How Easy is Guppy Breeding? | 30 Day Experiment 

Usually you dont put the hiding spots at the bottom but at the top. the females usually give birth more at the top and if the baby has to swim all the way down to hide.. of course its going to get eaten before it can hide :) Guppygras is the key. put alot of guppygras in and the results will be better.

Albio guppy breeder here. I want to add some suggestions. Baby guppies tend to hang around at the surface of the tank first before they go down. You will lose many fry if you have a bare top without plants and cover. Floating plants like pistia stratiotes and hornworth are ideal for fry. They will stay close to the plant without the adults even seeing them or coming near them. You also need plants to cover the mid section and bottom of the tank for the fry. They will stay close to the plants and come out slowly as they age. I just farmed about 150 baby albino guppies in 1 month from my breeding group. Also you need to keep the adult fed at all times. So you feed them atleast 5/6 times a day to keep them happy and keep the fry alive. Eventually they will ignore the fry completely.

I have heavily planted tanks and I still remove fry the second I see them, hunt out the rest and I've even spent hours waiting and watching the girls give birth so I can catch them bc I've found no matter how many hiding spots you give them, the adults will eat anything that moves that can fit in their mouths. I put the fry in my shrimp tanks to grow them out, its the only thing that's worked for me to get maximum saves

It was such an honour to come to your store and meet you yesterday. The quality of your fish are seriously next level. I especially liked your blue grass guppy. Will definitely be back for a ram :)

I love when you do these kinds over time experimental grow out videos. So awesome man, thanks!

For under $20, you can head down to Petbarn and grab an isolation floater. When you notice the females becoming gravid, you pop them in. It gives the fry somewhere safe to get to a size they won't be eaten. Great way to build up population

I almost missed this video, one of my favourite little fish, my favourite thing with these is experimenting with different strains and creating your own, I found the best way in a smaller tank like this is to divide the tank or make plastic mesh baskets and fill them with plants, the females know to drop next to them and the young will scoot for cover as a natural instinct, another good way is to load the tank with finer leaf plants Ambulia or Guppy Grass but the females are pretty smart and can still hunt them down so the mesh has been the best for me in the past, another great video Nick.

Guppies prefer living and feeding near the surface, and so do their babies. Rather than a spawning mop, floating plants would have been better hiding places for the newborn. In my experience, Hornworth, Cabomba and Guppy Grass are the best options. Also, roots of floating plants like Water Lettuce provide very good cover to small fry.

Hey Nick, I hope you had a nice vacation, and congratulations on the Bug Buffet!!

Ngl, my dream is to have a shop like yours one day ! Keep up the good work and thank you for being great!

Guppies are amazing and easy to breed, I highly reccomend getting an autofeeder to keep the females healthy and constantly churning out babies. Also LOTS of nice plants for cover will make your population explode. Wisteria, guppy grass, and similar plants are a good type of plant to keep the fry safe.

I like hornwort as fast-growing cover as well. As a floater or planted. Once again, great stuff, Nick. Thanks for the share.

Nick i missed these kinds of videos from you. Please make more.

Just received a bag of your Bug buffet food and wow. What amazing stuff. All the fish get their share of food and honestly I have never seen them happier. Thankyou so much 😊😊

Nick thank you for the look at the hill streams. And that bug buffet I grabbed is awesome couldn’t recommend it more everything is loving it. Will be back for more fish and food and promise I will bring you some well established long arm prawns.

I had a trio of galaxy guppies (2 female, one male) in a community tank for several months. Last week I put them in an outdoor porch pond. Within three days of removing them from the threat od all possible fry-eaters, they exploded a huge batch of babies!

guppy breeding got me in to the freshwater fish hobby also, but as soon as i got the guppies i saw how hard it was lol

I've had excellent luck with various size marbles on the bottom of the tank. It only takes about 2 layers and allowed plenty of hiding places and escapes routes and the parents couldn't get down in there. Then the babies had plenty of food that got down in there with time to eat it with no predation. The best luck I've had is just watching the tank every day or two and separating out the females that look like they were about to burst. They birthed in a floating net cage with a bottom of plastic grass plants, cheap and I usually had15-20 babies make it to adulthood.

Thanks mate, I really enjoy your vids. ❤

Amazing content as usual!

Luv ur attitude brother. Always keep experimenting. Also its great to find a channel with no curse words in the audio. 🙏🏻👍🏼

I use a spawning mop and lots of floating plants. The live plants give the aduilts something to nibble on and also plenty so hiding places for the fry.

How cool, can't wait to see what you get up too next! Keep up the amazing work mate, fishroom looks amazing!

Use yellow or white spawning mops/Easter egg grass for your albinos. You’ll have more fry survivors. And use a unpainted tank if possible.

Would be cool to see if you could crossbreed the guppies as well to get your own strains. The snake skin with the orange would be amazing.

Hi Nick Lots of Java Mos and Guppy Grass will fix the baby predation.

Years ago I used a small guppy breeding tank that floated in main tank. Put the pregnant female in the top section and fry dropped into separate part then returned female to the tank.

Im not much of a fish guy, but the amount of variety is sick. really cool to see

thanks for doing the experiment. very interesting premise. seems like selling some of the breeders messed with the data a little. interesting how every strain treats their fry differently. would love to see this run again with what you can improve from this experiment. could really refine a hands free process if the situation requires it.

Wow those snake skins are incredible. I'm currently working on my own strain of endler. Only just started so I've got a long, long, long way to go 😅.

Such as amazing video🤩

Would definitely recommend surface cover like floating plants with roots to hide in or guppygrass. The more cover the better

Hi Nick, my fish love "Bug Buffet" thank you 😀

Got my 24k gold guppies yesterday. The males look like platinum guppies with a slight bluish tale. (Due to being shipped.) The gold colour is slowly coming back. But I wouldn’t be upset if it didn’t they look amazing already lol. Makes me want to get more platinum guppies and try and get blue into them.

I love this guy Man he has his own Fishtank shop he has his own breathing set up and he thought of spawn Mark would make a hiding space for loads of pairs of guppies I’m so happy you’re doing well mate but you do make me laugh ha ha ha ha😂

im new to the hobby 3months now ... i love guppies bot only bec they are easy to breed but man they are so beautiful and friendly fish ... very pleasant to watch ...they are dancing all the time ... i had fries from all ages 3 to 80 days mostly females 😅

When I was young my mother loved guppies. And mini catfish. She would cry when the adult guppies would eat their babies. She tried the floating nets to separate guppies and plastic mini floating tanks with a removable 'V' shape in the bottom with just enough of a crack the babies would sink and momma guppy couldn't get to them fast enough (most of the time). But this still bothered my mother as many would still be eaten. So she had several tanks and separated mother guppies when they became dark gravid. This satisfied my mother because she could fill the tank with leafy plastic plants for the babies to immediately hide. It wasn't very long and we had several hundred guppies. So many beautiful colors. My mother is gone but I still love them to this day.

Hey bro. Cab you do a video on culling.. how to select bad fry vs good fry. Not necessarily guppy specific.. but.. general guide would e great

I put a single male and female guppy in a heavily planted 22g long ~3 months ago. I now have ~30 nearly full-grown guppies. Some of the "babies" are already gravid... Guppies are wild lol

Excellent !!!

It is extremely easy man. I’m doing it on accident and I’m a month in with zero guppy deaths and they’re all thriving in their own tank with my cherry shrimps and some are even in little self contained ecosystems made from spare trimmings and part pond water part tank water, with daphnia I set around the house

If the aquarium or the water is dark, the guppies won't eat the small ones even without a hiding place, from my experience. They are more calmer when the water is not crystal clear, I use a kind leave to make the water brown and make the fish calmer, I don't know the English for that type of leave though,

Awesome videoo brother 👏👏👏👏

love the video got a new filter

KFS you have the best vids

I used to breed guppies before til I shifted to endler which are, for me, more natural-looking. I love live-bearers!

I'm Just amazed how they grew so fast

Beautiful guppies!

Do you colony breed your/these guppies all in one tank, and sell them when they get older? Or do you have separate tanks to run different lines of guppies

very good!

Hi. If you remove the mystery snail eggs to stop them multiplying, how do you dispose of the eggs to avoid them hatching.

Definitely try elodea.

Floating plant is the best hidden place for baby. Baby guppy prefer to stay at the top of the water along with vegetation. The normal water lettuce is the perfect plant to breed guppy

Guppies are everything y said😊 Whats the mop material? Do you treat It before?

So cute

I've been looking on your website - do you ship to the US? I really wanna try this new food in my tanks!

I hadn’t considered the difficulty level of breeding guppies until this video showed up in my recommended!

Is Bug Buffet available in the US? Ingredients look Great! Thanks so much.

You should try to breed therafin rainbow fish I would love to see how the eggs look like and how the fry fish look like.

Long fins also called Ribbon in the guppy world is really hard to breed because of those elongated gonopodiums.

I’m just wondering how amazing being able to take a month holiday is 😂

Basically I was very lucky in spotting my 2 females giving birth, so I managed to save 70+ fry 😍 now I'm left wondering what to do with them hahah In the meantime I set up 2 fry boxes inside the main tank where they were born :) I need 1 or 2 more fry boxes 😧 Don't want them overcrowded in the boxes, thinking about potential stunned growth

I always have 2 female and one male guppy in my community tank. They are excellent at providing live food for my Angel and Siamese fighter.

I don't think mops really make a great hiding spot for guppy fry, and that's where you went wrong. when i setup my fish room next year and start breeding in earnest my fancy guppy colony will be "let vals take over 80% of a 20-long, then introduce guppies"

i'm surprised by your lack of plants in these tanks. endlers are even easier to breed as they will not eat their fry

If I have a 10 gallon with a batch of fry how often and much should I change the water out ?

You're awsome, I have a 20 gallon long tank that I'm getting ready to put fish in and I'm thinking of putting a whole bunch of some sort of schooling fish, any recommendations from anyone?

I just ordered 2 pairs of albino koi guppies good thing i got a breeding box since the albinoes are known to eat babies

Hey is that woop at the bottom of one of the tanks ? May I ask what's the purpose

in your opinion how important is super pure guppy genetics VS random mutt fancyish guppies. Will there actually be genetic issues in the mutts, or is it actually better to go with the pure bred stuff?

Hey dude just wondering how long does it for sliver dollars to hatch eggs after mating?

So I had a livebearer tank. Barely any plants or any form of protection. What I did have though was a sump linked to the tank and a weir on the top. The guppies would give birth to the fry at the surface. The flow of the water would be too strong for the fry to resist and they would get pulled into the sump. In the sump I had sponges which would stop the fry from getting anywhere near the pump. Didn't realise how much they would breed and how much of a headache it would be having to pull fry out of the sump daily and putting them in separate breeding cages for them to grow up in the same tank. Had 6 of these cages with 10-20 fry in each at one point. Was too much to handle so gave them away to my LFS. I learnt my lesson. No livebearers in my tank now. Phew!

You should try dumbo guppies and dumbo mosaic guppies... they are great colorful and so vivid ...

this video is nice

are the yarn thingy self made?

Hey huge fanfan of your workmoney Can you tell us hiw to breed nemo fish clown fish. Thank you

I just want to ask do you have ever tried to breed koly lotch?

What finish is on the bottom of the tanks?

Try cobra guppies they are beautiful !!

You forget tolk about the snalls 😂

How did the snails do?

Can you do a ember tetra breeding video ?

Wait a second, I love youre videos but I have a question you said a lot of times to not breed 2 diffrent colors of neocaridinas because they will become brown, but you did a video were you cross breed 2 different colors, so is it ok to do cross breeding or not?

where do you purchase bug buffet from?

Can we see a video on how you do your auto waterchanges

So it’s ok to put tarn in your tank

can i breed guppy in a tank with hang on filter? just for hobby

i love this video 🥰😍

Hi bro did you ever keep scarlet baris?

What temperature is your breeding tank

Do you ship guppies to Winnipeg, Canada?

I already have guppies but I wanted to hear you talk hehehe

Where did you buy your guppies from?

Does the female guppy need the male to make pups ? Thanks

Pq vc não bota na descrição em português? Seria muito 👍

Cost to ship bug buffet to ontario canada?

Is crossbreeding guppies possible? Or would it harm the offspring in any way? It would make really cool mixes but i wouldn’t want my guppied to be disabled in any way.

One of my guppies just gave birth the 6th, a month after I got them, it’s crazy how easy it is, it definitely requires space if people want to sell them, to keep them separated. Mine just gave birth to at least 20 guppies, a few days in between

Easy peasy. Breeder here of 15 strains of guppy 🔥👍

Where can I purchase your guppies