Become A Guppy Breeding Pro: How To Breed Prize-winning Fish!

In this informative KZbin video Father Fish explains three methods of breeding guppies. Viewers are guided through the fascinating world of guppy breeding, exploring these key techniques: line breeding, inbreeding, and selective breeding. The engaging presentation breaks down each method, shedding light on the intricacies involved in obtaining desired traits within guppy populations.
"Line breeding" is discussed as a method focused on maintaining specific traits within a lineage, ensuring the continuity of favorable characteristics. The video delves into the nuances of "inbreeding," highlighting the advantages and challenges associated with breeding closely related guppies to intensify certain traits.
The spotlight then shifts to "selective breeding," where the audience learns how deliberate choices are made to encourage the reproduction of guppies with preferred traits. Father Fish employs clear visuals and examples to illustrate each breeding method, making the content accessible to both novice and experienced fish enthusiasts.
With its comprehensive coverage and expert insights, this video serves as a valuable resource for anyone interested in the art and science of breeding guppies for specific characteristics in aquariums.
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Chapters:
00:00 Teaser
00:19 Intro
01:11 3 Breeding Approaches
04:10 The Morph
05:48 Hobby of Breeding
08:53 Fun of Breeding
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[@FatherFish]

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[@andy_cz80]

The last time I ran an aquarium was as a 12 years boy thirty years ago. I came across this channel by accident a few months ago and I'm building my new aquarium again. Natrual aquarium this time! Thanks to you Father Fish ;)

[@davidpieper7000]

Been using your system for 3 years now and even without trying I get fry from everything from egg layers to guppies. Love the deep substrate system

[@rara5212]

Which egg layers breed in your tank?

[@Theseus294]

@@rara5212I’ve had green emerald Cory cats lay clutches in my dirt tanks. The only thing I’m doing differently than FatherFish is I add CO2 with a bell system. That should have nothing to do with the Cory’s I don’t believe.

[@firstclassfish01]

@@Theseus294bell system?…as in co2 in a container set on top of the water and trapping it?

[@Theseus294]

@@firstclassfish01 exactly 💯 my most recent short is a video of it. I just started using it a few days ago. My plants start pearling a hour and some change sooner than before. If it’s going to make a difference in growth rates, time will tell.

[@davidpieper7000]

@@rara5212 I have cherry barbs, danios, various tetras all together

[@mityjoeyoung8855]

Oh hes also a national treasure. Like if you agree.

[@Jack_Splendens]

This video takes me back to my childhood. Here in Hungary and inside the town where I live, we had an interesting betta variant in the mid & late 90s. The males of that variant had magenta color body and sky blue eyes. Back then in the town where I live they were very common but only in one petstore. The store closed a few years after 2005 as I remember. Since then I never saw that kind of betta, there is a fat chance the store worked with a genius level professional breeder and maybe he died or just had a lack of interest in betta breeding, but I miss those bettas and the work of that mastermind who bred them.

[@LadeanaWhite]

I was that 9 yr old once! Guppies my first ever fish! The joy and wonder of experiencing many live births. All the rainbow colors….Loved that metal framed slate bottom 10 gal tank with a corner filter of charcoal and angel hair. I’d love to have that tank back. 😁☮❤🐠🦐🪴

[@tessw9744]

I just started selective breeding. I had three moscow blue...and one of the babies came out with an orange stripe and teal stripe on its side. So i deceided that was my special guy last April......fast forward i now have an salmon colored female which came from them...and i will breed with one of last years blue and orange males. Never know what's in the genes! Its so exciting to see.

[@straightouttacornwall]

If you get every get claret and blue ones hit me up (its my football team colours) 😃

[@sharonjack8582]

I'm the adult perpetual 12 yo who LOVES fish. I enjoyed this video!! Guppies are one of my FAVORITE fish. I have been studying them for years now and am still learning. Some important tips when it comes to breeding: 1)Females like a lot of natural growing greens for their babies. I make 1/2 of my tank thick with a variety of growing plants. 2)Females like to have as much high quality food as they want. I feed high-protein granules for guppies. 3)Females like to have a few girl buddies in the tank with them even if the other girls are not pregnant. Preferably no boys. 4)When my female starts to have her young, she isolates herself into the plants. I offer small snacks if she eats the snacks. She usually does. It helps with contractions and to not eat the babies. Last night I fed about 12 little meals while she had her 30+ babies over the course of hours. I am careful not to disturb her. I first feed her buddies at the other side so they won't race over to momma and take hers, lol. 5)When the babies start coming, I lift gently them out with a small cup and/or turkey baster, if it does not disturb the mom. CAUTION: turkey basters work great however the baby will often drop to the bottom of the baster quickly. Have a cup right there to put them into it. If the baby is high up in the turkey baster, I put my finger on the bottom of the baster to stop the water going out. Just watch for the baby. I have enough water in the cup so the baby won't hit her/his self when landing. I put ALL the babies together is a small container with a few plants. They feel safe together. Guppies are very sensitive and can get easily stressed. Mine have had a lot of babies and I just wanted to share what I have learned.😊

[@FatherFish]

You are amazing. I wish you luck in your fish keeping endeavors!

[@sharonjack8582]

@@FatherFish Thank you so much! I really enjoy your videos. I LOVE knowing that you LOVE Jesus. He is my favorite being and has saved my life many times and healed me many times. He is the BEST NEWS ever.😊

[@ChadGardenSinLA]

With exhibition chickens (birds) it's the other way around. We encourage line breeding between parent and child, but discourage in-breeding between siblings from the same generation because it wastes time in isolating the traits we want. The chromosome in birds are also opposite and different (ZZ for males and ZW for females). It'll be an interesting journey moving from breeding chickens and parrots to breeding fish.

[@straightouttacornwall]

Very interesting

[@Villain630]

Here I am saying that he got the terms mixed up

[@mattbrauer4407]

Great video! I've kept several guppy breeding colonies over the past 2.5 years, and consistently the ones that do the best are the ones I interfere with the least!

[@marymendez4178]

Yes, It's always exciting to breed different colors to see what we end up with. Sometimes we don't even try and end up with some unique one's.

[@siempreseagull2]

I can testify that Michael from Michael's Fish room is a great guy who takes a great deal of care in shipping fish and he knows all about guppy breeding. I love his videos.

[@FatherFish]

I am a big fan of Michael

[@CEA046]

I personally love mutt guppies. Mix different kinds and see what you get. Kind of like Forest Gump. "Life is like a box of chocolates" :)

[@TheDISSHonoredOne]

I luv guppies. I had a 70 gallon tank full of them, they were so beautiful to me. I had the one side of the tank near a window and when the sunlight hit them their skin was nothing more beautiful. I just let them populate as they wish 🐠

[@iainaquariumagic]

Great upload 👌

[@GUPPYMOMCHANNEL]

Great guppy master! 🥰

[@ThePerson444]

Really interesting. I have to admit I would be nervous to look after guppies again. I had them as a teen. After the joy of waking up to fry for the first time and seeing them grow to different variations, the breeding didn't stop. Overstocking worries kept me awake at night. A bit weird for a teenager I know! But I really bought into the shopkeepers advice and if something was wrong it was my fault for not buying x y z chemicals/products. I've only just started up again decades later, these videos help me understand what I didn't know back then.

[@pattys_aquatics]

Loved the video, perfect subject for me because I have been dabbling in trying to get some different mixes . 😁👍

[@WintersKnight546]

I really love your channel, Father Fish.

[@HakunaMatataAquatics]

Hats off to the breeders that do this. I have the desire, but not the focus and discipline to breed for characteristics.

[@EverHopeful516]

This was a very enjoyable video. We are having lots of fun refining "our line". 😊

[@seahyongsen5670]

😊interesting guppy info sharings, Father Fish!

[@PsychoPlantLady]

Thank you Father Fish. This video helped me understand the different ways I can breed my guppies. There are two males that I really love the colors of. With this information hopefully I will get more like them. Great video! 😊

[@joelkoonce8559]

Thank You Father fish. YOU DA MAN !!!

[@straightouttacornwall]

I'll be honest boss, inbreeding has never really been my thing 🤣 Another quality video and knowledge learned! You da man ✊

[@yahya_176]

How do you manage them and prevent from inbreeding?

[@briangregory8223]

@@yahya_176 Re--read the comment . Come on man.

[@yahya_176]

@@briangregory8223😂😂!! I'm too young to understand that🤣, but i got it.

[@MeanOldLady]

@@briangregory8223 See? You completely missed the possibility of 9 year olds here getting guppy info & being stumped by dumb innuendos. =p

[@TJBlackHearted]

I really appreciate this video father fish.

[@TheGregmarc123]

Thank You ❤

[@IvansGuppies]

Great video! It’s lovely seeing new strains pop up. But at the same time, it’s sad seeing strains start fading away. It makes sense though. There are so many that keeping all the strains going would be rather difficult.

[@ringosijbrants3114]

Great video, I feel honoured that my tank is used in your video!

[@mityjoeyoung8855]

There he is. The man. The myth. The legend in my book. Father Fish !

[@TheJDubsflow]

GREAT VIDEO.

[@Billy426.]

Great video👍

[@ryanoakes4629]

Love it..❤

[@gustavoperez3441]

Please post more videos about betta fish 😊😅

[@Fishyfunchannel]

“Fishy fun” channel says love it!!

[@zaferboran5343]

Baba her verdiğin bilgi altın değerinde.İyiki varsın .

[@brandonterry6194]

GRATITUDE 💥🐟💥

[@douggiles7647]

I was a bit confused at first when you described line breeding, because that is also inbreeding when applied to basically anything else but the differentiation cleared up what you meant for me. But also wanted to add that when line breeding it's not always incest, it just usually turns into it after time unless the person is really good at keeping separate genetics or constantly adding new stock. An example would be when someone first starts and buys the same fish but from different sources.

[@jasonpragnell1373]

Would love ur take on neocaradina shrimp

[@dorisglecer4102]

And when I was 12 and 1963 my best friend's grandfather had a probably a hundred fish tanks and he raised guppies yes fancy tail guppies and also had a couple saltwater tanks and a house the point in key largo Florida we used to go down almost every weekend and get salt water from the ocean and some sergeant major babies or whatever else we could find on the marshes. That's when I first got into aquariums and stopped for a while but in May of 2022 a couple months after my 19 year old dog passed away bye I decided to get another fish tank because they were half price at PetSmart and after a couple weeks I bought some guppies and have kept plants in the tank that float because the ones that I planted in the gravel kept dying and that's what I have been dealing with every time I buy plants I get guppy babies and now I have found you and I can tell you that I love what you do and appreciate you so much because I have very limited income at the stage in my life I really want to give my fish a natural biological tank and you are amazing and I ordered some plants and some substrate and I'm going to try my best to set this tank up properly as you have taught. I ordered from you and am still waiting for my shipment but I am so looking forward to it and thank you so so much

[@FatherFish]

Your soil and plants should be delivered today or tomorrow. Join us in the Shoal for more fun: discord.gg/father-fish-shoal

[@Kyddoemiko13]

Awesome review on the technique of raising guppies. My room was cool because it's winter I turned the heat up. My female guppies out of 5 fancy tails not sure which one gave birth. My tank is planted up so they had three weeks of hiding not sure what the sexes are of the fry or the pattern at the end of March it will be 3 months definitely interesting to see what comes of it. Thank you so much Father Fish 😁🐟❣️

[@getintothewildwithjeffruma8777]

Very good video 👍

[@Starchybugger]

Got a aquaponics fish tank kit , killed the fisrt batch , with your help the tank is a success. Only have two mollys in there but it holding steady. Looking for input to constantly for keeping the water clean from the clay bio balls

[@naegwut]

I love guppies

[@ReneesZooTube]

Just wanted to share that much of what you showed from Michael's Fish Room is from a fish room tour of guppy breeder Doug Grey. Doug Grey is a wonderful breeder with his own channel here on KZbin, if anyone wants to check his fish out. 😊 I've purchased fish from him and had a wonderful experience. I also feed his High Protein food as part of the food mix I feed to breed my guppies. I've enjoyed breeding Guppies for many years now. I enjoy selective colony breeding, where I choose males of different but compatible colors to breed with the females to produce a variety of colors. I also work a few tanks of inbreeding to create some strains of my own. Guppies are such wonderful and fun fish to breed and work with! 💖

[@FatherFish]

excellent and thank you for promoting Doug Grey

[@dmitrimikrioukov5935]

I just like the most common, natural-looking variety of every species.

[@charliebrown9188]

Now I get it 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I'm 56 🙈🙈 I've been messaging you via other videos, I was stuck on line breeding... this video explained it for me - thank you. What I have to work out now is whether I can find the space to do it.

[@isethenerdydiva4823]

Can you do video on Discus?❤️

[@HabiburRahman-ct4dz]

Hi gentlemen first im new to you so am i in aquarium I have a question so my question is can i use epigeic in my aquarium as a substrate?? Please reply me thanks a alot

[@alexcarrier3604]

First can I just say how happy I am that I have found your channel (wish I had 2 years ago when I gave up fishkeeping due to misinformation). I am having to relearn aquarium care because of some of the other KZbinrs I used to watch who I now believe just wanted my money. One question I have wanted to ask is how do your fish survive through the transition into a new tank? I know plants do ALOT and I know the “nitrogen cycle” doesn’t really occur in an aquarium, but I am unsure how the bacteria grows so quickly to protect your fish. Thanks so much for your channel, I can’t wait to keep learning!

[@FatherFish]

fish adapt instantly to a natural system

[@dwarfhernandez6636]

Im a swordfish aficionado!

[@gusgrandeful]

Hello Father FishC can you do a shrimp breeding video.❤

[@schmijo]

I would love to see you keep discus. I love the natural approach, but within the discus community there is such an empthesis on water change and very clean water.

[@ValentinTabara]

Hey there Father Fish! I'm a begginer and I'm preparing to set up a 65 gallon fish tank using your method. I'm glad I found you on youtube, and a big thank you for all the useful information. I have a question though. I see many people using mesh bags to put the soil in it. Is that a good ideea? I wonder if I should use it. Thank you!

[@mattbatcher802]

I found a mesh bag completely necessary for me to add soil to my aquarium. The thing is that my tank was already full with water and fish too. I put the soil in the bag and put some big rocks on it. I would sometimes squeeze the air out of the bag and make a big mess in the water to speed up the soaking process. After about two months the soil would be water-logged and would not float - the thing is the soil will float all over if you just add it to an already set-up tank. Watch more of Pop's videos and you will see how to squeeze water into the soil for a new tank.

[@nursecuenca]

Great videos. You ever collect discus?

[@FatherFish]

Not yet!

[@robertjester6887]

Father fish in fact I breed guppies and just like you said on the video, my father and my sons look the same and my mothers and daughters look the same just by accident. I just threw the minute take one day I start it out with nine guppies 2 mailes and seven females and now I have approximately 30 fish in a 20 gallon tank

[@AventineArchives]

I have a walstad tank with just guppies in it. Should i pick the poop off the sand substrate during maintenence or will that eventually move down into the deeper layers and not become an issue? My tank is a heavily planted 20g. Great content as always!

[@FatherFish]

add more sand

[@Airdaman1]

I have sand and plants in my breeding tanks. Is their another setup you would recommend? I am looking to line breed my Blue Hawaiian Guppies. I just see a lot of bare tanks in most videos.

[@FatherFish]

Since you are already setup a sand substrate of 3” is ok. No barebottom.

[@mityjoeyoung8855]

Can you do a how to keep angel fish video ? Ive always had difficulty keeping them alive. No matter what i did.

[@FatherFish]

yes

[@aztec989americanpitbullgla3]

Hey just got your dirt supplement in the mail today ready to start my journey, wondering if there is a certain kind of sand I need to use to cap the soil ? Is the kind of sand at the hardware safe or do I need the aquarium sand from the pet store

[@TeriCunningham-uq4st]

I use pool filter sand. Rinse it very well, at least 4 times. Many others suggested it so that is what I did, l love the sand sooo much better than the gravel I used for many years. Sand is so easy to clean.

[@pearljameric]

I stumbled upon your videos a day after I have already set up my tank. I have sand as a substrate and no dirt in the bottom. Any easy way to fix this or can I continue without a dirt layer?

[@FatherFish]

build a food web

[@vxxen6020]

I have a question, so i have this 15 gallon aquarium that ive put several fish like glofish and orange platys, it has a driftwood and a large shrubbery of pothos as a natural filter, its not overstocked but some fish like my golden blue platys and swordtails have very short lifespans in that tank, but when i put mollies and swordtails in my 2 metre pond they flourish, does that mean they’re compatible with ponds or am i buying from weak breeders??

[@FatherFish]

Impossible to say. Join us in the Shoal where will have the time and resources to help you understand what is happening. Goto fatherfish.fish to find the link to out Discord channel.

[@Boonsbikes13]

Save you some time you put them in water they breed

[@clevelandmortician3887]

👍💪

[@DashDrones]

Amazing advice, thank you Father Fish 👍

[@DienonychusAntirrhopus4541]

Im going to get my first fish tank, its going to be a 10 or 20 gallon can you recommend some fish for that? Since I'm new, my family told me to get a betta fish, but I plan on either guppies or native shrimp and small fish

[@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984]

Depends on what you want. Bettas have a bigger personality (a bit like a dog), but guppies are way easier to breed and less likely to attack the shrimp kept as cleaning crew/tankmates.

[@edgardanishh]

Hey Father fish, what is your way to get a good pond ecosystem?

[@FatherFish]

food web

[@JanKowalski-ux6nt]

​​@@FatherFish Pond topic is very interesting e.g. how to get rid of the sludge/mud from big pond using natural metods and what will happen to this mud? Will it dissolve to nutriens? Greetings from Poland❤

[@sepdafodils]

Does a guppy tank need oxygen bubbler Father Fish??

[@FatherFish]

good idea

[@yusra1519]

5:15 which kind of red guppu is it??

[@FatherFish]

dunno

[@nathanmcgrath9038]

Line breeding and inbreeding are the same thing. Usually if it works they call it line breeding,if it doesn't they call it in breeding 👍😊

[@steelmouth83]

I just bought 3 guppies and they got busy and had babies but it's been months now, since the babies grew up they stopped having new babies, what could be the problem?

[@FatherFish]

takes a while

[@shiranosatergaming6074]

0:46 this man us a chad .

[@cormtregurtha3143]

I have a few double swordtail guppy😅

[@KungFuChopstick]

Would you say it is an issue to breed Sons to Mothers?

[@FatherFish]

not as a routine practice but not more than twice

[@KungFuChopstick]

Thank you very much! Love your channel! @@FatherFish

[@ilkeryilmaz4919]

Greetings to everyone from Turkey. I set up a tank about 3 months ago, approximately 280 liters. It contains Guppy and many kinds of plants. But I just discovered this place, unfortunately I didn't make the floor like here. I'm very regretful. There is a lot of death, fungus and a lot of illnesses in my tank. I don't have a chance to change the floor right now. what should I do. I also use an external filter.

[@FatherFish]

create a food web

[@hakanozdemir7345]

DEAR FATHER FISH....HOW CAN I SOLVE THE ALGEA PROBLEM

[@FatherFish]

add plants

[@hakanozdemir7345]

THANK YOU SIR

[@stevemacdonald2303]

I want too breed angelfish

[@cattoes1609]

I purchased male guppies from one store and females from another hoping in some way they weren't related but it doesn't seem to matter 😅

[@ronnejayjorolan]

If you do line breeding wont the chances of getting a deformed fish increase?

[@FatherFish]

It is impoprtant to add new lines every 4 generations.

[@shameezbettaaquarium2450]

Hey sir sword fish in india is available in many cities please let me know if you are interested.

[@FatherFish]

yes!

[@ranjanty]

Why is it they only sell male guppies at PetSmart that have specific names? The females were in one tank and just called assorted guppies. I just don't understand that. This little boy went and bought some guppies 4 hours ago.

[@FatherFish]

ignorance

[@Mertvy_Slonyk]

Hello, please add ukrainian subtitles on your videos, and thank you

[@stinger31389]

I'm sorry every time I look through the comments.. it hits me I'm Lazy 2... I work..I hope I last longer than the guppies the kids picked lol

[@Jerry4baker]

I have thousands of guppies I'm about to start feeding to my bichirs since people act like they are too good to buy guppies that are healthier and prettier and better price than the pet stores. They can have fun getting sick fish from pet stores

[@chualianghock5424]

I just bought 10 guppies male and female, 4 days later all male guppies died. Why?

[@FatherFish]

dunno. Join us in the Shoal. We will investigate. discord.gg/father-fish-shoal

[@KoPilotFlys]

I saw the title and it made me laugh. If you own a male and a female guppy, trust me you are already a guppy breeder. There is no easier fish to breed if you aske me lol. Rabbits have nothing on Guppies lol!

[@abhinandanaquriumfish3233]

Best aquarium fishs sub channel

[@xmanu100]

hey father fish am from India and i started an aquarium business here in the name of NATURAME NATURE DESIGN.. am a professional in terrarium and Paludarium and aquascapes.. but now am thinking of opening an aquarium shop as there are no good shops giving good freshwater fish in my area.. you kind of work in the old school so i was impressed and would like to get some knowledge to help me grow and also know things which I don't know as much as you.. and your experience and knowledge is highly valuable.. could I have ur watsapp number as I can share you some of my work and also ask anything in knowledge from your expertise 😊 would really help.

[@FatherFish]

It would be good for you to join our SHOAL where many folk share very day about Natural Systems.