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[@vrael09]

Love how depending on where you are in the US you can have such differences experience trying to breed certain fish.

[@jonisolis9645]

I have water with no gh or kh and my platy fish had babies but many of the babies had bent spines. I then started adding gh booster and baking soda to my change water and their babies no longer had bent spines. The added gh also helped the plants very much!

[@AQUAPROS]

Yes id def helps with that, Ca is important with development!

[@TedH71]

It can be a sign of too close inbreeding as well. Might try bringing in new bloodlines to correct that.

[@IvansGuppies]

Love how systematic you approached this!

[@bunnysparklzbunnytime5117]

Pearlweed is fantastic for babie tanks. I've got a 4 inch carpet on the bottom with about 4 inches floating at the surface. Dwarf water lettuce floating ontop also helps if you dont want pearlweed floating at the surface. Bendy babies is what i call the deformed ones. They usually survive very well. The sinkers(swim bladder issues) end up small probably because their always struggling to swim. Those ones i always seperate out

[@laattardo]

Im so glad my guppies love my well water. I only ever had to worry about nitrates and thats a simple plant and water change ratio.

[@bunnysparklzbunnytime5117]

I take egg shells and crush them up into a powder and sprinkle it in the fish/shrimp tanks. The rabbit snails, guppies and shrimp do really well. Havent had an issue with anyone. Now if i can figure out how to get the guppies to eat the shrimp... Every month i end up doing a massive shrimp gathering. I dont mind its just annoying having to fish out 200 shrimp everytime haha

[@elektrofry]

I have also used this method and have maybe 1 bent spine per 1k of fry. I have a hard time thinking it is due to a chemical imbalance when it is such a rare event.

[@kathrynthomas6390]

Dang! Around me, you could probably fund a fish room off that many shrimp!

[@elektrofry]

@@kathrynthomas6390 I used to sell my excess shrimp to a local fish store for $1/ea

[@glenncj]

Update on the feeding tool soon? It looks so fun and useful to use!

[@AQUAPROS]

I knowwww just making them perfect...

[@ABAquatics187]

we have well water high ph of 8.5 and kh hardness is dark green very high and i breed guppies like crazy ph and hardness have alot to do with more fry

[@katsudon91t]

Breeding medaka has a history of 300 years in japan. Utagawa kuniyoshi painted medaka in Ukiyoe. Thanks for sharing.

[@EuroGupper]

I have natural hard water, and I used to get 70-80 babies at a time (I had Guppy grass to help the fry hide and had the mother is a separate birthing tank)

[@jonisolis9645]

Java moss and floating water lettuce works well at protecting the babies

[@getAlife666]

That glass is the ultimate mega mega pint 😂

[@TedH71]

Have you considered that the guppies can and will eat their own babies? Often as soon as they're born! I'm having that problem in one tank because the moss plant I have isn't that grown yet while in my other tank which is 20 gallons has a huge moss plant and I keep anywhere from 100-300 Black Flame Endlers in there with no issues. I sell off the males mostly every 2 to 4 weeks. In that tank, the babies hide in the heavy plants and don't get eaten up.

[@TEJASN324]

what is that tool ou used to feed the guppies?

[@douggiles7647]

I find it crazy that we have the exact opposite problem, my guppies won't stop producing huge amounts of babies. I've already got around 100 fry from the 2 females I got at Christmas, and they're not even from the males I was trying to breed them with so I don't know what to do with them all when they start crowding my tanks. Although I would love to have water like yours because mine has over 250 TDS straight from the tap, good for guppies and the like but not much else without some tweaking. Another thing to keep in mind if trying to breed guppies is that they can hold male DNA for up to a year roughly, from what I've researched, so any babies in that time might not be from the male/s you're trying to breed them with.

[@markfranklin8831]

Thanks for sharing

[@AQUAPROS]

Thanks for watching!

[@LakeMissoulaAquaticsandPlants]

In my experience phone can be low as long as the kh and gh are high. Whenever I start getting crooked or bent backs I know it's time to add more minerals.

[@AQUAPROS]

Thanks Ben!

[@jonisolis9645]

Add a bunch of anubias nana petite on lava rocks to the bottom and middle of that guppy tank and it will look so much better. I love anubias nana petite as a low plant in my low tech tanks.

[@toddbigeasy]

Hi! Do you monitor or shoot for a target ph/gh/kh with rainbows?

[@kathrynthomas6390]

Oh man, I hear people talk about having trouble breeding guppies, and here I can't stop them! But GH out of the tap is over 1000ppm! And if I use my parents water, pH is about 8 and KH is sky high, too...

[@rubya.p4437]

Just use baked eggshell, it basically free.

[@laattardo]

Especially if you have a flock of hens like me. They may eat my culls, but I can not deny nor confirm this for the sake of not being attacked 😊

[@galejohnson8086]

But doesnt kh keep your tank from crashing by buffering? 7:02

[@crunchedchip3776]

Thank you for the video!

[@AQUAPROS]

FIRST! lol :)

[@thanos8914]

Hmm

[@timellis9293]

I bought two tall 10 gallon tanks a few month back after watching your videos on guppies. Bought 2 males and 6 females and split them between the tanks. I now have about 30 in each tank and enough duckweed to last until the end of days. I never even bought any duck weed. I can not for the life of me get rid of it. I take a bowl full out to my gold fish pond every day. That stuff is insane.

[@AQUAPROS]

Duckweek be like that... try adding some surface flow to piss off the duckweed and get to nettin!

[@elektrofry]

You can also spray a mist of water over the duckweed. That helps slow it down. Just using a straight walled beaker and slowly lowering it into the tank until it just starts to let water in it'll suck all the duckweed off the top and into the beaker. pour the beaker into a fish net over the tank when its full. repeat until its all gone. If you have guppies, they like to interfere with this process and get sucked into the beaker as well. Get the glass beakers and you can look in before pouring through the net so you don't lose any.

[@myckee]

Ha, my ph is like 8 coming out of my tap, and gh and Kh are thru the roof here.

[@Nawid4u1]

Is this called a Brackish water?

[@michaelmaasen1154]

Have you tried comparing it to crushed coral? Potential fish tank mike experiment?

[@AQUAPROS]

I need to do wayyyy more of stuff like that..... gotta get my life sorted hahahah

[@jonisolis9645]

How long do your adult guppies live? I have not found any yet that last more than about a year.

[@Sosigersossenverzehrer]

1 1/2 year mostly by me I have seen that the males last longer then the females, I think because the females are always pregnant.

[@gardockis.playground]

Love the process

[@Sosigersossenverzehrer]

I have very hard water and my endlers are breeding like crazy. I bought 2022 a trio of the endlers for my 25l (6.5 gallons) and now I have an army of them I might have to change to a bigger tank sone. 😂

[@onlyfinsnyc]

super soft water here in NYC. Guppies have been tough. lots born with bent spines. weirdly my Endlers seem to be completely fine. Bred thousands...

[@AQUAPROS]

Ya its def the Ca that helps em out, interesting about the endlers... 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@RiverRat1953]

I have well water and my guppies put rabbits to shame.

[@michorrhizae]

Anything you know of that may affect number of male or females per spawn? I've only been getting a few males :/

[@sghettinona]

Water temperature

[@awstocking]

I'm what everyone warned against. Kiddo wanted a couple fancy & cobra and I had duckweed that snuck in a bag with anubias and java fern. A year later they're in a dedicated 10 gal and there's so many. I don't have any bendy (only seen 1 ever & it was a zebra danio that my pair dropped) what I get is what I call blanks. Mostly gray and mostly short tailed.

[@toothpicdinosaur3777]

I'm on spring water it's super soft which confuses me.

[@-AndrewR]

👍🏻👍🏻

[@zomburs]

what are you dispensing your fish food with?

[@yermailmain206]

WARNING‼️‼️‼️MTS starts with having guppies 🤣🐠🦞🥰

[@AQUAPROS]

Hahah i feel that

[@mtsanonymous]

.... absolutely correct.

[@tkaiser2086]

Why not just use aragonite or crush coral

[@AQUAPROS]

I mention that towards the end, main reason for the remineralization is to keep the water parameters consistant for my feeding trial 🫡

[@tkaiser2086]

@@AQUAPROSI have a friend uses it as a substrate and it last many many years

[@Tracerts]

How do I spell Sergei stone? 🤣

[@AQUAPROS]

Seiryu? Thats closer hahaha

[@Tracerts]

@@AQUAPROSthat’s it! Math never was a strong suit of mine 🤓🤣🤣 but seriously, thanks. This is what I’ve been looking for to finish my newest hardscape.

[@Heterogeneity]

You're not lazy! You're busy and you have ADHD but you're definitely not lazy. LOL

[@AQUAPROS]

Hahahah