The Hidden World of a Baby Guppy 

Who needs National Geographic when you got the Dave. As always you knocked it outta the park. You're the professor of fishology! The painstaking cinematography is second to none. 👍🤓

Mr. DAVE is back, finally 👍

These videos are a cinematic and educational masterpiece, I feel like I’m watching an episode of BBC or nat geo. You are truly talented my friend

Also, congrats, I think I hear a new born little Dave in the background :)

I have soo many guppies I can't wait for them to grow up!

You rock The Dave! Is there anything more delightful than a newborn guppy. Two big eyes and a Flippy floppy tail. The fun of watching baby guppies grow up never grows old!

Just realize why "guppy grass" (Najas guadalupensis) is called guppy grass. This plant not only clean up toxins in water but also provide shelter from bottom to top of the tank for baby guppy fish. For those of you who want the tank to look natural, guppy grass is highly recommended.

Your footage and videos are so clear and professional, I'm always super impressed. I don't even own fish, I just love learning about them. It's like documentary quality

The straw thing is so smart, I always just moved the parents to a seprate tank.

This is amazing content! I’d never known that the swim bladder needed to be inflated, so I believe you just helped me save a fry…. I had a really small spawn of 4 really big babies. 3 of the fry almost instantly started free swimming since they shot to the surface while the female was chasing them in the small plastic enclosure. I took the female out right after the last fry popped out, and this last, healthy-looking fry continued to sit and sit and sit, for nearly half a day. It had never gotten chased like the others and it just kept sinking and not trying too hard to swim up to the surface. I was worried it wouldn’t get its bladder inflated before it was too late, so I carefully sucked it up into a wide-mouth pipette for a few seconds, in just 4 mL of water. The fry seemed to snap awake and quickly took several gulps of air. I let back down the pipette, and 30 minutes later it was swimming along with the others 3, perfectly balanced and active. I’ve only ever tried this method once, since I was worried it would stress the fry out, but it seemed the stress is what the fry needed to start swimming. Which makes me wonder if that’s part of why female guppies instinctively go after their fry. It seems to accelerates the process of forcing them to swim. In the wild I suspect that many more fry would likely get away from this test of survival (but not in a plastic enclosure like what we use for birthing them).

Watching too much Hugbees has got me on edge...I keep waiting for The Dave to drop a crude joke or something but it's unrelentingly wholesome ❤🥺 thanks, The Dave

It’s incredible how you captured these tiny fries with such beautiful closeups. It was so cool to see every detail and how huge and developed their eyes are! Amazing video as always! Every one of your videos is a real treat.

Top quality as always. How in the world can you catch the delivery of a guppy baby? Kudos man!

Okay so the idea of using straws as a plant substitute is actually smart

The "protist" at 7:52 is likely a ciliate called Stentor coeruleus - most ciliates, like the Paramecium and Spirostomum species more familiar to aquarium keepers, swim in this spiral pattern. Stentor coeruleus has a distinct blue-green color, is relatively large (for a single-celled organism), and has a variable shape - it'll look like a sort-of cylindrical blob when it's on the move (as in this video) and will anchor itself to surfaces and elongate into a long funnel when it's found a good place to settle down and feed. Like most ciliates, it filter-feeds on smaller organisms, but is so large that it can consume other large ciliates like Paramecium and Blepharisma. The RU-vid channel Journey to the Microcosmos has a few videos on these, as do many microscopy enthusiasts on RU-vid. Thanks for posting these videos! They're so wonderfully informative and easy-to-understand, and the footage you film is amazingly detailed! I teach high school biology, and my students breed fish (including guppies) in the classroom, and I show them some of your videos (including this one) so they can see what to expect as their own fish reproduce and grow.

Brand new babies on my nightstand! 😘

Look at them are very cute

6 months in with my first guppy colony. Glad to see a new upload. Keep up the most excellent videos!!

This has been by far the most helpful video I have found on male/ female & newborn guppies ❤

Adorable creatures 😍

Thank you The Dave! A delight to see you posted!

Glad you've been posting more frequently these are really good

Never knew this much about baby guppies until now! Thank you for the good video 👍

Wow what a great video and great narration. Very informative and to the point. Awesome closeups! Really appreciate it

Amazing video! Very helpful, thank you!

You really deserve more subs. Well done!

This might be the most entertaining as well as the most helpful video on baby guppies. Thank you Dave.

Really appreciate your work, Sir Dave.

Awesome! Terrific info and amazing shots!

What a lovely video!

So nice Dave. Great job as usual

Great production value. Thanks 🙏🏼

Good vdo for guppy lovers👌👌👌👌

I learn so much from your videos and I have had fish for 50 years. Amazing! Thank you 🙏

Thank you soooooo much ! I'd never thought about making safe hiding places near the surface for the fray to develop and make use of their bladder... I own 3 gravid females and I'm really new to the hobby, I'll do my best and make good use of this information

This is so helpful. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Amazing video as always.

A real clear video. I've made some livebearer birth videos as well but not as clear as yours. Thumbs up for the quality of your video.👍

Good stuff man I love your documentary quality fish keeping videos. I first seen your kuhli loach vid and gotta say these videos with the talking documentary are way better 🙂

Thank you so much for this very educational video. I have small tanks in my bedroom and bathroom. I put guppies in them because I’m mostly interested in growing plants. Guppies and plants in tanks do very well together. I’ve never once seen a guppy, come out of a mother, so this is fascinating. All I ever see is new baby guppies every morning, when I turn the light on. This explains so much. I have a 55 gallon tank downstairs and I never see baby guppies in them probably because they’re being eaten. I’m going to remove the guppies from that aquarium and put them in the smaller aquariums, where they have a fighting chance, to have babies. I pick out the ones I like; then all the rest of them, when they’re grown, I take to the park and release into the lake. The straw idea is genius. You are the most informative fish keeper on RU-vid. Much appreciation and respect!

Dave: (Southern accent) Ya'll gonna be makin' lots of babies. I'm gonna need more tanks.

Fascinating! Whoa! Amazing!

I read some of the comments, oh wow *YOU DO REALLY CARE* for them. ❤️❤️ From Bandung, Indonesia

Absolutely stunning work, I greatly appreciate each piece you do. If the former was true, and you're a new father, congratulations and I wish you much joy in being a father.

Thank you for these videos! It’s helping me keep my baby guppies alive

ugh they're so cute! wish I have pond of these cuties.

Excellent videos.

Great video love it

Dave, that baby sound effect you added was funny!!!!!

Your knowledge is immense! ive learnt so much from you. Thank you 😊

Nice video , well explained good job

An excellent video! I want guppies now!

3:30 Evo-Devo from the time when the swim bladder was a lung.

This is truly a wonderful RU-vid channel

THANK YOU! THANK YOU A THOUSAND TIMES! ♥️

Excellent presentation!!! bravo 🙌

Excellent video showing baby guppy development from birth. I'm in love with their little faces - great close-ups 🧐. Idea using drinking straw is interesting. Can straws be in aquarium for longer time than birth time? Trapped babies bother me but can't they find way out from straw? Free one Gilbert is easy but more babies, they may die.

This is very informative

I love the part when the babies say it's guppin time and starts guppin everywhere

Yay! I missed ya!

Lovely video ❤

nice aquascape.. very accurate with aquatic would now days.

Very cool. Thanks

Really informative video brother

So lovely really cute video also the baby sounds with the baby guppies 😍 I also have guppies and was shocked when I suddenly saw really small guppies in the plants that seemed like just a small dot with eyes, because I didn’t know that my female guppy was pregnant. She’s had babies two times now!

Excellent video :-)

Beautiful video 😍🙂

Superb high quality video

very nice video

So cute

Love it

Another great video from The Dave (don't know why it took nearly a week for the notification to pop up).

Thank you my grand kids ate learning. We caught some in a pond near by where we live

I’m so glad I found this channel because I didn’t even know half this stuff as a Platy owner

another great video. tnx

Dynamic indeed!

What kind of camera do you use to film? The quality is splendid!

Hmmm how is there no dislikes impossible but great content

Excellent

Another superb video. Small point however, some strains of guppies take much longer to attain full colouration than stated in the video 🤓👍

Beautiful footage Dave. I have been breeding endlers for over a year now, and never once have I seen them eat babies. Even the largest alpha female that is twice as large as other females was able to live peacefully in the fry-only tank among 50-60 developing fry. This must be a behavioural difference between guppies and endlers.

baby guppys taking off like a plane after resting up hahaha

Super video

I think my guppy endler female is going to give birth soon. Great video the Dave. 👍✌️

Make video about Gilbert's adventures. Thank you✌

Another amazing video, Dave. Fif you get a clam?

For some reason, my guppies don't eat fry. I try to feed heavily and carefully monitor water quality to make up for it. I wonder if that helps?

straws are a good idea but in all honesty just go buy some hornwort or monkey tail they are fast growing plants that can both be used as floaters or put into a substrate ( hornwort doesnt root tho)

I'm new in the hobby and have my first fry of babies. I've managed to catch of 2 the babies and put them in a net with a rock on the bottom of the net. The 2 babies I had and doing great but I don't know where the others are. I have lots of live plants just as you mentioned. Could the filter be sucking them through, or are they just being eaten? Would appreciate any advice/help. Thank you

Does this strategy work for endlers. Or should you have different plants. I just want to know how to care for my endler babies.

I recently started an aquarium w a few guppies. I didn't realize they had babies and found 7 fry in the overflow area where i keep the heater. Qny way yo know exactly how old tehy may be?

Love this 😂

I bet you baby salmon are watching this right now.

This has helped me out quite a lot, I have about 20 baby guppy/endler hybrids which I was totally unprepared for. I had gotten lucky and was able to protect and raise them to a point where they are too big to be eaten, and they're starting to get their coloration at the tail (the coloration is mostly from their mother, what I suspect is a female turquoise guppy) their tails have darkened and they're growing quite fast, however another female has become pregnant and I'm thinking she's going to give birth relatively soon. so I'm setting up a 160 gallon tank to house the fish as I had these fish in a 10 gallon and wasn't expecting babies so soon. The suspected fathers are Japan blue lower sword tail guppies which also happen to be endler hybrids. from what I've read, the endler hybrids don't have so much of an issue with eating their young as full blooded guppies. The issue I'm coming across now, is pricing on material for the 160 gallon tank. it's quite a bit larger than I had expected and we may need to reinforce the table it's standing on, so it's only about half way full. I have water conditioner to make the water safe and where I live, it's currently a very decent temperature even without a heater. however, in the winter and colder months I would worry a bit. by then, the financial issues I'm having should be solved as I've just started a new security job. Would it be safe to move the babies once they're large enough to handle being moved along with the parents? (I may not move the mother from the 10 gallon until she's given birth as to not stress her out). Currently, the new fry seem to be very strong and healthy. I had noticed somehow one of the fry had accidentally partially swallowed a hair of unknown origin, I risked using the net keeping the affected guppy submerged partially and used tweezers to grab onto the hair. I did not use forceful means and let the fry remove itself via it's own power, and there seems to be no adverse affects so far (this procedure was done about 5 days ago). And if the need arises, how would I end up moving the fry as to prevent over crowding of the smaller 10 gallon if net or other means may be too stressful? Thank you in advance.

Watersprite floating plants make for a great hiding place for baby guppies as does guppy grass.

Thank u for this beautiful video, It reminds me when I was about 10 years old, I used to catch this fish from a sewer and put them in a plastic glass

MAMA!!! Im in the TV!!

Thanks so much for this video....... I had NO clue they needed to go to the top of the tank.... I've had my guppies for 7 or 8 months... and I have had 3 survive and are now way past the chance of being eaten.... Anyway.... I have several fake plants in my tank... one real one... BUT nothing that even gets close to the top... I just today bought a fake plant that reaches the top of the tank... so I hope that helps them.... My fish I am sure are loving you because of you I am learning so so much therfore it's making their lives better... I even just got back from the store with a timer for my light on the tank because I am horrible at turning the light off when I should... I will leave it on sometimes for days.... I feel so bad for doing that... so so bad.. I hope they will be happy with that... I always feel guilty when I leave it on for so long... I do hatch brine shrimp... my fish love them.... and I think it has the feel of them being in the wild and having to chase down their food.... I love watching them when I put in the shrimp... I have a guppy that I believe is very close to having babies... hopefully, this extra tall plant helps them.... You don't have to respond... I don't know how in the world you have time to answer all of the messages... My attention span is next to NOTHING...LOL Please have a really good night.....(if it's night where you are located... lol)... take care and I look forward to watching ALL of your videos....

Nice videoooo

If you want to, I'd like to see a video on platy and how they're different from other live bearers .