Touring a MASSIVE Clownfish Breeding Facility!

what's going on reefers Blaine here in today's episode we're going to be hanging out at one of our wholesalers Pro Aquatics it's going to be a lot of fun checking out the entire facility seeing a lot of clownish seeing a lot of amazing fish and showing you guys where some of our specimens come [Music] from before we get back into the tour at Pro Aquatics I wanted to ask you the viewer what your favorite clownish is I'm going to toss it between storm clowns and percula so I want to hear down in the comments below what your favorite clownish is walking through the containers here I asked Avery one of the workers here at Pro Aquatics How many clownish pairs he has in total that are breeding here in the facility over 340 pairs are in here and there's just so many amazing [Music] clowns inside each of these tanks with any breeding pair you're going to see some tiles where they're actually going to hope to have all the clown fish and the different species laying their eggs on to so that way once they've done their job they can come out and they can get reared into a different tank that tomato clown is huge look at that Beast she is gorgeous this maroon is so nice check out that female she is beautiful the markings on her are unreal not just clownish either there are plenty projects happening there's some Splendid dottybacks in there some Orchid dottybacks but there's just a ton of fish from just this container all the way to the next these are just the breeding stocks so you're not even seeing all the things that have been bred and are kept out in the facility these are just their pairs that they're keeping and they're holding for the breeding operations now we're just seeing the breeding pairs we haven't even been able to check the rest of the facility out but just seeing these two containers full of breeding pairs has got me in really excited I used to be in an aquaculture facility back in California where I lived doing a shinook salmon project so this warms my heart and it gets me all excited these kind of things are really cool to see [Music] myself sitting in the back of the facility they have three gigantic water towers that are actually holding all the water for the facility you have the two here that are going to be saltwater and then the one deep in the back is going to be your fresh water so keeping all of their specimens with some fresh water salt water throughout all the [Music] day everywhere you turn you run into another project whether it be the clown fish breeding the go bees or even there's some puffers they're working on look down fish there are so many species they're working on here to rear breed and get to you guys available on the wholesale level and if you guys are looking for fish like this you guys can head head over to our website snag up whatever you need or give us a ring let us know what you're looking for and we can help you out in locating [Music] it there's even some moish Idols in here it's so cool every species that you could find pretty much you're seeing them here in this [Music] facility [Music] Pro Aquatics was actually the first to bring this species to the wholesale side it's really cool to see all the different kinds of fish that they have available and what they can bring to the Hobby in general all those little specks are little cleaner goes there's so many of them it just fills that entire bin there are a lot of fish in here there's more goes over here as well and it just goes on and on on and on to initiate more breeding activity they've created these domes to have full control over the light cycles and also be able to keep any light out to try and mimic the seasons in a way tricking the fish into going into breeding season as much as they can in a calendar year the thing I noticed that I really enjoy is to keep all their fish inside of these bins they're utilizing cast Nets with these weights on the bottom to create a nice screen on top it's nice and easy to pull up and down but at the same time it's weighted down so you're not going to lose any of the prized fish [Music] so now we're getting a sneak peek of the actual Hatchery this is where we're hatching out all the baby fish on the left side we're going to have clown fish and goes and then on the right side we're going to have all kinds of different species that you're going to [Music] see one thing I saw here in the Hatchery that I wanted to mention to you all and I thought was really cool was the fact they keep multiple species of clowns together in the growout tub so we've got percula Maroons skunks Clarks all together management had mentioned that due to the sheer amount of all of them in these tubs aggression kind of gets spread out and with a lot of feeding it's not nearly as frequent look at how small these little guys are it really is amazing seeing how many are growing out in the Hatchery and the sheer amount in each tub is mind-blowing I mean look at all of them Big Fish means big filtration and you're seeing it all over the facility whether it be giant skimmers huge pellet reactors just whatever it may be so that way they're able to keep all their water clean enough for all their different [Music] projects on the left-and side we have all the different species under breeding projects and getting grown out but over here on the right hand side of the facility and the remainder of the tubs moving forward are all holding and growing out clownish there are a ton of these tubs and each of them can hold roughly 200 gallons and depending on the size and age of the clowns can hold quite a bit of them clownish are a staple in our hobby ever since the Finding Nemo craze hit the scene and the demand for clownish is still up there that's why here at Pro Aquatics they've taken a good amount of their facility and focus it on their clown fish projects but hard to not enjoy all the species that you see here as well we saw it earlier in the Hatchery the tiny size of the new clowns out here in the main facility though is where you're going to see them being grown out and then sold on the wholesale level as they grow they're separated more to have more room for growth and to try and mitigate some of the aggression one thing to mention though with the sheer amount of clowns it's hard for a lot of aggression to occur simply due to the fact that there's so many of them and the aggression really gets distributed amongst them all and they all come from the same clutch so that HS as [Music] well I love when they ball up like this it's such a cool thing to see they're doing it in almost every tub 2 as well while on site we got lucky enough to handpick some of the amazing clowns from the garage tubs we were looking for some extreme Gladiators and began to hand sort through the masses to find the perfect candidates for the storefront to find the right ones we take a big Scoop from the bins and then try sifting through looking for the exact ones we want they're going to be great for your tanks at home if you're interested in any of these that we snag today give us a ring or shoot us a [Music] DM on Pro aquatic's website they have have a section called the hot seat this is their what you see is what you get and some of their Premier pairs for selection are up if you end up seeing any pair you like shoot us a message or give us a ring and we can get them ordered into the store for you and get them to your tank I will say though I have seen a lot of pairs that I would love to have in my tank at [Music] home here is a group getting ready for its new home and these guys are some stunners Pro Aquatics got our clowns all bagged up with some oxygen and got them inside the box for us once again big shout out to Pro Aquatics for letting us come through the facility and snag up some more clowns for the shop once we got back to the shop we got our box opened and we got a better look at the clowns we snagged starting off we ended up finding a perfect Sapphire Onyx clownish to pair up with an already in store clown that we think would be a perfect match we also snagged a really nice beautiful black storm pair with some really nice markings and we grabbed up a bunch of extreme Gladiators that were absolutely stunning I might just have to snag up some for [Music] myself now that we've gone to Pro Aquatics we came back to Top Shelf we put all the clowns away I ended up actually grabbing two of our choice Gladiators from that group that we were handpicking from I just recently set up this new reefer tank it's a 425xl G2 plus I'm really excited about this system but I'm really excited about getting it all stocked out and I normally have a clownish pair in every single tank I went back and forth and back and forth of whether or not I wanted a pair in this tank and after going to Pro aquatic seeing all the amazing options they had I had to grab up a pair of Gladiators so ended up grabbing these two little guys pretty Choice little fellas but super super excited about adding them into my tank here at home you guys are getting a little sneak peek of my place my new system and getting to see a brand new fish pair that's going to get added in so want to say thank you again to Pro Aquatics to Jed to everyone that was involved in today's video I had a blast the aquaculturist in me deep down inside had a ton of fun the nerd in me better yet had a lot of fun so I want to say thank you so much to you guys for watching all the way till the end on this one be sure to like subscribe hit the Bell notifications so you don't miss out on any future [Music] upload