One of my favorite videos, I've watched it repeatedly. Those lingering shots of the fish are almost long enough to satisfy me, there's so much to see! The more detail I notice, the hungrier my eyes become. The lingering pace really boosts my enjoyment, so another heart-felt thanks.
Thank you for watching. We'll do more of these videos. I hope someday the breeders in the vats get as tame or as inurned to the camera as the feral fish in the sumps. Charles
These may be some of my most favorite videos on UA-cam. I think it’s so cool watching how these fish behave underwater and the varieties are awesome. Keep them coming!
Oh wow. This is living art!! Fantastic footage. I love seeing the mystery snails too. One year, my goldfish had a lot of babies and I put a huge 500 gallon livestock-water tank in my kitchen. Loved it! This is all so beautiful, Charles and Susie. Now I have to go watch the other videos soon and get caught up. Perfect music for this too!! USA
Carl is doing a great job. I want to try a similar video with me doing the feeding. The fish seem to recognize me and come out better when I'm feeding. We'll have to test that. Charles
Yes, they do. Fortunately, the don't eat all the mulm on the bottom since the mulm is loaded with beneficial bacteria and lots of Paramecium for the little fish to eat. Charles
Thank you for showing the labels. Now I know what one of my favorite sump fish are called without having to try to find it in previous videos. Royal blue dolphins. :) (Although all of the bright blues are amazing.) I’ve never been a cichlid fan, but your fish are changing my mind. ;)
@@goliadfarms7029 I don’t have anything against cichlids, but with what I knew of them, I never had the right kind of set up for them. I had always had a community tank and mostly smaller fish and no means to set up extra tanks. Plus all the ones I’ve ever seen were not colorful or otherwise of interest to want to try for another tank. (Not that colorful is always a necessity - I always preferred feeder guppies over fancy guppies, for example.) I’ve been away from the hobby for a while, but the desire to get a new set up going has been strong. I miss having fish around! So I have been refreshing my knowledge and learning all the new info that has come along. And then I see your cichlids and now my opinion/interest in them has totally changed! :) Not to mention your livebearers are more spectacular than any I’ve ever had. Making lots of mental notes! :) Throw in the ecosystem of your setup (and the related critters) and some genetics lessons along the way and my amateur biologist/naturalist self is enthralled. :)
These are great videos. Loved that sky blue fish with the bright orange fins! That was certainly a looker. And Love the pleco buddies - they seem pretty content doing what plecos do, cleaning up. I like them, they look prehistoric...
That is a Metriaclima greshakei (Redtop Cobalt Zebra). The males of this species are highly variable with many of them being a darker blue. I prefer the color of this male which is why he is a breeder. The plecos do a good job of controlling algae and also keep the mulm stirred up and preventing it from accumulating too much. They also either eat or break up underwater snail egg cases, reducing the number of pond snail and red ramshorn snails. They don't control Mystery Snails because their eggs cases are laid above the water line. Charles
There are some nice fish there. I really like the male Metriaclima greshakei used as the featured fish on the video. You can see why he was a breeder. Charles
Thank you. Our systems have and continue to evolve as we quit doing things that don't pay and test others to see if they do. Our fish seem to thrive. Charles
Watching fish is soothing. The two big plecos in the last vat are two of three survivors from the cold and ammonia in Greenhouse 3. I plan to set them up for breeding in a 1200-gallon outside vat in September. Charles
Thank You. This video; perfect. Like a meditation. Your fish has a very zen vibe. They will all have a calm in them they wouldn't get in an gigantic stressful industrial fish farm environment. I bet they will be perfect for their future owners.
Thank you. One thing I have noticed with our fish is that for the first couple of days in an aquarium they are a bit skittish since they aren't used to being able to see that far. But they quickly settle down and learn that the big ape-like thing brings food. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 The ones bringing food are the most importat ones, in any species. :D Do you have aquariums inside / in your private livingspace? Or are fish more of a work thing (I understand having a farm is a way of living-working-combo).
@@johannessordfarne4553 We have a few aquaria in our warehouse office, but none in our house. I find it so much easier to care for fish on our recirculating, plant filtered systems that I rarely keep any in aquaria. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Who wouldn't! That system of yours is something else! I'm sorry for not using the correct latin (English?) grammar. In Swedish the word aquarium (but spelled with a "k") is the only word for ... well... tank. So "akvarium" (singular), and "akvarier" (plural) are the correct Swedish words. When writing in English I just kind of swapped the "k" for "qu". And no, I never seem to learn how to mark the word I am talking about in the correct way. I use quotation marks. It is not okay in Swedish (either), but I do it anyway. Thank you for trying to understand all of us who have other native languages, English is kind of confusing sometimes. :)
I know it’s already been said in the comments, but I really enjoyed the background music and seeing the plecostomus kicking up mulm. The Plecos look so majestic almost the way they swim. Goliad farm seems to really favor peacocks. I wonder if that’s because there’s a larger market for them over other cichlids or if Charles just likes working with that gene set.
Our choice of fish to breed is very market dependent. I like the mbunas too but they aren't as popular as the peacocks. By the way, the plecos in that last vat were the ones that survived very low water temperatures in Greenhouse 3 during the 2021 Texas Winter Storm when we had to abandon that greenhouse to heat the others. They also then survived weeks of high ammonia levels in that greenhouse due to decaying fish. I plan to set them up for breeding in a 1,200-gallon outside vat in September. Charles
There is a bit of history on OB. Apparently originally OB meant "orange blotch" and referred to the blotching on some mbuna cichlids from Lake Malawi. But it has come to mean any blotching such as the black blotching on many of our cichlids. OB is a dominant allele (a version of a gene). A fish with either one or two copies of OB (one from each parent) will be blotched. A fish without blotching has two copies of the recessive non-OB allele. Non-OBs bred together breed true, producing all non-OBs. OBs bred together produce different results depending on whether the parents carry the recessive non-OB allele. If both parents have two copies of the OB allele (called homozygous for OB by geneticists), then all their offspring are OB. If one OB parent in homozygous for OB and the other OB parent carries the recessive non-OB (called being heterozygous for OB), then all the offspring will be OB since they can only inherit OB from the first homozygous parent. If both OB fish are heterozygous for OB (meaning they both carry the recessive non-OB), then on average 25% of the offspring will be non-OB and 75% OB. Charles
I'm hoping the fish in the 300-gallon breeding vats get used to the camera. Maybe if they are fed at the same time, they will associate the camera with food and not be so skittish. Charles
Yes, the are Pomacea bridgesii, Gold Mystery Snails. They do grow large. We got our start of these from a local friend back in September 2019. They have undergone a population explosion. Unfortunately, we'd have to get permitted to ship interstate and the reporting requirements are too onerous to consider doing that. So we can only sell them in Texas. Texas only recently delisted Pomacea bridgesii but still prohibit Apple Snails (Pomacea canaliculata) since they might harm aquatic vegetation and rice crops. Charles
Great wee update 👍, I appreciate the tubs mimic real life conditions for the fish which is always a plus👍 rather than a show piece fish tank , but was wee bit frustrating the visibility from a viewers perspective maybe best to film these types just after maintenence/cleaning if that's something you ever do to the tubs , I'm new to the channel the contents great 😀👍
We do not clean the 300-gallon vats. The plecos help keep the mulm stirred up and not accumulating too much in those vats. We do clean the 55-gallon vats to remove most of the mulm which is placed on our litter worm beds (see my blogs about litter worms at goliadfarms.com/blog/). The mulm is an important part of our filtration system along with plants. The mulm is loaded with beneficial nitrifying bacteria that along with the plants keeps our ammonia and nitrites at zero despite me overfeeding heavily. Since our culture methods are aimed at raising lots of quality, healthy fish, esthetics take backseat. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thanks for taking time in replying guys, I thought that might be the case when I seen the plecos , I'm new to the channel but like the content and what your doing quality looking fish 👍
I have a question its not about fish but mystery snail... are there male and female or is it ture what a lot of people say that mystery snail are asexual (that one snail is both male and female) i would like your opinion, watching your videos i can tell your very intelligence and knows what you're talking about.
My research indicates that Mystery Snails (Pomacea bridgesii) are not hermaphroditic. They have two separate sexes, male and female. I have seen them mate, but don't see an easy way to determine male versus female. We keep them in groups and don't worry about the sex. Charles
We lost all but one male and three female pure Endler's. We also have two male and three female Blue Lyretail Endler's. We have Red Cherry Shrimp with both. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 i wanna see them featured in your vids next time really inspired me wish i could visit so far in the philippines right now someday ill bring some Cool livebearers there to help you out
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Charles feeding the fish was a fantastic way of seeing the fish. Lovely music, thanks for he video
Carl added the music. Feeding does seem to overcome the fishes' fear of the camera.
Charles
feeding while filming underwater was a great idea
Food always works!
Charles
One of my favorite videos, I've watched it repeatedly. Those lingering shots of the fish are almost long enough to satisfy me, there's so much to see! The more detail I notice, the hungrier my eyes become. The lingering pace really boosts my enjoyment, so another heart-felt thanks.
Thank you for watching. We'll do more of these videos. I hope someday the breeders in the vats get as tame or as inurned to the camera as the feral fish in the sumps.
Charles
These underwater videos have gotten much better, keep it up!
We are getting some experience at this and Carl is doing a wonderful job.
Charles
Thanks!
I’m feeling that music and chill video!
The music adds to the video. Good job, Carl.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thanks
Pink Floyd ought to use yours tanks for some musicvideos. 😊
These may be some of my most favorite videos on UA-cam. I think it’s so cool watching how these fish behave underwater and the varieties are awesome. Keep them coming!
We will continue with underwater videos and those dealing with processing breeders.
Charles
Oh wow. This is living art!! Fantastic footage. I love seeing the mystery snails too. One year, my goldfish had a lot of babies and I put a huge 500 gallon livestock-water tank in my kitchen. Loved it! This is all so beautiful, Charles and Susie. Now I have to go watch the other videos soon and get caught up. Perfect music for this too!! USA
Thank you for watching our videos. Carl is getting very good at producing them.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Go Carl!!
@@goliadfarms7029 And you are so welcome! A very unique channel you have there.
Dynamic video shots, showing labels on vats, and ambient music in the background, Carl is hitting it out of the park. MVP. Well done!
Carl is doing a great job. I want to try a similar video with me doing the feeding. The fish seem to recognize me and come out better when I'm feeding. We'll have to test that.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 this sounds like an interesting experiment!
@@fisherguy45 And we are going to try that.
Charles
Thanks for the compliment! Glad you like the video
Looking good! The snails and plecos sure do keep the sides of those vats clean!
Yes, they do. Fortunately, the don't eat all the mulm on the bottom since the mulm is loaded with beneficial bacteria and lots of Paramecium for the little fish to eat.
Charles
Thank you for showing the labels. Now I know what one of my favorite sump fish are called without having to try to find it in previous videos. Royal blue dolphins. :) (Although all of the bright blues are amazing.) I’ve never been a cichlid fan, but your fish are changing my mind. ;)
Thank you for watching our cichlids. I also like the Royal Blue Dolphins. Cichlids, by the way, are fun.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I don’t have anything against cichlids, but with what I knew of them, I never had the right kind of set up for them. I had always had a community tank and mostly smaller fish and no means to set up extra tanks. Plus all the ones I’ve ever seen were not colorful or otherwise of interest to want to try for another tank. (Not that colorful is always a necessity - I always preferred feeder guppies over fancy guppies, for example.) I’ve been away from the hobby for a while, but the desire to get a new set up going has been strong. I miss having fish around! So I have been refreshing my knowledge and learning all the new info that has come along. And then I see your cichlids and now my opinion/interest in them has totally changed! :) Not to mention your livebearers are more spectacular than any I’ve ever had. Making lots of mental notes! :) Throw in the ecosystem of your setup (and the related critters) and some genetics lessons along the way and my amateur biologist/naturalist self is enthralled. :)
Your greenhouse is looking great! Fantastic job coming back from the freeze we had. I enjoy your videos and all the information you share.
Thank you. Now if we avoid hurricanes, we can start getting our fish stocks back up to full greenhouses.
Charles
I like the background music - keep up the great work
Carl is doing great work on the videos.
Charles
These are great videos. Loved that sky blue fish with the bright orange fins! That was certainly a looker. And Love the pleco buddies - they seem pretty content doing what plecos do, cleaning up. I like them, they look prehistoric...
That is a Metriaclima greshakei (Redtop Cobalt Zebra). The males of this species are highly variable with many of them being a darker blue. I prefer the color of this male which is why he is a breeder.
The plecos do a good job of controlling algae and also keep the mulm stirred up and preventing it from accumulating too much. They also either eat or break up underwater snail egg cases, reducing the number of pond snail and red ramshorn snails. They don't control Mystery Snails because their eggs cases are laid above the water line.
Charles
Lovely to see the farm growing again
Thank you. It is nice to be recovering. Now if we can just avoid a hurricane this season...
Charles
My cat greatly enjoyed watching your fish... 😼😻😹
Interesting. Oso and Maya, our German Shepherds, only like to watch fish live.
Charles
oh crap you added music this got some real production value now
Carl has upped his game!
Charles
Thanks!
Stunningly gorgeous. Wonderful world we live in.
There are some nice fish there. I really like the male Metriaclima greshakei used as the featured fish on the video. You can see why he was a breeder.
Charles
Absolutely love this content. Great setup, i like the thinking behind it, fish are all in great shape. Stunning Sir, you are gifted!
Thank you. Our systems have and continue to evolve as we quit doing things that don't pay and test others to see if they do. Our fish seem to thrive.
Charles
I can watch this all day!!. Great video. Must have been very comfortable making this video!!!! DEEP EAST OAKLAND
Watching fish is soothing. The two big plecos in the last vat are two of three survivors from the cold and ammonia in Greenhouse 3. I plan to set them up for breeding in a 1200-gallon outside vat in September.
Charles
Thank You. This video; perfect. Like a meditation. Your fish has a very zen vibe. They will all have a calm in them they wouldn't get in an gigantic stressful industrial fish farm environment. I bet they will be perfect for their future owners.
Thank you. One thing I have noticed with our fish is that for the first couple of days in an aquarium they are a bit skittish since they aren't used to being able to see that far. But they quickly settle down and learn that the big ape-like thing brings food.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 The ones bringing food are the most importat ones, in any species. :D Do you have aquariums inside / in your private livingspace? Or are fish more of a work thing (I understand having a farm is a way of living-working-combo).
@@johannessordfarne4553 We have a few aquaria in our warehouse office, but none in our house. I find it so much easier to care for fish on our recirculating, plant filtered systems that I rarely keep any in aquaria.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Who wouldn't! That system of yours is something else!
I'm sorry for not using the correct latin (English?) grammar. In Swedish the word aquarium (but spelled with a "k") is the only word for ... well... tank. So "akvarium" (singular), and "akvarier" (plural) are the correct Swedish words. When writing in English I just kind of swapped the "k" for "qu". And no, I never seem to learn how to mark the word I am talking about in the correct way. I use quotation marks. It is not okay in Swedish (either), but I do it anyway. Thank you for trying to understand all of us who have other native languages, English is kind of confusing sometimes. :)
I know it’s already been said in the comments, but I really enjoyed the background music and seeing the plecostomus kicking up mulm. The Plecos look so majestic almost the way they swim. Goliad farm seems to really favor peacocks. I wonder if that’s because there’s a larger market for them over other cichlids or if Charles just likes working with that gene set.
Our choice of fish to breed is very market dependent. I like the mbunas too but they aren't as popular as the peacocks.
By the way, the plecos in that last vat were the ones that survived very low water temperatures in Greenhouse 3 during the 2021 Texas Winter Storm when we had to abandon that greenhouse to heat the others. They also then survived weeks of high ammonia levels in that greenhouse due to decaying fish. I plan to set them up for breeding in a 1,200-gallon outside vat in September.
Charles
What does OB stand for. Sorry for the silly question and thanks for the videos.
There is a bit of history on OB. Apparently originally OB meant "orange blotch" and referred to the blotching on some mbuna cichlids from Lake Malawi. But it has come to mean any blotching such as the black blotching on many of our cichlids. OB is a dominant allele (a version of a gene). A fish with either one or two copies of OB (one from each parent) will be blotched. A fish without blotching has two copies of the recessive non-OB allele. Non-OBs bred together breed true, producing all non-OBs. OBs bred together produce different results depending on whether the parents carry the recessive non-OB allele. If both parents have two copies of the OB allele (called homozygous for OB by geneticists), then all their offspring are OB. If one OB parent in homozygous for OB and the other OB parent carries the recessive non-OB (called being heterozygous for OB), then all the offspring will be OB since they can only inherit OB from the first homozygous parent. If both OB fish are heterozygous for OB (meaning they both carry the recessive non-OB), then on average 25% of the offspring will be non-OB and 75% OB.
Charles
That was awesome!
Thank you. Carl did a great job and we'll be doing more of these tours.
Charles
Just an all-around amazing facility
Thank you. It has evolved over a long time as we try to perfect our breeding techniques, and procedures.
Charles
Love the underwater videos too
I'm hoping the fish in the 300-gallon breeding vats get used to the camera. Maybe if they are fed at the same time, they will associate the camera with food and not be so skittish.
Charles
it's looking good in there!
Things are improving.
Charles
Must be too warm for Oso and Maya. The fish are cool too.
Oso and Maya think anything over 70F is too hot. They often retire to the airconditioned office in the warehouse to cool off.
Charles
Really love this video but would really like to see some more sump fish because they are just amazing thank you x
More sump fish on the way!
Charles
Are those mystery snails I’m seeing? They are pretty huge!
Yes, the are Pomacea bridgesii, Gold Mystery Snails. They do grow large. We got our start of these from a local friend back in September 2019. They have undergone a population explosion. Unfortunately, we'd have to get permitted to ship interstate and the reporting requirements are too onerous to consider doing that. So we can only sell them in Texas. Texas only recently delisted Pomacea bridgesii but still prohibit Apple Snails (Pomacea canaliculata) since they might harm aquatic vegetation and rice crops.
Charles
Great wee update 👍, I appreciate the tubs mimic real life conditions for the fish which is always a plus👍 rather than a show piece fish tank , but was wee bit frustrating the visibility from a viewers perspective maybe best to film these types just after maintenence/cleaning if that's something you ever do to the tubs , I'm new to the channel the contents great 😀👍
We do not clean the 300-gallon vats. The plecos help keep the mulm stirred up and not accumulating too much in those vats. We do clean the 55-gallon vats to remove most of the mulm which is placed on our litter worm beds (see my blogs about litter worms at goliadfarms.com/blog/). The mulm is an important part of our filtration system along with plants. The mulm is loaded with beneficial nitrifying bacteria that along with the plants keeps our ammonia and nitrites at zero despite me overfeeding heavily. Since our culture methods are aimed at raising lots of quality, healthy fish, esthetics take backseat.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thanks for taking time in replying guys, I thought that might be the case when I seen the plecos , I'm new to the channel but like the content and what your doing quality looking fish 👍
@@Steve0272. Thank you. Our goal is to raise many high quality fish and to provide good content for hobbyists.
Charles
Awesome 👍👍👊🇭🇲
Thank you for watching our fish!
Charles
Bravo!
Thank you. I really like the featured male fish, Metriaclima greshakei. You can see why I chose him as a breeder.
Charles
Eyegasm
Pretty feral fish.
Charles
So Cool, Thanks!
Carl does a great job on these underwater views.
Charles
Beaytifull.
Thank you for watching. We'll do more of these tours.
Charles
By watching this, are aliens raising humans on earth and keeping an eye on us from time to time too
If they are, I wonder how competent they are.
Charles
Do they eat plants?
The fish? Some of them (mbuna cichlids primarily) will eat duckweed, but mostly they don't eat plants.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thanks, I was looking at getting some for a new planted tank and wasn’t sure if they would eat my plants.
@@RanchKings They don't eat higher level plants.
Charles
I have a question its not about fish but mystery snail... are there male and female or is it ture what a lot of people say that mystery snail are asexual (that one snail is both male and female) i would like your opinion, watching your videos i can tell your very intelligence and knows what you're talking about.
My research indicates that Mystery Snails (Pomacea bridgesii) are not hermaphroditic. They have two separate sexes, male and female. I have seen them mate, but don't see an easy way to determine male versus female. We keep them in groups and don't worry about the sex.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thank you
I luv the green, Liv'ng the Dream. Dont ever become a Aquariaum Co-Op.
Aquarium Co-Op is a great company, but we like raising fish and will continue to do that.
Charles
I enjoyed this video 👍🏼
Thank you for watching it. We'll be doing more of these.
Charles
Now i wanna see you guy's try polyculturing pure endlers with shrimps
so happy seeing you guys coming back from the lost
Thank you. Things are getting better. Now all we have to do is avoid any hurricanes this season.
Charles
We lost all but one male and three female pure Endler's. We also have two male and three female Blue Lyretail Endler's. We have Red Cherry Shrimp with both.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 i wanna see them featured in your vids next time really inspired me wish i could visit so far in the philippines right now someday ill bring some Cool livebearers there to help you out
@@IloveSpiders23444 We will be processing our livebearers again starting in about a week. We'll video document that process for you.
Charles