Absolutely

Repeat all he wants just means I shouldn't forget it 😉

Right! If you read any educational book, its the same; drill-drill-drill

I will be repeating things and hopefully providing new infomation. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 Charles I hope you didnt take the comment personally. When new viewers are tuning in its sometimes a necessary means to allow people to understand.

This is sure better than yacking out my breakfast lol. I am an old animal husbander and death and smells, while distressing, don't usually put me out, but that was hard to watch. I have been smiling through this one.

Yes🙏❤️

Cory and @aquariumcoop have been great. Charles

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Thank you. And today has been better! Charles

Thank you. We will recover. Charles

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There isn't much choice. You either quit or keep going. We keep going. Charles

Thank you. Yes, I need to make notes to add a second hotel to those fry cages with only one. Charles

Yes. It appears we'll be able to rebuild many of our breeding colonies despite losses of about 90% of our fish. Charles

We hope to rebuild Greenhouse 3 this summer and will video document that process. We are working on plans to harden our systems, starting with finishing the installation of our new generator. We will continue long and short videos. Charles

Thank you. We are recovering. We'll continue to document the reality of fishkeeping, warts and all. Charles

We will continue with recovery videos and informational videos. Charles

He honestly reminds me of my great grandfather. Plenty of fun summers and memories on the family property. Could, and do, watch everything Goliad posts.

The calmness is resignation. All you can do is put one foot in front of the other. Charles

I find myself channeling my grandfather. You just keep on keeping on. Charles

Yes, we are getting better. Thank you. Charles

Thank you. Our surviving fish deserve to have me keep on. Charles

We are finding enough survivors to rebuild many of our breeding colonies. Charles

Thank you. We will. Charles

Thank you. We are continuing to document our progress of rebuilding breeding colonies. Charles

Thank you. We will recover. Charles

Thank you. Charles

We are happier as well. We keep getting good news, including today. Video on the way. Charles

Thank you. We plan to continue videos, both about recovery and informational. We plan a video today on how we raise scuds. Charles

Susie (wife and business manager) has been great about an overgrown hobby. For some reason I don't really get, she insists it make money. Charles

Me too! Charles

Thank you. I just like to raise fish! Charles

Thank you. We are good. We have to continue for the surviving fish. Charles

Thank you. We appreciate IFG's help. Charles

Thank you. I need to know how to tag channels like IFG so they know how much we appreciate their help. I good with stuff that breathes, bleeds, and breeds, but not with other things. Charles

Thank you. More on the way. Charles

Thank you. We are soldiering on and will recover! Charles

Thank you. I owe it the surviving fish to keep going. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Thank you. And, yes, we have found more vats with good fish. Charles

Thank you. We appreciate your comments! Charles

Thank you. We are working on recovery and making progress. Charles

We're glad to be able to share some good news. Thanks for watching. Carl

Thank you. We're hoping to start offering fish again in April. Charles

Thank you. More good news in today's videos to be uploaded soon. Charles

Thanks! We're pretty fond of him too. Carl

It certainly is ! Charles

Thank you. Charles

We will continue with recovery videos interspersed with informational videos. Charles

Me too. It looks like we'll be able to rebuild a lot of breeding colonies. Charles

It does look like we'll be able to rebuild a lot of breeding colonies. Charles

Thank you. We are planning a stream of videos. Once we finish inventorying and rebuilding breeding colonies, we will begin offering the surplus fish. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 thnk u charlez im glad u much happier my 11 year old passion for african cichlids is amazing he goes to sleep watching videos of african cichlids n wakes up with dreaming about them lol we only have a few peacocks n couple haps I would love to surprise him with a few beauties from u when u get goin do u guys offer on deals if I buy 10 males off u is there a discount the more we buy I have no clue but your fish is top quality bud keep it up plz lemme know when u get back into things again have a blessed day

Thank you. By the way, we'll be doing livebearers after we finish cichlids and I'll see if I have some plumetails for you. Charles

Thank you. We will recover. Charles

Thank you. We will recover. Charles

Thank you. We will continue to post about breeding and breeder selection. Charles

Me too! Charles

Thank you. Today we did a video of our recirculating and plant filtrations systems. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Thank you. We will recover. Charles

Thank you. We will be working on our business planning, including providing more informational content. Charles

Thank you. Me too! More good news: see today's videos soon to be posted. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Thank you. I need to find a way to tag them so they know we appreciate them. I'm good with things that breathe, bleed, and breed, but not so good with things like KZfaq. Charles

Yes, the plant filters are kicking in as we get more sunlight and higher temperatures and clear dead fish. I think fish should live as normal and natural lives as possible. Charles

The explosion is Bettas over the past decade is amazing. I'm in awe of the Asian Betta breeders. Charles

I suspect the offspring of the survivors will fare better in any similar future disasters. We plan to harden up our systems in preparation for those disasters. Charles

Thank you. Cory an @aquariumcoop have been great. Charles

I prefer it this way, there's enough 'professional' youtubers out there. This sounds more like a televised university lecture and I'm good with that. I can't lip read maskers but I can hear Charles just fine.

@@voluntaryismistheanswer I dont mind the quality. I was more saying that so the man would not have to worry about unplugging his mic and interrupting his lecture :)

We are upgrading our equipment now that it seems I'll have to do continous videos. I complain, but in a way it's better than blogging (you can see my blogs at: goliadfarms.com/blog/). One minute of video can cover pages of typing. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 you are quickly becoming my hero. I've enjoyed the videos and all the knowledge sharing. I dont even keep fish. Only shrimp.

We are considering having monthly visitation days and possibly, once the pandemic is under control, an annual fish festival at the hatchery. We've experimented with many ways to capture the fish, including seines and caging the breeders. What you see me doing works the best for us. Charles

We are well on the way to recovery, having rebuilt all the breeding colonies that we could. We are now processing the earliest of the those colonies at the end of their first breeding cycles since the 2021 Texas Winter Storm. It will take about a year and a half from now to reach full production again. Charles

Thank you. I Iike them. Charles

You should also watch the Aquarium-Coop video as well as our later videos showing our progress toward recovery. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 Co-op brought me here, and I am now on Day 7 of Recovery, Great series.

IFG has been a great help to us. I wish I knew how to tag them so they knew that. One of today's videos discussing breeder selection. Charles

I wish I could find a way to tag IFG and Bob Caylor to show them how much we appreciate them. We did some more breeder selection today. Video on the way. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 I will let them know

I was sure when this happened I'd lost my pond fish (it froze down to an inch of water!) and I was amazed he's alive, bless goldfish for being so hardy, he's my oldest fish.

Thank you. I feel I owe the surviving fish the chance to continue. Charles

Our goldfish and Koi in outside vats laughed at the cold. Charles

Thank you. Charles

That's a good idea. I'll do it. Thanks for the donation! Carl

We used to have a lot of Clown Loaches, but sold them off. I'm thinking of ordering a 1,000 little ones and trying to breed them. I have a theory on how to do that. Charles

That is good. Charles

Ivan was great. He is missed. Charles

IFG has been a great help to us. Charles

Do you mean IFG? He has been a great help. Charles

Carl and Susie are working on t-shirts. I just raise fish and leave that sort of stuff to them. Charles

Thank you. Charles

Cory was mentioned in yesterdays video. :)

@@VelvetWench Must have missed it. Thanks👍

He’s definitely mentioned him in a few videos

Day 5 Video he did Cory & Aquarium Co-Op

@@deedra54 Thanks, must have missed that one.

Sorry for the tardy reply. Please keep me posted on your progress. I always like to see how others are doing things. Texas cichlid (Herichthys cyanoguttatus) ranges into the Texas Hill Country and is fairly cold hardy. I've kept them outside in concrete water troughs during winters in which there was ice on the water. That means the bottom water temperature was no warmer that 4C (~39F). The Texas cichlids were fine. One of our grandbrats (errr...granddaughters) mated a Texas cichlid male to a convict cichlid (Archocentrus nigrofasciatus) female producing two batches of fry before the female died. The resulting fish are in our greenhouses now. The hybrids suffered no losses during last year's Texas Winter Storm, so they seem to have inherited the Texas cichlid cold hardiness. So far, those hybrids have not produced offspring when mated together. I'll try again this spring. There are other species in the genus Herichthys (14 by itis.gov count). I imagine all of those could hybridize, but all the other species' ranges are tropical. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 Hi Charles thanks for the reply! That is great info I may just give the Texans a go over here. I have heard of them doing fine outside in Sydney in glass tanks! And it gets colder in Sydney than where I am and I imagine glass tanks would fluctuate a lot more than a pond that is set in the ground or insulated a bit. I will let you know how it goes. I had heard of gymno geophagus gymno genis? Forgive my bad spelling if I got that wrong being kept in cold water tanks in the UK along with Buenos Aires tetra and peppered cory down to 10c without ill effect but those gymnos are very hard almost impossible to get in Australia. If I can ask with the texans I have seen a couple of varieties here a wild type and an emerald green I am not sure if the green would be as tough I might start with the wild types and see how they go. It would be a very rare freak event if our temps ever got down to 4c in the water and we have never had ice here we would never get snow we are at sea level near the coast in a warmer micro climate but just over the highway inland they can get quite a bit colder. I have kept various barbs and danios outdoors and some catfish that tolerate cooler water and they did great they grew very big! We call them sucking cats they stay pretty small a lot of people use them to eat algea in ponds with goldfish. We are in a 1000 year freak flood event atm we are on a hill so not as badly off but we have had so much rain I fear I have lost some fish to the ponds flooding and it has been too wild out to do much checking yet. I have a guppy pond and some neo shrimp ponds I am worried about. I did see some in there a few days ago but we have had a foot more of rain since so fingers crossed! It is at least not cold.

@@Firebird894 The Herichthys genus has 10 species according to our go-to taxonomic source, itis.gov. H. cyanoguttatum is definitely cold hardy. H. carpintis ranges into South Texas and did survive the Texas Winter Storm in our greenhouses despite cold temperatures. Be sure that none escape into the wild since H. cyanoguttatum is considered invasive by the USGS (see nas.er.usgs.gov/viewer/omap.aspx?SpeciesID=443) Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 Thankyou Charles I will look those up over here and see if they are avaliable. No chance of them getting into the wild from my place unless they can survive in saltwater I have no freshwater creeks close downhill from me is only stormwater running straight into saltwater and out to sea. I only have guppies, rainbow fish and some gambusia outside atm they all survived the recent floods and cold snap well most of them some got washed out and they would have died temps did not drop real low and the guppies have a heater but it was struggling but I checked yesterday and the pond was missing a few females but there was all the males and a tonne of babies couldnt even count them they may have enjoyed the big water change. The guppies I have were bred in Australia in a PH of 6.5 to 7.5 and the breeder never checked or worried about hardness and these guppies are tough they don't even need the crushed coral I put in, in fact I may have made the water too hard for them since I was going off advice of imported guppies these ones seem to do worse in hard water which I did not expect it seems to iritate the gills and cause them to flash. I had treated for a bunch of external parasites especially gill flukes as they would line themselves up and rub each gill on plants and airline tubes and nothing I treated with stopped it. A vet suggested reducing the PH and so far I tried some in softer cooler water and they are not flashing. So that was interesting to me. I set up some experiments and so far 24c and neutral PH and our soft tap water seems to suit them just right. I guess it is what they have had generations bred in and it is less work for me. Thanks for the tips!!

@@Firebird894 Sounds like you are doing some interesting experiments. Please keep me posted on your progress. I've found that rapidly breeding fish quickly adapt to local conditions by natural selection. Charles

Thank you for subscribing. We are recovering and will continue to document our recovery. Charles

Noone is ever where I want them to be... Charles

That's a good idea. Thanks! Carl

We did try that with aquaculture netting. It didn't work out that well. Each vat is netted out only every 3-4 months, so it isn't that much labor. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 I figured you've tried everything by now. Amazing! Thanks for the response. I'm loving these videos.

I expect using plants for filtration, non tap water, and optimal feeding is as effective in practicing clean aquaculture as in raising healthy human children- I fill my house with greenery for oxygen, give them pure water, and feed them real food from an actual farmer: pastured meat, eggs, raw milk, butter, and grow my own pesticide-free fruit and veg. I can't remember the last time any of my children had a sniffle. Keeping one hand in the medicine cabinet is lazy fishkeeping (or parenting), useful for virtue signaling, not so much for actual health. Think of the mosquito larvae those fish get alone!- my pond-raised guppies are pretty much immortal. Keeping toxins out of our systems and being well fed, we deal with pathogens pretty effectively. It is the neglected tank that allows ich to proliferate, not the presence of the parasites, which are probably not as ubiquitous as tetanus in soil (billions and billions in any average square inch- only a problem when cultured anaerobically inside the body, which a healthy body doesn't sweat, that's why we have circulation, whether in our bodies or the bodies of water in which we keep our fish), but acknowledged to exist more than we'd like to think about. Nature has it covered, and never lies to us for a buck.

We carefully quarantine for a long time any incoming breeding stock. We do feed Praziquantel a couple times a year as a preventative for internal parasites. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 Very wise. Thanks!

Interesting. I'm a zoologist, but not a taxonomist. I'm going to check with Texas State University about this fish. Hypostomus plecostomus is established in the San Marcos River at the university. Charles

Things continue to improve. Thank you for watching. Charles

Pleco’s have a important job in his system! They actually help keep the system cleaner by stirring up the gunk on the bottom of the vats. They also help with snail control. Everything has a purpose in the system. Get rid of one part and it will unbalance the system.

We plan to consistently post videos now that we've learned something about doing them. We've netted out the sump areas. In Greenhouse 2 we'll be replacing the pump platforms soon. The plecos do a lot of housekeeping for us. They the mulm stirred up allowing microorganisms to complete its breakdown. Charles

Okay. You made me watch a video I was in. I try not to do that. That was Aulonocara 'Lwanda Redtop." Charles

Not really. The greenhouses were actually the warmest places on the farm during the cold and power outages. Charles

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@@voluntaryismistheanswer thanks but not the video. The video was before the recent storms and after Harvey so this would have been at least a year ago not his most recent video.

I will try to find it too (I meaning I'll ask Carl or Susie to find it) and post it. Charles

Guppies (Poecilia reticulata) is a species of livebearering fish. They have been selectively bred to produce a huge array of colors and fin types. Charles

Like & Subscribe! Also, we've had lots of requests for a GoFundMe, so we set one up today. Here's the link: gf.me/u/zkkazc The overwhelming outpouring of support from the fish community has been humbling and so appreciated. Thank you! Carl

@@goliadfarms7029 Happy yall started the gofundme! Contribution made! :)

We will turn our attention to sump fish once we complete the vat inventories and rebuilding breeding colonies. Charles

I do get a lot of what I call passive exercise. Charles

I suspect the descendants of the survivors will be more cold tolerant. Charles

I am actually trying to create a cold resistant variety of platy in my house right now. I own 5 tanks, all platies. They grow very slow, but they survive. Good luck, you have a great company, i hope it survives.

Once we have completed inventorying survivors and rebuilding breeding colonies, we will allow visitors. Charles

We have sold them online (goliadfarms.com/) before we suspended selling until after recovery. Susie complains that we undercharge for hornwort since it costs so much to ship. We are reviewing pricing and shipping options now. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 ok outher placesi got it from came half dead yours look great . i will wait till you open back up

We (meaning Carl and Susie) are working on hardware and software improvements. Charles

@@goliadfarms7029 the new mic seems to have solved this. :)

There are some fantastic fish breeders coming up. We are recovering. Charles