Breeder Selection ••• 3 Varieties of Dragon Blood Peacock Cichlids ••• with short genetics lesson
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2021
- We raise a number Dragon Blood Peacock lines. This time we are working the Red Dragon Bloods, Blue Dragon Bloods, and Skyblue Dragon Bloods. Dragon Bloods are manmade hybrids, primarily of Auloncara species. Aulonocara is a very large genus from Africa’s Lake Malawi. The genetics of these fish is discussed in the video.
I'm a simple man.
I see a Goliad Farms video, I click it.
Thank you for watching our videos.
Charles
These videos have taught me as much about genetics as they have about fishkeeping. You're a fantastic educator and I'm really looking forward to your aquarium coop club presentation.
Thank you. Genetics is a great breeding tool and most of it is very understandable. I also look forward the Aquarium Co-Op Club presentation. I need to work with them on the topics, but have plenty of time. I have been accused of putting things off until deadlines, so I'll probably be finishing the presentation that morning.
Charles
I just subscribed today to this channel, after watching Cory's tour video. Your fish farm is so interesting and natural. I wish you guys all the best, and hope you get back on your feet and the business takes off again.
Thank you for joining. We are recovering. Our rebuilt breeding colonies are reproducing. We hope to be back up to full production in a couple of more breeding cycles.
By the way, we are working with Cory and Aquarium Co-Op for a return visit here in October. Also, I will be speaking next year on the Aquarium Co-Op Club. If you haven't joined, please look into it at www.aquariumcoop.com/pages/membership.
Charles
Thanks for the updates. They sure are beautiful fish.
Thank you for watching them. We keep working at improving these three strains of cichlids.
Charles
Everyone should be hitting the like and share button these awesome people lost almost everything I'm sure they could use the help...thanks everyone ...
Thank you! And thank you for watching and commenting.
Charles
Love the Peacocks.
Peacocks are fun. There is much a breeder can do to create new color strains.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Yeah, i'm working to develop a color strain of Betta Plakat myself.
@@hellwig2357 That is the fun part of the hobby, producing new strains.
Charles
always some amazing videos .. cheers Goliad Farms!!!
Thank you for watching us and our fish.
Charles
Beautiful fish! Can’t wait to hear your talk for the Aquarium-Coop Club! Wish it were sooner!
Thank you. I look forward to the talk at Aquarium Co-Op club. I'm sort of getting used to Zoom type meetings. I recently spoke to the American Livebearer Association via Zoom.
Charles
This is a crazy amount of work and time spent to raise and see the final product, if the result is not good try the whole process over again. I have bred OB and fire blood just for fun and experience never thought about mixing and matching the color. in a batch of 60+ young frys I get maybe 2-3 coloring up at 2" or 3" this amount of work you do is crazy. Can't wait to see how everything turns out from a Mad Fish Scientist LOL.
We manage to raise fish in 405 55-gallon vats, 23 110-gallon vats, and 60 300-gallon vats (that doesn't count outside vats, only the ones in the greenhouses) with only three people, Susie, Stormy, and me. We've developed methods to minimize the amount of work we have to do. When things are functioning on schedule, we go through each of those vats every 3-4 months. Due to Hurricane Harvey and the Texas Winter Storm that isn't happening on schedule just now.
Few of our 2-3" Peacocks color up by 3-4 months.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I saw you on members-only yesterday on Aquarium Co-OP and one other time interview by Cory. I can't believe that at 72 you are still a beast with 2 other people taking care of that many vats. It's sad to hear all your lost doing winter storm early this year in Taxes. Love all your in/outdoor security systems. Take good care of yourself we can see more pretty fish from you ~John
Thanks Charles
Thank you for taking the time to watch our video.
Charles
Great Videos!
Sorry for the tardy reply. Computer problems.
Thank you and thank you for watching. We try to be informative and entertaining.
Charles
Another great lesson! Beautiful fish. It looks kind of hot inside the greenhouse. Stay well hydrated!
Thank you. I think they are pretty.
It is warm (around 95F [35C]) and humid (100%). I drink lots of water and take electrolytes.
Charles
Always excited to see your videos come out wonderful content
Thank you for watching. We try to be both informative and entertaining.
Charles
cheers friend lots of beauty Cichlids there
Thank you. I think all three strains show promise. The Winter Storm was a setback, but we will continue to recover.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 super cool
Bravo!
I really like the Skyblue Dragon Bloods, but I bet the Red Dragon Bloods will sell better.
Charles
I look forward to your creating a purple dragon blood!
I'm working on it. Today we filmed our Blue & Green Peacocks. I hope to create a green bodied fish with a blue face.
Charles
I wanna send y'all a monstera!!!! I keep picturing huge 3ft. Monstera leaves growing up along the top of greenhouse, they would love growing in your greenhouse I bet
We have a relative, Pothos, that grows very well in the greenhouses.
Charles
Would it be possible to have an explanation on the visual differences between male/female red dragonblood? You seem to do it at a glance but they all look the same to me.
I have a tank with a dozen or so red dragonblood and I have no idea which are male/female. Some are digging in the gravel bottom, so I presume that is a male characteristic?
Okay, I'll try.
1) Males have pointed (or at least more pointed) anal and dorsal fins.
2) Males sport egg spots on the anal fin, although some females do as well.
3) Males have slightly humped heads. Females have more pointed heads.
4) Males have more intense coloration, especially red. The females have muted color.
5) Males are larger at the same age.
Next time we process Red Dragonbloods, I'll place a male and female in the aquarium and contrast them.
If you can get good photos or videos of your fish, send them to me at charles@goliadfarms.com, and I'll try to sex them for you.
Digging is mostly a male characteristic.
Charles
When you say purged what do that mean
Interesting about the lack of melatonin results in not seeing the stress bars. I never knew that.
I suspect if you looked really hard you might see them. I crossed Dragon Bloods to OB Peacocks. I got OB Dragon Bloods but you could barely tell they were OB.
Charles
Hola amigo saludos como esta ? Como puedo order some scubs ? Do you have some on sele ?
Are you asking about scuds (Gammarus) or fish. Both scuds and fish can be ordered on our website: goliadfarms.com/shop/.
My DragonBlood colony had fry and they came out mixed, albino, normal, dark, some with patterns.. can anyone explain that to me? Obviously different genes taking hold but what dose this mean?
The albino and normal are easy to explain. Albino is recessive to normal and at least one male and one female in your colony are carrying that recessive allele.
By dark, do you mean gray bodies instead of gold bodies? If so, gray is recessive to the gold dragonblood color. So, again, at least one male and one female in your colony are carrying that recessive allele for gray body color.
By patterned, do you mean OB blotching? If so, usually in peacocks OB is a dominant allele. I suspect one or more of your dragonbloods had it. But OB is difficult to see on dragonbloods, but gray bodied fish will show OB just fine.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thankyou so much on the reply! Love the channel been watching a lot to learn! Really interesting information on the dragons, do you have an email I could maybe send over some images of the fry so you can see ?
@@TyHaynes Please email me at charles@goliadfarms.com.
Charles
Brother is it fine to feed live black worms to fish, how I can deworm them so I can feed it safely
Live black worms are a good food if not fed in excess. I've never had problems feeding black worms or Tubifex to fish. Are you culturing your own or buying them live? In any case, a quick rinse by placing them in a net and running water over them removes any culturing medium.
If you want to deworm fish, any product with Praziquantel will work. We feed our fish with an oily food (Purina AquaMax foods work well) coated with Praziquantel a couple of times a year as a preventative.
Did this help?
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 what kind of oily food? Curious for future deworming.
How do you purge fish?
Do you mean as in "get rid of them?" If so we usually sell them. There is always a market for a fish that I don't need for a particular breeding program. Some lcuky "purgees" are removed from their breeding colony but then used in another breeding program.
If a fish is disfigured by genetics or injury, I usually drop them into the floor gutter and let them live out their lives. I rarely euthanize a fish.
Charles
What is the name of the beautiful plant please?
Let's see. The two most common large, emersed plants in Greenhouse 1 are Dieffenbachia (long green and yellow leaves) and Piper auritum (hoja santa, a Central American herb in the pepper family with large roundish green leaves). The aquatic plants in the vats are Ceratophyllum demersum (hornwort). Did that answer your question?
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 yes, thanks you very much! I was thinking that this is a Dieffenbachia - that's the one i was asking for!🤩👍 the others i could recognise apart from the hoya!😉
Luckily the dogs won't eat from it. It's poison...! Greetz Raphael
@@rara5212 Interestingly enough, our Ancistrus, plecos, and snails eat Dieffenbachia without harm.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 yes, definetaly interesting! As far as i remember is Dieffenbachia very poison for cats! Need to check it up...
Cichlids seem more intelligent than regular fish.
I think cichlids along with centrarchids are likely the smartest fish.
Charles