Loved this! I know it's from 5 yrs ago but you answered the questions I had about guppy breeding strains etc. I'm most interested in breeding fancy guppies... among other things 😉 I'm inhaling all the info I can on small, like 2-tank breeding operations with guppies and basically whatever will go with guppies. Including plants. I'm lining things up slowly. Very slowly. I'm trying to be patient and not spend much money because my husband is already not thrilled with having TWO tanks 😅😅😅🤷♀️😊 so I'm gonna make the most of it. I'm running 2 Aquarium co-op filters in a 50-gallon with a bunch of cories and guppies and a pleco, a bunch of annubias, buce, swords, crypts, java windelov, java moss, jungle val... all slowly growing in, as well as a synodontis that will be moving soon lol. Love it, but it's eating my fry 😋 My other is a 29g planted with hairgrass, water sprite (?), java moss, and windelov and a nice cave. I have wood and rock and sand in both tanks. I can't decide what I want to do in the 29g. I can't decide if I'm going to move the guppies to the 29g. Lmao 😅 Forgive me. I digress. 😅 Carry on! While I go inhale more content!!!
Lol. How did you convince your hubs of a second tank? I had to argue long and hard why I needed a 10 gallon just for quarantine and I think he'd kill me if I just kept it set up on the breakfast bar. Lol. I've been trying to convince him to let me get fish for years and he finally caved. Lol.
Love these videos. Want me and my 8 year old to start keeping Guppies. Slow setup but I want him to understand each step in the process of it all instead of just slapping it all together quickly. Thanks for all these great videos to learn from.
Hi from Auatralia Cory, I just love the way you get to the point, hate listening to people that just woft on.. Thank you for all you do, you are such a hard worker, Regards Annemieke
😄 The Cory Fishroom and Hobbyists style videos are back!!!! Absolutely. .... These kind of videos you do I could watch for hours👍👍👍 ...hopefully you got the Guppy Cull to the turtles. 👍 Love how you are showing people culling...its the most important thing about breeding.
Like ShortNAnxious said, I don't typically kill my guppies, I remove them from the group and keep them with say turtles, or even just another aquarium depending on what was wrong with them.
Year of the livebeaers! Thanks for sharing your cull process. I'm hoping to try guppies this spring outside as a side project to learn more about genetics. How often would you cull?
Loving these videos a lot Cory! I "accidentally" breed goldfish as a kid and nothing much happened with it. It's cool to see the work you are supposed to put into it when you are trying to do something. I think it'll be helpful when I play with Angels this year.
Love Guppies but until I cleaned my small power head (going to get bubble sponges next week), I never realised how playful Minnos are. Lovely little fish, swimming against the tide and driving into the bubbles it makes.
I really enjoyed this video, the whole process of selecting the fish, finding the traits you want to breed, to get the strain you want is very informative and fascinating. Would really enjoy more videos like this
Great video Cory. I really am enjoying your guppy videos. I've kept many different fish in the past but I've just recently gotten into guppies because they are really fun to watch and breed. My main focus is on the albino koi guppy strain and I'm trying to fill my approximately 140gallon tank with them. Started of with 5 females and 5 males. It'll take some time to fill the tank up but I just got a female that gave birth to 20 fry so I'm looking forward to it. Keep up the great work!
Congrats on winning those Koi's Cory! Hope to see more of them in upcoming videos. Maybe one day I'll send you videos of my tanks so that you and your viewers can check them out :)
This is an awesome video showing how you separate guppies. Now I have a better view as to how I'm going to choose guppies to breed. Thanks for the video cory!
What did I like about this episode? I liked everything, I like the dwarf cichlids (at least I think that's what they are). Also congrats on the baby plecos!
To be fair, most of my culls live out their lives with the turtles. I keep the turtles well fed enough that they are too lazy to hunt really. At least the mini musks. The larger turtles for sure will eat stuff.
I'm so glad this video popped up. New to fish keeping. My guppies I bought were pregnant and now I have babies but I can't wait to breed some on purpose lol.
Enjoyed your video and how you share your love and knowelege of fish. I am just beginning my journey with my fancy guppies. Love them. I agree spend some time with your fish. Just noticed we have some babies. Yipee!
love these videos, all have been very helpful with what direction i should go with my tank. I will be stopping by your store on saturday and im excited to see it in person!!
I know this is late in coming, but i really enjoy your "real life" style here. I watch a lot of your stuff, and rather enjoy watching you just go about it, rather than try to stick to a theme. Also, the water trail is all to real, lol!!
Hey Aquarium Co-op, just an idea as I have not yet had too much experience with it, try getting split peas and grinding them into a powder? It's good for helping relieve fish of some swimbladder issues, as well as bloat and constipation in fish.
I didn't see this coming, but this year for the first time in 45 years I have Guppies! I didn't see the excitement and attachment I feel coming from them. I just got extra fancy Guppies, whatever that means and because I could I went with these gorgeous yellow fish. They are happy go lucky Guppies, like my dog who I call the High Speed Optomist. Jazz loves to come check them out, so do I LOL. All of this stuff that is trying to kill me, is getting put in the back seat and for the first time in two years, I feel optimistic.
+Ben I have, but my research shows me it'll be less efficient than what I'm currently doing. The problem is when I shoot videos and put water on the floor. The humidity rises. However yesterday when not filming and working humidity was 35%
Aquarium Co-Op - I didn't think about the coils. If they are copper or some alloy I can see where it may be a problem. However if they were stainless steel maybe not. Either way, Thanks for the reply. :)
Got a female with mostly black tail with a faint gold snakeskin in the middle and 2 males with black borders on the tails with a mix of yellow orange and blue in the middle and body hoping te fry comes out nicely
And a hundred odd in a barrel outside plus some in family's tanks to mix and match colour and bloodlines am aiming for a nice dark body and fins color on a female and try for blue and gold snakeskin on a black background for male
Best fish in the hobby! Beautiful and cheap. I can make a living from the sale of guppy’s. If you have a lot of aquariums you can make a lot of money with them.
I have a 5 gallon tank. I’m going to set it up and let it set got a week. How many fish should I have? I was thinking of a couple guppy’s , 3 neons . A cat fish and a couple platies and shrimp or two. And live plants.
Hi Corey. I have hair algae and have had it since I set my planted tank up, it has been about 2 months. I haven't ever dosed ferts and the plants are growing slowly. Should I dose ferts even if I have hair algae. I have tried a lot to get rid of the algae and manually remove it once a week with my water change. What should I do? Thanks in advance.
I’m planning on having a tank with guppies and some other live bearers, and if they do breed, how do I prevent inbreeding with the fry that will eventually be full grown
Separation is the only way. You’ll need to separate the fry from each other as soon as they can be sexed- at about one month old, they can begin breeding as young as three months of age
So their are little white specs in the tank with one female and two males and one fish thats going to go live with the turtles. So are the white specs just poop or whatever or is it brine shrimp?
I enjoy so many of your videos. thank you for them. I notice however that you often run your sponge filters with clear chimney removed. Why do you do that? I sort of like to leave them on so that they "suck" better.
I have some western mosquitofish I don't really need anyway I can send them to you? One just had fry and theirs about 15 or so and I don't really want them.
How often do you have to freshen your stock? I'm looking to get a platy colony going, but I don't want to run into genetic issues. Though, as long as I selectively breed them, do you think I will have issues?
What kind of gups were those? Red bronze? Albino full reds? Flamingos? I have female guppies that look like those and they had fry which are about a month old now and the males are just blonde/bronze with red tails as well but not full red...
Hey Cory can you get or know where I can buy this:Rainbow Belly Pipefish Microphis deocata ?Would want a colony to breed and need lead time to set up tank.Bret
The wet spot tropical fish brings them in. I've kept them before, and a friend of mine was breeding them. They are just so labor intensive with live food every day.
Cory I got a bone to pick with you.... your easy green should come with a warning label.. I got to many plants that I don't know what to do with them... lol... love your easy green....
I think I fairly warn people. I tell people in every video I talk about plants, how plants grow too fast and are a hassle. This is why I don't do big aquascaped tanks because if you do it right, it's always pruning. :P
sir, what are the bad effects of line breeding/inbreeding?? i read some that line breeding is not that good as it will amplify mutations?? something like that.. any idea? thanks
I really like these fishroom videos. Lately I don't have so much time to watch your live stream videos (I can't watch them live - I'm from Europe) so I preffer shorter, more 'action' videos :) Have a nice day.
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Do u need live plants to breed neon tetras or can u use artificial
I would love to spend a day in a fish room like that...I probably would never leave...i didn't want your video to end
Loved this! I know it's from 5 yrs ago but you answered the questions I had about guppy breeding strains etc. I'm most interested in breeding fancy guppies... among other things 😉
I'm inhaling all the info I can on small, like 2-tank breeding operations with guppies and basically whatever will go with guppies. Including plants. I'm lining things up slowly. Very slowly. I'm trying to be patient and not spend much money because my husband is already not thrilled with having TWO tanks 😅😅😅🤷♀️😊 so I'm gonna make the most of it.
I'm running 2 Aquarium co-op filters in a 50-gallon with a bunch of cories and guppies and a pleco, a bunch of annubias, buce, swords, crypts, java windelov, java moss, jungle val... all slowly growing in, as well as a synodontis that will be moving soon lol. Love it, but it's eating my fry 😋
My other is a 29g planted with hairgrass, water sprite (?), java moss, and windelov and a nice cave. I have wood and rock and sand in both tanks. I can't decide what I want to do in the 29g. I can't decide if I'm going to move the guppies to the 29g. Lmao 😅
Forgive me. I digress. 😅
Carry on! While I go inhale more content!!!
Lol. How did you convince your hubs of a second tank? I had to argue long and hard why I needed a 10 gallon just for quarantine and I think he'd kill me if I just kept it set up on the breakfast bar. Lol. I've been trying to convince him to let me get fish for years and he finally caved. Lol.
Love these videos. Want me and my 8 year old to start keeping Guppies. Slow setup but I want him to understand each step in the process of it all instead of just slapping it all together quickly. Thanks for all these great videos to learn from.
From now on, I'm going to use the metaphor "he/she has gone to live with the turtles".
haha best thing ever
Vicki K mine go to the "crawfish tank" to retire
Yep!!😂 Gone to live with the Turtles is awesome!
My uncle tells me he’s gonna send me to live with the turtles 😔
Must be a fish guy!
Gg
You know I used to not mind duckweed but it becomes a pain in the ass when your trying to sort stuff out.
I never knew my plain hobby of fish breeding can turn into a little bit of a Fish Reich.
Rick Sanchez hiel Ze goopy
My first thought after he said “Gotta keep the genes pure! Ho ho ho!”
Hi from Auatralia Cory, I just love the way you get to the point, hate listening to people that just woft on.. Thank you for all you do, you are such a hard worker, Regards Annemieke
😄 The Cory Fishroom and Hobbyists style videos are back!!!! Absolutely. .... These kind of videos you do I could watch for hours👍👍👍
...hopefully you got the Guppy Cull to the turtles.
👍 Love how you are showing people culling...its the most important thing about breeding.
Ditto to what ShortNanxious said!
ShortNanxious it's kill not cull
Culling out of the breeding group means to remove it from the group...how you do it is up to you.
Like ShortNAnxious said, I don't typically kill my guppies, I remove them from the group and keep them with say turtles, or even just another aquarium depending on what was wrong with them.
can you give me some guppies of yours? i realy love guppies.here in philippines gupies are cross breed with native guppies.
What do I like about your video, everything from the start to the finish ! Living vicariously through you!
Your picking technique makes since and you made it easy to understand.
I get excited when I find new babies too rather Guppy or Cory cats
Can't wait till you start selling online !!
What type of moss is in that tank at 12:45? Looks great!
Great!
I want a colony too!
Thumbs up Cory!
Year of the livebeaers! Thanks for sharing your cull process. I'm hoping to try guppies this spring outside as a side project to learn more about genetics.
How often would you cull?
Loving these videos a lot Cory! I "accidentally" breed goldfish as a kid and nothing much happened with it. It's cool to see the work you are supposed to put into it when you are trying to do something. I think it'll be helpful when I play with Angels this year.
Good luck with the angels :)
Love Guppies but until I cleaned my small power head (going to get bubble sponges next week), I never realised how playful Minnos are. Lovely little fish, swimming against the tide and driving into the bubbles it makes.
Great video - lots of good instruction on picking out breeding stock. Nice lil pleco babies.
I really enjoyed this video, the whole process of selecting the fish, finding the traits you want to breed, to get the strain you want is very informative and fascinating. Would really enjoy more videos like this
You are so helpful and honest as well as relatable!
Great video Cory. I really am enjoying your guppy videos. I've kept many different fish in the past but I've just recently gotten into guppies because they are really fun to watch and breed. My main focus is on the albino koi guppy strain and I'm trying to fill my approximately 140gallon tank with them. Started of with 5 females and 5 males. It'll take some time to fill the tank up but I just got a female that gave birth to 20 fry so I'm looking forward to it.
Keep up the great work!
+CW Aquariums nice, reminds me I need to check and see if I won the aquabid auction for some of those.
Congrats on winning those Koi's Cory! Hope to see more of them in upcoming videos. Maybe one day I'll send you videos of my tanks so that you and your viewers can check them out :)
love it when you talk about live-bearers I do mostly mollies but thinking of getting into fancy guppies
cyprichromis and tropheus are a classic pair, they'll make short work of the algae in the cyp tank if you've considered that whilst growing them out
This is an awesome video showing how you separate guppies. Now I have a better view as to how I'm going to choose guppies to breed. Thanks for the video cory!
Check out another video with 5 strains of guppies I brought in! Don't forget to subscribe. th-cam.com/video/V5m6U7Lxm-I/w-d-xo.html
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What did I like about this episode? I liked everything, I like the dwarf cichlids (at least I think that's what they are). Also congrats on the baby plecos!
Lol almost make it sound like some fairytale land "gotta catch this so it can go and visit the turtles" I love it haha
To be fair, most of my culls live out their lives with the turtles. I keep the turtles well fed enough that they are too lazy to hunt really. At least the mini musks. The larger turtles for sure will eat stuff.
@@AquariumCoop they dont have an appetite for guppy?
"Needs to visit the turtles" omg 😂
Love this video Cory! Interesting to see your process and how you "grade" fish so to speak.
I always enjoy watching your videos. I started up three 15 gallon tanks because of you! Can't wait to put some neocaridinas in soon.
Great insight Cory, I liked how you went over your selection process. Thanks for sharing!
I'm so glad this video popped up. New to fish keeping. My guppies I bought were pregnant and now I have babies but I can't wait to breed some on purpose lol.
Do you sell any white platinum dumbo ear betta plaketts??
That's a long name haha!
+Danny's Aquariums we don't have pure white ones.
Enjoyed your video and how you share your love and knowelege of fish. I am just beginning my journey with my fancy guppies. Love them. I agree spend some time with your fish. Just noticed we have some babies. Yipee!
love these videos, all have been very helpful with what direction i should go with my tank. I will be stopping by your store on saturday and im excited to see it in person!!
Awesome, I'll only be around a bit on Saturday. I have to do an airport run in the morning and deliver plants etc. Maybe I"ll see ya.
I love the red guppies!
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I know this is late in coming, but i really enjoy your "real life" style here. I watch a lot of your stuff, and rather enjoy watching you just go about it, rather than try to stick to a theme. Also, the water trail is all to real, lol!!
My Female Guppie Has Babies right now She has had two Batches
I enjoyed the video very much! Love seeing another persons fish room! Great job on breeding the Plecos! Glad I found your channel!
Welcome Aboard.
Hey Aquarium Co-op, just an idea as I have not yet had too much experience with it, try getting split peas and grinding them into a powder? It's good for helping relieve fish of some swimbladder issues, as well as bloat and constipation in fish.
I didn't see this coming, but this year for the first time in 45 years I have Guppies! I didn't see the excitement and attachment I feel coming from them. I just got extra fancy Guppies, whatever that means and because I could I went with these gorgeous yellow fish. They are happy go lucky Guppies, like my dog who I call the High Speed Optomist. Jazz loves to come check them out, so do I LOL.
All of this stuff that is trying to kill me, is getting put in the back seat and for the first time in two years, I feel optimistic.
I enjoy any content you make Cory, I just like you as a person. Also congrats on the baby plecos.
Thank you so much for posting all of these videos. They have been very helpful so far, and I'll look forward to watching more in the future!
Any follow up video or a new similar selective colony breeding project of guppies?
great, greetings from Borneo Balikpapan, thank you for the knowledge, always success
Ever thought of getting an hrv/erv for the humidity? I noticed with the dehumidifiers your meter was still hitting 60%.
+Ben I have, but my research shows me it'll be less efficient than what I'm currently doing. The problem is when I shoot videos and put water on the floor. The humidity rises. However yesterday when not filming and working humidity was 35%
Would you say that Cyprichromis sell well enough to be a good fish to breed for profit?
No, in general they are a very hard to sell fish.
Are you able to recycle the water that is collected from the dehumidifier back into usable fish water?
I don't as it's too acidic, and can contain metals in it from the coils.
Aquarium Co-Op - I didn't think about the coils. If they are copper or some alloy I can see where it may be a problem. However if they were stainless steel maybe not. Either way, Thanks for the reply. :)
Got a female with mostly black tail with a faint gold snakeskin in the middle and 2 males with black borders on the tails with a mix of yellow orange and blue in the middle and body hoping te fry comes out nicely
And a hundred odd in a barrel outside plus some in family's tanks to mix and match colour and bloodlines am aiming for a nice dark body and fins color on a female and try for blue and gold snakeskin on a black background for male
Thanks for such great information Cory. My goal is to have a shop Etsy one day after I get my license filled with my favourite fish ☺️
Hi what filter are you using. I have a large bowl aquarium and need a filter that rests on the gravel like you have..thanks
been watching your videos for a while and for some reason just subscribed. love your videos man
Algae is food for babies!
I thought so!
Thank you Corey.
Best fish in the hobby! Beautiful and cheap. I can make a living from the sale of guppy’s. If you have a lot of aquariums you can make a lot of money with them.
Sir do you use breeder box to albino red guppy?
Cory, another great video. Thanks for sharing.
ahhhh....this is the style of vid I enjoy just mucking in the fish room!!!!
Do the benefits of Duckweed outweight the mess of it? I have been using it in my shrimp tanks, but it is such a headache.
I have a 5 gallon tank. I’m going to set it up and let it set got a week. How many fish should I have? I was thinking of a couple guppy’s , 3 neons . A cat fish and a couple platies and shrimp or two. And live plants.
If i were to get a more expencive strain should i get only one pair or trio and slowly work up to more using the fry and stuff
Hi Corey. I have hair algae and have had it since I set my planted tank up, it has been about 2 months. I haven't ever dosed ferts and the plants are growing slowly. Should I dose ferts even if I have hair algae. I have tried a lot to get rid of the algae and manually remove it once a week with my water change. What should I do?
Thanks in advance.
Helpful information. Can you build a good colony with other fish species in the thank?
Very cool vid. I’d like to see how you choose other fish for breeding as well. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Hi, would a betta eat 1cm guppy fry? I want something to take care of fry with bent backs. Thanks!
+Lisa C possibly, a larger fish would probably be better suited for the task.
Thank you! Do you have any suggestions? Something that can live in its own 5 gal or under tank
Hi following you straight from the Middle East Israel you are a champion you can explain what the white pipes in the water of the aquarium mean
What is the best fish or invertebrate, that can go in a community tank, with Sakura Cherry Shrimp, you have found that can get rid of hair Algae.
Amono shrimp
i know i’m late but definitely nerite snails
Congratulations on the babies
I’m planning on having a tank with guppies and some other live bearers, and if they do breed, how do I prevent inbreeding with the fry that will eventually be full grown
Don't worry about it, you won't see any negative impact of inbreeding until 7+ generations
Separation is the only way. You’ll need to separate the fry from each other as soon as they can be sexed- at about one month old, they can begin breeding as young as three months of age
The best way to get rid of duckweed is the Ehiem surface skimmer. Any surface skimmers that are work like this one are duckweed vacuums.
Hi i please would like to know what is your opinion on breeding boxes for guppies
I personally am not a big fan of them, I find it puts stress on the females. For raising fry it cna be ok.
I miss this fish room.
We need more Guppy Videos! Really enjoyed the video. Also, how has the aggression been with the Tropheus?
No problems with aggression that i've seen.
So their are little white specs in the tank with one female and two males and one fish thats going to go live with the turtles. So are the white specs just poop or whatever or is it brine shrimp?
You should try to add some more plants like hornwort to those tanks with the algae to out compete it.
can u make a video about culling pure strain guppies..i have a platinum albino pair and i want the line to be beautiful and strong
So you remove the traits youd on't like and leave the traits you do like in. Same concept as what I've done here.
I would really like to check out your fish room. I just have a few fry there coming along great not real sure what there colors will be
Do you put the females and males together right away
Can you show how the rainbow tiger endlers and new strains of guppies are doing?
+D-Trolla Mazta I have an update on those on twitter at the moment.
Love the cyprichromis tank. One thing I've learned about having them the last year and a half is they require a lot of patience.
+Tyler Akers all fish require patience really. The one thing in this hobby you can't buy your way through really.
I enjoy so many of your videos. thank you for them. I notice however that you often run your sponge filters with clear chimney removed. Why do you do that? I sort of like to leave them on so that they "suck" better.
It slows down maintenance, and causes people to ask if fish/snails etc are stuck in the tubes.
Thank you. Very interesting
Nice !!! I'm planning for more guppies breeding like u !!! And as before plz make videos on how to breed betas
Nice on the pleco fry!! I'll have to try your method for selectively breeding your guppy colony
i can see you using lot of pump filters i wanna buy some, are they better from other filters?
Great information! Could you do some videos on Gourami setups, different breeds, breeding, good tank mates, etc? Thanks!
I have some fancy guppies that I will breed this year hopefully they turn out nice
I have some western mosquitofish I don't really need anyway I can send them to you? One just had fry and theirs about 15 or so and I don't really want them.
No, they are illegal in my state.
Your video help's me a lot breeding my guppies ☺
do you sell and ship the ones you dont breed? looking to start a gpuuy tank but dont really care about pure blood lines
How often do you have to freshen your stock? I'm looking to get a platy colony going, but I don't want to run into genetic issues. Though, as long as I selectively breed them, do you think I will have issues?
What kind of gups were those? Red bronze? Albino full reds? Flamingos? I have female guppies that look like those and they had fry which are about a month old now and the males are just blonde/bronze with red tails as well but not full red...
What are those containers the guppies are in? They would be so useful!
+CamzoIslandz specimen containers meant for fish stores.
how do you keep your duckweed from ending up in your HOB or other filter? Any video? Also, can you do a video on how you clean you UG filter?
Use an intake sponge on the hang on back, and no video specifically cleaning under gravel filters.
What relative humidity do you try keeping the fish room under?
Under 55%
Hey Cory can you get or know where I can buy this:Rainbow Belly Pipefish Microphis deocata ?Would want a colony to breed and need lead time to set up tank.Bret
The wet spot tropical fish brings them in. I've kept them before, and a friend of mine was breeding them. They are just so labor intensive with live food every day.
Cory I got a bone to pick with you.... your easy green should come with a warning label.. I got to many plants that I don't know what to do with them... lol... love your easy green....
I think I fairly warn people. I tell people in every video I talk about plants, how plants grow too fast and are a hassle. This is why I don't do big aquascaped tanks because if you do it right, it's always pruning. :P
Can you make a video about moving to a new place and changing to a bigger tank please and thank you
sir, what are the bad effects of line breeding/inbreeding?? i read some that line breeding is not that good as it will amplify mutations?? something like that.. any idea? thanks
The fish at the 14:22 mark, what are those???
How in the heck do you get your energy lo do all your business, videos, OMGoodness gracious, great balls of 🔥🔥🔥
I really like these fishroom videos. Lately I don't have so much time to watch your live stream videos (I can't watch them live - I'm from Europe) so I preffer shorter, more 'action' videos :) Have a nice day.