]

Now I want that snake neck turtle in my fishroom. Absolutely beautiful🎩

[@lewisreeves9843]

MD so proud of Patrick

[@MDFishTanks]

LAD!

[@clinth67]

Finally someone is thinking of stocking Congo Tetras in an aquascape. A really overlooked fish. I hope you do it at some point🙂

[@HeyChanelle]

When those fins grow omg 😍

[@christophergalley3542]

It makes my heart sink every time I see shops still somehow being able to sell fish juvenile and adult fish that should not be kept in the home aquarium, unwanted tank busters continues to be a big issue I hope people interested in taking on such a responsibility are propley vetted before hand. Golath tiger fish ffs🙁

[@ohrats731]

Yeah this is the first time I’m hearing about Goliath tiger fish and just like why in the world keep those in a tank??? Any of them! I know I’m bias as a nano fish enthusiast but I can’t help but feel sometimes my fish need more space and they’re 1 inch in a 60 gallon! How do people not feel that about their monster fish?? What’s the point of keeping a fish that’ll grow bigger than any tank you can get?

[@jeanmck1577]

Totally agree

[@HeyChanelle]

Completely irresponsible and I won't shop in places that do sell them.

[@SK-sq5bk]

@@ohrats731 Unless you have a big tank. But I agree that a fish that gets 5 feet shouldn't be kept as in a tank unless you own a national aquarium. Even worse is that you can buy common goldfish that get a foot long for 15 cents.

[@definitelynotyuribezmenov7611]

Yes snakeheads too,they’re invasive

[@jordanf811]

Also MD you need to see if you can do discovery channel voice overs for their nature programmes would be so funny 😂

[@raznurrahamanbivor]

The 1st bigger one was a type silver arowana. And the second one was Jardini,A type of Asian Arowana.Which can cost way more than silver arowanas.Thousends of dollers to be precise.

[@MDFishTanks]

Yes thats correct.

[@raznurrahamanbivor]

Man I'm so happy that you've replied❤ You're the best and the person who inspired me to make planted tanks.

[@rckism4198]

im pretty sure arowana jardini come from australia? more commonly known as a saratoga jardini or in a lot of the world theyre called australian arowana? im sure thats a saratoga jardini which is definitely an aro but its from australia... i've kept many...

[@weloveyou1234]

Always love your enthusiasm with this hobby MD! Living my multi fish tank life through you! For now... Ill stick to my nano! ♥

[@chasewinniford6974]

HAHAHAHAHA, the Jawa insert was brilliant

[@moonray1276]

Just got a fish order from sims. Great service. Very helpful.

[@martinsshopaquariums8100]

Love this video. Good to see you get out the studio. Also good job Patric!

[@陈思羽-f1c]

super cool video. i recently bought a beautiful blue base golden arowana for my tank. tank mates are some hilarious blood parrots that bobble along everywhere with him. i could have used the space for about 4/5 small MD style tanks. sometimes i regret not doing that but my arowana (lenny) is just awesome

[@zeropointenergy1574]

Awesome new video. Big thanks for the big fish tour.

[@hollykelly8692]

Such an a amazing place. I bought 7 discus yesterday and they are lovely!

[@gazyg1973]

What an awsome place proper monster fish great tour md loved video 👌👍🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

[@anni50ful]

What a lovely young lad Patrick is ,to be honest when I had a tank my fish died of old age I'd be a bit upset to see my babies in that boring tank ,I hope they get moved along soon.I bet they were saying " Guy's it's that M.D. dude TAKE US, TAKE US" haha 🐟

[@anni50ful]

MD rescue the Arow ,reading below how miserable it is it should end it's days in peace x

[@timariums1620]

The jardini are the best looking arowana imo. When are you getting one MD?

[@MDFishTanks]

yeah i think so to. One day.

[@timariums1620]

MD Fish Tanks do it. Speak to joey I’m sure he can advise you. Arowana are a quality fish

[@arifzulhazmi]

Well we have a lot of jardini here (Indonesia). Come to Indonesia MD :D

[@jacktinga3581]

love this video

[@nazwierayyan2477]

Cant wait for you to build a pond

[@MDFishTanks]

me neither!!!

[@anouksurmenian4257]

That’s amazing to be able to have such an amazing work experience at such a young age!

[@jasonsalinas4596]

Oscar fish should be your first large fish, they have such great personalities

[@TheTravellingDuck]

So fun to see you enjoying the fish. I really enjoyed this one. Cheers mate

[@TheTravellingDuck]

Also, I would have bottled feeding the turtle too. He’s scary.

[@resivickna1084]

Another banger

[@MDFishTanks]

thanks

[@Roman-wh8zm]

Love it!

[@farmert9679]

Excellent tour!

[@dannygregory3191]

Cool place! Those chiclids would look good in the studio.

[@gm836]

Very wholesome video

[@hcollins3641]

Absolutely amazing!!!!! Couldn’t choose tbh 🥺🤣

[@MDFishTanks]

I know!!!

[@kalanigradle6971]

Flowerhorn! Love the channel brother

[@MDFishTanks]

They are cool!

[@davidh1946]

MD. I think that you answered your own question about what fish would be good for the rainbow tank redo; when you pointed out that tank full of neons, picture them schooling around the center island would be brilliant to quote a fantastic KZbin planted tank guy. BTW has anyone else told that you have an accent. lol

[@joeydr1497]

Nice fish I need some new neons might get them from sims

[@MDFishTanks]

nice one Joey

[@sebastianmikkelsen5390]

More, more, more, love your videos and the store tours :)

[@jo3895]

fahaka pufferfish it's personality and joy every day

[@aquariumanalytic754]

Wow!

[@MDFishTanks]

:)

[@nanoreaper5002]

Next weeks Video MD builds a pond in his back yard and starts keeping monster fish

[@MDFishTanks]

haha. The digger has just arrived.

[@nanoreaper5002]

@@MDFishTanks haha although a pond in you back yard with some koi or gold fish would be cool

[@TimEdwards]

Glad you started doing the recaps on your intros again old school style

[@DaybirdAviaries]

Patrick needs his own KZbin channel.

[@FreezingFaces]

You are one of my go to KZbinrs at the moment dude, keep it up. Get some live streams going once a month or so

[@thatoneguyyouknow7318]

I live in Illinois (u.s.) and love watching you and your content from another country

[@joolieayuc8185]

Huge fan of this content since in my country its not typical to have fish stores like this! so amusing. and we eat tilapias here

[@kathanthomson865]

MD the feeding is so much fun watching. well done on keeping both hands by the way haha

[@AnnabellaSignorina]

Different content and entertaining, I love watching fishes! ❤️🇬🇧

[@herpdiversity9152]

Hi Mr I think you should get the snake neck turtle. That would be so awesome.

[@lewismeechan]

Hi md

[@MDFishTanks]

hi :)

[@aurora_dawn123]

That silver arowana is gorgeous, I personally prefer black arowana, but it's pretty good looking

[@danielcoleman6608]

I didn't see in video.. they have any nice peacocks in stock

[@BigFishLittleFishAquatics]

Simstropical looks like they keep their fish in good condition, i will check out their website! It was good to show how the catfish starts out, i bet many people get caught out with the little ones to then realise they have monsters eating all of their neons!

[@damonbarker9029]

Ive seen countless complaints on facebook fish groups about the quality of the stock and customer service, they have also been caught by the fish health inspectorate for having koi herpesvirus this year

[@thefishkinguk122]

So Jealous!!! Loved seeing what sims is like on the inside though!!

[@eddieington6243]

Great video MD. Your free spirit needs lots more space.....another fish studio maybe?

[@colettes9758]

Cool place!!!

[@viddiespets4873]

Fab looking shop good vid MD 👍👊

[@_MikeJon_]

Always interesting to see fish shops in other countries.

[@PULAG]

Dang what size tank is that Malawi cichlids??

[@atalayanelson1483]

as soon as you said buddy I thought of Joey's fish 😆

[@thatfishguy6242]

That malawi tank is beautiful i wonder how big that is

[@jlistsaak2816]

bold egg head hahahahahaha omg MD lollllll. 😂🥚

[@MDFishTanks]

:D :D

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

I died laughing... That and the fish voice overs 🤣🤣🤣

[@jlistsaak2816]

@@marypaigeflynn4512 So true haha, started screaming laughing and the husband next to me woke up, looking angry and confused 😂

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

@@jlistsaak2816 🤣🤣🤣

[@among_chaos76]

Get the Jardini for a summer pond!

[@indrayudhakusuma7334]

i want the kongo tetras

[@triniscaper3824]

A monster fish tank outside the fishroom like behind with uv sterilization in the filter to halt algae ooohhheeee

[@kavithan8829]

Hey MD want any guppys ???

[@rhysisinok]

nice video md loved it, what about social distancing

[@MDFishTanks]

don't worry, Me and patrick were 2 meters apart the majority of the time.

[@aalex5130]

You had your hand on his shoulder? Good to see people taking this seriously 👍

[@027shogun]

@@MDFishTanks Except when you weren't...?

[@asurajeff6316]

Ngl would love to see u wif some big fish but start them out as babies so we can see it grow

[@yevue46]

It would be cool to see you make a big aquarium for giant predatory fish.

[@oliverfairchild4490]

Hey MD, you should get an arowana, however not the big one the smaller one. It would be cool to see it grow up.

[@MDFishTanks]

hi mate. sounds good

[@herpdiversity9152]

@@MDFishTanks it would be awesome to see you get a truly monster fish tank. You could do a barely aquascaped tank maybe hardscape only or barely planted. especially if you had the snake neck turtle in a monster tank.

[@DreBluntz]

Do they ship to France???

[@MDFishTanks]

Under usual circumstances. I'd suggest an email to them.

[@Louiedave11]

More fish shop tours!

[@esther24792]

Maybe consider butterfly fish? Smallish predator which hunt the same way as arowana do. They even look kinda similar.

[@marypaigeflynn4512]

Great tour MD.. I love watching you in fish stores.. you are a kid in a candy shop! You do the best fish voice overs ever 🤣🤣 I'm like you...I like the parrot fish... They really don't get the love and respect they deserve. Someday it would be fun to see you with some monster fish!! What a great store! Thank you Patrick for showing us around

[@MDFishTanks]

Patrick's a diamond!!

[@Nathan93Baker]

You would have to upgrade property for bigger fish if I'm honest. Also would you every do salt water aquariums?

[@iwenreh4038]

I really dig the Turtle, but i can imagine its almost impossible to keep that Turtle

[@justinb845]

Please don't go the big tank route. I like your content because every build you do is something I might be able to create in my own home. Those giant tanks are cool for aquariums.

[@authorraeallen]

so i heard that ponds are huge in the UK you should get a pond awsome video

[@ll_kmnhkm]

MD please build 1tank for Betta Sorority

[@sarahbelmonte8888]

Please stay with what your doing... 🙁 pleeaase I love your channel with mix of aquascaping & your only just getting into stoking with nice size fish... let the other guys do monster fish... they are boring after a while!

[@MDFishTanks]

Of course. But it's nice to have options :)

[@sarahbelmonte8888]

Omg yes! Absolutely I’m just a fan of your style & fans can be very opinionated. I hope I didn’t offend.

[@BritAce1Official]

That Arrawana has mad drop eye

[@nathanbull7790]

ahhh man, must have been really badly looked after to get dropeye like that in both eyes! have you ever seen a full grown giant gourami? susan is still a tiddler!!

[@rickyabdullah4758]

Nice huge monster

[@Lester_da_Molester]

I see monster fish i click thumbs up

[@iangoodwin1839]

PLEASE get Oscars!

[@77slate]

So what did you buy?????

[@hugoandreas1715]

Imagine doing water changes

[@BodgieFromStraya]

EXPAND THE FISHROOM!!!!

[@MDFishTanks]

TBC......:D