Yeah, sometimes people don’t realize that culling is essential and by not doing it, it could really ruin a goldfishes quality of life. It’s sad, but sometimes for the better.
@@DollyBoy_1923 Well said. Nature culls the weak or malformed ones anyway. What ETHICAL breeders (Like it seems like Luke is trying to be), should strive for is to produce fish that don't just look great but have a great quality of life. It's also why it's good to not go TOO far in the selective breeding to where your KEEPING bad traits for looks. Like those goldfish with the Wen that is literally jello.
Personally I think clove oil is very handy to have laying around when you have fish, even if you don't breed them. When you keep fish there's always gonna be a moment when you need to put one down due to something and this stuff really works best for the fish
Yup. My school raised trout to release into a local lake (not native yet already existing harmlessly in the ecosystem, plus we filled out a government release form to be safe), but out of the 150 eggs we started with, we lost everyone except a dozen when the water conditioners got funky. There was this one fish that hadn't been looking good for a week or so, so I got called in to dissect it since we were waiting for it to die. I thought the fish I was dissecting would be dead. So... yeah, I had to hire a hitman. It was a scarring experience. A month later, we finally got clove oil, but that was after everyone died- at least we have it for next year when we do this on four times the scale.
Glad you are keeping a few with a nice dorsal fin... Maybe they'll be interesting orandas. (Although i like them longer, but that's the variety you get in goldfish, there's a ton!)
You have perfected your segue into the Tubby Tobey plushie plug. Great explainer on your observations and thought processes that go into culling. Culling is no one’s favorite part that loves these fish but, sadly, it has to be done. Good job!
Good idea but freezing fish actually does hurt them as they stay awake throughout most of the process and can feel the ice crystals forming in their blood which is pretty painful
Goldfish aren’t good for reptile food. They contain an enzyme called thiaminase that can cause thiamin deficiency, an essential vitamin. Every now and then might be okay, but I wouldn’t make a habit out of it.
@mothbytte I had no idea, thank you! Your comment made me remember, though, that goldfish also aren’t recommended as feeders because of their parasites. (Totally forgot about that part!)
great video luke. I was aware of culling from shrimp keepers, but what some shrimp keepers do to is they put all of the “culled shrimp” (these are usually shrimp of less quality color) into a single cull tank where theyll all breed and make some crazy combinations
A lot of shrimp are culled because their color isn't up to par, not because of body deformities. I think cull tanks are good for youtube videos. They can also be just fine, as culls from a very high quality color may just be a lower grade color - still decent demand. The culled goldfish don't really fit that description. Cull shrimp always have a purpose, even if it is just for live fish food. Because of various reasons mentioned in the comments, culled goldfish aren't even good food sources.
I was at the store today and I saw a Glofish with a HORRIBLE spine deformity, the curve was huge and poor thing could barely swim right. It made me think about this stuff Also I am fully aware you don't like snails, but I always wonder on how your fish would react to one sometimes. I have a couple of snails that don't lay eggs (well they do, but the babies can't hatch in freshwater. I haven't seen any eggs at all though) and don't poop a ton, and the fish I used to have enjoyed using the snail as a bed when it was asleep ._. Great video also!
I have a snail too (black mystery snail) and one of my past fish used to swim up and down the tank, lightly booping the snail as he swam. I've had two snails in my entire life, my current one and my ivory white mystery snail :>
I have a feeling that most of this batch is really bad because there were some really young males breed. That’s happened to a few breeders I know in other species. Snakes and cats specifically.
Keep the male and female in separate tanks until they are ready to breed. Once done separate them again, they will fight each other viciously. After eggs are laid separate the female from them. Have fun with them, they are gorgeous fish. Lastly, the bigger the tank you keep them in, the happier they are. They can live well with other breeds of fish quite easily.
After keeping all my blackmoore babies with deformity because I feel bad about euthanizing them. The majority have deformity and I now start to understand why some chose to euthanize them. Because it's really sad seeing them suffer and you can't do anything about it coz it's just the way they form. Sometimes, I asked myself if I made the wrong decision to keep them knowing their condition. Thanks Luke. I hope to meet you in person in the aquashella event on the 2nd.
Historically the beginning breeds of ranchus had that partial spike dorsal fin I'd love to see how they look growing up Also lol! Feed them to the parent fish! XD
Some of my balloon molly babies turned out to be deformed or had a salmon-like shape, but interestingly, they developed the most playful personalities as they grew up.
Balloon mollies in and of themselves are deformed. They have very crooked spines that cause the organs to be all bunched up and not develop properly. The majority of their babies will be progressively more deformed, and occasionally there with be some that revert to normal fish shape, but still carry bad genetics.
One of my betta babies had an imperfect spine, sometimes it looked fine but when he was resting it often looked kind of bent. He grew out of it and he is gorgeous now, though he's still way more flexible than my other bettas, which when he's flitting around wanting attention makes him feel puppy like. But I'm definitely classing him as a pet and not a potential breeder. But that's waaaay easier with bettas than preventing any livebearer from breeding.
Hey Luke. Very interesting on how you cull Goldfish. Kind of sad, but unfortunately there's just too many of them. Quick question though, and this is something you might have covered, but what do you do to the baby goldfish bodies? Do you just throw them away, or can you feed them to the other goldfish?
2:31 this looks like the pog meme 😂 All jokes aside, I actually feel really bad for the fish. I understand you are going through a selective breeding process, but I wish they could have a chance at life. I would be that person who buys the pog mouth looking fish because it honestly looks kinda cute.
we raised trout at my school and there was one little guy who was all twisted up and we called him twisty and did our best to raise him- he had a separate little nursery inside the tank and everything, but he died 😢 we had a funeral and sent him down the river in an origami boat
Ok so this is a non fish owner suggestion, but is it possible to use a separate empty tank for this process? Like you fill tank 2 with the water of tank 1, and transport all the fish to tank 2, then sort them in a bowl where you can see them easier, and put the good fish back in tank 1 and the deformed in the culling bowl
@@zoraac4678 I think you're on to something! Use them as a seasoning, like dashi powder or oyster sauce! Maybe like those little crunchy things you get on sushi sometimes.....
Hear me out, it might sound too grandiose, but how about you name the new variant of goldfish after yourself. You're planning on breeding the ranchus on a large scale, so over time, if those babies with dorsal fins actually look pretty, you can perfect it as a new variant in the hobby. That's what's happening in the indoor plant world right now--usually large, corporate growers create and name new variants, but time to time, a gorgeous variant is created by hobbyists, and it becomes an established variant that people want.
This is not new breed, they are simply short oranda, but they are great for crossing with other types of oranda, like red headed, even with ryukin, calico, etc. I suppose that one of the Luke's males had dorsal fin gene.
When I was watching throughout The whole video I noticed that some of the fish did blink and it was not just at 3:06 and 2:42 I saw another one at 4:01. Maybe these fish have a deformity where they blink and that’s the reason why they can. Or it could come from the parents but it is most likely a deformity or a mutation. probably overtime we the fish grow bigger you’ll see how they blink.
Besides the ones with problems that affect their normal life (mouth can’t close, severe crooked spine, swim bladder issues) if I lived near him I’ll be tempted to get those other baby goldfish off him and raise them… For me a flawed goldfish has more character than the pitch perfect A grade show class goldfish, I can see myself liking those “shark fin” ones 😂 One of favourite fish was a shunbkin in my parents pond which has one long “arm” and one tiny short “arm” 😂
Question: If you put them to sleep like this could you still feed them to other fish or would that be harmful? And if it is harmful to feed to other fish is there an alternative that would not be harmful?
I wonder what is the reason for their dorsal fin growth... Maybe it's genetics but isn't their parents are ranchu goldfish... This seems pretty interesting!
Gold fish don’t come from nature. Humans breed them from carp and have over the years made different breeds by selective breeding. So a ranchu still has the dorsal fin in its genes even though that may have been generations ago. The first carp that was breed to become a goldfish was actually yellow in color, and down the generations, they selected the ones with more color to continue breeding.
Is it deformity or the beginning of evolution and change~✨ naturally in the wild the best survive so who knows maybe a gin on a goldfish gives it more speed xD
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can it swim luke?
I'm a breeder so been there done that,it's really a mercy to those poor little babies,rather than thrown to be eaten
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i say you call the ones with a dorsal the lukechu breed
I'm glad you're a strict culler... Sometimes it's cruel to let them suffer while growing them out. Good work and great video!
Yeah, sometimes people don’t realize that culling is essential and by not doing it, it could really ruin a goldfishes quality of life. It’s sad, but sometimes for the better.
@@DollyBoy_1923 Well said. Nature culls the weak or malformed ones anyway. What ETHICAL breeders (Like it seems like Luke is trying to be), should strive for is to produce fish that don't just look great but have a great quality of life. It's also why it's good to not go TOO far in the selective breeding to where your KEEPING bad traits for looks. Like those goldfish with the Wen that is literally jello.
Personally I think clove oil is very handy to have laying around when you have fish, even if you don't breed them. When you keep fish there's always gonna be a moment when you need to put one down due to something and this stuff really works best for the fish
Yup. My school raised trout to release into a local lake (not native yet already existing harmlessly in the ecosystem, plus we filled out a government release form to be safe), but out of the 150 eggs we started with, we lost everyone except a dozen when the water conditioners got funky. There was this one fish that hadn't been looking good for a week or so, so I got called in to dissect it since we were waiting for it to die.
I thought the fish I was dissecting would be dead.
So... yeah, I had to hire a hitman. It was a scarring experience. A month later, we finally got clove oil, but that was after everyone died- at least we have it for next year when we do this on four times the scale.
Thank you for this video series. It helps me understand what I did wrong with my accidental batch. (Basically everything)
😮 aww
Glad you are keeping a few with a nice dorsal fin... Maybe they'll be interesting orandas. (Although i like them longer, but that's the variety you get in goldfish, there's a ton!)
I think more tan one generation is needed to make new breeds
2:42 did that baby goldfish just... BLINK?
Fish cannot blink! how did they do that?
Yeah I saw that too the simulation must have glitched
Yeah. He blinked again at 3:07
it’s just the light reflecting in its eye, makes the pupil silver but kinda looks like a blink :)
Me too I Saw That
Bro how i saw that
You have perfected your segue into the Tubby Tobey plushie plug.
Great explainer on your observations and thought processes that go into culling. Culling is no one’s favorite part that loves these fish but, sadly, it has to be done. Good job!
They are probably the perfect size for your red eared sliders, maybe instead of clove oil you could freeze some for feeders!
Just like the freeze brine shrimp 😂
Good idea but freezing fish actually does hurt them as they stay awake throughout most of the process and can feel the ice crystals forming in their blood which is pretty painful
Goldfish aren’t good for reptile food. They contain an enzyme called thiaminase that can cause thiamin deficiency, an essential vitamin. Every now and then might be okay, but I wouldn’t make a habit out of it.
@eros oh I didn’t know! I know Luke said in another video that freezing isn’t a bad method because they pretty much just slow down and die
@mothbytte I had no idea, thank you! Your comment made me remember, though, that goldfish also aren’t recommended as feeders because of their parasites. (Totally forgot about that part!)
2:32 the fish's face looks like a angry shocked face
great video luke. I was aware of culling from shrimp keepers, but what some shrimp keepers do to is they put all of the “culled shrimp” (these are usually shrimp of less quality color) into a single cull tank where theyll all breed and make some crazy combinations
Next batch keep some fish with a spikey dorsal fin so you can have fish with mohawks
A lot of shrimp are culled because their color isn't up to par, not because of body deformities. I think cull tanks are good for youtube videos. They can also be just fine, as culls from a very high quality color may just be a lower grade color - still decent demand. The culled goldfish don't really fit that description. Cull shrimp always have a purpose, even if it is just for live fish food. Because of various reasons mentioned in the comments, culled goldfish aren't even good food sources.
Have you ever missed a deformed fish when culling and noticed when they grew bigger?
Thank you for this video. I've just started breeding bettas and I feel better about kulling now.
2:42 3:07 RIP blinking fish
I was at the store today and I saw a Glofish with a HORRIBLE spine deformity, the curve was huge and poor thing could barely swim right. It made me think about this stuff
Also I am fully aware you don't like snails, but I always wonder on how your fish would react to one sometimes.
I have a couple of snails that don't lay eggs (well they do, but the babies can't hatch in freshwater. I haven't seen any eggs at all though) and don't poop a ton, and the fish I used to have enjoyed using the snail as a bed when it was asleep ._.
Great video also!
Snail as a bed? Huh?
@@kweenkitten6207 The fish would lay/rest on the snail while the snail was sleeping and go to sleep :v
@@Chiswum cute 🥰
I have a snail too (black mystery snail) and one of my past fish used to swim up and down the tank, lightly booping the snail as he swam. I've had two snails in my entire life, my current one and my ivory white mystery snail :>
Is your snail a nerite snail?
Day 34 of trying to Get luke to name a fish luke jr
Why not Lucky Luke?
you got this
Funny your first video you said do 34 of trying to get Luke to name is fish Luke Junior I checked other videos you didn’t comment on it
@@asmrvideos573 it's still a better name than stuart or some other garbage
Only if the fish is swoll
My jaw has just dropped watching this… at 2:42 and 3:07 that goldfish BLINKED!!! That’s not even physically possible!!! THEY DONT HAVE EYELIDS!
the fish with weird mouth reminds me of "the scream" painting 😅
Every video he makes the title just gets more unhinged.
I have a feeling that most of this batch is really bad because there were some really young males breed. That’s happened to a few breeders I know in other species. Snakes and cats specifically.
Imagine being short but have a chance at life, and Luke just smites you
Bruh
Poor fish.😢
Great video. Thank you for being so informative. The flex with the plushie was hilarious. 😂 Keep being you, Luke
Would tou be willing to do some breeding with me?
"561th video of me requesting luke to name a chunky goldie Mr.Blaze" It must be the most firey goldfish🔥🔥
Nice video on how to cull. I just got my first two Betta Fish today and may try to breed them in the coming months!
They do have different reasons to cull tho
Keep the male and female in separate tanks until they are ready to breed. Once done separate them again, they will fight each other viciously. After eggs are laid separate the female from them. Have fun with them, they are gorgeous fish. Lastly, the bigger the tank you keep them in, the happier they are. They can live well with other breeds of fish quite easily.
@@terriatca1 thanks! I’ve been watching fish videos for about 9 months now so I’ve learned a lot.
4:40 As a 5’0” person, I understand. I’ll get into the soup myself ;~;
I have never been so early!!! I love your vids you take care of your goldfish with such good care I love goldfish but mine always end up becoming fat
Your Awesome Luke I always look forward to your videos! keep it up
2:42 why did the fish blinked?
Wow I love the nice dorsal one.
Im new and I already cried because I love the baby goldfish with the frown 😅😂
Baby fish are just so cute
After keeping all my blackmoore babies with deformity because I feel bad about euthanizing them. The majority have deformity and I now start to understand why some chose to euthanize them. Because it's really sad seeing them suffer and you can't do anything about it coz it's just the way they form. Sometimes, I asked myself if I made the wrong decision to keep them knowing their condition. Thanks Luke. I hope to meet you in person in the aquashella event on the 2nd.
1:15 “no goldfish were harmed in the making of this video”
1:28 “culling=selective killing”
Historically the beginning breeds of ranchus had that partial spike dorsal fin
I'd love to see how they look growing up
Also lol! Feed them to the parent fish! XD
Some of my balloon molly babies turned out to be deformed or had a salmon-like shape, but interestingly, they developed the most playful personalities as they grew up.
Aww
Balloon mollies in and of themselves are deformed. They have very crooked spines that cause the organs to be all bunched up and not develop properly. The majority of their babies will be progressively more deformed, and occasionally there with be some that revert to normal fish shape, but still carry bad genetics.
One of my betta babies had an imperfect spine, sometimes it looked fine but when he was resting it often looked kind of bent. He grew out of it and he is gorgeous now, though he's still way more flexible than my other bettas, which when he's flitting around wanting attention makes him feel puppy like. But I'm definitely classing him as a pet and not a potential breeder. But that's waaaay easier with bettas than preventing any livebearer from breeding.
2:43 IT BLINKED
How many fish do you usually have left after a culling?
Hey Luke. Very interesting on how you cull Goldfish. Kind of sad, but unfortunately there's just too many of them. Quick question though, and this is something you might have covered, but what do you do to the baby goldfish bodies? Do you just throw them away, or can you feed them to the other goldfish?
I have a feeling he doesn’t feed them to gold fish, just because that seems wrong to deliberately feed their own species. But I’d like to know also
@kween kitten They also likely ingested clove oil. It could make hid fish sick
2:31 this looks like the pog meme 😂
All jokes aside, I actually feel really bad for the fish. I understand you are going through a selective breeding process, but I wish they could have a chance at life. I would be that person who buys the pog mouth looking fish because it honestly looks kinda cute.
I can relate to the shortness 🗿
yeah, i get that. but the fish wouldn't live a very good life, so it's better to just cull them.
Yeah, that's understandable... :')
I’m so excited to see this goldfish big❤ love you luke❤
I love the flex at the end
7:52 is that black and white fish new? it looks so cool!
Good eye bro!
7:55 ish there is some mysterious goldfish in the back on the goldfish wall
This is why responsible breeding is important, no matter the animal.
Hey luke, where did you get the net? Ive been looking for larger square nets to help pull the babies from my cichlid breeding tanks
goldfish boot camp only the strong survive 🤣
we raised trout at my school and there was one little guy who was all twisted up and we called him twisty and did our best to raise him- he had a separate little nursery inside the tank and everything, but he died 😢 we had a funeral and sent him down the river in an origami boat
I can see Mr. Po and Pringles back there. Hehe
What are those fish in the background?
finally found his culling video after 5 videos baiting it
If there was one fish, you could bring back to life, who would it be?
Bubba
@@lukesgoldiesnot nubbin? You monster
@@i_am_boganit’s just his opinion I think he thought hard he probably thought of Nubbin first
I knew it would be Bubba
Bubba was with him for a long time. I thought it would either be dumpy or bubba being honest
Ok so this is a non fish owner suggestion, but is it possible to use a separate empty tank for this process? Like you fill tank 2 with the water of tank 1, and transport all the fish to tank 2, then sort them in a bowl where you can see them easier, and put the good fish back in tank 1 and the deformed in the culling bowl
Sounds like alot of work
IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LUKE
The Dorchu!
I munched on some of them, very tasty, highly recommended
Very instructive
What about live gildfish fries? 🍟
They're too small. They'd shrivel up to nothing in hot oil. He could make live goldfish patties, though! Nom nom nom!
@@Jedapoo what if make the oil of fried live goldfish and mix it into the soup?
@@zoraac4678 I think you're on to something! Use them as a seasoning, like dashi powder or oyster sauce! Maybe like those little crunchy things you get on sushi sometimes.....
@@Jedapoo what about goldfish sushi pizza.... Pizza sushis a thing though
Hear me out, it might sound too grandiose, but how about you name the new variant of goldfish after yourself. You're planning on breeding the ranchus on a large scale, so over time, if those babies with dorsal fins actually look pretty, you can perfect it as a new variant in the hobby. That's what's happening in the indoor plant world right now--usually large, corporate growers create and name new variants, but time to time, a gorgeous variant is created by hobbyists, and it becomes an established variant that people want.
This is not new breed, they are simply short oranda, but they are great for crossing with other types of oranda, like red headed, even with ryukin, calico, etc. I suppose that one of the Luke's males had dorsal fin gene.
3:06
Did that goldfish JUST BLINK!?
AND 2:42
When I was watching throughout The whole video I noticed that some of the fish did blink and it was not just at 3:06 and 2:42 I saw another one at 4:01. Maybe these fish have a deformity where they blink and that’s the reason why they can. Or it could come from the parents but it is most likely a deformity or a mutation. probably overtime we the fish grow bigger you’ll see how they blink.
for the sensitive folk: cull doesn’t alway have to mean kill or euthanize. it just means separating the undesirables
It means exactly what it means..he's killing them
Call them 🦈 Shark-chus the ones with the dorsal fin
2:42 did…
That fish just blinked
Yeah fish have eyelids
@@asprinjuice425no they dont
For those who are still concerned, he's just doing what would happen in the wild. Those with deformities would die in the wild.
2:40 did that fish just blink
Call the ranchus with dorsal fins ranchon'ts...
Like ranch-dos/ranch-don'ts
This was really interesting!
Besides the ones with problems that affect their normal life (mouth can’t close, severe crooked spine, swim bladder issues) if I lived near him I’ll be tempted to get those other baby goldfish off him and raise them…
For me a flawed goldfish has more character than the pitch perfect A grade show class goldfish, I can see myself liking those “shark fin” ones 😂
One of favourite fish was a shunbkin in my parents pond which has one long “arm” and one tiny short “arm” 😂
i like your commentary and love your videos.❤️🛐
Question:
If you put them to sleep like this could you still feed them to other fish or would that be harmful?
And if it is harmful to feed to other fish is there an alternative that would not be harmful?
well, they would be full of clove oil and probably not good for the other fish. so, probably not a good idea.
Fish eugenics
Thanks 😊
That one goldfish :😮
0:33 anyone else thinks that fish's face looks like it belongs on Edvard Munch's The Scream?
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Also I find this more fascinating than alarming 😊
4:03 2:42 are they just special or is there stuff covering the eyes!?
Hey at the first second i joined the video bc i love you and its again a video that make me smile
2:07 is this what they did in the opening scene of finding nemo
2:39 It blinked
You can feed then to other fishes or is it illegal?
You can, but goldfish ain't nutritional.
0:43 new goldfish reveal in the backgroun
2:42 blinked idk how
2:42 4:03 goldfish are blinking I think I’m going insane
impossible to buy the plush from Europe? :/
it's a good video
Can we get another with the aftermath? Like the garlic video
What is the white thing on the side of the tank?
2:42 Did the goldfish just blink?
I wonder what is the reason for their dorsal fin growth... Maybe it's genetics but isn't their parents are ranchu goldfish... This seems pretty interesting!
Gold fish don’t come from nature. Humans breed them from carp and have over the years made different breeds by selective breeding. So a ranchu still has the dorsal fin in its genes even though that may have been generations ago.
The first carp that was breed to become a goldfish was actually yellow in color, and down the generations, they selected the ones with more color to continue breeding.
Is algae good for a goldfish’s diet like veggies wise
No goldfish were harmed😂
RIP Short King Golfishies.
Luke eat all his baby goldfish now it alll gone😂😂
So what’s the deal with those 2 goldfish in the background? One of them looks like it was black and white, the other orange. Are they new?
ranchus usually start out as black in colour, then they'll slowly lose the blackness over time and develop brighter colours.
@@delusion_wastaken914 No I understand that. I mean they’re new. I don’t think Luke has introduced us
@@nicotoscani8270 oh. okay. i apologise for misinterpreting your comment, i guess.
If their not post to have dorslafins, how do they get them
Nah I think tadpoles soup is way better
Sounds delicious
Gj on first
Did that gold fish baby blink ?
Is it deformity or the beginning of evolution and change~✨ naturally in the wild the best survive so who knows maybe a gin on a goldfish gives it more speed xD
Call the one’s with dorsal fins sharkchus
Culling is the worst part when breeding goldfish 😂
Did that one goldfish just blink???? How????????
Day 287 of asking Luke to name a goldfish Stuart