All-Star, Daffnet and Junior look for pond specimens for a contest. Junior finds a giant crab as it makes chase. Accidentally, he finds ruby kelp and takes it all for the contest. he finds out that the red kelp is useful for fuel and stuff. Junior sees the financial potential in the red kelp and sells it to many Snorks for outrageous prices. But the red kelp is worth every penny when the Snorks get through things much faster. Galeo hears about the miracle kelp on the radio and researches it. When Junior goes back to the cave for some more red kelp, there are not a lot there. So he sells the maps to the cave to the Snorks, and they see through his trick and get him Galeo tells him all that the red kelp is very rare, but Junior has used it all up to make a fast buck.