I have been watching u for a few years now, don't stress about the get quick rich stuff. With your advice I have 3 healthy tanks now just plants and guppies, I make small profit each month and have a backlog of orders. Doesn't pay my rent but it surely is some nice pocket money and it easily supports my hobby. Ty best of luck.
@@joosh_rocks I thought I already replied, I sell them through a free ads site, plus I have a poster in a local petshops window when I have enough supply.
Great video Nick, I noticed spending time with you at the shop last week that these were really popular, It's good to see! all the pseudomugil species are really easy to breed like this, it also surprises me that they can be so hard to come by in aquarium stores, people will go for the more high end stuff like L numbers when they see the dollar signs but in my opinion as nice as they are you never really see most of them and you can wait years to breed some of them, I can understand the collectors value in them but to the general public they can be quite boring were with these they continually dance around the tank, they are pretty easy going in the most part with the exception of maybe a couple of the more salt water species like Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis that are also easy to keep but can be a bit more of a challenge to breed for the average keeper that doesn't want to play around with water conditions, most of these still pick up good money in the hobby and basically breed like rabbits, with space being an issue with a lot of people these days these beautiful little nano fish in my opinion are the way to go, some of them can be easier to keep then guppies and some native species can handle a wide range of water conditions and temps, such as the Pseudomugil signifer, Pseudomugil mellis, and some of the southern forms of Pseudomugil gertrudae, I have kept these all in ponds year around in Brisbane, a great little fish! 🙂
I've never kept these fish but always found them to be absolutely gorgeous and fascinating. These are definitely on my list for the next species to attempt to breed
I just found my first dozen free swimming Gertrudae Aru IV in my 40 breeder. Added 20 adults on 8/17 so I was a little surprised to find these guys already. 5 of them are big enough that I watched them eat bbs using a 30x magnifying glass yesterday. Adorable how they have those little blue eyes right from the get-go.
Hello from Canada I just love your channel.i watch it all the time and learn allot from your knowledge. I’m really getting into neocardinia shrimp and live bearers .im on tank number 6 now lol. Such a fascinating and entertaining hobby. Keep up the excellent work with videos.😊👍
Hello my dear friend. I have a question? You are the only one on UA-cam who explains the egg thing best. I find 10-15 eggs every day but mine are never fertilized. am I doing something wrong . Can you help me in this matter. Thanks
Hey I'm trying with them as well, I've watched somewhere that they in general got low hatch rate, like 50% or so. And in bit lower temps egs got better rates. But I can't confirm it. Once I've hatched 1 egg by axcident putting java moss from those to CPD and in that lower temp tank it hatched and grown up to 2cm before putting it back to furcatus.
I've been trying to breed fish for some time with a little success but even if I do succeed and get few dozens of fry to sellable size, nobody wants to buy them... fish shops have their suppliers and its really hard to sell to them. And to sell a bunch of them on local market site is almost impossible in reasonable time. I'm glad I didn't jump head in into fishbreeding because it would've been a disaster
I love the furcatas. I had a few but they lived out their lives. I don't have the tank capacity to breed them and no space to to set up tanks for them. It would be fun to breed them. Best wishes! It sounds like you're doing a great job with the furcata. YAY
Nice video, thank you. I have a couple of them, very easy. I week or 2 ago i startet to breeding them. Now it s waiting when they come out of her eggs. Good day everyone.
If they are easy to mate then they wont be profitable for long(just like the tropical houseplant boom). I always suggest breed fish that you like and others will like long term. Rarity in the fish and plant hobby is short lived unless they are TRULY difficult to breed/propagate in captivity or sadly short lived...for whatever reason.
Well he did say profit. A discus that costs big money to raise and you sell fur big money after waiting fur a customer for months is not profitable. His point is that these little fish cost less to raise, sell faster and in more volume. More people can afford a tank a discus would not fit into, and these little fish are likely less of a pain to keep, feed and medicate. I agree that there is no way the price he quoted is going to hold up. At some point, like guppies, good luck selling them for $5, but even then it's not a bad thing. I would not raise a family on this, it is a hobby :)
you cant really compare houseplants to fish tho. if you are serious about making money with houseplants, you will not grow them yourself because it takes too long, but you buy them in from people growing them with trader conditions and you then flip them as fast as possible and buy new ones. that way plants for sale wont stay with you for long and price changes wont affect you too much. only the leftover plants you cant sell quickly are the ones you grow out yourself as stock. and here is the thing: it doesnt even matter if prices on plants drop. if you pay attention to trends, especially all the new species coming all the time from indonesia and alike, there is ALLWAYS that new hype plant that people pay crazy prices on. you simply switch plants and buy in those that are hyped up until they are not anymore and then you buy the next hyped up plant. however working with living animals and breeding those is a alot more of a slow process and you cant treat a living being the same as you would a plant.
I really enjoyed this video, it's always nice to try something new, something that is not being raised in your area. This sounds like something I'd like to try. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Sometimes, KFS comes across a little fed-up and stroppy in his vids - kinda like teachers get when the kids have been driving them up the wall!😂 But this video was great to see KFS very chilled out and just happy to be with his sparkly little aqua mates - gorgeous little fish and great info🤩
Man, awesome channel!!! I was sold on these guys from seeing them in some of your other videos. These fish look amazing. I will get a group as soon as possible already found them. I will give it a go breeding these I really think they are an amazing looking fish!
In the Netherlands too. Prices in Australia are wild, it's way easier to make money on breeding fish there then in Europe. Pea puffers are a around or over a 100 dollars in Australia, I buy them for 3.95...
Awe I love the psudamoguls. But they're really hard to find in my area. But with shipping costs and the cost of the fish, it's hard to afford them right now. At least for me it is. But these are my dream bucket list fish. I mean what's not to love? They're stunning. All of the strains are beautiful. But these and one other are my favs. Can't think of the name. I will know it when I see it. Darn it. Now you know I'm going straight to Google as soon as I'm done here. LOL
My LFS got in a whole batch of different rainbows a month or so ago and flipped a coin between dwarf neons and furcatas went with the dwarf neons but i really wish i had the space for both these guys are stunning and cool little fish
Love the video mate. Can't wait for mine to start to spawn. Hopefully not too long now🤞. Do you think you could also breed bristlenose in blue eye tank to maximise space. Thanks mate keep it up
In Germany the fish costs €3 in stores. No trade in the world counts more than 33% of the sales price for ornamental fish so that it can be profitable.
Thanks for an awesome video, and I love the mini high colour rainbow fish like luminatous. Question though, What do you use as your breeding mat? Could a lump of java moss work? Your mat just looks like red wool
I love the pseudomugil species, they are my favourite species of rainbows and currently keep mellis. Heard some really great positive feedback on the bug buffet. Glenn says it's amazing too! I'm going to have to stop by at your shop, try it myself 🙂
I’ve been breeding these for about a year now, I used a coffee grinder for big bites and seeing best results I can’t get hold of your big buffet as I’m in the uk :( but these are easy fish you didn’t mention it takes 20 something days for them to hatch from eggs
Non of the aquariums around my area have these 😢 I really want to start breeding them I live in camden nsw dose anybody know where I could get two pair from . Thanks for this video mate all your videos are very helpful
Hey man. Love your content, I've been binge watching and I love the sound of bug buffet and was wondering if it'll become available in UK. Some kind of psuedomugil on the list now as well
Hello can you please offer some advice? I paid $120 for 6 (2.4) purple mosaic guppies. May as well say, i wasted $120. All pooping white and some flashing. Treated 2x with fluke m which is better than prazi as flukes havent built up a resistance to it. Also treated with fritz paracleanse. It didn't help. They continued to poop white. All have died except one female. She is constantly hiding and goes to eat but spits it out, must be eating a little cuz when she does poop its long and white. Ive tried many different foods, still just spits it out. My tank is a 55g planted tank. I have 2 hillstream loaches, 3 otos and 5 chili rasboras and 2 clown killifish and the one last guppy. According to my water teats, everything is spot on. Other fish are doing great. Any advice for my last expensive guppy would be appreciated. I never contacted the seller as they only guarantee live delivery.
@keepingfishsimple I've been struggling to raise my furcata fry this past couple weeks and it's really stressing me out because they always die after a few days. I hope you notice this comment and make a furcata fry care guide or reply for some tips. Long time subscriber here God bless you always nick!
It seems like in America the price has gone waayyy down on these guys, you can get a pack of 12 for 40$ from some sites. Still a beautiful fish and I might pick some up sometime soon
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How can you tell between furcatus and luminatus females? is there a clear difference as they grow up? Also another question, is it safe to keep different pseudomugil species together (in a display tank) or will they hybridise (because I know that hybrids are very undesirable especially amongst rainbow species)?
I have been watching u for a few years now, don't stress about the get quick rich stuff. With your advice I have 3 healthy tanks now just plants and guppies, I make small profit each month and have a backlog of orders.
Doesn't pay my rent but it surely is some nice pocket money and it easily supports my hobby. Ty best of luck.
how do you sell the guppies?
Yeah. Just enough to support our hobby and get small profit. Fish keeping is not cheap
@@joosh_rocks I thought I already replied, I sell them through a free ads site, plus I have a poster in a local petshops window when I have enough supply.
how much would you say you make on average a month
@@Kai_Perreira Depends on my goals but maybe £10 to £40 a month for 2 tanks. I also sell plants and driftwood so hard to sum up.
Great video Nick, I noticed spending time with you at the shop last week that these were really popular, It's good to see! all the pseudomugil species are really easy to breed like this, it also surprises me that they can be so hard to come by in aquarium stores, people will go for the more high end stuff like L numbers when they see the dollar signs but in my opinion as nice as they are you never really see most of them and you can wait years to breed some of them, I can understand the collectors value in them but to the general public they can be quite boring were with these they continually dance around the tank, they are pretty easy going in the most part with the exception of maybe a couple of the more salt water species like Pseudomugil cyanodorsalis that are also easy to keep but can be a bit more of a challenge to breed for the average keeper that doesn't want to play around with water conditions, most of these still pick up good money in the hobby and basically breed like rabbits, with space being an issue with a lot of people these days these beautiful little nano fish in my opinion are the way to go, some of them can be easier to keep then guppies and some native species can handle a wide range of water conditions and temps, such as the Pseudomugil signifer, Pseudomugil mellis, and some of the southern forms of Pseudomugil gertrudae, I have kept these all in ponds year around in Brisbane, a great little fish! 🙂
I finally got bug buffet. What a sensation. I feed it every Day to all my fish. They absolutely love it ! Thanks Nick ❤
I've never kept these fish but always found them to be absolutely gorgeous and fascinating. These are definitely on my list for the next species to attempt to breed
I just found my first dozen free swimming Gertrudae Aru IV in my 40 breeder. Added 20 adults on 8/17 so I was a little surprised to find these guys already. 5 of them are big enough that I watched them eat bbs using a 30x magnifying glass yesterday. Adorable how they have those little blue eyes right from the get-go.
Your content is very good, and the information provided is accurate! Keep up the good work, my friend.
Loooove your channel too! Some day we will have to meet for a collab!
@@KeepingFishSimple 🙂🤞
Hello from Canada
I just love your channel.i watch it all the time and learn allot from your knowledge. I’m really getting into neocardinia shrimp and live bearers .im on tank number 6 now lol.
Such a fascinating and entertaining hobby.
Keep up the excellent work with videos.😊👍
I've been wanting some fish like these! I would love a a video that lays out the methodology of fish breeding.
Love your work Nick!
Awesome fish, these are definitely one of my favs! Thanks for sharing Nick!
Well thanks for this Nick! I'm adding it to the list you gave to Harlan in his video.
You got me into breeding really . Love your videos and ideals
Hello my dear friend. I have a question? You are the only one on UA-cam who explains the egg thing best. I find 10-15 eggs every day but mine are never fertilized. am I doing something wrong . Can you help me in this matter. Thanks
Hey I'm trying with them as well, I've watched somewhere that they in general got low hatch rate, like 50% or so. And in bit lower temps egs got better rates. But I can't confirm it. Once I've hatched 1 egg by axcident putting java moss from those to CPD and in that lower temp tank it hatched and grown up to 2cm before putting it back to furcatus.
So far I've only tried guppies and shrimp. Picked up a few 20 gallon tanks and 6- 10 gallons. Looking to expand a bit
I've been trying to breed fish for some time with a little success but even if I do succeed and get few dozens of fry to sellable size, nobody wants to buy them... fish shops have their suppliers and its really hard to sell to them. And to sell a bunch of them on local market site is almost impossible in reasonable time.
I'm glad I didn't jump head in into fishbreeding because it would've been a disaster
I love the furcatas. I had a few but they lived out their lives. I don't have the tank capacity to breed them and no space to to set up tanks for them. It would be fun to breed them. Best wishes! It sounds like you're doing a great job with the furcata. YAY
Had some of these 15 years ago. Very pretty fish.
Nice video, thank you.
I have a couple of them, very easy. I week or 2 ago i startet to breeding them.
Now it s waiting when they come out of her eggs.
Good day everyone.
Any luck? Can you share your story by a year later ? :)
If they are easy to mate then they wont be profitable for long(just like the tropical houseplant boom). I always suggest breed fish that you like and others will like long term. Rarity in the fish and plant hobby is short lived unless they are TRULY difficult to breed/propagate in captivity or sadly short lived...for whatever reason.
thats why fish like discuss, super red arowana, have a very stable price.. at least in my country..
not easy to breed them..
@@ZhuGeLiang6969 yup when i lived in Mexico discuss. were scarce when I saw one I would be in awe, very beautiful fish definitely worth it.
Profitablity is separate from rarity. A profitable fish sells out rather than selling high.
Well he did say profit. A discus that costs big money to raise and you sell fur big money after waiting fur a customer for months is not profitable. His point is that these little fish cost less to raise, sell faster and in more volume. More people can afford a tank a discus would not fit into, and these little fish are likely less of a pain to keep, feed and medicate. I agree that there is no way the price he quoted is going to hold up. At some point, like guppies, good luck selling them for $5, but even then it's not a bad thing. I would not raise a family on this, it is a hobby :)
you cant really compare houseplants to fish tho. if you are serious about making money with houseplants, you will not grow them yourself because it takes too long, but you buy them in from people growing them with trader conditions and you then flip them as fast as possible and buy new ones. that way plants for sale wont stay with you for long and price changes wont affect you too much. only the leftover plants you cant sell quickly are the ones you grow out yourself as stock. and here is the thing: it doesnt even matter if prices on plants drop. if you pay attention to trends, especially all the new species coming all the time from indonesia and alike, there is ALLWAYS that new hype plant that people pay crazy prices on. you simply switch plants and buy in those that are hyped up until they are not anymore and then you buy the next hyped up plant. however working with living animals and breeding those is a alot more of a slow process and you cant treat a living being the same as you would a plant.
These are next on my list for my fish room. Arcy Aquariums has a stunner of a display planted tank with Furcatus in there.
Great video Nick, beautiful fish! But I notice you didnt use infusoria?
Bravo from Romania Dracula land ❤😂🎉
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Romania??😮
No, servus
Hey there, do the furcatus also only breed up to the age of 18mths?
I really enjoyed this video, it's always nice to try something new, something that is not being raised in your area. This sounds like something I'd like to try. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Sometimes, KFS comes across a little fed-up and stroppy in his vids - kinda like teachers get when the kids have been driving them up the wall!😂
But this video was great to see KFS very chilled out and just happy to be with his sparkly little aqua mates - gorgeous little fish and great info🤩
Man, awesome channel!!! I was sold on these guys from seeing them in some of your other videos. These fish look amazing. I will get a group as soon as possible already found them. I will give it a go breeding these I really think they are an amazing looking fish!
In Germany the Price for Pseudomugil furcatus
lays between 5 and 10€
In the Netherlands too. Prices in Australia are wild, it's way easier to make money on breeding fish there then in Europe. Pea puffers are a around or over a 100 dollars in Australia, I buy them for 3.95...
Another cool vid Nick. Will definitely be giving these a go once you have them in the shop.
I’ve honestly never seen any species of pseudomogul nano fish in the hobby here in the US (NYC.)
Great video. I bred these in a 2.5G a while back. Super easy fish.
nice choice of fish and species spotlight. Thanks for the info!
How frequently you need to do water changes? These are delicate fish if I'm right. Thanks for the video ❤
I was thinking of which fish to breed between this fish and a couple of others and then this video appears!!!
Well, looks like I’ve made my choice.
Awe I love the psudamoguls. But they're really hard to find in my area. But with shipping costs and the cost of the fish, it's hard to afford them right now. At least for me it is. But these are my dream bucket list fish. I mean what's not to love? They're stunning. All of the strains are beautiful. But these and one other are my favs. Can't think of the name. I will know it when I see it. Darn it. Now you know I'm going straight to Google as soon as I'm done here. LOL
real beautiful fish,keep up your good work 👌
My LFS got in a whole batch of different rainbows a month or so ago and flipped a coin between dwarf neons and furcatas went with the dwarf neons but i really wish i had the space for both these guys are stunning and cool little fish
What air pump is most decent/recommended for sponger filter?
I've only been able to find one online supplier here in USA gonna get some soon but would really like to find at least 2 separate lines
What size tank do you grow them up in? What about the parents?
I have literally started to try and spawn a small group of the furcatus, forktails 😁
Yep big fan of these fish and planning on breeding these in the future for a bit of extra coin ☺️
Love the video mate.
Can't wait for mine to start to spawn. Hopefully not too long now🤞. Do you think you could also breed bristlenose in blue eye tank to maximise space.
Thanks mate keep it up
I've seen all your videos..
Love them and the plants too...but what I've not seen is the filtration system you use??
Hi, do you think I can breed them in the same tank as where I try to breed my Cory?
love the new food works grate for any fish
I have some luminatus, want to try this
How about water changes? Thanks!
In Germany the fish costs €3 in stores. No trade in the world counts more than 33% of the sales price for ornamental fish so that it can be profitable.
Thanks those were the coolest fish i ever had now i know what they are called.
Which Pseudomugil species can live outside in ponds at winter like Oryzias Latipes?
Bro reminds me of the guy from below deck 🎉
Thanks for an awesome video, and I love the mini high colour rainbow fish like luminatous. Question though, What do you use as your breeding mat? Could a lump of java moss work? Your mat just looks like red wool
Sorry, spawning mop, not breeding mat
pseudomugil species and blue eke luminatus make GREAT fish for mini-aquascape tanks. They really pop
I love the pseudomugil species, they are my favourite species of rainbows and currently keep mellis.
Heard some really great positive feedback on the bug buffet. Glenn says it's amazing too! I'm going to have to stop by at your shop, try it myself 🙂
Astonishingly helpful video ...... thanks a lot for sharing......
What’s with the thumbnail?😮
Your natural smile and enthusiasm looks much better. No need to force it like all these other channels.
Nick for a nano tank size, which do you recommend best for these fish. Do they recommend a heater? I hope to see them in the USA.
Nice. They are like Japanese Ricefish
Can you ship to the US? not sure if fish could make the journey.
Hi Nick, do you still breed bettas?
When will you have more in your shop?
i love this blue eye rainboow fish
I’ve been breeding these for about a year now, I used a coffee grinder for big bites and seeing best results I can’t get hold of your big buffet as I’m in the uk :( but these are easy fish you didn’t mention it takes 20 something days for them to hatch from eggs
Non of the aquariums around my area have these 😢
I really want to start breeding them
I live in camden nsw dose anybody know where I could get two pair from .
Thanks for this video mate all your videos are very helpful
Good looking fish, awesome video.
Ive been trying to get this fish for a long time but I live on a small dutch caribean island Aruba and import here is very small
Paskai fish is also very beautiful
Hey man. Love your content, I've been binge watching and I love the sound of bug buffet and was wondering if it'll become available in UK. Some kind of psuedomugil on the list now as well
Hello Nick
Which store in the US is carrying bug buffet ?
What do you do with the babies that are not sellable? 😊
Really cool freshwater fish. Haven't seen them in the States yet, but I would certainly buy them for a tank if they were.
Pseudomugil are availablein the US, Usually mostly find them in planted tank specialty type shops though
Hello can you please offer some advice? I paid $120 for 6 (2.4) purple mosaic guppies. May as well say, i wasted $120. All pooping white and some flashing. Treated 2x with fluke m which is better than prazi as flukes havent built up a resistance to it. Also treated with fritz paracleanse. It didn't help. They continued to poop white. All have died except one female. She is constantly hiding and goes to eat but spits it out, must be eating a little cuz when she does poop its long and white. Ive tried many different foods, still just spits it out. My tank is a 55g planted tank. I have 2 hillstream loaches, 3 otos and 5 chili rasboras and 2 clown killifish and the one last guppy. According to my water teats, everything is spot on. Other fish are doing great. Any advice for my last expensive guppy would be appreciated. I never contacted the seller as they only guarantee live delivery.
@keepingfishsimple I've been struggling to raise my furcata fry this past couple weeks and it's really stressing me out because they always die after a few days. I hope you notice this comment and make a furcata fry care guide or reply for some tips. Long time subscriber here God bless you always nick!
Maybe change food? Paramecium could do a trick
@@notatopyoutuber I've tried paramecium too but they still die, I find the egg yolk much more effective yet the number of fry surviving is still low.
Where can I buy these online in the United States
It seems like in America the price has gone waayyy down on these guys, you can get a pack of 12 for 40$ from some sites. Still a beautiful fish and I might pick some up sometime soon
i have been inspired by this video any chance i could buy a breeding pair off you i would pay extra
its 2 SGD in singapore
any tips on how to get exotic freshwater fish shipped legally to my country ?
In canada these are about 2.99-5$ each ..
What is the correct spelling for these fish? They're very pretty...
They have the fins like the Red neon blue eyed luminatis.
What was the name of the fish again? 🙂
i would love to do this for a living
i want to know if i have a fat widow tetra female but only black skirt tetra male will they mate
Will Bug Buffet be available in the USA for sale?
Awesome brother 👏😊
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Hello there... please what is the name of these fish... would like to find some... thank you..
Medeka also
How can you tell between furcatus and luminatus females? is there a clear difference as they grow up?
Also another question, is it safe to keep different pseudomugil species together (in a display tank) or will they hybridise (because I know that hybrids are very undesirable especially amongst rainbow species)?
In uk there £30 for 10
These are around 5 Euros in France.
What is the lifespan of these guys? Also are they jumpers?
Thanks mate
What’s there pet shop name ?
Can I buy/you ship bug buffet in/to the states?
Can you buy bug buffet in the US?
I find it odd that whilst being a fish native to Australia the cost far less here in the UK, around £3.50 each
Cool fish - very nice
Your vids are so cool😃
i will be getting some of these
Appreciate you 😊
Super. Good luck
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