"the longest time of my life and I havent been alive that long" broooo 1 minute in and after watching for over a year I still see the fire in your eye that made me subscribe. As I clicked on this video i was thinking "Damn, 1 Year later. I cant wait for the 5 years later" video. Keep up the hard work, dude! We all see the passion and drive you have for us (making videos) and consumers (great shipping and product quality).

Hobbiest are hilarious. Even drunk we think "oh wow that plant would look great in my aquarium" *piss drunk*" lol

Purchased plants always die. You have to steal them for the plant for them to thrive. That's a tale told to me by my mentor. Drunken plant thievery is epic.

“I stole it out of a a mates mums pit when drunk” That ladies, gents and everyone between, is the spirit of the Australian gardener.

Congrats on the 1 year mark, your enthusiasm and passion is really inspiring, and the store looks great with all those plants!

Here's my coffee suggestion, from America, where we live on it; no milk. Don't add anything, just pure motor oil to keep the machine running. :)

Stunning! Never give up on your work! It inspires many, people from all over the world!

44:46 CPDs I breed stop scattering eggs above 24C. Usually they give me a lot of eggs when it is winter time here in Europe. I keep them in an unheated aquariums and during the winter temperature stays in range 19-22C and at this temperature they breed like crazy. Cheers Nick

I have a suggestion for saving your CPD's predating on eggs. Cut course filter sponge to fit snugly in the base. Place the spawning mop on top. When the CPD's start to eat the eggs, some will escape and fall into the sponge, where they can't reach them. Move the sponge into a tank after a few days, and replace another sponge in the container. See if you get success that way.

This video was a great Sunday afternoon watch! I had guppies when I was 10 yrs old - (50 years ago - yikes!). My daughter has an aquarium now that my grandbabies enjoy. Trying to answer her questions a couple of weeks ago, led me to your channel. Your enthusiasm for this hobby is infectious! ... so much so, I just bought a tank to populate with some guppies for myself :) There are so many amazing colors out there now compared to 50 years ago! You also have an awesome personality and conversational style that is perfect for these videos. I will enjoy checking out out a few more! Keep up the great work, and cheers from Oregon, USA!

I've been watching your channel since the beginning. It's amazing to see you succeed in achieving your dream and watching your fish business grow. Wish you the best.

This video was so relaxing. I need to meet some local fish hobbyist friends again. I could listen to fish talk and the music is perfect.

Awesome tour! we have to get Harlan a coffee cup so he doesn't have to use mine, I drink about 50 cups a day and still always put the coffee and water in first before the milk, Thanks for mentioning my Botanicals your fish have been doing really well since you've been using them to, some of those tanks are looking really good, when we run out of coffee we'll have to try the brine shrimp 🤣

I love the joy you take in your fish and how much you genuinely care about the fish, both the ones in your care and the species in general. You're making a real difference; keep up the great work.

You can start having different houseplants in your aquariums and sell cutting to customers and inform them of their benefits. You can look up water propagated plants it’s amazing how many can just thrive in water.

Haha the ending made me laugh! Great video. Love your shop, we have been down a few times and got all my fish from there. All growing well and so healthy!

You're the master of your craft. Congratulations Nick

The ending of this video is great!! 😂😂😂😂😂

I can't believe its been a year - love fish room coffee ❤😂 congratulations on the first year. Your fish quality is amazing. Thank you for your passion 😘

You are such a kind young man. The world would be perfect if more people had your compassion for even the littlest creature.

This makes me look back so fondly on the day to day at my old job at my LFS. Makes me miss doing hundreds of water changes just to work with all the fish we had!

13:36 I love the puffer just zooming behind him

Walk throughs are my fav style of videos :) The shop looks awesome!

Incredible place you have. Well done and congratulations on living the life that you want to live.

I have followed you for over the years.. love to see you grow! Keep it up!❤❤

Great work Nick! The fish room seems awesome.

Always look forward to your videos. They are by far the best! Your fish look so healthy.

Awe inspiring is an understatement Nick… extraordinary work you’ve done 🎉congrats , and many more years of success mate🙂👍🏻

Great work mate! :D Big congrats on the 1 year celebration! Your passion is really inspiring and I'm following every video you produce!

Congrats on 1yr!!!!

I watched you from way back, love to see you have your dream come true!

Ain't he just the cutest !?!?🎉. Adorable 😍

Hey Nick nice video all the fish I bought from you are doing great 👍 keep the good videos coming always love to watch them

Hey Nick congrats on your first year 🎉🎉🎉 if you want a solution for the wire rusting out on your BBS hatchery's then just use bonsai wire it's aluminum and doesn't rust. It was my only upgrade I made to your video on making a BBS hatchery. Thanks heaps for all the knowledge you have shared.

The ending of the video was hilarious! Love the energy

I've got 7 of the Ziss BBS hatcheries (one for each day of the week). Use a towel rack or make something to hang them up on the wall. It makes harvesting the BBS soooo much easier. I found it aggrivating to get my big hands under the stand to turn on the spout when it was sitting on a tabletop.

Congrats, Excellent work and continued success 🎉

you did it Nick! Looks great. Not an easy thing to do.

I recently got a pair of young captive bred marbled salamanders. One of them is absolutely not shy about coming out to beg for crickets every few days. I love these little guys!

Thanks for the tour. Your tanks are great and I appreciate all the rare species u are breeding. I have been in the hobby for over 45 yrs now and live in Seville, Spain so probably too far to buy fish from you but if I could…..I would definitely go for some of the rare ones. I also use houseplants in all my tanks and they create such a nice atmosphere in the fish room.

it has been great watching you, your hobby, and now your business develop. Next time I'm up from Melbourne i'm super keen to come have a look. Great stuff

Congrats on 1 year man. I bought 2 10 gallon tanks after watching your channel a few months ago. I now have a shrimp tank and a guppy tank. And as of 3 days ago I have about 30 baby guppies. Now I am making the brine hatchery after watching your other video on how to make it. Love the channel.

Great upload. Congratulations ❤

Man! Been watching your videos for 2 years now all the way from Pakistan, and you are such an inspiration! So happy for all the accomplishments you have made and may you be even more successful with time!

Absolutely amazing update fishroom tour nick really enjoyed every minute of this very well presented video. Im also doing a betta breeding project, ive recently purchased 3 koi male bettas which are stunners and im currently trying to bred one of them with a plakat female. Also i just wanna say its so nice to see the passion and enthusiasm that you have for the hobby and to see how far you have come mate. Full view mate 😊

You were propagating plants when you were drunk. Now that's hilarious. 🤣 Best story, ever. Confused drunk, in search of pothos cuttings.

Beautiful fish store bravo 👏

You are a young old man ❤ Good job on your fish room and your profession 🐟🐠🐡🐚🪸🦐🐌

You are an inspiration to all acuarism entusiasth and to every one dreaming having an aquarium store

living the fish dream 🙂... for the cpd you need a double container, the top one with a mesh botom for the eggs to go true but no fish.. success guaranteed ...

Great work man🤙sweet shop👍🇧🇻

Cant wait to see the outcome of the shrimp rack. Cant wait to give your fish food a go

Congrats for living your dream ! Great video! 💪👍👍👍

Pure happiness can be seen in you of achieving your dream.... congratulations bro enjoy & please regularly upload videos....i love to watch....:)!

What you've achieved is incredible and in the timeframe it's just amazing. Your work and commitment is inspiring. I'm getting to be an old fart, rapidly approaching 50 and it's awesome for me to see young people do such cool stuff. Keep up the great work!

I cant wait to see some fish breeding vids again!!! Thank u nick.

NICK, FIRST OFF, THE ENDING IS HILARIOUSLY FUNNY!!! WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE WASP? LOL THINKING ABOUT THE LAST 4 YEARS, I AM AMAZED AT THE HUGE SUCCESS YOU HAVE HAD! FROM YOUR KITCHIN / LIVING AREA WITH YOUR PARENTS PLACE, TO YOUR LIVE STREAMS IN YOUR BEDROOM, TO THE LITTLE GARAGE BREEDING VIDEOS, TO THE MASSIVE BREEDING OF TODAY! I AM SO PROUD OF YOU AND THE GROUNDBREAKING SPREAD OF THOSE RARE HOMEBREED FISH! OH AND CAN'T FORGET THE BUG BUFFET FOOD! (THE PLUGGING OF IT? ) DO NOT STOP DOING THAT!!! IT IS AMAZING! I WAS FINALLY ABLE TO PURCHASE YOUR FOOD AND MY FISHIES ARE AWAITING ITS ARRIVAL!!! LOVE THIS VIDEO THE MOST!!! BUT, MEETING YOU IN PERSON HAS BEEN A TRULY ENDEARING EXPERIENCE! THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE AND IN ALL HONESTY I LOVE YOUR PASSION FOR WHAT WE ALL ENJOY!I TO END THIS LONG POST, I CAN'T WAIT TO VISIT YOU IN YOUR FISH STORE AND JUST WALK THROUGH IT ALL LIKE I DID IN THIS VIDEO WITH YOU! THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH!

Wow, seems like a few months. Congratulations, always enjoy your videos.

Wow thats crazy, I was literally just looking at all your previous videos again lol

That vanilla orchid You find in the wild here in bolivia ( santa cruz) love your Journey really inspiring

If you can, because idk if they ship to you or not, but try aquarium coop’s brine shrimp. I’ve never not had issues having over 96% hatch.

You did a great job and invested so much time and effort and now you see your dream come true. I wish you all the best and keep up the good work and show us more breeding projects with updates like you did with the danios and the betta,s 😊

Wow I honestly am impressed with your dedication. It's been a pleasure watching your videos.

Wonderful that are breeding and putting our Aussie blue eyes out there I have kept signifer (just the common blue eye) for years and just love those fish would love to keep them in a pond but it's a bit cold south of Sydney Looking forward to my trip to Qld so I can come look at your shop and get some other blue eye species keep up the great passion thanks Nick

I was just watching ur 274 tank video and now this got uploaded 😂

I know those rare blue eyes as celestial rainbows! Lovely fish.. For the plecos add a wave maker, drop temp for a few weeks then raise temp and cut off wavemaker...

I recently got a pack of angels from you and there was only one black and the rest stripy but I was so happy with all the Cory's I got they are loving there life thanks for the uploads nick

Cool great you stuck with it and reached a pinnical goal in your life, Cheers!

Awesome fish update, sorry to hear about all the struggles you find with people gatekeeping fish and selling you only males.

“ I use this sponge to clean the mugs” omg I’ve been in horticulture & aquaculture it’s normal but still made me giggle 😂😂😂

Thanks for the tour. The fish room looks amazing, and with time I bet you will appreciate well brewed coffee - even for the fish room :P 1:28:28 Otocinclus tank

It was great to finally come into your store today. I will let you know how I go with the bug buffet. The initial result is my nano fish goes crazy for it.

Congratulations on your journey! Ive been following alibg for some time now and learned a few things from you. I really enjoy the nature excursion vlogs too. Thanks for making me laugh this morning with the wasp footage. I really wish your shop was closer to me, i would use your stock exclusively for sure but you are kinda far from Memphis Tennessee USA.😊

Thanks Nick for the tour, Have you seen the aquarium coop forum ziss brine shrimp hatchery pvc rack, I made mine to hold two hatcheries, works great. I was out of town when you came to our pasco county aquatic club meet in Florida, bummed I missed you but enjoyed all your's and Harlens videos

Sir you are truly living in paradise

Thanks for the tour im making pineapple upside down cup cakes ❤and watching your tour when braking i better go pull them out once again great tour❤

I just love your videos and how you explain everything! While watching your video i just ordered Bug Buffet. :) Im so hyped to try it out soon. All the very best from Germany. Keep up the great Content!

I really like this video wish there were more day to day videos out there

these videos are a great background, but i just want to say your "french coffee" pun was top quality mate haha

Nick, I definitely believe in feeding culls. I keep livebearers with my angelfish to supply fresh live food for them, but I have been unable to find any cheap cull guppies for sale. I recently returned to the hobby after being denied access for over 25 years. And I might add it has been extremely calming to my being.

Mother nature is at it again with that wasp 😅😂😂 great job with the aquariums ❣️

9:16 You should make Simple Coffee, where you dried out a bunch of duckweed and either mixed it in with the coffee, or have it added later from a fish food shaker.

this video is amazing I hate the long videos, keep up the grind, and i have mad respect for tou

for cpd also if im really lazy I just set up a bunch of marble trays. Every few days pull one out sit in straight in a tub of water and live food web. put another tray in. rotate and rinse. ive got heaps that way.

should for sure do a video on culling. what you look for in traits ext.

Awesome tour! great achievement, I have 3 tanks inside and 2 ponds outside after watching your channel! especially love nano fishes! when will tiger hillstream loach be available?

I love your videos :) I've been breeding fishi for 15 years now and your videos have helped me so many times when I didn't know what to do.thanks for that :) Seeing how much love you put into your breeding is really nice to see. :) Greetings from Germany. Ps. We need BUG-BUFFET in Germany too that would be cool. :) :)

Great video again with plecos you can move the caves and stuf sometimes they start to spawn Maybe it works with other fish also

Looking forward to that pallifina vid. I love mouth brooding bettas. Not enough content about them in KZfaq or the web.

I bread a lot of CPDs with a steel mesh in a little tub with java moss on top and then collected the eggs every two days.

I keep pond snails in my shrimp tanks. They really love popped snails to eat.🦐🦐🦐🐌🐌🐌

Love the vids. Always fun to watch. Thinking on your problems with your CPDs: could you do a mesh bottom / false floor container so the eggs fall through out of reach of the adults? And those christmas guppies that are eating their fry... could you do a breeder box? Or some kind of mesh cage inside the tank with the adults inside it? (Kind of like a reverse shark viewing cage 😂)

Just a little tip, the 'black middle' on a guppy is called a tuxedo. Not that it matters, just wanted to let you know.

beening scared of the bee cracks me up hahahaha this made me laugh

congratulations

Love your videos❤

I have a very densely planted betta sorority tank with guppies to provide the occasional live food. Plenty of babies get past a barrage of hungry bettas. So maybe add floaters to the guppy tank.

It's been a long process but everything looks great now. Wishing you nothing but success for many years to come. I have one question. What lights are on all your tanks and are hey good for growing plants?

Tip for instant coffee I learned off a coffee KZfaqr, use a little water with the instant coffee and stir it and then add the rest of the water. It makes sure you don't get undisolved instant coffee.

Beautifull 😮