Love the magnifying glass idea!😊

I used to work with a beautiful longfin strain of these…time to work with this species again! Great video!

Great for a pond as theyre tough and look good when viewed from above.

Hi, your idea is great! I sure will use it! And then I share this with you: I bought some green mosquito window net.. To Put on top of the tank full of fish.. To just avoid my new fish to jump… They had just arrived and supose to be 250 mediun charales.. I went to the bathroom.. quick! 😂 And when i came.. half the population was dead! And the rest where suffering and desesperate..!!😱 🌟🙏🏼Thank God I had a 40lt. Tank ready for any chances.. 🌟And a galon jar! So I took the dead away with the jar in less than a minute and the rest with a net to the tank! That happen because I didn’t super wash the mosquito net.. apperently comes with a substance that makes it easy to hold and work for a mosquito trap.. and poisoned half of the population!!! So I tell you and everyone who read this to be carefull.! Happily, all the rest survive!😊

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Thank you. Very good information.

Would Oryzias minutillus & Oryzias latipes be ok together? Would they be able to hybridize?

Moral of the story, these fish are very hard to find in a healthy stae so quarantien any fish you buy and secondly try and find sources of healthy fish. Look at the fish in the store very carefully, any dead fish, skinny fish, sick fish don't buy any, don't pick out the healthy ones it doesn't work. It also makes sense to try and get the fish on arrival at the store so ask when any are coming in. Many stores do not quarantien their stock before selling on their problems. Fresh arrivals are least likely to be ill (not a guarantie as they may be sick already) as overcrwoding in shops and mostly no feeding leads to weakend sick fish. Alternatively try and buy from a fish auction at your local fish club because these people look after their fish. Even feeder fish need to be in tip top condition or they will kill the fish they're feeding, so any shop with a good reputation selling fish that need feeder fish should sell healthy feeders or no one will buy them. Too often feeder fish from your average store are in a terrible condition as Sonny discovered, getting them healthy is not worth your time or resources. Dump them disinfect your tank try again with healthier fish.

Ths was a great video. All of it: informative, great oral presentation. Thanks!

Gruß aus dem Saarland. Vielen Dank für das informative Video! Best regards from Saarland. Many thanks for the informative video!

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Absolute best fish content on the you tube , insanely informative, clear well stated keep it up !!!

You are correct on the Spicy Peppers. Mammals are the only animals with Capsaicin receptor. Capsaicin is what makes food spicy.

I also love the denison barb it is very peacefull and about the size of a rosy barb

I have some Rosie's now that are about a year old. They're so beautiful when they get big

I have 16 in a 20 gallon tank. I love them.

I used to have two tanks, one with WCM minnows, and one with guppies. Both had 10 fish. Based on the water tests, the WCM minnows only produced about 1/4 as much waste as the guppies. For whatever reason, they are very clean and don't have a large bio-load.

I thought of these as bait only until I put a couple in my water plants to eat mosquito larvae. I never fed them, figured they'd die after warm weather ended. The planter froze that winter, but to my surprise the fish survived! So I decided to give them a bigger tub with hornwort and duckweed, and more minnow friends. It's 3+ years now and all 6 fish are alive despite the water freezing over with ice twice now. Hardy little guys for sure.

My bladder snails definitely eat hydra. Not sure if they will eat all of them though. I can’t use chemical treatments cause I have nerite snails :(

After keeping fish over 60 years, I’ve just decided to try and breed these minnows. I recently added a a Nerodia (native water snake) to my reptile collection. It readily swims below surface to take the minnows as its primary source of food. I’ve added 6 minnows to a 125 gal tank that will eventually be a native biotope tank (Tennessee and Georgia). Your video is an excellent resource and saves me mistakes and research you’ve already done. Exciting to think about you being able to produce a darker orange variant! Shared and subscribed! Thanks 🙏🏼 for the information.

awesome video, just what I was looking for. I got the white hydra type, they are smaller and almost see through, compared to the ones in the video, but they spread like crazy on all surfaces of my tank. I will give that product a shot.

Thank you so much for this video! I'm thinking of getting into annual killifish sometime next year, and this video was very informative. If you ever make an in-depth video about breeding annuals id love to see it!

Hey Sonny, your videos bring my friends and I so much joy. We look forward to the next time you post!

Can I put Japanese rice fish and Rosy Barb in the same pond?

I buy them from the local pet store & put them in my 200 gal horse water trough to control the mosquito larva. They do a great job! I usually release them in our creek at the end of the summer to keep them from freezing in the water trough. This year I decided to try to keep them and set up a fish tank in the house. Now, they're the "cat TV". 😊💜🐟🐴🐈

thank you for scientific explanation. good content though ! keep up

iv'e been selecting for cold hardiness for 5 years now, I've got them surviving under ice and going on to breed in my ponds. They have some seriously untapped potential, mine are feeders for chickens as they don't contain Thiaminase.

Thanks for sharing 🙏 I wonder if you let the parent in the same tank, with the mesh on both side of the box, you don't loose to many egg when getting the box out of the tank with the flow of water leaving the box? Thanks 👍

Nice video

My minnows just laid their first eggs since I’ve bought them (3mnths ago). I got 1 male and 2 females. Let’s see

Weirdly I am getting spawning still at 9-10 hours of light 😅

i pray your okay sonny, love to see a fellow hobbyist shining some light on the most underrated yet quite fun fish to keep

Solid information, with spoken citations! The absolute gold standard for informative videos. Bravo, and well done.

I have golden wonder killies, and they are beautiful fish. Though, they beat the tar out of each other if given the chance and yes, jump out of the tank. They are super easy to spawn, mine are now 4th generation. I just transfer floating plants between tanks and their eggs hatch, it’s always by accident

I got a dozen rosy reds and quarantined them and used the aquarium co op quarantine trio and they all survived and are still doing well without a loss 2 years later

Sounds like your tank is too sterile. Those fish need all the wild bacteria, micro fauna and funk that is found in nature. They had nothing to forage on in your tanks. Commercial fish food is junk.

I got about 70, my kou kept eating em 😂 but they ARE his food tho so no biggie

These guys eat cyanobacteria! What other fish, shrimp, or snail that you know of that eats cyanobacteria?? I had a huge cyanobacteria problem and these guys worked relentlessly to keep it under control. Constantly picking on it throughout the day on driftwood and large rocks.

I'm thinking they may be a better to "Sea Monkeys". They are very active and very easy to keep alive and reproduce.

Great for garden ponds. Goto variety add to goldfish and koi

mann get back on youtube i enjoyed watching your video alot, im going out today to buy rosy reds

I'm new to keeping wcm, just subscribed, impressive video, what really made me stop to subscribe though was when you suggested I check out WC Dynasty, I thought that was really really cool of you and as I was about to look them up I thought, "oh, wait, I should subscribe, this guy's really in it for the community." Thank you!

Very informative, thank you 👍🏻

Great video. Thanks for giving them the love!

I'm currently keeping 10 in a tank with 4 tiger barbs, all are happy and healthy.

good stuff, very informative. would be cool to try.

I would def buy healhy bred rosys from you

In my experience with skinny disease I've found the following to be dramatically helpful. I don't know what part of this adopted procedure does the trick but.. Identify illness (nearly always present what appears to be collapsed or sunk in throat. Immediately isolate to prevent spread but to also stop any competition for food. Increase oxygenation. Feed seed shrimp without restriction for about 2 days, this is high protein and acts as a dieretic helping cleanse the bowel. Then change to high fat high protein flake and feed it to its fill about 5 times a day till it's back to healthy weight. I've never had it reoccur after this. I usually do this for 2 to 3 weeks before putting it back with others, then I watch closely to make sure it isn't underfeeding. It seems they get too weak to compete, isolate themselves and starve out while picking what is essentially dust off the floor of your tank. Hope this helps someone as it has saved my ptsmrt fish numerous times.

Hi,Gaudgeon Peacook killi fish,thanks

Thank you for the well summarized lesson, sir