$100,000 Saltwater Fish Unboxing! RARE and UNIQUE Saltwater Species!

What's going on reefers? Blaine here. Jet is pulling up with the van right now and today we're going to be doing We are ready. Let's go ahead head to the airport because in today's video we're going to be doing a giant fish unboxing. It's been almost 2 years since we did a video just like this and Jed was telling me earlier that we've got some crazy fish in store for today's video. Let's get into it. All right, we made our way into the truck. Now I'm here with Jed. If you guys don't know who Jed is. I'm going to let Jed explain to you guys exactly kind of what he does. Even though he's driving, he's going to focus on driving. But we're going to talk a little bit about what Jed does and then also Jed's going to give us a sneak peek about what's going to happen today. So, I kind of play a lot of hats at TopShelf. Um, I first started out doing our fish and livestock management, uh, which is kind of, you know, my passion and that's kind of what this, you know, video is about is because these fish are at a different level. These are not just coming from, you know, our normal weekly shipment. This is stuff that I definitely had to be more hands-on for cuz we're talking tens of thousands of dollars of fish. So, we had got a package deal. So, I know the package deal, one of those fish, which is the most expensive one, we're not getting today. Um, but within that full package, it was about $80,000. 80 grand a fish. That is crazy. But also, we have to order quite a bit of fish because we're obviously supporting the hobby, not just here locally, but we're shipping fish nationwide. Right. It It is growing so fast. it it's growing. We we're putting in three brand new fish systems just to support the online fish. And even that, I don't think by, you know, 6 months will be enough to support it. Um I I'm super excited. Jed is definitely going to be showcasing some crazy stuff. We're making our way to the airport now. We'll see you guys in a couple minutes. You know, couple seconds for you guys, but in a couple minutes, we'll get to the airport and we'll start picking. Jesus, you scared me. Let's get to the airport. All right, we've made it to the airport. Well, cargo. We've made it to cargo and we're here ready to start picking up all of the fish. The cargo terminal is hustling and bustling. There's a bunch of stuff going on. Bunch of trucks coming in and out. But I just wanted to say thank you guys so much for 30,000 plus subscribers. You guys are killing it. And I just want to say thank you so much for all the support here on the page. Jed just walked up over there. He's getting the paperwork all handled. They're about to start bringing the fish. We're going to get this truck all loaded up. Then we're headed back to Top Shelf. So, we'll see you guys here in a second. Let's get these fish loaded up. We'll talk to you soon. We're going to leave this pallet here while I get the other one. All right. [Music] You heard the man, Jed. This is just pallet one of two pallets. So, we've got a couple fish here. And it looks like Where are they coming from? This is the Sea Dwelling. 11 boxes from Sea Dwelling. Three boxes from QM. I totally forgot that this was not included in that 80K package I was talking about. What? Yeah. Um, we probably can round to an even 100K, honestly, with everything. $100,000 of fish showing up at TopShelf Aquatics. Well, I'm not going to let Jed do all this by himself. So, let me get in here. You know, I was going to say maybe, you know, I'll put the camera down and let's load these up. All right, we've gotten all the boxes inside that are here. At this time, UPS still has to bring some boxes in. We're getting all the stations prepped. And of course, during this time, it's about 10:00 right now, but at 11:00, the store opens. So, while we're running around doing all this unboxing fish, we got to make sure we're helping out customers and all the day-to-day stuff that's happening here at TSA. Once we get everything prepped, get the stations ready for dipping and all that good stuff. As we start to bring the fish in, we'll go ahead and we'll start showcasing the awesome fish we picked up in today's shipment. Now, here is the fish wall that you guys have seen in some previous videos. And before we can start getting the fish done with dips and things like that and shift it over, we need to move fish from this side over to the other side, kind of consolidating fish to make room for the new stuff that's coming in. Right? So, a lot of these fish that you see here on this side will end up moving on over, going around, and then entering this side. And I think right as soon as I finish talking up, we've got our last few boxes arriving from UPS. So, these are the last bit of fish. Eli's bringing them in right now. And uh this is going to be the crazy stuff right here. Jed, it looks like all of the boxes have arrived now. This is the entire shipment, right? Yeah. This is everything. I think there's just one fish in that box. Crazy to think that you were mentioning earlier we're getting close to six figures of fish and we don't have that many boxes. So, there's got to be some crazy stuff in here. I'm really interested to see what's inside this box. So excited for that one. Save the best for last. All right, while Jed's getting things unboxed, talk me through what are we setting up right here in the back. So, we're setting up our safety stop dips. Going to be about an hour dip, 30 minutes in the blue solution, 30 minutes in the green solution, freshwater dip, ready to go. Nice. So, going through an extensive dipping process, right? I think Jed kind of hit it right on the nail, though. You know, we're not a fully quarantined setup here, but we're doing everything possible to try and get these fish, you know, ready to go to get into the fish wall. Is this, you know, something you'd recommend for everybody at home if they're getting ready? Absolutely. Yeah. If you can do a rapid quarantine instead of doing a full month quarantine, definitely. It's better than nothing, right? At least do safety stop. It's you're you're doing something, right? rather than doing nothing. The plop and drop is the method that I typically do, which isn't the best, but something you can do, safety stop, right? Doing a layer of safety before they get into your system. All right, a decent size box, normal size box, but there's only four bags in here. There's only two species of fish. This is a shepherd's angel. Now, it kind of is like a flame angel, rusty angel kind of hybrid thing, but is its own species. Um, really nice color, so they have really nice striping in them. Um, like I said, they're very similar to a rusty, but they are a lot harder to find. And next, we have a beautiful Simaris angel. He's got his stress patterns out. A little on the darker side, but they always color up. Uh, so we have two and two in this box. Similar, you know, they can be seen as a butterfly, so they can be seen as like a very difficult fish. Um, they're actually pretty, you know, good fish. They do eat very easily usually once they're in the system. So, we got two of those. I think we actually have four of each total in this shipment. So, they're definitely going to be on the website probably by the time this video comes out. All right. So, next out of here, we're going to have some springer eye damsels. Um, you might be thinking, why on earth are we talking about danzels in a $100,000 fish shipment? I'm going to tell you, these guys are great pest eaters. They eat flatworms. Um, we keep them in a lot of our coral systems here. I love getting bit by them in the tank, but at least they're doing a job here. Um, but the reason I'm bringing this up is cuz again in that link down below, these guys are available on our website. So, if you ever have flatworm issue, these are a great option for you. If you thought damsels were cool, it's only going to get cooler from here. The next fish and file fish, you might be thinking again, where is all this money coming from? Cuz it's not these guys and it's not the spring eye or the springy damsels. Uh, but these are also available on the top shelf website. If you have Aptasia in your tank, it's literally in the name, Aptasia filefish. They can go for coral here and there, but they really do mow down some aptasia. So, again, that link down below is just going to get a lot of clicks on this video. Your fingers going to be tired clicking it so much because all these fish, not all of them, but a lot of these fish, especially the ones that you probably want, are in that link down below. All right, I'm tired of these non-wizzy wigs. I came here for cool fish. So, show me something cool, Jed. Let's see the cool stuff. All right, so this fish has I've become a little numb to it, but about two years ago, this was the cool fish. Now you can kind of find them everywhere, but they are available on the website still. They still get an insane dollar price. They are still ridiculously colorful, ridiculously cool for any tile fish. We got six of these in today. These guys are stunners. They're big. I never really have a problem with them, honestly. Like, I can't really have a lid. You need a lid though. That that is the one problem. Um but honestly, they're always great eaters. Uh they're not like other tile fish. Other tfish sometimes can be a little finicky. These guys are rock solid. Um yes, they're expensive, but honestly, if you're going to buy an expensive fish, but you don't want to, you know, risk that money going away besides a gem tank, this is probably the next best thing. All right, come on. I've been begging for cool stuff. Show me the cool stuff. I'm We're moving from SDC. We're going to QM. What do you got? I know what's in these boxes. I I I don't Let's see what this first one is. We got a tusk. Is it an Aussie? It is an Aussie. Oh, he's like perfect size. They never come in this small. Kind of hard to see in these bags. They black out these bags. Do you know exactly why they black out the bags? It's all stress. Now, again, the box is blacked out, but there's a long time before when they're bagged to when they're actually opened um before they're actually in the box. So, they're still seeing that sunlight. They have no idea what's going on. So, they're starting to mellow out way earlier. And then when we get them, start opening them up. They're still in that black bag. All right, let's let's find some other cool stuff. I don't know if we're going to be able to see it cuz again, it's going to be small. There's a lot of water in this bag. [Music] This is a really cool bag of water. Um, but this is a Bell's flash. Um, I recently just got one for my tank because they are so cool. It You might think, why am I spending $1,300 on a flash that looks like another flash that's $60? Well, this is why. We're going to cut to a clip real quick. [Music] And we're back from the clip. This is a awesome fish. We got a bunch of these in today. We got a good deal on them. They're going to be on the website. So, if you want a chance to get a super rare rass, it's actually pretty good for smaller tanks cuz it is a flash rass. They can be a little more on the delicate side. They don't do great in like the big, you know, fairy rasses that can pick on them. So, if you have a smaller tank where you want to really isolate just a show fish. If you're like, "What showfish does my 50gallon need?" This is a great option. All right. Not as cool as a bell's flash rass or a tusk honestly, but it's a really nice red chorus rass. Not too big yet, even though they do get monstrous size. It's actually kind of perfect cuz he's got adult colors, but he's not huge. All right, there's one more really cool ras. There's a bunch of bells rases in these boxes as well, but you guys have already seen the bells. You want to see something different, you want to see something cool, and it is this one. This is a Johnson's fairy rass. He's actually like a good size. just starting to turn male. Flash a photo up on the screen so you can see a fullsize terminal phase male. Uh these guys are beautiful. They're usually pretty hardy, but they have crazy striations on their face. They really glow in the tank. They have a really cool liar tail on the tip of them. It's just a really cool fish. It's definitely unique fish. Very similar to like a pin tail. Definitely a different price tag than a pin tail, but again, if you want like a show fish, these guys can go in a little bit more aggressive tank. They do get a little bit bigger than the bells, but just a cool fish. Last cool fish for this shipment before we get into the reason you probably clicked on this video, which are these four boxes right here. Some cool tangs. [Music] Mustard. No, I'm kidding. All right, we got two mustard tangs. Probably just really messed up the audio. Have fun editing this plane. We have a big one in the system as well. These guys awesome spots. You know, not terribly aggressive usually. Definitely a unique body shape, but just a just unique tang. Not something you see every day like a yellow tang or hippo tang. Just a little something different. All right, these are the boxes we've been waiting for, though. These are the boxes that showed up from UPS. We didn't actually pick these up at the airport, but let's now get into the cream of the crop. These things are still taped, so you're seeing it raw. Like, I have no idea what's in which box. I have no idea the condition of these fish. I just know what the fish are. Uh my heart is beating about a million miles a minute right now. So we have two koi tangs. Now they are not like this koi tang like some crazy yellow white. That one already sold actually. Um these are bluefaced koi. Now you might think who cares about blueface kois. I have never seen more blue on a blueface koi ever. Like it's almost the whole fish is blue. It's insane. I don't think it's going to be great seeing them right now just because of the lighting. But once we get them into the white lights in the fish system, you'll see why we brought these guys in. Oh my gosh. Wow. You can tell like look that. That is one dot. That is the only part of the pattern that is normal. The rest of the fish is blue. Whole fish is blue. When you see in the white light, you'll understand. Uh the other one actually that's the crazier of the two, I'm pretty sure. Oh my. You got to go to the gym. Same thing. Just a whole bunch of blue on this one. Yeah, the other one definitely has like the whole body blue. But this one again, just a super amount of blue in the dorsal fin. The whole face is blue. Just random spots and patches on it. Usually you get a blue face koi, you'll get like just a little bit around the face, but to have the entire fish blue, but a little section, I think that's worth bringing it in. All right. Not bad for the first box. Showed off a couple. Honestly, for the shipment, like we kind That's the lightest box. Like that is the least cool box and that's how we started. And those are sick. I mean, the one completely blueed out one was crazy. So, it's only getting better. All right, we're going to do a little standby to look at this box. All right, in this box, actually, now that I think about it, this is actually a less cool box. This is just a whole bunch of purple tanks. Well, hey, I mean, that's cool. Purple tanks are cool. They're cool. They're going to be on the website. Actually, a really nice size. Perfect size, honestly. Yeah, these guys are all going on the website. They're going to be almost wizzywig. Your finger must be tired by now. Go get some, you know, medication for your carpet tunnel syndrome. The amount of you're going to be clicking this button. I'm now starting to think that maybe this box actually has one fish and then the three really cool fish are in this box. So, I don't know. Let's do this box first. We'll do this one. All right. Yeah, we'll leave the big one for last. Either way. Either way, going to be again insane. A box full of purple tanks, blueface koi tanks. Who is calling me at a time like this? This is not the time to take a call. Top shelf aquatics. Jed speaking. Hey buddy, I'm in boxing about 100 grand in fish right now. Can I Can I call you later? All right, later. Bye. I promise that wasn't planned. Yep. Oh my god, that thing's monstrous. Oh my god. If you don't know, this is a rod iron butterfly. Um, this fish is five grand. Oh my god. But this one's like even better size. This one's smaller. These eggs are so heavy. But these fish are a deep water butterfly from Japan. Um, Japan, they're kind of a dime a dozen. Not I mean, they're still expensive over there, but it's very hard for them to come into the American market because you have a lot more competition over there. Um, same reason why like a lot of the deep water antheists don't come to America a lot, just cuz they love their fish over there. All right, we've got our last two bags of fish. Only two more baller fish, but the last two best ones for last. There's like nearly 20k in this box alone. That's crazy. Yeah. Um, so this next angel is an interruptus angel. This bag's going to be very heavy, so I'm going to get it all out first. They come from Japan. Really loading up on our Japanese deep water fish. Cuz I mean, there's just nothing like it. If you're going to go scuba diving and you can go deep water, go to Japan cuz you're going to see crazy antheus, these butterflies, angels. There's just nut stuff from over there. Um, but uh my nut Oh, he's perfect. Wow. Yeah, Bla, you talk. I can't really hold and talk. This thing is unbelievable. Interrupt his angel. All right, Jed's gotten the chance to show off every single fish. It's my turn to pick one up and show off. And of course, he takes the coolest one, the cream of the crop. A bag of water. You can't really see it, but there we go. There we go. Yep. That is that is what they call a koi tang of all koi tangs. Yellow, black. He's got like perfectly separated. He's even got some yellow in the dorsal. He's got some frosted tips. Yeah, I love Blade with that bag. We're going to take it out of the bag so you can really see it. But that fish is insane. So sick. All right, we've gone through all of the boxes now. Now we're going to get things through their dipping process. I'm going to step in every once in a while, talk a little bit about it, but I'm going to let the guys do their thing in the back. Get all these fish out of the boxes, out of the bags, into the dips, and then once they start hitting the floor, oh god, he scared me. Once they start hitting the floor, we'll showcase them. Jed forgot to turn on the uh I turned the mic on. The receiver on though. Yeah, you never said receiver. You said he left for lunch. He wanted to go eat and not enjoy these cool fish. So, we can all blame him. I needed food. I'm I'm a growing boy. Anyway, as you're probably wondering, 100k in fish. How is this 100k in fish? So, I've only counted about 50. So, one of the koi tangs and a pair of interruptus angels were part of this package deal that we did. Um, those are being drop shipped, so they are coming another day. Unfortunately, we will not see them in this video. Uh, but that's 30K right there. Then we have 10K in rod iron butterflies. another 20k uh in the koi tang and the interruptus all the bells angel or all the bells fair ass I mean there's a lot of money in fish here [Music] This thing is crazy to see now that it's out of the bag. I mean, it even has like some blue in the face. Yeah, like it has everything. The the coloring is amazing. Like you said, I love the frosted tip up on the dorsal. But dude, thing's crazy. Yeah. And what's even crazier is again, this was the third like best one out of like this was the C grade. This is the C grade. So these guys are now in their freshwater dip. They've gone through their methylene blue. They've gone through their formalin. This is probably the most stressful part of the dip for them. Like I said, we really prioritize this fish system. Even with such expensive fish like this, their health is also very important. So we're not just going to get expensive fish and just not treat it because we don't want to risk ruining it with medication. If there is something wrong with it, we want to address it. So we're going to do the best I can. Fresh dip is a really good thing. If there's ever external parasites, they will knock them off. So, they're going to be sitting here about 4 or 5 minutes. Then, this guy is going to go into our fish system, and then this guy's going to go into one of our coral systems. As Interruptus angels don't do amazing in copper, um, so it's kind of more of an observation thing. So, like our last interruptus, they don't do great in copper. This is kind of, I guess, our new interrupt holding chamber. The last one shipped out, so we had to replace it. I I had a personal affirmation for that last interrupt. I fed it every day. So, this guy's going down here where we all know, we'll always know where he's at. We can always check on him. He's down in the dark. There's a deep water fish, so they actually kind of like that. Uh, but we can always spot feed him. There's no other fish down there with him. It's just his own little world. That fish is stunning. We're at about 12:30 now in the afternoon, and we're still working through boxes. This is a long process of getting these fish out of box and into the fish wall. So, it takes quite some time. You guys have started to see some of them starting to hit the floor, but we've got a lot more fish to work through. Obviously, the ones that aren't going through the dips a little bit easier because we can get them straight into the invert wall. But when it comes to the fish that need to get dipped, it's, you know, over an hour process before they end up hitting the fish wall. So, we'll kind of check in with us throughout the course of the rest of the day. But, we're going to be wrapping up here soon and we're going to be done getting all the unboxing. And I definitely want to hear from you all what's your favorite fish has been throughout the course of this video. [Music] [Applause] All right, so we pretty much got everything unboxed from the day. We've got all the fish moved over to the front side of the wall. And then we've got a bunch of the fish that are now on the backside here in this other section of the fish wall. I have to say this has been an awesome video being able to showcase how we kind of do things unboxing it. Like I said earlier on in the video, it was about 2 years since we did something like this. Again, let me know down in the comments if this is the content you guys enjoy. But I'm going to show you guys here in the back real quick. We're pretty much all wrapped up, right? There was a bunch of boxes here before. No more boxes. And I think we've got the last run of fish right in there. Purple tile fish. The last couple fish that are going to be getting into the system. But let's go ahead get with Jed and let's wrap up from today's unboxing video. Little POV enjoyment. Okay guys, I'm going to let Jed wrap up this video. But I just want to say thank you guys so much for tuning in all the way through the video. It's been a ton of fun. But Jed, go ahead and sign it off. Well, I could just do a quick sign off, but again, I know your fingers tired from clicking this button, clicking this link a billion times, but seriously, all these fish are available down below. It's an insane collection we have right now. This isn't This is just what we got today. Our fish system is slammed. We got other rare and exotic fish or for you people that just kind of have a smaller tank or have, you know, not the same budget to go out and buy a $15,000 fish. All those fish are available as well. You can always call in. We ship everywhere. The site is exploding right now with our fish sales and it's only going to get better and bigger. So, make sure you click down below. Make sure you hit subscribe, like, and I'll see you on any future uploads. He did it. He signed off. Don't forget to like, subscribe, hit the bell notification. We'll catch you guys in the next one. [Music] [Applause] [Music]