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[@Angus1966]

I live in Australia and source my guppy from a near by river , great fish to keep

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Nice 👍🏻

[@cadenturnley5772]

I’ve even seen them in the water in texas

[@omnilothar]

I have to use tap water, is it the reason my guppy die one by one? other fish like neon/cardinal tetra are doing fine though

[@blakeanderson1997]

Very helpful! Thank you

[@Timsfreshwatertanks]

Another super video Richard. Endlers just gave me about 30-40 more fry this past weekend. started new tank to move some fish around, but they will all be happy with lots more room coming. Left Females with the Cherry Shrimp ( added male to this tank with 3 females ). they will stay here due to Planaria in tank. The male will be removed as I'm sure they are all pregnant at this time.

[@garrettpete]

Great advice-even for fish keeping in general! Thank you! Looking forward to setting up my first aquascape within the next week or so

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Would love to hear how your first aquascape goes 🤞🏻

[@hildaldo]

Love the videos, please keep them coming!

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Thanks! I’ll try 🤞🏻

[@AMJolene]

My guppies are hanging out at the top of my tank. I may have new tank syndrome, as it's a newer tank... it's not too hot , there's a massive air stone, I've tested nitrates and nitrites and ammonia - all good. All my other fish (yoyo loach, algae eater, neon tetras) are fine...

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Sometimes, they just hang out at the top looking for more food. 🤞🏻

[@anime_editz9501]

Thank you for that great advices ❤ and now i am ready like always to keep my guppies healthy and live their life for long long time and one question? Can i feed some vegies to guppies as they eat and be healthy?

[@naegwut]

Perfect advice from a pro

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

You are too kind 🫶🏻

[@yusra1519]

I found your xhannel today.. And subscribed.. Alhamdulillah❤

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Welcome 🫶🏻

[@ashrafzaman550]

Thank you so much..❤❤

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

You’re welcome 🫶🏻

[@jeffereyhopkins750]

Great advice. I had a female that had a deformed back so I separated her from the main tank. She was already pregnant so she had 3 successive broods but made sure her babies were put into a separate tank so the genetics were not passed on. They are in tank where their progeny are eaten at birth but other fish. None fish have shown the defects but I don't Want to take that chance.

[@FishKeeperNepal08]

If u wait a few months and see that the fishes don't don't deformed back.(few prob will) but u can keep the ones without deformed back in ur normal tank

[@beautifulnightmare8092]

Question: in my tank the babies tend to hang out at the bottom of the tank and don't come up for food, so how do I make sure they're eating but not over feed? I admit, I do over feed just for that reason. I can not afford another tank to put the fry in. I don't want to starve a living creature!

[@NIGEL-MORGZZ1100]

Bro some chick let me buy ten and I honestly didn’t know a single thing about em so I’m learning before the water go bad or whatever Yano

[@RoccosVideos]

I just my 55 gallon aquarium up and running again. Having too many fry is a major concern of mine. I'm thinking of getting guppies and I might just get males.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Male only colonies work well. That’s what I do in my 7 gallon tanks 👍🏻

[@anime_editz9501]

Thank you 💕 can i keep some cories with my guppies

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Definitely. Great combo 👍🏻

[@anime_editz9501]

@@FishKeepingAnswers thank you 💕😊 so sweet of you😊

[@stxphxniiie]

Do you know why my small group of 4 guppies in my 5g are failing? I have 2 adult & 2 young males, their staying at the top of the tank but their not gasping. 1 of my guppies had died from stress I believe (I had him before I had the other newer guppies he was alone with 2 others before and one died so I had got the other 3 new ones he didn’t seem to pull through though, ever since they haven’t been acting the same. Their tales have clamped together and aren’t spread. I have fancy guppy so it looks crazy that their tales are so tucked. My water conditions are great, i have a heater, live plants, air pump bubbler. Do you think you know why their acting weird? Could it possibly be something parasitic within my tank?

[@brent3611]

Can two guppies be content in a community tank? Is one male and one female better then two males?

[@mintfrost427]

I am currently encountering the overpopulation problem and I was just wondering- where do u sell them? Craigslist?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

google the phrase 'guppies for sale in (insert your loction here)' and see whats popular where you are. Places to sell fish vary all over the world.

[@jennytherose]

Hi I was told giving hippy fish garlic that it good for them and help them but will it hurt the shrimp and snails in the tank

[@jennytherose]

Guppy not hippy sorry

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😂

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

I have never heard of garlic hurting snails or shrimp 👍🏻

[@jennytherose]

Ok thanks

[@CasperClone]

Where abouts in the UK are you based? From essex myself

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

I am based in Bedfordshire 😎

[@CasperClone]

@@FishKeepingAnswers does that count as midlands? 😂 my geography is terrible Do you have a link to your website as well

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Pretty much, kind of, but I always try and keep it vague. Don’t want people showing up here 😂🤣😂

[@CasperClone]

@@FishKeepingAnswers thats fair and safe 👌😁 do you have a link to a website you sell from? 😀

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

We sell through eBay, but again I haven’t shared the seller name as that gives buyers access to the sellers address. Paranoid or what 😂

[@mr.octopus6972]

Little tip : The perfect amount of food is if no food has time to reach the bottom.

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

Maybe. But what if you are feeding Repashy gel food or Bug Bites sinking formula. Also, what about if you keep Corydoras or Plecos in the same tank. 🤔

[@mr.octopus6972]

@@FishKeepingAnswers of course it comes to the understanding of your own tank but no food should be allowed to get struck somewhere where fish cannot get it and just rot at the bottom. That is what I meant. That is why I like to take my time while feeding instead of shoving a big chunk of food. I'm trying to keep a planted tank with minimum to no filtration and (hopefully) no water changes so I have to take extra care with overfeeding.

[@kaden.slone04_biology]

​@@mr.octopus6972This is why I use sand as the substrate in my tanks (other than my soon-to-be shrimp tank, which has the little soil balls).

[@KCannaQueen]

@@FishKeepingAnswersalso if you grind down your food in an electric spice grinder since you breed fish and like to keep the flakes at multiple sizes, it sinks literally RIGHT AWAY lol

[@YoshiPerner666]

I feel like I could overfeed a bit if I really wanted to. I'm running over 1600 gph filtration on a 55 gallon tank. 27.5 total water volume turning per hour.

[@xSpaceInvader]

Pay attention to their belly. If it looks bloated hes had enough lol

[@bettababe7836]

I didn't want children in life, and I don't want baby fish..that's why my guppies are all males

[@Scaperoot79]

Thank you for another great video. We currently have a 20 gallon (long) tank with guppies, white cloud minnows, corydoras, nerites, mystery snails, and shrimp. We had 3 male guppies and added 6 females nearly 2 months ago. The guppies have produced over 50 fry since then. Everything is breeding except the Nerites. We decided to remove the males and cull some of the fry. We lost one female last week to what appeared to be a swim bladder issue, and yesterday I found a female floating under some plant leaves, barely moving. I test the water twice a week, but everything seemed fine. No nitrites or ammonia, low (

[@isaacdempster1315]

The first time we see a baby? My pregnant guppy gave birth last night and I didn’t find a single one 😭 had 4 guppies in the tank and 2 ghost shrimp

[@xkebgaming7770]

I bought 3 guppies, 2 fem and 1 male and after a few months I have hundreds of them and within 6 months I have a lot of them and I cant control their population so I decided to buy an angelfish to control them and now I only have 2 male 1 female. 😂

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😂

[@ImzJustAGuy]

growing the beard out?

[@FishKeepingAnswers]

😂 just need my weekly shave 😂