Hey Cory i would love to help these guys in anyway I can. I know you have the out reach so if you know of a good way please let us know. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to help with this tragedy
@@franciscolara2367 Right! Watching all 3 of these, anytime I heard "this one might be completely wiped" in my head I'm like, someone who got that species/variety from him in the past better hook him UP!
@@goliadfarms7029 I hope you don't get too tired of it! You raise amazing fish. I wish you and you're company all the luck in the world to rebuild from this mess!
Thank you. After every disaster we adjust what we do. I'm working on (meaning I've yet to start, but have thought about it) a rather long blog describing in detail what happened, what worked and what didn't. Charles
Feel so sorry for your losses... what a nice setup you have there, I hope your production will bounce back rapidly to the level you had... It's tough to see what you are going through. Actually even if I live in an area where -10 to -30°C is the norm during winter (4°F to - 22°F), surviving an electric failure during a winter storm without enough generator power to support heating and aerating my >100 tanks/drums is my worst nightmare (as long as "only" fish are concerned!)... it happen 1-2 times a year but I can't get use to it even if I have a contingency plan in place involving friends, propane, batteries, thermal bubble wrap and several generators... and very little sleep. I'll keep looking for updates hoping to see good news.... Good luck
Thank you. We plan to do daily status videos, conditions allowing. We definitely experienced the lack of sleep! Our contingency plans failed as the State of Texas failed to keep our grid working. I'm working on a post-mortem blog about what happened to us. Charles
I really hope you guys have a fast recovery from this and you continue to grow and teach us more about these beautiful fish. Thank you for all the wisdom.
I’m so sorry that a natural disaster was so hard on your farm. I did enjoy this video, and you others because you talk through what you’re doing and what you’re looking at, and learned quite a bit. Thank you for sharing.
Heartbreaking. I hope to see mollies and najas grass on the website before long. I fell in love with your farm when I first watched the video from Cory at aquarium coop. He describes you as (my words, not his) the hold my beer of the fish world. I have been waiting to order from you until after my 55 gallon tank was ready.
Thank you for watching. We are recovering as subsequent videos show. We will be listing Najas shortly. The mollies will take a few more months. By the way, it seems Cory and Aquarium Co-op will be visiting us in October. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I’m anxiously awaiting that video. From the first moment I saw your drainage system and the black mangroves filtering the sump water, I knew I had found the greenhouse of my dreams. I will be moving in two years, and I hope to have enough left from the sale of my house and the next purchase to build a greenhouse much on the same design, but I would use kratom trees (mitragyna speciosa) in the same way as your mangrove.
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 Mitragyna speciosa sounds like an interesting choice and should also provide revenues. If there is any way I can help, let me know. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Until about two years ago, everything we knew about Mitragyna Speciosa indicated that it was a tropical evergreen tree. This might be true in summer specs, but only because every tree in the tropics is an evergreen. It’s actually deciduous, and grows just fine outside a tropical climate, but it much prefers the heat and humidity that a greenhouse would provide. I had numerous trees growing in small containers of my house, but I had to reduce it to one plant because of size restrictions. I wasn’t expecting my indoor makeshift greenhouse to make their growth explode like it did. I had individual leaves on the trees bigger than my head, but the growth was not sustainable indoors. I appreciate your time and feedback.
So sorry for your loss. I am not getting ads when watching your videos. Hopefully you can monetize your channel so that you can get some ad money from all of us watching your progress cleaning up.
I follow Aquarium co-op and as soon as I’m looking to add more stock to my aquariums I’m coming to you and ordering You take such care of your fish I’m glad they shared your video so we can follow you
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been great! We will be offering fish once we complete inventorying and rebuilding breeding colonies. We are making progress. See later videos. Charles
“I’m going to see if Stormy drowned herself yet” 🤣Haven’t lost his sense of humor after a loss like this. Good guy a wise guy ehhh lol... God bless you.
@@goliadfarms7029 Perseverance and persistence are key to success in anything we do! Please remember you are appreciate by us hobbyist. I also found it interesting about the mollies with latipinna gentetics were able to survive. I hope you are able to keep your mollies breeding!
Im confident you will bounce back, you're knowledge and systems are amazing. Definitely will be staying tuned in. Some catastrophes are unfortunately part of nature.
So sorry for the loss. This is truly heartbreaking to see. God bless, I’ll be saying a few prayers for you and the fellow Texans that have lost so much! Keep us updated and if anyone starts a go fund me please tag me so I can help share it also.
We've had lots of requests for a GoFundMe, so we set one up today. Here's the link: gf.me/u/zkkazc The overwhelming outpouring of support from the fish community has been humbling and so appreciated. I checked out your channel and subscribed. Thank you in advance for sharing our GoFundMe!
What a shame, hope to see you guys come back from this stronger then ever. That video Corey did with you was amazing. Seeing what you had going on there with wild fish swimming around in the floor blew me away. God Bless you all.
Please make sure you are taking care of yourself. I know how easy it is to forget to do that. Especially at a time like this. It will get better. As a small business owner I absolutely understand putting your heart and soul into your business. It is a labor of love. One day at a time. Better days are ahead. Keep going. 😊
Thank you. We are making progress and Susie and I have taken some time to visit with family and friends for mental health purposes. By the way, both of us have had our second COVID-19 vaccination. Charles
well....I can see that your dog will be helping to clean up the casualties (3:12) Hope your losses don't prove too devastating once you are able to clean up and get a good assessment. Hang in there !
We will recover. We've mostly finished removal of dead fish and have shifted to inventorying survivors. We've had some good news on that front as subsequent videos show. Charles
Buzzard and vulture numbers are hurting all over the world. Bless your heart for helping them out. They are beautiful birds and crucial for the ecosystem.
We appreciate them. Around here there are three species (black vultures, turkey vultures, and Mexican eagles) that scavenge dead animals, rapidly cleaning up road kill. Charles
In a town called Makanda located in Southern Illinois There is a vulture fest every year. It's full of arts and crafts and wonderful people that's still remain 😊🥂.
@@goliadfarms7029 Do you think this would work with fish such as hillstream loaches or other Garra type of fish That require fast moving water? Somehow I think maybe air stones are best for these or maybe a higher flow rate? Do you think that you could ever possibly breed any loach or Panda Garra type on the farm there in Texas? Some of these are very difficult and are mostly imported. Those feeder guppies breed in every tank here 😭.. My fish were supposed to eat them 😭.. I see you more as a epic level hobbyist more than a commercial fish farmer.
Everytime you say dead convict my heart throbs, nothing like your losses I only had 8 tanks. All dead except for my convicts which i managed to get home from work in time on day 3 to see them on life support I had to start heating the tank with candles like back in the old days. Only thing that saved em.
I'm glad you saved some fish. So far it looks like we'll be able to rebuild most of our breeding colonies. So far, unfortunately, we've found no live Convicts. Charles
Heating with candles = beast mode. How did you aerate the water? I imagine simply scooping water out and slowly pouring it back in like an hourglass dripping would aerate it some as well. Drip aeration perhaps?
Yes, they are Rubbermaid. A word of caution: 40% have developed cracks at the same place, usually after the warranty period. There are no adhesives that work on them, including some heavily advertised ones. The only solution is welding them with their own material harvested from under the top rim. We plan to do an instructional video showing the welding process since we have a few needing repair. Charles
My losses aren't as large in size as yours, but I sometimes use them as chum/bait for fishing. When I was breeding convicts left and right, any deforms made great Snook bait. It is what it is, circle of life
I'm hoping to get some of our Vieja from a customer who just got a bunch of them. All of ours are descended from a pet male a daughter gave to me years ago. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 my original made an amazing tank boss between the Jaguar and Convict pairs. Jaguar loved to raid Convict nests, Vieja seemed like he was trying to stop that from happening. I'm in FL, and there's a guy around Tampa that has a pond with 40-50 mature Vieja...its quite a sight when he feeds
@@chris6054 I don't know why I didn't see your message until now. Vieja are large, impressive fish. I'm still holding out hope we have a surviving pair in one of the sumps. Charles
So sad! I heard from 3 other big fish breeders I know who lost everything out there also but with not living there, one never known the extent. It was devastating indeed without question. I am so very sorry.
Some retail shops lost everything. We will recover since it seems at least some of our breederes have survived. See later videos for some of the good news. Charles
I’m so sorry for all your losses I’m in California so I couldn’t even imagine what everyone in Texas is going through it’s heartbreaking and infuriating to see their wasn’t better planning and help from the government in Texas it’s almost like they don’t want to help. I know the fishing community will come together to help more.
Are your referring to the 300-gallon vats? If so, we want water to flow out of them and have holes drilled to keep the water at the right level. The vats do sometimes crack and require welding to repair (no adhesives work long on these vats). Carl and Stormy will do a video on repairing the vats soon. If I didn't answer the right question, let me know and I'll try again, Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I was looking on marketplace and saw some 300 gallon vats for $50 each. If you are good at welding such a thing they would probably be worth it. If you do any welding of these that would be a great video edition for your channel I think. Also do you recommend the giant Rubbermaid plastic or do you think the galvanized is good to go with? I'm thinking that some rust would form on the galvanized and might jeopardize the stock so I'm thinking you've already thought this through. Also is Rubbermaid the best one you can get? Or is that the cheapest one that you don't want 😂? Cheers!
@@pullbackbaby We'll be in the market for more 300-gallon vats when we rebuild Greenhouse 3. We have a video of welding the vats that Carl needs to edit and post. I've kept fish in galvanized tanks in the past successfully. I recommend filling and emptying them several times if they are new before adding fish. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thank you. Perhaps the plastic type don't have as dramatic temperature swings that metal vats could. Also welding cracks will be easier with plastic. Looking forward to seeing the video. Thank you ❤️
I seem to remember that Susie calculated the tots; loss at wholesale pricing plus breeding stock to be over $500,000. I also don't remember how many tractor-bucket loads we took out. Charles
@@reggieb1963 Disasters come with the territory. We've survived two hurricanes, the Texas Winter Storm, a derecho, and 2023's horribly hot summer. You pick up the pieces and continue. Charles
We don't have a good way of treating an individual fish. I could dump in a lot of malachite green to help, but I don't want to stress our Nitrosomas bacterial colonies at this time. We need them to help control ammonia. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I hope so much that all will be well for you and them soon and that everything will return to normal and it will be just a bad memory of the past. at least for the fishes that passed away, you gave them beautiful life whit a lot of plants, friends and all what they needed they had happy life’s that’s what matter
Boy! I get upset when a heater sticks and wipes out a tank. I can only imagine! I'd offer to come down and help but don't think that you would want a visually impaired blind guy down there helping lol
Thank you and thank the internet for translation. I once spoke at a club in Montreal and was amazed how people so easily switched languages. I only speak Texan. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 tank to written me sorry my english from french men near montreal i am big fan... i hope all you fish will survive hi check all you vidéo very cool to show us all the tragedi
Itu ikan nya banyak yg mati karena didalam kolam terlalu banyak lumut dan ganggang, sehingga ikan susah bergerak bebas. Apa lagi kalau ikan nya dah besar susah bergerak.
We are on the road to recovery. We just started processing the first breeding colonies that we rebuilt in late February. We are getting good reproduction. Charles
I feel terrible for yall. If you need anything and I can help you, please let me know. Have faith and look at this as an opportunity to make changes in things you may have wanted to before and couldn't. Things will get better hang in there.
I was thinking a little further if you were going to heat four of the 300 gallon tubs during an emergency and had to run through and scoop up fish the best placement would be 2/5 of the way in and 4/5. Probably painting those emergency time stock tanks red or a different color partially at least. Also the ones most at risk should be closer to those tanks. These are just ideas and pondering. I don't know how you would be able to heat such a thing with less than 3 to 500 watts per tank. 🙏
At the end of the day it's not about the insurance money It's about the living artwork you create and how beautiful it becomes and watching it all die right before your eyes that has to hurt the most. 🙏
We plan to add a large compost heater to raise wintertime temperatures, but that'll have wait until next year. Fortunately, it appears this will be a warm winter. Also, we have a new, larger propane tank, so we should be able to run a generator and heat at the same time. Charles
I can't even watch these videos anymore , it's heart breaking. I hope African cichlid breeders help these folks out and donate some fish to them, to help them get back on there feet. I just have L# plecos , if I was still breeding cichlids I would definitely help out.
Why dont you try to tranfer here in the philippines specialy in our city we dont experince any storm in our city and we have affordable farm lot here. Im a cichlid lover too i would like to help you for your cichlid farm.
@@goliadfarms7029 no we dont have that here specialy in mindanao area were safe here from any storm. But in visayas and luzon region is prone to heavy rains and floods. And our prevoiuse presindent live in mindanao.😊
wow I was way off. didnt look like a bird eater from the pic to me. although I'm no pro with Ts. sure miss keeping them though. gotta love a hissing hair kicker.
@@dprofessor3238 I do remember that from keeping the murinus. although the Pterinochilus surprisingly was always out waiting to whip my ass. lol. mean little old world. damnit. I need to get back Into keeping. do you breed and sell? SELL ME SOMMMMEEE
They were killed by low temperatures. We had six days of no sun and sub-freezing temperatures. The Texas electric grid failed causing lengthy power outages. We have a generator, but our propane company couldn't deliver propane due to shortages caused by frozen natural gas lines. We were unable to heat and run the generator to keep our water pumps running at the same time,
So many pristine bloodlines. Hopefully you can recover most of it. I keep alot of different reptiles and when stuff like this happens my heart breaks for all the people who put so much hard work into keeping anylind of animals.
There are many safe places around here, although we have lots of venomous snakes. See my blogs about them: goliadfarms.com/still-a-busy-rattlesnake-year/. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 not afraid of snakes I'm afraid of what's said in the news people around the country are upset and I really just want to support my family
The biggest problem is removing all the death from all the cages and water, dead fish and water is not good combination for healthy fish, that allot of work to catch up on., hectic to see so much death in one place..
I can't get a good translation, but I think you were asking about tilapia. We don't raise tilapia. Texas considers them invasive and requires a permit to possess them. Charles
Very knowledgeable guy seems like a really nice person but how dose those green houses pass inspection. Just remember its in Texas. The government leaves you alone down there
The buzzards do a remarkable job of disposal. Carl and Stormy have sensitive noses and can't handle the smell. I think there will be a funy video posted about that soon. Charles
Geeez..., this is devistating. Must be a massive financial hit to a breeder of this calibre. I am devistated when I loose just one of my prize fish..., let alone thousands.
We are leaving in as much plant as possible, including the obnoxious duckweed, to control ammonia. Ammonia levels continue to drop and are below toxic levels now. Charles
Sad to see this happen. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.
@@charliechoo73 so did I its sad this happened
I saw that video as well and remember the houses from it. This has to be overwhelming. God Bless.
Hey Cory i would love to help these guys in anyway I can. I know you have the out reach so if you know of a good way please let us know. I’m sure there are plenty of people who would love to help with this tragedy
The aquarium community is huge, and there are a lot of breeders out there
Hopefully enough people come together to help this man out
@@franciscolara2367 Right! Watching all 3 of these, anytime I heard "this one might be completely wiped" in my head I'm like, someone who got that species/variety from him in the past better hook him UP!
This is devastating, I've been following your channel since Aquarium Co Op did a video with you. I hope you recover quickly, what a kick in the gut.
Thank you. Raising anything can be risky, but we are getting a tired of crises.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I hope you don't get too tired of it! You raise amazing fish. I wish you and you're company all the luck in the world to rebuild from this mess!
@@24681359David Thank you. We are working on recovery.
Charles
So sorry guys. Like Ste Hughes I have been following since Co-op vid. I hope you bounce back stronger than ever.
Thank you. After every disaster we adjust what we do. I'm working on (meaning I've yet to start, but have thought about it) a rather long blog describing in detail what happened, what worked and what didn't.
Charles
Sorry for all the losses, great that you’re helping your local wildlife though.
Our carrion eating birds are very appreciative. I watched a Mexican Eagle fly over the house this morning early with a fish in its beak.
Charles
Feel so sorry for your losses... what a nice setup you have there, I hope your production will bounce back rapidly to the level you had...
It's tough to see what you are going through. Actually even if I live in an area where -10 to -30°C is the norm during winter (4°F to - 22°F), surviving an electric failure during a winter storm without enough generator power to support heating and aerating my >100 tanks/drums is my worst nightmare (as long as "only" fish are concerned!)... it happen 1-2 times a year but I can't get use to it even if I have a contingency plan in place involving friends, propane, batteries, thermal bubble wrap and several generators... and very little sleep.
I'll keep looking for updates hoping to see good news....
Good luck
Thank you. We plan to do daily status videos, conditions allowing. We definitely experienced the lack of sleep! Our contingency plans failed as the State of Texas failed to keep our grid working. I'm working on a post-mortem blog about what happened to us.
Charles
Please share more videos like this one. If you can, take us through the whole process.
We are doing at least a video a day to chronicle our recovery.
Charles
I really hope you guys have a fast recovery from this and you continue to grow and teach us more about these beautiful fish. Thank you for all the wisdom.
Thank you. I look forward to doing educational videos after we finish inventorying survivors.
Charles
I’m so sorry that a natural disaster was so hard on your farm. I did enjoy this video, and you others because you talk through what you’re doing and what you’re looking at, and learned quite a bit. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. We hope to shift toward informational videos as much as possible.
Charles
Heartbreaking. I hope to see mollies and najas grass on the website before long. I fell in love with your farm when I first watched the video from Cory at aquarium coop. He describes you as (my words, not his) the hold my beer of the fish world.
I have been waiting to order from you until after my 55 gallon tank was ready.
Thank you for watching. We are recovering as subsequent videos show. We will be listing Najas shortly. The mollies will take a few more months.
By the way, it seems Cory and Aquarium Co-op will be visiting us in October.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I’m anxiously awaiting that video. From the first moment I saw your drainage system and the black mangroves filtering the sump water, I knew I had found the greenhouse of my dreams. I will be moving in two years, and I hope to have enough left from the sale of my house and the next purchase to build a greenhouse much on the same design, but I would use kratom trees (mitragyna speciosa) in the same way as your mangrove.
@@liquidrockaquatics3900 Mitragyna speciosa sounds like an interesting choice and should also provide revenues. If there is any way I can help, let me know.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Until about two years ago, everything we knew about Mitragyna Speciosa indicated that it was a tropical evergreen tree. This might be true in summer specs, but only because every tree in the tropics is an evergreen. It’s actually deciduous, and grows just fine outside a tropical climate, but it much prefers the heat and humidity that a greenhouse would provide. I had numerous trees growing in small containers of my house, but I had to reduce it to one plant because of size restrictions. I wasn’t expecting my indoor makeshift greenhouse to make their growth explode like it did. I had individual leaves on the trees bigger than my head, but the growth was not sustainable indoors. I appreciate your time and feedback.
So sorry for your loss. I am not getting ads when watching your videos. Hopefully you can monetize your channel so that you can get some ad money from all of us watching your progress cleaning up.
We have since been monetized by TH-cam. I apologize for the ads.
Charles
I follow Aquarium co-op and as soon as I’m looking to add more stock to my aquariums I’m coming to you and ordering
You take such care of your fish
I’m glad they shared your video so we can follow you
Thank you. Cory and @aquariumcoop have been great! We will be offering fish once we complete inventorying and rebuilding breeding colonies. We are making progress. See later videos.
Charles
“I’m going to see if Stormy drowned herself yet”
🤣Haven’t lost his sense of humor after a loss like this. Good guy a wise guy ehhh lol... God bless you.
If you can't laugh, you'd have to cry.
Charles
I'll be ready to make an order when you guys are back on your feet. You're so tough! I'm so sorry for your loss.
Thank you. We'll begin to offer fish again after we finish inventorying and rebuilding breeding colonies.
Charles
Thanks for sharing the process of cleaning up and rebuilding.
I look forward to finishing recovery so I can talk about fish breeding.
Charles
I know you guys will rebuild! Truly a fan of your work!
Thank you. Susie, wife and business manager, has resigned herself to my persistence (she calls it stubborness) and expects we will soldier on.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Perseverance and persistence are key to success in anything we do! Please remember you are appreciate by us hobbyist. I also found it interesting about the mollies with latipinna gentetics were able to survive. I hope you are able to keep your mollies breeding!
@@colorguppies I'm not sure why I didn't see your comment until now. We are getting fry now, so I think our mollies will be good.
Charles
Im confident you will bounce back, you're knowledge and systems are amazing. Definitely will be staying tuned in. Some catastrophes are unfortunately part of nature.
Thank you. Things are improving as later videos show.
Charles
So Sorry for Your Losses. So very sad. All the best for a speedy recovery.
Thank you.
Charles
So sorry for the loss. This is truly heartbreaking to see. God bless, I’ll be saying a few prayers for you and the fellow Texans that have lost so much! Keep us updated and if anyone starts a go fund me please tag me so I can help share it also.
We've had lots of requests for a GoFundMe, so we set one up today.
Here's the link: gf.me/u/zkkazc
The overwhelming outpouring of support from the fish community has been humbling and so appreciated.
I checked out your channel and subscribed.
Thank you in advance for sharing our GoFundMe!
What a shame, hope to see you guys come back from this stronger then ever. That video Corey did with you was amazing. Seeing what you had going on there with wild fish swimming around in the floor blew me away. God Bless you all.
Thank you. Cory and AquariumCo-Op have been great.
We are recovering as later videos show.
Charles
Please make sure you are taking care of yourself. I know how easy it is to forget to do that. Especially at a time like this. It will get better. As a small business owner I absolutely understand putting your heart and soul into your business. It is a labor of love. One day at a time. Better days are ahead. Keep going. 😊
Thank you. We are making progress and Susie and I have taken some time to visit with family and friends for mental health purposes. By the way, both of us have had our second COVID-19 vaccination.
Charles
well....I can see that your dog will be helping to clean up the casualties (3:12) Hope your losses don't prove too devastating once you are able to clean up and get a good assessment. Hang in there !
Oso and Maya love expensive sushi. We will recover.
Charles
This has to be such a soul destroying process to have to go through the devastation of your hard work hope that you can recover from this
We will recover. We've mostly finished removal of dead fish and have shifted to inventorying survivors. We've had some good news on that front as subsequent videos show.
Charles
Sorry to hear this has happened, and I like you am hopeful that there is enough stock left to continue on from here. Soldier on!
So far, early in the inventory process, we've found surviving breeders for all but two species.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 That's good to hear! Hopefully the same is for the other Greenhouse, and other vats.
@@MridulSinghMusic It appears we'll be able to rebuild breeding colonies of all but a few species or varieties.
Charles
Buzzard and vulture numbers are hurting all over the world. Bless your heart for helping them out. They are beautiful birds and crucial for the ecosystem.
We appreciate them. Around here there are three species (black vultures, turkey vultures, and Mexican eagles) that scavenge dead animals, rapidly cleaning up road kill.
Charles
In a town called Makanda located in Southern Illinois There is a vulture fest every year. It's full of arts and crafts and wonderful people that's still remain 😊🥂.
Interesting to hear about spending the energy on pumping water for air instead of airpumps. :)
We've found that even a trickle of flowing water is better than airstones.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Do you think this would work with fish such as hillstream loaches or other Garra type of fish That require fast moving water? Somehow I think maybe air stones are best for these or maybe a higher flow rate? Do you think that you could ever possibly breed any loach or Panda Garra type on the farm there in Texas? Some of these are very difficult and are mostly imported. Those feeder guppies breed in every tank here 😭.. My fish were supposed to eat them 😭..
I see you more as a epic level hobbyist more than a commercial fish farmer.
this is so devastating to see
im so sorry for your losses
hope u recover from it very soon
We will recover. Please watch later videos for some better news.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 good to know and yes i do watch your videos
Everytime you say dead convict my heart throbs, nothing like your losses I only had 8 tanks. All dead except for my convicts which i managed to get home from work in time on day 3 to see them on life support I had to start heating the tank with candles like back in the old days. Only thing that saved em.
I'm glad you saved some fish. So far it looks like we'll be able to rebuild most of our breeding colonies. So far, unfortunately, we've found no live Convicts.
Charles
Heating with candles = beast mode. How did you aerate the water? I imagine simply scooping water out and slowly pouring it back in like an hourglass dripping would aerate it some as well. Drip aeration perhaps?
So devastating, but I am looking forward to seeing more videos of your rebuilding process. I know that you will be back with a vengeance!
Thank you. We are working on it. We're doing another status video this evening.
Charles
How heartbreaking. I’m so sorry you took such losses.
Disasters happen. We will recover.
Charles
I am so sorry. This is heartbreaking.
Yes, but we are recovering as later videos show.
Charles
Have you thought about doing a one year overview video since it’s been a bit over a year since last year’s winter vortex?
Yes, and we are preparing to do one soon.
Charles
Are those 300 gallon rubbermaid tubs ?
Yes, they are Rubbermaid. A word of caution: 40% have developed cracks at the same place, usually after the warranty period. There are no adhesives that work on them, including some heavily advertised ones. The only solution is welding them with their own material harvested from under the top rim. We plan to do an instructional video showing the welding process since we have a few needing repair.
Charles
My losses aren't as large in size as yours, but I sometimes use them as chum/bait for fishing. When I was breeding convicts left and right, any deforms made great Snook bait. It is what it is, circle of life
Poor Viejas. I love my three. Definitely turning into my favorite cichlid species so far
I'm hoping to get some of our Vieja from a customer who just got a bunch of them. All of ours are descended from a pet male a daughter gave to me years ago.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 my original made an amazing tank boss between the Jaguar and Convict pairs. Jaguar loved to raid Convict nests, Vieja seemed like he was trying to stop that from happening. I'm in FL, and there's a guy around Tampa that has a pond with 40-50 mature Vieja...its quite a sight when he feeds
@@chris6054 I don't know why I didn't see your message until now. Vieja are large, impressive fish. I'm still holding out hope we have a surviving pair in one of the sumps.
Charles
So sad! I heard from 3 other big fish breeders I know who lost everything out there also but with not living there, one never known the extent. It was devastating indeed without question. I am so very sorry.
Some retail shops lost everything. We will recover since it seems at least some of our breederes have survived. See later videos for some of the good news.
Charles
Best wishes on rebuilding and my condolences on your losses.
Thank you.
Charles
I’m so sorry for all your losses I’m in California so I couldn’t even imagine what everyone in Texas is going through it’s heartbreaking and infuriating to see their wasn’t better planning and help from the government in Texas it’s almost like they don’t want to help. I know the fishing community will come together to help more.
Thank you. There are some Texas politicians who criticized Calfornia eating some crow these days.
Charles
Have you guys ever added a bulkhead to the rounded ends of your stock tanks? Curious if the plastic gave enough to get a water tight seal?
Are your referring to the 300-gallon vats? If so, we want water to flow out of them and have holes drilled to keep the water at the right level. The vats do sometimes crack and require welding to repair (no adhesives work long on these vats). Carl and Stormy will do a video on repairing the vats soon.
If I didn't answer the right question, let me know and I'll try again,
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I was looking on marketplace and saw some 300 gallon vats for $50 each. If you are good at welding such a thing they would probably be worth it. If you do any welding of these that would be a great video edition for your channel I think. Also do you recommend the giant Rubbermaid plastic or do you think the galvanized is good to go with? I'm thinking that some rust would form on the galvanized and might jeopardize the stock so I'm thinking you've already thought this through. Also is Rubbermaid the best one you can get? Or is that the cheapest one that you don't want 😂? Cheers!
@@pullbackbaby We'll be in the market for more 300-gallon vats when we rebuild Greenhouse 3. We have a video of welding the vats that Carl needs to edit and post.
I've kept fish in galvanized tanks in the past successfully. I recommend filling and emptying them several times if they are new before adding fish.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thank you. Perhaps the plastic type don't have as dramatic temperature swings that metal vats could. Also welding cracks will be easier with plastic. Looking forward to seeing the video. Thank you ❤️
That full bucket of dead fish how much value was in it ?
I seem to remember that Susie calculated the tots; loss at wholesale pricing plus breeding stock to be over $500,000. I also don't remember how many tractor-bucket loads we took out.
Charles
@goliadfarms7029 Wow a lot of folks might have folded.. Glad to see you are standing strong.. Love the content, keep em coming..
@@reggieb1963 Disasters come with the territory. We've survived two hurricanes, the Texas Winter Storm, a derecho, and 2023's horribly hot summer. You pick up the pieces and continue.
Charles
Will you treat the fish whit fungus ? So he will heal
We don't have a good way of treating an individual fish. I could dump in a lot of malachite green to help, but I don't want to stress our Nitrosomas bacterial colonies at this time. We need them to help control ammonia.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I hope so much that all will be well for you and them soon and that everything will return to normal and it will be just a bad memory of the past. at least for the fishes that passed away, you gave them beautiful life whit a lot of plants, friends and all what they needed they had happy life’s that’s what matter
sorry for your lost , watching from the Phillipines.
Thank you.
Charles
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New sub here...love your video and your dog😍
Thank you for watching. We have news coming up about our dogs that will be posted soon.
Charles
Esta el lugar en pesimas condiciones tiene muchos peces muertos cual es el motivo
Outside of extreme events like the Winter Storm of 2021 the conditions in the greenhouses are perfect for fish.
Charles
I have a bunch of lyonsis.
We'll start inventorying fish tomorrow to see if any Xentoca survived. I didn't notice a lot of fatalities in the juvenile vat.
Charles
So sorry...climate change seems real, I wish you all the best in recovery! Where can we read your blog articles?
Climate change is real. We will have to learn to live with it. But, as we show in later videos, we are recovering.
Charles
Boy! I get upset when a heater sticks and wipes out a tank. I can only imagine! I'd offer to come down and help but don't think that you would want a visually impaired blind guy down there helping lol
I feel ya lol, although I would still be of use pulling them out by smell 😄
I hope this isn't a weird question but as a blind guy what is your favorite fish?
I’ve never heard of a heater sticking what is that?
It's been difficult, but disasters come with the territory. We will recover.
Charles
@@tianarhastings8372 it’s when it malfunctions and stays on, overheating the tank!
3:14 The dog yoinked a dead fish! Lmao Even he is helping clean it up.
I think he might be a she. But whatever. Lol
Oso and Maya, our German Shepherds, like to patrol the greenhouses for dead fish. With around 250,000 fish there are always some fatalities.
Charles
salut du quebec canada bien dommage de voir ca toute les pertes ...... ca brise le coeur ..... continu ton hobby et business .........
Thank you and thank the internet for translation. I once spoke at a club in Montreal and was amazed how people so easily switched languages. I only speak Texan.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 tank to written me sorry my english from french men near montreal i am big fan... i hope all you fish will survive hi check all you vidéo very cool to show us all the tragedi
Itu ikan nya banyak yg mati karena didalam kolam terlalu banyak lumut dan ganggang, sehingga ikan susah bergerak bebas. Apa lagi kalau ikan nya dah besar susah bergerak.
The problem was the low water temperatures due to power outages and propane (for heating) shortages.
Charles
Hey man. I live in TX, ill setup a pond and get all the fish from you. I appreciate your work.
Thank you. We have just begun the process of inventorying surviving breeders. We hope to finish that by the end of March.
Charles
Bless your hearts.
We are on the road to recovery. We just started processing the first breeding colonies that we rebuilt in late February. We are getting good reproduction.
Charles
Man I swear this video had smell I vision because as he discribed it at the beginning I swoore I smelt it to. I dont even have tanks anymore
I get used to it quickly and the smell is improving. Carl and Stormy, however, are wimps and can't take the smell.
Charles
I feel terrible for yall. If you need anything and I can help you, please let me know. Have faith and look at this as an opportunity to make changes in things you may have wanted to before and couldn't. Things will get better hang in there.
Thank you. As with every disaster we are assessing what changes we have to make.
Charles
Please show us the sumps next time
Check out his tour on Aquarium Co-op's channel. Shows you every greenhouse, sumps etc.
@@chris6054
Yeah well that’s a long time ago
I wanna see how it looks now
Thanks anyways
We plan to do a video describing the entire system soon.
Charles
Such hard work. 🙌🙌
Sad work mixed with some joy as we find survivors.
Charles
I wish I lived down there so I could come help you out.
Thank you. Things are getting better.
Charles
I was thinking a little further if you were going to heat four of the 300 gallon tubs during an emergency and had to run through and scoop up fish the best placement would be 2/5 of the way in and 4/5. Probably painting those emergency time stock tanks red or a different color partially at least. Also the ones most at risk should be closer to those tanks. These are just ideas and pondering. I don't know how you would be able to heat such a thing with less than 3 to 500 watts per tank. 🙏
At the end of the day it's not about the insurance money It's about the living artwork you create and how beautiful it becomes and watching it all die right before your eyes that has to hurt the most. 🙏
We plan to add a large compost heater to raise wintertime temperatures, but that'll have wait until next year. Fortunately, it appears this will be a warm winter. Also, we have a new, larger propane tank, so we should be able to run a generator and heat at the same time.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 compost heater sounds amazing. I've stuck my hand in a mound of lawn clippings in 15 degree weather to find is very warm inside.
So sorry for your loss :-(
Thank you.
Charles
I can't even watch these videos anymore , it's heart breaking. I hope African cichlid breeders help these folks out and donate some fish to them, to help them get back on there feet. I just have L# plecos , if I was still breeding cichlids I would definitely help out.
Thank you for your support. We hope to be able to provide less heart breaking videos in the coming weeks as we start to rebuild.
Carl
Why dont you try to tranfer here in the philippines specialy in our city we dont experince any storm in our city and we have affordable farm lot here. Im a cichlid lover too i would like to help you for your cichlid farm.
I have thought about moving to the tropics. Doesn't the Philippines get hurricanes?
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 no we dont have that here specialy in mindanao area were safe here from any storm. But in visayas and luzon region is prone to heavy rains and floods. And our prevoiuse presindent live in mindanao.😊
Heartbreaking. So sorry for all your hardships. Take care and prayers to you and yours.
Would subscriptions and views help you guys out?
is that a Ephebopus murinus I see?
@@jasongonzales5563 Nope. Lasiodora Parahybana. My dinner plate sized, hissing, hair kicking beauty 😍
wow I was way off. didnt look like a bird eater from the pic to me. although I'm no pro with Ts. sure miss keeping them though. gotta love a hissing hair kicker.
@@jasongonzales5563 I'd post a comparison photo...but, all my Murinus are shy girls and hide ALL the time 😁
@@dprofessor3238 I do remember that from keeping the murinus. although the Pterinochilus surprisingly was always out waiting to whip my ass. lol. mean little old world. damnit. I need to get back Into keeping. do you breed and sell? SELL ME SOMMMMEEE
Why are they all dead?
They were killed by low temperatures. We had six days of no sun and sub-freezing temperatures. The Texas electric grid failed causing lengthy power outages. We have a generator, but our propane company couldn't deliver propane due to shortages caused by frozen natural gas lines. We were unable to heat and run the generator to keep our water pumps running at the same time,
All the fish community out there give some support
Thank you.
Charles
So many pristine bloodlines. Hopefully you can recover most of it. I keep alot of different reptiles and when stuff like this happens my heart breaks for all the people who put so much hard work into keeping anylind of animals.
Thank you. We have hadsome more positiive outcomes since that day.
Charles
This guys demeanor is insane, I would be losing it
I know of no other way to react. Something breaks and you set about fixing it.
Charles
I 🙏 for you ..so devastating to watch..💔🐠
Thanks!
3:17 look at the dog
The dogs like to check out the sushi bar in the greenhouses.
Charles
I would help if you help me find a safe place to live
There are many safe places around here, although we have lots of venomous snakes. See my blogs about them: goliadfarms.com/still-a-busy-rattlesnake-year/.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 not afraid of snakes I'm afraid of what's said in the news people around the country are upset and I really just want to support my family
Sorry for the losses
Thank you. We are recovering.
Charles
The biggest problem is removing all the death from all the cages and water, dead fish and water is not good combination for healthy fish, that allot of work to catch up on., hectic to see so much death in one place..
Very true, but we've gotten past that stage and are recovering. Please view later videos for our progress.
Charles
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Thank you.
Charles
Commenting to help with youtube algorithm. God bless
Thank you! I will answer questions.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 what would be the best way to help support you? I live in Michigan.
So sorry 😐
Thanks
The Gammarus are probably happy.
The scuds (Gammarus) are doing well. So are the Red Cherry Shrimp.
Charles
Hope you can get back on your feet after this set back .
Thank you. We are in recovery. Check out later videos for our progress.
Charles
The dogs breath must be insane feasting on rotten fish all day
The dog's breath isn't anywhere close to their farts. Rotten fish dog farts are another level of disgusting!
Carl
@@goliadfarms7029 Haha I can imagine!
Sad to see this :(
Please watch subsequent videos. There has been some good news.
Charles
I will watch👍
Seperti ikan Nila ataw ikan Gurame
I can't get a good translation, but I think you were asking about tilapia. We don't raise tilapia. Texas considers them invasive and requires a permit to possess them.
Charles
Very knowledgeable guy seems like a really nice person but how dose those green houses pass inspection. Just remember its in Texas. The government leaves you alone down there
We, so far as I know, meet all regulations. We have closed systems and don't raise any prohibited species.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 in the sucky state of Connecticut the fine for anything
Damn shame. Hope the fry will continue to make it and replace some of what you lost.
Later videos show that we will probably be able to rebuild many of our breeding colonies.
Charles
Surprised your dog does not get a bad stomach eating all those dead fish :)
German Shepherds handle decaying foods without any issues.
Sad Sorry :(
Thank you.
Charles
bury the dead fish near fruit trees .
They will still be fertilized after they run through a buzzard.
The buzzards do a remarkable job of disposal. Carl and Stormy have sensitive noses and can't handle the smell. I think there will be a funy video posted about that soon.
Charles
New subscriber here..
Thank you for subscribing. Please watch later videos for better news.
Charles
I wish I could send you all my mollies.
What mollies do you have?
Charles
Sad , sorry 🐟
Thank you. We are recovering. Please see later videos of our recovery.
Charles
Like....👍👍👍
Thank you.
Charles
Dog ate fish @3:18
Both Oso and Maya love well aged, expensive sushi.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 ha ha 😁
Fermented sushi taste better I guess 🤣
:(
Thank you. We are recovering.
Charles
the dog eating dead fish
Oso and Maya, our German Shepherds, are well-aged, expensive sushi gormands.
Charles
Geeez..., this is devistating. Must be a massive financial hit to a breeder of this calibre.
I am devistated when I loose just one of my prize fish..., let alone thousands.
It was a big hit, but we are recovering. Please watch subsequent videos for our progress.
Charles
💔💔💔
Thank you.
Charles
Manatap
I had to look that up...a video game?
Charles
Again taking for granted these people should assume weather will change with global warming.
We have to get used to extreme weather events as the climate changes.
Charles
It is terrible fishes died. So sad
Yes, it is, but some survived and we rebuilding from those. Please watch later videos for our progress.
Charles
You need a outside pond with bigger fish even just a few for when something like this happens save money feed the dead to the living ☺️
We are planning outside, lined raceways to produce fish during the summer months.
Charles
Luke Skywalker
Not really, but Yoda did say once to me, "Go live with the fishies". I may have misunderstood his meaning.
Charles
I wouldn’t take out the plants if I was you
I’ll keep so they can filter all the ammonia
@@beaka63
Girlllll.....you better stay helpful or shut it
You sound foolish as hell
@@beaka63
You’re 13 years on TH-cam with 151 subscribers...shut the hell up
We are leaving in as much plant as possible, including the obnoxious duckweed, to control ammonia. Ammonia levels continue to drop and are below toxic levels now.
Charles