This must be staged...

[emeraldking]

I came across this video on Youtube. Not my intention to insult these guys. I just don't buy this to be true. They are on the search for guppies in the wild. But they only catch fancy guppies and they're all male. Even koi guppies are in there. Even when fancies are released in wild nature, the next generations will revert to wild phenotype. And if the pool is closed from other waters, the wild type phenotypes will look like eachother (at least, very close). There are all different male fancy guppies that they catch. And to repeat myself, all different in coloration. These are fancy guppies,as you can find them at an lfs. What do you guys think?

 

[SotaAquatics]

Agree, 100% staged, the area they are catching them is a walled off pool from the river as well, its fully enclosed little area they are netting them out of.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Only thing i have seen in catching videos that looks kind of fancy are some of the plecos! I vote for staged.

 

[Mhamilton0911]

I vote staged too, it's sad. I've seen this hundreds of times with other people with 'wild' bettas. It's hard to watch knowing that they just dumped who knows how many fish into those waters, just for faking a video, just for views. Not cool. I just left my comment on thier video.

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

Possibly staged, my only suspicion why nt is, as said above it is closed off, and they could have been near a river, and saw this and started looking here, and people had released fancies here. But that is a long shot. But if they did release them, this would be the best place, as they can't escape.

Just trying to give the benefit of the doubt, but probably staged.
But I guess if they are all males, the most common reason for dumping guppies is because their guppies bred. Yeah, I'm leaning more to fake now.

 

[emeraldking]

Apparently, they haven't though it through before they've decided to make this video.

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

They also do it with Betta's in their other videos... This is just sad honestly.

 

[emeraldking]

They also do it with Betta's in their other videos... This is just sad honestly.

Well, it is sad. I just think to myself why would they think that people may believe this...?

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

Well, it is sad. I just think to myself why would they think that people may believe this...?

I think some in the comments did, but most advance hobbyists know better.

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

Well, it is sad. I just think to myself why would they think that people may believe this...?

I can't understand this myself. Does this make them popular? Does this make them money? I don't get it.

 

[emeraldking]

I can't understand this myself. Does this make them popular? Does this make them money? I don't get it.

Despite of the fact that we do notice that this is just fake, they do have a lot of hits. I've got my own Youtube channel as well. But I wouldn't have the guts to do something similar. And it wouldn't make me more serious as an aquarist and breeder. But this really stupid to do to use a mix of fancy guppies as you can get them at an lfs. If one would release a mix of fancy guppies into a closed enviroment in free nature, the phenotypes start to look similar in the whole colony at some point. For there's no new blood coming in from other waters when it's a closed enviroment. And they'll revert to wild type guppies after some generations. These in the video are too diverse in phenotype and the long fins are not practical in free nature. That's why wildguppies are short finned and optional extended finrays of the dorsal and outer finrays of the caudal.

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

And it wouldn't make me more serious as an aquarist and breeder.

To be honest I think it would make you less in my eyes.

I do love this type of video(the real versions) though, it's always a pleasure seeing the fish we keep in their natural environment in their more natural colours and groups. It's something I would very much like to experience myself, it's annoying how few I've actually found relating to Gourami, with the exception of Giant Gourami and Bettas.

 

[Ouse]

To be fair, most of the videos you find on YouTube that are filmed in the wild are staged. I once watched a video of someone clearly from and in Southeast Asia building a fish pond. They were made to look like uncontacted people. They usually stock their ponds with African cichlids and other non-natives to S.E.A.

 

[chromedome52]

First, it takes more than a couple of generations for domestic guppies to revert all the way to wild type. However, the sheer number and variety of types that they appear to be collecting suggest recent escapees from a breeding operation. The area they were collecting did not appear closed off, and the description at Youtube referred to it as a river. They are obviously collecting in SE Asia somewhere, so the fish would be classified as feral, not actually wild. Populations of Guppies are widespread for mosquito control, but I would not expect such nice looking domestic specimens.

I did notice only one or two females in the box, but that could have been because they were target hand netting the colorful fish. Had they pulled a seine through the waters, perhaps more females would have been seen/collected.

Overall, I find the whole thing suspicious, but that's because we do not have all the facts about where they are.

 

[Cherryshrimp420]

It's staged. There's a bunch of channels like this, one vid they caught a silver arowana in a stream that was clearly from a fish tank.

 

[CHJ]

If the still for a video is photochopped, just stay away. Their still has small/med koi sized guppies... So there is your warning shot.
Yeah, catching all males, of several different bred varieties, in a small pond.. Selling that as "catching wild guppies" just means they are lying scumbags. I doubt reporting the video will do anything but report it anyway.
Youtube used to try to feed me lots of this garbage and I reported them all, when you couldn't block them.

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

If the still for a video is photochopped, just stay away. Their still has small/med koi sized guppies... So there is your warning shot.
Yeah, catching all males, of several different bred varieties, in a small pond.. Selling that as "catching wild guppies" just means they are lying scumbags. I doubt reporting the video will do anything but report it anyway.
Youtube used to try to feed me lots of this garbage and I reported them all, when you couldn't block them.

WhAt? There are spaghetti trees? I've been so stupid all my life, but not anymore!


But seriously, who would believe that? And also, why isn't it hard? When you buy it it's hard, I guess they didn't think it through.

 

[CHJ]

WhAt? There are spaghetti trees? I've been so stupid all my life, but not anymore!


But seriously, who would believe that? And also, why isn't it hard? When you buy it it's hard, I guess they didn't think it through.

Spaghetti is like beans, hot peppers, split peas and other produce which is dried. The drying helps it last longer at the sacrifice of some flavor. Nothing compares to spaghetti straight off the tree.

 

[SouthAmericanCichlids]

Spaghetti is like beans, hot peppers, split peas and other produce which is dried. The drying helps it last longer at the sacrifice of some flavor. Nothing compares to spaghetti straight off the tree.

That explains it! Now I want to travel there to try some straight off the tree. Have you tried some from the tree?

 

[86 ssinit]

Well, it is sad. I just think to myself why would they think that people may believe this...?

It’s got nothing to do with what people believe it’s just for views. Just saw a video of a pair of $1k discus sharing a tank with a gar! The gar will eat them as soon as it settles into the tank. Next I saw a video of African cichlids sharing a tank with discus and angels. Oh and it was a planted tank! It’s all done for hits/views. Number 1 reason to never believe what is seen on utube .

 

[emeraldking]

It’s got nothing to do with what people believe it’s just for views. Just saw a video of a pair of $1k discus sharing a tank with a gar! The gar will eat them as soon as it settles into the tank. Next I saw a video of African cichlids sharing a tank with discus and angels. Oh and it was a planted tank! It’s all done for hits/views. Number 1 reason to never believe what is seen on utube .

But when I would do something like this, I'd really be ashamed of it...

 

[emeraldking]

No offense. I'm sorry but I just don't buy this to be true. Fancy bettas are caught overhere. No wilds! Same thing as with those fancy guppies in another video by them while they suppose to be wild ones. Such videos may attract people to watch. Which is a good thing for the creator of this video. No problems there... But I don't believe this video to be true... Sorry!