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My guppy had 12 fry today! The father is a red snakeskin and the mother is a yellow girl. Can't wait to watch them grow up!

Teacher:what are you doing Me:studying how to take over the world with guppies Teacher:takes off mask and reveals Michaels butiful face and claps

I find it much harder to not breed guppies, they are the bunnies of the aquatic world.

Guppys are the horniest fish it's easy to breed them.

I think you did great. Keeping that camera steal the way you did is something many people don't consider. I appreciate you keeping it still. It makes watching the fish look normal while you're teaching. Preciate it. And you know bloopers are always a hit!

Thanks a lot 😃it has been so helpful. My guppies had fries today morning. Love from India

WANNA KNOW MY SECRET TO BREEDING GUPPIES. ? MUSIC PLAYS*

those black guppies look really nice!

First video I’ve ever watched of you, ngl the intro took me off guard and I’m not sure how I feel about it because you’re actually chill 🤣

I set up a 40 gallon breeder to give breeding guppies a try. I put 3 males and 8 females in and planted it very heavy with various plants. I just noticed one baby in the tank but that is it. I guess the others didn't hide well enough to avoid getting eaten. I searched the local fish stores for java moss but no luck so I ordered some from amazon along with some frog bit floating plants. Hopefully my plants will continue to grow in and I'll have a better survival rate in the future

Would love to see a video about how you setup your plumbing system.

I like your honest view on culling as you explained it far better than others. I had an incident with my very first batch of fry and as I was desperately trying catch them from the main tank to move them to the nursery, I wasn’t quick enough and to my horror, had to watch 1 of them get eaten. Some might call me a snowflake it taught me that I am not cut out to use them as feeders. So my method is to let nature deal with it so what I don’t see I don’t worry about. The thing that gets my goat is those that deliberately kill just because they don’t like the colour or they are not completely perfect. As you and I know, provided their are no health related problems, the public will still buy them because they just want a pet Guppy and in my experience, couldn’t care less whether the colouring or size is the be all and end all of life. I have a horrific story of advice that was given to me by a breeder that I will share in a different post because this one is long enough already, of what I should do with a baby Guppy that had an injury to his spine and they’re proud, horrific way of killing it. That particular Guppy is now perfectly fine as the injury disappeared but if I had gone ahead with his solution, I don’t think I would never have forgiven myself.

I breed guppies in 5g and 8g tanks or buckets. Once I have established enough algae and plants i no longer do regular water changes. I remove the males once the females are pregnant and put them in 1g jars and 2.5g tanks. I want a 55g to keep my males in, hopefully soon. I have very fast growth rates and hardly ever lose any and their color is magnificent. My PH is 7.8 and i keep the tanks around 76deg. I feed them flakes 3 times a day and brine shrimp 3 times a week. I keep them with cherry or algae shrimp to clean up after them and they are also breeding very well. I always found smaller more frequent feedings result in faster growth. If i could feed 5 times a day i would but its just too much to manage.

I loved your energy and positivity in this video. Thanks for making this vid btw because it helped me and a ton of others out a lot 😄

You the King Guppie Breeder the Gurroo of awesomeness 👌

3 years later I found you and I love you! Lol awesome videos and explanations etc good stuff Michael

I know this video is a few years old but I have just discovered the channel. When you said $4 per gallon I almost fell of my seat!! I have searched everywhere but the cheapest tank I can find in Australia right now works out to be roughly $2 per litre. (roughly $8usd per gallon, or $1.50 USD per 0.44 gallon) 😭 I just spent $200 AUD on a 100 litre tank (26 gallon) and that was off of ebay... From a retail store you are looking at $400-$1000 for the exact same setup, even buying second hand the prices are insane.

I'm JUST getting into the guppy thing so I thought your video was pretty helpful for me thank you.

Finally! ..The Secret! Thank you sir. :)

I need to get a 5 gallon tank set up to pull the mother but I still get a decent amount of fry just letting my 20 gallon do its thing. I do have a decent amount of females and I have them breeding in softer water. My fathers are yellow or red tiger endlers (mostly yellows gotta thin out the yellows a bit) and the mothers are yellow cobra tail guppies

I was yelling cost effective but you didn't hear me anyways lol

cool video thanks for sharing

Loved the video. Not my first one but I did subscribe today. Totally agree with the philosophy, from the cycle of life to alternate living quarters for the fish. Of particular interest was the Java Moss and sponge filter. I'm getting in some dwarf sag this week to plant in my 40 breeder and 10g Marina. The 10g will be for guppies. Both have Seachem Flourite black stone. Seeing this video makes me think Java Moss is way better. Not sure what to make of that yet.

deffinatly nice looking guppies!!!!!!👍🖒👏

I like those tanks with the pvc pipes

SINCE WH3N BREEDING BUBBLE GUPPIES WAS A BIG SECRET LOL OMG FIRST TIME I SEE A WALMART TOILET PLUMBING PIPE SETTING KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK😜🌈🦄

Good morning Michael. How are you. Lots of love from India.

SUPER HELPFUL VIDEO

That's the best way no waist.thanks for showing us.more breeding videos please

It helped me a lot thank you

Thanks a lot it helpful

My mutts bred and there are maybe 3 males of the original fry drop (about 10 fish). One resembles leopard tail, one some weird red/brown colour with blue flanks (it looks kinda like a Red Tuxedo) and one that is similar but without blue flanks. p.s. this is probably boring to you but to me - a 12 year old boy - this is somewhat significant.

Love the content, format, and informal style!

Lovely guppies...

Hi from France, thank you love yours videos and yours tanks 😍 peace ✌

Keep going as you are doing things and your opinions as well I loved watching what you were doing and talking about just great thanks

Nice care info but I have a quick question, I’m maybe getting a guppy breeding tank next week and I want to know what is a better substrate sand or gravel. I think sand cause it’s more softer and the guppy fry will be sitting on very soft sand, but gravel is hard and it will be stressing I think for the guppys. So I want to hear your opinion on what’s better

Your guppies are so beauty

hey dude, what are the rarest gups in Australia, would you know ? thanks steve.

Thanks for the videos i have been learning a lot and am eternally grateful.

7$ per endler at my lfs had 1 fry because community ate the others lol. Put the most Prego guppy in a breeder box so.. once she has her fry most should live. Hopefully

Would you be able to sell some of those blue grass guppies? They look awesome!

The bloopers are so funny 😂

Love your profile

Newbie to guppies. Little back story- my daughter brought home 2 guppies a male and female from school, so they were the cheapest simple gray colored ones. The male disappeared and the female, who gave birth to 11 fry 2 weeks ago just died today. We are down to 7 fry and I'm worried about raising them. Any definite helpful advice about breeding or inbreeding in my case? Also, how can I tell the males from the females at this young of an age (2-3weeks)

My water has a PH of around 6.7 to 6.8 so I'm assuming that's ok for guppies or should I add crushed coral?

Hi, just for reference (no im not a fish abuser) I breed GUPPYS at 69 degrees (during the winter that is what my house is at) and at a ph of 8.4 out of my tap. They breed fine and show great color... the real trick is to get the fish from petco/smart and make them live long enough to give birth... from then on I work with the fry that love my water.

can you do a video on how you do your water changes

Have u ever breed a platy and guppie together they don’t look bad at all saw a few video

Lots of knowledge here, thanks!

Wow that's a oldie

Do you think loaches would get along with Cory catfish and guppys

I have a 36 gallon tank fake plants tho I have probably 7 to 8 molleys and 5 gumppies males on both and female do u think they will all bread I don’t know how to add pic or I would

Bootleg nah your awesome

That intro....😆😆😆 But good video tho

Hahaha guppies are like rabbits are t they hahaha I had 2 that turned to 20 and then 100 and before I knew it I had tonnes of them hahaha great video michael and some very cool info too 🤗🤗

I have many babies which my fish store will take. I have one little guy/ girl with s crooked tail that pretty much keeps to himself. I'm thinking I better keep him as he may be picked on when they all mature. Opinion please

Michael please see this... what are you using for the floating plants on top? I am a new hobbyist here trying to put together a set up.

Oh it's a good idea

Thanks for the content. I recently got two different male guppys one from a Petco and another from a pet smart. The tank from petco said assorted fancy males and the tank from petsmart was named tuxedo male. My question here is should I get two females for them in the same tank? And what type of females best for them.... am a bit lost because I have two different males and am interested in breeding them.

Wow technical and philosophical answers. Where do you keep the Oscar that you feed the fish to be culled to?

Michael, great video as usual. Question. Are those 20 long aquariums in the beginning part of the video on the left? And if so, what type of top do you use?

So... I caught 23 frys... the temperature rose because outside it was 96 Fahrenheit, I removed the male, he has annoying the pregnant one. And then 1 after another. Some got eaten, by the mom and other fish. Now I have a third small 20L tank with 6x 2month old guppy fry. And in my big tank I have a small plastic container with the newly caught.. I really take good care of them but.. if I don’t sell them when they are bigger.. what can i do? Besides buying a new tank🤣🤣 also the first tank. What floating plants do you have!? I need those

Good vid but, a couple of questions. 1. From the look of it you are inbreeding and just removing those fish that look like they have issues?. I was under the impression this was not the wisest thing to do? 2. How are you preventing immature guppies from breeding if you aren't separating the males and females? 3. I have a female who has just dropped 15 fry and has stopped and still looks heavily pregnant it has been 2 days. Any advice here? Thanks in Advance

good thing...cycle of life

Question for you. I recently moved 3 of my female guppies from my 30 gallon to my 10 gallon tank. I’m 90% sure they are preganant (large belly, black spot on their underside is growing). Is this okay for them to give birth? One of them had one last night but it was immediately eaten (I’m getting more hiding places today). Any advice on how I can increase my chances of a larger yield? Do I need a bubble stone in the birthing tank? Thanks. (I have around 9 female and 8 male)

I hit the like button, great job

I like your chanell we have the same interest

What treatment do you use when you quarantine them? Great video & fantastic Guppies & Platies there mate!

superb job mike

always love your videos! keep it up

Ty for sharing!

My blue platys seem to be the fry I find in my tank. I have 2 male guppies and 6 females.. I don't know if they're eating them right as they're giving birth. It's hard to get them before they're dinner for the other fish. I don't like to stress out the females more than they are.. id love to know when they're about to give birth. I've tried to put the females in a breeding box but they don't usually give birth until I'm not looking. 😏

I love this one .

Great information, I'll send you an email soon! I have a 29 gallon and would like to add some nice guppies! I love those black panda's, I have never seen them before! Now I know what to do with the few I have that are somewhat deformed! :-)

What kind of aquatic plants do you have it your tank?

Thank u very very much

Will guppies over breed in a tank or will they control themselves?

sub gained.....i am gonna try guppies soon

I’m taking my first shot at breeding guppies now

Dude your videos are awesome can I buy a pair of half black guppies of you

My guppies dropped at least 30-40 fry over the past 2-3 days and I am literally “drowning” in guppy fry. I’ve separated the fry from the adults and have them in their own tank right now. I’m wondering how long before they are mature enough to start breeding? I want to avoid this as I don’t have enough room for more fry, or adults for that matter. I’m not able to determine the males from the females yet as they are too small, or my eye sight is too bad. But I’ll be able to see the sex when they are a bit older. I’ve separated the adult males from the females and want to do the same with the fry when I can see what sex they are.

i absolutely love those black and white guppies that look like killer whales...are those the German breed?

subbed! love the content!

Great video as always

good video keep up the good work

Culling is a bad subject here (as with many people). You explained Culling humanly. You just added me to the subscriber list.

How do I breed Guppies.....I buy them! LMAO!!

After it releases the babies do you scoop it out and grow it seperately?

Great video sir

Can I know beside install water pump, is there any way can help to produce oxygen for guppy?

Hey how much is ur cheapest guppy

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My tiger Endlers(bought 2.2) both dropped same day then 3-4 weeks later they dropped ALOT(20 each) on the same day

My guppies live in my room with aircon on it so does it mean they will live long since the water is cool because of the aircon

Great video! I really like how you have your tank setup. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Nice info bro, keep it up!

if ur in vancouver might buy and start breeding guppies

I am planning on getting at 28l tank (6 gallons) and probably getting 4 guppies to go with it. I’m not sure what heater to use with my 6 gallon tank to get it to the 72-80 degree temperature that they need. Does anyone have any recommendations, that are not that expensive? Thanks a million!

How could you possibly manage to breed guppies for specific traits without backcrossing or other breeding techniques requiring inbreeding? What would be the minimum size of the gene pool to pull it off effectively with no risk of genetic abnormalities or inbreeding depression?