Hey sir! Don't worry about the complainers and amateur directors. This content is RU-vid gold thank you!! People get too learn firsthand from a fish breeding legend for free and have the audacity too complain ridiculous.
Nice, gorgeous fish. I don't strip either, I have had great success in the past with this. At one point...more than I could handle. Keep up the great work.
The coloration that you are able to obtain in your breeders is truly amazing! I enjoy seeing your operation, from the inside. I’m wishing you continued success as you recover from the winter catastrophe.
Thank you. The trick to improving a strain of fish is to raise lots of them and then tightly select for color, shape, size, and health. It's a numbers game. When you are looking for the best 1% you'd better be raising hundreds to select from. Charles
We have six brats (children), three of whom worked in the hatchery before going on the more lucrative careers. Of our eight grandbrats, none have shown much interest in working in the hatchery, although Liz is raising some cichlids and axolotls, and Haley is keeping terrapins. Carl (our second eldest) lives on the farm and helps with major projects and is doing most of videography and all the editing and posting. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 No disrespect, but dang thats really sad. Someone better get in gear to start learning and continue this. It's truly amazing, and while you are a youthful young man with decades left, I would hate to see this disappear, ever. Every state, every city needs something like this. This type of system could go other directions for purposes like that, I know plants start to hinder your operations but a city could use this as a botanical garden base for instance. Excuse my ramble lol!
@@chris6054 Succession is always a problem in small businesses. Carl is taking an interest in the business now and I'm hoping he'll run with it. Charles
He'll, I'm still learning the pronunciation of many of the orchids I grow!!! 😅 I'll just take your word for it. Definitely are some gorgeous fish though. I find it refreshing that you allow your fish a natural cycle even in breeding. 👍
Hello Charles and Suzie! Hope you guys are doing well! I loved the way you explained cichlid aggression, it made more sense that way. Thanks for all the updates!
If you're using video editing software, that should be able to stabilize the video and reduce the sway. You'll always have sway with a handheld camera. Unless you get a gimble. Thanks for sharing these videos. :)
We are recovering. Tomorrow we finish inventorying and rebuilding breeding colonies. Next month we'll start processing the cichlid breeders that we set up in late February to see how they are progressing. Charles
Thank you. I look forward to their offspring. We'll know more about how good they are as breeders in a couple of breeding cycles (6-8 months from now) when their first offspring are maturing. Charles
I love all your videos..They are so interesting and informative.. I kept hearing you say you had lost all of a certain. I Didn't know what it was so i looked it up..It was a "busynose".. Thankyou for sharing!!
I will keep tossing in some genetics as we go forward. We have a fairly dense genetics discussion in an upcoming video about hifin genes in swordtails and platies. Charles
Charles, I know this is obviously not a scud video but being your most recent I figure to ask here while I watch. When shipping scuds, are breather bags required? Do you use breather bags?
@@goliadfarms7029 Hmmm...I may have to set up a few different bags and see just how long they can go in a non breather, then. Just for peace of mind and to see what their limitations for shipping would be! Thank you Charles!
ive actually never owned African cichlids, mostly since my water is soft. but i do have plenty of crushed coral and can change that. the main thing is i dont know where to start since African cichlids arent as simple as this species and that species so it is a little confusing trying to figure out what fish i want since there are many closely related and extremely similar fish that vary in size, color, and behavior, it actually reminds me of the tarantula keeping hobby in many respects, I own an Indian ornamental tarantula (Poecilotheria regalis) a gray and black tarantula, and a gooty sapphire tarantula(Poecilotheria metallica), a blue, white and yellow tarantula, but they are so similar in every way other than color that they can interbreed, in the wild both of them, and their relatives occasionally interbreed as well. but this kind of puts into question what a species is? these spiders and fish are different physically from their relatives, but they interbreed in the wild and live in many of the same places, how did they come to be different? this is why taxonomy is so hard for me, it isnt as simple as species A and B, its almost a spectrum.
Species is a very slippery concept. Look up "ring species." Nature is complex and doesn't yield well to rigid constructs. On personal note, we once had a female tarantula that two of our sons kept in a tank in an upstairs bedroom. One June one of our daughters told me the tarantula was on the stairs. I collected it and place it into the tank. The third time this happened, I got curious. I picked up the clay pot the tarantula lived under. It housed a fat female who had eaten the males I placed in her home. The three tarantulas on the stairway were males looking for a mate. Charles
ive heard of ring species, they are always very interesting. also not at all surprising that tarantula you had ate the males, it is usually either mate or get eaten, sometimes both. certain species of tarantula are a pain to breed, while others are willing to breed with species outside their genus, and cross genus breeding does occasionally work with tarantulas, and from what ive read they can be fertile as well.
Fish mainly get sick for two reasons: )1 environmental issues and 2) introduction of disease. We take care of the environmental issues (absent a disaster like the 2021 Texas Winter Storm) by controlling temperature with fans, heaters, shade cloth, etc. Most importantly, we maintain pristine water conditions via our plant filtration system. For a discussion about that, see this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-stuCiMWZZPE.html. We control diseases by preventing their introduction. The common diseases of fish such as Ich don't arise spontaneously. If you don't allow them to be introduced, you don't have them. To prevent introduction, we only allow fish into our systems after extensive quarantine. We don't purchase fish for resale. We only sell fish we raise. So that cuts down on the chances of disease introduction. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 we did with sheep what you did with fish that spit ftheir eggs. The stupid 1s, the 1s that got out,they all went in the freezer, the ones that got sore feet because they were show sheep raised in barns but then when deworming time, vet checks for fair, we had to come up with a new trick every time to catch them. The breeds that came from England where the sheep that got over the rock fences got into the corn and alfalfa fields had more twins so they were not exactly natural selection. The breeds that came from Africa,Spain and France were herded across the ranges, the 1s who wandered off either ended up as lion dinner or on the locals dinner tables. You can't get them away from the flock. We started with about a dozen sheep of eight different breeds from various countries so we had alot of different genes to work with. Then we hold of a breed of sheep that can have quadruplets and quintuplets and then the gene mixing got fun.When my daughter got to science class about 7th grade she could have taught the genetics class.
You tell em, parents who raise there own fry (or carry them in their mouth) produce healthier fish who make good future parents themselves. I never pull eggs or fry.
I agree with you. Good parents yield fish that will also be good parents. Yes, the marmalade is a dominant allele and some of your fish are carrying the recessive non-marmalade allele. We should have juvenile Golds available in about 4 months. Charles
BTW, I agree with your wife. Feullborni are my favorite mbuna. I bought my 1st pr in 1972. I paid over $100 for that pr. to. Just found some again 2 yrs ago and I'm enjoying them so much. I'm really glad you are working with them.
