mitch is with pets and friends have been here for how many years if family and business been there twenty four years and counting almost twenty five now been run by the family all these years and has had to come a long way yet to meet a family start in their basement breeding fish now they are there he would do that all the fish and everything we do reptiles birds small animals embry some fish in the store stuff mats were kind of originate with breeding angelfish and things like that and then you sell some pet foods and so forth specific to the animals that you sell absolutely yeah like the study diet any animal should have and also like the vitamins in the treats all that kind of stuff so they started in their basement oh i think it's initially was absolutely brine was a big part of it  always brothers just since grade school they're bringing angelfish stuff like that and the day they had one hundred some tanks in their basement breeding fish and a big electric bill too i'd imagine yeah definitely and drama to begin and then they branched off into doing goldfish with the eyes it's the cow they're all from the same like passive just been bred differently to find certain traits but it is in a sense in the same family those guys but they're just huge yet me good and plenty of difference i continue to grow every year and yet without certain weather in the winters are rough on him they can go i mean as some people have for a hundred years or so but generally ten fifteen twenty years these they can live a long time and they get as large as the environment allows you to allows them yes in the larger water the definite get bigger but it's also the water parameters so if there's water fish over stocking up on fish give off different talks and stuff that's kind of their growth kind of like if there's too many fish in a small pond is on the food they grow slower kind of gives off different  ks in the water so a bit larger pond definitely get a lot bigger yeah what exactly did you do it with tyson friends anywhere from in the morning feeding the birds in the fish to making sales and selling tank skin the kid their first fish tank telling him how to take care of them what to feed the care of them all that kind of stuff how did you start because i started all this i've little kids bug my mom to go to the store look at fish naggum and fell seven eight years old got my first love for deco actually what pets  i've had all of carol's fish birds hamsters all that's kind of how we grew up in our house we had my parents met i had three or four or five different tanks of gold station different different absolute i mean it's having the her around them everything is like a zoo though he's almost full grown now he's almost two years old a little mouse wants people to so you can live fifty eighty years or so which poses a problem because it's a responsibility absolutely have to basically will you have bird to somebody yeah that's why i try to get young in a sense for getting a bird but because i'm a have a long time it's kind of the best time to get him you have to plan out the future you don't want to get him going thinking that's great and then you go off to school you get married you know you can't keep that animal anymore it's a long time commitment you have to think of the future and where you can go something happens to you and they really bond with you they bond with their owner absolutely of the birds definitely will find a few favorite caretakers or one person they can be more social but it's all kind of what they're exposed to what country because they just a lot of the parrots suffer a come from the amazon in the forest stuff like that the rain forest yes more and more so the game is on but he was bred locally here blue was yeah i got him from a breeder there are people who have freedom now they've definitely they've put permits and illegal things now ship for them you don't really want to wild birds they don't do that anymore depend on the species and how popular they are and all that kind of stuff but yeah a lot of birds are locally bred now over within the countries or the states i mean so i notice he has aband club he does a lot of these birds are going to put on tractors all because he's big breeders they have tons of birds you want to make sure you can find out where they came from if they're locally bred or if they're from the wow there's birds i mean there's fifty years old they were caught in the wild twenty years ago they're definitely eat a wide range of stuff we make sure you don't get too much protein all the high fat because they're not flying around like a natural bird would that they can burn off all these calories so fat is a problem they don't process fat very well yes and no it kind of pans on how much i mean if you give them a tonne of one food they're going to pick out their favorite foods first so you've got to give a certain amount of got to give them a variety of them so they're going to eat like the palette of food there is a mix in a lot of the things that they need and they're all the same civil matter what they're easy to get and all that if you see the every day yellow so much on them but pretty much a blue and green and some gray and we always had to be concerned whether the bird was in a draft or had yeah they do like that truffle temperature i mean i miss them every so often you want to spray them down so you can actually their feathers and everything like that and they do not want to be in a draft there and where the ac is blowing all day i mean you can really harm your bird that way even like cooking things in the kitchen and some of those things would be a problem yes certain things on the pans that they make  any that smoke a very small lungs so spraying for breeze around the cage or something is definitely something you shouldn't do have we took this bird in and i had her for twenty five years i thought it was a he we named it lido yeah and i know just for the audience you really can't tell a judge or git gender of a bird unless you do it internally and i usually say a d n a test or if they lame a yeah and that's how we found out one morning walk to uncover the bird and she was at the bottom of the cage looked like she was dying you know and was trying to nest or something while she was starting to tear the bottom of the lining of the paper the gauge and so forth you know first bird i didn't know much about birds and yeah and she was tearing it and actually probably trying to build a nest and then all of a sudden she was bluffing or wings and i thought oh my birds dying but here she was laying eggs yes no it's a way to find out and i got a girl but she got stuck with a name lido but yeah it was pretty cool and she was a wonderful bird for twenty five years used to fly fly to you hang on your neck and sleep with you really yeah and then when she had to go to the bathroom which they do quite often as you know i might film one thing here see if you take off and fly there her cage go to the bathroom fly but they're so smart and they know how to reason which is which is cool yeah you would put her in a cage and lock the cage you know close it up and she would lift the little lever up and over the cage come out yeah everest bedtime you know rough sometimes a bark for me i guess and treats my pocket but for the cameras you might not believe in the back eventually if he gets a little comfortable he might start talking a little bit hello hello eyes going out is get excited he's listening to what we're saying is there an age that is too young for kids to have of are depending on the type of bird yes and i mean some kids are more sponsible when they're young they can go in that day the routine of laying the bird out feeding the bird once a week cleaning the bird and then again if they're busiest ports and you know that's not their first priority they don't have as much interest in it you want to start off with something smaller that's not going to live eight ten twenty of the larger bravest they're harder to come in contact with and it's hard to find a good home but there's a lot of smaller birds that live like in the teens like they're great pets yeah you definitely can teach them small phrases that talk is not as common but definitely possible yeah they're just beautiful chewing toys and need to work their beak down the sum to chew on when they get bored or they get lonely the pluck their feathers yes if you put them to barricade one thing it's not enough you have your toes you can hide treats all the good stuff  to play with you're getting their vitamins in their diet which are important yeah and it's simple as just getting the package to do all the hard work for you don't get to peace and food together they make the food for you but just a matter of doing it and having that knowledge they need you have to trim the nails stay back and you don't get too long the cut them just like gosh if you know it goes well you've got to maintain more than the blood kind of comes further down the nail and yet it's no fun for the bird to make it a bad process if you do it more frequent thought better they have to have a bat yeah you spray em down i mean they're from the rain for say like the high humidity their feathers are always growing and they get little pin feathers and they've got to open up and then the real dries you need that missing you can do like bird bassis bravery once or are you can do just water periodically as well you have like  i think they'll grind their big night specially the larger birds it's kind of a maintenance and knowing that they're healthy and they're ready for bed so you'll hear them grind is being back and forth constantly snoring but those are all good signs just being alert around you stuff like that you can just kind earlier you were talking about this gekko over here tell us maybe you can hold up yeah absolutely actually and get him out if you want to this is a leopard deco there's all different colors that's what i like about these guys they've been burning captivity for years now so you'll find white ones you'll find yellow ones red ones spotted ones different stripes your name dyes as well this is about a full grown for a leopard gecko but they're kind of cool too when you hold them though why she usually lick your hand to get your scent we'll see if we do it or not  a little baby they can live eight to twelve even upper teens depending on the health and give them their heating in vitamins absolutely and if something happens where they are attacked they actually has to tell and grow back if they get scared you'll see them will go their tail as kind of like say a snake was coming after them as a predator will go for the tail they'll drop the tail on the snake will get a small meal but he can run away in the tail actually regrow yeah yeah actually genetically they're pretty in that matter they're pretty close to and this little one always abby's trying to like get to know them a little better yeah imaginings can run really fast they're definitely like me an old indifference b c they're going to be a lot faster during the daytime and they climb just about anything like immediately and it's amazing i wasn't very familiar with lizards up in my living spirit and i hike a lot and i see them all the time absolutely especially in warm weather you're going to see i'm out in the sun basking getting the u v from the sun  guess imma say this on t v and may come back i can one day and i see like i say i see the melatonin i was up in the mountains and i saw this lizard on a rock and so i stopped and i started talking to the lizard i know too much time on my hands so i'm talking to the lizard and lizard is doing this with its ears you know like a dog does and doing this and then doing this as and talking to the lizard and looking around and make sure nobody else is coming i started walking close to the lizard well that was started walking closer to me with stop and go like this and saying you're pretty lizard i like you you know that don't be afraid and within about fifteen minutes of doing this that lizard blues purring yet that lizard actually i got this far away from the lizard the lizard walked off the rock onto a bush walked up valley high where i could just go on just he walked right on you almost on to me i know i didn't want that's crazy or it was crazy absolutely crazy so i think there are quite intelligible animal yeah absolutely definitely very smart and they're beautiful they have the glistening and they change clothes colors as the sun hits to my head yeah they're different light me in different environments they definitely try to camouflage themselves or blend in so what do you feed this was a heat smear warms crickets a little bit of calcium is this year in there they can eat little roaches and wax worms but mainly going to be meal worms and crickets is main main diet so you go to a pet store such as yeah you can get anywhere from the last cricket you keep in a container and keep them fed if you want to actually feed their food what's going into the crickets going into him in a sense you want kind of  less make sure they get their vitamins they have the right heating but really for these guys you can judge off their tail for their size do they drink water they will drink water they will drink water off of lake droplets so you can mist amir in there especially when they go into a shed he just shed so his color looks pretty nice but you'll see they get kind of dulled out in the ass to get new skin though actually bite it off and he takes it's like vitamins for them but you can mist and then we'll drink their water but we always have a water dish available for them so they can find the water  but they're cold because parents love it and you can feed them like krista gecko makes it's like a little powder you mix with water one and done the way that stuff and also it's crickets of calcium here and there so they will weed stuff like that not vegetables that fruits and stuff  these guys are mainly in the insect has to be moving so you have them in these type of container to bring them here to the show correct what did they live and what's their home environment if you have a pet generator these guys they live in caves and stuff smaller areas the happiness ten gallon tank you want to give me he pads they can get their heat from their belly so they don't have any u v s only have a bearded dragon or some like that you need the heat lamps and the night lamps you need to use these these guys you want to do heat maybe does heat the actual temperature a tank of say your did take them out hold on and play with them and they like to do that yeah i think i'm out they don't mind i personally don't know if they love or not but they definitely will tolerate it and they get they have personality they see they whenever it's fee and they come out there has actually seen me in the room to look through the glass and stuff like that but  yeah they definitely handle all these guys neat what are their predators can be snakes and birds and stuff like that smaller rodents but i hear they're going to be these guys are nocturnal so they're in a hide  the predators during the day and come out night look for food stuff like that and they had these pads on there on their feet allowed in the climb up things this one does not he's going to be a landmark at this guy you can see his feet up on the glass can they do they stick to the wall they can climb on thi kind of shaped like a stink but and they're soft you can fight and stuff like that these guys if they drop their tail they actually don't grow back though that kind of thing with these kind of the skinny tails but different they're going to store their fat just normal to go crazy with you've got to miss them they're more tropical like rain forests and these are going to be the desert but yeah they're very low maintenance feeding him twice a week as much as three or four times a week it's not every day you go away for vacation doesn't fit in there they're good for a long weekend sometimes even a week depending someone stop in and give him food and water stuff like that but i have very good first pets he to care for that's all because they get you not to go by this huge fifty gallon tank for this big animal it's going to get way bigger when you get home these guys are full grown nice you know you were talking about eating insects the of just last week when i was taking a soul was already came out of the brush stopped and looked at me and then ran across the trail i would say how you doing up there bl that so they're fine for a few hours but you definitely want to put them in a larger set up some like that even do like the little glow kids specifically we sell in there like two and a half gallons a five ten yeah and they have a light on it filtration kind everything you need of water cuz it will it can kill your fish if there's chlorine from your tap water you definitely want to fluoride there's different minerals and hardness in our water that the fish they're they're domesticate they've been in our water they've been bred and they've been raising our water so very simple feeding once a day they can go a long weekend without food they'd rather have clean water than more fruits a lot too like fish look congress they're in there they don't have a sense of being full says oh eat a lot of food they just they can't process it to go to the bathroom make the water changes you're never going to just drain the whole thing soap and water you never want to do that because you put them in the shock and yeah they get used to the water you have and bacteria grows bacteria break down the nitrates just like that there are ways to test your water for things but  two weeks two and a quarter water change removing some of the waste and the old water topping off even just evaporation water evaporates you add some new clean water every week or so every two weeks you know we're going to take a little break here for a second  beta fish a to fish fighting fish you know if you keep one man you can't make them because they don't show other they get very stressed out the very territory they don't want to fish into in the same tank in a large body of water it's fine they come together and they swim away some like that but maybe we  just one in their little blue with all the sand in there but we're talking about them through they do like the pair up there actually fish they can change their gender to say bye to clownfish the story like i really want to pair want them to be together say it's a female female the black white stuff like that but they are very cohesive racked up in the fronts checking things out and you can get yourself all worked up over bird how many you put in the tank usually usually just do a pair you can do one larger shrimp stuff like that some hermit crabs or you could do ms large at twenty four or fifty five something larger and you can do several pairs and other species of fish as well and this is a freshwater fish as well this is salt water the cob water salt water and that could be why it looks a little your initial pet as well yeah absolutely mean these fish are very good this may be more of an advance but i mean once we have people even setting up some people really want to do it they don't have the time we even have people set up the tank even if it's a one and done if it's every month to come out checking on your tank  fresh water is going to be a little bit above that actual care it's more so ten minutes a day kind of thing it's not august spend three hours in my tank today it's you guys stay up with you can't let those things go as much you could have fresh water which you so don't want to do  something the more you know about to the more you kind of care about my opinion so if someone throws you a huge huge tank tons of awesome fish and you don't know anything about i'm hard to really appreciate them so yeah there's definitely more to know with them that you're also going to get some of that color you can find in fresh water  vibrant colors you get the larger fish really cool personalities and what i remember from the last time which is been a few years that i've been it with pets that just walls and walls of these different yeah we've got two layers got top thanks bottom tanks we have a whole side of our store  individualizing yeah it's definitely a lot behind the scenes what do you have here it's here we've got our selves a pac man frog this guy just a baby the males can get three or four inches the females can get almost up to eight or so they get a lot spot cleaning keep them in a tang on tank five gallon tank with some dirty water dish just dirt you dig out a yard or special no definitely we do like an eco earth substrate you can do moss something like that this too many variables outside bringing things in i would never would risk it with an animal same with food and things like that but these guys are pretty cool if you can feed them once a week or when they're full grown and be every two weeks or so or even longer so they're very easy pat you're not going to get a whole lot of activity out of the also not have to put in a whole lot of work says i what do they do all day they kind of hang out there combing their collars there's different green ones it's like a strawberry there's albinos you kind of get it all but yeah i mean it's very low maintenance but all the really cool to like to have a variety of animals to join the rest house it has to be a small rodent for this frog to be able to grab a rodent yeah like a pinky mouse or something like that it's a size easier than i can be grabbing anything like that but when they get larger i mean he gets almost as big as a scalp at the top if at the the females they get much larger males stay a little bit smaller but if they can eat an adult mouse or something most people won't i mean i wouldn't do a live one because you can harm the animal same thing a snake no one feeds frozen food stuff like that we always keep like hopper mice and small rats and stuff like that for sale for arson ace because they are domesticated and easier to feed were these originally from they're going to be more like the rain forests of similar the crested ghettos they kind of can be in a wide range of areas but they're going to be room temperature they don't need special heating as well high humidity like the burrow as well it's a how much dirt do you need to put in the bottom of the tank it can defend you can do an intro to so you can still see the for all he can bury down to the glass and he's happy his eyes there or you can do four inches and they can go down you won't see him and then when they need eat he sprang down or well cast him is a rainfall they come out new life does new food they're looking for food that we can bury themselves down again i had this to wildlife never ceases to amaze me yeah it's crazy personalities in any of these animals you can find very social different behaviors it's really cool so you have to worry about this total hopping out of the tell you got the we pretty low the ground means because they are so round they're not going to be long like a tree frog is going to climb the walls which we do have tree frog and stuff like that they're going to be on about lot more they can climb the glass there it's mall or food but these guys yeah they're going to be on the ground there's no way they'd be able to jump up that high ok males whatever their larger yohimbe croak and stuff like that when he's if you missed them really well you stimulate rainfall you can hear them croaking here and there but it's nothing it's going to be like your frogs outside at upon make it all night and i can really do that to their property name pac man for food so there are able to varies even though they're deep down under under the dirt yeah i almost think of like our toads around here in winter time it snows around here they go bury down in the mud and they're going higher because shut down yeah these guys the same thing though go down  up whenever it's raining they kind of almost had their skin like a snake would and they'll pull off that the ready to show off their collar and then they feed in a very back down neat so they'd be fun to watch actually but yeah lou doing blue he's actually like a blood feather goes out the hard feathers blood in it and then it gets hard as a feather that forms inside and they actually pull off that coating on it and a feather opens up wow so you'll see him drop feathers here and their new ones are always coming in that's why scratch and self grooming himself and that's a big part of bonding with a bird someone has a bird for years a groom says like that they bond a person more and more yeah yeah yeah so what else did you bring for us to all this has been so yeah this is full grown on me to stuff the side a little bit but i'm very good beginner pet these guys easy fineman like the hamster wheels a plastic cages they do need better ventilation so like a ten gallon tank not ideal for these you want to do an actual hamster cage stuff like that and run around so i mean they're great first pet relatively inexpensive minimal care wake them up make sure i'm not scaring them but yes just like that so they're not going to live ten years ago a bird  isn't like that twenty years so i mean you want to give them a good life whether they're going there are a good first pet not huge huge time commitment and long term as wise and what are they called again this is a syrian hamster area there's also robo hamsters dwarf hamsters you know it is large but the smell the predators they're not happy but i'm here they can eat a variety of seeds will actually store food in their cheeks they like pouches so they'll take their food there go put it in their nests so wherever you put it disappears doesn't mean they need it they may have it stored somewhere  too you always use something to chew on you can give them would stuff like that you can give them a little nest that they can chew up because their teeth are always growing stuff like that be a change or bedding once a week or so and they're betting just yeah i mean there's different ira paper and stuff like that there's a wood chip such as a way from it's not absorbent and it's very dusty but there are cycle paper stuff is what i recommend you can spot clean throughout the week cleaning the corners of the cage filled generally find one you could you can smell the food on the hand is a lot of times people think about that they think their grass of because they got bit by one when they were a kid years and years ago but they may have just not cleaned their hands first or something like that their teeth a very sharp a crazy sharp there they can be long they only have like yeah rats have one of the the largest bites of these other rodents are much larger than these guys well they can make a pet see rats actually pretty clean animals the job that's one of the few things i've never had price my parents would never let me have it but yeah like rat stuff like that they actually can be pretty clean animals they take care of themselves very well but imagine if they're not in a good mood if you're trying to move around they buy you want to be fun is terrible but after we did all the procedures on them we had to euthanize them yeah it was mandated  to make good pets as well along the turtles a tortoises live very long they're going to live thirty plus years they can go a very long time depending on the species things like that they get much they can get larger you maybe get about this big i don't know the exact age just food that was a made properly at a restaurant your way more likely get something like that and from an animal obviously not going to go pick him up and then go eat food you want to wash your hands be to be clean but yeah that's definitely something that to everyone things  so this animal this turtle would stay most of his life in a tank correct i mean you can take him out your house and walk around the floor things like that they're definitely like to walk around even if you think they're slow they can when they have their mind on something the get go sign up people put them in pens in the house but mainly doing a tank with like the substrate in these guys doing the lighting in them they need a warmer climate so you want to like your heat lamps they need u v as well to to make the sun helping them develop so you want to have like your hot side have a u v light and then over on the cool side have like a water dish or some they can actually get in nothing too deep because they're not twenty years but enough where they can soak their bodies and get a drink sometimes into the bathroom in the water which is kind of easy as good as easy cleaning you take out the bowl you have to over on the on the shell and not be able to right themselves they would die correct correct yeah it's definitely something we careful to not put any large dishes if to climb over to get into say following us around help them out a deathly can be fatal for terrell's yes they begin to d hydrate the upside down they almost suffocate their weight because being on their back like that i mean they got a long neck in their arms i've seen them turn themselves over but if they're on a flat surface and something knocks them over and they can't get around it definitely can be a concern as th tank and all the lighting but they are really good pets so this is solitary animals well we actually this is one of three we have a couple other toes at the store they're on the same tanks they can be together or they can be solitary they don't get lonely if they're by themselves so what beds has this animal for so yes is a russian tortoise is also a red foot tortoises stuff like that this is our most common one that we get him once you get the tank i mean sometimes it's a big upfront cost like anything you're getting your tank your lighting we do a certain ki sufi if you get em at the right town can save some money be a dam in a large tank with the right lighting begin to get and again it's they're vegetarians yes they're funny when you feed them put out some  per store exactly and they have little tail yet you guys are pretty cool and you they have personalities like i said with everything else they'll come up and check you out to see him walking around making their same little nesting spots you'll see them dig in a certain corners kind of where they go you kind of can figure him out i saw a little baby one time in the desert it's a rare sight and as well you see a desert tortoise yeah just a tiny little little tortoise no kidding you know they like more the vegetables and stuff that everything dries up out there  actually a bit social you can have a few of them or you can have just one of them a lot of people get in like a ten gallon tank maybe a critter keeper some like that on they like sand or substrate they can bury themselves in a little bit to molt they need to go down a few inches so that's always a concern but on they like time to fancy up the shelves i don't know if you can see those and it's definitely a time like this they're definitely marketed for their color stuff like that you know vacation you go you buy your crabs and a little keeper stuff like that you can see like the eyes on all the different shells or smaller ones the larger ones and that's something to they actually outgrow their shelves so they're not going to be in that shelf forever so when they're getting bigger it's east on a crawl that you want to give larger shelves available form because it's actually the shell they take somebody else's shell but yeah i mean you want to miss them for humidity but you know there's food very this can be a dry food stuff like that give the larger show that's how they get in these colorful shells they get them in their natural ones they throw a bunch of available shells went to the switch out and they're ready to go the store we had an employee that had one for ten years and counting now he is in the home so these guys can live a long time but i yeah they're very cool they can be anywhere from a few inches big to tiny little guys they're kind of  bit but yeah yeah they're pretty cool they make great pets they can go about eight years or so and just keep them in a simple like rabbit cage or guinea pig cage we have kids and stuff like that it's going to have your bedding your food you drink from a water bottle or they do kick their bedding a lot water bottle they're going to be a lot better for cleanliness is having clean water very pretty coat yeah there's all different colors of when i walk in after him whistle whenever they smell new things in check now you him do a little whistles and stuff you have to worry about him being dropped like snakes the milk snakes and they're pretty easy care there was a molester gecko with your he pad in relating to any from reptiles to the saltwater fish freshwater even your pollen your outdoor effects something you don't have to go in clean every week maybe just go turn the waterfall off take it out in the winter stuff like that tedium that's on this be a nice feature without having all that daily care awesome awesome i tell you i think it's wonderful to watch these animals and