How Easy is Guppy Breeding? | 30 Day Experiment

[@burakcetav]

Albio guppy breeder here. I want to add some suggestions. Baby guppies tend to hang around at the surface of the tank first before they go down. You will lose many fry if you have a bare top without plants and cover. Floating plants like pistia stratiotes and hornworth are ideal for fry. They will stay close to the plant without the adults even seeing them or coming near them. You also need plants to cover the mid section and bottom of the tank for the fry. They will stay close to the plants and come out slowly as they age. I just farmed about 150 baby albino guppies in 1 month from my breeding group. Also you need to keep the adult fed at all times. So you feed them atleast 5/6 times a day to keep them happy and keep the fry alive. Eventually they will ignore the fry completely.

[@AdilMunir-b7k]

Do you colony breed your guppies all in one tank, and sell them when they get older? Or do you have separate tanks to place the fry? thanks

[@burakcetav]

Seperate tank but I leave some with the adults.

[@aimzjane3548]

Same, I have 7 fry in one tank, then weeks later we found another batch of 7 to 10 in the main tank, we decided to leave them there to see if they survive. It's a 130lt tank with 8 lice plants and ornaments they can hide in. We feed them baby brime shrimp every 4 hrs, which the parents also eat. We have female guppies and tetras in our tank plus algea only eating cat fish

[@SpeikobraRote]

Usually you dont put the hiding spots at the bottom but at the top. the females usually give birth more at the top and if the baby has to swim all the way down to hide.. of course its going to get eaten before it can hide :) Guppygras is the key. put alot of guppygras in and the results will be better.

[@SilverSkyCloud]

does guppy grass need to be planted or is it a floating plant?

[@rajalmaharjan5021]

​​@@SilverSkyCloudguppy grass can be planted in the substrate or left floating. It grows either way.

[@153aquaexotic]

Yes guppy fries stay up lot of the times so for better result better put floating plants…

[@Only1Sosa.]

He does actually say this in the video

[@ronlafond5288]

@@SilverSkyCloud I think it can be used either way - planted or floating.

[@leihilton9546]

I have heavily planted tanks and I still remove fry the second I see them, hunt out the rest and I've even spent hours waiting and watching the girls give birth so I can catch them bc I've found no matter how many hiding spots you give them, the adults will eat anything that moves that can fit in their mouths. I put the fry in my shrimp tanks to grow them out, its the only thing that's worked for me to get maximum saves

[@Handygrrl]

Check out the nursery made by Penn Plax. It moves the babies away from the mother!

[@redfaux74]

You and my mother would get along. She just had to save EVERY single baby. She would sometimes cry if she couldn't. 😢

[@hjc4289]

It was such an honour to come to your store and meet you yesterday. The quality of your fish are seriously next level. I especially liked your blue grass guppy. Will definitely be back for a ram :)

[@abhishekdatta4194]

Guppies prefer living and feeding near the surface, and so do their babies. Rather than a spawning mop, floating plants would have been better hiding places for the newborn. In my experience, Hornworth, Cabomba and Guppy Grass are the best options. Also, roots of floating plants like Water Lettuce provide very good cover to small fry.

[@Eggo_Leggo]

Spawning mops can have a cork put in it and it will float

[@Neromace]

Can i use duckbill for the hiding ?

[@Dylamos]

Guppies are amazing and easy to breed, I highly reccomend getting an autofeeder to keep the females healthy and constantly churning out babies. Also LOTS of nice plants for cover will make your population explode. Wisteria, guppy grass, and similar plants are a good type of plant to keep the fry safe.

[@wabalaka1565]

That's actually not the most optimal way to breed a guppy. What I do is separate the female from the male and bulk up the female until they are an inch and half (some breeds are naturally smaller) before letting them breed. You gonna get more babies per female and the female will have a much longer life span then the guppy you force breed in the same tank with the male. Their baby is much healthier too.

[@leafystreet]

Im not much of a fish guy, but the amount of variety is sick. really cool to see

[@FunTimeWithLeo]

hi! :)

[@talonsfishshrimpchannel6166]

Ngl, my dream is to have a shop like yours one day ! Keep up the good work and thank you for being great!

[@Mostaism]

For under $20, you can head down to Petbarn and grab an isolation floater. When you notice the females becoming gravid, you pop them in. It gives the fry somewhere safe to get to a size they won't be eaten. Great way to build up population

[@cfaadventures3280]

Definitely the best way to breed them but it can cause stress to the fish in the isolation box

[@Mostaism]

@cfaadventures3280 it takes a little while, but you can learn to judge when a fish is ready to pop, so they're only in there overnight. I'd usually put the mothers in at night and be able to release them the next morning/afternoon. Also, depending in the amount of males on the tank, the break might alleviate some stress for the girls

[@tonydeleeuw3712]

I love when you do these kinds over time experimental grow out videos. So awesome man, thanks!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

I almost missed this video, one of my favourite little fish, my favourite thing with these is experimenting with different strains and creating your own, I found the best way in a smaller tank like this is to divide the tank or make plastic mesh baskets and fill them with plants, the females know to drop next to them and the young will scoot for cover as a natural instinct, another good way is to load the tank with finer leaf plants Ambulia or Guppy Grass but the females are pretty smart and can still hunt them down so the mesh has been the best for me in the past, another great video Nick.

[@pbpretzel3674]

Just received a bag of your Bug buffet food and wow. What amazing stuff. All the fish get their share of food and honestly I have never seen them happier. Thankyou so much 😊😊

[@FinleyWatkins-rb2rb]

where did you get the bug buffet

[@toyboi123]

Great videos and he explains it in a way even novices can understand. Well done!

[@doomsdayadams]

I had a trio of galaxy guppies (2 female, one male) in a community tank for several months. Last week I put them in an outdoor porch pond. Within three days of removing them from the threat od all possible fry-eaters, they exploded a huge batch of babies!

[@hummingbird3771]

Hey Nick, I hope you had a nice vacation, and congratulations on the Bug Buffet!!

[@reslider]

I've had excellent luck with various size marbles on the bottom of the tank. It only takes about 2 layers and allowed plenty of hiding places and escapes routes and the parents couldn't get down in there. Then the babies had plenty of food that got down in there with time to eat it with no predation. The best luck I've had is just watching the tank every day or two and separating out the females that look like they were about to burst. They birthed in a floating net cage with a bottom of plastic grass plants, cheap and I usually had15-20 babies make it to adulthood.

[@petzIndiadotcom]

Nick i missed these kinds of videos from you. Please make more.

[@laughingbuddha28]

Luv ur attitude brother. Always keep experimenting. Also its great to find a channel with no curse words in the audio. 🙏🏻👍🏼

[@KeepingFishSimple]

hahaha dont look at some of my other vids then hahaha

[@FunTimeWithLeo]

@@KeepingFishSimple LOL

[@ronlafond5288]

I like hornwort as fast-growing cover as well. As a floater or planted. Once again, great stuff, Nick. Thanks for the share.

[@dantegrandia1990]

There's just something special about someone with an Aussie accent telling you about guppies haha

[@jacques13x]

Hi Nick Lots of Java Mos and Guppy Grass will fix the baby predation.

[@hummingbird3771]

I love hornwort for fry cover up top and some moss, like you suggested, at the bottom. Is hornwort available in AUS?

[@jacques13x]

@@hummingbird3771 I do not know. Think it will most likely be illegal in Australia. I live in South Africa and it is also illegal here because it is an invasive plant.

[@hummingbird3771]

@@jacques13xSouth Africa has an incredible diversity of plants, and some really good wine, as I'm sure you know. Proteus are fantastically fractal! I have a friend who spent a month collecting succulent seeds there. I hope you'll stick your nose in a freesia or glass of Steen for me! What plant do you use that is similar to hornwort?

[@jacques13x]

@@hummingbird3771 I use a lot of Java mos and at the top I have a lot of Duck weed and water lilies. I keep my fish outside in a round pond, OD 2m and depth 0,8m

[@tamiweir8041]

I'm ordering java moss and hogwart? If that's how it's spelt?

[@kbye5323]

Would be cool to see if you could crossbreed the guppies as well to get your own strains. The snake skin with the orange would be amazing.

[@YING7777]

Use yellow or white spawning mops/Easter egg grass for your albinos. You’ll have more fry survivors. And use a unpainted tank if possible.

[@redfaux74]

When I was young my mother loved guppies. And mini catfish. She would cry when the adult guppies would eat their babies. She tried the floating nets to separate guppies and plastic mini floating tanks with a removable 'V' shape in the bottom with just enough of a crack the babies would sink and momma guppy couldn't get to them fast enough (most of the time). But this still bothered my mother as many would still be eaten. So she had several tanks and separated mother guppies when they became dark gravid. This satisfied my mother because she could fill the tank with leafy plastic plants for the babies to immediately hide. It wasn't very long and we had several hundred guppies. So many beautiful colors. My mother is gone but I still love them to this day.

[@fiercetatsu6782]

It is extremely easy man. I’m doing it on accident and I’m a month in with zero guppy deaths and they’re all thriving in their own tank with my cherry shrimps and some are even in little self contained ecosystems made from spare trimmings and part pond water part tank water, with daphnia I set around the house

[@CSR462]

thanks for doing the experiment. very interesting premise. seems like selling some of the breeders messed with the data a little. interesting how every strain treats their fry differently. would love to see this run again with what you can improve from this experiment. could really refine a hands free process if the situation requires it.

[@ninjabreadman733]

Nick thank you for the look at the hill streams. And that bug buffet I grabbed is awesome couldn’t recommend it more everything is loving it. Will be back for more fish and food and promise I will bring you some well established long arm prawns.

[@BasicAquariums]

I use a spawning mop and lots of floating plants. The live plants give the aduilts something to nibble on and also plenty so hiding places for the fry.

[@imranpatel4612]

Would definitely recommend surface cover like floating plants with roots to hide in or guppygrass. The more cover the better

[@fumikoh6231]

I wanna have a beer with this gentleman

[@rrotley1]

Years ago I used a small guppy breeding tank that floated in main tank. Put the pregnant female in the top section and fry dropped into separate part then returned female to the tank.

[@wabalaka1565]

Floating plant is the best hidden place for baby. Baby guppy prefer to stay at the top of the water along with vegetation. The normal water lettuce is the perfect plant to breed guppy

[@robrob5081]

Got my 24k gold guppies yesterday. The males look like platinum guppies with a slight bluish tale. (Due to being shipped.) The gold colour is slowly coming back. But I wouldn’t be upset if it didn’t they look amazing already lol. Makes me want to get more platinum guppies and try and get blue into them.

[@Scrubs1950]

im new to the hobby 3months now ... i love guppies bot only bec they are easy to breed but man they are so beautiful and friendly fish ... very pleasant to watch ...they are dancing all the time ... i had fries from all ages 3 to 80 days mostly females 😅

[@guacguy]

guppy breeding got me in to the freshwater fish hobby also, but as soon as i got the guppies i saw how hard it was lol

[@RRanks]

Hey bro. Cab you do a video on culling.. how to select bad fry vs good fry. Not necessarily guppy specific.. but.. general guide would e great

[@ameliasmallbones7647]

I love this guy Man he has his own Fishtank shop he has his own breathing set up and he thought of spawn Mark would make a hiding space for loads of pairs of guppies I’m so happy you’re doing well mate but you do make me laugh ha ha ha ha😂

[@OneMoreTank]

I put a single male and female guppy in a heavily planted 22g long ~3 months ago. I now have ~30 nearly full-grown guppies. Some of the "babies" are already gravid... Guppies are wild lol

[@alexwhittaker8267]

Wow those snake skins are incredible. I'm currently working on my own strain of endler. Only just started so I've got a long, long, long way to go 😅.

[@lesteraguada2293]

I used to breed guppies before til I shifted to endler which are, for me, more natural-looking. I love live-bearers!

[@MistyEyedMuse]

I hadn’t considered the difficulty level of breeding guppies until this video showed up in my recommended!

[@hikariizuki1693]

If the aquarium or the water is dark, the guppies won't eat the small ones even without a hiding place, from my experience. They are more calmer when the water is not crystal clear, I use a kind leave to make the water brown and make the fish calmer, I don't know the English for that type of leave though,

[@hikariizuki1693]

@cricketIQ1 I search the scientific name, it's terminalia catappa

[@LangLang_62]

@cricketIQ1 catappa! you were so close :D it's also called Indian Almond leaf

[@Cheesefiddlehorn]

So the water needs tannins?

[@hikariizuki1693]

@@Cheesefiddlehorn probably, I don't know for sure, maybe the fish is just more calmer in shade or not crystal clear water because predator would be less likely to see them. Or the chemical made them more calm

[@googleit7444]

So I had a livebearer tank. Barely any plants or any form of protection. What I did have though was a sump linked to the tank and a weir on the top. The guppies would give birth to the fry at the surface. The flow of the water would be too strong for the fry to resist and they would get pulled into the sump. In the sump I had sponges which would stop the fry from getting anywhere near the pump. Didn't realise how much they would breed and how much of a headache it would be having to pull fry out of the sump daily and putting them in separate breeding cages for them to grow up in the same tank. Had 6 of these cages with 10-20 fry in each at one point. Was too much to handle so gave them away to my LFS. I learnt my lesson. No livebearers in my tank now. Phew!

[@holo_gram_]

Guppies are everything y said😊 Whats the mop material? Do you treat It before?

[@jennynovoa8586]

Basically I was very lucky in spotting my 2 females giving birth, so I managed to save 70+ fry 😍 now I'm left wondering what to do with them hahah In the meantime I set up 2 fry boxes inside the main tank where they were born :) I need 1 or 2 more fry boxes 😧 Don't want them overcrowded in the boxes, thinking about potential stunned growth

[@gregwilson5910]

Hi Nick, my fish love "Bug Buffet" thank you 😀

[@FinleyWatkins-rb2rb]

where do you get the bug buffet from

[@TuanCaCanh]

So cute

[@NatureDerek]

I don't think mops really make a great hiding spot for guppy fry, and that's where you went wrong. when i setup my fish room next year and start breeding in earnest my fancy guppy colony will be "let vals take over 80% of a 20-long, then introduce guppies"

[@Idkseemskindafishy]

I’m just wondering how amazing being able to take a month holiday is 😂

[@GreenEyesLive]

One of my guppies just gave birth the 6th, a month after I got them, it’s crazy how easy it is, it definitely requires space if people want to sell them, to keep them separated. Mine just gave birth to at least 20 guppies, a few days in between

[@mdstmouse7]

i'm surprised by your lack of plants in these tanks. endlers are even easier to breed as they will not eat their fry

[@ponygirl1624]

Is Bug Buffet available in the US? Ingredients look Great! Thanks so much.

[@sevcents]

Amazing content as usual!

[@sinonwheels1]

Thanks mate, I really enjoy your vids. ❤

[@parkerelijah1936]

You should try dumbo guppies and dumbo mosaic guppies... they are great colorful and so vivid ...

[@parkerdavis182]

How cool, can't wait to see what you get up too next! Keep up the amazing work mate, fishroom looks amazing!

[@grahambiggs2017]

I always have 2 female and one male guppy in my community tank. They are excellent at providing live food for my Angel and Siamese fighter.

[@PandaCoryDoras]

KFS you have the best vids

[@earlybird2.081]

I'm Just amazed how they grew so fast

[@Dr.Phil_MM]

I just ordered 2 pairs of albino koi guppies good thing i got a breeding box since the albinoes are known to eat babies

[@dinoexpert1498]

You're awsome, I have a 20 gallon long tank that I'm getting ready to put fish in and I'm thinking of putting a whole bunch of some sort of schooling fish, any recommendations from anyone?

[@krop307]

I have a 20 long with a dozen Green Neon Tetras and I can't reccomend them enough. They're even smaller than normal neons so great to have a decent size school in a small tank, and they're an even brighter blue than the normal ones.

[@nicowolters8959]

Red neon tetra

[@tamiweir8041]

How would you know when you buy guppy's if there in bread? My husband and I have just gotten into guppy fish out males are tequila sunrise and the females are some dark colored type,? We are just wanting to enjoy our fish and fry.

[@johnkarlogallardo9158]

Long fins also called Ribbon in the guppy world is really hard to breed because of those elongated gonopodiums.

[@abielmanchego2270]

You should try to breed therafin rainbow fish I would love to see how the eggs look like and how the fry fish look like.

[@kimduboisphotographeanimaliere]

Beautiful guppies!

[@tonyelia9461]

I just want to ask do you have ever tried to breed koly lotch?

[@Egyaquatic]

You forget tolk about the snalls 😂

[@MohammadFaseeh1997]

Hey huge fanfan of your workmoney Can you tell us hiw to breed nemo fish clown fish. Thank you

[@RSJ-Texas]

Excellent !!!

[@vatozkosku]

Awesome videoo brother 👏👏👏👏

[@gavenmattson3110]

If I have a 10 gallon with a batch of fry how often and much should I change the water out ?

[@karlbouaoun9939]

Hey is that woop at the bottom of one of the tanks ? May I ask what's the purpose

[@steviesfishandplants]

Hi. If you remove the mystery snail eggs to stop them multiplying, how do you dispose of the eggs to avoid them hatching.

[@derktpds4501]

I saw some quality guppies, you should consider choosing the most beautiful male and fem if ur doin a community breeding then it's okay

[@Daemonium_Rex]

Definitely try elodea.

[@vpin.27b]

are the yarn thingy self made?

[@corydora2894]

in your opinion how important is super pure guppy genetics VS random mutt fancyish guppies. Will there actually be genetic issues in the mutts, or is it actually better to go with the pure bred stuff?

[@joelaurie-k7l]

love the video got a new filter

[@mook601]

Do you colony breed your/these guppies all in one tank, and sell them when they get older? Or do you have separate tanks to run different lines of guppies

[@jackieojackie]

I've been looking on your website - do you ship to the US? I really wanna try this new food in my tanks!

[@LesDL69]

Does the yarn not smell bad after a while?

[@jarrahwright7873]

Hey dude just wondering how long does it for sliver dollars to hatch eggs after mating?

[@Luke4Music96]

How did the snails do?

[@KP_11210]

Such as amazing video🤩

[@asherrattenbury419]

"when will guppies every eat fish meal in wild" guppies proceed to eat there babies.

[@renhatlimbong5718]

Hi bro did you ever keep scarlet baris?

[@marcofagnani1395]

Wait a second, I love youre videos but I have a question you said a lot of times to not breed 2 diffrent colors of neocaridinas because they will become brown, but you did a video were you cross breed 2 different colors, so is it ok to do cross breeding or not?

[@tamiweir8041]

I'm going to let nature take it's course. If the fry survive that's great if they don't I should have a nice little colony. That's fine with me .

[@elijahelkins3264]

I already have guppies but I wanted to hear you talk hehehe

[@juanj.smithrobertob.sarcos1347]

I want to breed small fish as feed for my chickens. I tried to breed that several years ago (indoor)without any sunlight or as minimum light as possible. It is like breeding it in a cave. But if it will takes 30 days to breed, i guess it is not helpful as feed for the chicken. 🙂

[@FinleyWatkins-rb2rb]

where do you purchase bug buffet from?

[@Weirdo_Human8462]

Is crossbreeding guppies possible? Or would it harm the offspring in any way? It would make really cool mixes but i wouldn’t want my guppied to be disabled in any way.

[@lzamek]

is it okay to put diffrent breed of guppies ??

[@ghamoy]

Do you ship guppies to Winnipeg, Canada?

[@TinyvanKeulen]

IF YOU WANT TO AVOID OVERPOPULATION: After two or three weeks, look at the young guppies with a magnifying glass. The females have a dark spot on the back of their abdomen, near the base of their tail. Separate them from brothers and nephews at that age. Because young males can fertilize their sisters and nieces within four or five weeks. The female stores the sperm until she is fertile and then she becomes pregnant. But if you separate them in time, a female tank and a male tank, the females will grow longer. They grow bigger and you don't have an overcrowded tank. In addition, you have unfertilized females if you have a new male and want young from it.

[@truth.hurts...]

What temperature is your breeding tank

[@FlyGuyRy94]

Breeding them is easy. It’s all about the survival rate by the time you’ve found out the mom gave birth lol. I’ve been successful with hiding places and separating. But it’s always somewhat of a race lol

[@steveplays5408]

Can we see a video on how you do your auto waterchanges

[@royalsmask5733]

Easy peasy. Breeder here of 15 strains of guppy 🔥👍

[@RedRum2514]

Where did you buy your guppies from?