California Red OB Dragon Blood Peacock Cichlid (now Red OB Dragon Blood)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Charles discusses a strain of fish he originally called California Red OB Dragon Blood Peacock Cichlid, which he has merged with other Red OB Dragon Bloods and now calls Red OB Dragon Blood Peacocks. Charles also describes how he selects breeders. He also discusses polyculturing livebearers (swordtails and mollies) with cichlids in our cichlid breeding colonies.
Goliad Farms Tropical Fish Hatchery
I can listen to him talk for hours! His voice is calming and he has so much knowledge to pass on.
He is like the texas version of david attenborough
@@roterakaten636 yes! That, absolutely!
Hmmm...calming as putting you to sleep? Maybe I should make sleepy time videos.
Seriously, however, thank you. I try to be entertaining and informative.
Charles
The color on those swordtails!
It's been pleasant to find we can polyculture livebearers with the cichlids. In the 300-gallon breeding vats, we can raise hornwort, guppy grass, a molly, a swordtail, a platy, mystery snails, and a cichlid all at the same time.
Charles
I can listen to this guy talk fish science and fish stories all day
I can talk all day! We will be doing some long videos discussing our systems. I'm sure I'll go off track and talk way too long.
Charles
Thank you for all the videos lately!
We are releasing videos filmed last year and are beginning to film new ones with the aim of publishing at least two a week.
Charles
Love them. I really need to send you those pictures of what I have bred as my males are huge and beautiful
Please send photos to charles@goliadfarms.com.
Charles
Sorry to hear you mention the winter storm and how it still effects your mature breeders.
We've found that major disasters (think: Hurricane Claudette, Hurricane Harvey, and the Texas Winter Storm) have consequences that reverberate over several years and often change the directions of our business.
Charles
Love your videos, only wish the audio could be a little better. But could you do a breaded selection/ care information about your red sherry shrimp? Like the one you did about scuds
We are looking into improved microphones. The greenhouses are noisy with all the flowing and cascading water. I could probably do a better job also. Susie claims I speak too softly and mutter.
That's a good idea and we'll do a cherry shrimp video. We plan to begin adding other colors too. It's also about time for an updated scud video.
Charles
Awesome fish thanks for the videos
Thank you for watching our videos. We lost a very spectacular male in the Texas Winter Storm, but we had some of his offspring to work with.
Charles
I love seeing how he uses so many plants as filters for the farm.
Plant filters make maintaining water quality easy. And much to Susie's chagrin, it allows to me feed heavily. Susie calls that overfeeding.
Charles
Great video. Awesome
Thank you for watching. This is a pretty fish with interesting genetics.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 I have one that color but not sure if it's called that.
@@tktropicals4997 Names for hybrids and aquarium strains often overlap. We call this fish Red OB Dargon Blood Peacock because of its color pattern and since it arose from Dragon Blood Peacocks.
Charles
Ok, I finally learned what OB means! :D
OB is very intuitive. You pretty much have to know its history.
Charles
Awesome
It is a very nice strain that I look forward to improving.
Charles
They are stunning. I have 1 that may be similar but don't expect that much color when mature.
Male Lake Malawi cichlids usually reach full color at about one to one and a half years.
Charles
Wonderful color...very hot
Thank you. A couple more generations of selection should make their colors pop.
Charles
Charles, what are the large plants growing emerged up out of the water ?
Tony.
There currently two species doing that: Piper auritum (hoya santa) and Dieffenbachia. The long yellow and green leafed plants are Dieffenbachia. P. auritum is a Central America herb. Dieffenbachia is a house plant.
Charles
The red ob dragon blood male is nice with the reddish orange and blue combination, but those females are also striking. I really enjoy the cichlids with females that aren't just grey but have some pattern or colour that makes them look distinct. Its why I like Bolivian rams over German rams since Bolivian ram females are often as colorful as the males, though South American cichlids are very different from their African counterparts.
For me the star of the show are the livebearers though, I love large livebearers like sailfin mollies quite a lot. I rather like the greens that you produce and those swordtails are also huge as well. I keep fish that live in softer acidic water since its easier for me, but ill need to get me some giant mollies at some point.
It is interesting that cichlids with colorful females tend to be pair-bonding. It is nice that in the Peacock some females are colorful.
Mollies of the species Poecilia latipinna and its hybrids tend to be more flexible about water conditions than other species in the genus. I think this is because they are riverine species and exposed to rainwater during flooding. Our Giant Green Sailfins have lots of P. latipinna heritage.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Pair bonding cichlids can be rather fun to breed at home, they can sometimes manage in relatively crowded community tanks if there is enough cover.
Also that theory for why P. latipinna may be more resilient to softer water makes a lot of sense, fish that live in rainwater like killifish like softer water im pretty sure.
Are these available yet?
They will be as soon as Susie updates the website.
Charles
you should call them [ LONE STAR DRAGON BLOOD OB ] or [ TEXAS DRAGONS ]
Those are good suggestions. I'm apparently inept at coming up with good names for fish.
Charles