hey i boght a 5 gallon tank with 2 plants just bought 3 glowfish tetras for the tank waiting a couple weeks before i add a shrimp and snail bc water isnt acclamated enough for them yet. Nitrogen cycle too early. Anyways my 3 fish are healthy and doing well but the lady that said these three were good for a 5 gallon tank are nipping each other. Particlarly the blue one is nipping the other 2. She said the space was fine and 5 gallon was plenty of space. She also said they are schooling fish and are peacful. They do not seem to school at all only if startled and one is being aggressive. What's up with that?
I had a question for you Corey but as I was asking during the stream I decided to search the channel and there it was, the exact video I needed. Just a reminder to google and search the page folks, seems like Corey has covered most things already.
just finished watching your live stream. thankyou. i am learning sooo much from you, thankyou for taking the time to do these videos because you are such a busy man ......julie from england.
Thank you Cory so much for answering my question at 23:32 Trying to look for API's E.M. Erythromycin here, no luck so far, it seems I will have to find out if it's even legal to import here. For now I rinsed my tank and cleaned it completely (not including filters) and also started to use API's Aquarium Salt on the tank to treat it for some white spots on my balloon mollies.... I hope it works! Again Thank you a lot!!!
Cory, Whilst many may have at some time in their lives (no matter how brief) experienced some degree of fish keeping, there are some of us who persist and then consider ourselves to be avid hobbyist. Then of course in some cases (like in my case), it is more of an addiction lol - a healthy one at that! I have kept at one time up to 9 aquariums, mainly focusing on Tanganyika Cichlids, always keeping that special planted aquascape ‘attempting’ but never quite achieving(or even close to)the Takashi Amano look(RIP). Then, there are those who by virtue of their circumstances are simply fortunate enough and able to develop the hobby in dedicated, well designed fish rooms with all sorts of innovative setups and multitude of species. Lucky sods lol. But for me, I simply salute those who not only are able to host dedicated fish rooms but progress this into a business. Whilst, some may argue that fish keeping is a Science interlocked with Art, I think that one needs to add to that that a true hobbyist in most cases will have an instinctive nurturing tendency. I can see how you look after your fish and care for them, even if it is also your business. Not many of you around, I must say. You my friend are a very fortunate person. Able to enjoy your hobby whilst also making it your business - If only I could do the same. A hello from the Rock of Gibraltar on the other side of the pond - I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work mate.
Aquarium Co-Op daaah you always do it to me lol! Come up with an amazing tip, don't explain it, then move on to another lol "green water" for good colour" what do you mean???? Please help mate :-)
Aquarium Co-Op ok so free floating algae? Gotcha, also I saw a talk where you mentioned an airlift? To remove fry from a rock pile, good way to harvest fry, is there any vids out there that show how that pump works (removing fry from one tank to another) sorry just bending your ear now I got you :-)
Aquarium Co-Op & Geoff Saunderson, I'd also love to know the detail of the guppy fry separator done with rock and an air lift. That would be super helpful, thanks.
Thank god for this video. I am new to the guppies and have stratum in all my tanks minus the one ten gallon with regular gravel and I noticed my guppies were not doing well at all I believe from the lower ph. So I just did a fish swap out of the tens. Put my betta in the one with stratum and my guppies in the harder water tank (regular gravel) and three hours later my guppies were looking waaaay better and my beta is so much happier! Thanks for this video so much info I didn’t know.
"they can breed tails so big now the fish can't even get off the ground and I don't like that." I watch guppy competitions I agree 100%, it's cruel. Also I keep my fry unheated and I've never lost any that way, but my guppies are mostly mixes.
My male bettas do better in a tank with female guppies, less color aggression. But Most of my bettas were raised with guppy fry from fry. Guppy fry were younger as they grow faster. Then again, I do have several male bettas that do well in a community tank with male guppies. If the young male gets mean, I put in breeder box at night, release during the day, and do this for a while until he accepts his tank mates, or I move him. So far, almost all my bettas have accepted a community tank with guppies.
Dude you need to do something better with the audio. I love the content but your videos are so quiet i can barely hear you with my volume all the way up.
hi cory! I hope you can make a 101 vid on guppies. I get confused with the terms "guppy", "fancy guppy", "endler" (are they the same?). I tried to look for it on google but I find some criterias but noting specific... how do you deferinciate between a cobra guppy and a snake skin?, I saw them and they to me have like the same leopard skin pattern. Do panda guppies have to be whiye on top/black on the bottom or could it be the other way around? Those are the kinda questions I've had and can't get enough info on them to buy strains ergo breed them and preserve pure genetic lineage... since I do know they dont discriminate and breed no matter the color or tail shape. thanks for your time cheers!
Guppy is a blanket term, like dog - just as there are different breeds of dogs that all remain essentially the same thing, there are different varieties of guppies that are really still the same fish. Endlers are a similar livebearing fish but they are not the same, sort of like a fox to a dog.
I feel like some of this information could be in a video but a lot of it is pretty intricate. Knowing what a good panda guppy vs a bad one is in the eye of the beholder etc. Depends on who is judging etc. Getting emmersed in the culture is the best way to start.
Thank's for answering my question about the finnex stingray. Are there any led lights that are safe to mount inside a plastic hood? I ordered a fluval 2.0 lite and some low light plants from your store will that light be ok for those plants in a 60 gallon lowboy it's 12 inches high with a glass canopy?
Sponge filtered natural plants and a lots of guppy grass and one fancy male and three females of different sizes and after one month no fry wondering if I need to separate the females at birth or with a over abundance of guppy grass will enough fry survive in a ten gallon tank ? Please help am I impatient? ❤❤❤❤❤
Greetings! I have seen various UA-cam videos with folks talking/showing off their fish. I've noticed that some folks use sand to line the bottom of the tank while others use gravel. And I have seen a few with nothing more than wood sculptures to make the tank "inviting". What do you recommend, in general, to line the bottom of a tank with? How often do you change it out/clean it?
How much flow does a group of guppies need? I'm planning my first proper tank with something more than goldfish in and i want to ensure i have planned everything properly so i have a good idea of how i can achieve what i want from my tank. Could i pair a betta with a group of guppies or would i be better of keeping a group of neon or cardinal tetras? I want a planted tank so I want something that won't ruin all my plants and that feeds well so any suggestions for pairings would be greatly appreciated :)
gentle flow is what they would like and a pair of bettas with the guppies would be pretty difficult. Cardinal tetras etc like you mentioned would be much easier.
In most pet stores they label Fancy guppies as care level easy, but would you consider guppies easy? I don't always, I find it hard to keep certain strains alive. blue/green Moscow for instance do very well for me, as well as hb yellow, and albinos. black Moscow for some reason I just can't keep alive. I bought 5 males recently to give it another try and lost 2 out of 5. 🙄
To answer the question about bettas and guppies together, let me share my experience. I had one male betta who I intentionally put guppies with which ended up breeding. That betta did not seem to even notice the guppies were there. He didn't bother or eat anyone from the smallest fry to the adults. Sadly he passed. So I got another betta a while later and put him into the same tank as the old one, with all of the guppies and fry thinking that, based on my prior experience, everything would be ok. He immediately began hunting the fry and eating them like candy. I moved the guppies, grew them out and rehomed them. Many months later I helped rescue some guppies, put them in the tank with the same betta thinking as adults they would be ok, but NOPE. He literally swallowed a male right up to the base of it's tail. So the answer I think, is that it really depends on the disposition of the betta. Of course you won't know unless you put him with guppies, but have a back up plan if it doesn't go very well.
I bought several show guppies from Thialand. One came pregnant, but I am unsure of what strain this particular one is throwing. Most are red mosaics and purple mosaics. My best guess is a panda or tuxedo, but I am unsure. They are darker black/navey blue with roundish tail, blue/purple body, white belly, most have dark ventrals. I'd upload a picture, but I don't see that option.
When you treat with meds do you always start with one dose, instead of following the directions? How long do you wait before retreating if you still see the visual symptoms? I am speaking of store bought Africans.
Cory, I noticed you haven't released a video talking about kh and gh and how they operate. Is your his because you don't believe those numbers are as important as things like the nitrogen cycle and ph or have you just not gotten to it yet? The forum people are hardcore about knowing your kh and gh stuff
I bought 10 guppies from petsmart and they did good for about 1 week and my tank is cycled ammonia is 0 nitrite is 0 and nitrate so far is 5ppm and my ph is at 7.6 but they have slowly been dropping off and I cannot figure out why I had 2 die on me then one female dropped fry then so far I have had 3 more die about 1 per day and I cannot see any signs of anything no stringy white poop or anything on the guppies any advise?
hey Cory love all the videos. I am learning so much and have actually gotten back into the hobby thanks to you. I was wondering if you have any experience with biohome media. if so what are your thoughts/opnions?
I don't have any hands on experience. I do question some of the claims made about it. It'll be fine for biological, I only wonder about the denitrifying bacteria the way it's being used.
off topic, i apologize, but if i rescue 2 common goldfish who have lived in a tank at room temperature for 6yrs and i put them in an outside pond, would they adapt to staying in just-above-freezing water for the winter or should i heat it to about 14-16c to make sure they get through? plus theyre quite stunted, small and sickly looking, can that lead to complications during the winter if i let the temperature drop? a heater to keep the 14c would cost me around 400€, thats why im asking.
is it a good idea to let my fish eat swordtail fry to supplement flake food. I have 7 black neons, two black shirt tetras, one dwarf gourami, 5 swordtails and two guppies along with 4 corys and one otto in a 40 gallon hexagon. I do 5 gallon water changes per week and run a high flow air system a few hours per day to get good agitation.
I'm just about ready to place an order with guppy train for some lovely guppies. I have been trying to decide on fry or juveniles. Which would you recomend? Fewer juveniles or more fry?
Having them breed would be great but isn't the be all end goal at the moment. Mostly just having them grow up at all would leve me happy. I guess in the end I'm deciding on a group of sexable juveniles so I know I have the correct male female ratio but get fewer guppies, or take a chance on fry but have more just in case I loose a few. The tank I have set up is planted and has been going for several months now with snails and recently added shrimp. Everything seems stable and ready for fish but I'm fairly new to the hobby so not totally confident in the outcome. Thank you for the comment. It will definitely help in making the decision!
Frustrated: fish keep dying. 3 Gallon Marineland Contour Glass Aquarium Kit with Rail Light Heater that maintains 77 degrees approx 1 Anubias nana 1 Amano shrimp 1 Nerite snail 3 Guppies Fish fed once a day as much as they can eat in 1-2 minutes 20-30 % water change weekly Water tests consistent: Ammonia at 0-.5 ppm Nitrate at 20-40 ppm Total Hardness at 300 ppm Chlorine at 0 Total Alkalinity at 180-300 ppm PH at 7.8-8.4 Not sure what is wrong. I know my tank is small. I do not have room for a larger tank. I used to have only two guppies with the shrimp and snail, but one kept dying. I would replace and one would die again. Found out that with only two males, one ends up bullying the other, so I got three... down to two now because one died. Thought it could be the nitrates, but they are never that high. Would appreciate your input. Thanks!
How old are the guppies? Could they be passing away from old age? They only live about 18 to 24 months and when you buy them might be 6 to 8 months old already?
I purchased the guppies from the local pet store. Not sure how old they were. The first one died after around 6 months. The second one died after 1-2 months. Then the last three died after only a few weeks. I am guessing that there wasn't anything that was obviously wrong in my original post? Do you have any suggestions of other types of fish that would work in my small tank with its conditions?... fish with a longer life span? Thanks so much for your time.
I would love to set up a pond this summer but I don't know what could live down here in the hot south. What could live in a pond when it's 85 - 100 degrees outside? Should I just give up on the pond idea?
Danielle Charles I live in Louisiana and have fancy goldfish, a Fantail and 2 Orandas, in a 150 gallon fiberglass sugar kettle patio pond. I will be adding a couple more soon. The goldfish do quite well and have grown to about 6 inches and even eat out of my hand. I keep the pond shaded as much as I can to help control algae and temperature. I also keep the goldfish in the pond all winter.
Is it ok if I keep only male guppies in the tank and females in another ? They breed a lot and I dont have enough room for them so I need a way to stop them breeding. Males are chasing each others but not too much.
My female guppy just gave birth and I was not expecting it. My question is the tanks where I have them is heavily planted can the fry survive and if they do what should I feed them or dry food is ok?
Aquarium Co-Op I made sure to get big female guppies their about 2in and males are half their size plus my female betta really likes the females I added and shes like there protector it's kinda funny.
a few of my guppies look like they have fungus, it started as what looked like a stick like growth on some of there fins and has turned into fungus. what do I do!
Is it possible for a female guppy to be dropping one baby at a time throughout the month and it being eaten? My female has a dark gravid spot, then over night it seems to disappear and she looks smaller, then the spot comes back for a few days and it happens again. I don't see any babies in the tank, but I figured IF she's dropping babies, maybe the other fish are just eating it.
I'm not sure if she was pregnant before I bought her. Petsmart has their guppies separated, but who knows what the breeder did before then. They've been together since the 4th and the male is very....erm...eager? lol
Aquarium Co-Op Thanks so much for answering my question. Do the guppies have notable personalities traits? Your videos have taught me so much! I’m a big fan!🐠
Aquarium Co-Op I want to set up a planted aquarium with guppies and corydoras. What substrate should I use? And if I breed a bunch of different colored assorted guppies, will the babies have random colors like the parents or will they be an ugly color?
I really like your store and people were really nice. Really helpful and just so many people on the weekend. Thanks for doing what you do and learning a lot from your videos about tropical freshwater fish.
Hi cory . been watching your videos for some time now but only just sub the other day. good work on the content. the only thing is the old guppy is starting to get boreing . realy like the fish room stuff and plecos and other fish fish content. not having a go but I think your older videos while not as fancy had more content and soul to it. but thats just my 2cents . keep up the good work love most of the videos and live stuff.
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hey i boght a 5 gallon tank with 2 plants just bought 3 glowfish tetras for the tank waiting a couple weeks before i add a shrimp and snail bc water isnt acclamated enough for them yet. Nitrogen cycle too early. Anyways my 3 fish are healthy and doing well but the lady that said these three were good for a 5 gallon tank are nipping each other. Particlarly the blue one is nipping the other 2. She said the space was fine and 5 gallon was plenty of space. She also said they are schooling fish and are peacful. They do not seem to school at all only if startled and one is being aggressive. What's up with that?
I know it's an old video but I love the golf towel that's cool. And I love the aquarium hobby also do double plus
i always miss the live guppy talks. My 2 year old contracted a stomache flu. Family first, fishies second. Can't wait to listen to this one.
That "I'm not only pandering for likes. You can hate me." comment is the most funny thing I've heard today. You are a funny man, Cory. Good video.
+Taryn Kelsch well if it brought a smile or a chuckle, mission accomplished!
I find Cory's 2 hour videos more exciting than the sci-fi movies in theaters.
You sound like a 60 year old man lol
They don't feel 2 hours long.
I pass out listening to his videos, it feels like im listening to the news
I had a question for you Corey but as I was asking during the stream I decided to search the channel and there it was, the exact video I needed. Just a reminder to google and search the page folks, seems like Corey has covered most things already.
Cory I'm sorry I didn't make your stream so now I'm watching and listening!!!
Your the best you tuber on earth like if you agree
🙂
just finished watching your live stream. thankyou. i am learning sooo much from you, thankyou for taking the time to do these videos because you are such a busy man ......julie from england.
Thanks for tuning in Julie :)
WE NEED ANOTHER UPDATED ALL ABOUT GUPPY STREAM!!!!! IM OBSESSED WITH GUPPIES LMAO
Thank you Cory so much for answering my question at 23:32 Trying to look for API's E.M. Erythromycin here, no luck so far, it seems I will have to find out if it's even legal to import here. For now I rinsed my tank and cleaned it completely (not including filters) and also started to use API's Aquarium Salt on the tank to treat it for some white spots on my balloon mollies.... I hope it works! Again Thank you a lot!!!
Love your heart for fancy guppies I love mine too ❤❤❤❤I enjoy them each day
your brain works more than that lol, me and my dog watch you for hours. we want to come work for you x
Guppies were my first tropical fish. I bred them for a few years.
Great information on your feeding choices
Cory,
Whilst many may have at some time in their lives (no matter how brief) experienced some degree of fish keeping, there are some of us who persist and then consider ourselves to be avid hobbyist. Then of course in some cases (like in my case), it is more of an addiction lol - a healthy one at that!
I have kept at one time up to 9 aquariums, mainly focusing on Tanganyika Cichlids, always keeping that special planted aquascape ‘attempting’ but never quite achieving(or even close to)the Takashi Amano look(RIP).
Then, there are those who by virtue of their circumstances are simply fortunate enough and able to develop the hobby in dedicated, well designed fish rooms with all sorts of innovative setups and multitude of species. Lucky sods lol.
But for me, I simply salute those who not only are able to host dedicated fish rooms but progress this into a business. Whilst, some may argue that fish keeping is a Science interlocked with Art, I think that one needs to add to that that a true hobbyist in most cases will have an instinctive nurturing tendency. I can see how you look after your fish and care for them, even if it is also your business. Not many of you around, I must say.
You my friend are a very fortunate person. Able to enjoy your hobby whilst also making it your business - If only I could do the same.
A hello from the Rock of Gibraltar on the other side of the pond - I enjoy your videos, keep up the good work mate.
+Keith Howard thanks for the kind words Keith
Aquarium Co-Op daaah you always do it to me lol! Come up with an amazing tip, don't explain it, then move on to another lol "green water" for good colour" what do you mean???? Please help mate :-)
+Geoff Saunderson well green water keeps the water clean and they can injest it which colors them up.
Aquarium Co-Op ok so free floating algae? Gotcha, also I saw a talk where you mentioned an airlift? To remove fry from a rock pile, good way to harvest fry, is there any vids out there that show how that pump works (removing fry from one tank to another) sorry just bending your ear now I got you :-)
Aquarium Co-Op & Geoff Saunderson, I'd also love to know the detail of the guppy fry separator done with rock and an air lift. That would be super helpful, thanks.
Cory, I'll be buying a ticket to Washington when you breed guppies that'll be able to be outdoors all year round.
Yeah, it's a project I want to work on, it'll take many years though.
Thanks for your wisdom you shared ❤❤❤
Awesome video man! Love the guppy dedicated video
Thank god for this video. I am new to the guppies and have stratum in all my tanks minus the one ten gallon with regular gravel and I noticed my guppies were not doing well at all I believe from the lower ph. So I just did a fish swap out of the tens. Put my betta in the one with stratum and my guppies in the harder water tank (regular gravel) and three hours later my guppies were looking waaaay better and my beta is so much happier! Thanks for this video so much info I didn’t know.
The towel fabric is called waffle :)
+Ellewopter's Nails thank you my brain only half works while live :p
Love the discussion. Thanks.
Officially sticking with the algae method. I notice that's the real indicator that an aquarium is alive.
Excellent video. Keep it up!
"they can breed tails so big now the fish can't even get off the ground and I don't like that." I watch guppy competitions I agree 100%, it's cruel. Also I keep my fry unheated and I've never lost any that way, but my guppies are mostly mixes.
Wao amazing
My male bettas do better in a tank with female guppies, less color aggression. But Most of my bettas were raised with guppy fry from fry. Guppy fry were younger as they grow faster. Then again, I do have several male bettas that do well in a community tank with male guppies. If the young male gets mean, I put in breeder box at night, release during the day, and do this for a while until he accepts his tank mates, or I move him. So far, almost all my bettas have accepted a community tank with guppies.
You should do a stream on outdoor ponds
Just waiting for the weather to warm up a bit more.
Should I use a check valve for a piece of airline tubing i have attached to my powerhead venturi system?
It's not a bad idea. if the tubing ever goes below the rim it won't back siphon with a check valve.
Hi!!!! This was perfect!!!! I was in Geeky Guppy Heaven!!
Dude you need to do something better with the audio. I love the content but your videos are so quiet i can barely hear you with my volume all the way up.
Thanks for your information sharing
hi cory! I hope you can make a 101 vid on guppies. I get confused with the terms "guppy", "fancy guppy", "endler" (are they the same?).
I tried to look for it on google but I find some criterias but noting specific... how do you deferinciate between a cobra guppy and a snake skin?, I saw them and they to me have like the same leopard skin pattern.
Do panda guppies have to be whiye on top/black on the bottom or could it be the other way around?
Those are the kinda questions I've had and can't get enough info on them to buy strains ergo breed them and preserve pure genetic lineage... since I do know they dont discriminate and breed no matter the color or tail shape.
thanks for your time cheers!
Guppy is a blanket term, like dog - just as there are different breeds of dogs that all remain essentially the same thing, there are different varieties of guppies that are really still the same fish. Endlers are a similar livebearing fish but they are not the same, sort of like a fox to a dog.
I feel like some of this information could be in a video but a lot of it is pretty intricate. Knowing what a good panda guppy vs a bad one is in the eye of the beholder etc. Depends on who is judging etc. Getting emmersed in the culture is the best way to start.
Is this ...deferinciate...supposed to be "differentiate " ?
Thank's for answering my question about the finnex stingray. Are there any led lights that are safe to mount inside a plastic hood? I ordered a fluval 2.0 lite and some low light plants from your store will that light be ok for those plants in a 60 gallon lowboy it's 12 inches high with a glass canopy?
The only light I can think of that can mount inside the tank are the marineland lights that are designed to do it.
Thanks for another great video, Cory!
Sponge filtered natural plants and a lots of guppy grass and one fancy male and three females of different sizes and after one month no fry wondering if I need to separate the females at birth or with a over abundance of guppy grass will enough fry survive in a ten gallon tank ? Please help am I impatient? ❤❤❤❤❤
Greetings! I have seen various UA-cam videos with folks talking/showing off their fish. I've noticed that some folks use sand to line the bottom of the tank while others use gravel. And I have seen a few with nothing more than wood sculptures to make the tank "inviting". What do you recommend, in general, to line the bottom of a tank with? How often do you change it out/clean it?
I think it's personal preference. I like substrate, and I use a gravel vacuum when needed to clean it.
deberias poner la aplicacion para subtitulos en tus videos me interesan mucho,,e visto varios y no se puede poner subtitulos,,,me gustan los guppys
How much flow does a group of guppies need? I'm planning my first proper tank with something more than goldfish in and i want to ensure i have planned everything properly so i have a good idea of how i can achieve what i want from my tank. Could i pair a betta with a group of guppies or would i be better of keeping a group of neon or cardinal tetras? I want a planted tank so I want something that won't ruin all my plants and that feeds well so any suggestions for pairings would be greatly appreciated :)
gentle flow is what they would like and a pair of bettas with the guppies would be pretty difficult. Cardinal tetras etc like you mentioned would be much easier.
In most pet stores they label Fancy guppies as care level easy, but would you consider guppies easy? I don't always, I find it hard to keep certain strains alive. blue/green Moscow for instance do very well for me, as well as hb yellow, and albinos. black Moscow for some reason I just can't keep alive. I bought 5 males recently to give it another try and lost 2 out of 5. 🙄
To answer the question about bettas and guppies together, let me share my experience. I had one male betta who I intentionally put guppies with which ended up breeding. That betta did not seem to even notice the guppies were there. He didn't bother or eat anyone from the smallest fry to the adults. Sadly he passed. So I got another betta a while later and put him into the same tank as the old one, with all of the guppies and fry thinking that, based on my prior experience, everything would be ok. He immediately began hunting the fry and eating them like candy. I moved the guppies, grew them out and rehomed them. Many months later I helped rescue some guppies, put them in the tank with the same betta thinking as adults they would be ok, but NOPE. He literally swallowed a male right up to the base of it's tail. So the answer I think, is that it really depends on the disposition of the betta. Of course you won't know unless you put him with guppies, but have a back up plan if it doesn't go very well.
I bought several show guppies from Thialand. One came pregnant, but I am unsure of what strain this particular one is throwing. Most are red mosaics and purple mosaics. My best guess is a panda or tuxedo, but I am unsure. They are darker black/navey blue with roundish tail, blue/purple body, white belly, most have dark ventrals. I'd upload a picture, but I don't see that option.
When you treat with meds do you always start with one dose, instead of following the directions? How long do you wait before retreating if you still see the visual symptoms? I am speaking of store bought Africans.
Well if you're seeing visual symptoms you should be retreating every day. If its a quarantine we do it once and let it soak for a week.
No babies yet for me but I’m waiting 😊
What kind of predators do I have to watch out for with an outdoor guppy pond?
Cats, racoons, some birds.
Cory, I noticed you haven't released a video talking about kh and gh and how they operate. Is your his because you don't believe those numbers are as important as things like the nitrogen cycle and ph or have you just not gotten to it yet? The forum people are hardcore about knowing your kh and gh stuff
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I love guppies. Had them in the Far East,but now I live in Uk so I can’t have guppies without a heater.
I bought 10 guppies from petsmart and they did good for about 1 week and my tank is cycled ammonia is 0 nitrite is 0 and nitrate so far is 5ppm and my ph is at 7.6 but they have slowly been dropping off and I cannot figure out why I had 2 die on me then one female dropped fry then so far I have had 3 more die about 1 per day and I cannot see any signs of anything no stringy white poop or anything on the guppies any advise?
Question asked on here was can you keep guppies with multies what are multies
hey Cory love all the videos. I am learning so much and have actually gotten back into the hobby thanks to you. I was wondering if you have any experience with biohome media. if so what are your thoughts/opnions?
I don't have any hands on experience. I do question some of the claims made about it. It'll be fine for biological, I only wonder about the denitrifying bacteria the way it's being used.
Sorry I missed your stream! Watching on rerun! Stay cool!
off topic, i apologize, but if i rescue 2 common goldfish who have lived in a tank at room temperature for 6yrs and i put them in an outside pond, would they adapt to staying in just-above-freezing water for the winter or should i heat it to about 14-16c to make sure they get through? plus theyre quite stunted, small and sickly looking, can that lead to complications during the winter if i let the temperature drop? a heater to keep the 14c would cost me around 400€, thats why im asking.
+fancy goldfish I'd say you would need to build up their body weight etc, but as long as it doesn't freeze it should be ok
How long does it take for baby guppies to start coloring up
45 days roughly.
My Betta did very well in my 30 gallon with endlers and a pleco
is it a good idea to let my fish eat swordtail fry to supplement flake food. I have 7 black neons, two black shirt tetras, one dwarf gourami, 5 swordtails and two guppies along with 4 corys and one otto in a 40 gallon hexagon. I do 5 gallon water changes per week and run a high flow air system a few hours per day to get good agitation.
Sure, eating fry is a natural part of most fishes diet.
I Had two cobra guppies and the female has just released some fry last week how long will it take to grow??
typically 3 months to a sellable size.
I'm just about ready to place an order with guppy train for some lovely guppies. I have been trying to decide on fry or juveniles. Which would you recomend? Fewer juveniles or more fry?
Randy Hightower fry are cheaper but if you are wanting to breed and you want older guppies juveniles are the way to go.
Having them breed would be great but isn't the be all end goal at the moment. Mostly just having them grow up at all would leve me happy. I guess in the end I'm deciding on a group of sexable juveniles so I know I have the correct male female ratio but get fewer guppies, or take a chance on fry but have more just in case I loose a few. The tank I have set up is planted and has been going for several months now with snails and recently added shrimp. Everything seems stable and ready for fish but I'm fairly new to the hobby so not totally confident in the outcome.
Thank you for the comment. It will definitely help in making the decision!
excellent video ....it will be much better if you can provide us with pics of fishes you mention in the video..
Take about automatic feeders. What wotks best for a week vacation
Aha! The 800g reveal (40:22)- A single betta and guppies!! ;)
the sides of my tanks turn milky film after feeding the grub you sell
Cory, I found a really cool white body guppy with red fins. what would you mate him with? I have him in a 29 gal with gold / red females.
+Mark Ziegler I would probably just mate it in a mixed tank as it will take to many generations to make the line pure
Frustrated: fish keep dying.
3 Gallon Marineland Contour Glass Aquarium Kit with Rail Light
Heater that maintains 77 degrees approx
1 Anubias nana
1 Amano shrimp
1 Nerite snail
3 Guppies
Fish fed once a day as much as they can eat in 1-2 minutes
20-30 % water change weekly
Water tests consistent:
Ammonia at 0-.5 ppm
Nitrate at 20-40 ppm
Total Hardness at 300 ppm
Chlorine at 0
Total Alkalinity at 180-300 ppm
PH at 7.8-8.4
Not sure what is wrong. I know my tank is small. I do not have room for a larger tank. I used to have only two guppies with the shrimp and snail, but one kept dying. I would replace and one would die again. Found out that with only two males, one ends up bullying the other, so I got three... down to two now because one died.
Thought it could be the nitrates, but they are never that high.
Would appreciate your input. Thanks!
How old are the guppies? Could they be passing away from old age? They only live about 18 to 24 months and when you buy them might be 6 to 8 months old already?
I purchased the guppies from the local pet store. Not sure how old they were. The first one died after around 6 months. The second one died after 1-2 months. Then the last three died after only a few weeks. I am guessing that there wasn't anything that was obviously wrong in my original post? Do you have any suggestions of other types of fish that would work in my small tank with its conditions?... fish with a longer life span? Thanks so much for your time.
I would love to set up a pond this summer but I don't know what could live down here in the hot south. What could live in a pond when it's 85 - 100 degrees outside? Should I just give up on the pond idea?
Well what is your water temp? I'd wager in the shade, you'd have less than 80 degree water.
Danielle Charles I live in Louisiana and have fancy goldfish, a Fantail and 2 Orandas, in a 150 gallon fiberglass sugar kettle patio pond. I will be adding a couple more soon. The goldfish do quite well and have grown to about 6 inches and even eat out of my hand. I keep the pond shaded as much as I can to help control algae and temperature. I also keep the goldfish in the pond all winter.
Is it ok if I keep only male guppies in the tank and females in another ? They breed a lot and I dont have enough room for them so I need a way to stop them breeding. Males are chasing each others but not too much.
You can do that yes, but there may be aggression.
how do you feed pygmy cories on a monte carlo carpet?
Repashy food should work well.
My female guppy just gave birth and I was not expecting it. My question is the tanks where I have them is heavily planted can the fry survive and if they do what should I feed them or dry food is ok?
Sorry and also how fast the fry grows?
They can survive with lots of hiding places, crushed flake works well. They grow to adults in about 6 months.
When a guppy is called a dragon, what trait is that?
I ended up getting five guppies three males and two females and a apple snail ....
Make sure the males don't harass the girls too much, you may need to add some girls if it gets out of hand.
Aquarium Co-Op I made sure to get big female guppies their about 2in and males are half their size plus my female betta really likes the females I added and shes like there protector it's kinda funny.
Most guppies in the U.S. are bred in the U.S. or overseas ?
I'd say most are over seas.
Topic: Corydoras
a few of my guppies look like they have fungus, it started as what looked like a stick like growth on some of there fins and has turned into fungus. what do I do!
I would put them through quarantine. www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/how-to-quarantine-fish
Let’s gooooo
Is it possible for a female guppy to be dropping one baby at a time throughout the month and it being eaten? My female has a dark gravid spot, then over night it seems to disappear and she looks smaller, then the spot comes back for a few days and it happens again. I don't see any babies in the tank, but I figured IF she's dropping babies, maybe the other fish are just eating it.
I suppose it's possible, but that's not how they typically would give birth.
I'm not sure if she was pregnant before I bought her. Petsmart has their guppies separated, but who knows what the breeder did before then. They've been together since the 4th and the male is very....erm...eager? lol
hi could you take about south american cichlids ( blue and zebra acara )
thanks love you vids
I'd like to suggest wild livebearers as a topic.
Any tips for dealing with ich in a guppy breeding tank? Also with inverts and plecos.
Aquarium Solutions is my go to, plant and invert safe.
www.aquariumcoop.com/products/aquarium-solutions-ich-x?variant=20392230980
Should I raise water temperature? How high?
I typically don't change the temperature.
Do you think that I can trade my 2-3 month guppies (5-10) to PetSmart or Petco for like a couple other guppies?
No, they won't take trade ins.
I have a male Beta and 4 guppies. The guppies hang out wit my Beta.
I try breed albino full red guppies with flamingo guppies the result is black fry ....did anyone have the same result?
who goes online to troll fish keepers? 😂😂😂
Sad little kids with no life or real hobby.
Ever since my teacher told me that people bully to make themselves feel better. I've been very happy!!!! ;)
Cory, what is it about Guppies that appeals to you so much,
They come in every color and pattern known to man. They give live birth. Don't get large and are plant friendly. I'm never sad to see a guppy tank.
Aquarium Co-Op Thanks so much for answering my question. Do the guppies have notable personalities traits? Your videos have taught me so much! I’m a big fan!🐠
Aquarium Co-Op I want to set up a planted aquarium with guppies and corydoras. What substrate should I use? And if I breed a bunch of different colored assorted guppies, will the babies have random colors like the parents or will they be an ugly color?
Do you have platies in your fish room
when do you think you going to get trout or bass goodeid at the store?
love your videos
I wouldn't say any time soon. They typically don't do well at the store, as people don't know anything about them.
I really like your store and people were really nice. Really helpful and just so many people on the weekend. Thanks for doing what you do and learning a lot from your videos about tropical freshwater fish.
can you do another guppy live chat, and how many females can a male breed with?
Hi cory . been watching your videos for some time now but only just sub the other day. good work on the content. the only thing is the old guppy is starting to get boreing . realy like the fish room stuff and plecos and other fish fish content. not having a go but I think your older videos while not as fancy had more content and soul to it. but thats just my 2cents . keep up the good work love most of the videos and live stuff.
where you buy a Guppies??
my plants are being eaten up by snails. help?
Typically snails eat dying plants, are you fertilizing and do you have an appropriate light for them?
You could also buy clown loaches
Raining here to. Where you at?
Washington State.
NC
Haha albino blue topaz I’m down to one male and 3 fry
Yeah, they have always given me trouble :(
can i add more guppies in a 20 gallon
Do u have any tetras?
can u make ur own new strain of guppy through fancy guppies just by breeding a certain color or pattern
over and over?
Yes, you can line breed them to make a new strain.
thank you thats great to know
Could you properly house to guppies in a 1 gallon ?
In my opinion, no. It could be done, but the properly is the part that my personal opinion would conflict with.
Aquarium Co-Op thanks for the reply love your vids
Aquarium Co-Op besides bettas would there be any fish you would suggest for a one gallon
I'm one of you
i were the 888 like
I'm a grandma, ..........
Full salt 8.3 8.4
Feed them to the chickens.
I keep them with oscars😈
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