How to Breed Guppies (Beginner's Guide)

So today we're here with Nat who's a great fishkeeping friend of mine and we've just done a huge fish room tour of your place and there's some really really cool Guppies here but it's amazing that only keeps Guppies and I thought what better an opportunity than to get some expert ad I know you wouldn't consider yourself an expert yet just like my experience experience on how to breed Guppies and care for guppies Nat's actually been recently on a trip to Thailand exploring Farm and all that sort of stuff everything related to Guppies so I'd consider you an expert okay thank all of my guppies come from [Music] that so let's just say you're a beginner and you want to get into breeding like just you know a line of Guppies not just not just throwing Guppies in a tank cuz that's what anyone can do but like say we've got Guppies like these ones up here which we've just taken a few of from my fish room how would you go about breeding caring for guppies if you a beginner okay so you need to select the Strand you like for example we choose Sika blue here so you just have a look on the main characteristic of the fish first look at at you know like the body shape if they you know like in a good shape in the you know like if it balance for the whole body so this is you know that sorts of thing that you need to looking at get the healthy female and they need to be active the most important one is the fish need to be active and then if you know like they're floating somewhere in the corner they may not be a good you know the good choice so this is a perfect tank like some really nice young fat fish yeah and then if you go to for example this tank yeah yeah let's have a look that one the one in the middle the big one even though it look big big tail that one that's not a good one because she getting too old and then the way she swim is not that active compared to the other one if you you know tap tap tap you can see straight away so it seems respond to the what do you call stimul stimulation is they're like responsive yeah they're responsive so it seems like 90% of the success starts with the first purchase that's correct so the first um the first patter you select you need to make sure that um they're active they're healthy and then you just select the one you want and then you start bringing them from that there is actually a bad example remember when you got scammed oh yeah yeah yeah for example this is the example of the bad pad that you will get for example like that one they seem active but you know like the quality is not there you get what I mean like the tail shap is not big like you know what it's supposed to be um You probably won't select them so like if you want to do like line breeding it's best to come to a person like you who's you know if you like breeding them you cannot mix um your Cy strand with other Cy at all for example if you go to your local breeder you get the fish from them you just keep breeding them and then you cannot really mix with someone else do you get what I mean or with other strand it all starts with the first purchase so for instance like the ones that we picked out today yeah are down here so all of these were active healthy looking fish yeah that are all Young The Young part of them is also an important key for guppies yes I think age between you know like 3 months old to four 5 months is the best age to and um if it old than that sometime you may get you know like the fish with less quality out of them yeah or they don't produce enough and then you just lose the strength yeah they are a very short-lived fish like I've seen videos of other Farms talking about like 3 months they got to get out the door that's correct 2 and a half months 3 months it's yeah but for us you know here by 2.5 3 months we need to start advertising it and then you know release the fish out otherwise I stuck with them so picking nice young healthy fish good quality here we've got yeah this is the perfect one yeah the full black very healthy and um ready to go for breiding I would say if you put in you know like take it home put it in a good tank clean water good food probably in two or 3 weeks time you probably get the first batch of fries and then the first batch is always always small so you probably get less than 10 or maybe 15 as a maximum but try to save them all just in case you lose the parents so when we get to this stage so what are you feeding like when I get these home what would you feed um it's very common when you take the fish home and then they don't eat anything I would say you know sometime the first day probably stop feeding them and then the second day start feeding them either dry food or baby brush cream if you have it fled it's fine yeah so they they will be all right bu yeah you that's something you can you know feed them and make sure you don't feed them a lot you know just enough so do you have a tank here where you're trying to to breed I think we saw the albinos before you're breeding a ton of albinos um where like how are you trying to get your babies a common issue with guppy breeding is the females eating all the babies so the first option the easiest one is you put a little basket in like that yeah but the most important one is you need to make sure that the basket has the hole at the bottom okay so go the tip because you know like it can go into any direction and you don't want the basket to trap all the trash you know all the Ws in the in in the tank so when you're shaking it all the we just go down and then it's easy for us to clean see like this one here the lulis they actually have a ton of babies inside of that basket there so and then um if they a lot and you afraid that you're going to lose the baby you just scoop them out and put in different tank this easiest one and the other way is you select you notice your fish and you think like well that fish is ready for example like this Coy um I'm not teasing her you see that one yeah she very I think she ready to go in the separate time so I just s like you know like take her out and then put her in a small top yeah and for you know like to leave down and two there was a really nice one we got footage of before but she had like that squared off body yeah I think it is there in here this one she look ready because you know like her tummy getting flat at the bottom now look like a Bo chave yeah and then um I probably you know considered to take her out even that one yeah yeah I would do know like consider to take her out and put her in separate container to collect the fry um because it's very common that the aveno fish they always eats the baby so um you want you know like to collect more you need to separate them out and then when she alone it's less likely that she going to you know let the baby so you've got some over here that you're sh Us in this is um the example of what I have so this is the coin that I separated because I do know that she very D look at that she very fat and very you know like tummy pregnant so she put it there so you put her in like a little container yes you don't need to put in you know very very big one the container like that is f as well yeah and um just put you know if you have water plant just put it in there for the baby to hide or to know like just cover yeah to make her feel safe and that's right and then you put it in there once you notice that um the fish giving birth you just you know leave her I normally leave her for a day just to make sure that she release all the fry out and then you just collect the fish back to the main tank straight away and you'll raise the babies in here for a couple of days I normally raise it in there for a week okay and then um bre them mainly bright shrim to make sure that I the reason is it's small TP right I want to make sure all the food is around the baby and the baby doesn't need to swim to five for the food and then you know they're going to eat all the baby in that sorry the baby going to eat all the food yeah yeah and there so the confined so the confined space yeah means that all the babies can get access fa easily Y and then um once they for example like another top there I'll show you yep I'm let have a look in here is it the one that I collect oh yeah is it um about a week now I would say a week a week and a half this one they big enough I need to remove it out this top to grow so this mean I want them to go faster so I put it in either top like this or coer tank so they'll go into the grow out after that correct and then um for example like the coil that I just took out I put it in you know that at this top like that to grow them see how many there are in and then when they getting bigger they're going to be moved to a bigger tank but if you don't have um a big sorry if you don't have a lot of room right just keep you know look after them in there but you need to make sure that you fit them enough to body clean so feeding babies how often do you feed your babies when they come in um for the baby I normally feed them twice a day yeah and I think that's is enough but if you have time just try to do the extra like three or four times make them grow more yeah and then it's going to go faster but again the more you feed them the more pollut the water could be so more feeding obviously means that the water's going to get dirtier that's corre you need to maintain the tank well I think like it's I've always talked about this when I breed fish but like feeding if you you want to feed more it's always less but more often so like overfeeding is way worse than underfeeding that's right um but so like another thing cuz Guppies are obviously a beginner fish that's part of the appeal I've actually noticed you don't actually need to use baby BR shrimp like it's IDE really need to but you can use for example like good example like your fish food like pet you know like anything that you can Crush into a powder is very convenient as well just you know fit them they normally you know nip on that you know um powder and they'll eat that the whole life as well like they can eat bug Buffet day one to day until the last day yeah yeah and to be honest you know like they really like it you can see it I already feed the fish show you already that how much they love to BU Buffet thank you yeah but um so and then you put a date on when they're yeah I normally put a date on because I want to know how the growth's going that's correct and then if it too slow or too fast if it too fast I might be like in the right direction because you want your fish to go very quick right and then you know they can be quick you can sell them quick that's it one and when it comes to selling a Guppies what's the best way do you Reon to sell Guppies for me I sell it on my Instagram is that the question you asking I mean yeah you sell your Guppies on Instagram but say someone else wants to like they just have all these Guppies and they don't know what to do okay so I think you can for example in Australia right you can post it dum Tre that's the only main side that you can p posted yeah live animal you know live fish and then um you can create your own Facebook page or Instagram I think the good thing about having Instagram is you have the fish right you want to show everyone you know your beautiful fish your fish is like your pet it's want to show you know everyone and you can make the money on the size well yeah there will be people you know contacting you and make sure that your fish has you know like quality and look good healthy of course people will buy it yeah yeah but for my gy I need to point out though like some the strin is very difficult to breath because the female didn't give a lot of baby so this is why the price of the Cy might be a little bit higher and some The Strain is very very rare very hard to get around the world or even Australia so the price of the G is kind of high as well so what I try to do at the moment is try to you know bre them as much as I can but sometime things not going you know well I mean you a good job with these albinos like if you look in here this is insane the top here this is crazy um this is the alino koi is very very popular at the moment so I just you know breed a lot of them and um I hope I get a lot of red ear out them because they're coming from like the Abino COI red ear and yeah just see in a few more weeks so I guess take home points buying really good quality fish that's correct yep Y and then uh and also you need to know where your fish coming from and then if it not breaking through you can go back to that reader hey what's going on with this fish and things like that yeah yeah yeah so like reputable breeder if you can find it I think people need to know too like we've paid a lot for these Guppies but we're paying to have success later yeah so like each one of these guppy pairs is $50 or something like was it 50 bucks for bucks some of them is even more than that yeah even more than that and but that's totally worth it for me cuz there's a lot of love going into these fish I know that they're going to be healthy I know that I'm not going to have issues with them so that to me is worth it but like yeah it it's like one thing to go to the shop pick out a few and try and line bre them it'll never work no it's someone already you know because you know like the male is very easy to tell right with what strain it is but the female is the one that's the problem because you don't know what is the right female for that strand it has has red tail right but it doesn't mean that it can go with any red tail for example and then I guess like two the food as well important food is important very important and then like water changes water change just high quality clean water yeah that's pretty much it the light yeah light the light don't forget the light is important but it doesn't mean like you need to turn light all day long just you know like 10 hours a day 10 hours a day 10 hours a day do you know that um you cannot turn turn off the light completely for the copy really otherwise they jump out really yes our M turn off completely if you um if you turn off completely right you need to make show your list sure that the list is on what I felt is when I turn off the light completely it's is a te someone told me um the gy tend to freak out and then they you know like swim into you know the wall of the tank and then jam out things like that how always F you know dead fit when I first doing it in here all over the ground and someone told me that you need to copy the moon and put like a little night light yeah so I just need to leave one of the light in here on one of them all so that helps fix I don't have that problem unless I fill up too much of water yeah awes all right that's it hopefully everyone you know bringing Guppies successfully come buy some Guppies from that yeah or me but come to that first all right thanks guys see you see you

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Published: Mon Jan 15 2024