"Say goodbye Mr. Monkfish, you're fucked." Is one of the greatest lines I've ever heard lmao.

"that's fucking weird" said the two hatted man to his fish mafia

"There's something about a bunch of white dudes on a boat yelling 'IT'S A BLACK' that makes me feel uneasy." Absolutely lost my shit at that, thank you.

The eel guy discovered he had an old water cistern in the house he recently bought. He is big into caving and owns an aquarium store but his favorite fish are eels. These are American Eels. He has a whole series of videos of him turning it into an eel pit. Also puffers do sometimes puff up just to exercise that muscle. Cory's Mbu puffer does it from time to time, it's rare and only for a few minutes. I caught my fahaka once doing it and all I did was walk into the living room and he was massive. But yea, some do scare their puffers into doing it. But the eel guy doesn't strike me as the type, just really really lucky

the eel dude's room is actually a rainwater cistern underneath his house that he put eels in. The gravel is to keep the sediment from making the water super cloudy and muddy so he can see the eels

The one about the "do the shrimp feel this?" had audio. She was talking about how freezing them was the most humane way rather than feeding them live and on whether shrimp can feel pain.

4:46 Puffer keeper here. They do it just to stretch but its not too often unless you get a goober who does it all the time which is rare.

I looked it up and yes, pufferfish do actually puff up to stretch, they do it very occasionally and it’s not often seen by the owners if it is captive

4:17 He didn't find a cavern, it's still his basement, it's just that cavern creatures are treating it like a cavern because it's cool and wet like an actual cave.

Fish really are the most widely abused animals aren't they

“Does this hurt the shrimp?” I mean I’m no scientist but I think slowly being frozen alive with my dying peers who are squished up with me in a dark freezer might tickle a bit.

Its unfortunate that you didn’t see more from the eel guy. He actually has a LOT of hides and stuff that was just in his early days with them. Now they have a lot of space and live a heathy happy life :)

The fish walking video would be so much more interesting if it was a mudskipper or climbing perch (assuming they weren't planning on ever releasing the horrid thing). You know something that loves going across mud and enjoys walking about every now and then.

More of the classics By AVNJ, helping me lose my faith in humanity.

Can someone tell AVNJ that the guy saying he was taking his fish for a walk is a joke. That is how fisherman handle gar after catching them. He was humanely releasing the fish.

Not sure about american eel, but if those were european eel (which look almost identical) then they probably won't be too bothered by the rocks and concrete. They have such a thick slime layer above their skin that they're basically hagfish lite and they don't shy away from rough surfaces. In fact, there used to be an eel fishing technique where they would be caught using animal skulls because they'd use it as a hideout.

My pufferfish did this randomly in the morning and would deflate when she saw me

My dad had a puffer fish when i was young and I can confirm they do it to stretch. It's like a yawn. It sounds like iconic puffer fish to puff up in the mornings. They are very silly guys, the one my dad had would nuzzle him and loved to eat out of his hand. They are like water dogs with great personalities.

I’ve caught lots of red snapper while deep sea fishing in the Gulf and the Atlantic. When I went to California, all the red snappers we caught had bulging eyes and I was shocked. The deck hand said they were “big eyed snapper”. 🤦‍♂️

My sister has her master's degree and is getting her doctorate in Marine Biology and she currently studies giant sea bass. The two head professors who are doctors themselves of marine biology go on a few boat trips every year where they bring classes out and fish at different depths to see what certain creatures live there and many of them suffer the same pressure trauma.

About the eel pit, I actually follow him lol. He's planning on making an island with plants and stuff that will add hiding areas and look cool, honestly. Its also not his basement, it's a rainwater cistern on his property. He works with aquatic animals and has been adding things like feeder fish and crawdads the eels are just the main show ya know. Def in his villain Era but he knows what he doin. Also the fish tank is a makeshift large filter to reduce sediment

*I feel like most people are desensitised to fishes getting literally tortured to death.*

In regards to the gar, I believe he has it on the rope because that's how they pull them out of the water when fishing for them, because of their teeth and it being hard to get a good grip on them. I'm not 100% though on exactly what he's doing here, but I know that's how they get them out because KZfaq has been recommending me a LOT of Alligator Gar fishing videos lately

Methyl blue's a common treatment for external fish parasites (I think you use it for itch and white spot, it's been a while since I've had to know this sort of stuff).

Longtime puffer keeper here! Some species do seem to puff up occasionally to stretch or remove debris from their spines.

The sea turtle showing the diver that it is in fact a turtle and that it is in their nature to bite shit, specifically fingers. C'mon man, give him a little bite, just a little nip. Also love the bubble blast attack the diver did to shoo it away.

The vid with the gar is by a guy I know…. You use the lasso to land the fish because you can’t use a net and he had to release it from up there because it’s quicksand

I watched the documentary about reaching the bottom of the Mariana Trench in school. It was so bright because he was literally like shooting blinding lights from every direction of his thing. It was cool until he reached the bottom because of course there was nothing. And he spent like 15 minutes of the film just looking for some kind of sample of something and there was just nothing and it was boring. It was cool when he came back up tho

When catching alligator gar a lot of people will use a lasso to bring the fish onshore because they are so heavy. when the guy is saying "he's ready" he means the gar is ready to go back into the water. Have a lovely day.

That eel room was one of the most "cursed liminal rooms" vids I've ever seen in my life.

You ever heard the tragedy of Mr Monkfish

the one about eels, a guy converted an unused water cistern under his house into a eel pond, he set up some quarantine tanks to introduce some smaller fish to the system, but basically he created a pond out of a cistern that is 24ft under ground with about 18 inches of depth and is 16x12 feet in diameter.

just realized you’re wear two hats 😂😂

1:42 I am convinced that hatched fish contain at least 5% of the souls of the damned.

Ah yes, an AVNJ video. These videos always make my day. Loving the content!

Zack laughed at my puffer joke 😂

Went on a commercial fishing boat one time. Caught an itty-bitty flounder, sadly foul-hooked it through the gills and caused irreversible damage, otherwise it was too small to keep. Guys made it into bait. I felt... very bad.

2:11 This might be at a museum. I went to one recently in the Adirondacks and they had the same thing (albeit a lot nicer looking) with a mudpuppy in in a tank being held up above a giant indoor pond to show that they come from the same environment as the fish bellow without endangering the salamander in the prosses. Still weird though. I'm not sure why you wouldn't just put next to the pond. edit: nevermind, I should have finished the clip lol

"Say good bye, Mr Monkfish. You're fvcked" Best quote ever

He needs to react to Masuro here on KZfaq! He is a Japanese fisherman who catches/buys/is given various ocean oddities. He basically dissects them trying to figure out all the parts, and then, regardless of if the creature is poisonous, he eats it! He’s a madman, but also very smart and curious about the unusual creatures he has in his vids

I wanna go fishing just so I can say "Goodybe [insert fish], you're fucked"-

I've been reading a bit and to my surprise, goldfish can indeed have growths that are like white pimples, though from what i read it can be a tad confusing at least for me. Could simply be carp/fish pox which is a simple viral thing that comes and goes that isn't too bad,or ulcer disease which is quite bad. Also seen some places saying it could be a normal thing for mostly male capped variety goldfish as they prime to beed,or minor bacterial or fungal infection or a buildup of white bloodcells in the wren. Info is kinda all over the place like some things in the hobby. But all in all,they tend to be somewhat common and they could pop like human pimples. I personally have never own goldfish so i'm not extremely familiar with such things... i do have a cute betta though and i adore him and my family is rather used to having fish,though we mostly had saltwater fish with voral and live rocks and at the moment we are trying something new with freshwater planted tanks after so many years of losing our saltwater fish to a bad ice storm. So far,it's tricky for us, at least with our big tank at the moment but it is getting better lol. Also,from what i've seen, puffers can infact puff up to stretch sometimes so their muscles are used to doing such things similar to how we should stretch before working out. but often it is in defense due to stress. I can imagine if the puffer isn't stressed and such,it is simply stretching to be all ready for such a straining task when the time comes. :) love your vids though!

ok so that eel pit guy is like a legit exotic fish keeper. he has tons of experience doing it. he has an old water tank beneath his house that's designed to hold rainwater and he flooded it a little bit and added gravel to the bottom to make a tank for some eels and a few other things. he has little islands of cinderblock all over it for the eels to hide in. he feeds them by hand but also has like crawfish and other feeder fish for the eels to hunt if it's needed.

the two caps got me, i hope the number grows as time goes on

Smoked eel is soooo good. Now I'm being all nostalgic about catching eels with my grandpa and watching him rinse them out.

that "sturgeon" was actually a giant freshwater tiger fish, and one of the largest specimens caught on camera actually. look it up; trust me.

"Did you know some fish actually breath underwater?" 😱🤯

2:30 there’s an astonishing amount of people on this guy’s original videos that are wholeheartedly praising what he’s doing but I genuinely don’t think he knows what he’s doing. Basically just threw some fish in the basement of his house and waits for it to rain so it’ll fill itself back up. It’s also pitch black when he’s not in there but he refuses to stop putting goldies in it. I know it won’t kill them or anything, but it seems cruel to put them in a situation like that (super shallow water with ZERO light 90% of the time)

I used to own a porcupine puffer and yes they puff to stretch but mine only did it once every 3 months, it's sorta a growing thing

7:43 this makes me happy bc it reminds me of when i binge on the avnj sm64 speedrun vods

LMFAO when it said "say goodbye Mr monkfish, ya fucked" it got me so off guard!

The eel pit is really great and he loves those fish! He’s got crayfish and small feeder fish in there. Don’t judge until you know more about the project

Dude nice you finally saw the eel guy from Tik Tok I literally watched all his videos of how he made a Fresh water Well thing (I forgot what its called) into his own personal cave its a really neat watch

I genuinly wish the guy "walking" the gar a bad day

Crabzilla.

What I remember the goldfish guy saying it helps with ”pimples”. He explained in another video that the pimples are white buildup inside the soft thing (sorry not native english speaker and not a fish expert). So methylene blue might help with that if it is some kind of bacteria build up. I used to use methylene blue when my aquarium fish had skin problems like a cut.

That eel pond guy probably could be using that tank for quarantine purposes.

The eel pit guy has the eel pit in his house. You should watch his other tiktoks because his house is so weird. It’s built under ground. He bought it like that (if I’m remembering correctly)

4:20 its the eel pit, dude had a whole series on how he made it

The mystery fish is a redfish (red drum) I think. They have really extendable mouths and it was the right shape and color

Watching these videos are my favorite part of my day

9:03 since they were aiming for the bottom of the sea, if they made the screen bigger, it would've lead to cracking and then breaking of the glass.

"Beginning exploration of the bottom" is a phrase that can be used in many different ways...

9:15 A larger piece of glass would be easier to shatter by pressure.

the dorsal fin is too close to his head to be a sturgeon, the scale pattern looks nothing like that of a sturgeon, and is almost identical to every single tigerfish picture you can find. That along with the obviously not North American river, I don't know what else you need to prove it.

a cool thing that happened to me while fishing i caught a sheepshead before when i first went fishing the line got tangled all over the fish and i thought it was a snag cause the fish was coming in sideways. i was using a catfish Rod. Just never thought a 20 pound fish would feel So heavy that i thought it was a snag while reeling it in the whole time.

This was a fun video to watch

Caught a puffer as a kid once, boy reeling that thing filled with water was hard on my scrawny child arms. It then proceeded to spit out the water and puff up with air, had to gently nudge it with our pole after releasing it once dad got the hook out. I think that was the only fish I caught that day.

There’s a show on Netflix that has goldfish play soccer, The Hidden life of pets or something like that.

the first guy literally goes out of his way to kill rare and endangered species. disgusting.

the fishtank on cinderblocks is a filtrating system for the eel pit.

Another episode of me hoping if theirs going to be a tiktok that zak actually likes

6:44 Pov: you build a time machine and took home the fish that stepped out of water so you could have a fish with legs

No, I don't think Luke's Goldies ever said anything about tumors. His fish never even had lymphocystis. Can someone give me a link if he did? He posts his videos on yt. The only thing he ever did to his goldfish's wen (that's what the useless clear growth on the goldfish's head is called) was trim it when it covered one of his goldfish's eyes. Love your content, but you jump to conclusions a lot, and it's worse because you rarely ever doubt your assumptions.

I hope our plan helps the algorithm ;) This was a fun livestream

The last story remind me one time when a fish cut my feet, my mom didn't believe me, she was adamant that i stepped in glass or something but i remember seeing a black fish, idk

I mean, considering the fishermen and the shark were both hunting the same fish... "my grouper," still kinda works in a "hey, that was MY kill you stole," kinda way

I thought the stomach was one of those parasites that’s replaces a fish’s tongue

"Why did they give him such a small screen" As someone who knows thing or two about submarines (just a hobbyist but still) reason why submarines don't have windows is fairly obvious, the pressure would break them, and reason why the submarine that went down to the Mariana's trench for the first the the Trieste had it's window actually crack was due to the immense pressure down there. That submarine in the tik tok has just a small window that's probably quite damn thick for that exact reason, to not the break under pressure since if it was larger it would have more surface area for the pressure to have effect

Imagine being dragged underwater by a hugeass creature and the last thing you hear is “Say goodbye Mr. Human. You’re fucked.”

When I go out spearing flounder I go out bare foot so if I ever step on a flounder (which happens a lot) I put the spear in between my toes and into the fish

Brineshrimp don't actually have pain receptors so no it doesn't hurt at all

I saw a tiktok of a snakehead trying to cross a piece of land, But a person shooed it back into the water thinking it was trying to speed up evolution.

Thank you Mr. AVNJ very cool

11:00, Britain colourised

pufferfish morning wood had me rolling

this was a great video to come across while eating a chicken salad sandwich

I think the puffer fish “stretch” in the morning bc the lights turn on and it startles them a bit

Bru I feel like I haven't watched you in a year an a half and now your at 300k good job

Still wondering why this series isnt called Fish-toks

So that guy walking a gar… in Texas when you catch a big ass alligator gar, they’re just too big and heavy to hoist onshore with your rod or fit it into a net. So anglers lasso them and pull them up to safely remove the hook. And no, it doesn’t hurt them! Their scales are so tough they it’s more like giving them a big hug with a rope.

Flood your basement and then fill your basement with eels. I can’t believe not a lot of people have thought of this WOW.

i love the music in tge outro😭😭

I'm loving this series,but yeah poor deep sea fishes Also I hope y'all are having a great day

The puffer fish might have gotten spooked when he walked in if it wasn’t morning wood or he scared it before pulling up his phone

From what I remember hes told that story before, and I still find it funny

Bad and naughty fish get sent to the ***EEL DUNGEON***

Woah I've never seen a sheep's head fish before those are so cool oh my god woah

2:02 I think that tank might be a Quarantine tank but idk

I went camping on the Potomac River recently, went early in the morning. Flounders and pipe fish everywhere. Occasionally someone would yelp with a jumpy little dance out of the shallow water. We jokingly called it getting floundered.