Nick's face when he learned Bladderwort is carnivorous! I love that no matter how deep you are in this hobby there's always something new to learn. Matt, thanks so much for showing us around. Beautiful fish & plants!
If you didn't know about bladderwort, you may not know about SunDew as a land carnivorous plant. In my opinion, SunDew is the king of carnivorous land plants. Living flypaper that readily reproduces. There are many colors and growth types, so you are likely to find one you admire most. Mine is Drosera Spatulata.
you are right, white clouds are egg scatterers, tell him to get a tray of marbles in that outdoor tub asap and toss the mop. i raised 300-400 of them in an IBC tub this year with a bare bottom, feeding off infusoria from decaying leaves. nature is great!
My white clouds outside will occasionally have a few fry growing up with them in heavily planted tanks, however put 3 in a small tank with some marbles for a few days then take them out and bam 100's of fry. I'm with you 100% on the old fashioned marble technique
I love his fish keeping. Fish tanks are healthy and he uses natural balancing of tanks to upkeep instead of fighting nature to keep it looking scaped. I'd love to see more fish tanks like this simply because a pristine looking tank does not mean it's a healthy one! He is keeping very happy fish and I'd love to him and his collection from time to time
Love these long tour videos. I can sit down, watch these fish, watch my fish, and learn a thing or two! Great way to educate. You ask so many great questions, great guide! Thanks a ton.
I rarely have the time or ability to stay focused on long fish Room tours, but the stars aligned today and I really enjoyed your tour of Matt’s home and business. Living in an apt, I can only dream of being able to have room to breed and geek out fish. My only outlet is watching my neocaridinas proliferate.
Your content is just what I need after a long hard day on toxic fishkeeping subreddits. Always so inspiring. From a fellow Aussie, keep up the good work!
These tours are by far and away my favourite FishTube content atm. Learning so much and find the longer form, conversational style, really relaxing! Thanks so much!
Amazing to see the fish surviving in these conditions. Probably more natural for them that the pristine weekly water change tanks. Shows how well the plants and algae can keep the water safe for them.
I loved "Goldfingers" knowledge and enthusiasm of the hobby, lil dumpy was a great fish im glad he kept him haha, also man definitely knows his plants which is a cool crossover.
I loved this video! I like fish but honestly, I am in the hobby for beautiful planted tanks. Your interview with someone who loves plants, planted tanks, and tanks that need no water changes is exactly what I love most.
I always killed off any inverts hitchhiking on my plants with a few days in a container with some malachite green. Makes sure there's no parasites or snails on my plants before I wash them off to use in the tank.
We are pretty much setting up the same aquatic garage shop as part of our expansion from our reptiles in South Africa. So w e enjoy watching what and how others have done theres, keeping it simple is always key to success.
I really enjoyed the tour and learnt a lot about different fishes and aqaurium plant types and their functions. Thanks a lot for that bro. ❤️ from India. 🙏🏻
Love the head bump and how you left it in there lol. I just started a 75g shrimp/small fish tank so your videos (multiples) have been super clutch for me. Keep up the good work!
So much life coming from this video, the tank, the plants, its so satisfying and therapeutic to see these amazing established tanks in the form that they are in... i love this hobby more than words can describe!
Totally enjoyed Matts home tour, what a nice guy. It must be nice living in the tropics with so many plant varieties and the ability to have fish outside. Thank you for sharing.
A good way to get rid of most snails is dunking the plants a few times in warmer water, they just let go xD or a slice of cucumber on a stick theyll bunch up and are easy to pick out 🥰
This is where you got the “bunning’s” fertilizer idea from and then passed on to us. The Osmocote root tabs, Awsome! Gotta find them or equivalent in the U.s.
What a great and informative tour! I know it's been 5 months since you've made this video, Matt, but my Vietnamese Cardinal Minnows--which I believe are the same to breed as White Cloud Mountain Minnows--need heavy floating plant cover for the babies to survive, in my experience. I know you're looking for eggs, but I wonder if they're even very visible? They're the smallest fry I've seen! They hang out at the top of the tank or tub for a good many days, sticking themselves to the side or anchoring themselves in the roots of the floaters. I keep an opening in the plants with a floating ring, and when I see the fry beginning to gather in the clearing I scoop them out and put them in their own grow out tank or tub.
Hey I am a huge fan it would make my day if you resound but have you ever thought about making a series mixing different guppys like you did with the shrimp.
I love love love this guys set ups! Hearing about all the plants was very nice and than seeing his beautiful backyard with all his plants was very refreshing! I’d love to see a video going through those as well
I found that strange too. Mine plow through any snails. Tiny pest snails to large rams horns. I wonder if they weren't raised on snails & so don't recognize them as food?
White Clouds were the first egg layer I ever bred - about 60 years ago, long before the long fin variety was developed. I had them in a 4-5 gal bucket in my bedroom (I was in high school) with a small box filter or maybe just an air stone, unheated. The bucket had plenty of plants, water sprite and maybe something else. No heater with my bedroom in the winter around 65 degrees F. At that time what I was reading was they did best at 60-70 F and never ate their eggs or young. I kept them for 2-3 years before moving on. 48 years ago I moved into a location with hard water and stopped trying to keep aquariums. That was after breeding Angel Fish for about 15 years. Very interesting info on the plants. I never had much success with plants and am just now learning why.
Hey nick, i just wanna ask for you to make a video about grading or knowing what kind of betta when you breed. I always see you cupping your betta but never know how to name them and would love to know more about them
Love the vids. Re plants, Immersed is the same as Submerged. Emergent is growth above water. Good to see more Wholistic/Natural setups. Closer to a real ecosystem.❤
They're saying "emersed" but their accent makes the 'e' vowels sound like 'i' vowels. Emersed is a synonym for emergent. I agree it's not ideal but we should say "emersed" for above water and "submersed" for under water to maintain consistency of suffixes. I don't like using "immersed" and "emergent" that's a bad pairing imo, leaves too much room for confusion.
I used to have a big snail problem as a kid in the 90's with my tanks. I did some research at the library at the time and picked up a botia of some sort, can't remember what it was but it had some weird hook like thing under its eyes. It went to town hard on the snails. I would hear it cracking snails for days. Then down the road I had no snails at all, they were all gone. I couldn't believe it. The problem with the botia(not sure what breed it was) was that quite territorial and somewhat aggressive toward other fish. I had it alongside guppies, platys, mollys, plecos and a bunch of other fish I can't remember. One day it managed to jump out of the tank and that was the end of the snail eater. I had a really cool looking fish that looked like a smallish dragon that always swam close to the surface, it had a huge mouth. It was fairly calm and never left the surface, always swam up top.
i am always looking for dirted fish tanks and no water changes tanks videos 😮😮. i love watching how nature is doing its job in an incredible way ... hello goodbye from miami
I couldn't get my White Clouds to breed so I relegated the tank to an inner wall facing east that received sunrise only and pretty much forgot about. The water had dropped down to 20cm depth when I remembered the 7 Clouds. I checked to see if they were still alive and they were but I also had about 500 fry also. When I analyzed the tank as to why they did so well it reminded me of a small forested freshwater stream. Low dappled light, shallow water, crazy
I just switched over to the Father Fish method myself! All except for one small tank, which has so many plants growing in the gravel, it is clean, and stable, with no algae!
I love this guy and all he is doing! Would love to meet more fish and plant people my friends and family don't really like what I do and it gets depressing.
What an interesting video - learnt so much - THANK YOU! Quick question, I thought you need surface movement for oxygen, how are the fish surviving in all those containers with no filtration?
Oxygen exchange happens at the surface regardless of water movement also the plants do a lot too if you have really high stocking of fish and a warm tank then you need extra oxygen in the form of a bubbler or surface movement otherwise they will not do well. Also larger fish need more oxygen especially in a smaller environments.
@Ricardo I don’t think you know what you’re talking about the sick fish you saw aren’t from poor water quality it’s from too much duckweed caking the surface and not being home for two weeks before nick came to film, I also don’t know what you mean by low hatch rate the hatch rate for my fish is nearly 100% the growing out of rainbow fish fry is difficult when you cannot be home 100% or even 50% of the time. So please don’t tell people false information.
@Ricardo but my fish don’t have health problems I have a very low death rate and hardly have tank crashes and when I do it’s usually a new tank. I think you will also find that bacteria find their own equilibrium and they don’t just culture then kill fish or get old tank syndrome without specific conditions being met. With the a 20L bucket of duck weed being removed every week you will also find most dissolved organic matter is utilised by the plants mainly duck weed and removed.
What do you feed angel fish and Bolivian rams? Can you keep Bolivian rams with neon tetras, guppies and angel fish all together? How many fish can you have in a 29 gallon tank?
It's awesome almost all of us in the US have a back yard of some kind and we should use it to the best we can to grow food this guy is on a new level of nature with natural.
The majority, or at least like 40% of people in America rent. It's a lot harder to do this when you don't own your house and can't just shrug off any damage this might cause.
Great video, thanks for showing us. In regards to GSP and pea Puffs they will indeed eat snails...I have many of the 2 and breed them as they are my favorite puffer fish. Just have to make certain the snails are not larger than eye to eye method...so the distance from one eye to the other is the size of snails they will peck apart to eat the yummy on inside. I could not help hear you say your plant had scale, how do you treat for these?, as I have had a really hard time getting rid of them off my plants, most times had to toss the plant.
Hi can I ask the name of the plant he said was his favorite? I liked the look of it but could not find it’s name , what he called it or what I heard did not work. Thanks
This man is so relatable in terms of “I will try everything to not do anything”
It’s a special skill really 😂
😂😂
Well this comment made me sub lol 1 minute in
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I can't get enough of these long fish room tours!!! It's great to see other Aussie fish nerds. Loving the content Nick
100 % its great
I gotta say all people that are in fish keeping/breading are such a cool characters. We all have one thing in common, pure love for aquariums.
Nick's face when he learned Bladderwort is carnivorous! I love that no matter how deep you are in this hobby there's always something new to learn. Matt, thanks so much for showing us around. Beautiful fish & plants!
Both you guys are fascinated to watched now I know how to grow plants from scratch 😂
Lovely to see you both am anew bie in fish keeping
If you didn't know about bladderwort, you may not know about SunDew as a land carnivorous plant.
In my opinion, SunDew is the king of carnivorous land plants. Living flypaper that readily reproduces. There are many colors and growth types, so you are likely to find one you admire most. Mine is Drosera Spatulata.
I like his "lazy" style lmao but with that many tanks, ponds, plants, chooks, im sure it's still a LOT of work
you are right, white clouds are egg scatterers, tell him to get a tray of marbles in that outdoor tub asap and toss the mop. i raised 300-400 of them in an IBC tub this year with a bare bottom, feeding off infusoria from decaying leaves. nature is great!
My white clouds outside will occasionally have a few fry growing up with them in heavily planted tanks, however put 3 in a small tank with some marbles for a few days then take them out and bam 100's of fry. I'm with you 100% on the old fashioned marble technique
@@courtneyt800 I need to try this method
where did you go man?
@@bekijk233 new job, had a baby, no time for videos right now
How’s the new room?
Great interview Nick, Love Matts attitude. Im a lazy plant grower and its nice to hear such a successful breeder say he works the lazy way.
I love his fish keeping. Fish tanks are healthy and he uses natural balancing of tanks to upkeep instead of fighting nature to keep it looking scaped. I'd love to see more fish tanks like this simply because a pristine looking tank does not mean it's a healthy one! He is keeping very happy fish and I'd love to him and his collection from time to time
Matt is my fish guy 😁 has always been so helpful, never have enough time with him lol all of my fish I've gotten through him, bloody legend
I'm a total newbie to fish keeping, but i'm binge watching as many fish related videos as possible and this is one of the best yet.
welcome to the hobby!!! :-)
I love this dude, at the end, he was like I can go on all day if I had enough space.
I love these long video fish room tours. I always find something new and useful. Cheers Nick
Love these long tour videos. I can sit down, watch these fish, watch my fish, and learn a thing or two! Great way to educate. You ask so many great questions, great guide! Thanks a ton.
I rarely have the time or ability to stay focused on long fish Room tours, but the stars aligned today and I really enjoyed your tour of Matt’s home and business. Living in an apt, I can only dream of being able to have room to breed and geek out fish. My only outlet is watching my neocaridinas proliferate.
Another awesome video. Thanks for highlighting other fish breeders in your area. Wishing you great success
What a bright guy! I love his outdoor setup. Thanks for this amazing video.
Wow! I can't believe that the madness continued into the garden lol. Truly amazing 😊
Your content is just what I need after a long hard day on toxic fishkeeping subreddits. Always so inspiring. From a fellow Aussie, keep up the good work!
These tours are by far and away my favourite FishTube content atm. Learning so much and find the longer form, conversational style, really relaxing! Thanks so much!
Amazing to see the fish surviving in these conditions. Probably more natural for them that the pristine weekly water change tanks. Shows how well the plants and algae can keep the water safe for them.
Matt! It worked!!! I used Siamese alge eater, Amano shrimp, plattys. But the ROSY BARBS did it!!!! Thanks guys......
I loved "Goldfingers" knowledge and enthusiasm of the hobby, lil dumpy was a great fish im glad he kept him haha, also man definitely knows his plants which is a cool crossover.
That was an information goldmine. I probably got more out of that than all of the videos I've watched in the past. Good sharing.
Awesome video. It's so cool how you are bringing light to other people. Love Matt's guard chickens, lol
Very cool video tour Nick, and thanks for sharing your space Matt! Really enjoy these behind the scenes, inspiration and information both.
I love this cause everyone’s story/journey of fish keeping/breeding usually starts when we are in our single digits of age.
I loved this video! I like fish but honestly, I am in the hobby for beautiful planted tanks. Your interview with someone who loves plants, planted tanks, and tanks that need no water changes is exactly what I love most.
I always killed off any inverts hitchhiking on my plants with a few days in a container with some malachite green. Makes sure there's no parasites or snails on my plants before I wash them off to use in the tank.
We are pretty much setting up the same aquatic garage shop as part of our expansion from our reptiles in South Africa. So w e enjoy watching what and how others have done theres, keeping it simple is always key to success.
I want my garage to look like that one day!
Yep, I’m growing more medaka here in Texas. 😊 I had them next to the window, this morning there is a big sack of eggs. 😅
I really enjoyed the tour and learnt a lot about different fishes and aqaurium plant types and their functions. Thanks a lot for that bro. ❤️ from India. 🙏🏻
I dream of having the same setup and lifestyle as Matt that was a magnificent setup and amazing 🤩 video thank you for sharing this with us ❤
Very cool interview with a great person. Love the more natural approach to fish keeping.
goodness.. so much knowledge, and such a good attitude, thanks for the tour!
Love the head bump and how you left it in there lol. I just started a 75g shrimp/small fish tank so your videos (multiples) have been super clutch for me. Keep up the good work!
So much life coming from this video, the tank, the plants, its so satisfying and therapeutic to see these amazing established tanks in the form that they are in... i love this hobby more than words can describe!
Thoroughly enjoyed the tour, particularly the outdoor garden area. Mesmerising.
Cool to see a plant breeder.
Totally enjoyed Matts home tour, what a nice guy. It must be nice living in the tropics with so many plant varieties and the ability to have fish outside. Thank you for sharing.
Love what you're doing Nick keep up the great videos! Much love from Perth
What a cracking video Nick 👍
Matt sure has a great setup.
Hope you're well.
Stay safe (Keith from the UK).
A good way to get rid of most snails is dunking the plants a few times in warmer water, they just let go xD or a slice of cucumber on a stick theyll bunch up and are easy to pick out 🥰
This is where you got the “bunning’s” fertilizer idea from and then passed on to us. The Osmocote root tabs, Awsome! Gotta find them or equivalent in the U.s.
a very clever and talented young man
Amazing fish room tour nick! This guy certainly has some amazing setups and some super healthy fish. Thanks for sharing 😊
Thank you
What a great and informative tour! I know it's been 5 months since you've made this video, Matt, but my Vietnamese Cardinal Minnows--which I believe are the same to breed as White Cloud Mountain Minnows--need heavy floating plant cover for the babies to survive, in my experience. I know you're looking for eggs, but I wonder if they're even very visible? They're the smallest fry I've seen! They hang out at the top of the tank or tub for a good many days, sticking themselves to the side or anchoring themselves in the roots of the floaters. I keep an opening in the plants with a floating ring, and when I see the fry beginning to gather in the clearing I scoop them out and put them in their own grow out tank or tub.
Enjoyable and SOOO full of great information! Loved watching the two of you talk shop!
So good. I grow my one plants and sell exclusively what I grow submersed and loved hearing him validate all my thoughts. Lol
Matt is very personable and I wish him all the best in his endeavors. Will visit his website and see if there's anything I could grab.
I love the passion all these hobbyist have for their fish.
Such an awesome video, so much information and tips to take away from! SO MUCH INFOMRATION!😊
I am speechless 😊 and amazed how much he has cultivated in his living space . Lovely video 💖✨✨✨
I really like this guy, I've watched this video 3 times. Very inspiring stuff
This was the best information and so happy it's Australian based.. loved it
Super Awesome video guys. It’s cool to see behind the seems of breeding and the successes and failures. 👍🏼 Keep up the great work.
Hey I am a huge fan it would make my day if you resound but have you ever thought about making a series mixing different guppys like you did with the shrimp.
I love love love this guys set ups! Hearing about all the plants was very nice and than seeing his beautiful backyard with all his plants was very refreshing! I’d love to see a video going through those as well
Great video and nice to see you connecting to other fish enthusiasts
what a great video what a great bloke both of you are thank you so much
the white clouds may do better for you in cool water in the shade with some almond leaf and more plant cover.
Love the tours! Weird with the pea puffers… mine eat all size rams and pond snails. Maybe it’s subtype? Like morph types eat different diets?
I found that strange too. Mine plow through any snails. Tiny pest snails to large rams horns. I wonder if they weren't raised on snails & so don't recognize them as food?
Thank you for this enjoyable and informative tour. Matt seems like the nicest guy! Thanks, Matt for showing us the ugly tubs, too!
White Clouds were the first egg layer I ever bred - about 60 years ago, long before the long fin variety was developed. I had them in a 4-5 gal bucket in my bedroom (I was in high school) with a small box filter or maybe just an air stone, unheated. The bucket had plenty of plants, water sprite and maybe something else. No heater with my bedroom in the winter around 65 degrees F. At that time what I was reading was they did best at 60-70 F and never ate their eggs or young. I kept them for 2-3 years before moving on. 48 years ago I moved into a location with hard water and stopped trying to keep aquariums. That was after breeding Angel Fish for about 15 years.
Very interesting info on the plants. I never had much success with plants and am just now learning why.
Hey nick, i just wanna ask for you to make a video about grading or knowing what kind of betta when you breed. I always see you cupping your betta but never know how to name them and would love to know more about them
Love the vids.
Re plants,
Immersed is the same as Submerged.
Emergent is growth above water.
Good to see more Wholistic/Natural setups. Closer to a real ecosystem.❤
Unfortunately we have to use the term now conditioned into the hobby
They're saying "emersed" but their accent makes the 'e' vowels sound like 'i' vowels.
Emersed is a synonym for emergent.
I agree it's not ideal but we should say "emersed" for above water and "submersed" for under water to maintain consistency of suffixes. I don't like using "immersed" and "emergent" that's a bad pairing imo, leaves too much room for confusion.
Another cool video Nick, add this guy to a place to visit if I ever get there! Well done!
That's amazing how much stuff he has.
Excellent content. Love this style of video. Already on my third time watching this video.
Matt's a great guy. Been to his place and video doesn't do what he does justice. Loved meeting a fellow low tech person to gas bag too.
I used to have a big snail problem as a kid in the 90's with my tanks. I did some research at the library at the time and picked up a botia of some sort, can't remember what it was but it had some weird hook like thing under its eyes. It went to town hard on the snails. I would hear it cracking snails for days. Then down the road I had no snails at all, they were all gone. I couldn't believe it. The problem with the botia(not sure what breed it was) was that quite territorial and somewhat aggressive toward other fish. I had it alongside guppies, platys, mollys, plecos and a bunch of other fish I can't remember. One day it managed to jump out of the tank and that was the end of the snail eater. I had a really cool looking fish that looked like a smallish dragon that always swam close to the surface, it had a huge mouth. It was fairly calm and never left the surface, always swam up top.
29:07 convicts, my favorite fish to breed. NICE
21:34 Great tip for hair algae.
36:09 Great tip for culturing Daphnia.
Awesome tour cool setup. Would love to hear the logistics and behind the scenes business side of the project to get a feel of how I can start small?
Love it!! It was so cool seeing the chickens and outdoor plants too
Alweer een leerrijke video. Dank u wel Nick.
Hee Hollander! Tof kanaal he..
@@svenjansen2134 , ik kom uit België.
Fantastic. I'm inspired! Thanks from Minnesota USA.
i am always looking for dirted fish tanks and no water changes tanks videos 😮😮.
i love watching how nature is doing its job in an incredible way ...
hello goodbye from miami
I couldn't get my White Clouds to breed so I relegated the tank to an inner wall facing east that received sunrise only and pretty much forgot about. The water had dropped down to 20cm depth when I remembered the 7 Clouds. I checked to see if they were still alive and they were but I also had about 500 fry also. When I analyzed the tank as to why they did so well it reminded me of a small forested freshwater stream. Low dappled light, shallow water, crazy
I just switched over to the Father Fish method myself! All except for one small tank, which has so many plants growing in the gravel, it is clean, and stable, with no algae!
Love these aussie legends your finding in our backyard, keep up the good work
Bloke sounds like a Kiwi.
I love this guy and all he is doing! Would love to meet more fish and plant people my friends and family don't really like what I do and it gets depressing.
What was the bunch of plants you reached in the tank and held up? It looked like fern?
Thank you ❤
Matt is so passionate, love it!
Man those Pea puffer prices in Aus a crazy. Paying 4 AUD a pop here in Poland.
What an interesting video - learnt so much - THANK YOU! Quick question, I thought you need surface movement for oxygen, how are the fish surviving in all those containers with no filtration?
Oxygen exchange happens at the surface regardless of water movement also the plants do a lot too if you have really high stocking of fish and a warm tank then you need extra oxygen in the form of a bubbler or surface movement otherwise they will not do well. Also larger fish need more oxygen especially in a smaller environments.
@Ricardo I don’t think you know what you’re talking about the sick fish you saw aren’t from poor water quality it’s from too much duckweed caking the surface and not being home for two weeks before nick came to film, I also don’t know what you mean by low hatch rate the hatch rate for my fish is nearly 100% the growing out of rainbow fish fry is difficult when you cannot be home 100% or even 50% of the time. So please don’t tell people false information.
@Ricardo but my fish don’t have health problems I have a very low death rate and hardly have tank crashes and when I do it’s usually a new tank. I think you will also find that bacteria find their own equilibrium and they don’t just culture then kill fish or get old tank syndrome without specific conditions being met. With the a 20L bucket of duck weed being removed every week you will also find most dissolved organic matter is utilised by the plants mainly duck weed and removed.
I absolutely love this guys style his aquariums look so natural I love it
What do you feed angel fish and Bolivian rams? Can you keep Bolivian rams with neon tetras, guppies and angel fish all together? How many fish can you have in a 29 gallon tank?
Just bought some plants from this guy thanks to this video, cant wait to receive them.
Did they arrive ok?
@@matthewduthie9015 They did indeed and still going strong. Thanks mate!
@@brazzr great that’s what I like to hear
Best 54 minutes of my life ☺️
YOU ARE SAD
Okay, virgin.
What an incredible set up! Thank you for showing us around.
The BLUE BOTIA LOACH is a snail hunter, you should try them.
It's awesome almost all of us in the US have a back yard of some kind and we should use it to the best we can to grow food this guy is on a new level of nature with natural.
Most vegetables are toxic to humans better off using the space for some chickens
The majority, or at least like 40% of people in America rent. It's a lot harder to do this when you don't own your house and can't just shrug off any damage this might cause.
Well, this is a true Fish Guy. Tks, grateful for this video
Wow, what an incredible set up! Loved the plants too.
Hear us out......at 48:48 dont it look like burning bushes? just saying
Great video can see the guy is passionate about his fish room
Great video, thanks for showing us.
In regards to GSP and pea Puffs they will indeed eat snails...I have many of the 2 and breed them as they are my favorite puffer fish. Just have to make certain the snails are not larger than eye to eye method...so the distance from one eye to the other is the size of snails they will peck apart to eat the yummy on inside.
I could not help hear you say your plant had scale, how do you treat for these?, as I have had a really hard time getting rid of them off my plants, most times had to toss the plant.
Hi can I ask the name of the plant he said was his favorite? I liked the look of it but could not find it’s name , what he called it or what I heard did not work. Thanks
Kmart tanks are the bloody best ahah, Can't get better for Endler/Guppy/Shrimp breeding for the price