I was lucky enough to get a tour of this fish room with Greg yesterday! Amazing! I love when people have a true passion about fish. The quality of these fish are amazing. Overall, I’m still nerding out.
You know what I like about this guy? He keeps it real! I love the fact that he doesn't care about having water spots on his tanks. You know real life! I love the fact that he REALLY CARES about breeding and keeping/sharing these fish with us so they won't be lost. I love the fact that not only is he a breeder he is an educator! He has so much information on his website and will email you for any question you may have. I'm truly inspired by both of you! I'm new at breeding but I feel so much better with people like this in front of me showing it how it's done! A humble thanks to you both!
For some reason, I keep coming back to this fish room tour. Im not sure whether is the outstanding chemistry between the two, the beautiful fish on display, or Greg's little nuggets of information he injects constantly, but there's something so exciting and enriching about this tour. :)
Absolutely fascinating! It's wonderful that he keeps certain species true instead of just trying to sell, sell, sell! He cares about preserving the species! That's very honorable!!
Make sure to check out the unboxing I did of his fish so you can see his packing job from last year. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dpfhODuLh40.html
Greg is truly a great human. He is so nice and always willing to talk about his passion. He is a wealth of knowledge and he doesn't shy away from passing it along.
This quickly became one of my favorite videos! Love the rare live-bearers. Having kept mollies and guppies for a year now, I have an affinity for live-bearers.
Greg Sage is a wonderful person, caring about the fish he keeps and shares great information to keep these fish in tip top shape and help others. Nice to have him nearby, beautiful fish. I have a pair of his Odessa Barbs and they are big, strong looking active fish! The Dragons are amazing.
Greg Sage is an epic legend! He definitely knows his stuff when it comes to Goodieds. I wish that only one day I could be this good at breeding any fish.
Steenfott Aquatics you can really tell he loves what he does with all the care and effort he puts into the fish. When fish look as good as these do on camera you know they are absolutely beautiful in person! Now the real question is Which of all these amazing fish will I put in my new 55, there are too many great options!
Greg is an absolutely awesome guy, and has crazy assortment of rare fish in what looks like a super packed fish room. He helped me get some of those old school box filters, and they do a great job of keeping my tank clean. Thanks Cory for the tour.
Hey Cory! I wanted to let everyone know that I had a chance to go to Select aquatics today in person. My wife and I are avid newcomers to the hobby and Greg was great about showing us around and letting us tour his fish room. At the end of the day we picked up a little monster of a dwarf petricola and a hopeful mate for her. I highly suggest if you live in CO to send Greg an email, he is quick to reply and I am sure he would love to send some fish home with you. Thanks again for featuring them, his wife is lovely and they have a cute dog too.
I first saw this fish room in a video by Dustin's Fish tanks, but yours blows his out of the water! Such beautiful fish, especially the xenotoxa doadrioi. 😍
I am just getting into tropical fish. I have lots of time so can do any number of water changes. I like the fact that people like you are providing the fish. Thank you
I admire the heck out of this guy. Just Wow. I am home sick today from a job I'm trying to eventually trade for a life passion one day.🤞🏻 I've been watching various videos based on my interests all day, Im SO glad I landed here. I just wanna sit and listen to him talk more and learn. He has SO much to teach and you can tell he is in it for the various species he cares for and not just an extra buck. 💚
Aquarium Co-Op Thanks, Will do! I just saw your fish room tour and you're pretty awesome yourself! I can definitely identify with the livebearer direction. I adore them. Your gups are AMAZING.
I don't know about in the US - but I was keeping/breeding and showing those Sailfin Mollies in the Mid 1970s - my 'Best in Show' boy got to 8 inches over two years.
Love those Yucatans!!!!!!! I was going to setup my 150 with 3-4 Demasoni breeding groups. I had a few Yucatans 45 years ago. I think the 150 will become a Yucatan tank now. Sounds like it's still an underrated fish. Thank you Cory, great trip.
I've been waiting to see his fish - his website got me excited about swordtails again and taught me a lot! Just so MANY GREAT FISH!! Thanks Greg! Thanks Cory!
In a word Greg Sage is amazing! Really cool to see two of my aquarist idols together talking shop about crazy cool livebearers! Keep the vids coming Cory!
Outstanding video. Everything so simple and old school in that firshroom. Some of the most beautiful looking fish I've never seen. Thanks for sharing and posting.
Aquarium Co-Op For sure! Setting up another tank this week was originally for more swordtails but now seeing just how many different livebearers there are starting to change my mind lol
I really enjoyed this Cory. I've watched it when it first came out but came back this morning from the Selectaquatics site. I'm going to order from him when my new tank is cycled. Thanx for sharing.
The river were the "Puente Pino Suarez" lived is now completely dry. The fish is lost in the wild here in Mexico. I hope you keep breeding them. It would be more of a shame to lose the ones that are left. I should say. Thank you for saving those little ones!
Those giant Sailfin Mollies, remind me of small Arctic Grayling. I enjoy watching people with passion towards their hobby, though this is beyond a hobby I suspect. Thank you for sharing this!
Great visit Cory - What a guy Greg is! Proper fish man! Those swords were unbelievable and definitely you should get some of those Alvaresi Gold - stunning! Man I wish I lived in the USA!
Not sure if you check old comments but im gonna go for it: when talking about the shrimp and how they are throughout the room why does he mention he doesn't have Corydoras or catfish as if the two couldn't co-exist please let me know as I'm starting a black corydora breeding project and was thinking of getting shrimp as tankmates to breed together. What do you think? Love these older fish room tours I have been learning so much info on breeding Cory's especially alloddballs room! Keep it up!
Fascinating video. I used to breed live bearers as a hobby and used filter boxes like those in the video. Rather than common I discovered that aquarium gravel made a good filtering medium that could be washed out and used over and over and being a poverty stricken hobbyist this was good. Part of why I got into live bearers is because they kept having babies which replaced the fish that died off for free. So you only bought them once. I used to have a lot of water plants. I often put them in little flower pots and planted them in aquarium gravel. That way I could move them. Some may winder why the fish are not more colorful. The answer is most of that color comes from cross breeding different but related species of fish most commonly platys and swordtails while breeder here is not crossing fish.
you're videos are always informative. I have bin a fan since you started building out the fish room. the video that grabbed my attention and made me a big fan was the fish talk with Lamont when you explained ph, I learned a lot and u 2 looked genuine. PS Love the fact that you share the business aspect of your life
I'm definitely getting on of those green dragons. I love bristle noses and those guys just look like hypercool versions of them. From what I can tell, they like the same conditions too.
I love this guy! His tanks arent beautiful (neither are mine) But his fish are so happy and breeding heavily, like mine always do as well! Those dragon fin plecos are amazing!
I must have those plump Yucatan Mollies; they have been #1 on my fish wish list for over a year now. I'm moving some stock out and around to accommodate those beauties. God, I can't wait; this year for sure!
Great video again Cory! I love that room! And I love Livebearers even more now! He's Poecilia Velifera look way better then mine haha. *_Keep up the good work and thumbs up!_*
18:53 One of my favorite fish. I started with 5 Odessa barbs, and the dominant male was very aggressive to the females and other fish. I added 3 more, 2 females and 1 male, for 4/4 and they were very chill. THey behave better when in larger schools. Very active fish always foraging and exploring. Some people say they aren't very hardy but i've had mine for 6 years now, lost 2 (i have a planted tank and do very minimal water changes). They were also rarely in stock at the LFS. The camera/light doesn't do a good job of showing their blue. They have a very bright neon blue flash on, i guess when the flash light hits them you can see it but they look way better on a well lit tank.
I was just at his house to pick up some fish. He has amazing fish. Super rare breeds. If you can order some fish or you live in Denver like I do I highly recommend you check out his website and get some fish that you won’t find in your local fish store.
Maybe you could market a daphnia farm kit to people so they can take the initial stock you sell them and then start raising their own food stock for their fish?
