How To Make Magic Guppy Water - "Natural" vs DIY 

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Guppies NOT breeding? I didn't even know that was possible. Maybe I've just always happened to live in places with hard water.

My favorite aquarium channel. I miss my tanks. Nice video!

Man, your explanations a really good for the “neurodivergent” viewer. I‘ve been assuming that my super hard (dechlorinated) Australian tap water was actually harmful, and therefore go through periods of using rain tank water. I would never have connected the dots between my water source cycles and the seemingly “spontaneous” population EXPLOSIONS. Thank you!

Thanks so much. Live Portland Oregon area…soft water. Almost gave up on idea of guppies again, but they are my favorite.

This is content I need right now as I'm new to guppy owning, want to breed them, purchased already pregnant females, and now have about 75 fry. The fry are doing amazing, those floating eyeballs are so dang cute, however, I've had a lot of adult deaths (2 after giving birth, others I saw struggling early on, others IDK). But I hit subscribe at 1:27 because of Fred the Bunny (I assume you said Fred, I have Auditory Processing disorder and I'm in a room with a lot of auditory stimulation, in the form of tank filters/water splashing, air pumps, and my two White Winged Doves singing the song of their people) so please correct me if I'm wrong on the name of that precious floofy long eared angel

My super soft tap water is almost identical to yours, GH and KH both ~1 to 2 degrees. Failed horribly at guppies for several years before finally finding my magic water: 1 tsp equilibrium per 5 gallons = GH/KH each of 10= great longevity and happy babies. Thanks for the video!

I am oiganally from scotland I live in Florida now and have guppies only tanks but I can't seem to get the water just right can you help please

you can also put crushed coral in a media bag and throw it in your filter

What kind of stone?

Hi. I have Guppy mineral salt, is it ok to use in a planted tank & also with shrimp & Kuhli Loaches? Struggled with unexplained deaths & a couple of the females (separated from males to stop breeding)have developed hunch backs & look like dolphins. Then I've had three males develop swim bladder issues which hasn't been cured by anything. I've treated for everything it seems nothing worked. I've added pH+ as Cory said to raise my pH, which started killing the males but the females seem good. So confused & stressed by all of this so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have hard water but add Seachem Equalibrium so Carbonate is 180-300 & Total Hardness 300, got ph up to about 7.2-7.8 bit only about 6.8 in the males tank. No nitrates, Nitrites or chlorine. I'm in the UK so different products from the US 😊

Y’all should try salty shrimp ghkh plus this is really good too tho

I have naturally hard water from my well but the main problem I am having is keeping any guppies alive long enough to breed. I haven't had any last a month for some reason I can't figure out.

Saw guppy fry system, bend plastic canvas (get at craft store) dividing tank into two compartments. Babies swin through canvas to other side where there is guppy grass. Seems easy. One tank, same water

Have you ever tried any Caridina shrimp?

Do you think your magic guppy water could possibly help with neo shrimp?

My guppy problem is they breed like rodents. Even with lots of other fish in the tank eating fry, I still get huge spawns. My guppies are in my community 40 gallon tank that I have planted heavily in the tank, floating on the water and on top with roots in the water. My water parameters stay perfect. I do water changes once every couple of months. Nothing slows down my guppies. That said, I love them as they are so friendly and full of personality. I also have 3 bristle nose, some sterbais and some American flagfish in the tank with my guppies. This tank is heavily stocked because of my guppy friends. I used to breed bristle noses in this tank, but they also took over the tank, so I sold my male bristlenose along with his babies. This tank has been setup for 10 yrs and my Cory’s and 2 of my bristle nose are original residents.

Lol, never imagined I'd be lucky to have hard water, (west PA, literally liquid limestone out of the tap), I'd kill to be able to do RO or have soft water for my low tech planted tanks, but I'll have to make do with acidic substrates.

Where do I get one of those jugs you hang on the side of your tank?!

I had 4 male cobra guppies for a week, then added 6 female platinum guppies from petsmart, the following morning there were baby fry. I Was quite surprised.

Ah shoot! I was ready for a really , really big secret water mix, that was going to stop all guppy deaths or something. My water is already hard!

I think the blue tail male is with the purple blue mosaic females..?

What kind of stones did you say were in the tank?

I would really like to get into the guppie game. First try was unsuccessful. Still not deterred lol

I'm trying to get mine to swim through caves and jump hoops 🙂

Salt plus baking soda to raise the Ph, Gh and Kh. seems perfectly logical. I need to do the opposite, I want to lower my Ph which is naturally high. Plenty of Ph down type products but I've often wondered about simply adding citric acid which is really cheap to buy. I don't see why that wouldn't work but I've never been brave enough to try. It seems so obvious that somebody should have already done it. Any views?

New fish! 🎉

I have more trouble keeping guppies from breeding than the other way around. I can’t seem to pull the males out fast enough, so now they are their own colony.

My water is typically 1-2 dGH, 0.9 dKH. I just add a GH booster: calcium sulfate (gypsum) and magnesium sulfate (Epsom salt), 2:1 ratio. Maybe a bit of potassium chloride or potassium sulfate (then it's a 2:1:2 ratio), but that's for my plants, not the fish. Sodium, etc is unnecessary. Boost to 5 dGH. I don't worry about KH, I've kept Guppies, Endlers, Mollies, Neocaridina in everything from 4.5-8.2, never seen a difference. Snails are the only things I've found that care. GH is very important though.

Lol. I basically have liquid rock. 🤣 my guppies love it. Bettas and angelfish, not so much

Why was there a shrimp in the bucket @9:53?

Seems like the blue tail and purple males are in the wrong trio pairing 😅

We have hard water where I am, we using a well for our water.

I just want my gup genetics to become stable. Keep getting fin rot. I believe it to be fungal. It's a tank I inherited. Not at all how I would set up. I don't even know where to begin. Keep changing 10% 60gal a week with ro. I colonized bacteria, shoot. My water is hard and dangerous. Maybe i should use it instead of ro?

i have full soft water and i breed guppies for years and under 7 ph and no carbonate ect ... i breed around 500 guppy fry every month lol

I thought you missed a shrimp in your bucket

I gave up on the guppies, but my Endlers are breeding like crazy.

ur mix is about the parameters my tap water comes out

why not use "Salty Shrimp Mineral GH/KH+"??

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My guppy water = 1 Tsp marine salt mix + 1 half Tsp Equilibrium + 1/4 Tsp baking soda per gallon of RO water. YMMV but it works for me. My TDS ends up over 1100 ppm. Guppies come from very hard water in the wild. The fancy guppies are much more difficult to keep and breed than the more wild types and the Endler's hybrids. Cheers, Chris Teaching kids about climate change and ocean acidification with corals in the classroom.

Why would you use baking soda? It's not stable for very long. You can easily buy gh and alkaline buffers that are specifically designed for this. The white coat doesn't actually make you smarter than you really are.

I keep hearing that the calcium/magnesium ratio is important, and should be something like 2:1 or 3:1 in fresh water; Yet, marine salt has that ratio in the opposite direction with much more magnesium than calcium. If guppies cant take salt, I suppose it's not surprising that they can take that much magnesium as well. However, this seems like it might be a problem in community tanks with lots of different animals and plants. Has this not been an issue for you? Should I start thinking that everything I hear about what is or isn't safe for aquariums is a lie, and I should just wing the ever loving !@#$ out of everything here? 😫 Also, I wish I could figure out how your gh and kh can be that high and your ph doesn't go through the roof. If my gh and kh go even slightly into the upper double digits, my ph ends up close to 8. And that's even if I start off with RO water and fortify with calcium chloride, magnesium sulfate, and sodium bicarbonate. The more I learn, the less I know, I swear to God...

Guppy water = Snake oil 😉

My water has a KH of 15,25°dH and a PH of 7.5 -8.5 from the tap lol

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You changed the female 😢

I just wanted to let you know and I’m not even joking, you put the wrong males in with the females, you put the purple mosaic male in with another type of breed, and now your babies won’t be pure lone breed😢