So nice to see and hear how much you care about almost everything! That's why I'm here. Keep it up!

As always, a fun, lovely and inspiring video. Thank you for sharing.

This is awesome. I can’t wait to see the follow up videos on this.

Just beautiful. 👍💕👍

Mark thank you for the effort you put into al your videos, you have inspired me to get back to this addictive hobby, only 2months ago I re-setup my 3ft aquarium, I now have 5 breeder tanks 2 grow out tanks and a small shrimp tank. (don’t tell my wife there will be more. shhh) I have also found a local breeder of plecos, so that will be my next project. Thank you again you are the STAR.

Have a great holiday,looking forward to seeing your holiday vids 👍👍👍

I like it, very nice.

You are so correct about sunlight bringing out the colors of fish. Those guppies are stunning and the Diamond tetras are gleaming bright.

Simply lovely.

That looks amazing I will think about do thar next summer 👍👍👍👍

Great video again Mark, going to try this myself but next summer after I see how yours does. Keep up the good work

Good job Mark as always

love the tub mark fish look good in there have a good holiday back home with your family and friends see you the next time on marks aquatics

Nice one Mark, I’ve got Limias taking over in my community tank at work, you’ve inspired me to do a set up for them ! 😁

Beautiful. 😍😍

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

The colours from any fry will be very bright breeding them outdoors - it reminds me of the time when I had a large polytunnel where I used to grow aquatic plants for my shop as one year in early summer I put loads of endlers, guppies and swordtails in the various large containers. Every night I would leave the lights on with the doors open so it would attract a nation of midgies so the fish got very well fed with natural live food as well as being supplemented by ordinary dry food too. At the end of the summer (mid September) we carefully emptied out all the containers and there were hundreds of huge adult fish and a nation of young really colourful fish of all types including some beautiful endler / guppy mixes. I put them all in the shop and every one was sold on the first Saturday, lol - the other fish in the shop looked so dull by comparison. I wish that it was in the last 10 years as I could have filmed the process and the results as those fish which came out of the bright green water were really a sight to behold. Keep up the good work, man.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Yes that would have been some great footage. I plan to put a small solar light by the tub to attract the bugs for them them to eat.

@pondguru

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Yes that will definitely help them although with it being outdoors there will be all sorts of flies dropping eggs into the water on a daily basis (probably mosquitoes, lol) They will be spoily for choice as far as natural food goes.

Nice one I have small pond like this in my garage/fish room

Awesome video Mark, summer guppy tubs are the best! I've got an old 110g tank in my backyard, brings me so much Zen

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

That sounds great. 😀👍

Hiya Mark, loved this video the pond looks fantastic!. What a great idea as well for providing a watery habitat into our gardens. Thankyou for sharing 😊👍

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Anna 😊

Garden is looking lovely Mark , have a great holiday 🙏✌️

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John 😊👍

Nice i want to this in the future too

Hi Mark love your Tub Aquarium and it looks great . Good luck when going back home. Just be safe you and your family.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mike 😀👍

Nice one Mark I'll give that ago next year.

Doing catch up on your channel. I'm like the fish. I gorge till full up and come back again later. Nice idea this time. My balcony is communal so cats will do there stuff, but nice thought..

Great video Mark. I just put a few endler guppies and live plants in my rain barrel to control the mosquitos last month. Same setup, but 55 gallon barrel.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Yes they do an amazing job of getting rid of the dreaded mosquitoes 😡🦟🦟🦟🦟

With all the rain we had i hope your pond never got flooded. Always enjoy your videos, keep up the good work cheers

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

They're all ok. I put some overflow holes in the tub so excess water could drain off. 😊👍

Beautiful!! I've been thinking about trying this but, indoors in my grow tent that I grow orchids in. :)

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Good idea.😀👍

Another wonderful video. Enjoy your time away Mark! I’m selling so many fish right now weather here is amazing. One of my old Odessa barbs passed on yesterday. Tub Tubbing is awesome.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. 😀👍

My fish love those Fluval bug bites foods. Definitely a necessity in my arsenal of fish food.

Man of many talents grapes outside in the UK, only grapes I get in Yorkshire are from Tesco. Lovely video Mark have a fantastic holiday looking forward to the adventures. Love to you and yours

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers John. Yes this is their best year to date! Might have a crack a making some Mark's Aquatics wine! 😂👍🍇🍷

@johnkendall2736

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Have a go I will have a bottle, my Granddad used to take me fishing and on the way home we would pick nettles and he would make beer never tasted it I was to young but apparently it was ok.

Enjoy pal.

well its the 4th today and no sign of the sun all day ,this is the reason ive been reluctant to try tubbing . im up north in Blackpool

@billy007rodaway

5 жыл бұрын

I'm in Blackpool my friend I never tried guppy's but over the years I have had Rosey barbs, Daniels, paradise fish and white cloud mountain minnow's so why not give it ago... Good luck.

UK tubbin’ in da house!

I can see the danios coz they always very fast even my four that i have are very fast and when they eat they even faster nice video Mr Mark

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. 😊👍

Nice

Love what you have done here 👍 I am definitely going to do the same now! The reason why I haven’t is I was told we can’t do this in the UK. What time of the year will you bring them back in ? I am interested to no when. Keep the good work going 👍

Nice little tub. I'm always worried the water will get too hot in a small container especially if we have anymore days like last week it really heats up fast. Hope you and the family have a nice holiday.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I've got it positioned it's not in direct sunlight all day. .😊👍

Mine have been outside for about two weeks this is the first time i have done this did not think they would survive they are really fat from the bugs lol cant wait to see what colours I get.

@tad2990

5 жыл бұрын

I Put plenty of water lettuce in keeps algae down .

That brilliant. I was wondering if you could make them in the UK.

Love all your video's always waint for the next , where do you sell all your fish n shrimp would buy some also I am local , keep up the good work

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I've sold most of the fish and shrimp I've bred now. I normally take them to big blue. 😊👍

Your tubing experience looks better than mine. When you are in the Channel Island please get video of the star fish. They are awesome little creatures.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I'll do my best ok. 😀👍

Love your vids mate, very inspiring. Going off topic, I would like to breed my green neon tetra. I know this is supposed to be difficult, but I can't find much info on them specifically! Are they like normal neon tetra? can eny one help me please?

If been putting my guppies outside in summer for 2 years , went away for a month in July had plenty of water lettuce and other plants in 4 tubs with sponge filters made sure there was loads of algae before I went .no food for one month and no deaths and all algae gone .

It's like you knew I was looking this up last night

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I'm aqaqpathic 😂👍

One of the most underated channels on youtube. Thank you for sharing this. I live in North Carolina in the states. Would I be able to do this in temps ranging from 68 farenheit at night to almost 95 farenheit some days? I dont want to cook my fish but I want to do this type of setup so bad. Thank you

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊 I think you might be ok if you partly shade the tub. Do a dummy run first just with water and plants and monitor the temperatures

@mikem602

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Its all set up and doing well. My LFS suggested some Cuban Limia because they do well in higher temps and everything is doing great so far. Thanks again! Oh and yes its in partial shade.

Shrimps do incredibly well in summer tubbing in the UK. I found a blue velvet even overwinter outside in my tub.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Excellent! I've never tried shrimp outside so looking forward to it. 😊👍

@bluebowser3121

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS I couldn't get my ember tetras to breed outdoors, got my platies and shrimps to though!

Good videos mate , enjoy them , come down the shop for a cuppa if your passing, thinking about doing a bit of freshwater ;-)

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Hows it going fella! Yes I'll have to pop in at some point. 😀👍

I just started thinking recently what to do about the rampant inbreeding in my Endler tank that caused some pretty weird appearance in some offspring, and a patio cull tub sounds like a wonderful idea!

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it gives the not so colourful ones a home too. 😊👍

@dominic.h.3363

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS It's not really just the color, the females have become stockier and the males have a weird shape too. I just want to keep away the malformed fish from the ones that still look every bit like Endlers.

What a great idea. I never thought to put those fish in an outside pond. My only concern would be that the pond water would get very warm on a hot day. Is there a minimum size for the pot that I should be looking at getting?

A mount before I can do any of that and do you have any advice on how to raising Betta fry

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

If you look in my playlists you'll find a whole video series on how to breed betta.😊👍

How big a tub did you use I'm thinking of doing the same got any advice think I'm going to grow some guppy grass dwarf water lettuce and some java moss in thereaswell

We have the same decking but we place it the opposite side up (ridges down) so that any moisture that accumulates where the planks meet the support beams can dry out (I am in the subtropics though..) I lost most of my guppies when I was summer tubbing - Cyclone Debbie brought torrential rain and over the pond sides and down the storm gutters they went :(

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Yes heavy rain can be a problem. I've drilled some holes in the back of my tub and glued a fine mesh over the holes so water can escape.

You should get a pair of zebra finches and show us how it's done I want to breed some in a shed I'm making and could do with some insight 👍

You should get an underwater camera

I have two Lil guppy tubs outside.... climate has changed around here........ so first go around went bad.. but temps SEEM stable now .. so wish THEM luck ! 🚓💨😱 Dealt with cold- storms - super rain- super wind.. it's looking up now.. in the past this would have been stable 👴 agree - the sun does amazing things to fish FACT 😉👪 I see you use bug bites . I've yet to try it ☀ Is that 🍇!!!!!

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Yes bug bites are great food. And yes they're grapes. 😋

Did you add any live daphnia and cyclops to the tub for live food for the adults and any infusoria for live food for the fry?

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I've added a load of mosquito larvae 🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟🦟

Did the same thing last year using an old swimming pool sand filter, 40 gallons. I did add a small sponge filter. I'm in Greece so temperatures higher than UK. I added a water lily and a few other plants, threw a handful of adult guppies in back in April, 6 females and a couple of males and just left them to it until end of September when I emptied it. Did nothing other than a 25% water change every week and fed them most days, nothing special, mainly flakes and some freeze dried bloodworm. Had about 400 fish at the end of the day ranging from newborn fry up to fully grown adults.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Wow sounds fantastic. 😊👍

@andystokes8702

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Yes, it would be if I had room to house 400 guppies or some other means of disposing of them. Local pet shop was delighted when I just handed them over - at least I got some free food out of it.

Hi Mark how long were they outside for and did you lose any cheers mate

Nice video, I don't like the tub though, perhaps burying most of it will be nice so you can use rocks and gravel around it to hide the edges..

Lost my wild caught male black calvus today.first fish I got when I got back into the hobby,he was full grown when I got him making him at least five,I had him eight years meaning he was at least thirteen...........RIP Philly......already miss him biting me..........lucky I had a wild caught female as well and I am growing out eight of his babies

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

And hopefully you'll have another male among the fry. 😀👍

@tympanum59

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS I have five different male black calvus.........none of the others are wild caught......don't want to make to many anyway and they live a long time

How about winter time I have got few guppy’s I want to put them in the garden , any ideas?? How can I keep them safe, warm ,healthy in the backyard,

Firstly Mark... a huge congrats on 24k!! You said two types of Elodea, but ( and I may be wrong ) it looks like a Myriophillum species; would you set me straight :)

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Michael. Yes your right one is Myriophillum and the other Elodea. 😀👍

That is so cool! I´ve been thinking about doing this, but haven't had the nerve... do you think this would be possible in western Norway? This summer and last year have been really warm with temperatures ranging from aprox 16 to 34 celcius at daytime... average about 21 I think.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

That's perfect for summer tubbin 😀👍

@Snacksy1973

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Thx! Maybe I´ll try next year :-) At what temperature should I move them in again? (and out for that matter)

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

When the night temperatures dips below 16 degrees Celsius I would bring them in.😊

@Snacksy1973

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Thank you so much! -I think I´m comfortable trying this now :-)

I love my summer tubs but mine are not as nice as yours And I do some shrimp as well

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

I forget to say I added some shrimp also. 😊👍

mark what size tank do you typically use as a breeding tank, looking at setting one up for various fish in the future. my dwarf gouramis are trying to breed in my community tank

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Jake. I use pets at home 24 litre tanks for breeding. 😊👍

@J7lh22

5 жыл бұрын

MARK'S AQUATICS thanks for the reply mark, I’ll let you know how the gouramis go 👍🏻

HI Mark Great video. You talked in a previous video about a moss type plant wth a german sounding name Suss something. I would like to get some but our LFS ( I'm in Malta) have no idea what I'm talking about. Can you spell it out for me. I'm just cycling a dedicated shrimp tank.

@adamh3102

5 жыл бұрын

Colin Meadley susswassertang

@colin5861

5 жыл бұрын

@@adamh3102 many thanks

Cracking video Mark Would you say that endlers/ guppies could live and breed along side some comet and shubunkin goldfish in a 500L pond? Or is it likely they will be eaten? Failing that, would it do any harm moving the goldfish in with the koi in the 1000 gallon pond? Cheers Aaron

@MARKSAQUATICS

2 жыл бұрын

They would most probably get eaten. Best kept in a smaller pond

Hay Mark what temps at night n at day can you start a outside pond..? Only guppies

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

16C to 17C at night and you day temperature is really where you place it .ie full or shaded areas.

Hey when are you next going to Alderney cause I’m going on holiday there and guernsey to see my granddad I really want to meet you you are such a nice guy

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

When are you going to be there.

@thefallendevil0654

5 жыл бұрын

I going to Alderney on Tuesday next week and staying there for about 10 days

@thefallendevil0654

5 жыл бұрын

MARK'S AQUATICS I’m in Alderney

Summer tubbing would last for a couple of days in Scotland haha. Mark have you no overflow set up just in case. As always brilliant pal.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

😅👍

@andystokes8702

5 жыл бұрын

Summer tubbing had me a blast Summer tubbing happened so fast I met a fish crazy for me OK, I'll get my coat.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

@@andystokes8702 lol 😂

@tommy3415

5 жыл бұрын

andy stokes you just do that haha.

Have you got a online store if so I would LOVE to buy

Where in the UK are you Mark? Weather looks much nicer than around my parts. Also sent an email to ya.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Cardiff. 😊👍

What will you do overnight for this pond as I'm only a few miles south of you and nights get cooler. Will the fish be okay overnight?

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

There fine overnight at this time of year.

@MorneBooysen

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS gosh i was looking at what UK temperatures are to compare to sunny south africa and it says you have a monsoon prediction! www.express.co.uk/news/weather/1162062/uk-weather-forecast-latest-met-office-forecast-weekend-weather

Where did you get the tub Mark?

@MARKSAQUATICS

4 жыл бұрын

My local garden centre. It's a koi tub .

Amazing project Mark 👏🏻👏🏻 I've seen some American KZreadrs do this sort of thing, yours look brilliant 🐠🌼🌺🎍I'm going to Jersey for the first time in a few weeks too 👍🏼

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you Paul. Jersey is a wonderful place you'll love it.

Lets see how long he is interested in that lil project...

How did u do the heating for it please ?

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

There's no need for heating in the summer.

@mrericgeorge

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS What about at night , does it not get to cold ? x . If not then I might try with some of my guppies lol. Thanks .x

Mark what would be the minimum temperature the fish can tolerate?

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

People say 16 to 18 degrees Celsius but I've kept them as low as 13 before.

@MezzyAquatics

5 жыл бұрын

I have about 10 tubs and ponds full of guppies i put mine out at the beginning of may and have had no problems, theres hundreds now. I usually bring them in around mid oct when it starts getting cold. Im in essex

5:17 did he say lay EGGS

How often are you planning to do water changes? Considering there's no filter.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

30% one a week for the first month.

@tsitsu8345

5 жыл бұрын

@@MARKSAQUATICS Without siphoning the gravel?

are they okay all threw the year

@robdavies1235

3 жыл бұрын

the guppies

@MARKSAQUATICS

3 жыл бұрын

In the UK we have to bring them indoors in the autumn.

Couldn't do that here in New Mexico. Our temperatures are above 92 F.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Wow! That's damn hot!! 😓

@marksmith8163

5 жыл бұрын

And in the southern part of state can reach 109 F. I would worry about it attracting rattlesnakes and coyotes.

Don’t they cook in a black barrel in the sun

Are you ok? It's been a couple weeks. Gets me worried

Not sure about that with no filter on it....

Check out mine..

Mark, are you you ok, been to quiet.

@tommy3415

5 жыл бұрын

@Martin james thanks Martin.

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Tommy. I'm on holiday hopefully I'll make a couple of videos while I'm here. 😊👍

I’m like 50. Alright alright

Hi Mr Mark south Africa sub here about my tank iv got 5 snails they dont grow big but they are leaving this jelly like stuff in the corner of my tank will that stuff harm my fish😔

@MARKSAQUATICS

5 жыл бұрын

That will be their eggs. Harmless. 😀👍

@MorneBooysen

5 жыл бұрын

hi i'm also from SA, sounds like their snail eggs. Just gets smelly if you have too many and dont do water changes. Otherwise its fine.

@shadyaquatics5546

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man😉 ill see if they can hatch

@shadyaquatics5546

5 жыл бұрын

Oky thanks Mr Mark for the reply ill see if they will hatch

Too many different species of fish. They are going to predate each others eggs/fry. Especially any young shrimp.