LIVEBEARER FISH - Guppy Fish - Platys - Endler Guppies - Mollies - Goodieds

hello everyone today I'm visiting Cory from aquarium co-op howdy and we're going to talk about live bears so stay tuned [Music] all right so I'm here with Cory we're looking at Guppies right now and one of the most common questions on my live stream is about libraries and that's not one of my strong suits I figure I come down here and maybe we can learn together with my favorites yeah so I know the Guppies are your favorite and why they're your favorite but tell the audience wired up means your favorite so Guppies my favorite because you can start with like disappear of like normal painful Guppies are kind of a sort is and fill up a tank for the ton of color and you babies all the time kind of you've got going on here they're relatively easy fish if you meet the basic care requirements and like half of the United States or half the world their water will be amazing for it and then the other half wants to do some work like my water is terrible for it but in general they're not aggressive and go with a lot of other fish they provide a lot of color they don't get very big most people can keep a guppy and I love it just that babies all the time and I kind of like being like the spokesman for Guppies because a lot of people don't like to admit that level guppy it's because I'm cool there's such a common fish where I have no problem saying I love they actually are amazing so I talked about the water what kind of water do they need so in general most line bearers are going to want water that has a little bit higher pH I would say bare minimum at least 7.0 but more like 7 - 2 7 8 anywhere in that range they'd really love and in fact even higher they'll do okay and then hardness that's how much calcium magnesium is in the water ideally at least a hundred fifty parts-per-million maybe even harder like I'm not sure they ever don't like harder water but you don't have to get that far like mine is probably fairly at 150 and I would about 7.2 PA cents I run crush portal and all of my tanks that help me because I am the way way way below that on my tap water so now that it's best to start off with a pair or trio or what do you think so with Guppies I like start out with a trio and that's why I have a I have a boy and two girls here I started with pairs and I have pairs of stuff that just it's a little bit harder on the female because the boy wants to breed with the girl all the time and she can kind of get worn out especially if she gets close to giving birth and so a trio or more like even three females no male is even better but at least a pair for sure and more female Samaria now when you say that kind of the general rule for all libraries yeah so if I'm selling libraries my store and stuff use it that you want to females for every male of basically every librarian species and I'm sure if I thought long and hard enough I can think of some that break that rule like for instance the one I thought it was the pipe library Bella Sonic's the females get larger and they typically eat their male counterparts so it's more female work that would be but almost any other one all the basic laws are normally run into definitely more female is going to be a good thing okay so another question is how do we set the Guppies yeah so it can be really easy what you're going to read about online and what a lot of people will think is you do my color so in general males are really colorful and then females aren't as colorful well these Guppies which I call the best cookies in the world the females in my opinion look better than the males like these are both girls here these big ones and in the male which is right up here up top at the moment is the boy but when it comes down to actually sexting most libraries I'm going to say most because there are libraries that don't sex out this way the females can on the bottom of the fish near their anus they will have an anal fin which you know males do as well and it's going to be in a big like triangle form so it's going to form a big triangle and you can see that on these females that you look at their little you know pectoral fins basically or their ventral fins then they've got that anal screen that's a triangle on these they happen to be yellow well on the male they're going to have their breeding opinion which is called a Ghana podium and it's going to look more like a stick not a not a bee but more like a stick and so of course he's right a pair of Thomas um I'm going to come down a little bit where there would have been that triangle it's a little skinny stick and they use that to fertilize a female that you know kind of like humans and dogs and other libraries we know that's how reproduction works same way with Guppies they can move it to impregnate a female and so then it gets a little bit difficult because the babies themselves they don't necessarily take on a sex until they're old enough to so you look at a lot of baby here and well a lot of times I'll get an email looks like that like all my babies came out girls like well there does not they haven't matured yet so you can tell who a boy and girl yet so you're always looking for that anal fin and that's how you do jump these mollies platies swordtails like all those common ones but then there's some other ones that don't have that to it and they've got they still have differences but they're unique to the fish and you know kind of another thing about most libraries I think the gestation period is about 30 32 days so that means boy and girl get together and then roughly a month later we're going to get some babies coming out now if you don't get any babies a lot of times what's happening is maybe your filter is sucking them in maybe there's other fish eating them that type of thing but really pretty much like clockwork every 30 days or so more babies are coming out and when it comes to libraries they can actually store you know what do you want to call it you milk semen sperm from the male for the once they've been fertilized from a male they can give birth for up to two years their entire lifespan of two to three years well and they only got to be with a male once and so it can be very difficult to make your own strains and things like that and that's why you know a pure strain like this if one other officials to get in there is going to contaminate improve from then on that means that it has improved my science that let's say that did happen the current male dreads with the female will still give the majority of the gene so and it's not going to be pure but let's say you can get sixty or seventy percent the way you want it and there's still those contaminant you know milk or fertilization from other the other males so that's kind of you know some basic that kind of goes for all of those libraries too and I think Guppies are probably the most common library yeah by far yep I would say they're the most common with probably flatty's being second let's take a look at a different one let's move on to the Hendler let's you're over here yeah so I've got a coupla texts in lers and these tanks so up here we've got Tiger and learns and they get this Tiger pattern and obviously their library so they're giving birth to live dry they see some of the newest hatch ones with surface there and some larger ones throughout here and they're basically you know giving birth hiding in the weeds until food arrived but come out baby here is really small baby when I keep them well-fed and I'm going to give too much and so that's what I trend learn and then down below here a lot of allergies can my natural taste there's no filter in here but these are the blue star and alerts they're long blue tuam and in general with anglers males are smaller and the females are larger and end learners are one of the few libraries that can go below 7 so I've kept these down as low as like six eight and they can handle lower hardness I don't know why they do better not something they do better I think it's already much better I don't know why but in general you have that problem end learners are great like beginner at getting into library fish and they come in a few different varieties now and most of them like the tiger a mark above having crossed with a guppy to actually meet that this this was an accident you know probably about 10 12 years ago now where we had a tequila sunrise guppy which is kind of a jello ish bodies fish with some orange on it and that hopped down into a tank that has endler and this is circus but this is how the story goes and it made fish similar to this and then they bred some cobra into it and that's what made its a tiger and learn and so that's why tiger owners will get a little bit larger than normal traditional and learn I don't think I have any traditional handlers here I only have variants in my back bedroom so it leads me to another question about a way to come up earlier far as the fried it will enter this pond and guppy for that matter eat the prey yeah so every fit from pretty much eaten fries it depends on how hungry it is and how much hiding plates there are so the more highly plates we have the less they're going to be able to find their pride and the more you feed the less they're going to want to either fry so it's kind of just a balancing active if they're crazy hungry they're going to eat the fry if they're full my own kind of leaves you chase that fry down and especially the more they can hide out excuse them hide away in the bank and you know they really want three particles to lay in there and kind of think the bride can get into there but the big female that they can't because the nooks and crannies are too small and so a lot of people ask what's the difference between a junkie and learn if that's always visual so basically they were discovered at different point if you were to look at a wild guppy in a wild inland there's actually not that much of a difference and I think that's where it stems from but if you look at you know today's go bees a fanzine get me a tenure usually give me a lot of body size is going to be the difference and then I end learn much more muted color in general than a guppy and just discovered by different people come from different waterways and there's there's other types of companies for locals Cecilia picked up for instance there's a few other oddballs in there but you so rarely see them in the Hobby of it that's why people just say see and learns they see Guppies but they don't see with other rare ones and that other air one's pretty hard to keep alive no one though right yeah there's not that much difference honestly like you know I would chastise anyone for thinking they had a fever and lers like their cloaks are not polished alright so here we have one of the probably the second most common these are teacup plenty yeah so plantings in general I think are the second most common teacup cloudy direct you're pretty rare but they get that name from being like a balloon mulling basically they're a short body fish and that was a genetic defect that was isolated because people oh wow let's keep looking handsome some people love it some people hate it you know but I just thought they're they're really are nice they show like a pregnant female really looks pregnant and of course they're all hiding now they're getting the rightful face but we're keeping with shrimp in here and people well said we're using these very big pellets and then kind of eat them like we'd eat an apple or something like that it allows them to raise a baby these different sizes in here and if I can get at all in the back corner but you can see that top big one is a female and that one is trying to breed with this right now is a manual kind of more intense color and we can look at their fins and realize that the more than the Front's got that gone a podium that stick and the one the backs got that v-shaped thin and of course now they've dropped behind a sponge but they all raised all these babies now and I had another colony going for a while but then I there was a cichlid in there I didn't know about this finish them off for me unfortunately so we'll be rebuilding this colony but we've also got some other platies that can show you for a different variation these are the tea cups and we'll take a look at some of the very a display - next all right so here's a very addis planet things of the - right yeah these are very addis platies they're technically different than normal platies totally different they can handle over cooler temperatures these are the - jeans and you know part of the ology in here but this kind of a tankless there's a holding tank usually keep you fish outside and but you can see like this male right here it's got a very long dorsal fin that kind of flops over so it's got that really big - gene and then you see some the other ones that don't have that nearly as pronounced and the female is kind of a huge triangle on top but you know his the fish that gets about three and a half four inches really colorful it's amazing under sunlight I've kept them as cold as about 55 before I brought amines over those honor so they you know they're very outside it can go a lot colder than your average platting you've got babies going on in here and you can see them just kind of all around throughout that algae algae is one of their first diets now mollies like algae a lot more than plantings with Plante's the babies and stuff don't go on algae and so it's kind of important has some out of you around they're going to pick at it all day long and real peaceful fish though so jumpy the review school these plans early peaceful and some of the other ones like the Maldives and sore tail I find them to be a decent like a next step up of aggression they're not quite as low key is some of these guys and you know obviously there's some very aggressive librarians as well but just in light of the hierarchy of aggressiveness and because thing about basically all live bearers almost all as they're all plant friendly which is right and easy to take care of they can handle a wide range of temperatures and go ketone with anything you throw at them and yeah so what am I very out splatty in particular is one of my probably top five fish ever like not even just like oh I like jumpy like platy is just like if I have to pick exact strains everything this particular fish I really love and where I found it and where I fell in love with it you can just walk into it like a like a pet smart pick them up for two or three dollars apiece but and you know they'll always have when they do their routine and they're pretty common there and I just think it's like one of the purest forms of my joy and like it's not expensive finished no one's impressed like oh you finally found them because anyone can get them but when you do see em and they're eating bugs they're doing the thing outside they are just really really good-looking so they can handle the lower temperature pH still yeah so pH is still important with with flatties still you basically still want to be above 7 where when you're talking about the end lers they can go a little bit below 7 but yeah it's nice and lers everything else pH and heart disease be up there you're going to run some problems like in this aquarium I don't have crushed coral but this is all aragonite which also provides minerals and raises that pH for me which is probably why they're doing well with the lake tanganyika right yes because they're both peaceful species and you know I kind of need to put them somewhere slips in here and you know it's kind of a temporary situation sense a long-term scenario but you know once I get on top of things literally these guys are gonna go outside what's going to happen next we're just rolling in the summer and then when they come back and then I'll have a more permanent stuff all right well let's check out some Molly yeah all right so here we have the Liberty Molly to the Liberty lawn it's a pretty rare Molly doesn't add a lot of flashy color but this is a library like you'd see it out in the wild so it looked just like this it really only had a little bit of color on their dorsal fin which is pretty nice they're pretty slender slimline fish so this kind of a library does really well with some of the cichlid and things like that they can escape and they provide good food and which also means I'm really good chasing down their own fry because then you're not dragging any big spins or anything like that and you really got to feed them really heavy to get fry out of them and these so they're cool thing is these are true freshwater they're not a brackish water Molly or in fact that so they just need hard water and D compete but they don't have to have salt they do really well for me and they're not a great seller like anapest stories like that but your true library very nerd like myself you'll enjoy them in there this is a nice splash of color they're good allergy hairs like there's there's java moss in there but it's not like a speck of algae in the place because there with Molly it's their team to run wet upon their lives is made for holding algae right on the rocks and that type of stuff so just a real-life cuttlefish and I think they pair well with most other like rainbow fish and things like that now you said aggression level their kind on that next year with sort kill yeah I don't forget me sort Taylor to you I don't I don't not right now I kind of I went through a real heavy sort tail phase that the moments don't have any though other any other similarities between these and four kills nope so yeah between Molly's boobs or tails no but platies and swordtails can cross so they can actually that sort tails in the wild don't have any color basically I mean they have a tiny bit of color but that's where we get the color so when you see a red sword tail and a sword in store that we took great ones day we like the industry or whatever they took a red platy and a sword tail that was kind of colorless read them together and you start getting red sore tails and so almost everything I see in a pet store has been crossed things like like phosphorus health but health is a health right hello ride I was thinking of a plant there that phosphorus hello Roy Alvarez I those are probably the two main was your mail finance store that are wild coloration but most people just go home they're like a like a sword tale but their look is good so the only the purists really want those everyone kind of want that color and then with molly's mollies can cross with Guppies now it's not a very likely cross and when you do cross them they come out and they're called either monkeys or gullies but they're all sterile so once you make one and it look pretty weird you know you can get those Molly with this like crazy dougie tail but they can't breed and so they're not sustainable and everyone smile there's people like all I'm really looking for them the problem is you're biting a fish it's going to die in two years that you just can't breed and even with like artificial Asian and stuff like that like science has been able to pull it off even at this point so yeah so we think about it jumpy's and Molly's can cross planned sort tails and cross and then there's some other live errors more the wild types that can cross and stuff like that but those are if you're really keeping those usually not keep them together anyway and I don't even know all those ones that can cross off the top of my head like all the Kuti is for instance they'd all be all not maybe not all of them most of them to be able to cross and so yeah alright well speaking of good let's go check out my favorite good Ian alright so here we have my favorite good Ian to trap goody it mm-hmm they good yet I hope to get from you someday they're very slow breeders so this is not quite what it would look like in the wild a little bit enhanced the person I got it from which was grey at select aquatics calm he's been reading them to intensify the yellow a bit on the males and so there are nice-looking fish they get about four inches they're a little bit more aggressive than a guppy for instance they will work on some hair allergies but the big difference with these guys they don't have big brood so like a big Ruby like six or seven well they also don't want to go really hot but like cooler temperatures these guys can handle about that 78 80 but a lot of it good here is like can't go above 74 they just absolutely fall apart they still want the hard water they still want on the higher pH and with good use they're different when you if you're trying to sex them in a store something like that their anal fins both of them look very similar and in fact basically I can only use my hands to describe it's really hard to capture on camera but the female will kind of look like a fist and so it's just kind of a rounded bin and then the male is that same round of fin except it's got an extra little bump so you know before it was like this and then it would be like this so can I come there's this little extra bump and that it's actually there's a hook on there and that it hooks into the female to inseminate them that way and goodies are different in the fact that the reason why they only have very few fry is it's not much bigger so people are shocked when they come out they go wow that must been born like a month ago no it just came out they're much bigger but they actually have umbilical cords attached so they've been feeding off the parents inside of them for a long time and they don't have babies every thirty days they have babies every basically 60 to 90 days and so they spend a lot more time just growing inside that fish and you can see in here well as they got to grow up in there five or six fish coming out that big no wonder they can't have something like a guppy or something that works 100 or 200 300 depending on the species and so there's a real fun fish I want to place them outside they're not common at all but they would do great with rainbow fish and this other you know things that kind of swim fast I wouldn't put them with Guppies or any long fin fish but great fun oddball library that you know what's great about this library is laws different most people are coming to the fish room Beauvoir what is this this thing looks pretty nice I think it's named the trout good because it kind of looks like a trail and obviously plant safe which is nice and overall it's kind of a unique thing to keep around you'll never kind of wait make way to Minya they'll never be in mass production while you're going to find them at stores and you kind of always have this rare fish on your chest I might be thinking of a different fish but did you use to or do you still keep them with Murphy G stab them in that tank I did it yeah so I Adam with with Hank for a while that was my previous puffer and yeah they did they did well and I think the way to make a lot of these actually reason kind of pom Syria I'm hoping to play with that outside and goodies are one of the libraries can go cooler and so I'm hoping I can merge the two outside I've keep my pawns a little bit warmer throughout the winter and keep on the connecting thrive and those lower temperature can see if I can have some looks really nice but I think I just know from doing fish outside the color intensifies so much one they're actually eating bugs they've got actual sunlight hitting them and I think these guys might look really good sun rays coming into the pond catch that yellow from the side and blue take my breath away all right there you go goody is trout video specifically any other libraries in here ah yeah I've got maybe you want or two left down here in this little algae farm I've got Henry ender from OSHA this is the smallest live bear in the world and so like this male right here that's full-grown like so like one inch is full-grown on a male that females get a little bit larger yeah can't even focus yeah they're really small so the female of like that one look back probably they get maybe an inch and a half maybe and what's kind of cool about them is because they're so small they can't have a batch of fry either right so what they do is they're almost the conveyor belts like every three or four days another baby comes out and it's just kind of that's how the females work and so you get a lot of stages of fry going on in here and they're not they're not like a super pretty fish they're great nanotech fish and what makes them cool is they're native to the United States so it's one of the few natives that we can actually keep that have some cool properties to it and you know I just read them because I like them there's also a gold form which I currently and there was a superduper piece of great great to put shrimp and look I think they have a lot of personality if you've had like a like a two and a half or a five gallon on a desk somewhere I think they'd be a great candidate yeah but I actually kept these for about a year and a half and then just kind of got away from them but I loved a few left in my 37 gallons they're great in a small tank like you've got to have them somewhere where you couldn't have other stuff because they usually just lose the war of cool stuff like oh man I got to put something cool in a tank I'll put them in here and then eventually they get out computer for food and there you go what do you mean I don't have any more of those left all right there you have it YouTube live bear 101 I hope you learned something and found it enjoyable definitely check out Cory at aquarium co-op don't forget to subscribe to Cory's crab to me and secondly smash that notification bell do it alright guys and gals I hope you have fun and I'll see you next time [Music]

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Length: 25min 48sec (1548 seconds)

Published: Sat May 06 2017