Completely agree with a varied diet for guppies. I used a coffee grinder to grind up flake, pellets, and freeze dried foods which I mixed with repashy powder and tiny golden pearls and put it in a ketchup squeeze bottle for the fry. The adults love it too.
Thanks. I'm new to guppies and it seemed like every video aimed at beginner fish keepers warned about over feeding to an extreme. They'd say stuff like "whatever you think they need, cut that to less than half." Not being convinced I started to do what you say, feed a bit and wait, then again, etc. I finally found where they slow down so I try to stay just shy of that slow down point and eventually they end up eating the stuff that fell to the bottom.
The reason I came to watch this is because I have tropical flakes as my main food, but I also have baby shrimp and dead blood worms as treats. But I noticed that they can barely eat the shrimp or blood worms, so I cut them up, and they can still barely eat the shrimp. But they can eat the worms. But after like 25-30 minutes of being beat up, the shrimp will be soft and small enough for them to eat
Good video as always. I also feed my guppies a ton of different stuff. I love how nuts they go for frozen blood worms. Really makes them breed when they have a good variety of food and lots of it! Speaking of plecos too, I was just given an adult long-fin albino female by a guy at a crazy LFS store I just found. If you get bored and have 20 minutes, check out the video that will be up today. This guys is running a store LITERALLY out of his house with a variance granted by the county. Its an amazing story of entrepreneurship.
Hey Mike, I feed a flake food from D. Grey and also his powder food for my fry. I also feed the Cobalt Guppy pellets from Super Cichlids, API bottom feeder they go nuts for, frozen brine shrimp and some zucchini and peas once a week.
I got a burger from Smashburger a side of tots and a Oreo shake. Great video as usual I’ll checkout the links I’ve been trying to find some good flakes.
I notice my guppies' health difference when not feeding a varied diet. I don't usually trust an all nutrition in one miracle pellet or flake. Ah pepper mill. Why didn't I think of that. I'm sitting here using a mortal and pestle like a schmuck
You are fast becoming my favourite channel as literally no bs and you introduced me to French toast. 😉 They do love green beans, in fact they get through them quicker the my bristle nose Plecco can get to them, lol! Question, is it true you can feed them thin sliced ham? I read it in an article on the British Livebarers Acciation website forum but it just seems an odd thing to feed them.? 🤔
Michael's Fish Room Thanks for that as I couldn’t imagine chopping up slices of ham bought from Walmart and dropping it in the tank. Each to their own I suppose?
How often do you feed them? That dude in Israel feeds all day and his Guppies are big and healthy. Believe it or not but I filter a 30 gallon tank with an Odyssea 700 and a Magnum 350 with Biowheels, choked down of course, and was feeding twice a day but have increased to three times a day. Man those Guppies stay hungry. So I ordered your recommended foods so we'll see what happens. PS: I haven't bought a guppy in years- it's a breeding frenzy in there.
Right now my fish are on a mix of seachem nutridiet ..tropical cobalt.. tropical Aquarian ..top fin crumbles.. wardley and different size bug bites ..frozen twice a week and a no feed day apart from fry tanks..I mix most of the food up in a container...some days I just give them the one food...next month I will add different foods apart from bug bites and Aquarian which all the fish love..the guppies also love tetra pleco wafers...I love a fry up..but it would be boring having it every day so it must be the same for fish..
Hey there, just found your channel loved the video! My favorite fish by far are guppies I have a few and I'm feeding tetramin tropical flakes, freeze dried blood worms and fluval bug bites tropical. Problem I'm having is the freeze dried worms are too large how would you recommend crushing it with buying a bunch of fancy stuff. TIA!
Am I the only one who soaks (NLS) pellets before I feed it to my guppies. IDK how people just drops it in bc it takes a 30 sec or min to soften up enough for my fish to eat it. I do this with pretty much all dried food.
Thoughts on cheap dollar store fish food. For example Hartz Goldfish flake food? Also thoughts on expired fish food? I've accidentally used a fish food labeled best before: 2007 Fish are all fine. If anything they liked it better...
Hi Michael! I ordered your half black red delta trio last night. Today it is showing canceled even though the money debited and I got a receipt. Just wondering if that's a glitch or what. Thanks! Can't wait for the guppies!
I just feed my guppies once a day and just feed them flakes. Nothing special, no varied diet, you don’t need any special stuff. They do eat the shrimp pellets that I drop for my corydorras and I occasionally feed them bloodworms
Otohimi B2 of Japan is what I use. I just add some supplements (for humans) and works good. Anyway I also use 4 different foods aside from brine shrimps.
Hey Mike, I have a question. We have a 100 gallon tank with 15 ( only male ) guppies 10 rasbora's,10 kardinal tetra's, 10 corydora's, 5 khuli loaches, 2 hillstream loaches and some neocaridina shrimp ( about 50 ). In the morning between 9 and 10 when the light is still out they get some flake's about the bottom of a thee spoon covered. In the evening they get some frozen food arthemia ( brine shrimp ?) or bloodworms ( about 2.5 grams ) and 3 times a week half a tablet of sperulina goes in. The only problem is when the guppies start to get older (like 9 or 10 months old) they start getting a belly. Is there anything we can do about this? Just feeding less is not so easy because the corydora's get no food nor do the kardinals get anything.
@@MichaelsFishRoom Thanks for the fast responds. I posted a small video ( ua-cam.com/video/J1crOB8UYYk/v-deo.html ). At about 10 sec in the purple one is starting to have a belly but at the end the orange one has e bigger one but he is older. I'm not really sure but we bought him in the summer of 2019.
Ome of my guppies lived his whole life smaller than the average size a guppy grows, he was always active, taking feed never lazy, so was his small size an issue or it's normal?
I got some new guppies in. They are my first ever. The one male and female are eating some. But the other female isn’t eating much and just seems to want to hide. Both look possibly early pregnancy. They are in my q/t tank. Not sure what else to do for my poor girl. She’s further along than the other more active one.
Yes plentiful. Multi rock cave thing she’s in most and 5 leafy plants . She comes out more late evenings. But she’s not coming out for food when I feed has me nervous. :/
Hi, my guppies are dying day by day...Don't know what would be the reason...i have maintained the water stability with anti chlorine water and food is flakes.....pls help me as am new to it..what could be the reason
Sunday morning... so sunny side up, with a touch of salsa verde and some raw onion; toast, and of course... earthworm flake - I mean Earl Grey, hot. I’m hungry... so I overfeed.
When you're breeding guppies what is the ratio of male to female you get in the offspring? Can it be controlled by the environment temperature, p.h or something else
I feed verity of foods to frozen flakes granular and diy stuffs I think I’ve said it before but I use a coffee/spice grinder makes short work of anything into the greatest fry food then I put in in condiment bottle like #Aquariumcoopfryfood Amazing 👍
Giant squid? Didn’t they have to hop a giant science sub, then discovered it within the past 5 years? Is there anything the Japanese won’t eat??? 😳 PS: How do you keep your duckweed under control?
Can’t wait to start my guppie tank! Michael is the best!! You’ve inspired me to start my own channel, thanks for the support! 💪
Kave Man Aquatics Nice content 👍
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Good luck!
Michael's Fish Room Thanks man! 😁
Completely agree with a varied diet for guppies. I used a coffee grinder to grind up flake, pellets, and freeze dried foods which I mixed with repashy powder and tiny golden pearls and put it in a ketchup squeeze bottle for the fry. The adults love it too.
Thanks sound like a great idea!
5:59 Every time you cough and you throw out the "I'm fine" I laugh 😂
It's the little things
You can buy the shirt!
@@MichaelsFishRoom that is awesome 😂
Thanks. I'm new to guppies and it seemed like every video aimed at beginner fish keepers warned about over feeding to an extreme. They'd say stuff like "whatever you think they need, cut that to less than half." Not being convinced I started to do what you say, feed a bit and wait, then again, etc. I finally found where they slow down so I try to stay just shy of that slow down point and eventually they end up eating the stuff that fell to the bottom.
Glad to help
The reason I came to watch this is because I have tropical flakes as my main food, but I also have baby shrimp and dead blood worms as treats. But I noticed that they can barely eat the shrimp or blood worms, so I cut them up, and they can still barely eat the shrimp. But they can eat the worms. But after like 25-30 minutes of being beat up, the shrimp will be soft and small enough for them to eat
Sound like you need some better commercial food.
i am having coffee with crunchy peanut butter on toast and watching you my friend
Nice! Thanks for watching!
Good video as always. I also feed my guppies a ton of different stuff. I love how nuts they go for frozen blood worms. Really makes them breed when they have a good variety of food and lots of it!
Speaking of plecos too, I was just given an adult long-fin albino female by a guy at a crazy LFS store I just found. If you get bored and have 20 minutes, check out the video that will be up today. This guys is running a store LITERALLY out of his house with a variance granted by the county. Its an amazing story of entrepreneurship.
I if I have time? Lol I’ll try to check it!
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yeah dude...I know you are a busy guy...I am too, so I get it. See ya next video.
I feed tropical fish flakes and frozen blood worms
Love all your videos sirr!!
Love from INDIA
Thanks so much for watching!
Hey Mike, I feed a flake food from D. Grey and also his powder food for my fry. I also feed the Cobalt Guppy pellets from Super Cichlids, API bottom feeder they go nuts for, frozen brine shrimp and some zucchini and peas once a week.
Sounds good! Hope you are feeling ok!
lmfao i live for your bloopers 😂
@ 00:44 Wo, getting all fancy with the editing! :-) Always a good day when you post a new video.
LOL....that's easy!
Informative and fun to watch as usual! Love your videos, I've learnt so much :)
Popcorn and water!
Hi from Italy
Hiya! Thanks for watching!
Ooohh yeah. Time for a nice strong cup of tea and some of those delicious chocolate chip cookies my dear old Mum makes for me.
You are so lucky!
Hi
Since I switched to the foods you recommend, my guppies are healthier and more beautiful.
Thanks
Great! what foods do you use now?
@@MichaelsFishRoom variety discus flake, tetra color, vibra bite, cobalto guppy, cobalto smartemia,everything aquaric beefheart
0:11 You pulled the words straight out of my mouth
Pulling not jerking>←✊ words←👄
🙊 😂
Love your vids Mike.
LOL....People over think everything these days!
This was just what i needed, thanks buddy
No problem 👍
Yesss another vid from coolest breeder on the site!
Nah, just a handsome dumb guy with a camera
Me: *puts guppies on Christmas list*
Also me: Allergic to gluten
Him: “ they need gluten in the food”
Me: 👁👄👁
LOL
This is the only video i watched of u and i already subbed nice style of video me like this alot
Thanks!
@@MichaelsFishRoom a year vid and u still reply. My man u have my respect
@@66SLeePYHeaD99 I try to respond to all comments!
@@MichaelsFishRoom respect to u
I got a burger from Smashburger a side of tots and a Oreo shake. Great video as usual I’ll checkout the links I’ve been trying to find some good flakes.
What kind of burger?
LOVE WATCHING YOUR VIDS, HONEST & TO THE POINT
THANKS!
I notice my guppies' health difference when not feeding a varied diet. I don't usually trust an all nutrition in one miracle pellet or flake.
Ah pepper mill. Why didn't I think of that. I'm sitting here using a mortal and pestle like a schmuck
Lol...old school!
Just like people, a varied diet is the way to go.
Good video buddy. Gets you thinking out of the box on feeding.
That’s my style you know! Lol
You are fast becoming my favourite channel as literally no bs and you introduced me to French toast. 😉
They do love green beans, in fact they get through them quicker the my bristle nose Plecco can get to them, lol! Question, is it true you can feed them thin sliced ham? I read it in an article on the British Livebarers Acciation website forum but it just seems an odd thing to feed them.? 🤔
I’ve never heard of that, but maybe. I’m not sure I would try it. Too many chemicals.
Michael's Fish Room Thanks for that as I couldn’t imagine chopping up slices of ham bought from Walmart and dropping it in the tank. Each to their own I suppose?
Oh forgot to ask, how about frozen krill or blood worms for guppies?
Both are great!
How often do you feed them? That dude in Israel feeds all day and his Guppies are big and healthy. Believe it or not but I filter a 30 gallon tank with an Odyssea 700 and a Magnum 350 with Biowheels, choked down of course, and was feeding twice a day but have increased to three times a day. Man those Guppies stay hungry. So I ordered your recommended foods so we'll see what happens. PS: I haven't bought a guppy in years- it's a breeding frenzy in there.
I feed 3-5 times a day. Good luck!
Right now my fish are on a mix of seachem nutridiet ..tropical cobalt.. tropical Aquarian ..top fin crumbles.. wardley and different size bug bites ..frozen twice a week and a no feed day apart from fry tanks..I mix most of the food up in a container...some days I just give them the one food...next month I will add different foods apart from bug bites and Aquarian which all the fish love..the guppies also love tetra pleco wafers...I love a fry up..but it would be boring having it every day so it must be the same for fish..
How to you like the sea chem stuff?
Some more good stuff, Think I might need to look at my feeding process now lol....
Hi micheal I love this video. Awesome info on feeding I’m knew on keeping guppies.
Thanks for watching sir! Glad you liked it!
Michael's Fish Room thank you I’m learning a lot about guppies from. Also I started feeding my plecos French cut string beans they love it
Michael's Fish Room I take any advice you could give me.
Today's snack is my free Birthday Burger at Red Robin, with about 7 servings of Fries (what?!). beverage is Extra Strength Coffee!
Happy Birthday!
Hey there, just found your channel loved the video! My favorite fish by far are guppies I have a few and I'm feeding tetramin tropical flakes, freeze dried blood worms and fluval bug bites tropical. Problem I'm having is the freeze dried worms are too large how would you recommend crushing it with buying a bunch of fancy stuff. TIA!
Welcome!
Put them in a blender? Chop them by hand?
TBH, I don't feed any of those foods, I like other brands.
Hope it works out for you!
New life spectrum 👍
Yeah, I like that Food!
Am I the only one who soaks (NLS) pellets before I feed it to my guppies. IDK how people just drops it in bc it takes a 30 sec or min to soften up enough for my fish to eat it. I do this with pretty much all dried food.
Thoughts on cheap dollar store fish food.
For example Hartz Goldfish flake food?
Also thoughts on expired fish food?
I've accidentally used a fish food labeled best before: 2007
Fish are all fine. If anything they liked it better...
Never tried either. But I have no issue with expired food.
Good info! I use the Cobalt!!
Thanks for watching!
Informative as ever - thanks 😊 💚🇬🇧
Thanks for watching from across the pond!
Can neon tetras eat the same stuff as the guppies?
Northfin is out in front for me Mike 👍
Like twins!
Hi Michael! I ordered your half black red delta trio last night. Today it is showing canceled even though the money debited and I got a receipt. Just wondering if that's a glitch or what. Thanks!
Can't wait for the guppies!
PayPal issue.
@@MichaelsFishRoom lol sorry for the confusion. That's what I thought but have no way to tell them "it's your fault, not the seller"
I just feed my guppies once a day and just feed them flakes. Nothing special, no varied diet, you don’t need any special stuff. They do eat the shrimp pellets that I drop for my corydorras and I occasionally feed them bloodworms
Cool
how often do we feed? i only change water on a week.. is it ok if only feeding once a day?
If your guppies are healthy, that is fine.
Very interesting videos. Coffee and cake yummy yummy in my tummy.
What kind of cake?🤔
Ha Ha Ha Ha "Million dollars right here"
LOL
Otohimi B2 of Japan is what I use. I just add some supplements (for humans) and works good. Anyway I also use 4 different foods aside from brine shrimps.
Do you live in Japan?
Nope. I am from Philippines. This is a must try. :)
I already consumed 200 gr and my guppies turned out to grow bigger. I conducted my own experiment btw using same batch and feeding different food.
Do you recommend any type of vegetables for guppies? Because I hear some people do it? I'm new to keeping guppies.
They eat most veggies other fish eat, but I don't usually feed it to them.
Hey Mike,
I have a question. We have a 100 gallon tank with 15 ( only male ) guppies 10 rasbora's,10 kardinal tetra's, 10 corydora's, 5 khuli loaches, 2 hillstream loaches and some neocaridina shrimp ( about 50 ). In the morning between 9 and 10 when the light is still out they get some flake's about the bottom of a thee spoon covered. In the evening they get some frozen food arthemia ( brine shrimp ?) or bloodworms ( about 2.5 grams ) and 3 times a week half a tablet of sperulina goes in. The only problem is when the guppies start to get older (like 9 or 10 months old) they start getting a belly. Is there anything we can do about this? Just feeding less is not so easy because the corydora's get no food nor do the kardinals get anything.
What do you mean "a belly"?
@@MichaelsFishRoom Thanks for the fast responds. I posted a small video ( ua-cam.com/video/J1crOB8UYYk/v-deo.html ). At about 10 sec in the purple one is starting to have a belly but at the end the orange one has e bigger one but he is older. I'm not really sure but we bought him in the summer of 2019.
Ome of my guppies lived his whole life smaller than the average size a guppy grows, he was always active, taking feed never lazy, so was his small size an issue or it's normal?
It wasn’t normal nor an issue.
I got some new guppies in. They are my first ever. The one male and female are eating some. But the other female isn’t eating much and just seems to want to hide. Both look possibly early pregnancy. They are in my q/t tank. Not sure what else to do for my poor girl. She’s further along than the other more active one.
Do you have plenty of hiding places?
Yes plentiful. Multi rock cave thing she’s in most and 5 leafy plants . She comes out more late evenings. But she’s not coming out for food when I feed has me nervous. :/
Well she was hiding… bc she had her babies. New mamma. 5 babies total. I’m a grandma. Yay. All doing well and she’s back out swimming again.
Hi, my guppies are dying day by day...Don't know what would be the reason...i have maintained the water stability with anti chlorine water and food is flakes.....pls help me as am new to it..what could be the reason
Need more information-Where did you get them? ALL the water parameters? Did you quarantine?
@@MichaelsFishRoom I bought all the fish and the fish tank from my friend who is shifting to their home...water parameters i didn't understand
Sunday morning... so sunny side up, with a touch of salsa verde and some raw onion; toast, and of course... earthworm flake - I mean Earl Grey, hot.
I’m hungry... so I overfeed.
Lol...homemade salsa I bet?🤷🏻♂️
how many times to feed guppy a day
once, twice, three times....depends.
When you're breeding guppies what is the ratio of male to female you get in the offspring? Can it be controlled by the environment temperature, p.h or something else
*you're
I find in a very unscientific study, that it depends on the temperature of the tank.
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yeah I saw that you covered it in another video. Thanks for the grammar correction.
Good stuff
Thanks!
I tried a pepper mill, but the guppie’s sneezing was too much stress on them.
#Dadjoke
Are tetra bits complete allowed for guppies?
Allowed? What do you mean?
Real quick question. How big is the tank u have?
I have 61 tanks. Which one?
@@MichaelsFishRoom the tank that you keeped your guppies in.
Happy Guppys... Mine just Fri....
Feed them and they will grow!
cobalt fish flakes ..frozen cyclops , ground up meal worms, freeze dried blood worms
Nice! Thanks again for the stickers!
@@MichaelsFishRoom ur welcome dude 😁🐢🐢
Do you ever use vinegar eels for fry?
I just started feeding them those.
Nope, too much work for me to keep love cultures.
mmmmmmmmm..........pizza
Pizza?
Got a guppy breeding tank to feed my cichlids 😁
Nice! lol
@@MichaelsFishRoom thanks!
how does you water change system work?
Like a well oiled machine!
@@MichaelsFishRoom is this a secret?? don't worry I have super secret classification 😈
vic meyers lol...well then, search the channel for “auto water change” it’s easier to see it, then for me to explain it.
@@MichaelsFishRoom thanks be safe
I feed verity of foods to frozen flakes granular and diy stuffs I think I’ve said it before but I use a coffee/spice grinder makes short work of anything into the greatest fry food then I put in in condiment bottle like #Aquariumcoopfryfood Amazing 👍
Nice! I am testing using a pepper mill for flake food now.....video coming soon!
Just ordere 2 trios of Red Snakeskin..
Thanks Ben!
Can you feed guppy’s chicken
Like a whole chicken?
Yeh
Not batted
Cichlid Man nah
Giant squid? Didn’t they have to hop a giant science sub, then discovered it within the past 5 years? Is there anything the Japanese won’t eat??? 😳 PS: How do you keep your duckweed under control?
Pickled squid intestine! I scoop it out by hand!
Michael's Fish Room 🤣🤣🤣 NEXT ON MICHAEL’S EATS!
Lol
Michael's Fish Room Do they seriously have that there?
First 😀 ... long time
Good to see you!
@@MichaelsFishRoom I also have started my channel now I m reaching at 10k. Subs ...
Wanted to know HOw. Not what lol
WAtch it again.
Wish I was 69th comment, I’m 70th😭
Bwhahahahhaa!
I only feed them one food. HIKARI.
Which one?
@@MichaelsFishRoom Hikari Fancy Guppy
Albert Galang there are many better choices out there.
Easy put food in the tank no need for this video ha!
You would be surprised.
Like I stole it from someone,just remember illegal is just a sick bird ill eagle!
Was it you that told me about the grinder?
Michael's Fish Room sorry no
The best and natural food for guppy is daphnia alive the rest are modern trash
If you say so.