I Got a Pet Walking Fish (literally)

this is a totally regular fish just kidding it can literally walk on land yeah I just figured out that there's this species of fish that has evolved over millions of years to be able to survive out of the water it's called a mud skipper and I want to keep it as a pet so I did what any normal person would do and I drove to PetSmart so I could buy it hi uh do you guys show mud skippers a mud skipper yeah we don't sell those okay turns out petmart just has goldfish and these things why even is that so yeah they don't have mud skippers and it turns out the only way I can get one of these things is by going to this sketchy website and getting one for only $24 why is it so cheap this has got to be a scam is this thing even going to be able to walk I don't even have a choice let me just buy this thing okay well it's B it's going to be here in 7 days so I guess uh I just got to wait for then with one week until the walking fish got delivered I needed to create a home for it with both a section for water and land so to do that I just went out and bought uh 1 second this it's a 40 galon terrarium and I'm going to fill it up with this I'm just kidding there's more a lot more so yeah basically a lot of stuff because I want to make this be a dream home for my mud skipper that will have tons of awesome stuff including a literal parkour course to figure out if the $24 mud skipper will actually be able to jump out of the water all right anyways to build this tank we can pretty much get rid of all of this stuff and that's because all we need right now are these although it may not look like it inside of each of these packages is rocks just for some reason they've all been individually wrapped I don't know who did that but I guess I got to unwrap all these now 20 minutes later all right there we go basically I'm going to use these rocks to lay out the foundation of the enclosure to separate the land and water areas so I laid some of the rocks out but then I eventually ran into a problem okay I've just ran out of small rocks while building and the only rocks I have left are way too big so you know what time it is there we go so I continued building up the height of the Rocks like this because I'm planning on building a waterfall here with a working water flow so the walking fish will be able to play around in it now to fill in the gaps I've got to use this spray foam to you know spray it now this is where the build gets fun because now I get to use this little pump to make the waterfall actually work now to be honest I don't really know how I'm going to do this but I need to somehow send water from this pump up the rock so then it can somehow flow back down into the water area okay so I guess I'll just try and use this tube that the pump came with and try and send it up over the Rocks like that well I guess let me go get some water and fill this thing up so I can see if the waterfall actually works all right moment of truth let me plug this in and it's plugged in and wait is it working uh kind of okay this is more of just like a like a sewage pipe than a waterfall but uh oh God why is the water turning brown what is going since it wasn't working uh very well I decided to get some more water and add that in to see if it would help okay with more water the water pressure of the waterfall goes up a lot bro what is this can you stop going what is how okay oh shoot oh no bro it is spraying all around my room turn it off turn them off so thankfully I found this dial on the pump that let me turn down the water pressure and then the waterfall was actually working pretty well all right there we go to finish it off I glued some rocks on the top to hide the pump and I also drained out the sewage water because uh yeah we don't really want that the waterfall was now complete but this is only just the start I have some crazy things planned for the walking fish like building a literal parkour course for it to play on yeah I am not kidding but first I need to finish the foundations of this enclosure which means I need to make it look like a beautiful Lake to do that I got a bunch of different stuff like wood which I glued onto the Rocks now I've got to add the substrate so for the land area I'm using these black balls which I'll put behind the rocks and sloping down the waterfall finally I put a layer of dirt on top to make it look more natural now for the water area I'm going to keep it simple by just adding in some sand you know all right the substrate's finished now but if I'm not going to lie this kind of looks uh really bad but the only reason this looks really bad right now is because the final step to making a beautiful lake is to add in plants and unfortunately for me I can't really just grab plants from outside look I don't know why I even grabbed that let me just put it back instead I have to drive to PetSmart again and buy the very very overpriced aquatic plants there holy moly guacamole $10.99 for this tiny Leaf why are these so expensive this one is literally the same size as my finger $10.99 that is so expensive despite those plants being an absolute scam I still bought them and uh yeah I have plants now so I spent a little while using my artistic skills to put the plants around the terrarium and it ended up looking like this which you know this looks pretty good all right now that that's done it's time to add the water in again and this time I'm going be a little more careful to make sure it doesn't turn into sewage water also I figured I should mention this but I'm using a water that has a very small amount of salt mixed into it because that's how mud skippers live in the wild so if any of the freshwater plants die it it's not my fault oh my God look at this this is literally like a a paradise there's a working waterfall there's plants uh okay I mean that's just normal I guess but uh you know it's still pretty good and look this is the best part I even got a light on it that when I press this button it will turn it to nighttime and by night time I mean it just changes the light to Blue but I mean you still got to admit that's pretty cool the base of the enclosure was now finished but there was still 4 days until the mud skipper walking fish arrived at my door so to make this enclosure even better before he gets here I'm going to add a bunch of tiny fish inside but before adding in the fish I quickly poured some healthy bacterias into the water in order to let it cycle and make it safe for the fish all right well uh it's been a couple days now uh I guess let me just go get the fish you know I got to go to petmart again uh I'll be there soon so I went and purchased the fish and got four of these mollies okay the fish have been acclimating in the water for a little bit now and to put them in the water I'm going to do a super cool transition so basically when I clap my hands they'll be in the water 3 2 1 boom look at that that's a super clean transition but anyways the fish are in the you know the lake so I got four fish three different species of mollies and you know they look pretty cool we got like a zebra looking one some Goldfish looking ones and then this black one you know these are pretty cool they look at this this guy's eating the sand right now you see that what the heck I didn't even know they did that okay wait I'm not even going to lie these are actually super cool and to make it even more diverse I also got some Nite snails which will help clean algae and stuff so yeah that's pretty helpful but if I'm not going to lie I'm kind of getting bored of just these normal fish so you know what time it is it is time to add in the walking fish the reason why we're all watching in this video so uh let's just get to the good part all right I just got a notification on my phone it says it's here so you already know what time it is it is mud skipper o' clock uh let me just get this package oh yeah check it out this is the walking fish inside of this box so let me open this thing [Music] up get out of here I'm just kidding there's nothing actually in this box the walking fish has actually been acclimating in the water for a while so I can already add him into his new home right after adding him in the little fish started to swim all around his new water area even started to play around with some of the other fish but of course this isn't just a normal fish it is a walking fish and this little guy clearly knew how to do that very well oh my God this guy is just just walking around on land this is so cool mud skippers are able to defy the law of fish because they have not only the ability to breathe through their gills like allfish but also through their skin while it's still wet so in fact mud skippers will actually spend more time out of the water than in the water so I don't really know if they can even really be considered a fish at that point but I mean it still looks like one but the best part of this video is coming up now where I'll be feeding the mud for all types of food including live insects to see which he likes the most then I'll build him a parkour course and if he can successfully complete it I'll give him unlimited of whatever his favorite food is but of course this little guy's first going to need a name so after searching through thousands of options I came across the perfect name this walking fish will be called Franklin because I just feel like he looks like a Franklin anyways let's feed Franklin some food to see what he likes best out of these first up on the list we got house flies and I have 200 of them in this little container but I only want to feed them a couple of these so I'm going to have to be careful that hundreds of these don't escape around my room so I'm just going to try my best to empty a few in here next to Franklin and oh dang he is going crazy about three flies had dropped in and Franklin had instantly sucked up two of them but one of the Flies had managed to escape onto a little leaf but of course I wasn't going to let him get away so I scooped him up and brought him over to Franklin I will be honest though his hunting skills did need some work as it took him a couple tries just to eat this tiny little fly but eventually he got it down clearly Franklin loves house flies but I wonder if he'll go for some bigger insects so next up I got some meal worms and got straight to dropping them in front of Franklin this time he was under the water but that didn't stop him as he tried to eat the worms right away although there is a reason why I said he tried to eat the worms because he failed so many times at trying to eat it this guy stinks and eventually another fish just tried to take it from him so he just swam away but a little later while Franklin was chilling on the land area I dropped the nether worm right in front of him and this time he leaped onto it and absolutely devoured it wait is he going under the water with it wait I think he just swallowed at whole dang well it's clear that Franklin likes mu worms it is a little bit hard for him to hunt them but they're still the final insect to feed him which are crickets and these are almost as big as Franklin so I don't really know if he's even going to try and eat them but I dropped them in anyways the cricket started to slowly move around in the water and Franklin definitely noticed Franklin got into position and waited for the perfect moment to strike and as soon as the cricket moved again oh oh okay well it turns out the cricket scared Franklin away and he just hid under the water well now I know Franklin loves flies sort of likes worms and it's just straight up scared of crickets well now it's time for the best part of the video where I'll be building Franklin a parkour course to test how good he is at jumping now you might be wondering how I'm actually going to create this and well to be honest I don't know like actually I do not have a plan at all but I guess I'll just start with something I already have which is this plastic stuff and I'll quickly just create some little pillars that the fish will have to jump to now we just got to put these into place in the floor and boom here's the game plan there's three of these pillars that the walking fish will have to go from jump to jump and if he gets to the final pillar I'll give him unlimited house flies to eat since that's his favorite food all right well the course is built so I guess I'll uh just wait and see if he'll complete it 2 hours later uh so Franklin never even tried to complete it on his own I don't really know what I was expecting so instead I got some tweezers and meal worms to try and bring him towards the course but it seemed like Franklin was scared of the tweezers so I just had to keep repeatedly dropping the food in the direction I wanted him to go in and once he tried to eat it I picked it up and repeated the process it eventually worked to get Franklin over to the start of the parkour course but this is the hard part because now he actually has to jump from platform to platform so I tried the same strategy of dropping meal worms but it was taking forever so I had to make it a little easier for him by putting some mud leading up to it so now it's not really a parkour course it's more just like a a walk cor course but after doing that and switching over the Flies Franklin started to make a little more progress but this is where it got hard for Franklin because while he could make it up to the first platform multiple times he just wasn't going to the second platform at all and he definitely wasn't going to go to the third platform so I just removed that and just decided if he made it to the second then he would win the unlimited flies prize so I continued strength to bring him there for literally 2 hours but Franklin just kept abandoning mission on the first platform over and over Mission failed we'll get him next time so to be honest I just gave up and scooped Franklin up onto it because I still wanted to give him unlimited flies yay Franklin you totally just did that by yourself now you get unlimited flies here you go boy eat up eat up oh my God there's so many flies no they're getting a wi flying around my room and of course Franklin really enjoyed those flies if you want to see more videos about Franklin in the future make sure you subscribe so YouTube will recommend you that video once it comes out seriously go down and subscribe right now please I hope you enjoyed seeing how cool this walking fish is and if you have any ideas about what kind of videos I should make for him comment them

Channel: TerraGreen

Views: 4,232,748

Keywords: walking fish, fish, terragreen, terra, green, terra green, pet walking fish, pet fish, aquarium, terrarium, paludarium, ecosystem, dr plants, mudskipper, mudskipper fish

Id: z4S4RAise6o

Length: 13min 21sec (801 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 20 2024