Top 5 Guppy Breeding Tips
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- Top 5 guppy breeding tips. Here are my top five tips for breeding guppy fish. Fancy Guppies are a great way to start breeding for profit or just to do guppy fish fish breeding. They are easy fish to keep and fancy guppies are fun to watch. With my 5 guppy fish breeding tips, you will find an easy way to breed guppies.
5. Good Food-Guppies are omnivores and like both plants and meat in their diet. A good quality flake food like Northfin or Cobalt will be fine.
4. Clean Water-Guppies will breed much better in clean fresh water.
3. Lots of hiding places-When guppy fish are born they are small and tender and delicious! They need places to hide. I like to use Java Moss or other floating plants like Cabomba or Christmas Moss.
2. Good Filtration-I like to use over sized sponges for aquarium filtration in my guppy breeding tanks. This gives a place for the Beneficial Bacteria to grow and place for the guppy fry to get a quick meal.
1. Good Quaility Breeding Stock-You need to start with good quality and healthy breeding stock. Find a breeder or shop that cares for the fish. Look for Guppie
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someone get this man a glass of water!
Cough....I'm fine!
love the bloopers, you're the man. Keep it up
Thanks! They are my favorite part!
I remember the great guppy breeders in the New Jersey area back when Tropical Fish Hobbyist was a 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 inch magazine.
LOL....before my time!
Hey Michael. Two videos a week will be great for you. I don't know how you managed three for so long
Me neither! LOL
Thank you for another great video - I look forward to watching them all ........ especially the ‘rants’ !!! 😂🇬🇧❤️🐟
Lol...thanks for watching!
The new editing was so slick I hardly noticed it. Great tips!
Lol....thanks bro.
Thanks Michael a great review for me! 👍🏻❤️
Anytime Susan!
Thanks for the video Mike!! All good information! I'm going to be joining the ranks soon and this is what I was looking for.
Glad I can help!
Great tips! I'm getting back into breeding guppies. I'm definitely going to keep this in mind
Thanks!
@@MichaelsFishRoom did you get back into it
Right on! You have to keep them Chubby! Wide not long!
Like me!
This video is great at 2x. Thanks for all the info!
Thanks for watching.
Northfin is awesome and yes I have tasted it !
Lol....you cray cray
a huge cup of iced tea, and about a cup of kapusta. i just unboxed 4 giant Colombian ramshorn snails.
good video.
Thank you sir!
love your top 5 guppy tips
Thanks!
Porterhouse 🥩 medium rare, grilled sweet corn (on the Cobb) and side salad. Washing it down with an unsophisticated rose wine. Solid advice for most species. 👍
Sounds delicious! Next time I am out your way, we are definitely getting a meal!
Great tips thank you.
Loved the bloopers 😀
They are my favorite part!
LOVE all your videos. We are learning so darn much.
Thanks so much for watching!
Love this channel keep up the great work I just found out this channel today!!! Also I was eating Chile limon chick peas.
Thanks and welcome! How did you find it?
Very awesome tips on breeding guppies micheal
Thanks! Glad you liked it.
Good job on the kid friendly instruction. That's what I'd like to do if I could get off my rear.
"kinda doing it just for me." Well it shows but you have the right attitude about it anyway. Same as any other hobby, It's your product, your time and effort, and you're the one that gets to learn and use the knowledge.
Thanks!
Well done, you are the man when it comes to guppies. Amazes me what you have rolling around in that head of yours. Looks like I have a couple of changes to make to my guppie pond. Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks for watching!
Great video. Love the dinosaur reference.
Thanks! But I was wrong. A styracasourus was an herbivore 😳
Good advice here for a relaxed method. I change 10-20% a day too and siphon poop like you BUT i separate by age dont raise fry with adults I would be curious to see your results with size on a colony breed adult fancy male coz for me they became stunted or weak/skinny (but back then i wasn't daily pwc) great video mike 👍
Thanks
This is how I do it but I keep the males and females separate and then pair the virgin females with chosen male in a tub for a day or 2 and yhen just put them back. I raise the fry with the adult females and separate the males when they are old enough to ID. I have never had a problem with fry getting eaten, even after heavy trimming of plants.
Just a Moon Mist Faygo! Nice info, nice vid. Keep it up
Thanks Jay.
Snack is my dinner, a bowl of homemade chili with very hot peppers and a glass of ice cold lemonade, this is a great video.
Thanks Al....chili sounds great.
BBQ Rib omelet with American fries and a hot cup of black coffee. As always great video!
Thanks. Sounds delish!
great list & love the blooper reel! ^_^ have you tried using Pothos roots for breeding hiding spots? I've been experimenting with it by trimming the roots and make the roots become more... bushy. The best result I've been getting for breeding guppies been having guppy grass or something like dwarf water lettuce that grows long roots down.
Azasu! I have pothos in many tanks and let the roots grow naturally, but have never tried to alter them. Does your water lettuce grow inside?
@@MichaelsFishRoom water lettuce do well in my tanks. I think it's because of the surface agitation is very minimal. Another thing I started doing was making a ring with an air tube and keep the floating plants away from box filter or sponge filter. :)
love the drum roll,oh btw.......I play the drums......got drums set upin my fish/drum room...........guppy's love it......lol
LOL....sure they do.
Thanks for the information 🙂
Thanks for watching!
Keep up the good work, like your no bs videos
Thanks Marky B
ooooohh stepping up the video quality game! Nice
Not quite up to your standards but trying.
@@MichaelsFishRoom you got the skillz stop it- great video
King and Queen Cichlids nah...just a dumb guy with a camera
"That's not a word, OR a day". OMG. lolol Great tips though. Thanks!!
LOL, the bloopers are always the best part.
Good tips !
Thanks!
Great video man dig your style I've learned so much from you me and the wife are breeding guppies now and loving it we hope to sell some also.
Nice! Good luck!
Hello! I am new the the guppy tank and we feed the just regular tropical flakes but in the video you suggested frozen food. I have another tank with cichlids and they are strictly frozen food but I was wondering what I needed to do to the frozen so that my guppies could eat it too
Cyclops, blood worms, baby brine shrimp are all good
Clean water, variety of good foods, lots of lovely mulm and some mossy plants to hide all the fry dropped from the big bold beautiful females...you make it sound so easy.
Hot tea with lemon, no snack.
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It is easy! Lol why no snack girl?
@@MichaelsFishRoom I think it was 4 a.m. when I woke up, couldn't sleep, made some tea and was perusing videos, not awake enough to want a snack.
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ShelbyRae Lane fair enough.
I just love your videos keep up u rock
Thanks!
Great video , I am so happy for Super Cichlids
Will you be at the grand opening?
I sure will be! I can’t wait
watching here in the philippines 😍 just getting ideas to breed
Good luck
Dang it. I was really hoping to disagree with some of your guppy breeding tips. I was all set to flame away in the comments section. Nice video Michael. You took all my fun away. Cheers
Sorry lumpy. Lol
Thank you
You're welcome
I’m fine ! Love it 😂😂😂
You can buy the shirt!
@@MichaelsFishRoom I might need it. I’ll get one when I order some fish.
Nice info Mike on breeding. No snack yet...just dinner. Tuna hoagie tonight. To hot to cook.
Tuna is gross. Lol crock pot cooking when it hot and rainy!
@@MichaelsFishRoom Yeah...I'm not a big fan of tuna either..just didn't feel much like cooking anything today...I'm feeling a little off today myself. Damn this Lupus!
I bought some 24 karat gold guppies from Jasons aquatics I’ve been waiting on them to drop Fry for two months now and they just won’t drop any I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or what the water conditions are good
Wow
Can you make a top five breeding tips for bristle nose plecos?
I can and will!
Hi Michael, got this question that in order to maintain guppy quality how many broods ideal by one female guppy? Also can we breed parents to their babies later? I mean does it ruin the quality? Thank you
Floating lace leaf water sprite. Works as spawning mops and helps clean the water. Cheaper than dirt and grows like weeds. Has worked for me with a number of live bearers. Nothing for sale though, just learning.
Cool
What no fry fry Friday, Michael you must rethink this haha.
Nope...just too much going on right now. You’ll get over it!
Watching this on a Saturday morning with a Bloody Mary. Go Iowa State!!
Sounds nice
Always great content Michael, in the middle of building a breeding rack for guppies and bristlenose with 2 75’s and 4 20 highs. Thanks for the inspiration!
excellent video great info 2 vids a week will be great its all up to whatever works for you, not us the viewers love the tips
Thanks!
I have heard you mention medicated fish foods when you get new fish. What medicated fish food do use. Also have seen you mention Pimafix and Melafix. What do you use them for other then simply when you see symptoms.
I’ve never used or mention pimafix or melafix. I get my medicated food from everything Aquatic.
Thirsty Thursdays... I love it! Cheese curds & Diet Coke. Don't forget, guppies like their water a little on the hard side.
This is true!
Say Michael would you love some more moss,my 3 tanks are so full it is like i throw away a lot.
Sure wood. Email me michaelsfishroom@gmail.com
Love your posts 😂😂 ❤
Thanks!
Hey Micheal, how do you actually overfeed enough....when u say overfeed, what do u actually mean..would love a vid on that..thanks
Good question!
Great information. My drink and a snack was some Watermelon 🍉 👍
Nice!
I ❤u when u sayI m okay..fine after coughing, tips were worth listening to, Big Tkanks, really Appreciate n Loved it , great go ahead, u r doing great, really something to listen to and of course without any interruption........
Thanks
Hi, ahmm I have a question, I have 2 males of guppy and one of them is like, it keeps chasing the other male, some sort of the other male doesn't want to get near to the female guppies, do I have to worry about the two males that are fighting or it's just their normal behavior?
Ok I get what's in the kelp and krill, but what's in the cichlid food? I ask because mine get a wide variety of food and I don't want to miss any nutrients.
Currently: xtreme krill, fluval spirulina, Easy Fry, insuforia, mosquito larvae, and occasionally baby brine. Occasionally a piece of carrot or zucchini. Less than once per week on the fresh veg for water quality reasons.
Its mostly veggie, lower protein.
Hey Michael. Can you please tell me what’s the exact males and females ratio for guppy breeding?
All you need are one of each!
Hey brother what I find with guppy grass and might help with yours, is that less water changes help's with its growth I'm all about creating a great natural cycle, because brother I have it growing up the wazoo you should throw some out with the summer tubs and you'll see it will do incredible. Also the fry tend to by nature to school near the top of the water column in nature one of those traits that is built in its DNA. I have plants on top and bottom they chose for the most part to group up in the top a great hiding spot Just a thought and a comment.
Thanks for the info!
Would u use fish brine for food micheal
For fish?
Hey, love the videos! My female guppy is really quite pregnant. Shes boxy and seems to be breathing quite fast. Also, she is spitting out her food whenever I feed her. How should I know when to put her into my breeding box? I dont want to stress her out too much, but want to insure the safety of the fry. I guess it's just a balancing game? Thanks man
I don’t use breeding boxes, that causes mire stress then good IMO.
@@MichaelsFishRoom ok. I have another tank that sits naturally at 23-24 celsius. do you think i should move her to there or just leave her where she is?
Sir Michael, what is more preferrable: breeding in Pair or Trios?
Trios....or more!
Hey Michael,
Are you going to be attending and/or vending at the keystone clash this year?
No Liam, sorry.
Have you tried Doug Grey's guppy food?
Nope
I have a female that has no color on her fins when lights are on when the lights go off and turn the back on fins are all black why the change
She is scared.
Greetings, please show those to the screen , which you are discussing about. plants,filters etc..
What do you mean?
@@MichaelsFishRoom I mean, some items can be bought infront of camera instead of just briefing. ie, about plants, filters etc. This will help a beginner to understand better.
Like watching your videos on guppies. I have about 70 mutt guppies. I got 4 females from a friend that were already bred. I want to save a few females from these and breed them to my male. I call him Tequila Sunrise. He has a very nice orange tail with a yellow sunspot in the middle. I found a female much like him.
Good luck and thanks for watching!
Should I get some corydoras for my guppy tank?
Yes
@@MichaelsFishRoom bet 💯
If I am not able to add plants in a breeding tank I will use an artificial vine that will fill up one side of the tank. Seems to have worked for my tanks for years now. I had rather use live plants but if I am going to be pulling fry on a regular basis I had rather have a plant I can pull out and put back in without damaging it.
Guppy grass works great too let it float instead of planting it creates a big mop for the fry also the benefits of helping cycle the tank.
Yeah on the breeding tanks I have live plants in, I tend to use guppy grass. Both floating and planted but trimmed where there is only a couple inches high. It eats up a lot of nitrates. For me the only down side (and it's not much of them) is that some of the guppies tend to get pulled with the live grass when I pull it from the tank. Not a huge deal for 5 or 6 tanks taking only 6 or 7 minutes per tank to swish about the grass to get the fry out of it then net them and get them to the intended tanks. But when you have 30+ breeding tanks little things like this tends to eat up a fair amount of your time.
You can also use the fake plastic easter grass.
@@MichaelsFishRoom - Yeah I have use it when I can find it on clearance right after Easter. It's cheap and pretty much disposable too. For some reason in this farming community the local stores don't carry as much of the synthetic stuff. They seem to be selling the recycled paper grass. But I do get it when I can find it. Thanks Michael !
J Lathem you can always try amazon!
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Thanks!
Styracosarus is an herbivore (nerd alert). JK, I really enjoyed the video, and I'm hoping to get into guppies myself in the near future. Thanks for all your content!
As soon as I said I knew I was wrong😢
Coke and cadburys mini rolls lol. Mulm and china filters for the win!
LOL FTW!
Yep
Yup!
Awww that Sucks only 2 videos a week... But hay you have family and kids to take care of... Your doing this for fun and a little bit of $$ .. keep up the good work bro...
All for the money bro......LOL
2 videos a week will be cool. I never get bored of watching keep it up you are funny for a American 😉
Lol...thanks. Where are you from?
@@MichaelsFishRoom sunny England 😣
colin hamer lol...what part?
@@MichaelsFishRoom near Manchester in the cold wet North West
colin hamer do you support football team from Manchester?
Dear Michael, a request, can you in one of your upcoming videos , just pretend you are that grumpy old American guy , which sometimes you mimic. My both sons and myself, LOVE IT , when you do that. Just keep on going , you are doing good mate. God bless.
Lol...which one? I do a couple of them.
Michael's Fish Room Any topic, for example, just complaining, how the fish tank is dirty , actually you mimic it so well, you do not need a scenario... it’s absolutely hilarious.... god bless you my brother, keep rocking 🙏🙏
What temp. do you keep your guppies in? Do you have to buffer your water?
Room temp (~74-76) and no.
Ok I grabbed my glass of wine to watch the video as you instructed us to grab a drink. Loved the info. So what is up? You keep coughing and saying you are fine? Are you sure you are fine. :) Just asking as a "motherly type". :)
Denise Shaw he should keep a bottle of water to sip on during his videos.
I'm fine! LOL
I have a betta fish in my tank and a albino cory catfish, one guppy gave birth but the guppies disappeared. I think they were eaten. I had one African frog I took the frog away.
OK
I have an albino full red high fin guppy that has been the only male guppy with 5 females for 3 months and no babies. Is the male sterile‽
Could be
@@MichaelsFishRoom what else could it be? Have you run into this with your fancy guppies?
Second question: I know you use calcium carbonate, I think crushed coral. What carbonate do they really need? My water is very hard, but there's no calcium or magnesium(gh 0) and also no potassium(per response from plants). So I add these as sulfates. I suspect my water is very similar to Girl Talks Fish, actually.
The decision is if I should use ro for the guppies, and then add coral, or just use a little tap or season the ro with a little ro waste water, which you would know is mostly wasting carbonates.
Not really sure, i don't change my water at all.
Is there a way to influence guppy gender by controlling the temperature?
I have absolutely no scientific evidence, but in warmer water I get more males.
Hey Michael, i have a handsome male guppy with some very unique coloring. He has perfect Tequila Sunrise fins, but his body has the color pallet of Van Gogh's "Starry Night" instead of the typical white. I am playing with a few different females to see what colors i can get out of their offspring. The first batch is due this week. Wish me luck fishy friends!
Good luck! What are you feeding?
@@MichaelsFishRoom a combination of flake food, egg yolk, and ground bloodworms. A brine shrimp hatchery isnt really possible at the moment, but i have been considering giving them instant brine shrimp a few times a week.
Nice!
@@MichaelsFishRoom the fry are being born right now!
Yuna Dalmasca congrats!
I had Coffee, Fish had Blood Worms.
Nice
glad your fine........my fishy friend,king of gup I Y
Lol...king of good looks😎
Pssst.. I noticed the difference in your editing lately. That's awesome that taking the time to add more value to your productions.
Thanks Cole. That means a lot.
Best tank size ?
For?
Hey V Sauce. Michael here.
Mitchell?
@@MichaelsFishRoom You look like Michael from V Sauce. Great vid I just bought some guppies for my shrimp tank.
Okay I’m a newbie. What happens if you feed high protein foods every day? Can you feed too much?
Yes could spike ammonia or nitrate. Need plants
Thomas Brownell isn’t that true of all foods if you give too much? Perhaps I misunderstood Michael but I thought too much protein could be bad and only feed it 1-2X/week.
It can bind up your fish
Hi Michael. Greetings from El Paso Texas. I'm going to be setting up a five gallon tank hopefully soon. I have a male and female black dragon guppies coming in from Thailand. It's a pair. Can I put 2 other females that are not that colorful or a female snake skin guppy.
You can do whatever you want. You will make mutts though.
@@MichaelsFishRoom with the dark dragon guppies. Who carries the genes male or female. Also do u think i can get fry from breeding one pair of dark dragon guppies in a 5.
2 videos a week is still more than enough. It's a lot of work plus life. You gotta do what you need to do. Great info! 😊
Thanks RR!
I ate a buttered toasted Franz beagle with peanut butter and a glass of milk cool show!
You ate Snoopy?
I used to have great results with Wardley's Total Tropical flakes. I bought it in 25 lb boxes but I can't find it anymore.
Really....that stuff is garbage now.
Michael's Fish Room only their basic flake comes in 25 lb boxes now, and I have to agree with you, their basic flake is GARBAGE.
At one time, I had 18 tanks with over 300 dime sized angel fish in each. They and their parents were fed on W. Total Tropical, and it worked GREAT!
Michael's Fish Room W.T.T. was a very good all around flake. It conditioned and maintained my fish well. This was 15 to 20 years ago.
Seeking the TRUTH good to know!
Michael's Fish Room I've been keeping fish from 1979 and that is the best flake that I've used to date. Next month will be 40 years since I started with a pair of guppies and a pair of lyre tailed black mollies. Ah, the good old days.
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Hi Michael, I have beautiful red cobra guppies and they are my babies. I have all of my females in their own tank, and I am looking to extend the cobra strain soon. My babies are now 3 months old, at what age can I SAFELY put in a male with my females? I know they can get pregnant very young, but I am looking to go the most safe route as possible.
What do you mean safe?
I dont want to put my females in any harm by breeding them early. Not to sure if that is likely with fish, but I just wanted to be sure.
tammy toocloudy as long as the male to female ratio is ok, they will be fine.
Thankyou so much. I know this is a very odd question lol, my red cobras are just my babies. I want them to have the longest and fullest life possible. :) thankyou again Michael! Take care ♥️
When will you have those solid purple moscow guppies again?
I don't think I have ever had purple moscows. I have Purple Mosaics, and I am breeding Blue and green moscows.
@@MichaelsFishRoom are you selling the greens? I need a harem to breed. Lol
I'm looking at your UA-cam channel right now. I've been checking it out all night. Trying to start breeding them community style to give me more money for my discus. I love your channel.
@@donaldwilson1819 I sold out and I am growing out the fry now.
@@donaldwilson1819 thanks so much!
I’ve never kept guppies. What if I DONT want them to breed? Could I just have the pretty males? Won’t they die of frustration?
LOL....nah...they will be fine.
Great. Would you email me please? Kzrani26@gmail.com
Two videos a week is fine with me, as long as your happy!
Thanks