Breeding Colony Processing/Selection •••Skyblue OB Peacock Cichlids•••
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2021
- We are processing an aquarium strain called Skyblue OB Peacocks. In 2003 we acquired from a Florida fish farm a box of juvenile mixed OB Peacocks. From those fish we developed our Blue OB Peacocks. Then in 2005 we found the first Skyblue OB Peacock male when we processed the Blue OBs. That fish was the genesis of the Skyblue OB Peacock strain.
Goliad Farms Tropical Fish Hatchery
I’m not really into fish, but you sir, are an extremely likeable character and I wish you all the best 👍 Love this channel!
Thank you, but you really should get into fish!
Charles
Oso and Mia are awesome perfect life surrounded by dogs and fish true happiness
I was so happy when I saw this video was 21 minutes long. I can’t get enough of goliad farm and learning about Charles methods!
We are working on some longer videos so I can prattle on longer! Seriously, I do hope we are providing entertaining and educational content.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 You certainly are!
@@FoxyFoxyShazam Thank you!
Charles
Your farm has soul. I really enjoy hearing you talk and watching you work. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!! USA
Thank you for watching. We try to be educational as well as entertaining.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 You are very welcome! You are both educational and entertaining for sure!!
What a life breeding amazing fish and having such a great dog as your companion
I like the new opening edit! I didn't realize how much I like the sky blues until I saw yours. Keep us updated on the one sky blue male with the red fins, I would love the see the results of that colony in a few generations.
Thank you. Carl is doing a great job with editing. I just raise fish and talk too much. That fish may be used to start a new strain.
Charles
Thanks!! Glad you like the intro
It’s a f****** farm and it’s his farm and I’m sure he knows what’s best for the fish and he produces one more the most beautiful fishes I’ve seen. If ya’ll are concern about the cleanliness, just stop watching! Happy 4th !
Thank you. Well said. We'll never get an "aquarium beautiful" award, but we do produce award winning fish.
Charles
The only reason not to inbreed is because of recessive genes and inbreeding is what I always did to find bad recessive genes and get rid of them so when I sold breeding stock I didn't have to worry about passing bad genes on in like the "reputable" breeders who sold me stock with every recessive gene in that breed.
@@elaineluikart5459 True, inbreeding allows you to remove deleterious genes, which are usually recessives, and concentrate the genes and characteristics you want. The Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center (www.xiphophorus.txstate.edu/) at Texas State University has a line of Xiphophorus maculatus that has been inbred via brother/sister matings for over 140 generations. The fish are healthy.
Charles
I know!!!
Your Sky Blues are so beautiful! Great to see your numbers coming around!
It is nice that reproduction is picking up. That will allow us to more tightly select breeders in the next couple of breeding cycles.
Charles
Those sky blues are so beautiful. So beautiful. I can't even get any fish that awesome.
Sorry for the tardy reply. Computer problems.
Generations of selection have produced this line of fish. Raising lots of fish to select among is key.
Charles
Wow, those are some pretty blue peacocks
Those sky blues are amazing! The other sky blue/red you singled out might be one of the nicest looking fish I've ever seen! Great to see your recovering!
That is a pretty fish and he probably deserves a bunch of his own females to found a new strain.
Charles
I love how Charles hears the doggos barking and knows what kind of snake it is just from that hahahahaha.
They have different barks for venomous snakes and snakes they can attack. I can also tell when they are barking at the horses instead of someone driving up.
Charles
I like the music. You guys are really stepping up the production! Oh and the fish aren’t bad either! 😉
Yes, Carl is doing some interesting video and audio work. I just raise fish and talk too much.
Charles
Thanks! I was hoping everyone would like the intro
Well done Carl!
There are levels in the game of fish keeping and my friend you are at the top forreal!! Love the fish and process.. DEEP EAST OAKLAND
Thank you. I have decades of experience raising many types of fish, but I still learn something new about them every day.
Charles
You Sir are why i love fish keeping, it requires so much dedication, intelligence and common sense to keep all your fish healthy, happy and breeding. Thank you for all your hard work making videos and educating us, from here in the UK
Thank you for watching our videos. We try to be informative as well as entertaining. It looks like hard work to others, but it is my very overgrown hobby.
Charles
You and I just had a conversation about the sky blues. Definitely my favorite fish. Beautiful!
Yes, we did. One of my personal favorites too! I will probably split that strain into Skyblue OB with other colors and Skyblue/Orange.
Charles
It's like the fish where made of porcelain inspired of the Rokoko era. The colors, the shine -and beauty mouches. So pretty! And thank you for the ongoing lessons in how breeding works and what you breed for. Things like how certain females give one result and others different results in the male offspring.
The more history you have with a strain the better you get at predicting which fish will be the best breeders. It helps to have some knowledge of genetics.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 The world of fish gets better with Goliad Farms in it. :) When sorting the fish and you get to see if your hopes and plans worked out to your expectations, has Mother Nature some times made her own decisions, stirred in that gene pool and made you all go "what??"?
@@johannessordfarne4553 Every time we process a breeding colony, I'm reminded that we only temporarily occupy this space and don't have that much control over it.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 True.
... well, the things you do do, you do well. :)
@@johannessordfarne4553 Yes, that has happened many times.
Charles
Man those are beautiful fish.
They are one of my favorites. We started this strain in 2005 from a male from our Blue OB Peacock strain. He caught my eye and got a bunch of females.
Charles
I just appreciate the information you share and the time I know it takes to produce these. Much respect good sir!
Thank you for watching the videos. I like talking about fish. Carl and Susie do the real work.
Charles
Thank you for watching the videos. I like talking about fish. Carl and Susie do the real work.
Charles
The blue in these ob peacock's is subtle but quite nice,very much a pearling type of effect over there bodies,I like very much 👍🤜🤛🤜👌👍😁🇭🇲
Yes, it's a very nice pastel blue. This fish is one of my favorites.
Charles
You might want to tell the folks why you never stack the buckets. To people like me and you it seems obvious but some people might not know. The strongest force in the known universe is the one that holds two wet buckets together.
Very good point. A damp bucket stacked in another bucket is very difficult to pull out. The water provides a seal, creating a very strong vacuum. After doing that once, you always remember.
Charles
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You just compressed air to separate them, use nozzle and blow on one side , they come right undone.
Your videos are simple, informative and the best 👍,your fish are very healthy and beautiful ignore the haters. And please show those big plants and other plants they're very green and good.
We will be doing a video soon discussing the various plants we use in plant filtration.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thank you charles
@@GuppyBettaFishes No problem. That is a very good suggestion.
Charles
love the amazing fish your producing, I've never really been a cichlid fan but these are something else!!
Thank you. We work hard to produce nice fish.
Charles
Love your videos, happy to see you guys building back up!
Thank you. We are recovering, but it'll be a couple of years to get back to full production.
Charles
Wow! These are beautiful. My favorite so far.
Thank you. It is one of my favorites as well. We started this strain in 2005 when I noticed a Skyblue OB male in our Blue OB Peacock strain. We now also have a Skyblue Peacock, a peacock without the OB gene.
Charles
Many thank's for sharing, Charles
🥰Wonderfull Aulonocaras🥰
Many greets from Germany
😉...by the Way...good Fish & Dog keeping...😉😅
Thank you for watching. Aulonocara are interesting fish for breeders.
Greetings from Texas. I'm descended from two waves of German immigration, one in the 1730s and the other in the 1840s.
Good fishkeeping! Also, our two dogs, Oso and Maya, are German Shepherd Dogs! So good dogkeeping too!
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Hi Charles, many thank's for your Answer...very interesting!
Incidentally, we have relatives in Philadelphia, (my great-great-uncle's family, on my mother's side)-He emigrated to the States in 1898-And in Plaquemine & Slidell, Louisiana.
@@klausoxen6597 That had to be a big surprise coming from Germany to steamy Louisiana. A lot Germans in the 1840s came to Texas because Count Braunfels had visited the Texas Hill Country in March during a very rare snow storm. As a result, he assumed the climate was similar to parts of Germany and went back with glowing reports. A friend of ours moved from Germany to Houston, Texas when he was twelve. They arrived in August. When they were deplaning through the jetway, he thought, "They have saunas!" He quickly discovered that was the climate.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 sorry for my late reaction Charles ... when I visited my relatives in Louisiana a few years ago (August 1992), I was almost blown away by the heat / humidity there! How must my relatives have felt - without air conditioning - I thought to myself!
I definitely felt more comfortable in Philadelphia, hihi!
Greets Klaus 😊
Love these longer videos. Please make more if you can.
I'm working toward providing more history, more genetics, more breeder selection, more breeding techniques, etc. in each video.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 can’t wait. Thank you!
Thanks for sharing! Love your channel
Thank you for watching. We hope to be entertaining as well as informative.
Charles
Those are awesome peacocks
Thank you. This is a stain we started working on in 2005 when I isolated a male from our Blue OB Peacock strain and gave him a bunch of OB females.
Charles
I love cichlids they have a perfect mixture of color and character fun fish to keep... keep up the good work always enjoy watching your Channel
Cichlids, especially those from Lake Malawi, rival marine reef fish in colors and patterns.
Charles
Wonderful! 🌿🐟💙
It is a beautiful strain of Peacocks, one of my favorites.
Charles
Wow this is very beautiful!! Inspiring me to have some of them ❤️
We have them available on our website (goliadfarms.com/), but our wholesale customers snatch them up quickly.
Charles
Loved this video guys!! I can't wait to stop at the farm to hang out with Mr Charles, Susie, Carl, Stormy and Kevin if I'm missing anybody or I got it wrong please let me know I love to say hello to my favorite people!!!
Y'all have helped me get through a serious move and I've learned so much from you guys!!
Please give Maya and Oso and all the Freds all my love!!! I love Goliad Farms ♥️✝️🙏🌿🐟🌿💪🤗
We look forward to your visit. Too bad our Texas Indigo wiped out most of our Copperheads. We could have sat in the yard, watched the Copperheads, and enjoyed some wine. Right now, outside the cicadas are deafening!
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Sounds like the most wonderful time!!!😁♥️🌿🐟🐍🐸
@@marypaigeflynn4512 I toyed with hosting a Copperhead Fest, but alas, the Indigo ate most of them. One night, pre-Indigo, we counted 28 Copperheads in the yard. Here's a blog I wrote about one our grandbrats (grandkids if you must) name Creepy Copper.
goliadfarms.com/creepy-copper-the-copperhead-snake/
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 well, I think the Copperhead Festival sounds like a good time 🐍😁🤣 Maybe, I could even set a booth up there for my daughter's natural and organic beauty products 🤣🤣
I can see people now flocking from all over to come to the Copperhead Festival 💪🙏😁🐍 thanks for the read Mr Charles!! I'm up to seven Grand brats now 🤣🤣🤣♥️
@@marypaigeflynn4512 Eight grandbrats here.
If the Copperhead population recovers, we'll have to do that.
Charles
Those skyblue breeder males are some incredible fish
They are very nice. Next time we process them at the end of this breeding cycle, I'll place them in an aquarium for videoing. Every time I've photographed them, they turn out white. I'm pleased that the video shows their true colors. I want Carl to do a frame grab showing those colors to replace the bad photo on our website.
Charles
You guys need to strap a GoPro on one of the dogs and film a time lapse video of the dog's day around the farm. It would probably do great on youtube.
At this time of the year, the dogs prefer staying in A/C, but this fall we might do that. When Oso and Maya take an unauthorized expedition I'd like to have some means of tracking them and have threatened to put a GPS on them.
Charles
As always great looking fish keep up the good work and happy 4th of July
Happy Fourth to you! This is a very pretty OB Peacock strain that doesn't photo well (they look white in photos) but seems to video well.
Charles
Lovely
Thank you and thank you for watching.
Charles
Blue fish ate my favorite. The fish look so healthy.
We work hard to raise pretty, healthy fish. We give them great water conditions, good food, and good habitats. They respond by producing fish like in the video.
Charles
I got one of your Sunshine peacocks it has grown out to be a very beautiful fish
Glad to hear that. We try to ship 6-8 month old males who only get prettier as they grow.
Charles
Awesome
They are awesome fish, aren't they?
Charles
Those are beautiful that's what I saw in one of the sump videos that was so eye catching
I really like the Skyblue OBs. We also have Skyblue Peacocks, same color but not OB. We processed the Skyblue Peacocks July 1st, but I don't remember if we videoed them.
Some of the sump fish are very interesting.
Charles
Great intro - I like it :-D
Carl is working on improving our videos. Glad you liked it.
Charles
Great edited intro!
Thank you. Carl is doing a great job.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Charles do you have any tips on shipping fish. Packaging, and preparation. Possible an interesting video idea
Start a new strain with the pretty multi color fish! And if it pans out, then perhaps set up a viewer poll and let your viewers select a common name for the strain... that would be fun!
That is a good idea. Next breeding cycle I'll give him his own females and then inbreed for his color pattern to set the strain. Fish strain naming contests could be useful.
Charles
Real nice color, sky blue and sky blue orage.
Ram
I'm ambivalent about which way to go on this strain. I'll probably end up splitting it into a solid skyblue line and a orange/skyblue line. Now, if only Susie will agree to more greenhouses and vats, I'll have room to do that!
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Both lines would be wonderful to breed, sky blue and sky blue orange. I personally like it if a population shows a little natural variation in phenotype. Would also be nice to breed the best colored individuals with sky blue with or without orange together, to just keep all individuals with sky blue and no gold. To select and to build up a steady strain with sky blue first. The orange fin color could be correlating with the food type too as you have sayed concerning red Aulonocaras before.
Ram
@@ramsarva8479 Right now I've opted to go with the varying phenotype, but given space I'll probably split them in the future.
Currently all of our fish get the same diet so have the same opportunity to express red and orange. In the past I experimented with feeding some strains with red cherry shrimp. Within three weeks reds and oranges popped.
Charles
I would love to see you go through all the males to see them all
That would take a while on some of the strains where we are getting back to full production, but I might do that on a strain that doesn't have 60 or 70 males.
Charles
Happy July 4! Those blues are some beautiful fish. I'm sure you've mentioned in the past, but how do you top off your water, is that done with an automatic sensor and well water?
We used to use floats in the sumps. When the level dropped below a pre-set point the valve would turn on and add water. Those were damaged by Hurricane Harvey and we haven't reinstalled them as yet. Currently, we trickle well water in at a rate that keeps the sumps full. If, in one of the many daily greenhouse checks I make, the sump is low I turn up the water flow. When the sumps are overfull, which can happen if I have the waterflow set too high or when we siphon vats to process them, the water overflows into irrigation ditches. At present that water is used by a grove of black willows in a diked off two-three acre patch. We will be clearing the willows and planting a fig orchard I hope this coming winter. We are propagating fig trees from a great fig planted by my great-grandfather in 1908. That tree and four of its clones are producing a bumper crop of figs just now.
Charles
The rainbow colored fish could be called an Aurora Borealis kind!!
An interesting name!
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thanks, Charles! Such an unusual beautiful fish.
I want one of those goliad shirts. Would make a nice hat too.
Carl and Susie are supposed to be working on offering t-shirts. I'll pass the cap suggestion to them.
Charles
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Thank you for watching this pretty fish.
Charles
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Thank you for watching the video about this pretty fish.
Charles
Can you do a feeding video please? Be interesting to see how its done and what they are fed on
Yes, a feeding video is being planned.
Charles
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Thank you for watching our video.
Charles
Damn can just anyone buy from this dude I would love some of them sky blue OBs
We do sell online to hobbyists. The fish we are currently offering can be found at goliadfarms.com/. Click on "Shop" to see available fish and sizes.
Charles
A dog breeder I know was once asked what the difference is between line breeding and incest.. he said, “line breeding is when it works!” 😳 😀
That is a good definition! German Shepherd Dogs are highly inbred and are great dogs. Reputable breeders continue to eliminate any deleterious genes. We inbreed for size, coloration, health, rapid growth, and longevity.
Charles
How can I get some of your sky blue OB'S?
I'm interested in the sky blue cichlids. Went to your website and didnt see any. Would like to be on waiting list if you have one. Or let me know if any available. Thanks
Email me at charles@goliadfarms.com about them. We are working on a tickler reminder in our fish database to keep up with requests like yours. Are you interested in the Skyblue OBs or the non-OB Skyblue Peacocks? We should be listing at least 1-2" and 2-3" Skyblue OB Peacocks in the next couple of weeks. By the way, we are working to make navigation of our Shop page on the website easier to use.
Charles
Beautiful blue OB are they for sale?
Yes, we have some for sale. They are listed on our website at goliadfarms.com/.
Charles
Do you just sell the non-breeders or cull them?
We sell them as long as they are good fish otherwise.
Charles
How long is it from birth to this sorting process?
We attempt to process breeding colonies and the associated vats every 3-4 months. If we don't harvest the breeding colonies by 4 months, we begin losing production from older juveniles predating their younger brethern.
Charles
I'm a constant tinker. what if you start with a clean barrel and had very fine net liners shaped like the barrel. Then you could remove the fish ,then pull the entire net liner. spray off the net liner and reinstall. Sure there is some serious thought and money invested .but seems like could decrease labor 10 time over. Buy the net in bulk and have someone that knows sewing could be possible simplicity. Just a tinker'rs thought.
Sorry for the tardy reply. Computer problems.
We've built aquaculture netting inserts similar to the fry cages you see in the 300-gallon breeding vats. That didn't work as well as we'd wished. We haven't tried very fine liners, but I think you'd have to have a frame to keep them open.
Charles
Hope it was the skinny snake from a couple vids ago.
Could have been. The snakes that are found around the greenhouses usually choose to stick around.
Charles
What does OB stand for?
Originally, I've been told, it meant "orange blotch." But as time has gone by, it has come to mean blotching of any color OB Peacock cichlids usually have black blotching.
Charles
His name is NOSO !!! Hahahahaah
Poor Oso gets told "No!" many times a day. By the way, I rarely tell him no. In the interest of marital harmony, I won't say who does...
Charles
Are those African cichlids
Yes. Their ancestors are primarily Aulonocara species from Lake Malawi. But they are aquarium strain manmade hybrids. The OB pattern is reputedly from a Pseudotropheus species.
Charles
I would like to visit your farm will collect money and will try visit one day
We are working toward allowing visitors soon. We'll post instructions on our website when ready. Susie (wife and business manager) is planning a farm fish festival like the one we had in 2008 in conjunction with the American Livebearer Association convention in San Antonio, Texas.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I would love to attend that someday.
@@FoxyFoxyShazam We look forward to your attendance.
Charles
I subscribe to your channel i want to learn how to breed ciclids and care
We will continue to do videos of our cichlids as we process breeding colonies. If you have a specific question, please let me know.
Charles
How do I buy a few sky blue males?
When we offer them, it will be on our website at goliadfarms.com/shop/. We will be making more fish available in the next couple of weeks. Also we are working at improving the shopping interface.
Charles
Where can a purchase.
On our website goliadfarms.com/.
Charles
How to get sky blue OB cichlids from you
On our website. Here is a link to the Skyblue OB Peacock page:
goliadfarms.com/shop/skyblue-ob-peacock/
Charles
Hehe if you lived near a big hoity toity city I bet you could make more from the compost than the fish 😂
We have thought about selling the compost, but at present we use some of it and give it to some friends.
Charles
when the malm is so thick you can fill a net with water
And that mulm is loaded with beneficial bacteria and lots of tiny food for fish fry. If we allow a bucket to sit overnight, we get swarms of Paramecium. We just haven't figured out how to video that effectively.
Charles
Hi
Hello to you. Thank you for watching.
Charles
Difficult to hear what's being said over the music.
The music is only playing during the intro. The full video starts about a minute or so in. If you watch from there, you should be able to hear everything. Thanks for watching!
Since that is probably me talking, not being able to hear could be a blessing. Seriously however, as Carl explains after the intro you'll get all the audio.
Charles
Please don't count to 3 or 5 if it means that the fish
will be out of the water any longer than necessary.
Why would I ever say that to the Gandhi of Aquaria?
I try to handle them out of water as little as possible. Although, some fish like plecos can tolerate being out of water much longer.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Of course. Forgive my insolence.
@@oombaclyde5736 No problem. Absolutely no offense taken.
Charles
I can imagine ob peacock cichlid breeder using prestine ro water shaking their head at how dirty it looks 🤣 🤣 🤣
I can't imagine a Peacock breeder would want to use RO water.
The good thing for us is that our fish seem very happy in the their dirty conditions! They prove that by being healthy and producing lots of fry.
I think hobbyists are encouraged to keep their tanks too clean. Mulm is loaded with beneficial bacteria. We have given mulm to hobbyists to charge their filters for natural cycling.
Charles