You rock The Dave! Is there anything more delightful than a newborn guppy. Two big eyes and a Flippy floppy tail. The fun of watching baby guppies grow up never grows old!
@Susan Staples I love their little faces, especially when they look right at you The big eyes really help. And while we're on the subject of cute little fish, have you seen my video on the Pea Puffer ? They definitely rival the baby guppies in the adorable department !!! Thanks for watching so many of my videos. 🙂 ua-cam.com/video/2jh4FPPhH14/v-deo.html
Your footage and videos are so clear and professional, I'm always super impressed. I don't even own fish, I just love learning about them. It's like documentary quality
Same! I don’t have any aquariums, but I love learning about various fish and how to take care of them. One day I’d like to have an aquarium and keep a honey gourami and some tank mates!
It’s incredible how you captured these tiny fries with such beautiful closeups. It was so cool to see every detail and how huge and developed their eyes are! Amazing video as always! Every one of your videos is a real treat.
Just realize why "guppy grass" (Najas guadalupensis) is called guppy grass. This plant not only clean up toxins in water but also provide shelter from bottom to top of the tank for baby guppy fish. For those of you who want the tank to look natural, guppy grass is highly recommended.
This is amazing content! I’d never known that the swim bladder needed to be inflated, so I believe you just helped me save a fry…. I had a really small spawn of 4 really big babies. 3 of the fry almost instantly started free swimming since they shot to the surface while the female was chasing them in the small plastic enclosure. I took the female out right after the last fry popped out, and this last, healthy-looking fry continued to sit and sit and sit, for nearly half a day. It had never gotten chased like the others and it just kept sinking and not trying too hard to swim up to the surface. I was worried it wouldn’t get its bladder inflated before it was too late, so I carefully sucked it up into a wide-mouth pipette for a few seconds, in just 4 mL of water. The fry seemed to snap awake and quickly took several gulps of air. I let back down the pipette, and 30 minutes later it was swimming along with the others 3, perfectly balanced and active. I’ve only ever tried this method once, since I was worried it would stress the fry out, but it seemed the stress is what the fry needed to start swimming. Which makes me wonder if that’s part of why female guppies instinctively go after their fry. It seems to accelerates the process of forcing them to swim. In the wild I suspect that many more fry would likely get away from this test of survival (but not in a plastic enclosure like what we use for birthing them).
What a great story thanks for sharing. I'm happy that my video helped you and your fish. It does seem like the mother fish encourages her young to move around and be active. 😁
The "protist" at 7:52 is likely a ciliate called Stentor coeruleus - most ciliates, like the Paramecium and Spirostomum species more familiar to aquarium keepers, swim in this spiral pattern. Stentor coeruleus has a distinct blue-green color, is relatively large (for a single-celled organism), and has a variable shape - it'll look like a sort-of cylindrical blob when it's on the move (as in this video) and will anchor itself to surfaces and elongate into a long funnel when it's found a good place to settle down and feed. Like most ciliates, it filter-feeds on smaller organisms, but is so large that it can consume other large ciliates like Paramecium and Blepharisma. The UA-cam channel Journey to the Microcosmos has a few videos on these, as do many microscopy enthusiasts on UA-cam. Thanks for posting these videos! They're so wonderfully informative and easy-to-understand, and the footage you film is amazingly detailed! I teach high school biology, and my students breed fish (including guppies) in the classroom, and I show them some of your videos (including this one) so they can see what to expect as their own fish reproduce and grow.
Hello, and thanks for the possible ID on the ciliate. I really appreciate the information. I'm so pleased that you use my videos to help teach. It's a great honor.
Absolutely stunning work, I greatly appreciate each piece you do. If the former was true, and you're a new father, congratulations and I wish you much joy in being a father.
Watching too much Hugbees has got me on edge...I keep waiting for The Dave to drop a crude joke or something but it's unrelentingly wholesome ❤🥺 thanks, The Dave
Thank you soooooo much ! I'd never thought about making safe hiding places near the surface for the fray to develop and make use of their bladder... I own 3 gravid females and I'm really new to the hobby, I'll do my best and make good use of this information
Thank you so much for this very educational video. I have small tanks in my bedroom and bathroom. I put guppies in them because I’m mostly interested in growing plants. Guppies and plants in tanks do very well together. I’ve never once seen a guppy, come out of a mother, so this is fascinating. All I ever see is new baby guppies every morning, when I turn the light on. This explains so much. I have a 55 gallon tank downstairs and I never see baby guppies in them probably because they’re being eaten. I’m going to remove the guppies from that aquarium and put them in the smaller aquariums, where they have a fighting chance, to have babies. I pick out the ones I like; then all the rest of them, when they’re grown, I take to the park and release into the lake. The straw idea is genius. You are the most informative fish keeper on UA-cam. Much appreciation and respect!
Excellent video showing baby guppy development from birth. I'm in love with their little faces - great close-ups 🧐. Idea using drinking straw is interesting. Can straws be in aquarium for longer time than birth time? Trapped babies bother me but can't they find way out from straw? Free one Gilbert is easy but more babies, they may die.
I do think they'd be able to eventually find their way out of the straw. And yes the straws can be used all of the time, but live plants are a much better choice.
Thanks for watching the video. As long as the babies have lots of places to hide, they can usually avoid being eaten. Straws work in a pinch, but lots of Guppy grass is my favorite way to keep them safe. Plus, the live plants help keep the water clean. 😁
I recently started an aquarium w a few guppies. I didn't realize they had babies and found 7 fry in the overflow area where i keep the heater. Qny way yo know exactly how old tehy may be?
The male babies will start to show some color when they are about 3 weeks old. The mother probably carried the babies for about 30 days. That will help you figure out how old they might be.
@@TheDave333 I have to thank you aswell because your voice really helps to relax me when im suffering with anxiety. My favourite is the pleco breeding series, i have 2 bristlenose, a calico and a lemon drop, im in love with them 😍 once again thank you for helping me through a really crap time in my life.
You're very welcome. I'm happy to help. 🙂 It's a strange thing, but my anxiety is what led me to the aquarium hobby in the first place! The aquariums and the water really seem to help. Have a beautiful day, and I really hope that everything gets better for you. Dave 🐟🐠🐠
Yes, it's about the same for Endlers. Guppy grass and hornwort are the ideal plants for protecting the babies. The more plants, the better. If you have a hang on back filter, be sure to put an intake sponge filter over the filter intake, so that the babies are not sucked up by the filter.
So lovely really cute video also the baby sounds with the baby guppies 😍 I also have guppies and was shocked when I suddenly saw really small guppies in the plants that seemed like just a small dot with eyes, because I didn’t know that my female guppy was pregnant. She’s had babies two times now!
Beautiful footage Dave. I have been breeding endlers for over a year now, and never once have I seen them eat babies. Even the largest alpha female that is twice as large as other females was able to live peacefully in the fry-only tank among 50-60 developing fry. This must be a behavioural difference between guppies and endlers.
Good stuff man I love your documentary quality fish keeping videos. I first seen your kuhli loach vid and gotta say these videos with the talking documentary are way better 🙂
Very true. . . In this particular video, I tried to keep things as simple and as brief as I could. Unfortunately, with that approach the little details suffer. In the original version of the video, I had a disclaimer that mentioned a host of factors that influence the timing of development. such as genetics, water temp., stocking densities, food quality and quantity, water parameters, etc. I decided to leave that part out. Silly me. I often worry that if I put in all of the information that I think of when I edit these videos, each one would be 2 hours long!!! And the average viewer would be bored to death! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and for keeping me on my toes. 😀
straws are a good idea but in all honesty just go buy some hornwort or monkey tail they are fast growing plants that can both be used as floaters or put into a substrate ( hornwort doesnt root tho)
Plants take time to fill in unless you want to spend lots of money on multiple cuttings though. I personally pack my tanks full of plants. I think everyone should have plants, and they make tanks cleaner, prettier, and easier to maintain. I have hornwort, 2 types of vaisneria, rotala indica, ludwigia palustris, cryptocoryne wendtii, bacopa monieri, hygrophila corymbosa, etc, in a 20 gallon + rocks and driftwood, but I may add some straws like this just to give my fry even more spaces to hide. Also, adult fish can just charge past a plant leaf and get the fry hiding under it, but the plastic won't be as soft or flexible, so it will actually prevent the adults from physically reaching the fry like metal bars on a shark cage. The plants just prevent from adults from seeing the fry unless it's super super dense, more like hiding behind a sheet of cloth. Would you rather have metal bars, or a soft sheet protecting you from a killer? Or perhaps both so they can neither see nor reach you?
It's only safe when they're big enough to not fit in the mouth of an adult fish. So, it really depends on how fast they grow . . . Which will depend on food quality and quantity, as well as how clean the water is, and how big the tank is. A thickly planted tank will help make it safer earlier.
Is a baby guppy who has not activated their air pocket by swimming to the surface doomed to be a bottom dweller? Can it be helped up to the surface with a net to activate its air pocket?
Yes, it could be brought to the surface in a net, and that might help. I tried it once, but it didn't work. It might work on some fish. It doesn't hurt to try.
Thanks so much for this video....... I had NO clue they needed to go to the top of the tank.... I've had my guppies for 7 or 8 months... and I have had 3 survive and are now way past the chance of being eaten.... Anyway.... I have several fake plants in my tank... one real one... BUT nothing that even gets close to the top... I just today bought a fake plant that reaches the top of the tank... so I hope that helps them.... My fish I am sure are loving you because of you I am learning so so much therfore it's making their lives better... I even just got back from the store with a timer for my light on the tank because I am horrible at turning the light off when I should... I will leave it on sometimes for days.... I feel so bad for doing that... so so bad.. I hope they will be happy with that... I always feel guilty when I leave it on for so long... I do hatch brine shrimp... my fish love them.... and I think it has the feel of them being in the wild and having to chase down their food.... I love watching them when I put in the shrimp... I have a guppy that I believe is very close to having babies... hopefully, this extra tall plant helps them.... You don't have to respond... I don't know how in the world you have time to answer all of the messages... My attention span is next to NOTHING...LOL Please have a really good night.....(if it's night where you are located... lol)... take care and I look forward to watching ALL of your videos....
Hello again! I'm so happy that you're watching my videos and that they're helping your and your fish lead better lives. I strongly encourage you to use live aquatic plants in your aquarium. btw, the fish say "thanks" for getting the timer. They need their rest . . . :-)
@@TheDave333 Uhhh.... I just typed a pretty long message and then lost every bit of it... LOL Ill try to write it again soon... so frustrated that happened...lol Thanks for responding to me AGAIN... and I will write to you what I lost soon... thanks for everything!!
It really depends on how much oxygen is in the water. In an outside situation, they don't need an air pump, because the wind moves the water. So indoors, it's probably a good idea to have some sort of water movement. Betta fish can get oxygen by going to the surface and swallowing air. However, guppies don't have that ability. So, if there not enough oxygen in the water they might die.
i got some endler guppie on my aquarium with 3 rashboras, 3 neon tetras, 1 male 1 female endler that just gave birth to one baby, 2 corydoras, 2 amano shrimp and many cherry shrimp but for some reason non of the fish have eaten the one microscopid tiny little baby endler. is there any way they will eat it or am i fine and safe to keep the baby fish with the other fish?.
Chances are there was more than one baby in the beginning. They may have been eaten by the other fish. Another possibility is that the fry may have been sucked up by a hang-on-back filter that didn't have an intake sponge filter over the pump intake. The more plants, the better protected the babies will be.
@@TheDave333 yes thank you. I got a plant with some big roots that it hides in and i think this is why it isn't eaten. its carefull and with its big eyes compares to its vody when a fish goes near it it hides in the roots. And allso if the fish is now sucked up in the filter is there any way it will get out or is it dead by now?
@Grooviercurve80 Miraculously, some babies can make it by the pump impeller. So, there may be some babies alive in the water reservoir at the back of the filter. It's worth a look.
I'm new in the hobby and have my first fry of babies. I've managed to catch of 2 the babies and put them in a net with a rock on the bottom of the net. The 2 babies I had and doing great but I don't know where the others are. I have lots of live plants just as you mentioned. Could the filter be sucking them through, or are they just being eaten? Would appreciate any advice/help. Thank you
@Ray Schnoebelen Hello, and welcome to a wonderful hobby! If you have a hang on back filter, it may have sucked up the babies. Check in the water reservoir in the back of the filter for babies. If this is the case, they make pre-filter sponges to put over the filter intake to prevent this from happening. I'm always here to help if you need more advice. 😃
Amazing video quality and production! Just found this video as I got a new small fish tank and I filled it with guppies! I noticed the female is giving birth to lots of fry. Now I'm confused on taking care of the fry.. May I ask is it necessary to have another tank to separate adult and fry? Or can I just put females,males,fry together in 1 tank? Thank you so much for the info!
In a densely planted tank that contains lots of places for the newborn babies to hide, then it is fine to keep them all together. Most of the babies will survive. But they reproduce very quickly and the growing babies will need more space. If they keep breeding you'll need more tanks! And this is how I ended up with 22 aquariums.!!! 😁
@@TheDave333 thank you so much for the detailed info! And wow you have many tanks 😀 yes I hope the fry can live and get bigger, for now I separate the fry and adults using 2 tanks.. Also, may I ask what kind of treatments do we need to do after getting new guppy? I bought guppies several times from local fish store but they always ended up dead after few weeks :( sometimes they swim slowly on the ground with closed fin before they die.. It's hard to keep them alive
Professional guppy breeders breed their fish in nearly sterile tanks with near perfect water quality, no substrate, clean warm water (80 F) , lots of healthy food, etc... Then, the guppies get to the store, or our homes, and the environment is less than perfect. And that's when the troubles start. . . Many of these high quality, carefully kept fish are very delicate and they die in a less than perfect setup. Plus many fancy guppies are quite inbred, so they're delicate to begin with. The fancier the guppy, the harder it is to keep. . . Adding aquarium salt to their water can work wonders for treating a variety of guppy issues. Keep the tank as clean as you can. . .
@@TheDave333 Ah I see, that makes a lot of sense.. I also bought some of guppies from another city so maybe the water temp and quality is quite different 😢 thank you for the tips! I'll try adding aquarium salt.. Do I need to give salt everytime I change the water (e.g. once a week)? And is it necessary for guppies to use heater in their tank? I notice sometimes the water is quite cold at my place but I don't have any heater for now.. Sorry I ask a lot btw 🙏
Yes, it's necessary to add the salt to the new water at water changes. Otherwise the concentration will be diluted each time you change the water. And by the way, most live plants don't tolerate salt very well. A heater is only needed if the temp. remains below 75 degrees F, but they do better when kept at 80 F.
Hey Bro,my guppy had 30 babies just before 4 days and now they swim perfectly so now i have separated them from their mom and have kept them in a large opaque tub with lots of live plants and rocks so i've been feeding them crushed pellets and powder of egg yolks and they seem to be happy with it.Any extra suggestion for their care? I havent applied any filter or oxygen or lights so is it okay?Great Vid though(:
Hello, I would stop feeding with the egg yolk, it's very easy to overfeed and cause poor water quality. And since you're not running any filtration it's a very risky food to use. The babies will grow faster in clean warm water 78-80 degrees, So, keep doing water changes to keep the water clean. Best of luck with the new guppy family. :-)
It really depends on the size of the container and the number of fish. With just fry, I would change half the water once per week. Always clean up uneaten food when you see it.
I have a guppy fry that doesn't swim he just kind of staying at the bottom. Is it because of it didn't managed to get a gulp of air to fill their swim bladder? It's been a week and he is still small I will try to bring him to the surface
I rewatched this video as soon as my boyfriend told me his guppy female had given birth. There was only one female and one male in his community tank (not the best ratio but the male was very polite). The male recently died, but since I lent my boyfriend a 2.5 gallon tank he placed the female in there and there are now 5 (or more) babies!!! The female is back in the main tank and we are both really excited, expessially since the beautiful male we miss a lot now lives on through his children! I wonder how long you would recommend keeping them in the 2.5 gallon tank. I worry about keeping them in a small space for long. My only experience with breeding livebearers was keeping platy fry in a 2 gallon when I was very young and didn't know much. They lived happy healthy lives but never grew as large as they should have, presumably since I kept a bunch of them in a small space for much too long before putting them back in the 20 gallon with their parents. His community tank has voracious cherry barbs, plays, and black skirt tetras that usually clean up all the fry so I'd like to avoid putting them in there until they are at least half their adult size. Wondering if they can be grown out to that size in a smaller tank or if a larger grow out tank will be needed. Sorry for the long comment, hard not to get excited when baby guppies are involved!!!
Congratulations on the new guppy family! I use 2.5 G tanks as guppy nurseries all the time. The key to keeping them in a 2.5 G tank is how often you change the water. I would recommend changing 50% of the water each week. The cleaner the water, the longer they can stay. Using a bare-bottomed tank will allow you to easily clean up uneaten food and poop. I use airline tubing attached to a small wooden dowel with a rubber band as a siphon hose to spot clean the bottom of the tank. A small sponge filter will help keep the water clean. Male guppies produce a chemical that slows the growth of other males, so the sooner you can give the males a larger space / more water the better. If you really want the males to be as big and as beautiful as possible, give one a tank of its own (2.5 G). When males guppies are with females and other males, a lot of their time and energy is spent displaying for the ladies, so they don't get as big or as pretty.
I use elodeas/waterweed in my breeding tank - most probably "Elodea nuttallii". They are sturdy, do not require to be planted (they will live as an hydroponic plant, floating around, without needing to root although it will try to) will occupy the entire water column and provide a lot of hiding places for the guppy fry. Furthermore, if you need to do maintenance, you just grab the whole thing - everything will come up in one scoop, put it in a bucket with a bit of water - do whatever you have to do - then put it back in your tank - just drop it back in - it will re-establish itself in a day ! And finally, they are great to prevent algae blooms as they are great biological filters, will greatly help for the Nitrogen cycle ! However - make sure they are legal where you live, as - because of all as I described - they can become quite invasive.
@@TheDave333 I suspected as much.. For example, I never throw away any of the excess/pruning waterweed before thoroughly boiling it and letting it dry out ! This is not suppose to go out in the wild.. However I think in France the damage has already been done :(
So, true! It's important to be responsible. . . If you live somewhere warm year round, be super careful with Assassin snails. They're an invasive nightmare waiting to happen. . . Thanks for watching my videos. :-D
@@TheDave333 I love the videos ! Right now, the only snails I have are planorbs/ramhorns - or whatever.. well your run of the mill typical snail.. They will sometimes multiply (and eat the excess biomass - good for me) - and then I'll cull the population so they are not all over the place (using a slice of potato and scooping them out) - and they'll be at it again when the need arises (I certainly have no intention on removing all of them - they are good biological control and water quality indicators). However, I never release them in the wild.. I boil them before throwing them away (sorry guys it seems cruel - but the outside is not my aquarium)
When they're too big to fit in the mouths of the adult fish! The length of time will depend on how fast the babies grow, which will depend on how clean the water is, and the temp., as well as the quality and quantity of their food supply. A densely planted tank would allow you to keep the adult and the babies together right from the start.
The mollies do get a good bit larger, so you'd have to wait a little longer before the baby guppies are too big for them to eat. It's all about the size of their mouths. . .
This has helped me out quite a lot, I have about 20 baby guppy/endler hybrids which I was totally unprepared for. I had gotten lucky and was able to protect and raise them to a point where they are too big to be eaten, and they're starting to get their coloration at the tail (the coloration is mostly from their mother, what I suspect is a female turquoise guppy) their tails have darkened and they're growing quite fast, however another female has become pregnant and I'm thinking she's going to give birth relatively soon. so I'm setting up a 160 gallon tank to house the fish as I had these fish in a 10 gallon and wasn't expecting babies so soon. The suspected fathers are Japan blue lower sword tail guppies which also happen to be endler hybrids. from what I've read, the endler hybrids don't have so much of an issue with eating their young as full blooded guppies. The issue I'm coming across now, is pricing on material for the 160 gallon tank. it's quite a bit larger than I had expected and we may need to reinforce the table it's standing on, so it's only about half way full. I have water conditioner to make the water safe and where I live, it's currently a very decent temperature even without a heater. however, in the winter and colder months I would worry a bit. by then, the financial issues I'm having should be solved as I've just started a new security job. Would it be safe to move the babies once they're large enough to handle being moved along with the parents? (I may not move the mother from the 10 gallon until she's given birth as to not stress her out). Currently, the new fry seem to be very strong and healthy. I had noticed somehow one of the fry had accidentally partially swallowed a hair of unknown origin, I risked using the net keeping the affected guppy submerged partially and used tweezers to grab onto the hair. I did not use forceful means and let the fry remove itself via it's own power, and there seems to be no adverse affects so far (this procedure was done about 5 days ago). And if the need arises, how would I end up moving the fry as to prevent over crowding of the smaller 10 gallon if net or other means may be too stressful? Thank you in advance.
I would fill a 2 gallon bucket 1/2 way with water from the breeding tank. Then, I would use a net to catch them and put them in the 2 G bucket. Then, I would slowly add water from the 160G into the 2 Gallon bucket, until it's about full. I use airline tubing. Then, you can transfer the fish from the 2G bucket into the larger tank. The key is to keep the water parameters as steady as you can so that you don't shock the fry. The fry come to the top, so they're easy to catch. They're tougher than they look, and easy to catch. Make any changes to their water gradually. Keep them at 75-80 degrees F ( 24 - 27 degrees C).
I've never heard of this beast before! So, I looked it up, and I love it! It's one of the most beautiful sharks I've ever seen, and it only get a couple feet long. Amazing!
@@TheDave333 just rediscovering the fish hobby after a few quiet years and breeding guppies again to warm myself up … thanks for such a clear and concise explanation
You're very welcome! It was a fun video to make. And, welcome back to a wonderful hobby. Here's some advice that you didn't ask for. . . 🙂 Keep things simple, it will cost less and provide more enjoyment. I recommend sponge filters, lots of live plants, and always doing your research before buying. It's very tempting to keep buying fish and keep changing things, which usually leads to trouble. . . Best of luck !
6 month ago I bought 10 guppies.. 3 males.. 7 females.. Now it's more like 100 adults and sub adults.. and countless juvenile ! I suspect the fish I bought might have been endler hybrids (some of this have this lyra shaped color in the caudal fin) and some have of really bright red crazy long tail (the tail being almost twice the size of the body) - and a couple are black and yellow. Guppies are easy to breed once you get the hang of it and you can start experimenting, try to get a specific color or shape (but it requires time and space).. Also - (for all the people out there) - don't worry - guppies are a species of fish with which it's almost impossible to overpopulate a tank ! They are fish that are used to live in very tight spots, are used to live in tight groups.. I currently have 100+ guppies in a 200L tank and they are all doing well, are healthy and I have a very low death rate (less than 1 every week - which can be anything from genetic defect to.. an accident - things happen.. I have other fish in the tank and sometimes they get a bit .. agitated !)
@@TheDave333 Doing a lot of experimentation - getting the females that seem full in and out of the main tank to the breeder tank.. The weedgrass cover offer plenty of protection.. and I'm seeing them giving birth all the time.. (some make it, some don't - I just let things flow)... I'll probably get another breeder tank soon ! But they are so colorful - some are really incredible ! it's really exciting !
I like to hybridize standard guppies with Endler guppies, and see what I get for colors and patterns. I don't line breed them, because I don't have enough time and tank space. There's an endless variety of colors and patterns. no two fish are alike!!! Very exciting. Have you seen my video on the glass belly guppy?
@@TheDave333 No, haven't seen that.. What I know is that I'm going to go to the store - not the one I bought my original ones from - to get a few more guppys (not for number but to add some more genetic material)... Gracious.. I've just put 4 full females in my breeder tank, and they already reduced size in half ! I am wondering if the fact that previous females have already released their fry may have released hormones which may have triggered other females to do the same ! I have to fetch the females that have now gone thin before they gobble up the babies !
You don't want to miss the glass belly guppy video! Yes, hormones do play an important role in fish behavior. So, it's very possible that previous births in the same tank might affect recent additions. You've gone guppy crazy!!! What are you going to do with all of these babies? :-D
There used to be salmon in the rivers where I live. Not any more. . . Dams, dams, dams . . . I worked on a salmon restoration project for many years, and it was a big failure. . . It's very sad what we've done to our rivers and lakes.
i bought some endler guppies and they threw in some babies for me for free and one started to get their colours and i’m so happy because it’s going to be….. BLUE FEMALE!!
after some weeks my males fry are hunting on the bottom everyday and have no food, and females fry stay on the top and eat everything... don't know what to do your video is very nice and the fact you use straws is inventiv. (sorry if my english is approximativ)
If there's nothing wrong with them physically, they will go to the top for food when they're hungry. If they stay on the bottom all of the time, they may have a swim bladder problem, or there's too much of a current at the top of the tank for their big fins, so they stay at the bottom.
@@TheDave333 No it's not a physical problem, it's because they are half natural endlers so hunting is natural for them, but there is not much to hunt in my tank, so they stay little forever... Females look almost like if they are 2 month, and males look like if they are 2 weeks (and they are a little more than 1 month in reality) I give them high quality guppy flakes crushed with lyophilised artemias from jbl and i add a little high quality spirulina... Females are more chill in general they don't hunt a lot and stay in group, males are way more individuals i think next time i will try to separate young males and females :(
As you probably know already, Endlers stay smaller than guppies. Males will spend most of their time chasing females, so they don't grow as fast, or get as big. Separating the two sexes as early as possible will increase the growth rate of the males. Also, giving each male its own tank will increase their growth as well. Best of luck.
@@TheDave333 Can you put a male guppy in with other fish, and will this help? For example if we have juveniles or another type of fish, will the male guppy do better?
These videos are a cinematic and educational masterpiece, I feel like I’m watching an episode of BBC or nat geo. You are truly talented my friend
Wow, thank you!
You rock The Dave! Is there anything more delightful than a newborn guppy. Two big eyes and a Flippy floppy tail. The fun of watching baby guppies grow up never grows old!
@Susan Staples
I love their little faces, especially when they look right at you The big eyes really help. And while we're on the subject of cute little fish, have you seen my video on the Pea Puffer ? They definitely rival the baby guppies in the adorable department !!! Thanks for watching so many of my videos. 🙂 ua-cam.com/video/2jh4FPPhH14/v-deo.html
Mr. DAVE is back, finally 👍
Your footage and videos are so clear and professional, I'm always super impressed. I don't even own fish, I just love learning about them. It's like documentary quality
Thank you for the kind words. Comments like yours make the effort worthwhile 🎥.
Same! I don’t have any aquariums, but I love learning about various fish and how to take care of them. One day I’d like to have an aquarium and keep a honey gourami and some tank mates!
It’s incredible how you captured these tiny fries with such beautiful closeups. It was so cool to see every detail and how huge and developed their eyes are! Amazing video as always! Every one of your videos is a real treat.
Thank you so much!
Also, congrats, I think I hear a new born little Dave in the background :)
Ha ha ! That made me smile . . . 😀
Just realize why "guppy grass" (Najas guadalupensis) is called guppy grass. This plant not only clean up toxins in water but also provide shelter from bottom to top of the tank for baby guppy fish. For those of you who want the tank to look natural, guppy grass is highly recommended.
I love guppy grass, it grows like crazy, and the guppies love it too! :-)
I approve the name🥑
This has been by far the most helpful video I have found on male/ female & newborn guppies ❤
Wow, thank you! ❤
6 months in with my first guppy colony. Glad to see a new upload. Keep up the most excellent videos!!
Awesome! Thank you!
This is amazing content! I’d never known that the swim bladder needed to be inflated, so I believe you just helped me save a fry…. I had a really small spawn of 4 really big babies. 3 of the fry almost instantly started free swimming since they shot to the surface while the female was chasing them in the small plastic enclosure. I took the female out right after the last fry popped out, and this last, healthy-looking fry continued to sit and sit and sit, for nearly half a day. It had never gotten chased like the others and it just kept sinking and not trying too hard to swim up to the surface. I was worried it wouldn’t get its bladder inflated before it was too late, so I carefully sucked it up into a wide-mouth pipette for a few seconds, in just 4 mL of water. The fry seemed to snap awake and quickly took several gulps of air. I let back down the pipette, and 30 minutes later it was swimming along with the others 3, perfectly balanced and active. I’ve only ever tried this method once, since I was worried it would stress the fry out, but it seemed the stress is what the fry needed to start swimming. Which makes me wonder if that’s part of why female guppies instinctively go after their fry. It seems to accelerates the process of forcing them to swim. In the wild I suspect that many more fry would likely get away from this test of survival (but not in a plastic enclosure like what we use for birthing them).
What a great story thanks for sharing. I'm happy that my video helped you and your fish. It does seem like the mother fish encourages her young to move around and be active. 😁
Top quality as always. How in the world can you catch the delivery of a guppy baby? Kudos man!
I know, right? Thanks for watching the video. 🎥🐠🐟
I have soo many guppies I can't wait for them to grow up!
They're going to make more ! 🐟🐟
Same
A lot more. Like, too many more ... 🐰 lol
The "protist" at 7:52 is likely a ciliate called Stentor coeruleus - most ciliates, like the Paramecium and Spirostomum species more familiar to aquarium keepers, swim in this spiral pattern. Stentor coeruleus has a distinct blue-green color, is relatively large (for a single-celled organism), and has a variable shape - it'll look like a sort-of cylindrical blob when it's on the move (as in this video) and will anchor itself to surfaces and elongate into a long funnel when it's found a good place to settle down and feed. Like most ciliates, it filter-feeds on smaller organisms, but is so large that it can consume other large ciliates like Paramecium and Blepharisma. The UA-cam channel Journey to the Microcosmos has a few videos on these, as do many microscopy enthusiasts on UA-cam.
Thanks for posting these videos! They're so wonderfully informative and easy-to-understand, and the footage you film is amazingly detailed! I teach high school biology, and my students breed fish (including guppies) in the classroom, and I show them some of your videos (including this one) so they can see what to expect as their own fish reproduce and grow.
Hello, and thanks for the possible ID on the ciliate. I really appreciate the information. I'm so pleased that you use my videos to help teach. It's a great honor.
This might be the most entertaining as well as the most helpful video on baby guppies. Thank you Dave.
You're very welcome. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Absolutely stunning work, I greatly appreciate each piece you do.
If the former was true, and you're a new father, congratulations and I wish you much joy in being a father.
Thank you very much! I'm not a new father, but an old one. :-)
Watching too much Hugbees has got me on edge...I keep waiting for The Dave to drop a crude joke or something but it's unrelentingly wholesome ❤🥺 thanks, The Dave
I try to keep everything nice and wholesome, so it's fun or the whole family. :-)
Never knew this much about baby guppies until now! Thank you for the good video 👍
You're very welcome !
Thank you soooooo much ! I'd never thought about making safe hiding places near the surface for the fray to develop and make use of their bladder... I own 3 gravid females and I'm really new to the hobby, I'll do my best and make good use of this information
Welcome to the wonderful hobby of fish keeping! I'm here to help if you have any questions.
@@TheDave333 thanks ! Where I live, veterinarians are not of any help with small fish and invertebrates.
Thank you The Dave! A delight to see you posted!
My pleasure!
Thank you so much for this very educational video. I have small tanks in my bedroom and bathroom. I put guppies in them because I’m mostly interested in growing plants. Guppies and plants in tanks do very well together. I’ve never once seen a guppy, come out of a mother, so this is fascinating. All I ever see is new baby guppies every morning, when I turn the light on. This explains so much. I have a 55 gallon tank downstairs and I never see baby guppies in them probably because they’re being eaten. I’m going to remove the guppies from that aquarium and put them in the smaller aquariums, where they have a fighting chance, to have babies. I pick out the ones I like; then all the rest of them, when they’re grown, I take to the park and release into the lake. The straw idea is genius. You are the most informative fish keeper on UA-cam. Much appreciation and respect!
Thank you for the kind words. . . I really love what I do. 🎥
I read some of the comments, oh wow *YOU DO REALLY CARE* for them. ❤️❤️
From Bandung, Indonesia
Yes I really do care. 🙏🏼❤️🐟
Excellent video showing baby guppy development from birth.
I'm in love with their little faces - great close-ups 🧐.
Idea using drinking straw is interesting. Can straws be in aquarium for longer time than birth time? Trapped babies bother me but can't they find way out from straw? Free one Gilbert is easy but more babies, they may die.
I do think they'd be able to eventually find their way out of the straw. And yes the straws can be used all of the time, but live plants are a much better choice.
Wow what a great video and great narration. Very informative and to the point. Awesome closeups! Really appreciate it
Thanks for watching the video and leaving such a nice comment. I appreciate the love. 🐠 🐠 🐠
3:30
Evo-Devo from the time when the swim bladder was a lung.
The straw thing is so smart, I always just moved the parents to a seprate tank.
Thanks for watching the video. As long as the babies have lots of places to hide, they can usually avoid being eaten. Straws work in a pinch, but lots of Guppy grass is my favorite way to keep them safe. Plus, the live plants help keep the water clean. 😁
Look at them are very cute
Yes, beautiful little babies.
You really deserve more subs. Well done!
Thank you!
For some reason, my guppies don't eat fry. I try to feed heavily and carefully monitor water quality to make up for it. I wonder if that helps?
The full belly certainly helps. And clean water can never hurts anything, unless of course you're a filter feeder. 😃.
Really appreciate your work, Sir Dave.
Thank you so much. :-)
I recently started an aquarium w a few guppies. I didn't realize they had babies and found 7 fry in the overflow area where i keep the heater. Qny way yo know exactly how old tehy may be?
The male babies will start to show some color when they are about 3 weeks old. The mother probably carried the babies for about 30 days. That will help you figure out how old they might be.
I learn so much from your videos and I have had fish for 50 years. Amazing! Thank you 🙏
You're very welcome. Thank you for taking the time to watch my videos. :-D
A real clear video. I've made some livebearer birth videos as well but not as clear as yours. Thumbs up for the quality of your video.👍
Thank you very much!
Your knowledge is immense! ive learnt so much from you. Thank you 😊
You are so welcome! 😀
@@TheDave333 I have to thank you aswell because your voice really helps to relax me when im suffering with anxiety. My favourite is the pleco breeding series, i have 2 bristlenose, a calico and a lemon drop, im in love with them 😍 once again thank you for helping me through a really crap time in my life.
You're very welcome. I'm happy to help. 🙂 It's a strange thing, but my anxiety is what led me to the aquarium hobby in the first place! The aquariums and the water really seem to help. Have a beautiful day, and I really hope that everything gets better for you. Dave 🐟🐠🐠
Adorable creatures 😍
Yes they are, in a big scary world. 🐠
@@TheDave333 fortunately the breed like rabbits so there are always enough fry To overpopulate the tank very soon
Very true :-D
Glad you've been posting more frequently these are really good
Thank you.
Does this strategy work for endlers. Or should you have different plants. I just want to know how to care for my endler babies.
Yes, it's about the same for Endlers. Guppy grass and hornwort are the ideal plants for protecting the babies. The more plants, the better. If you have a hang on back filter, be sure to put an intake sponge filter over the filter intake, so that the babies are not sucked up by the filter.
So lovely really cute video also the baby sounds with the baby guppies 😍 I also have guppies and was shocked when I suddenly saw really small guppies in the plants that seemed like just a small dot with eyes, because I didn’t know that my female guppy was pregnant. She’s had babies two times now!
Thanks for watching the video. Lady guppies are almost always pregnant, and I love to be surprised by those little dots with eyes. 😍
Good vdo for guppy lovers👌👌👌👌
Beautiful footage Dave. I have been breeding endlers for over a year now, and never once have I seen them eat babies. Even the largest alpha female that is twice as large as other females was able to live peacefully in the fry-only tank among 50-60 developing fry. This must be a behavioural difference between guppies and endlers.
Yes, I do believe there is. Differences in their courtship behavior as well. Thanks for checking out the video. :-)
I have guppies that just don’t seem to feed on their babies as well. Not sure why..
Thank you for these videos! It’s helping me keep my baby guppies alive
You are so welcome!
Good stuff man I love your documentary quality fish keeping videos. I first seen your kuhli loach vid and gotta say these videos with the talking documentary are way better 🙂
Thanks for watching my videos! All of my newer material uses narration rather than text. 😀🐠🎥
Make video about Gilbert's adventures. Thank you✌
Thanks for the idea!
Another superb video. Small point however, some strains of guppies take much longer to attain full colouration than stated in the video 🤓👍
Very true. . . In this particular video, I tried to keep things as simple and as brief as I could. Unfortunately, with that approach the little details suffer. In the original version of the video, I had a disclaimer that mentioned a host of factors that influence the timing of development. such as genetics, water temp., stocking densities, food quality and quantity, water parameters, etc. I decided to leave that part out. Silly me. I often worry that if I put in all of the information that I think of when I edit these videos, each one would be 2 hours long!!! And the average viewer would be bored to death! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and for keeping me on my toes. 😀
what guppy color strain is this female guppy and her fry
I'm not sure. Just a generic guppy.
Awesome! Terrific info and amazing shots!
Thanks a lot!
Okay so the idea of using straws as a plant substitute is actually smart
In some cases it can be helpful, but live plants are usually a better choice.
Brand new babies on my nightstand! 😘
Congratulations!😀
Dave: (Southern accent) Ya'll gonna be makin' lots of babies. I'm gonna need more tanks.
( Southern accent) I reckon that's how it is with them there guppies
So nice Dave. Great job as usual
Thank you. I appreciate that.
Have you heard of a spot-tail shark/Carcharhinus sorrah?
I have now. Thanks Chi. ❤
straws are a good idea but in all honesty just go buy some hornwort or monkey tail they are fast growing plants that can both be used as floaters or put into a substrate ( hornwort doesnt root tho)
You are so right, live plants are the way to go.
Plants take time to fill in unless you want to spend lots of money on multiple cuttings though.
I personally pack my tanks full of plants. I think everyone should have plants, and they make tanks cleaner, prettier, and easier to maintain. I have hornwort, 2 types of vaisneria, rotala indica, ludwigia palustris, cryptocoryne wendtii, bacopa monieri, hygrophila corymbosa, etc, in a 20 gallon + rocks and driftwood, but I may add some straws like this just to give my fry even more spaces to hide.
Also, adult fish can just charge past a plant leaf and get the fry hiding under it, but the plastic won't be as soft or flexible, so it will actually prevent the adults from physically reaching the fry like metal bars on a shark cage. The plants just prevent from adults from seeing the fry unless it's super super dense, more like hiding behind a sheet of cloth. Would you rather have metal bars, or a soft sheet protecting you from a killer? Or perhaps both so they can neither see nor reach you?
Another great video from The Dave (don't know why it took nearly a week for the notification to pop up).
Thank you and welcome back! I'm inching closer, ever so slowly, to those CPDs
@@TheDave333
Ha Ha, I was oh so restrained and didn't mention them 😂.
Amazing video! Very helpful, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Amazing video as always.
Thank you :-)
when you can safely mix with the other adults? after 1 week?
It's only safe when they're big enough to not fit in the mouth of an adult fish. So, it really depends on how fast they grow . . . Which will depend on food quality and quantity, as well as how clean the water is, and how big the tank is. A thickly planted tank will help make it safer earlier.
Another amazing video, Dave. Fif you get a clam?
Not yet, I move slowly. Like a clam. I suppose you've heard about the Zebra mussels found in Moss balls ? ☹
@@TheDave333 yes, devastating. I am not sure they can be eradicated once they are introduced into the wild.
You're probably right, but life must go on.
What kind of camera do you use to film? The quality is splendid!
Thank you. I am currently using a Panasonic HC- V770 HD digital camera
with several different after market lenses.
I love the part when the babies say it's guppin time and starts guppin everywhere
I love that part too giddy up gup. . .
@@TheDave333lol
What a lovely video!
Thank you!
Is a baby guppy who has not activated their air pocket by swimming to the surface doomed to be a bottom dweller? Can it be helped up to the surface with a net to activate its air pocket?
Yes, it could be brought to the surface in a net, and that might help. I tried it once, but it didn't work. It might work on some fish. It doesn't hurt to try.
Thanks so much for this video....... I had NO clue they needed to go to the top of the tank.... I've had my guppies for 7 or 8 months... and I have had 3 survive and are now way past the chance of being eaten....
Anyway.... I have several fake plants in my tank... one real one... BUT nothing that even gets close to the top... I just today bought a fake plant that reaches the top of the tank... so I hope that helps them....
My fish I am sure are loving you because of you I am learning so so much therfore it's making their lives better...
I even just got back from the store with a timer for my light on the tank because I am horrible at turning the light off when I should... I will leave it on sometimes for days.... I feel so bad for doing that... so so bad.. I hope they will be happy with that... I always feel guilty when I leave it on for so long...
I do hatch brine shrimp... my fish love them.... and I think it has the feel of them being in the wild and having to chase down their food.... I love watching them when I put in the shrimp...
I have a guppy that I believe is very close to having babies... hopefully, this extra tall plant helps them....
You don't have to respond... I don't know how in the world you have time to answer all of the messages... My attention span is next to NOTHING...LOL
Please have a really good night.....(if it's night where you are located... lol)... take care and I look forward to watching ALL of your videos....
Hello again! I'm so happy that you're watching my videos and that they're helping your and your fish lead better lives. I strongly encourage you to use live aquatic plants in your aquarium. btw, the fish say "thanks" for getting the timer. They need their rest . . . :-)
@@TheDave333 Uhhh.... I just typed a pretty long message and then lost every bit of it... LOL Ill try to write it again soon... so frustrated that happened...lol
Thanks for responding to me AGAIN... and I will write to you what I lost soon... thanks for everything!!
That's happened to me a few times when responding to comments. Very annoying. Maybe it's a sign that you should stop harassing The Dave! LOL :-)
This is very informative
Welcome to The Dave . 🎥
Do they need air pump or they just like a betta fish ?
It really depends on how much oxygen is in the water. In an outside situation, they don't need an air pump, because the wind moves the water. So indoors, it's probably a good idea to have some sort of water movement. Betta fish can get oxygen by going to the surface and swallowing air. However, guppies don't have that ability. So, if there not enough oxygen in the water they might die.
It's a wonderful video!
This is so helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
You are so welcome!
i got some endler guppie on my aquarium with 3 rashboras, 3 neon tetras, 1 male 1 female endler that just gave birth to one baby, 2 corydoras, 2 amano shrimp and many cherry shrimp but for some reason non of the fish have eaten the one microscopid tiny little baby endler. is there any way they will eat it or am i fine and safe to keep the baby fish with the other fish?.
Chances are there was more than one baby in the beginning. They may have been eaten by the other fish. Another possibility is that the fry may have been sucked up by a hang-on-back filter that didn't have an intake sponge filter over the pump intake. The more plants, the better protected the babies will be.
@@TheDave333 yes thank you. I got a plant with some big roots that it hides in and i think this is why it isn't eaten. its carefull and with its big eyes compares to its vody when a fish goes near it it hides in the roots. And allso if the fish is now sucked up in the filter is there any way it will get out or is it dead by now?
@Grooviercurve80
Miraculously, some babies can make it by the pump impeller. So, there may be some babies alive in the water reservoir at the back of the filter. It's worth a look.
@@TheDave333 thanks! im gonna take a look.
@@TheDave333 my endler guppie just gave birth to 8 babies. thank you
Excellent videos.
Thank you very much!
This is truly a wonderful UA-cam channel
Thank you. Please spread the word . . .
Lots of love from Kerala, INDIA
Question: How to prevent guppy fry from being sucked in the filter? Ps I love your videos!
I glad that you love my videos! Add a pre-filter intake sponge over the filter intake of your hang-on-back filter. Try aquarium coop.
@@TheDave333 Thanks!
You're very welcome!
I'm new in the hobby and have my first fry of babies. I've managed to catch of 2 the babies and put them in a net with a rock on the bottom of the net. The 2 babies I had and doing great but I don't know where the others are. I have lots of live plants just as you mentioned. Could the filter be sucking them through, or are they just being eaten? Would appreciate any advice/help. Thank you
@Ray Schnoebelen
Hello, and welcome to a wonderful hobby! If you have a hang on back filter, it may have sucked up the babies. Check in the water reservoir in the back of the filter for babies. If this is the case, they make pre-filter sponges to put over the filter intake to prevent this from happening. I'm always here to help if you need more advice. 😃
Amazing video quality and production! Just found this video as I got a new small fish tank and I filled it with guppies! I noticed the female is giving birth to lots of fry. Now I'm confused on taking care of the fry..
May I ask is it necessary to have another tank to separate adult and fry? Or can I just put females,males,fry together in 1 tank? Thank you so much for the info!
In a densely planted tank that contains lots of places for the newborn babies to hide, then it is fine to keep them all together. Most of the babies will survive. But they reproduce very quickly and the growing babies will need more space. If they keep breeding you'll need more tanks! And this is how I ended up with 22 aquariums.!!! 😁
@@TheDave333 thank you so much for the detailed info! And wow you have many tanks 😀 yes I hope the fry can live and get bigger, for now I separate the fry and adults using 2 tanks.. Also, may I ask what kind of treatments do we need to do after getting new guppy? I bought guppies several times from local fish store but they always ended up dead after few weeks :( sometimes they swim slowly on the ground with closed fin before they die.. It's hard to keep them alive
Professional guppy breeders breed their fish in nearly sterile tanks with near perfect water quality, no substrate, clean warm water (80 F) , lots of healthy food, etc... Then, the guppies get to the store, or our homes, and the environment is less than perfect. And that's when the troubles start. . . Many of these high quality, carefully kept fish are very delicate and they die in a less than perfect setup. Plus many fancy guppies are quite inbred, so they're delicate to begin with. The fancier the guppy, the harder it is to keep. . .
Adding aquarium salt to their water can work wonders for treating a variety of guppy issues. Keep the tank as clean as you can. . .
@@TheDave333 Ah I see, that makes a lot of sense.. I also bought some of guppies from another city so maybe the water temp and quality is quite different 😢 thank you for the tips! I'll try adding aquarium salt.. Do I need to give salt everytime I change the water (e.g. once a week)? And is it necessary for guppies to use heater in their tank? I notice sometimes the water is quite cold at my place but I don't have any heater for now.. Sorry I ask a lot btw 🙏
Yes, it's necessary to add the salt to the new water at water changes. Otherwise the concentration will be diluted each time you change the water. And by the way, most live plants don't tolerate salt very well. A heater is only needed if the temp. remains below 75 degrees F, but they do better when kept at 80 F.
ugh they're so cute! wish I have pond of these cuties.
They are adorable. :-)
If you want to, I'd like to see a video on platy and how they're different from other live bearers .
I'll get to them eventually. :-)
THANK YOU! THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES! ♥️
You are so welcome!
Very useful content. thank you.
You are welcome!
Hey Bro,my guppy had 30 babies just before 4 days and now they swim perfectly so now i have separated them from their mom and have kept them in a large opaque tub with lots of live plants and rocks so i've been feeding them crushed pellets and powder of egg yolks and they seem to be happy with it.Any extra suggestion for their care? I havent applied any filter or oxygen or lights so is it okay?Great Vid though(:
Hello, I would stop feeding with the egg yolk, it's very easy to overfeed and cause poor water quality. And since you're not running any filtration it's a very risky food to use. The babies will grow faster in clean warm water 78-80 degrees, So, keep doing water changes to keep the water clean. Best of luck with the new guppy family. :-)
@@TheDave333 what must be the routine of water change brother?
It really depends on the size of the container and the number of fish. With just fry, I would change half the water once per week. Always clean up uneaten food when you see it.
I have a guppy fry that doesn't swim he just kind of staying at the bottom. Is it because of it didn't managed to get a gulp of air to fill their swim bladder? It's been a week and he is still small I will try to bring him to the surface
Yes that sound like a swim bladder issue.
Thank u for this beautiful video, It reminds me when I was about 10 years old, I used to catch this fish from a sewer and put them in a plastic glass
Thanks for watching
Great production value. Thanks 🙏🏼
You're very welcome.
I rewatched this video as soon as my boyfriend told me his guppy female had given birth. There was only one female and one male in his community tank (not the best ratio but the male was very polite). The male recently died, but since I lent my boyfriend a 2.5 gallon tank he placed the female in there and there are now 5 (or more) babies!!! The female is back in the main tank and we are both really excited, expessially since the beautiful male we miss a lot now lives on through his children!
I wonder how long you would recommend keeping them in the 2.5 gallon tank. I worry about keeping them in a small space for long. My only experience with breeding livebearers was keeping platy fry in a 2 gallon when I was very young and didn't know much. They lived happy healthy lives but never grew as large as they should have, presumably since I kept a bunch of them in a small space for much too long before putting them back in the 20 gallon with their parents. His community tank has voracious cherry barbs, plays, and black skirt tetras that usually clean up all the fry so I'd like to avoid putting them in there until they are at least half their adult size. Wondering if they can be grown out to that size in a smaller tank or if a larger grow out tank will be needed.
Sorry for the long comment, hard not to get excited when baby guppies are involved!!!
Congratulations on the new guppy family! I use 2.5 G tanks as guppy nurseries all the time. The key to keeping them in a 2.5 G tank is how often you change the water. I would recommend changing 50% of the water each week. The cleaner the water, the longer they can stay. Using a bare-bottomed tank will allow you to easily clean up uneaten food and poop. I use airline tubing attached to a small wooden dowel with a rubber band as a siphon hose to spot clean the bottom of the tank. A small sponge filter will help keep the water clean.
Male guppies produce a chemical that slows the growth of other males, so the sooner you can give the males a larger space / more water the better. If you really want the males to be as big and as beautiful as possible, give one a tank of its own (2.5 G). When males guppies are with females and other males, a lot of their time and energy is spent displaying for the ladies, so they don't get as big or as pretty.
I use elodeas/waterweed in my breeding tank - most probably "Elodea nuttallii". They are sturdy, do not require to be planted (they will live as an hydroponic plant, floating around, without needing to root although it will try to) will occupy the entire water column and provide a lot of hiding places for the guppy fry.
Furthermore, if you need to do maintenance, you just grab the whole thing - everything will come up in one scoop, put it in a bucket with a bit of water - do whatever you have to do - then put it back in your tank - just drop it back in - it will re-establish itself in a day !
And finally, they are great to prevent algae blooms as they are great biological filters, will greatly help for the Nitrogen cycle !
However - make sure they are legal where you live, as - because of all as I described - they can become quite invasive.
Elodea is really a wonderful plant. Unfortunately they are not legal where I live. . .
@@TheDave333 I suspected as much.. For example, I never throw away any of the excess/pruning waterweed before thoroughly boiling it and letting it dry out ! This is not suppose to go out in the wild..
However I think in France the damage has already been done :(
So, true! It's important to be responsible. . . If you live somewhere warm year round, be super careful with Assassin snails. They're an invasive nightmare waiting to happen. . . Thanks for watching my videos. :-D
@@TheDave333 I love the videos ! Right now, the only snails I have are planorbs/ramhorns - or whatever.. well your run of the mill typical snail.. They will sometimes multiply (and eat the excess biomass - good for me) - and then I'll cull the population so they are not all over the place (using a slice of potato and scooping them out) - and they'll be at it again when the need arises (I certainly have no intention on removing all of them - they are good biological control and water quality indicators). However, I never release them in the wild.. I boil them before throwing them away (sorry guys it seems cruel - but the outside is not my aquarium)
I love snails. They're my favorite creatures to film.
I’m so glad I found this channel because I didn’t even know half this stuff as a Platy owner
I'm glad you found me too! Platies are a little different, but the birthing and the care of the babies is about the same.
Excellent video :-)
Thank you very much!
Hmmm how is there no dislikes impossible but great content
There's one in every crowd! :-)
If the babies are in a separate tank when is it safe to put them in the main tank with the adults
When they're too big to fit in the mouths of the adult fish! The length of time will depend on how fast the babies grow, which will depend on how clean the water is, and the temp., as well as the quality and quantity of their food supply. A densely planted tank would allow you to keep the adult and the babies together right from the start.
@@TheDave333 i have one that's 2 months old and one that's 1 month old
They should be ready. . .
In my main tank i have mollies that will go after them
The mollies do get a good bit larger, so you'd have to wait a little longer before the baby guppies are too big for them to eat. It's all about the size of their mouths. . .
baby guppys taking off like a plane after resting up hahaha
They can really move when they have to!
I think my guppy endler female is going to give birth soon. Great video the Dave. 👍✌️
Good luck! I love guppy endler hybrids.
Nice video , well explained good job
Thanks a lot
Very cool. Thanks
Glad you liked it! 🙂
Can I change the mother guppy from one bowl to another while it's breeding?
It's best to keep her in one place. Moving can be stressful.
Thanks,
I was actually scared whether the mother guppy will eat the fry
She will eat the fry if she's hungry, and the fry have no place to hide. Live plants are very helpful.
why would u keep them in a bowl
From which country you are
America, and you? Where are you from?
@@TheDave333 I am from Kerala,India. Lots of love and support from India ✌️
Thank you. I appreciate the support. A lot of people in India watch my videos.
@@Mohith-i2m
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This has helped me out quite a lot, I have about 20 baby guppy/endler hybrids which I was totally unprepared for. I had gotten lucky and was able to protect and raise them to a point where they are too big to be eaten, and they're starting to get their coloration at the tail (the coloration is mostly from their mother, what I suspect is a female turquoise guppy) their tails have darkened and they're growing quite fast, however another female has become pregnant and I'm thinking she's going to give birth relatively soon. so I'm setting up a 160 gallon tank to house the fish as I had these fish in a 10 gallon and wasn't expecting babies so soon. The suspected fathers are Japan blue lower sword tail guppies which also happen to be endler hybrids. from what I've read, the endler hybrids don't have so much of an issue with eating their young as full blooded guppies. The issue I'm coming across now, is pricing on material for the 160 gallon tank. it's quite a bit larger than I had expected and we may need to reinforce the table it's standing on, so it's only about half way full. I have water conditioner to make the water safe and where I live, it's currently a very decent temperature even without a heater. however, in the winter and colder months I would worry a bit. by then, the financial issues I'm having should be solved as I've just started a new security job. Would it be safe to move the babies once they're large enough to handle being moved along with the parents? (I may not move the mother from the 10 gallon until she's given birth as to not stress her out).
Currently, the new fry seem to be very strong and healthy. I had noticed somehow one of the fry had accidentally partially swallowed a hair of unknown origin, I risked using the net keeping the affected guppy submerged partially and used tweezers to grab onto the hair. I did not use forceful means and let the fry remove itself via it's own power, and there seems to be no adverse affects so far (this procedure was done about 5 days ago). And if the need arises, how would I end up moving the fry as to prevent over crowding of the smaller 10 gallon if net or other means may be too stressful? Thank you in advance.
I would fill a 2 gallon bucket 1/2 way with water from the breeding tank. Then, I would use a net to catch them and put them in the 2 G bucket. Then, I would slowly add water from the 160G into the 2 Gallon bucket, until it's about full. I use airline tubing. Then, you can transfer the fish from the 2G bucket into the larger tank. The key is to keep the water parameters as steady as you can so that you don't shock the fry.
The fry come to the top, so they're easy to catch. They're tougher than they look, and easy to catch. Make any changes to their water gradually. Keep them at 75-80 degrees F ( 24 - 27 degrees C).
Thank you my grand kids ate learning. We caught some in a pond near by where we live
That's awesome. Nature and learning go hand in hand. Have fun with the new fish.
Have you heard of a puffadder shyshark?
I've never heard of this beast before! So, I looked it up, and I love it! It's one of the most beautiful sharks I've ever seen, and it only get a couple feet long. Amazing!
An excellent video! I want guppies now!
Go for it!
Excellent presentation!!! bravo 🙌
Thank you very much!
@@TheDave333 just rediscovering the fish hobby after a few quiet years and breeding guppies again to warm myself up … thanks for such a clear and concise explanation
You're very welcome! It was a fun video to make. And, welcome back to a wonderful hobby. Here's some advice that you didn't ask for. . . 🙂 Keep things simple, it will cost less and provide more enjoyment. I recommend sponge filters, lots of live plants, and always doing your research before buying. It's very tempting to keep buying fish and keep changing things, which usually leads to trouble. . . Best of luck !
6 month ago I bought 10 guppies.. 3 males.. 7 females.. Now it's more like 100 adults and sub adults.. and countless juvenile ! I suspect the fish I bought might have been endler hybrids (some of this have this lyra shaped color in the caudal fin) and some have of really bright red crazy long tail (the tail being almost twice the size of the body) - and a couple are black and yellow.
Guppies are easy to breed once you get the hang of it and you can start experimenting, try to get a specific color or shape (but it requires time and space)..
Also - (for all the people out there) - don't worry - guppies are a species of fish with which it's almost impossible to overpopulate a tank ! They are fish that are used to live in very tight spots, are used to live in tight groups.. I currently have 100+ guppies in a 200L tank and they are all doing well, are healthy and I have a very low death rate (less than 1 every week - which can be anything from genetic defect to.. an accident - things happen.. I have other fish in the tank and sometimes they get a bit .. agitated !)
I can see you love the guppies as much as me! They're such wonderful colorful fish, and so easy to breed. Best of luck. Thanks for watching. :-)
@@TheDave333 Doing a lot of experimentation - getting the females that seem full in and out of the main tank to the breeder tank.. The weedgrass cover offer plenty of protection.. and I'm seeing them giving birth all the time.. (some make it, some don't - I just let things flow)... I'll probably get another breeder tank soon ! But they are so colorful - some are really incredible ! it's really exciting !
I like to hybridize standard guppies with Endler guppies, and see what I get for colors and patterns. I don't line breed them, because I don't have enough time and tank space. There's an endless variety of colors and patterns. no two fish are alike!!! Very exciting. Have you seen my video on the glass belly guppy?
@@TheDave333 No, haven't seen that.. What I know is that I'm going to go to the store - not the one I bought my original ones from - to get a few more guppys (not for number but to add some more genetic material)...
Gracious.. I've just put 4 full females in my breeder tank, and they already reduced size in half !
I am wondering if the fact that previous females have already released their fry may have released hormones which may have triggered other females to do the same !
I have to fetch the females that have now gone thin before they gobble up the babies !
You don't want to miss the glass belly guppy video! Yes, hormones do play an important role in fish behavior. So, it's very possible that previous births in the same tank might affect recent additions. You've gone guppy crazy!!! What are you going to do with all of these babies? :-D
I bet you baby salmon are watching this right now.
There used to be salmon in the rivers where I live. Not any more. . . Dams, dams, dams . . . I worked on a salmon restoration project for many years, and it was a big failure. . . It's very sad what we've done to our rivers and lakes.
Yay! I missed ya!
i bought some endler guppies and they threw in some babies for me for free and one started to get their colours and i’m so happy because it’s going to be…..
BLUE FEMALE!!
Awesome! Best of luck with the new guppy family. :-)
after some weeks my males fry are hunting on the bottom everyday and have no food, and females fry stay on the top and eat everything... don't know what to do
your video is very nice and the fact you use straws is inventiv. (sorry if my english is approximativ)
If there's nothing wrong with them physically, they will go to the top for food when they're hungry. If they stay on the bottom all of the time, they may have a swim bladder problem, or there's too much of a current at the top of the tank for their big fins, so they stay at the bottom.
@@TheDave333 No it's not a physical problem, it's because they are half natural endlers so hunting is natural for them, but there is not much to hunt in my tank, so they stay little forever...
Females look almost like if they are 2 month, and males look like if they are 2 weeks (and they are a little more than 1 month in reality)
I give them high quality guppy flakes crushed with lyophilised artemias from jbl and i add a little high quality spirulina...
Females are more chill in general they don't hunt a lot and stay in group, males are way more individuals i think
next time i will try to separate young males and females :(
As you probably know already, Endlers stay smaller than guppies. Males will spend most of their time chasing females, so they don't grow as fast, or get as big. Separating the two sexes as early as possible will increase the growth rate of the males. Also, giving each male its own tank will increase their growth as well. Best of luck.
@@TheDave333 Can you put a male guppy in with other fish, and will this help? For example if we have juveniles or another type of fish, will the male guppy do better?