The aquarium add seems to be popular and will always be used now. Despite popular opinion (well that of someone I won't name...Susie), I can admit I'm wrong and adapt. Charles
Being stressed from having been jerked from their homes and dumped into buckets certainly affects their coloration. With cichlids fright seems to cause any barring to become more pronounced. Charles
Hello Mr Charles, Susie, Carl and Stormy, it's been so exciting watching all your videos, learning and getting to see all your incredible colonies reestablished!! I'm in the middle of moving so I'm kind of hit and miss on leaving comments right now!! I am here watching and I hope you all have a very blessed day!! Much love my friends! 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
That was great!!. Pale, too pale, interesting! 🤣. The pair look really good. The male color is beautiful even with all the movement. Great place. Good fish keeping. DEEP EAST OAKLAND
Thank you. I worry that people get to see my chaotic thought processes as I select fish. But I claim it's not as chaotic as it looks. Susie and Carl think I work too fast, but I think that adding placing some of the fish in the aquarium for viewing offsets that. That male is very pleasing. He has a nice combination of pastel colors. Good fishkeeping! Charles
We will continue to use the small tank to show the fish. There are some videos in the pipeline that likely don't have the tank, but all future videos will. Even 70 year old dogs can learn new tricks... Charles
Fish doing what is obvs their very favorite activity, full moon and cool rain be damned! 💙❤ (I say this after I got 30+ unexpected dwarf emerald danio fry - adults go hunting for them daily yet a bunch made it anyway! Male dwarf danios are also quite aggressive w/ea other!)
First? I love all your videos. I really appreciate how you go into detail about you operation. It gets gears turning in my mind making me want a greenhouse myself. Lol
@@goliadfarms7029 seeing what you've been able to do in your greenhouses just in your videos has made me look into all the greenhouse kits. I can't imagine what yours look like in person but I'd love to have a smaller one with the same setup. Just have to convince the wife😂
@@TwoAcresandaMule We started our present company in Santa Fe, NM, which is at 7,000 foot elevation with cold winters. We moved here in 2000-2001 when we bought my grandparent's farm. You might want to look at greenhouses heated by compost. I can't remember the name of the company in Maine that raised tilapia (very tropical) in greenhouses heated with mounds of compost. Charles
Interesting that your fish are varied in color. I have collected this fish in the lake. They do not vary their colors at all. They are a carbon copy of each other. Diving at that site was one of the most memorable sight I had in years of collecting there. Of course there are two forms .one on each side of the like.malawi side is the original Taiwan and has more yellow color then those from Tanzania. Maybe breeding these two to each other caused them to alter the colors. It has Bern awhile since I was there. I do not know how much export is done from either side of the lake these days.
An interesting observation. I've found it is very easy to alter a species' appearance through selection. Also, if a species has several collection sites, intraspecies hybrids could also increase variability. Charles
Yes. You can force it at captivity although it is not happening that much in the lake. There are exceptions though. At undu we have lwanda. Out of several hundreds which my team collected in course of years we got maybe three males with a red dorsal. It got so far that hobbyists believe that it is standard. I have seen advertised it this way. True lwanda .red dorsal. While in fact they are rare. An other interesting phenomenon from the same general location is that lemon jake lives right next to lwanda and females are impossible tell apart from each other. In hobby one finds then with different hues in both species. Probably been crossed in captivity as well because no one cat really tell. They may have been shipped mixed up already in the lakes station. For that reason I keep only one of them since knowing myself I would lose the track of them sooner or later. Yeah. There are great looking hybrids but one should stick to original form if one want to call it original name.
Thank you. We are going to be allowing visitors once we finish cleaning up from the 2021 Texas Winter Storm and Hurricane Harvey (yes, we are still dealing with it!). Charles
This is a very pretty species. It's colorful without being garish. It's fish like this that make me like pure species as well as colorful hybrids. Charles
We have some surplus males and after a longtime wholesale customer gets first crack at them next week, we'll put the rest of them on our website (goliadfarms.com/shop/). But we won't have any adult females ready for a month or so. Charles
I guess I should always explain that. BR equals "breeder." U equals "unsexed." It's our internal term for fish that we are retaining as potential breeders. They are placed in a vat to mature, and the next breeding cycle we pick some of them as replacement breeders to add to the breeding colony. Charles
"Haps" is such an ambiguous term. Originally it meant fish in the genus Haplochromis, but that genus got split into many different genera. Also, most of the species remaining in Haplochromis (and there are lots of them!) aren't found in Lake Malawi. Today, "hap" seems to refer to fish that looks similar to a member of Haplochromis. That describes a lot of fish. I tend to avoid the term "hap." Some people use "hap" to refer to what others call peacocks. Generally, I consider peacocks to be Aulonocara or their hybrids (which can include hybrids with many other genera). Unfortunately, unrelated South America cichlids of the genus Cichla are also called peacocks. All of that said, I like most of the fish in this fish's genus, Protomelas. Charles
I haven't seen that. Also, itis.gov, our source for scientific names because that is what US regulations refer to, doesn't yet recognize that name. They are a bit conservative, so maybe they will some day. Charles
@@BicolBackyardAquaria We don't currently breed angelfish. A few years ago a friend bred them for us and we took dime-sized fish and grew them to adult size. Long ago I spawned angelfish and probably will again if we can find stock that is good at raising their own fry. I don't like artificial hatching. Charles
Am I sick as I am starting to pick out the fish you and Suzy like and will breed before you verbalize it in your vids? LOL maybe cause I own some of your beauties! Such a lucky fish mom I am!
Those are some beautiful fish, they remind me of a saltwater fish. well the males do, females are boring, but thats common among African cichlids so not a big deal.
We do have some OB Peacock lines with some female coloration, although muted. I continue to select for female color in aquarium strains. I avoid doing so in pure species since I don't want to alter the fish too much. Charles
They are not an as yet unnamed species sir, that is what they are called protemelas taiwan reef,theyve been called that since theyve been discovered in the lake
Protomelas 'Taiwan Reef' is a place holding common name. The fish has not yet received a scientific name, thus they are unnamed scientifically at this time. Charles
The Taiwan Reef Hap... are they aggressive?. I am looking for peaceful Malawi's.. ( names ) no conflict or aggression within the tank as it can create certain stress related diseases and mortality.
@@goliadfarms7029 Thank you sir. Will remember that. I don't like cichlids fighting amongst themselves for territorial aggression. The worst scenario is a wounded cichlid fighting to survive. Mortality relating to aggression is very depressing. So i am trying to gather information about Malawi cichlids which are relatively peaceful and can be kept together in harmony in a community tank.
@@rajadey4919 As I mentioned earlier, my advice is to crowd cichlids to prevent territoriality and peck order development. I've found that with crowding dominant males tend to help the lower ranking male in disputes with other males. Charles
Im Curious what yall plan on doing for next winter to keep the devastation down incase of another freeze. Any ideas on how to keep it more balanced out? Love watching your videos
We hope last year was an aberration. The 2021 Texas Winter Storm had record low temperatures combined with deep clouds. That combination has never happened before that I can remember (I'm 70 years old and our hatchery has been here for over 20 years). Usually when it gets really cold here it is also sunny. If we'd had sun the greenhouses would have stayed warm. Also, Texas' electrical grid failed, and we had long power outages coupled with a shortage of propane for heating. We had to choose between heating via propane or running our water pumps to keep the fish alive. Our supplier was unable to get propane for a week due to frozen natural gas lines. So, we hope that combination of disasters doesn't happen again. But we are making preparations just in case. We're installing a new, more efficient generator (hope to finish this weekend ahead of hurricane season). We are adding a spare propane tank to fill in the event of an incoming storm, either winter or hurricane. We are installing more efficient propane heaters. We are researching solar panels to run water heaters. This seems to be very promising according to an electrical engineer friend. Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that is awesome I hope it never happens again but with so many ppl on the power grid it will probably happen again... and the way our climate is changing because of all the human pollution it will probably only get crazy random and dangerous... I hope all ur plans help out next time if and or when it happens
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Love the aquarium add. Helps us see just how pretty the fish are!
Yes - they look great, and I'm sure they look even more spectacular when they are not stressed from handling!
The aquarium add seems to be popular and will always be used now. Despite popular opinion (well that of someone I won't name...Susie), I can admit I'm wrong and adapt.
Charles
Being stressed from having been jerked from their homes and dumped into buckets certainly affects their coloration. With cichlids fright seems to cause any barring to become more pronounced.
Charles
Hello Mr Charles, Susie, Carl and Stormy, it's been so exciting watching all your videos, learning and getting to see all your incredible colonies reestablished!! I'm in the middle of moving so I'm kind of hit and miss on leaving comments right now!! I am here watching and I hope you all have a very blessed day!! Much love my friends! 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Good to hear from you again. Hope your move goes well. Any fish moving with you?
Charles
My favourite malawi
Love your knowledge. Good fishkeeping
This species is a very pretty fish with an interesting color pattern and mix.
Charles
I love the color combination on these fish!
I too like the nice combination of colors. Their colors are subtle, but very pretty.
Charles
That was great!!. Pale, too pale, interesting! 🤣. The pair look really good. The male color is beautiful even with all the movement. Great place. Good fish keeping. DEEP EAST OAKLAND
Thank you.
I worry that people get to see my chaotic thought processes as I select fish. But I claim it's not as chaotic as it looks. Susie and Carl think I work too fast, but I think that adding placing some of the fish in the aquarium for viewing offsets that.
That male is very pleasing. He has a nice combination of pastel colors.
Good fishkeeping!
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 yes sir!! Thank you for the video..
Nice looking fish with lovely patterns 👍👍👊🤜🤛💯🇦🇺🙂
It has a subtle beauty. I like them a lot.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 yer same here mate
I love the little aquarium glimpse for the breeds. great addition to your work!
We will continue to use the small tank to show the fish. There are some videos in the pipeline that likely don't have the tank, but all future videos will. Even 70 year old dogs can learn new tricks...
Charles
Nice to see you're getting lots of fry!
Fish doing what is obvs their very favorite activity, full moon and cool rain be damned! 💙❤ (I say this after I got 30+ unexpected dwarf emerald danio fry - adults go hunting for them daily yet a bunch made it anyway! Male dwarf danios are also quite aggressive w/ea other!)
@@cosmoplakat9549 Lots of cover and the smart and lucky fry make it!
Charles
First? I love all your videos. I really appreciate how you go into detail about you operation. It gets gears turning in my mind making me want a greenhouse myself. Lol
@@goliadfarms7029 Literally just had a conversation with my wife saying KY winters would be too harsh. I may reconsider that now.
@@goliadfarms7029 seeing what you've been able to do in your greenhouses just in your videos has made me look into all the greenhouse kits. I can't imagine what yours look like in person but I'd love to have a smaller one with the same setup. Just have to convince the wife😂
@@TwoAcresandaMule We started our present company in Santa Fe, NM, which is at 7,000 foot elevation with cold winters. We moved here in 2000-2001 when we bought my grandparent's farm.
You might want to look at greenhouses heated by compost. I can't remember the name of the company in Maine that raised tilapia (very tropical) in greenhouses heated with mounds of compost.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thank you so much.
Interesting that your fish are varied in color. I have collected this fish in the lake. They do not vary their colors at all. They are a carbon copy of each other. Diving at that site was one of the most memorable sight I had in years of collecting there. Of course there are two forms .one
on each side of the like.malawi side is the original Taiwan and has more yellow color then those from Tanzania. Maybe breeding these two to each other caused them to alter the colors. It has Bern awhile since I was there. I do not know how much export is done from either side of the lake these days.
An interesting observation.
I've found it is very easy to alter a species' appearance through selection. Also, if a species has several collection sites, intraspecies hybrids could also increase variability.
Charles
Yes. You can force it at captivity although it is not happening that much in the lake. There are exceptions though. At undu we have lwanda. Out of several hundreds which my team collected in course of years we got maybe three males with a red dorsal. It got so far that hobbyists believe that it is standard. I have seen advertised it this way. True lwanda .red dorsal. While in fact they are rare. An other interesting phenomenon from the same general location is that lemon jake lives right next to lwanda and females are impossible tell apart from each other. In hobby one finds then with different hues in both species. Probably been crossed in captivity as well because no one cat really tell. They may have been shipped mixed up already in the lakes station. For that reason I keep only one of them since knowing myself I would lose the track of them sooner or later. Yeah. There are great looking hybrids but one should stick to original form if one want to call it original name.
I wish my kids and I could take a field trip to goliad❤yall are awesome
Thank you. We are going to be allowing visitors once we finish cleaning up from the 2021 Texas Winter Storm and Hurricane Harvey (yes, we are still dealing with it!).
Charles
Another great fish!
This is a very pretty species. It's colorful without being garish. It's fish like this that make me like pure species as well as colorful hybrids.
Charles
Can't wait for these to be up for sale! My favorite
We have some surplus males and after a longtime wholesale customer gets first crack at them next week, we'll put the rest of them on our website (goliadfarms.com/shop/). But we won't have any adult females ready for a month or so.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 thanks charles. I'll keep an eye out
Superb
Thank you. This is a very pretty species.
Charles
Interesting videos as always. What does B R U stand for?
I guess I should always explain that. BR equals "breeder." U equals "unsexed." It's our internal term for fish that we are retaining as potential breeders. They are placed in a vat to mature, and the next breeding cycle we pick some of them as replacement breeders to add to the breeding colony.
Charles
Wonderful.
This is a very pretty fish with a nice palette of colors.
Charles
How are you? I love to build a green house just like yours here in Kerala, India to breed fish
We are doing well. You should build one. I'm sure there are kits and pond liners available in India.
Charles
Now we're talking. More haps please. 👍
"Haps" is such an ambiguous term. Originally it meant fish in the genus Haplochromis, but that genus got split into many different genera. Also, most of the species remaining in Haplochromis (and there are lots of them!) aren't found in Lake Malawi. Today, "hap" seems to refer to fish that looks similar to a member of Haplochromis. That describes a lot of fish. I tend to avoid the term "hap."
Some people use "hap" to refer to what others call peacocks. Generally, I consider peacocks to be Aulonocara or their hybrids (which can include hybrids with many other genera). Unfortunately, unrelated South America cichlids of the genus Cichla are also called peacocks.
All of that said, I like most of the fish in this fish's genus, Protomelas.
Charles
The Scientific name we know this fish by in Canada is Protomelas steveni - "Taiwan Reef Red".
I haven't seen that. Also, itis.gov, our source for scientific names because that is what US regulations refer to, doesn't yet recognize that name. They are a bit conservative, so maybe they will some day.
Charles
That's a really nice fish
Yes, it is. The males have subtle but very pretty coloration.
Charles
will try to breed angel fish , do you breed angel fish?
@@BicolBackyardAquaria We don't currently breed angelfish. A few years ago a friend bred them for us and we took dime-sized fish and grew them to adult size. Long ago I spawned angelfish and probably will again if we can find stock that is good at raising their own fry. I don't like artificial hatching.
Charles
tnx
Am I sick as I am starting to pick out the fish you and Suzy like and will breed before you verbalize it in your vids? LOL maybe cause I own some of your beauties! Such a lucky fish mom I am!
That is interesting. Are you picking the same ones we do?
Charles
I have a few times now 😁 I said "pale" to the same ones you did in this video LOL
Those are some beautiful fish, they remind me of a saltwater fish. well the males do, females are boring, but thats common among African cichlids so not a big deal.
We do have some OB Peacock lines with some female coloration, although muted. I continue to select for female color in aquarium strains. I avoid doing so in pure species since I don't want to alter the fish too much.
Charles
😊😊😊
Thank you for watching this nice species.
Charles
They are not an as yet unnamed species sir, that is what they are called protemelas taiwan reef,theyve been called that since theyve been discovered in the lake
Protomelas 'Taiwan Reef' is a place holding common name. The fish has not yet received a scientific name, thus they are unnamed scientifically at this time.
Charles
I must admit, I am enjoying the tank side on views - Sorry Charles!
I know. I know. I give up. The tank is in. It works better than I thought it would.
Charles
👌👌👌❤❤❤
Thank you for watching tis pretty fish.
Charles
The Taiwan Reef Hap... are they aggressive?. I am looking for peaceful Malawi's.. ( names ) no conflict or aggression within the tank as it can create certain stress related diseases and mortality.
I don't find them to be aggressive, but I recommend crowding all Lake Malawi cichlids to reduce aggression.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 Thank you sir. Will remember that. I don't like cichlids fighting amongst themselves for territorial aggression. The worst scenario is a wounded cichlid fighting to survive. Mortality relating to aggression is very depressing. So i am trying to gather information about Malawi cichlids which are relatively peaceful and can be kept together in harmony in a community tank.
@@rajadey4919 As I mentioned earlier, my advice is to crowd cichlids to prevent territoriality and peck order development. I've found that with crowding dominant males tend to help the lower ranking male in disputes with other males.
Charles
Im Curious what yall plan on doing for next winter to keep the devastation down incase of another freeze. Any ideas on how to keep it more balanced out? Love watching your videos
We hope last year was an aberration. The 2021 Texas Winter Storm had record low temperatures combined with deep clouds. That combination has never happened before that I can remember (I'm 70 years old and our hatchery has been here for over 20 years). Usually when it gets really cold here it is also sunny. If we'd had sun the greenhouses would have stayed warm. Also, Texas' electrical grid failed, and we had long power outages coupled with a shortage of propane for heating. We had to choose between heating via propane or running our water pumps to keep the fish alive. Our supplier was unable to get propane for a week due to frozen natural gas lines. So, we hope that combination of disasters doesn't happen again.
But we are making preparations just in case. We're installing a new, more efficient generator (hope to finish this weekend ahead of hurricane season). We are adding a spare propane tank to fill in the event of an incoming storm, either winter or hurricane. We are installing more efficient propane heaters. We are researching solar panels to run water heaters. This seems to be very promising according to an electrical engineer friend.
Charles
@@goliadfarms7029 that is awesome I hope it never happens again but with so many ppl on the power grid it will probably happen again... and the way our climate is changing because of all the human pollution it will probably only get crazy random and dangerous... I hope all ur plans help out next time if and or when it happens