Thanks so much for the comment and feedback buddy :)

Thanks so much for the comment and support bud, have to do an update on these soon, an odd one popped out recently!

I believe it was as soon as they were free swimming, we only used microworm because the worms can live a couple days in the aquarium so don't cause pollution, we then transitioned them onto decapsulated brine shrimp eggs a couple weeks later I think, hope that helps buddy (all info should all be in the video, it was a while back so cant remember exactly without rewatching it myself lol)

Yea noticed this in the UK recently from when we got ours they have halved in price, I suspect they will become as cheap as say cardinals at some point as they are easy to breed but also more hardy! Def going to be a popular fish in the hobby going forward 👍

Good question I always thought someone would ask that but never had till now lol Sadly the male seemed to be infertile as the females never produced any fry, real shame! Thanks for asking bud

Thanks so much for the support! Def will be continuing with them ☺️

See a lot of the less red ones in the hobby, probably just poor breeding from the breeders not selecting the reddest fish for the breeding sadly! Seems the long fin are brighter than the short fins so probably just better breeding stock bud

@@Aquadiction I think so too I thought they go orange before turning red

This video was filmed with the "Chihiros WRGB II Pro" light which brings out reds like you wouldn't believe, it was redder than any we had seen before which is why we nabbed it but the light makes a massive difference for sure!

Thanks for the comment bud :)

Thanks for the comment, really nice tetra and already dropping in price since filming this, hope you have fun with them when you get some :)

Thanks for the comment Mark, if you want to see more Tetras we have another 55 not listed in the video here on our website aquadiction.world/tetras/

Yea have absolutely hundreds of the Santa Maria’s we were going to mention them in the cenepa red Pencilfish video as the poor man’s alternative as the males are somewhat similar in colouration but never got round to it! Probably say they are our second favourite strain but def the most vibrant! Think you would get on great with them Stefan 👍👍

@@Aquadiction Send me some! - I wish. Kind of hard to find here and they're expensive. You said they're your second fave. What is your favorite strain?

Thanks for the correction! :)

Do you mean specifically cross breeding videos or general featuring them in videos? Have the strangest looking endler show up recently from one line I was thinking of making a quick video on but our cross vides always seemed todo badly from some reason sadly

Cross Videos are only for people into guppys and as most of your viewers are more interrestet in fish generally thats the reason i think. But do whats running better i'm one of the people more into guppys and always happy about new Videos.

@@rainerderreimer4369 yea I see where your coming from bud! So I will be doing an update on the ginga/blue stars at some point because this is the one strain we thought were good to keep going with and have a series of videos coming up of a "52 week transformation week by week plant growth on low tech transformations" of all our aquariums which have endlers in them and you can see how they exploded over that time (as well as they plants with no co2 etc) so still have all our endlers and they will be in videos that way but not exactly completely focused on just guppies/endlers! Think you will be impressed how we turned all our tanks from bare tanks to completely briming with plants over a year period but yea, sorry we moved away from the videos you most enjoyed bud :(

Currently not sadly, its on our to do list for the website for some point, sorry bud!

@@Aquadiction No problem! From the few videos i could find it looks similar to the banschi/inka50. Keep up the great informative content!

@didnthurt4077 appreciate the supportive comment, sincerely ❤️

Ours had the white edging on their fins when young but this was lost as they aged as the tend to lose the distinctive white edging on their fins as they age sadly.

​@@Aquadiction L183 have barely visible white spots. My male L183 is almost pitch black and bit bigger than this one. Yet it has blue tinted white seams on its tail and dorsal fin. What you've is a Brilliant Bristlenose L107/L184. Bigger spots than L183 and it's cousin L181.

Is it possible the male or female is infertile so the eggs are unfertilised? Had this before with our White Clouds, they were fertile when young but became sterile as they aged even though the females were still producing eggs!? Could be something to think about maybe?

@@Aquadiction Ohhh, I see your point. Also, is it possible for the female to lay eggs and not fertilse the eggs during placing them as I have a batch of 7 adults.

That's really kind of you, really appreciated comment :)

lots of plants and hiding places seems to-do the trick when keeping with fish, nothing else really, plenty of food!

Tropco currently has some I believe if that helps?

Drop us a reminder in a few months, we cut them down to a single pair and currently breeding out so only have a few currently but should be able to help when we have more numbers :)

Yes Checkered are great, we have them in the fish room currently :) Personal fav is the tiny Jae barb but a bit delicate which is why you rarely see them :)

haha, thanks for the comment bud, appreciate it, def one to watch out for. Though hard to obtain the females (females look similar to the dwarfs), i guess the current breeders don't want to part with them to keep the prices up...

Thanks for the comment Steffan! Always appreciate you!

I really think they will come down in the future, but god yea, wouldn't want to risk them in a new setup (ours is maybe 6 months now, dirtied, no water changes) Have you seen the barred pencils? Really would love to get them, bit plain but still! The dwarf and becks ford are the cheapest and def worth considering as they basically have the same personality! Have some "three lined" to show off soon we have had for a while and HOPEFULLY some hocky stick pencils in the future if we can find them, as a kid they were always in the shops but cant find them to save our lives now!

haha yep better to ask forgiveness for sure :) We just need our Banded and Purple pencils now to complete the tank :) (have some others we will feature in a future video) appreciate ya Audra!!!

haha, yea and I see in the USA they are $60 from Dans fish, and yeah your right you probably have 2-3 years with pencils really so tot get where your coming from! Fingers crossed they start to come down in price as more people breed them, sure it will happen!!! Appreciate your comment :)

Thanks for the comment bud, I'm sure he will be really happy about it as the amazing planted aquarium keeper you are!! Just put up a pencil fish video I think you will like, thought of you while editing as I know you are as mad on them as we are!!!

Colombian Tetra? Its an old video so cant remember but surely we included them? If not i'm really sorry bud, will be redoing this video as 160 tetras in a few months, currently up to 140 so 20 to go :) Appreciate the comment :)

We brought them from a reliable uk fish shop that advertised them as pond fish so at the time weren’t aware! Shame really as the year they were out there they were highly prone to predating on their fry so didn’t increase in numbers and are so slow birds caught them easily! Seems odd they aren’t allowed but goldfish/carp are that are highly prolific breeders and much better at being spared by predators but hey ho

Agree, we really didn't do them justice in this video, its def a fish we would want to redo in our recent format and much better camera!!

Thanks for the comment bud, we have supplemental material on our website for ideal water parameters here aquadiction.world/species-spotlight/checkered-barb/ but these are super hardy in our experience, our PH is 7 and water is very hard so they can tolerate/thrive in most aquarium conditions tbh, appreciate the comment, hope that link helps :)

@@Aquadiction Absolutely fantastic and thanks to your link I'm now going through a list of 55 (!) different varieties of barbs 😍 Cherry on top of the cake

Your very welcome bud, hope you find some useful info there, 140 tetras listed there is interested :)

Thanks for the comment bud, yea heard a lot of good things about the Flagfish, our Panda Garra don't seem to-do an awful lot though so great to hear another experience!!!

@@AquadictionFirst I’ll add I always enjoy your videos😊My Panda Garra, I’ve got a group of 8 or 9, mostly love to surf on my tall Jungle Val and clean that and driftwood but not much else. They all definitely love a slice of fresh cucumber and plenty of prepared foods like wafers.

@jay-remedy-plz they are fantastic fish, def the most colourful garra (currently known) and love having them 👍👍

Thanks for your comments bud! Very underrated fish, I often wonder if their name Killifish put a lot of people off as they assume they are aggressive, only explanation I have as to why they aren't more popular .....

@Aquadiction to me, it's a textbook nano fish with badis, CPDs, and endlers. I don't think people actually realise how stunning some of the nano species are until they see them close up

@aquaticfanaticsuk totally agree, excluding a few fish (mainly leporinus) we are totally nano fish, especially pencils currently, AMAZING

They breed in just about anything to be honest and unlike guppies don't predate on the fry every much if at all, the trick is to get them to stop breeding haha! Currently keeping them in 140ltr aquariums I THINK bud!

Def an interesting and fun little fish, always up to something. Need to spotlight these at some point for sure :)

Sorry to be a dunce, but is nj new York??

@@Aquadiction no it’s the next state over. Manhattan is about probably a hour and a half away from me. I’m on the New Jersey shore . Born in Brooklyn Ny though . The beach is better lol.

@@frankcastle9991 haha okay thanks for clarifying, we are in the UK so cant help you with our personal line sadly but I believe you will have luck with either eBay, or livefins.com/shop/endler-staeck-endler-pair-1-male-1-female-3-fry/ or dansfish.com/product.detail/4412/Staeck-Endlers,-Pair-(1M1F)-(Poecilia-wingei) (all 3 sites seem to have them over there) hope that helps

No sweat I’ll just be more specific in my searches lots of varieties and when I asked my local store I just asked if he can get endlers I’m definitely happy with them lots of shimmering blue on em each a little different. Only have em a week. But I’ll see if Staeck are available from him and look online . Thanks again 👍🏼

No sweat I’ll just be more specific in my searches lots of varieties and when I asked my local store I just asked if he can get endlers I’m definitely happy with them lots of shimmering blue on em each a little different. Only have em a week. But I’ll see if Staeck are available from him and look online . Thanks again 👍🏼