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Pre-Black Friday Sale! Saturday!

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Go behind the scenes at Top Shelf Aquatics’ farm location during its pre-Black Friday saltwater aquarium sale. The live sale features coral collections released every hour, plus random offers shared through the Reef2Reef thread. Available selections span SPS, LPS, and soft corals, with choices for beginner and advanced reef keepers. Highlighted corals include zoas, Montipora, Acropora, Duncan frags, scolias, mystery corals, and TSA signature pieces.

The stream also reviews early Black Friday discounts on aquarium supplies. Featured offers include 25% off Sicce, 20% off Reef Octopus and Hanna Instruments, 15% off Neptune products and Salifert test kits, and 10% off Hydros and Abyzz pumps. Select daily doorbusters offer additional savings, while mystery frag packs and different coral sizes provide more options. Viewers are encouraged to check new hourly drops promptly and revisit earlier collections for corals that remain available.

Key takeaways

  • Hourly coral collections include SPS, LPS, and soft corals.
  • The sale features TSA aquacultured corals and signature pieces.
  • Dry goods discounts cover pumps, controllers, and test kits.
  • Daily doorbusters may provide savings beyond vendor-wide discounts.
  • Earlier live-sale collections may still contain available corals.
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[Music] n [Music] n [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to Top Shelf Aquatics [Music] what's going on reefers we are hanging out here in the Farm location exciting times here at topshelf Aquatics we have the pre Black Friday live sale happening right now on our website we also have a ton of crazy stuff happening as well in the retail store Black Friday the pre-black Friday sales are on like Donkey Kong we're excited about everything that's going on it's been a lot of fun watching the thread over on Reef T Reef hanging out with you guys there hanging out with the people over in the retail store here today I was in a little bit earlier but I just want to say hello to everyone we're going to let some people jump on to the live with us here now hope everyone's having a fantastic Saturday we're going to go over some of the deals that we currently have on our live sale we'll talk about some of the dry goods deals we have and I'm going to go over just some of my favorite picks from all the corals we have available we've been dropping hourly collections every hour on the hour since 11:00 a.m. this morning it's going to go all the way till tomorrow night at 11:00 as well but you don't want to miss out on any of the hourly collections I was just trying to make my Instagram story earlier today snagged myself one of the daily deals I've been posting per the hour and when I went to grab the link and it already sold in that two-minute P span that I tried to get it online and onto the story so shout out to whoever ended up snagging that deal but lots and lots of amazing deals happening on the website right now we'll go ahead pull up the website Garrett my main man once again here with me on the weekend we're hanging out we've got the reef T Reef thread but we have jumped over now to the website we'll go a pull up the uh live sale instructional page we'll go down to that we're here you know it's got the instructional video if you guys have never done one of our live sales before if you're trying to figure out how to do a live sale we did a video to help teach you guys and then you can join us over on Reef tar so Garett if you want to click that join in O head over to Reef tarf and check out the thread so here's the thread right here you guys are seeing on the live stream we're checking out the thread you know you guys have been involved with it you know shout out tar tar I want to say thank you so much to them for having an awesome platform for us to be able to utilize for these live sales be able to put out threads and all those things I post all my videos anytime they are released on Reef T Reef so shout out to Reef T reef and everybody over there on the reef T Reef team but pretty cool we're dropping random deals all throughout the day on the thread you can see it right now the flicker Favia was a click here to buy now price of $24.99 that is a $90 retail value Coral that is jumping all the way down to 25 bucks like I said just tons of awesome deals going on right now before we get into the coral though we're going to hop back over to the website I want to talk a little bit about some of the early Black Friday deals we have going on for supplies uh there is a ton of awesome deals we have going on right now and I want to let everyone know to that's tuning in on the live these deals these discounts are the Black Friday discounts that we're releasing early we're excited to be able to release them early get them to you guys as quickly as we possibly can but these are going to be the discounts all throughout the week and what we're going to be seeing too is some daily doorbusters throughout the week two we'll see some things coming up here and there yesterday the Trident was the daily doorbuster from Neptune coming off for 20% off like I was saying too the daily door busters are going to be you know coincide with the actual discounts of the entire vendor Neptune's doing 15% off all their products but the daily door buster was just a little bit better with 5% more off on the Neptune Trident so if you were looking to grab one hopefully yesterday you snagged yourself one if not there's still 15% off right now and you can grab them still at an amazing deal but we'll kind of just check out some of the groups let's jump into C real quick head over to CJ CJ's got 25% off right now I mean if you guys are looking for a brand new return pump if you're looking for some wave you know some you know sorry a uh Wave Maker if you're looking for CJ pump clean whether you're looking for the utility pump the zero utility I mean there is so many amazing deals happening right now with CJ with 25% off I mean it's a quarter of the price already gone happening right now for you guys over on the website just a lot of fun stuff man I'm going to check in with the chat see how everyone's doing today it's been a lot of of fun being able to jump on get on the live again and see what everyone's been up to this weekend tons of fun stuff happening here over at topshelf Aquatics we'll you know looking at all the deals really I mean I've been seeing some amazing stuff like the Fantasia ganis over you know under a hundred bucks in some places we've got Mony caps that are flying out the door there's a lot of great deals and it's all coming from these Farm facility that we have here at topshelf Aquatics you know if you're for quarantined tried true trusty aquaculture corals this is the place you should be shopping and now is the time to kind of explain how the live sale works a little bit more we're going to hop back onto the website and we're going to check out one of the hourly collections so we'll go to the pre- Black Friday we'll just jump on the 11:00 a.m. uh collection there Garrett so this was the first collection that we dropped this morning there's going to be some corals that aren't there anymore because they've been snagged and bought up already but you guys can see there is a ton of really great deals whether it be the Scoles the monis we got Fathead dendros on the website there's a lot of really good stuff if you guys are looking to snag up some extra corals for your reef tank you know I want to hear in the comments in the chat you know what you guys are looking to put into your Reef whether it be SPS LPS soft corals we have a huge plethora available on the website right now during the live sale and like I said this is just the 11:00 a.m. collection we've dropped a bunch of them since there's been the noon collection the 1: p.m. the 2 p.m. and sooner or later we're going to have the 3pm drop here very soon I want to say shout out to the entire Team all week working tirelessly whether it be the marketing team the online side whether it be the farm facility making sure that all these corals are ready to go or the retail location with everything that's happening this weekend for the pre- Black Friday super St super sale in store and also online what is going on everyone thank you guys for joining in on the fun just thought I'd hop on showcase some of my favorite deals over here at topshelf Aquatics I uh was looking at the website just a little bit earlier you know whether it be hydros with their 10% off their controllers Reef Octopus is at 20% off and I mean on top of that too tons and tons of awesome Corals in the live sale you know whatever you guys are looking for we definitely have it here and it's tried and true aquacultured corals uh go ahead check in on the chat see what's going on with everybody not too many people joining in this early Saturday afternoon it's almost 3:00 here in beautiful sunny a little bit chilly Orlando it's gotten a little bit colder here in Florida but we are still in high 60° weather so not really as cold as some of you other people out there viewing and watching I know we have some awesome door busters too for corals that are going to be happening as well be sure to you know stay in tune with that stay up to date on the website check in and like I said too you're going to want to make sure that when those hourly drops happen right at 3 p.m. right at 4 p.m. you're going to want to be there when that collection drops to make sure you can get those amazing deals that are going to be snuck in there throughout all the different corals that are available and If you're looking for high-end stuff if you're looking for beginner stuff in the middle of the road stuff we've got it all we've got some really nice high-end fruity splice frags that I've seen I've seen some of the speci OAS as well and then you can go on the opposite side of the spectrum seen some nice good pulsing Zena frags I've seen a bunch of Duncan frags hitting the market on the website and so whether you're a beginner in reefkeeping whether you're Advanced we've got all kinds of different things available here at Top Shelf Aquatics that you guys can enjoy for the pre- Black Friday live sale let's go a hop back over to the website real quick we're going to hang out here just for a little bit we went live at 2:30 probably hang out here till about 3: or so just wanted to get with everybody let's go a jump back over to the collections let's check out actually the collection from 2 p.m. let's see some of the hottest drop from what's been going on today right off the rip I mean that Bill Murray right at the top you know $150 retail value now sitting at 90 bucks you know we've got 40% off that you keep going down I mean we've got Elegance we've got got the kaleidoscopes those are some of my favorite zoas if you're a zoa collector I would definitely recommend the kaleidoscopes for you the Tropicana anacropora is a beautiful coral there's a ton of awesome stuff aoi zoas a lot of really great things Peter what's up man thanks for tuning in appreciate you jumping on the live stream jumping on the chat yeah o pearlberry Acro we've got the new Spearman alv aora I really really like that one it's a brilliant green Alvi that's super super nice there's the TSA Daydream Acro up top I'll have Garrett stop real quick so the TSA aquamarine Acro por Coral you can see that is not just a little frag that's a pretty big chunk and go ahead and click that link there Garrett so that's a that's a large frag right that's a whole Colony that we're selling and originally at about 800 bucks we've got it marked all the way down to $150 you know if you've got a bigger system if you're looking to fill in your tank a little bit quicker we have these different size variants of frags whether it be on our regular website the regular and the large variants or here in the live sale where we're putting up wizzywig colonies to be able to toss up into the live sale and get them at an astronomical price I mean 150 to be able to grab a nice large chunky piece would be really awesome help you fill up your tank nice and quick we'll go ahead hop back to the collection again meret corals what's going on thanks for tuning in appreciate appreciate you jumping on the chat and then there's also some mystery stuff too right we've got the pre- Black Friday mystery corals we've got a mystery softies bag that's $18.99 for a mystery softy you know who knows what you can end up snagging you might get an awesome zoa frag something of that sort you know we've got some sweet suspi area too that would look good in anyone's tank but there's a ton of stuff and you know you can see it too a lot of TSA stuff right these are all signature pieces we've been growing for a long time but we're not going to sell ourselves short and not keep some of those other amazing pieces whether it be Jason Fox rrc all those other ones there's a lot of amazing corals that we want to make sure we have available here at Top Shelf Aquatics and maintain that name too but all the TSA pieces are really cool the uh mystery beginner frag pack that's four frags I mean you're getting four corals for 50 bucks you know really really cheap affordable corals you know I I see it sometimes where people worry about some of our prices I'm looking at the prices right now myself that TSA gamma knife the hideen aora that's a coral I try to sell non-stop all day long and that's at 39.99 a crazy good deal for that Coral 50% off really A cool one when it starts growing in and Crossing kind of like a shag carpet style Coral really unique bunch of awesome aans we have on the site too a lot of really good stuff when it comes to the LPS section the Avatar chalice you guys saw that the Psychedelic watermelon Favia a lot of really cool stuff the burning banana stylos anelia is really cool as well I love the corals on that one the TSA chili Pepperman is also a nice one I mean as we keep going down the list right and I keep seeing more and more amazing deals that you guys should be definitely snagging actually stop real quick go back up a little bit Garrett really cool so the ultra aquacultured scolia really cool that we've started to push and have aquaculture Adventures of all different kinds here in the farm Scoles are one of those corals that a lot of people talk about oh those can't be fragged oh those can't be aquacultured well they can be and we're doing it right here at top sh Aquatics you know we are cutting up Scoles into Pizza pieces and then we're allowing them to regrow out and form into a whole new skoie so pretty cool shout out to Kevin for being able to do all these different ventures in aquaculture but $81 for a Scully if you're you know someone with a nano tank looking to get yourself a choice piece or someone that's looking for a nice ful to add into your sandbed something like that's going to be a great pickup at 82 bucks super good deal hey there's the live chat I couldn't even see you guys hello YouTube what's up everybody can I be a stream moderator I mean we have like five people in the Stream I think I can moderate them by now but if we get big at some point you definitely I will I will reach out to you and let you know Volunteer State fishing Emily Joseph dedicated Reaper Loken does stuff thank you guys for jumping on I appreciate you guys being in the chat jumping on the uh true dedicated top shelf Aquatics viewers so thank you you guys uh real quick this is my continuous plug I always do anytime I go live I know I'm pushing the live sale but I want to make sure you guys head over to the YouTube channel subscribe hit the Bell notification like check out any video we've got a bunch of different content coming out of the channel whether it be beginner videos whether it be tank tours or if we go down into the deep depths of high-end SPS we've got it all on the channel so be sure to check out the channel subscribe if you haven't done so it's super easy it's just a single button you don't have to pay anything you just hit that subscribe button help helps me out a ton helps topshelf out as well but if you're looking to help me out support me definitely hit the Subscribe button Fang what's going up hello from Pennsylvania what's going on I moved to Florida from Baltimore 60 isn't bad but yeah you're but blood definitely thins up here in or down south in Florida I lived in the Pacific Northwest for a long long time and I have become a soft soft squishy little person when it comes to rain and cold weather I don't like it nearly as much anymore I used to be able to deal with it fine but now just not the same well thank you guys for joining in on the stream we'll go ahead hop back over to the website I want to take another look we're going to go to the 1 pm. collection so like I said it's important important that you guys go back check out the older collections from the live sale because you might be able to snag one p there it is right up top you can snag you know some corals that are not snagged up already and been kind of hiding away tucked in the back the like the exospheres that's a couple heads right there looks like it might even be three heads at 120 bucks crazy good deal Jose what's up man thank you so much for tuning in yo Reef buds doing weekly water changes while watching the feed appreciate you tuning in Jonathan Louisville what's going on Louisville thank you guys for tuning in we're hanging out here in the farm we're going over some of our deals some of our sales those white zombies up top are beautiful the red Candy Crush mushrooms a really nice one too the TSA danger zone is actually a Monty I just recently talked about on our top 10 favorite monis coming out of the farm from top shelf Aquatics I think it's a really cool one nice and cruster that once the red starts to take over can kind of get more of a darker tone almost a black tone in a way but looks really nice when it can encrust that's one of those monis one of those encrusting monis I would allow it to encrust some rockscape and go a little crazy so definitely a really nice piece the TSA Orange Crush echinata amazing colors on that one truly a beautiful one and then we've got our merch too we've got some merch mixed in there as well we've got blue raven merletti blastos like I said a bunch of aans Stratosphere SPS purple hearts there's a ton of corals whether it be high-end lowend whatever you're looking for we've got it here at Top Shelf Aquatics But be sure to let me know in the chat what you guys have picked up from the live sale already I know we have a bunch more hours to go many more collections to drop but there's a lot of good stuff that has already hit the website and already making its way hopefully to your reef tanks at home I will say the uh Dry Goods deals crazy right now though I mean honestly maxb camore ice cap Red Sea we've got everybody involved right now we've got all the vendors pitching in and having fun with it we've even got AB Biz you know AB Biz pumps you guys know those those are unbelievable and we've got them at 10% off right now if you guys have watched the testing video from top shelf Aquatics takes a little bit of testing to make sure that all of these tanks run SP and span Evan is actually here right now he's been testing all day per usual and if you guys haven't seen the testing video on our YouTube channel be sure to check that out but salfer is the test kits that we are using for that Garrett's pulled it up there on the screen we've got him circling it right now how we test our water parameters but 15% off right now of those salfer test kits you can snag them from our website they're the same ones we're using we also utilize Hannah Checkers and Hannah's also doing a discount too so tons and tons of of good stuff 20% off a Hannah instruments 15% off salifert whatever you guys are looking for there's a lot of really good deals I mean honestly if you guys are looking for your Black Friday deals now is the time so far Joseph is snagged a hurricane zoa pool tide Favia Nirvana zoa Ultra leather coral and a few mystery bags nice snags there I love mystery bags I'm a sucker for mystery bags in general for all things in life but I think a mystery bag with corals is definitely an awesome way to go so nice pickups there I love you picking up a leather Coral too not enough appreciation for our leather corals that's why I ended up doing this soft Coral video too but it's been fun guys just jumping on thought we would tune in and see what everybody's been doing shopping wise on our website I will say too picked up a hydros today Kyle nice what uh what a hydros did you end up snagging glad you uh ended up grabbing a hydros from us they have been doing a lot of innovation lately I know if you ended up grabbing your hydros you might be patiently waiting for the maven I know that is right around the corner here soon hopefully soon but we want to make sure they bring out the best possible product so that we can sell it to every single one of you guys but the uh hydros Maven is definitely going to be unique and really exciting to see once it hits the market and once I get a get my hands on one and start playing around with it the X4 nice pickup Kyle I will have to say the controllability of our reef tanks is crazy now everybody's buying controllers and I I mean I think they're an awesome thing to have on your system right anyway you can get an extra set of eyes watching your reef tank and making sure your investment is in the best possible situation all kinds of good stuff though ice cap maxc tons of dry goods deals but obviously we are excited about all of the collections the hourly collections that we're dropping on the website for all of our corals we push TSA aquacultured Coral all the time I like to tell people time and time again we are not bringing Corals in we are growing corals and sending them out that is our job here at topshelf Aquatics and we want to make sure we're not pulling from the ocean we're maintaining and keeping it nice and happy and we're sending corals from our facility to your reef tanks at home having a nice little piece of the ocean in your living room or in your living space is an awesome thing and no better thing to have than TSA aquacultured corals with those vibrant colors shining bright in your reef tanks we check in with the chat again make sure everybody's doing good thank you guys again for tuning in I know it was a random stream I just wanted to hop on I will make a post about it tonight I believe we might go live again tomorrow and the goal is probably 3 or 4:00 we'll solidify a time frame for you guys tomorrow when we end up going live but a lot of fun being able to jump on talk about some of our favorite pieces here from topshelf Aquatics I'll have Garrett pull up the website s just one more time look for any more amazing deals that we've got we'll pull up the Liv stock we'll go to the pre- Black Friday let's go to let's go to noon Garrett let's go to noon let's check out noon see what was up in noon see what kind of amazing deals are still hanging around and have not been scooped up yet some really cool stuff that TSA red eyee is a beautiful piece I love the pups on that really a unique Coral right there though the TSA Holy Grail head piece that is a big ticket item right there and at $900 I mean kind of hard to beat you know when you're looking at snagging a nice Holy Grail that's going to be a good one coming out of the TSA facility we've also got the T TSA toxic pin wheel Duncans those are some really cool Duncans fair price at about $30 TSA Heaven and Hell mil aoras and also really nice one 22799 and would you know Kevin ended up sneaking in a TSA fruit swirl tricolor grafted piece the satsa absolutely beautiful Monty uh it's got three different colors on it gar go a and click that one that's that's easily one of our favorite that we have here at the farm I I love that piece I know Kevin's really proud of it so I thought I'd give it a little bit more love and showcase the uh the frag of it but 41% off for that piece I mean you're not going to see it at any better price it's $1,000 frag and we're sitting at just under $600 so probably one if not some of the more higher-end monis that we have here available on the uh live sale you might see some mind melds sneaking in there as well but the fruit swirl easily one of the nicer monies that you're going to see today on the live sale we he even snuck in a baby gril that was up top that $800 that is a TW you know that is a $2,000 torch that is a really really nice torch if you guys have seen on the YouTube on the Instagram I like to Showcase that torch Colony a lot really really Choice one one that I would absolutely add into my reef tank if Kevin would let me but I know that's not the case so we uh we've got fairy farts we've got mystery TSA t-shirts too if you guys are looking to snag up some merchandise as well we've got a bunch of great merch that's going out right now a couple great new designs we' got some more designs in the works too so definitely be sure to stay tuned as we get those into your closets as home we got golden jaw jaw dropper acropora a large chunky frag there lots of good stuff but I hope you guys enjoyed hopping on with me real quick you know what I love that Garrett I think Garrett Garrett see this is why we keep Garrett around Garrett's uh my my voice on my right shoulder that's the you know the happy voice and I got myself the crazy one on the other side we're going to wait till 3:00 and once 3:00 happens we'll check the hourly drop we'll see what is sneaking into 300 p.m. hourly drop we'll check out some of those deals then we'll wrap up for the day and then we'll let you guys continue to shop and you guys don't have to hear my voice anymore and you can focus on buying corals right that's the best way to do it awesome awesome stuff though I mean big frags Big Choice pieces like the rainbow e canophilia a lot of cool stuff I mean you know if you're looking at finding some Choice corals now is the time to be able to go in and grab some really really nice pieces to be you know the Highlight piece of your reef tank Volunteer State fishing I understand for sure as a 14-year-old that's awesome by the way that you are keep it a reef at 14 years old I started my first reef tank I don't know if I can call it a reef tank I call it more of a Fowler almost there was some Corals in there a couple of soft corals but not too much I was 8 years old so starting early it's the best way to start here in reefkeeping you're going to learn new stuff every single day I've been reefkeeping now over 20 years and I learn new stuff all the time it never stops this hobby is amazing absolutely Joseph for sure good for you getting into it so young I know it can be an expensive hobby at times but you don't have to make it that way you can find corals at great prices you can wait for sales like this you can scoop up some awesome deals but absolutely good for you for getting into a hobby like this at such a young age love that rainbow coral hard not to love anything rainbow right twitch Graves fishing thanks for tuning in yeah we've got Evan running around to the farm I'm in his way he's feeding fish he's on the other side shout out to the farm team once again for everything that they do here at the TSA Farm it is not easy doing what we do uh I think a lot of people tend to forget that this is not a garage this is a large aquaculture facility with 30,000 plus gallons at this point now that we're taking care of there's a lot of animals that are in trusting us to be able to take care of them and give them the best possible situation so big kudos to the farm team what they're able to do but this is not a garage operation we are you know supplying corals all across the nation shipping all across the nation and you know we like to give you guys the best quality product possible best quality animals too so we're excited we're able to give you guys all of that at a great price and aquacultured Joseph had an opportunity to tour the farm and it's amazing I know man it it truly is like Disney World I think is the right term Disney World I always get yelled at land World whatever Disney World of reefers though there is so much to see in here I mean every time I turn and look I mean look there's corals behind me in sumps there's corals everywhere I mean there is a lot of stuff going on here at the farm corals everywhere Kevin's a mastermind at whispering to these animals and making sure that they grow well for them but let's go ahead head over to the website we're at 3:00 now the 300 p.m drop should be live here any second we'll take a look at what we've got available what kind of great deals we have and then we will head out for the day but we're going to check our 3 pm drop is live bless you Evan in the back heard him sneeze uh we've got all kinds of good stuff once again right off the rip we've got mystery LPS corals we've got the Hot Pot mushroom coral we've got the Jason Fox free care which is really cool I love the color contrast on that one with like that lime green and the burgundy color and then kind of just keeps going the Citrus blast is another grafted piece we have here in the farm another Spearman a lot of good stuff though Tyree bubble gum monster chalice that's an OG piece right there that's a piece that's been around for a long long time grown in aquaculture facilities for years and years so cool to see that green long pup toad stool we don't have a ton of those available so snag that one when you can cuz they will go quick I know people will grab them quickly the TSA glow tip Alvi is also a really nice one cc voodoo magic another OG piece a piece that's been around for a hot minute and been grown out here in the farm does really well for us I like that one the mystery branching frag PRACK that's a pretty cool one I uh that's 100 $20 retail value we're dropping it down to 45 bucks so super good deal on that one right next to it a green splatter Hammer tons and tons of deals I'm going through the entire collection now looking at it all there's a jelly bean chalice in here down the way we've got more Fathead dendros Laffy Taffy ganes we've got all kinds of stuff if you're looking for specifics we more than likely have it so definitely stay tuned focus in on all those deals that are dropping every hour on the hour until 11:00 p.m. tonight thank you guys so much for tuning in jumping on the live stream with me I know we didn't have a ton of people here but it was a lot of fun I always enjoy getting to jump on the live i' I'd like to try and do more live streams uh Garrett's worked diligently and very hard on getting all these awesome Graphics these things to work being able to stream across platform I think is also really amazing live on Facebook live on Instagram Live on YouTube kudos to Garrett thank you so much man you are you know my rightand man so I appreciate you but thanks again guys for tuning in this has been awesome uh checking out all the daily deals the deals we've got going on all the way till 11: tonight though there's going to be amazing deals and if you guys are looking for dry goods as well the Black Friday deals are live already we've given to you we've given them to you early so head over to the website take advantage of all the dry goods deals and don't forget to head over to reef.com check out the thread come in with us Ernesto is on the thread we've got everybody I'm going to be on the thread here later on today after I'm done here in the retail store location here in the farm streaming with you guys I'll hop on to the thread I'll be there as well rede reefer thank you for tuning in it's true there are some free free corals that'll be snuck in if you follow along on the thread Volunteer State fishing so definitely stay tuned on the thread a lot of really great deals thank you guys for coming on to the live stream with me be sure to check out the pre-black Friday live sale on the website on reef reef.com and don't forget to snag any discounts on Dry Goods you're looking for too maybe even a new tank red se's doing 12% off thanks for tuning in guys we'll see you all soon bye [Music] n [Music]