Goldfish fry at 52 days old, 12500 + in 4 tanks

[Fotojensen]

Overporpulated is a weak work here, please give them some more space.

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Fotojensen, thank you for looking. Your comment is valued and we reply as follows in 2 parts. The fry are at the narrow ends of the tanks feeding on Brine shrimp. After feeding they can by choice swim off to other areas of the tanks. Every 4 weeks the fry in each tank are split into two fresh tanks giving double the water capacity. This allows us to fully clean and maintain the systems and ensure the fry are kept in the best of health.

[FishGuysUK]

This video was filmed mid 2010, and the fry have grown into nice little fish. They will be seen in videos due to be filmed later this year. You can see about 30 of them in our video "Fish Pond, with 12 month old goldfish"!

[HEAVYMETALGODS86feb9]

Dude get a 500 gallon



[ELMERSARCENO]

isnt it hard to find a dead fry if its to stuff

[FishGuysUK]

Hi ELMERSARCENO, thanks for looking. What's "a dead fry". In the film you see the fry gathered at the front ends of the tanks as they are feeding on Brine shrimp. When they are spread out just swimming about any fry that is ill can easily be spotted. On these fry tank systems the loss rate is almost zero because the feeding methods and waste removal systems maintain the water quality and fry health to a very high standard

[ThePlakatfighter]

simeon00818@yahoo.com

[Nutto666]

how do u change the water when the fish are so small

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Nutto666, thanks for looking. In our video "Goldfish fry at 11 days old" you can see in the tank 2 black filters that are suspended from pipes. These filters constantly draw water from the tanks to support tanks where the water quality control and waste removal takes place. In our video "Goldfish fry at 60 days, 12500+ in 4 tanks" you can see water running off the tanks glass strengthening plates into the tanks. This is a mix of returning filtered water and fresh water entering the system.

[montyalgr]

How come you don't fill the aquariums to the full with water?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi montyalgr, thanks for looking. The water level is set by two factors, if the filtration systems suffer a failure the tanks will not overflow, thus loss of fish, and there are two glass strips on the long sides of the tanks to give better strength to the tank that are used to support equipment to control the automatic replacement of the water. The systems work well as the fish all grow and are very healthy.

[FishGuysUK]

In addition you must remember these are fry, and were spawned in 5 to 6 inches of water. The systems water levels are raised over several months. The original height as seen in the video "Goldfish fry at 11 days old" is well below the thermometers rubber sucker where as 41 days later the level is above the sucker!

[usersndme]

needs 1 oscar fish per tank lol

[tisimo123]

doesn't look healty for the fish

[FishGuysUK]

Hi tisimo123, thank you for looking and passing on your comment. As we have previously stated these fry are in the best of health and have grown into lively healthy little fish. We take pride in our high standards of care that are proven by our exceptional results.

[botdf4evermine]

@fishguysUK  you will see my fish mabye if you look up my big fishtank with ten fish thank you for replying.

[botdf4evermine]

Imma be the 1st 2 buy 1 I hope :) ifu sell em lol I'm breeding gold fish too but so far all I get are fights -_-

[FishGuysUK]

Hi botdf4evermine, thanks for looking. Do tell us more about your "fights" whilst trying to mate your goldfish?

[botdf4evermine]

Wow! So many I luv them!!

[HIVTRIM22]

nice

[FishGuysUK]

Hi HIVTRIM22, thank you for looking and your kind comment.

[gravitymfg]

whi you pee in the tank? :P



[FishGuysUK]

Hi gravitymfg, and not one drop on the floor !

[hasan8812011]

@gravitymfg u idiot hahahaha :D he isn't peeing he is giving the fish brine shrimp to eat

[minicrazy100]

what age do you sell the fry at or do you wait till it gets to a size?

[FishGuysUK]

High again minicrazy100, as yet we have not sold any of the fish we have produced. These fry were part of a test program, spawning batch 1 of 10 to ensure we were able to produce the best quality fish with minimal losses providing a controlled healthy environment for them to grow in. We are pleased to say we got it right the first time and are using the data in the design of the fishery due to open some time 2013.

[minicrazy100]

how did you start breeding goldfish ?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi minicrazy100, thanks for looking. When I was a youngster my father kept tropical fish and we ended up breeding them in our garage. We only had half a dozen tanks but it was interesting and a good education. I always wanted to take up the hobby in later life but never got round to it as I was always away on business. After moving to Scotland my girlfriend inherited a few goldfish, several looked good for breeding from so we set up a small breeding facility. We have never looked back!

[mikeyyy123]

wher are the fish? :D

[Finny1314]

I hope they don't become feeder fish..

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Finny1314, thanks for looking. We don't breed fish to become feeder fish. They are all growing well, between 40 and 55 mm long and happy little fish. About 30 of them are in our video "Fish Pond with 12 month old goldfish" we filmed spring 2011. You will be able to see many of them in various videos to be filmed later 2012.

[Finny1314]

@FishGuysUK I do hope so, seeing fishes cramped up in small tanks makes my heart ache :(

[selectimagetayside]

@Finny1314 They do say on some of the comments that the fish are at the end of the tanks as they are feeding. If you look you can see that the fry are as they say all at the end by choice :)

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Finny1314 Thank you for looking and posting your dislike for this films content. Your opinion is valued and we comment as follows. The films show the narrow ends of the tanks and the fry were feeding on brine shrimp, thus they were all at the ends of the tanks. Regarding your comment (cramped up in small tanks) these fry were in 2 mm diameter eggs 52 days ago and are growing as a result of the space afforded to them by the tanks! 20 months on they are all very healthy little fish!

[Finny1314]

@FishGuysUK As long as they are healthy, I'm happy :D

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Finny1314, we passed on your comments to the fish from this video and they commented as follows; 4367 said “thank you”, 2419 said "that’s nice”, and 5794 said “whats for tea”? Looks like we have 5794 males and 6786 females in that batch!

[DamjanGomez]

Fantastic :)

[FishGuysUK]

Hi DamjanGomez, thank you for looking.

[DamjanGomez]

@FishGuysUK Maybe you also have angelfish fries? :)

[FishGuysUK]

Hi DamjanGomez, we are sorry to say we don't yet breed Angelfish. We have looked at breeding them in the future but they are well down the list at present.

[jiahnejiahne]

I was just looking for the word baby guppies and I came along this xD

Oh my.. Lol. Lots of fishies. Can I have 1 tank for free? xD Lol jk jk. It's

good that you guys aren't selling them as crappy feeder fishies. Especially

if they've lived longer than 2months. That's pretty awesome ;D

[FishGuysUK]

Hi jiahnejiahne. Thanks for looking and welcome to YouTube. Also can we say well done for your first video. At FishGuysUK we take pride in our fish breeding and like to attain the highest quality of fish. We think that you can only achieve this by having healthy happy fish to breed from and the quality of the fry is maintained by treating them to the same high standards of care.

[jiahnejiahne]

@FishGuysUK thanks much :D and keep up at it. can't wait to see more fries from you guys xD

[PTHinata2606]

how are they now? :D

[FishGuysUK]

Hi PTHinata2606, thanks for looking. They are doing very well thanks, and are now between 40 to 55mm long. About 30 of them are in our video "Fish Pond, with 12 month old goldfish" filmed spring 2011. They will appear again later this year in some films planned to be uploaded summer 2012.

[PTHinata2606]

@FishGuysUK thatnks for awnser im happy for them ^^ il go watch that vid right away :D

did u sold the other ones?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi PTHinata2606. We kept them all!

[PTHinata2606]

@FishGuysUK wow your amazing :D but u must hav about 20 tanks no? XD

[FishGuysUK]

Hi PTHinata2606, we have 15 adult systems (a system is a tank, filtration and so on) and 24 fry systems.

[PTHinata2606]

@FishGuysUK cool :D would u mind someday showing that on a vid? i bet others want to see it too :D

[FishGuysUK]

Hi PTHinata2606, we have both planned and in production over 50 videos showing fish spawning and the various stages of fry development through to adult fish. Also we will be showing the production of brine shrimp, microworms and other food products. We will feature the new breeding facility, planned to be complete some time in 2013.

[PTHinata2606]

@FishGuysUK wow :D il be w8 for that ;D

[HelloJeb]

Drop an oscar in there.

[agentjucey]

imagine human sperms are like 13 million per ejaculation. thats alot in gold fishes.

if this made u laugh thumbs it up.

[NipSlipKnot]

if i go over there would you guys let me get into a tank naked?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi NipSlipKnot, well, that's a first. Your request did get some smiles at this end along with some cheeky comments! So, thank you for that.

[ben191209]

@ben191209 What?

[augustous09]

Next time when you are going to UPLOAD the video then,keep camera on your HAND 

[yeelthao]

How old or how big before the gold fish starts breeding? How can you sex them?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi again yeelthao, if you send us your e-mail address via a private message we can send you some info and pictures showing how to sex your fish.

[FishGuysUK]

Hi yeelthao, thanks for looking. As a rule we don't breed off Common Goldfish or Comets that are less than 3 years old and with a body length less than 5". If we purchase fish for breeding we will keep them in our system for 12 months to build up health and strength before they enter a breeding programme. Often they display their sex and start chasing each other at about 2 years old but we say for the best results ages 3 to 6 and after that it depends on the health of the fish.

[canari33520]

les pauvres

[gamenutt5]

Depressing music...

[ThePlakatfighter]

hi i want to breed my lionheads can u guide me t process pls.

[FishGuysUK]

Hi ThePlakatfighter, thanks for looking. Could you please send us via a YouTube private message, your personal e-mail address and we can send you some information.

[dubsteprocks]

@FishGuysUK can you pleace give me tips, my msn is

theuglykid@live.co.uk

[FishGuysUK]

Hi dubsteprocks, thanks for looking. What type of fish do you have or would like to keep?

[95mnbvcxz95]

How did u breed so many !!! It's insane

[FishGuysUK]

Hi 95mnbvcxz95, thanks for looking. As you can see with our comments for this film and on some of our other films this was not the number of fry we planned for, in fact well over the normal quantity for one spawning. But, on the up side it did give us a chance to gain new skills, develop our filtration systems and improve our brine shrimp, microworm and dry food production.

[JenniferDarkness]

how warm does the water have to be because I have different fishes which are a Molly,Guppies,Platy, and tiger barb

[FishGuysUK]

Hi JenniferDarkness. For the fish you mentioned a general rule is 25 Celsius +- 2 .

[braska19]

I think some people are under the illusion that breeding goldfish is easy....it ain't. I have tried and lost all mine except two. Also, not being able to put a filter in the tank doesn't help, I had to keep taking them out and putting them in another tank then putting them back ...that's why I only have two left lol....it was my first time.

[FishGuysUK]

Hi braska19, many thanks for looking and posting your comment. Your correct, it can be difficult, after all, your playing with nature! The fry in these videos are from one spawning. We planned on 3,500 fry with 50% loss in the first 3 months (a fairly standard result).  This spawning produced over 15,000 fry with about a 20% loss in the first 3 months! This threw out our tank capacity plans and we had to revise the filtration systems to cope with daily filter changes.

[Firebelliedkid]

If ur gonna keep them like that u might as well get feeders from the pet store

[FishGuysUK]

Hi boxstermanT15, thanks for looking. As stated on some of our other films the tanks are stripped and cleaned every 4 weeks. When this is done we split the fish in to twice the number of tanks, i.e they are in four tanks in this film, just after filming they were split into eight tanks. Also note that you see only the ends of the tanks and if you go near the tanks the fish swim to the front in the hope you are going to feed them some baby brine shrimp, just as they are eating in the film.

[boxstermanT15]

U should really increase the water level in ur tanks, help a little towards the overcrowding

[FishGuysUK]

Hi boxstermanT15, thanks for looking. The water level is set by two factors, if the filtration systems suffer a failure the tanks will not overflow, thus loss of fish, and there are two glass strips on the long sides of the tanks to give better strength to the tank that are used to support equipment to control the automatic replacement of the water. The systems work well as the fish all grow and are very healthy.

[Avispussycats]

Looks to me like the ends of the tanks and the fish are all at the front end for feeding, leaving most of the tank empty! They do say they have very good filtration systems on their tanks. They must have as they all look very healthy!

[Pop12646Okami]

So overcrowded.... As bad as a puppy mill, unless you have a strong filtration system.

[AquaPuppies]

is there an update video?

[FishGuysUK]

Hi AquaPuppies, thanks for looking. Yes, we have many more films. These original films were not made to put on YouTube, and are of poor quality. We decided to purchase some decent film equipment and make a series of films covering selection of fish for breeding, the spawning process, microworms, microworms breeding, brine shrimp and the many stages of growing fry to adult fish. Due to family commitments they are some months away but are in production!

[7CRonaldoLMessi10]

u rich because if u sell 1 for 1 dollar 12500 fish= 12500dollar!

[Jazzie646]

@7CRonaldoLMessi10 lmao thats what I said!

[Ugrin86]

You feed them bbs at this stage??? You are insane man, it takes cans and cans artemia to feed those...

P.S What do you hatch your artemia in? Barrel? :DDDD

[FishGuysUK]

Hi Ugrin86, thanks for looking. We hatch quality BBS, 10 to 20 liters per day with about 1.5 million shrimp per liter. We also produce microworm by the liter, and different grades of flake food for fry to adult fish. We also produce other types of feeds. We feed BBS to all the tank fish until they are 6 to 8 inches in body length. This keeps them in the best possible condition!

[TretheweyPewey]

That is crazy!