Guppies - The 4 most common mistakes and some simple solutions
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- These are the most common problems that people have when trying to keep and breed guppies, and how to stop them from happening. New Tank Syndrome (cycling the tank / the nitrogen cycle) , over-feeding, and problems with keeping the baby guppies alive. How to keep the baby guppies from being eaten by the other fish.
I loove your guppy content! It’s been a year and some and I still have the runt guppy one of your videos helped me save, he’s an adorable tuxedo koi male now with half black body and bright orange fins! Very small but healthy and he trusts me to the point where he swims into my hand or pecks at my tools when I’m trying to clean. Just yesterday I had to remove a piece of food stuck in his throat (he bit off more carrot than he could swallow) with a needle. He didn’t flop around, he just lay still and watched me and the moment he was returned to the water he was instantly begging for food again. I don’t think I could have done the same operation on my endlers or females, they would have freaked out and hidden away afterwards 🤔 I guess my runt boy just has no survival instincts😂
That's such a wonderful story. It looks like you and this little tuxedo koi guppy have become great friends. ❤❤❤
How big do you find guppy endler hybrids to grow? Do they all inherit the small size? I find mine to all be very small to miniscule. Any of yours grow to be big guppy sized?
I've had the same colony of platys, guppy and sword tails I've not bought a fish in years
Very cool! I'll bet that saves you a lot of money, but aren't you tempted when you go in a fish shop? I know I am. It's very hard to resist! 🐠🦈🐟🦐
Optimal filtering device , if small organisms like guppies live in aquarium is internal filter/circular pump with bigger water flow and big sponge on it. Fishes are safe, surface for beneficial flora is provided.
External filters can suck in fry, disaster can happen - it suck water out from aquarium, fish may die, human have flooded house 😱
I only use sponge filters. They're inexpensive to buy, they last forever, nothing to replace, fish safe, and very effective.
*fish not fishes
@@PoeticfloeticThanks. English is not my native language. Anyway I try to speak properly. I have checked word "fish " and have found explanation: "Fishes tends to be used as a plural when there are more than one species, especially in scientific settings."
Is it better, in everyday language, use "fish " even when describing many species in same time ?
You can say it however you like my friend. I just find it impressive that you speak more than one language. . . We all know what you meant. And you're correct, "fishes" means more than one species, and fish refer to only one type of fish. Many people don't understand or use the word properly, so many people just say fish, even though they're referring to more than one species. And to make matters even more complicated the meaning of words change over time.
@@TheDave333Thank you for explaining "fish" and "fishes". Actually I have doubted before such plural form but haven't bothered my mind. I've learnt something new today. Fishy issue 😆. As foreign languages can communicate English in medium level (l suppose), Russian - medium in the past, now unfortunately it more rusted, l hope to have a time to improve it.
You say: "Guppies". I say: "Fish Food".
It just depends how ya pronounce it. The old "Tomato, Turnip" thing.😉
Ha ha that's funny, especially the tomato turnip line. I actually laughed. Thanks!
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I may be good for nothin', but I'm still good for a laugh.
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Thank god, someone teaching bacteria seeding. Its unreal the amount of people i meet who already have established aquariums and set up new one's the slow and hard way because they never knew they could seed.
Thanks for watching the video and talking the time to leave a comment. I love your hoplo catfish and all of the plants in your tanks!
@TheDave333 Welcome, i appreciate your content and was well worth the sub we need more channels like this i tire of people saying to me, "thats not what UA-cam tells you", i simply say you're watching the wrong channel its sponsored and promoted by the industry you'll never create a natural environment for a successful ecosystem for fish and plants building an aquarium by that advice, you'll end up with a sterilised quarantine tank fit only to sustain life for those plastic plants and plastic fish.
Thanks for viewing and kindly commenting on my tanks and my new addition my hoplo catfish.
I agree with you 100% creating a natural ecosystem is really the best way to go. 🦠🦈🐟🦐🦠 ❤
Hehe I have similar hybrids too. I love the rainbow iridescent with tails that have a thin streak of colour on top and bottom edge while the rest being translucent. Watching how guppy generations develop different colours and patterns feels so satisfying. It’s interesting how colours can blend too - eg my orangey red guppies mixed with blue ones and I now get a mix of orange, red, blue and even purple!
I agree! I love all of the different combinations that you can get in the hybrids. Each one is unique, it's great!
Guppies and endlers are my favorite little fish. 😍
It's so hard to pick a favorite, but I love the variety that you can get with guppies. 😁
I’m a sucker for my guppies’ begging behaviour. 🥺
We all are, they have us trained! 🐠🦈🐟
To save my baby guppies I put a fish net secured with a rubber band over the intake of my aquarium siphon when doing water changes.
Good thinking Susan! Thanks for the tip.
I have been keeping guppies since childhood, while I already knew some of these as a livebearer fan myself, some of these tips are new to me
That's awesome! I always try to bring a new approach and new information to my viewers. 😁
Great looking hybrids, my endlers are breeding like crazy i love watching the little fry grow up and develop.
Me too! It always a pleasant surprise to find babies in the tank.
11:38 The other day I turned off my HOB filter to clean it and discovered around a dozen neocaradina shrimp in there. The funny thing is they could leave if they wanted to, but they like it in there I guess. I only clean the tubing so I let them stay in the reservoir :)
That's awesome! There's lots of food in there for them to eat. :-D
I love hybrid guppies. Yours are stunning
Thanks so much!
I love your hybrid guppies. I’d like to see a video on how you choose which fish to breed and how the babies turn out.
I'm not that precise in how I breed them, but now you've given me a great idea. Thank you!
@@TheDave333I love this idea! I’ll be waiting for this video
I can't stop laughing at myself.
I'll add to that topic.
*Make sure you have proper tankmates if you want multiple fishes in your aquarium.
Don't be like me that I saw a cool looking fish called "Bichirs" well guess what that bichir went fat and lost most of its guppy friends😅
I used to feed my culled guppies to my Bichir, but all of a sudden I was filled with empathy and had to stop. 😁
@@TheDave333 Speaking of bichir any update on yours?
Nothing new to add. I sold him to buy other fish. I have a serious fish addiction. :-)
@@TheDave333 oh! You sold it. Are you planning to get a different specie of bichir?
For anyone buying guppies and other common livebearers (mollies, swordtails & platies) from pet shops. They usually carry intestinal worms (Camallanus, Capillaria & tapeworm) and gill flukes, as well as external protozoa like Costia, Chilodonella & Trichodina, and some carry external bacterial infections. Guppies tend to be the worst for bacteria and protozoa and all of them can carry intestinal worms and gill flukes.
Always quarantine new fish for at least one month before adding them to an established aquarium.
Great advice. Thanks for sharing that. This is the reason many guppies get what's often called "wasting disease."
I'm not fan of plastic in aquarium but l like this castle 😄. Such decoration should be ceramic. Fishes have fun swimming through it's chambers .
I used to live in a castle just like that. . . Ha Ha. I'd love to go to Europe someday! There's such a rich history and so many old buildings. And none of them are made of plastic!!! 😄
@@TheDave333Oh, you are Fisher King !!!
Europe has plenty of castles to see, charming medieval cathedrals (stunning vibes inside them and endless beauty) and.... Guppy Creek 😄. Castle similar to one in your aquarium is in southern Germany, Bavaria. You must know it from Disney's cartoons logo (at least olders).
@@TheDave333 Neuschwanstein Castle. This castle I mentioned in previous post. Europe is lovely but unfortunately for several years politicians do what they can to turn it into shithole 😥
For some strange reason that I am unable to explain, Europe has always held a special place in my heart. The people must stay strong and work together The politicians are not helping us here either!!! 😥
@@TheDave333Genetic memory can explain why you like Europe without rational reasons. Humans also have it. Sometimes it can be observed in our exotic pets behaviour.
Politicians, hmm.. we know here that usa have more and more problems too - government don't want to stop messing where they shouldn't. I hope you know briefly what I mean, it's not place to write such things 🤫
Great video and beautiful hybrids! I like to keep my key lines in separate tanks and bring some together to see what happens. No fish room, so they go where they fit - blue moscows in the sun room, tigers in the kitchen, gingas in the kitchen, tanakas in the den, blue golds in the office, staeck endlers in the bedroom, and a few others here and there. I'm not at all clear about blue moscow genetics, but in Oct of 22 (just checked my notes) I added a young female blue moscow to a tank with a mosaic tail male I fell in love with at a pet store that had no visible reds. I have had several generations of beautiful guppies with mosaic pattern and a lovely blue in the tails. All my tanks have lots of live plants. You mentioned guppy grass and hornwort - I have such a hard time growing those! One of my tanks has a floating mat of hygro corymbosa with lots of anubias and other slower growers on the bottom. Love to see the fry among the floating leaves. Also usually some of the adult guppies sleep in the very top leaves - so cute at night:) Currently I'm in a tank rebalance phase from removing several large trees from my backyard which has opened up a ton of light coming through my windows and is now brightening up many of my tanks. The algae is loving the extra light a bit too much and my anubias etc are very unhappy about it, however my houseplants and I are thoroughly enjoying the extra light. Hope you are having a beautiful day too:)
Hello again! Thanks for sharing your guppy setup. I love it, fish in nearly every room!!! Sounds like my place. . . My hybrids stay small like the typical Endler, but the metallic colors really pop in the morning sun . Spring is here and with it the promise of sunshine, warm weather, and algae in those tanks that see the sun. Thanks for watching another one of my videos. :-)
In my experience the bottled bacteria is not effective. I used an entire 250ml bottle of Stability on a 10G quarantine tank over the course of two weeks and it still wasn't cycled by the end. According to the bottle its enough for 1,000 gallons. The only one that has ever worked for me is the refrigerated stuff by Fritz.
Getting a dirty sponge is definitely the way to go if you don't want to wait.
Agreed! Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. .
Ditto, on the Sponge Power.💪🏻🧽
I love orange juice! 🧡🟠
I love carrot juice!
This video is the best! Thank you. I wanted to say that your hybrid guppies are incredibly beautiful. I worked at a petstore for a while and rescued all the accidental endler/guppy babies to bring home so its so cool to see someone make them on purpose! I've always thought they looked like little opals. Moreso now after seeing yours !!!!
Wow, thank you! I love my little opals. 🐠🦈🐟
Why do the lady guppies say you know how to set the mood?
Because I do! We talk to each other. . .
@@TheDave333 I see. 😁
As a guppy keeper l appreciate so much this video. Cycling the aquarium is crucial to establish right microbiological and chemical conditions. Best solution is adding water and/or sponge debris from same aquarium in which our fish have lived before. It's part of their home environment, except bringing flora what fishes are accustomed with, it help reduce stress.
I totally agree! 😁
Talk about using a plenum or a dirtied aquarium without telling people to set up a system of those.
I think teaching about patience would be a more useful lesson. Simplicity would be a close second. 😁
Amazing footage of your endlers
Thank you. 😁
Lotsa poppin', full-body color patches.😍
I'd market them as: "Majestic Jester Endlers/Guppies".
Beautiful video as always! :)
Thank you so much 😀
Guppies are so illuminating!
Yes, but only when the lights are on.
I loved your video! It was a nice relaxed watch :) Love guppies just a little more though! Poecilia reticulata is as a species solely responsible for my love for the aquarium hobby. Even so, I'm on team wingei (winGEEIIIIIIII - insert cartoon yelling seal meme here) now. I made the mistake many moons ago to add a reticulata to save my prime Endler line after I lost most to a bigger mistake (deep substrate cleanings are a no-no). The fancy girl had the stronger genes, and only today after about 20 years am I starting to see the Endler genes starting to become slightly more evident/dominant, though hesitantly. I have introduced a few female Endler's but they seem to frown upon the hybrid males. I'm not waiting another 20 so now I'm waiting for a little tank to cycle before I introduce a female Endler and my most Endler-like male hybrid, play some Marvin Gaye, play God and see what happens. I could add male Endler's, yes but that would be cheating. Thanks for the video, I might just introduce that single day of fasting!
I keep my N-class Endlers in a separate room from my guppies just to be safe. . . That's how serious I am about keeping the Endler lines pure, but I hybridize them with P. reticulata in a separate room. I love the variations that I get. 😁
@@TheDave333 Cool right? Liking your perspective. I might just need to get another 9 or so tanks. For scientific purposes, obviously.
I have 22 tanks with water in them at the moment, and I still need more. This hobby is incredibly addictive. I love it!
These guppies are gorgeous, I love the variations in their colouring, and the flashes of electric green, blue, and gold. They are like extremely good black opals. Excellent information as always too. Today looks like Spring has actually begun here today. That combined with one of your wonderful videos makes this a splendid day.💖🖤🇨🇦
Thank you so much. Opals are my favorite gemstones! 😁😁😁
Oh, shut up with your Canadian Springtime talk; we just had eleven fresh inches dumped on us, and it's 14°F, down here.
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Possibly somewhat interesting sidenote: Someone once told me that Opals contain an unusually high amount of water; the greatest amount of any gemstone.🤷🏻♂️
Do with that little "gem" what you will.
@@TheDave333 It is true, when you see the light play as they swim past. I love good opals too, they are infinitely deep, and ever changing.🥰🖤🇨🇦
@@nicksweeney5176 That is more usual where I am, we had snow a few days ago…so you never know. I think we broke the sky. As a jeweller, opals do contain a lot of water, and are often stored in water to keep their colour strong. That is also why they can shatter if worn out in the cold.🖤🇨🇦
I had a biology teacher at my boarding highschool who wanted a tropical aquarium in his classroom. I was about 15 at the time and had been keeping fish since I was 6, at this point having three separate aquariums I was taking care of at home including a reef aquarium. I was enthusiastic to help him set it up and he was taking my advice about it at first, but then he started ignoring me more and more as it went on.
He wanted to get fish into the tank after only a couple of weeks of letting it run. At most I'd have recommended a couple small fish for it but instead he took the clerk at the pet store's advice over mine that it was perfectly fine to put 8 glowlight tetras into this new, tiny 20L tank. Worst of all, he kept putting way too much food into the tank which was bloating the tetras to the point their swim bladders were failing and polluting the water even worse. Sure enough, they all died and he refused to accept that the fault was on him about it.
Thanks for sharing your story. Sometimes, the student knows more than the teacher. He should have learned from you.
Beautiful endler/ guppies. The cycle is very important
Thanks for watching the video Mark. 😁
I highly recommend a dirted tank, it’s so much easier and the health of my fish is better
I've had great success with them as well. Thanks for watching the video.
My pothos has rooted into the dirted substrate and it is the biggest and healthiest pothos I have
Observant question, have you ever noticed that some fish species become less active when you get closer to the tank?
Yes, my Hillstream loaches will often hide and the same goes for my pearl gouramis. Both species can be quite shy at times, but if I sit still long enough, they relax and come back out. We look like predators to the fish. So, I don't blame them for trying to be less obvious by staying still so we don't notice them. If I saw a tiger in the jungle, I'd stay still too. :-)
Great video!!!!
Thanks!!!
ORRRRR SEACHEM STABILITY INSTANTLY CYCLES TANK G MAN 3 days later
That's awesome if it works for you and your fish. Personally, I don't trust chemical shortcuts. . . They usually backfire at some point.
Seachem or any other bottled bacteria does not cycle in 3 days nor instantly. It takes a minimum of 2 weeks imo.
😂😂😂I never once had trouble with it🤷🏽♂️🇨🇦💪🏼
Gorgeous fish!
Thank you very much!
The advantage to adding live plants is two-fold. Yes, live plants will have lots of beneficial bacteria which will help with the cycle.
The other perhaps more important aspect is that live plants will consume huge amounts of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate, the very thing that you're trying to get your filter to achieve. I have a 30 gallon tank which contains 11 three inch cichlids, 5 fully grown rosy barbs and 2 fully grown Siamese Algae Eaters. By anybody's calculation this tank is vastly overstocked (it's only a temporary measure, a holding tank). I feed liberally and the fish are doing really well, the water is crystal clear and always tests negative for ammonia and nitrite, nitrates hover around 20-25ppm. The reason I have no problem is because I have 3 inches of substrate and the whole tank is a mass of fast growing plants, mainly Limnophila sessiliflora, probably 75% of the available space is full of plants, you can't even see through them to the back of the tank. It grows about an inch a day, it's using all of the nitrogen compounds in the water column to do so.
I couldn't agree more. You obviously know what you're doing. Live plants are a key part of every tank that I own, and they make maintaining the tanks a breeze. 😁
Have you heard of the king george whiting/sillaginodes punctatus?
no never not even once ever not one time. I'm guessing it's a silver fish.
@@TheDave333 How about a blackfin seabass/Lateolabrax latus?
I know sea bass, we went to different schools together. 😁
Now, the important question is, why do you have a serious fish addiction?
I was born on a tiny island surrounded by water. . .
@@TheDave333 Good to know. 😁 I have one too because I grew up loving them so much.
I spent a lot of time in the water as a child. My Dad thought me how to snorkel, and we went to the beach every weekend.
@@TheDave333 Awesome!
My video on Bluegill is blowing up right now!!! Views are up 200% !
you could also kickstart your cycle by PEEING INTO YOUR TANK! or you can just get some cat piss too..
Is this good for Cory cats 😂
Ammonia is good food for the bacteria, but what else is in the pee from our modern diets? (pesticides, weird chemicals in processed foods, medicines, etc. . .) That's no way to treat a fish! 😁
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Those guppies are impressive.
Thank you! They're a cross between random guppies and N-class Endlers. They don't get as big as guppies, but they're much more colorful. I love the variety too. Guppies that all look the same are very dull in my opinion.
This is the most amazing guppy video I've ever seen!
Wow, thank you!
Your guppies are very pretty. Endlers, Poecilla reticulata and their hybrids. Do you try to breed new hybrid strain ?
Guppies are masters in begging for food! Like medieval beggars guild near churches 😆
Yes, I used random guppies crossed with N-class Endlers.
i used to have tiger endlers but they breed themselvs out and now i just have a mix kinda like you have :D i need to get some again tho
You should! I lover the variety that I get from these Endler /guppy hybrids. 😁
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Nice Hybrids… I’m breeding colors that I like also. I was wondering where you bought your guppies, their nice. 😂
The guppies are just random ones from a local pet store, but the Endlers that I used to hybridize them with were pure bred ones (N-class) that I bought on line from Adiran Hernandz in Florida ( Swamp River Aquatics ).
I love mixing fancy guppies and seing what happens. I've been doing this for three years and the best part is seeing characteristics of previous generations of guppies in the newbies. Sometimes it can slightly ease the sting when a favorite fish passes away@@TheDave333
Those guppies are gorgeous. Could you tell me where I could get some?
I created them myself by crossing random guppies with purebred (N-class) Endler guppies. So, they're hybrids of the two.
Great valued information!! Father fish has a deep substrate with dirt and lots of supplements and sand on top . Then u need to add lots of plants, with lights on for weeks 24/7, and he recommends adding a fish that you can easily replace in case it dies. It's kinda deceiving to say that you can just add fish the 2nd day with out adding the rest of the information.
Very true. The more natural the set up the greater the success. I don't like the part about the easily replaceable fish though. I know it's a little corny, but all life is precious. 😁
Don't bother with testing the water. Set it up right from the start and you won't need to worry about anything more than feeding the fish and watching them thrive. I live in an area with questionable water, doing water changes has killed more fish than any other thing I've done.
I'm lucky to have a good water supply, and lots of tanks with 2 or more sponge filters in them. So, I just take a mature sponge filter from an old tank and use that to start a new one. The plants really help too. 😁
Key reason to success is doing research before doing aquarium setup. Put right species that suits your water. Some fishes tolerate some pollution, some require crystal clear water. For example guppies prefer neutral or more hard water - then even some established micro ecosystem don't affect their health. But they are very sensitive to lack of oxygen! Some guppy strains live in Venezuela near sewer, however in place where there's water move causing aeration.
Add a bunch of live plants day 1, you can add fish day 2. I've done this and lost no fish on a half dozen tanks. Firmly and completely disagree that you need to let a tank sit for any extended period of time before adding fish. Plants thrive on all forms of nitrogen, they are also covered in nitrosomonas and nitrobacter, the bacteria that are responsible fot converting ammonia > nitrite > nitrate. If you don't add fish your live plants will die. If you're doing an aquarium with fake plants and gravel, don't put real fish in it.
I'm a moderator on the Father Fish Shoal discord, a fishkeeping community with 12,900 members as of this writing.
Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. I don't wait when I start a new tank either, but I always have driftwood, lots of live plants, and mature sponge filters on hand. Decades of experience help as well, and much of this advice was intended for people who are new to the hobby.
Nah, no way, man.
You're a fringe extremist and F.F. is a pedant who stares with denyin' eyes at the faults, flaws, imperfections & collosal limitations of his twisted goat's horn of a path from nowhere to nothing.
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Same-same me too, Mr. The Dave. 'Cept for me, it's a sponge and a hefty chunk of E.B.B.; I'll also jam ~25' of plastic plants in there, and a substantial real-rock or ceramic reef.
@@nicksweeney5176it's inhumane to keep live animals in a plastic filled box.
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We are fundamentally and profoundly disagreed. Again, it's the extremity and the dogma which corrupt the mind and blind the eye.
I can save viewers a solid half the view time with 3 words
Cycle your tank..
No need to babble blather on so long with the very basic "how 2 innoculate"
Decent footage with a pompous "Here is how the plebs should appreciate my art" introduction.
Thanks for watching the video. I am in no hurry, and not everyone has all of the information that I provide. We were all newbies at one time.
@TheDave333 this you? "am a photographer with 25 years of photographic experience. I enjoy all types of photography, and I am currently looking to expand my portfolio by including more portraits"
I have 41 years experience with Photography, but no interest in portrait photography. And the more people I meet, the more I like my fish. . . :-)
This is an awesome video! As someone who works at a pet store, and own fish myself, I have noticed that most new fish keepers want what they want fast, and don't care about the nitrogen cycle. They don't want to wait for the bacteria to start up and do it's thing.
Very true! It would be great if stores could sell "cycled" sponge filters! Thanks for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment.