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Goliad Farms is a family-owned tropical fish hatchery located in historic Goliad County, Texas. For over 25 years Goliad Farms has produced award winning tropical fish. We only sell fish we raise, and we focus on producing healthy, beautiful fish by selecting the best breeders and maintaining them in a high-quality environment.

African cichlids

Other Fish

Livebearers

Live Foods

Invertebrates

Goliad Farms on YouTube

Charles discusses breeder selection for this species of African cichlid, Aulonocara stuartgranti 'Chiloelo'. He opines on species classification and egg stripping of maternal mouthbrooding cichlids. Spoiler alert, he doesn't like egg stripping. He also releases into the wild (the floor gutter) a fish with an injury so it can live out its life.

Goliad Farms Tropical Fish Hatchery

Charles discusses polyculturing mollies with cichlids and describes how he uses mass selection for size and finnage to improve molly strains.

Goliad Farms Tropical Fish Hatchery

Charles discusses color and size selection in this aquarium strain of livebearing fish, Redtail Black Variatus. He also talks about hifin genetics while setting up two breeding colonies, one of hifin and one of fish with normal dorsal fins.

Goliad Farms Tropical Fish Hatchery

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