SUMP FISH!!! ••• Underwater look at the feral fish in our system
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- Sump Fish are what we call the feral fish that live in the gutters and sump of each of the greenhouses. In this video, there's frenzied activity for the first several minutes as they feed on floating pellets. The second half of the video is more calm and the fish are not as crowded.
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Gorgeous!! I have no doubt people would pay well for a 'grab bag' of some of these sump fish knowing they are mixed breed, but the beauty and joy they could bring to an aquarium. Amazing.
I sure would they look great
@@george230 Me 2... 😂
I've thought about offering a "random" net scoop of six fish. Not quite random, because I might want one or more as breeders but also selecting fish to insure people are some good ones.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Yes, please do!!!
@@goliadfarms7029 Absolutely keep those you want, and those that are ill to live out their lives in the freedom of the sump, but for the rest, you know there would be a market for sure.
That OB with the blue scales around the head just wow ❤
I'll have to watch the video to see which fish that is. Maybe it would make a good breeder.
Charles
I would seriously be like a kid in a candy store netting mollies and swordtails out of those gutters. It's amazing how all those fish in there have bounced back.
I at still surprised at some of the Texas Winter Storm survivors. The other day, I saw a young female Jack Dempsey cichlid in Greenhouse 1 floor gutter. I thought all of them had died, but obviously there is at least one breeding pair in Greenhouse 1.
Charles
Your videos of your sump system never disappoint. I have to agree with many other viewers,we want these fish swimming in our own tanks!
We're looking into how to offer some of these fish. I want to have a fish festival at the farm and offer them to attendees.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 A fish festival at Goliad would be incredible. I might even have to take a flight to Texas for something like that.
@@FoxyFoxyShazam It could be fun. In 2008 we had 50 attendees from the San Antonio American Livebearers Association convention in San Antonio take a bus for two hours for a day long visit at the farm. After a morning in the greenhouses, we also went to nearby Coleto Creek to collect native fishes. After the collection trip, we packaged the fish for transport and the attendees returned to the convention to show off the collected fish and fish they bought from us.
Charles
Awesome.. extremely enjoyable. I went full screen and went into a meditative state for a while just watching and zoning out to the music.
I spend some time every day watching sump and gutter fish, although from above. It is very relaxing.
Charles
You should do a live show 1-2 a month showing you catch some of your sump fish then sell or auction them off. ❤🐟
That's an idea we've considered. Currently we don't have adequate vats to hold fish that are being auctioned but once Greenhouse 3 is rebuilt and back in service we will.
Charles
There are some absolutely beautiful breeders in that mess. I have paused this video at least 50 times! WOW!
I need to harvest some of those fish. There are some OB Peacocks that would make superb breeders.
Charles
This channel should have 100k on subs if people only new your farm existed. Best chiclid content I ever saw.
Thank you. We aren't that great at promotion.
Charles
Stunning animals!
Please make more videos. We really miss your informative videos. I would love to see your ancistrus up and running again along with all the fantastic fish you work with. Great job team goliad.
We resumed posting videos today and hope to post a couple a week from now on. Today's video explains what happened.
Charles
I love the Sump Fish videos!! amazing variety of genetics!
Yes, lots of genes, especially among the Peacocks. I need to capture some of them for breeding.
Charles
Lovely video, saved to my Aquaria folder. I will be watching over and over again.
Thank you for watching it. We'll do more soon.
Charles
Some of those mexicana mollies look amazing!
Some of those are pure Poecilia mexicana, others are hybrids with P. latipinna and P. velifera.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I can definitely see the sailfin ancestry in some of them. Lovely fish, I really like the traffic-cone orange margin on the caudal fin.
@@Matt_Hill I'd like to expand the orange margin to the entire caudal. I was making progress on that but lost those breeders to the Texas Winter Storm. It's time to start over again.
Charles
Will you guys be catching any of these fish to sell? They are amazing and would definitely be interested in buying some.
We occasionally harvest sump fish for some wholesale customers, but what I'd really like to do is host a fish festival at the farm and allow attendees to buy them after I keep some as breeders, especially some of the OB Peacocks. I've thought about offering individual fish online, but we aren't really set up for keeping single fish.
Charles
Love the longer videos like this. Awesome!
We plan on three new long ones. A stream-of-consciousness walk-through of Greenhouse2, then the same for Greenhouse 1, and an update on raising scuds.
Charles
Charles
Quite possibly the most mesmerizing thing I've ever watched. Thank you for taking the time to make this video! It's so interesting to see at the end there that the smaller fish seem to prefer the more shallow water. Those plecos look like dinosaurs! I'm smitten with the fat little gambusia. They're adorable, yet graceful.
That Gambusia is G. punctata, the Cuban Blue-Eyed Mosquitofish. The mollies and Gambusia seem to feel safer in shallow water. The plecos are descendants of some we got in 2003. You should see some of the larger ones we have.
Charles
i love the yellow fish with the black line along it's dorsal fin and touch of black on it's lower fins, what a lovely fish and the blues are amazing too.
I noticed that fish too, lol. The iridescence is striking.
That is likely a Labidochromis caeruleus. While the specific name, "caeruleus", means blue, there is a gold morph of the species. That is the morph we raise.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 well it's beautiful just loved it thanks now when i get move and have room for a big aquarium, I'll know where to get them :) thank you :) ♥
@@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN That is one of the species that came through the Texas Winter Storm, so we do have them to sell.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Oh that's really awesome. It was sad to see the loss from that storm. But listening to you about the babies being tolerant to the cold is a good thing. I'm going to be moving. but i don't have the space at the moment. it is with in my plans for my new home building project to have a "Built in Aquarium". it's been life long dream of mine :) also thank you for sharing your knowledge.
This is amazing. Love these videos. Thanks for posting them. The sump pump fish are my fave!
It's about time to harvest some of the sump and floor gutter fish, but I'd like to wait and do a farm fish festival and offer them first to attendees.
Charles
Charles you are such a talented man. Your setup is by far the coolest across the country. The sumps are amazing. There must be 50K fish loving down there.
So many beautiful fish! 😍
Yes, some very nice ones.
Charles
Omg there are some beautiful fish in there ❤
Yes, some very pretty ones. And some that I should catch for Peacock breeding programs.
Charles
Absolutely beautiful, love that powder blue coloured mbuna with the orange fins around 11:00
That is likely a Metriaclima greshakei (Redtop Cobalt Zebra) or a possible hybrid. He looks pure, but I wouldn't sell him as that since I can't be sure sump fish are not hybrids. We raise a lot of this species but for some reason, they don't sell well.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Shocking to me that they don't sell well, they're beautiful fish. Would love a breeding group if I was still in the US.
I've always been so curious as what's all in there.. commenting before I start the video I'm so excited 😆
I hope you weren't disappointed. We'll try to periodically show the sump and gutter fish.
Charles
Do the fish ever breed? Do you ever find a very unique fish in your sump? The ebb and flow of cichlid mania is really interesting to watch. Tnank you!
There is lots of reproduction in the floor gutters and sumps. Convicts and Ancistrus are very successful spawners, but the livebearers and mouthbrooding cichlids do well also.
Charles
I love your sump fish! Do you feed the sumps the same as you feed the tanks? Do you ever thin the herd? There are some very beautiful fish in there!
The sump and gutter fish get floating pellets (Aquamax 500). We occasionally trap out fish for our wholesale customers. But, someday I want to have a farm fish festival during which we harvest the sump fish and offer them to attendees.
Charles
I just came across your channel and I got to say love the content beautiful and for sure deserves more subs 👍
Thank you. We try to be both entertaining and informative. Apparently, what we aren't very good at is promoting ourselves.
Charles
It seems that the younger fish live under the vats while the large ones stick closer to the pumps, that explains how they can breed so well in there without the young all getting eaten. Well and not all fish are as bold as these cichlids so I bet there are some weird things in their that no one ever sees.
There is adequate cover in the floor gutters for juveniles and a significant number of them survive to adulthood. At night, our bullfrogs come out onto the walkways. They are rarely seen during the day.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Its crazy how that system is such a complex and functioning ecosystem, the floor gutter area is almost like the smaller tributaries and wetlands that fish tend to grow up in. Its also nice to see a healthy bullfrog population where they are supposed to be, I find myself being a little biased against them since they are a little too successful here.
@@Exquailibur I'm ambivalent about bullfrogs too. They can eat a lot of fish in outdoor ponds. We're planning to add 10 outdoor ponds. I hope the raccoons and water snake control them.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Definitely a species that is unlikely to go anywhere anytime soon, here they dont even have many predators since the only snake species are too small to eat adults. Luckily they dont seem to do well in ephemeral ponds or the cold fast moving waterways with low vegetation which are our dominant habitats, but the oxbow lakes, permanent wetlands, and slow moving waterways with high vegetation are dominated by them and the native frog species that normally fills that niche is extremely rare these days. Only the frogs that dont have to compete with them are still doing well.
Luckily the habitats bullfrogs like are somewhat scattered so there are isolated areas where they aren't present.
@@Exquailibur Our Diamondback Water Snakes (Nerodia rhombifera) are large enough to handle bullfrogs but their population in the greenhouses hasn't fully recovered from the raccoon invasion after we had to take the tops off the greenhouses during Hurricane Harvey. But we do have breeding pairs now.
Charles
I SURE WOULD BUY THEM I LOVE THE MIXED BREED OF CHICLIDS ALL I KEEP CHICHLIDS IN MY HOUSE WHOLE BASEMENT FUSHROOM. AMAZEING CONTENT.
You must live in the North where people have basements. There aren't many basements in Texas. I'm working on some way to sell the sump fish but not all of them. I like having them.
Charles
I realize you were feeding, but thats still an impressive density of fish. No wonder your green house is so green -lots of plant food! Do you ever have to do any maintenance to cut back on mulm or does you system self-regulate efficiently enough?
The sump fish have a surprisingly high population. We do keep as many and 140 adult cichlids in 55-gallon vats. The flow of water through the system provides adequate aeration and oxygen.
There is almost no mulm in the sumps and floor gutters. There are enough fish to keep it from accumulating. I suppose all the small critters in the systems break it down completely. Mulm does accumulate in 55-gallon, 110-gallon, and 300-gallon vats but not much in 55-gallon vats with 50-100 adult cichlids. We don't remove mulm from the 300-gallon vats; too much labor, but it rarely builds up to more than 2". A large pleco or two in the 300-gallon vats, as well as the cichlids, seem to keep the mulm down. Mulm does accumulate in 55-gallon vats that don't have a lot of adult cichlids. When we process those vats, we harvest the mulm using 10" brine shrimp nets. That mulm goes onto our compost piles for litter worms to convert to rich soil. The only thing that accumulates in the bottom of the sumps is snail shells but even those break down over time.
Charles
Always enjoy the Sumpers!!! 😅
Is there by chance a koi in with the sump fish, I spotted one that went by quickly that appears to be koi, white and pale gold in color. 😅
Yes, there are now Koi in the sumps. They came from an aquaponics system we set up for Goliad Elementary School. When the teacher sponsoring the project left for another school, we rescued the Koi and moved them into the sumps in Greenhouse 1 and Greenhouse 2.
Charles
Good example of how overstocked cichlids show zero aggression. Just swimming looking for the food haha
Yes, we've found that crowded cichlids aren't aggressive. They can't establish peck orders of territories to defend. Everyone gets along.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that's awesome lol nice fish guys
@@PULAG Thank you.
Charles
OMGoodness!!!! What a wonderful video! Nature amazes me! What remarkable colors and variation of colors even on the individual fish! Do you ever net any out to amount or do you let the fish manage that? Also, the water is so clear, considering that you are feeding and the amount of fish! Thank you agin for sharing your journey with us! Always a pleasure!😊
We have harvested some sump fish for wholesale customers. I haven't noticed that the sump fish practice much population control. Their population is building up to where it was before the Texas Winter Storm wiped out 85% of our fish. Our plant filtration keeps the water clear despite full sunlight and heavy (Susie says "over-feeding") feeding I do.
Charles
Amazing!
There are some very interesting fish in the sumps.
Charles
Thanks Charles, I needed that!😅
Thank you for watching. We'll do more of these soon.
Charles
Fantastic! Thank you
Thank you for watching.
Charles
10:40, Id seen him with the barbs a couple times. Is that a koi?
That has got to be a koi, who knows how long its been in their since koi live so long and wouldn't have problems with cold.
There are several Koi. Some prefer staying in the floor gutters, others in the sumps. These fish were part of a aquaponics project that Carl and I set up for Goliad Elementary. When the school sponsor of the project moved on to another school district, no one stepped up to continue the project. We rescued the Koi and released them into the sumps. They do a good job of keeping snail populations in check.
Charles
Awesome "Sump" fish.. Africans, South Americans, Mollies, Platties, and of course Plecos.. 👍🏻
Yes, a mixture of some of the fish we raise. I've even seen a couple of Redhook Metynnis in there. We used to have a lot of barbs as well, but the Texas Winter Storm eradicated them.
Charles
Yay 🎉 will watch a bit later x
Enjoy. More to come. Soon we'll do the floor gutters with a different distribution of species.
Charles
Thanks Guys for a great video. I was watching and I noticed that other than a few of the older fish, there's no ripped fins bad scaring or injury. They seem to get along well together and look super healthy. Thanks again for your wonderful video 💚👍🇦🇺
I've found that crowed fish are much less aggressive and much less conflict. There are always some old or not-so-healthy fish since I release any fish that aren't doing well into the floor gutters to live out their lives. One female Peacock with a bacterial infection (non-transmissible) causing her eyes to bulge was released a couple of weeks ago into Greenhouse 1 floor gutter. She has surprised me by staying near the release site, eagerly eating, and surviving. I watched her eat her share of food at feeding time last evening.
Charles
I'm curious, how did the sump fish fare in the snowstorm ?
I have a 110 tub I buried to the rim 2 years ago , it has iced on top twice but the fish all survived . they're all native fish , but still do you think if your tanks were buried you would have had more survivors ? it got down to 9 degrees here in December , only one night though.
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Since we lost 85% of our inventoried fish in the vats in the Texas Winter Storm, I suspect a similar percentage of sump fish perished too. Because the water recirculates, the water temperature was the same in the vats, floor gutters, and sumps. Our sumps are below ground (about four feet deep), but most of the water is in vats and floor gutters that are above ground. I am researching geothermal as a heating source.
Charles
Me again... lol... at 20:39.. That Blue with those stripes, is that a pure breed fish? If so could you tell me what it is called? I want a gaggle of those !
I just learned something! I didn't know I could click on the time stamp and go immediately to that point in the video. Thank you!
That is likely a male Pseudotropheus elongatus although some hybrids look remarkably similar to species. That's not surprising since the 600+ Lake Malawi cichlids arose primarily through hybridization. We lost all the P. elongatus we had in vats. I need to get more breeding stock. Since that fish could be a hybrid, we can't use it for breeding P. elongatus.
Charles
Charles, is that a Convict hybrid at 5:06 through 5:10 or a full blood Con? Beautiful blue speckling on that guy, and he's a monster
I could be wrong, but I believe what you saw was a texas cichlid or texas hybrid.
That is a Texas Convict, F1 hybrid of Texas Cichlid and Convict Cichlid. One of our granddaughters kept a juvenile Texas cichlid when we were collecting at nearby Coleto Creek. It grew up to be a lonely male, so I gave it a nice female Convict. They had two large spawns before she went to fishy heaven. I moved the offspring into vats and some escaped. So far, I haven't been able to get F2s so I suspect the F1s are sterile.
Charles
@Goliad Farms They look really similar to a male Con that I got ~8 years ago when working at Petco. He grew up to be, what I consider, LARGE by Con standards. All fins had a beautiful blue bordering. He was also the first Con I really saw get a nuchal hump. After a few years he passed, but I gave all his remaining offspring to a buddy to go with his Vieja, Firemouth, JD's...and those offspring got even larger than dad. Wish I had the space for more right now, but I slimmed down to FL gulf native fish. (Elassoma sp, Fundulus chrysotus, Lucania goodei, Etheostoma sp)
@@chris6054 Those are all nice fish. We have some interesting Fundulus chrysotus populations here. We also now have Lucania goodei in a local stream via an accidental introduction.
Charles
@Goliad Farms interesting as in, do you guys have the...melanistic(?) Ones around you? I've seen Fundulus chrysotus, only from pictures, that have black speckling instead of their typical red and it shocked me. Wasn't willing to spend what the person wanted per fish
Great 🎶 music
I agree. I think Carl added that soundtrack to mask the humming from the water pumps.
Charles
looks like some nice keepers in there.
There are some I'd like to use in Peacock breeding programs.
Charles
Awesome 🐠🐠🐟🐟🐟🐠
Thank you for watching our feral fish.
Charles
Beautiful
Some great fish in there!
Charles
So cool 🎉❤
That was Greenhouse 1 sump. Next time we'll do Greenhouse 2. It has a little different structure and some differences in fish.
Charles
Magnificently majestic, thanks for posting this is so beautiful and interesting to watch 😊❤ greetings from Holland 😊
Nice to hear from you. Hello from South Texas.
Charles
Send our love to stormy 😊
We have an update of farm livestock including people coming up soon. I'll let Stormy know you said hi.
Charles
I wanna go swimming in the sump 😀
If we have a fish festival at the farm, I plan on offering chances to snorkel with the fish.
Charles
Wonderful.
Thank you for watching our feral fish.
Charles
Love the sump fish 👍
I like them too. There are some very interesting fish in the sumps.
Charles
It’s impressive that the Koi fishs can grab enough food among all these African cichlids
Koi are still carp. They can be as aggressive as any fish to keep fed.
Feeding is always a frenzy in the sumps. But everyone seems to get enough to grow.
Charles
I don't know what variety of Molly those where but the ones with the orange tipped tails where so pretty
Those are either Poecilia mexicana or its hybrids.
Charles
Bună ziua.Ați făcut acolo un colț de rai.Un habitat aproape identic cu cel din Africa cred, de unde se trag mai toate speciile de ciclide.
It is heaven to me, and I hope for the fish as well. While the density of fish is higher than in Lake Malawi, it does have the feel of that lake.
Charles
Where, when and how can I get a lucky dip bag of sump fish! Sign me up!!!
I'm thinking of how we can do that. One thought is that I scoop out a net of fish, remove any I want to keep as breeders, sort through the remainders, pick a half dozen of the best (probably all males), and offer that "random" scoop. I've also thought of how we might house and offer individual fish. That requires a lot more marketing than we've done in the past. My preference would be to have a couple of farm fish festivals a year during which we'd harvest the sumps and offer the fish to the attendees. Is anyone interested in traveling to South Texas for a festival. We could also do some collection trips to local waterways.
Charles
The music is quite fitting.
Carl selected the music. He does some of the filming and edits all the videos we make.
Charles
Do you ever clean out your sump and sell off some of the fish ?
We have in the past netted sump fish out for wholesale customers. We have never completely emptied the sumps.
We are working on how to sell sump fish to individuals.
Charles
The list of “YES” is both long and varied. Numbers. Diversity. Quality. Some of those fish could easily return into the numbers of brood stock. It is pretty obvious what is keeping the numbers of livebearers at a reasonable level. The sump dwellers both add slightly to the mulm. Their presence also stirs it up assisting in breaking it down and preventing areas of build up/ blockage of the sumps. Act as a part of a multi layer check and balance controlling the numbers of insect larvae in the sumps also keeps down the adult pests. Mosquitos Gnats ect. Helps to maintain herd immunity to many combinations of minor health issues. Any predator be they snakes rats whatever would most likely target the low hanging fruit in the sump rather than make the extra effort of attacking valuable breeding stock in the vats. With the added bonus of the boys running around the fish rooms will deter and distract most vermin by chasing out and probably chewing on any rat, raccoon, possum, looking for free food before they do too much damage. They provide entertainment and distraction for yourself and other staff. With that extra huge bonus of the good work from the sump dwellers saves the extra time and work that otherwise would have been spent on a percentage of the hours maintaining the sumps. Rather than working on the breeding, raising, selling and shipping fish to customer base. Time is as always a resource you cannot squander. The actions of all types of fish in the sumps from livebearers to the big plecos. All play their part. After the storms that caused such massive damage and losses the survivors in the sumps helped to restart some of your lost brood stock.
You covered the situation well!
Charles
Stunning! Also I'm surprised how quickly the ratios changed. I don't really see any Molly's anymore
The mollies and swordtails are common in the floor gutters. Some hang around the edges of the sumps but are rarely in the deeper water. We'll do a floor gutter video soon to show the livebearers.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 oooh! I can't wait to see! Thank you
@@goliadfarms7029 will you be selling Sailfin Mollied and Swordtails soon? It seems the only places that sell them have questionable shipping. I know. I've recieved some boxes that looked like they were packed by an 8 year old. Thanks for the video by the way!
@@elaineluikart5459 We hope to start offering mollies, swords, and platies this summer.
Charles
Is that Fossorochromis rostratus in there too?
Yes, it is. Over the years, some F. rostratus have escaped and established themselves in the sump in Greenhouse 2.
Charles
This was completely mesmorising
It is a bit hypnotic to watch so many nice fish. Carl's music selection was also interesting.
Charles
they seem to all get along!
I imagine there are some disagreements and some predation on fry, but I've found that crowded cichlids get along a lot better than just a few fish.
Charles
Do u ever spot a sump fish and think its awsome and catch it out to breed.?
Yes. In fact, our Dolphin Peacock strains descend from a humped OB Peacock male from Greenhouse 1 sump way back in 2011. Currently, I have my eye on a couple of Red OB Peacocks, one in each sump.
Charles
What type of intake filters do your sump pumps have on them?
We use 1/4" aquaculture netting cages around the intakes. Also, just before the pump is a basket with 1/8" mesh.
Charles
How are they feral fish? They're still inside a container???
They are feral in the sense that we no longer have control over their breeding and survival. The greenhouses constitute their own ecosystems. There are many species in the systems that we didn't introduce, such as Diamondback Water Snakes, Texas Ribbon Snakes, Bullfrogs, four species of Tree Frogs, Texas toads, etc. And, that's not mentioning all the plants, insects, arachnids, , mollusks, and annelids that have colonized the greenhouses.
Charles
You should have a spot on your site that says Sump Fish 🐟
I've thought about livestreaming the sump fish but haven't looked into what would be involved.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that sounds awesome I hope you can figure out something. Maybe place the fish in the small tank you use and give them a number and people can email you if they are interested in that numbered fish
@@miguelcintron7048 We don't use aquaria at this time, but we will be rebuilding Greenhouse 3 this summer and that'll give us some extra vat space for housing individual fish to sell.
Charles
This one couldn’t take eyes off. Reminds me of a marbled grouper. 9:13 9:49 10:04 14:37 16:30 16:41 18:57 22:14
That is a female Nimbochromis polystigma. The specific name, polystigma, roughly means "very spotted." The males have a completely different color pattern. You can see them in an earlier video. Just search our site for Nimbochromis polystigma. We also raise its close relative Nimbochromis venustus.
Charles
Being there are no fry cages or hotels, can there really be that many mixed breeds?
There are cages around the intakes for the pumps in the sump that provide some cover. There are also Piper auritum and Dieffenbachia roots in the water. Additionally, the floor gutter has ample cover in the form of hollow concrete blocks forming the walkways and lots of plant roots. There is considerable reproduction in the floor gutter with lots of small livebearers surviving predation.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 nature finds a way!
Do you ever sell any of those gold colored obs
We sell Gold Peacocks, Gold OB Peacocks, and Gold OB Dolphin Peacocks.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 do you ship to homes or just airports?
@@lewisspeed3041 We ship to homes via UPS overnight.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 sorry for all the questions,but how much is shipping to Florida,also what are the prices for the gold females
I think i saw a koi fish at the start of the video
Yes, I spotted him too. 👍🏻
Yes. The Koi came from an aquaponics system Carl and I set up for Goliad Elementary School. Unfortunately, the sponsor moved to a different school district and no one stepped in to keep it going. So, we rescued the Koi and released them into Greenhouse 1 and Greenhouse 2 sumps. They have settled in well.
Charles
cool
Thank you for watching our active feral sump fish.
Charles
Need to put some minnow traps in there and thin the heard.
Ashley has been doing some trapping. There is a male molly she wants. She has trapped many, many convict cichlids. We thought we'd lost all of them in the Texas Winter Storm but some obviously survived in the sumps and floor gutters.
Charles
What is the light blue fish with the bright yellow dorsal fin and causal fin?
Causal fin, not causal.😅
@@Dracobear13 try one more time😂
Caudal fin, and it's a type of African Cichlid, a Peacock
Chris, I know that,but which one?
@DRAGONLAIR Then it should be pretty easy for you to find the fish, and then the name. Its just a morph of an African peacock. You asked for the fish, and got the fish
Niceeeee
Thank you. There are some pretty fish among our feral sump fish.
Charles
i was gonna say whats already been said sell some of these insanely beautiful fish
maybe even auction some really unique or nice ones
We are trying to figure out how best to sell those fish. I would like to host a farm fish festival and let attendees catch and buy the fish.
Charles
We're looking into an auction. Right now we don't have space to isolate the fish to auction. Maybe once Greenhouse 3 is rebuilt, we can do that.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thank you for the reply I love all the hard work you do sounds awesome
i think i saw a koi
Yes, there are several Koi in the sumps. Goliad Elementary School had an aquaponics project with Koi. When that project ended we rehomed the Koi to our sumps.
Charles
too long of viewing the same fish in this video most of us perfer the info content i could look at my take if i want that
Sorry for the tardy reply.
We try to do a mix of videos. Some love the sump fish. Some like the content. We have been derelict in posting new videos, but that will change soon.
Charles