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In my real-world experiment two years ago, the water temp went from 65 and below to over 90 over three months. I have a video on it. I did have two sponge filters on the 90 shallow water pool I bought. Al, had Java Moss and Hornwort in there as well. I never saw any deaths until winter when it got below about 62ish. I removed most before then, but could not get all of them! This was an outside pool in KY where in August it gets hot.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I find the same....60-62 is the DANGER ZONE!

Yo, thanks for all the guppy / tub info and inspiration. I'm in my first year of fishkeeping since I was a kid with feeder guppies in the 90s. I started with what were advertised as endler guppy hybrids, and have since added a couple full guppy females, an endler female, and 3 adult male guppies which have different colours and tail shapes. Your mixing, mutting, hearty style is what I dig. The 100gal patio tub has all kinds of various sizes of fry and juvies now. Excited for the fall, and to see what has grown up!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Heck yeah. My 12 year old and I set up our first guppy pond this summer, thanks to you! We're down in TX, and our mutt guppies are having a blast in a 110-gallon stock tank. We're hoping to have a fun season with them, and sell them/trade them in the fall. Thanks for your videos!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

I'm glad you mentioned the temp issue. Reason being, I lost fish this last winter here in Oklahoma. Power outage X2 weeks then furnace down after that. It got down to 44 degrees in my house. I'm changing over to cold tolerant fish. It's too heartbreaking to lose fish. So, I'm looking at endlers, but now maybe guppies. On a side note, I lost zero zebra danios, white clouds and bristle nose.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for tour loss.

I've kept guppies and everything else in my unheated basement for years. Temperature ranges from 67 -70 deg. F. No problems but the temps do stay very stable. P.s. I only keep right handed fish. Left handed fish need warmer temperatures.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have a paper you can quote?

@catfishcave379

3 жыл бұрын

What can I expect from ambidextrous guppies?

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

Bwaaahahaha!!

Yes .. small hourly temperature changes from 1 to 2 degrees Celsius are good for guppies and in my experience anything from 24c to 28c is the best ... In extreme cases as in this current summer ( outside temperature from 44c to 52c today ) as i wake up to my tanks and see 32c on my thermometer i usually start the ac to lower the temps over the next 6 hours to a suitable 26c ... They key is just small temperature changes 😃

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Yup

Hi Michael to measure the temp at the bottom of the tank could you use one of the meat thermometers for cooking that has a wire from the meat probe to the control panel

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Most of those you cannot submerge in water.

Happy 4th to my favorite tuber. And my guppies are happy with any temperature as long as there is food 😉

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Same to you! And your guppies and I are a lot alike!

I’m just starting my new Aquarium in this helped a lot

@MichaelsFishRoom

Жыл бұрын

Great!

I learn alot, i just got back into guppies

@MichaelsFishRoom

2 жыл бұрын

Great!

Here on a 2 year old video because A I trust Michael and B I’m waiting to see what temps will be good for me to move some guppies into my outside pool pond in Mississippi……

@MichaelsFishRoom

4 ай бұрын

Thanks!

Michael i keep my 75 gallon guppy tank at 73-74 degrees with no problems, they are always breeding , i keep a 3inch sand substrate, my gh-400ppms my dh-100ppms my ph-7.5 nitrate i dont go over 20ppms. lots of plants but not planted in substrate. your neighbor from Toms River New Jersey Joe H Navy Seabee. I also use a sediment filter and 4 -10 inch carbon filters to filter my shitty tap water which contain chloramines and also use Prime this stuff works well for me.

@MichaelsFishRoom

4 ай бұрын

Nice!

I don't have tank heaters, so my guppy tanks are room temperature. Winter the house is around 67, so the tanks are about 67. Summer the house is anywhere from 70-80 degrees, so so are the tanks. I put my guppies out into the tubs as long as the water is about mid 60's overnight though occasionally it dips a bit cooler overnight. I haven't seen issues as long as the water is around 60F or higher. Once the water temps are looking at being consistently getting down into the 50's I bring the guppies in. My tub pond surface temperature is between 70-85 right now depending on the temp and how sunny it is. But if you put your arm in there you can feel that lower in the tub is a different temp, cooler or warmer depending on day or night. Haven't lost any yet. They breed consistently even at the cooler temps. I will say that these are guppies I've kept and bred this way for several years now. New guppies, that may not be used to cooler temps, I will get during the Summer when it's warmer and they have time to slowly acclimate to cooler temps as the season changes.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly like my tubs!

Didn’t see this convo, but I can imagine 😂😂😂

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

It was fun!

I have an idea (maybe) if you haven't already figured this out about measuring the lower part of the tank temps. I don't know 100% if this would work. They have these stick on themometers . Do they still make them? What if you stuck one of those on a ceramic tile... submerged it, use a flashlight to read it. Or even a non-floating (or even a floating one,) that you prevent from floating by weighting it and rubber banding it, etc and again attaching it to a tile, etc. Anyway, this kind of blows my idea of tubbing with guppies this summer because never will we have weather warm enough where I am to have guppies outside :(

@MichaelsFishRoom

2 жыл бұрын

Great idea!

with this hot weather in ny is there anything i need to know about keeping them outside in hot temps

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Watch my pond vids. I have explained a few times.

@bbmaktiger

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom idr so what do you do? b.c the water was llike 92 the other day. i have a bunch of duckweed and other plants to cover from the sun but still heats up?

In my experience fishing. In the summer the deeper the water is, the colder it is and more oxygenated. In the winter the deeper water is warmer then the surface.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

That is because the sun does not penetrate that low.

As long as you throw in a good rant once in awhile make any video you want!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Will do!

Living in the real world. Temperatures really fluctuate here in the canyon. Too hot ~ mostly too cold! Found the best way to regulate the temperature in my ponds is to bury them halfway in the ground! Using storage tubs (50 gallon capacity). And toss in a heater! Of course there's a lot more to it than just digging a hole ~ but, don't want to get into all that now. 😉 This took some research and some planning. 🤔

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

"More than digging a hole" LOL

The digital thermometers that have a wire and probe . My thought is the bottom water is colder.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe.....

I still think dunking your head in the water when you’re ready to rant will raise the temp up safely. 😂

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

Most tropical fish can easily handle 66 degrees for a short period of time. I’ve had clown loaches at 66 for three days during a cold snap. No ich, no disease, no problems. Six years later I still have them. In some of my older books it describes guppies as the “millions fish” and says they can tolerate 40-100 degrees.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

WOW! You are old. LOL

@catfishcave379

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom Listen you young whippersnapper, I’ll tolerate no more shenanigans or malarky from a yahoo like you!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, sorry sir. It will, I mean won’t happen again.

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

I know I'm old. I'm about Michael's age :) I remember that, but guppies have been bred now into these fancy strains. I think the millions fish refers to what now, is moisquito fish. then, fancy guppies were endlers. I had those as a kid (they weren't called endlers then!)At least if they were, I didn't know it... and my bedroom at my parents house was definitely colder than 66 degrees, since the woodstove was at the other end of the house, and I didn't use a heater in the tank.

cheap sinking pool thermometer I have tied to a string for retrieval - I buy them at a store up here called Ocean State Job Lot for 1.99 . I bet you have something like that down that way .

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! I didn't think pool thermometers would sink!

@kjeaquatics

3 жыл бұрын

The cheap ones that come with a length of string .

Placed an order at coldest water. Kinda spendy even with discount, but I just had to support you.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You will not be disappointed!

I usually try to keep the temperature at 80°, this makes the males very active &. Females have fry faster , I saw the guppies very happy.

@MichaelsFishRoom

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

I made the mistake of replying to someone's comment on a tiktok video saying the betta in the video did not need a heater and then a bunch of people were getting mad at me and calling me a dumbass but in the video the thermometer said it was 78 degrees. Am I right?

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

100% right

@Aidenf.

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom thank you

Is it weird that I (kind of) want the duckweed guy to keep it up so we can all buy Michael's Swamp Room shirts?

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

Hey Mike Do you have an theories on higher lower temp and what affect it has on the gender off the babies I know you love punctuation so heres a few ill let you fill them in ..,,/'''??

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, yes. No actual scientific proof, but for me the warmer tanks have more boys.

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom I've kept breeding notebooks on this with several breeds (not guppies though) concerning ph, and temperature. I have to tell you, temperature is the one I battle most, because 1. I'm cheap and live in a cold area, and I hate heating tanks excessively when I think it's ph... 2. cichlids, it's both ph and temp, and then later they change gender anyway after I've done that. You should see me freak out THEN! 3. I don't even remember where I was going with this except I hate using 300w heaters because I'm cheap. :D Did I mention they doubled electricity???

I wish I could buy guppies from you, but I'm afraid they won't do well in my super high pH/gH water. I'll just have to settle for a t-shirt!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

How high it the PH?

@sarahwoodring5587

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom 8.2. I think yours is mid-7's, right?

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know why you don't simply put crushed oyster shells in your water. Isn't this common knowledge? Its cheap, and it works, AND it works long term.

first, THIS IS NOT SCIENTIFIC i don't know farenheit. but in nsw australia in my garage i did some testing and found: guppies die when the water hits 9c(my water which is 0 everything 7.6ph and varied hardness) my water is supplied by a coal fired powerstation so the actual contents of my water is a mystery. they were inactive and somewhat hibernating at 11c on the bottom (so stressed but alive) i maintained 11c for 3 weeks and had no deaths. they also had no signs of illness. i then turned the temp down to 9c (2k TD means 8c-10c) and they all died within the hour with the younger ones dieing first. i am a mechatronic engineer that specifically works with advanced cooling systems.... THIS IS NOT SCIENTIFIC. it is however an interesting thing i found since i have no predators to eat my guppy culls. take this as you will but my advice is just keep the water above 16c (60f) in my water inside my garage in my tanks with my filters and my custom made chiller .... 16c because your heaters arent anywhere near as accurate as a $3000 aud Dixell controller and that leaves you a good margin for error

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I found pretty much the same outside (60 and above is OK)

@SirenaSpades

2 жыл бұрын

I can tell you, in the 1980's... I know I'm old, I have had guppies well below 60 degrees F. However, guppies have been "fancified" a LOT since then. Guppies in the 1980's looked a lot like moisquito fish, if I were lucky, they had a little of color, resembling endlers. I did a science fair project presenting their color genetics in middle school, to give an idea. They were very plain. guppies have come a long way, but lost hardiness since then. Edit, or at least what was available to the general consumer ...

Starts at 6min you’re welcome

@MichaelsFishRoom

7 ай бұрын

No, starts at 0:00. 🤦🏻‍♂️

i always keep my chosen breeder Guppys at 68f for a week to make sure they are strong , these are average guppys would not do this with show grade

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

OK

My guppies are in a 40 gallon tank temperature at 99 degrees and they are just fine

@MichaelsFishRoom

Жыл бұрын

I'd be careful.

Tri tip

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Love tri tip

Mike, I have a NJ black seal (boilers), and an EPA permit for refrigeration work, so I can scientifically state that in a tank/pond with agitation caused by bubbles, or flow from a pump, will have virtually zero difference from top to bottom. An interesting comment, but why? A pound of water requires 952 BTU’s to move its temperature 1 degree Fahrenheit. But, that gain of energy is called latent heat, and is stored by the water molecule in its outer electron shell. God help me it’s science… If the shell expands, the molecules “girth” expands ever so slightly, and this is called thermal expansion. Water is very special stuff, I am not touching ice here…. This thermal expansion causes the molecule to be less dense then other molecules that have NOT absorbed any extra BTU’s… so with no agitation the water would move up, or down as it gains or losses this energy. A 1 degree temperature change is more then enough energy to cause a flow. Now, how thick is this water? That would be its viscosity. Water is not very viscous (that’s why we use oil in automotive engines) but it is not without any viscosity. So, simply put, warm water will stay up, cooler water will stay down, it will hit a point of equilibrium, due to evaporation at the surface, and that cooler water dropping down. In a fish tank, the sides are radiators, and water will get cool that touches the glass. In that sense, algae growing on the sides are insulation against that… It’s not much. A air stone or bio sponge with air bubbling from it is greater a force then the force of thermal expansion, so the temperature of a tank with them will be very uniform. Reasons to have a battery back up! Fish being cold blooded are directly affected by temperature changes: 1-2.5 degrees can be attributed to a tropical rainstorm. And can then be attributed to cause fir spawning! So, some change is good! Rapidity of that change, if it goes past these degrees can cause a fish to slow down, depress there normal sequences. For health purposes the tanks should always be at the lower end fir the species, this will allow a uniformity, and control of spawning. Raising slightly l, then lowering by that 1-2.5 degrees, then raising to a normal level.. Of course guppies are effected, but they now breed very efficiently with virtually no water temperature changes. Feed them and they will…. I hope this has helped.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

You are too smart for me sir!

@njvikings1

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom no… I have stayed at a holiday in express more then one though…

Not just guppies , but as long as the temperature changes are gradual , the fish will be fine.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

I know

Why did you get kicked out of cookie's fish room?

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

I had a different opinion than the cult leader.

@rynoshnglkmle

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom "Cult" lol. Sad but true.

Michael,why did you get kicked out of cookies fish room?

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

After the cult leader made one his mods leave a fake bad review on a friend of mine, I openly challenged him in his cult, I mean group. He had one of his mods kick me out.

I'd say 66 Fahrenheit is a tad low for guppies. Low to mid 70s is optimal.

@MichaelsFishRoom

10 ай бұрын

You would be wrong, but thanks.

It's scary the way some people write.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

For sure

Some hot chocolate will keep them nice and warm.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

"what do i do" I mean i'm pretty sure guppies are fine at 66F but i'll watch the vid now :) if that was even the problem

@ZaneofAustin

Жыл бұрын

3:08 I put ceramic in the bottom (pond 110gallon) if you tag that piece (on the bottom) with the laser i've found it's usually a few degrees above (or below depending on the temperature that day) but i have a "shallow area" i made out of old pot, where i put the heaters (2x50 watt heaters) in, so my gupps can just go hide in that if they get too cold. but i'll tag that for the surface temps and the ceramic at the bottom for the sub surface ones :) they're usually pretty close unless i'm running the heaters

@MichaelsFishRoom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Just my opinion. No Snowflake guppies! I had guppies 50 years ago pre fancy apparatus. Lived then live now or not worth having!

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@ReneesZooTube

3 жыл бұрын

I basically agree. I want guppies that are easy to keep and breed, rather than needing all kinds of specialized care. I want guppies that don't drop dead if you have to miss a water change cause you got sick or injured. Guppies should be easy to keep, a pleasure to keep, not tons of intensive work. 😊

dissing and putting down people for not using grammar and language the "correct way"... it's kind of elitist. i think you could have handled that a little bit more humanely and respectfully, and engaged him. you could have also developed your ability to try to understand what he meant given the way he was communicating. other than that, i like your energy, keep up good work!

@MichaelsFishRoom

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comments.

I don't want to take the side of an illiterate troll you mentioned in this vid on the subject of duckweed, but.. I don't use duckweed. Cory from Aquarium Co-Op mentioned somewhere that he checked the dissolved oxygen in a tank covered with duckweed and found it very low. Removed the duckweed and the oxygen levels came up. Since then I have quit using duckweed and have moved to larger floating plants like amazon frogbit that don't pack together tightly on the surface like duckweed. The more surface area you have exposed and being agitated by something like an air stone the more oxygen can exchange with the cO2 is the theory. Not my own personal experience as I do not have a dissolved oxygen meter.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

Who is the troll?

@flacosgarden6816

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom The guy who commented about duckweed with no punctuation, that you mentioned in this video.

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@flacosgarden6816 oh, lol

@flacosgarden6816

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom I guess I could have worded my original comment better .. LOL

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@flacosgarden6816 lol

All I want to know is what’s the best temperature for guppies 🤷‍♂️ not a weather forecast or anything else 7:43 minutes could have been shortened to a minute. 👎

@MichaelsFishRoom

2 жыл бұрын

All I want is for people to appreciate the content I make isn’t just for them. You could have simply googled it.

that guy who said take duck weed out.. well there is a scientific explanation.. the more the surface plants they reduce the the oxygen in the water.. also since the more resistance from the roots of the plants it reduces water flow.. so there is a problem with the oxygen in the water and also at nights.. also talking about the carbon dioxide that the fish breathe out cant be expelled into the surface if the surface are is covered with a barrier of floating plants.. now pls dont call me an asshole also on your channel an just anaysing.. and the more the co2 and less oxygen in the water it causes stress.. the more the stress fish develop diseases.. only the ones hardy Or immune enough will survive.. and the less genetically immune will pass off.. i am a guppy breeding wholesaler so here is wat i said.. very hard to mimic a natural pond or a ecosystem inside a tank.. many things cause stress in a fish and main of them if the oxygen content at night wen plants dont give out oxygen and also the excess co2 released by the fish... so yes if you do take a lot of the duck weed out.. there is more surface are of water mixing with the oxygen in the air. .. 😊😊

@MichaelsFishRoom

Ай бұрын

But how much?

@xmanu100

Ай бұрын

@@MichaelsFishRoom well I would always say 50% of the water shoud be exposed to the air and not more than that.. the more the surface area the better it's for the fish to swim to the surface and gasp the water mixed with oxygen.. fish dealers while shipping use medical oxygen which is 90-100% oxygen.. the reason is coz lot of fish together being shipped out and the delivery may take 2-5 days.. but in the normal scenes there is only 30% oxygen am not sure exactly how much a rough estimate..in the atmosphere and when you bloc out the surface with duck weed that reduced the oxygen in the surface.. also only way oxygen mixes with the water is when the barrier between the surface and the water breaks.. so we mostly use bubbler to make that effect happpen.. if free flowing ponds and streams this happens natural with the water moving and breaking the surface.. these are guppy fish not like the betra were they come to the top and take air and breathe that.. different species and different life forms 😇😇

DO nothing the guppies are fine

@MichaelsFishRoom

3 жыл бұрын

🤦🏻‍♂️