In my experience both neon and cardinal tetras are a very hardy fish, as long as you get good quality, healthy fish to start with. Some of my cardinal are close to 5 years old and still going strong!
Awesome good for you! I definitely agree, if you’re able to find a good quality neon/cardinal then you’re set. However a lot of time they are not keep in great conditions at pet stores and a lot of them die in your tank a few days later. Once you get past that though they are great
I've kept all but 2 of these. Cherry barbs and kuhli loaches. I had 6 peacock gudgeons in my 55g and they are amazing fish. They can be shy but like you said, give them a lot of cover and they'll come out more. They don't like really high flow though. Great video and I'm subbing now
Gourami always gave me trouble, they attack each other if they are more than 2 and they also attack every fish that stays where they make nest, they are especialy problematic if you pair them with a betta. But the rest of the list is pretty good, nice job.
I have 5 dwarf blue flame gouramis in my community tank right now, they've been no trouble since the first couple days when they were fighting over territories (they all wanted caves and only have 2 :(). I agree about the not keeping them with bettas though, I tried to add a betta and before I even got him out of the cup they were all circling him trying to nip him, so now he's in the platy tank instead.
@@peadrianlastname They are usually problematic when there are too much of them or when you introduce fishes that live in the same zone as them or other anabantids. They can be in community tanks, i have them in mine and i love them, but they can be really annoying to keep for these reasons.
@@peadrianlastnameI love my dwarf gourami! He’s the centerpiece of my nano tank, and his behavior is really fun. Especially when he builds bubble nests.
@@Fishman2114 I ended up getting a 20 gallon tall for free from a friend of mine who upgraded his tank, and I wanted to do a community tank with nano fish based around shrimp but I think I might just buy a small 10 gallon and do a shrimp tank alone.
That’s what I did for my cherry shrimp, for the 20 gallon you could also have some phoenix or chili rasbora. If you wanted something more active than the celestial pearl danio would be your best bet. If you wanted some bottom feeders a school of either kuhli loaches, panda or Pygmy cories would do great
As a beginner fish keeper i would personally avoid most gouramis, especially those from the trichogaster genus, so three spot, opaline, blue. Even to some degree the pearl/mosaic. These can be bullies to members of there own species or even other smaller similar sized fish. If you have the space go with 3 or 4 kissing gouramis. If not go for the sparkling or croaking gourami, tricopsis vittata. If you are an experienced aquarist go for the challenge of the chocolate gourami a very beautiful fish, hard to come by and Even harder to care for. Great video all in all. Kuhlis are very underrated imo. Also along with the cherry barb its well worth picking up the checker barb as well Barbus Oligolepis i think.
The Pearl Gourami in my experience is one of the best beginner fish. Compared to their cousin the dwarf gourami they are totally not aggressive! Can live with any small to medium sized community fish without any fear of aggression. I so love Corys!
I have a question for these fish. What would be a better substrate? Gravel or sand? I notice in this video it’s mainly gravel but in some pet stores I’ve seen sand for substrate. So what substrate do you think would be better?
@@stevenliu8671 between the two realistically sand is better for the tank, but harder to maintain. I actually like to do a combination of both within my tanks.
They definitely get really crazy durning feeding. Gouramis I’ve always found to hog a lot of the food for themselves. Not a big deal as long as the other fish get access to the food 🤷♂️
@@Fishman2114 he’s a very a fun fish. Lots of personality. Right now his only tank mates are Cory cats and they have no issues. I want to add something else eventually. Hoping we won’t get aggressive when he has other fish that hang around the middle/top. Feeding time he is hilarious. My daughter named him Stitch because he goes wild for food.
@@Fishman2114 not an overly large one. Fluval Flex 15. I thought about doing some chili rasbora in the future. He’s got the whole mid to upper portion of the tank to himself right now.
Ho from Singapore! I subbed. I find Peacock Gudgen jump and need a lid. Love bettas in a big tank. Apparently red betta tend to be the most aggressive. I jad a psychotic red female. She was insane! Now prefer to breed wild types.
All good choices, but I have to disagree with gouamis as they can be pretty aggressive, even under the best circumstances. I still remember one incident of a dwarf gourami constantly going after some albino cories that were in the tank, which is a very unusual case but shows how unpredictable they can be I'd definitely recommend honey gouramis though, only issues they're likely to have is with each other
I included the honeys with them. I loved my red honey gouramis when I had them. In my aquarium tier list video I put the standard dwarf gouramis in B and the honey gouramis in S so I definitely agree.
Hey mate, please suggest me something. In my tank, there are 2 guppy 1 zebra daino, 5 glow tetra, 3 red eye tetra and 1 pleco whenever i put 2 neon tetra in that tank glow tetra and red eye tetra start chasing them, is there any solution to this?? I want them in that tank for around 1 month
@@golumishra33 Alright so it seems like they are just establishing a pecking order in the tank. The size of the tank is decent, but what I’d say would help is if you had a large group of one of the schooling fish to meditate aggression. They also just tend to be happier and live longer in larger groups. My suggestion would be to keep the pleco and guppies and choose one of the schools to keep.
I have a 125 gallon tank and about to start over with my tank. Right now I have about 5 tetras, 1 cory catfish, and 1 upsidedown catfish. I had a common pelco in there about 3 years ago but he passed away. With my size tank I'm sure most people would put bigger fish in but I want community friendly fish. With my tetra's and the fish you mentioned I would think I would need like 70 fish in my tank. I just hate buying fish and within a week half of them are dead. The fish I have now have been in my tank for at least 8 years. It's frustrating that these guys last so long while fish I get at an aquarium store die so quick.
@@JoyStickJester_ I definitely like your style. Big tanks mean you can keep more little fish in them! I’d definitely recommend getting some more cories for that one guy
I keep two honey gourami's in a 20 long, male/female pair, only other fish in the tank are 2 clown plecos, as a pair they get along great until they mate, then I remove the eggs to a grow out tank and separate the female for a few days in to a 5 gallon, before putting her back in
Yeah a lot of fish can get touchy and aggressive like that when they are getting ready to or pairing. Sounds like you do everything right though with separating them from the tank. What do you do with the eggs?
@@kamalv6186 Kinda left them out of this list because of their tendency to rapidly breed and over populate a tank. I definitely don’t have a problem with guppies, but they aren’t in my top ten community Aquarium Fish List. They are in another one of my lists’ though 👀
Nice top 10. Thanks for sharing. Cheers
Thanks for watching!
In my experience both neon and cardinal tetras are a very hardy fish, as long as you get good quality, healthy fish to start with. Some of my cardinal are close to 5 years old and still going strong!
Awesome good for you! I definitely agree, if you’re able to find a good quality neon/cardinal then you’re set. However a lot of time they are not keep in great conditions at pet stores and a lot of them die in your tank a few days later. Once you get past that though they are great
I've kept all but 2 of these. Cherry barbs and kuhli loaches. I had 6 peacock gudgeons in my 55g and they are amazing fish. They can be shy but like you said, give them a lot of cover and they'll come out more. They don't like really high flow though. Great video and I'm subbing now
Awesome glad you enjoyed it! Welcome to the channel!!!
Gourami always gave me trouble, they attack each other if they are more than 2 and they also attack every fish that stays where they make nest, they are especialy problematic if you pair them with a betta. But the rest of the list is pretty good, nice job.
I have 5 dwarf blue flame gouramis in my community tank right now, they've been no trouble since the first couple days when they were fighting over territories (they all wanted caves and only have 2 :(). I agree about the not keeping them with bettas though, I tried to add a betta and before I even got him out of the cup they were all circling him trying to nip him, so now he's in the platy tank instead.
@@peadrianlastname They are usually problematic when there are too much of them or when you introduce fishes that live in the same zone as them or other anabantids. They can be in community tanks, i have them in mine and i love them, but they can be really annoying to keep for these reasons.
@@peadrianlastnameI love my dwarf gourami! He’s the centerpiece of my nano tank, and his behavior is really fun. Especially when he builds bubble nests.
I have a single blue gourami in my 55 gal community tank and it does fine prob cause it’s a female they tend to be less
Aggressive
Keep only females
starting my first aquarium ever, but I have been absolutely lost on what to add and this video helped a lot! thanks!
Of course! What size aquarium are you thinking to get?
@@Fishman2114 I ended up getting a 20 gallon tall for free from a friend of mine who upgraded his tank, and I wanted to do a community tank with nano fish based around shrimp but I think I might just buy a small 10 gallon and do a shrimp tank alone.
That’s what I did for my cherry shrimp, for the 20 gallon you could also have some phoenix or chili rasbora. If you wanted something more active than the celestial pearl danio would be your best bet. If you wanted some bottom feeders a school of either kuhli loaches, panda or Pygmy cories would do great
Cory's are cute as a button, love then and the ol sucker too, but Cory's are just way more fun to admire imo
I like Cory’s a lot
They are just cool especially a group of them
yes together with loaches they are so fun to watch
Awesome list. Neon tetras are my personal favorite. I'm thinking about getting some cherry barbs.
You should! I think that their colors really go well with the bright reds and blues on the neons. Be sure to get more females than males though!
As a beginner fish keeper i would personally avoid most gouramis, especially those from the trichogaster genus, so three spot, opaline, blue. Even to some degree the pearl/mosaic. These can be bullies to members of there own species or even other smaller similar sized fish.
If you have the space go with 3 or 4 kissing gouramis. If not go for the sparkling or croaking gourami, tricopsis vittata.
If you are an experienced aquarist go for the challenge of the chocolate gourami a very beautiful fish, hard to come by and Even harder to care for. Great video all in all. Kuhlis are very underrated imo. Also along with the cherry barb its well worth picking up the checker barb as well Barbus Oligolepis i think.
The Pearl Gourami in my experience is one of the best beginner fish. Compared to their cousin the dwarf gourami they are totally not aggressive! Can live with any small to medium sized community fish without any fear of aggression. I so love Corys!
Everyone loves the Corys 😂
Pearl gourami jump....
I have a question for these fish. What would be a better substrate? Gravel or sand? I notice in this video it’s mainly gravel but in some pet stores I’ve seen sand for substrate. So what substrate do you think would be better?
@@stevenliu8671 between the two realistically sand is better for the tank, but harder to maintain. I actually like to do a combination of both within my tanks.
Gravel at the bottom for plants to gain root, but you can cover this with sand or even peat if you are feeling adventurous.
I must have gotten lucky. My powder blue dwarf gourami seems super cool with tank mates . He only gets a little crazy during feeding.
They definitely get really crazy durning feeding. Gouramis I’ve always found to hog a lot of the food for themselves. Not a big deal as long as the other fish get access to the food 🤷♂️
@@Fishman2114 he’s a very a fun fish. Lots of personality. Right now his only tank mates are Cory cats and they have no issues. I want to add something else eventually. Hoping we won’t get aggressive when he has other fish that hang around the middle/top.
Feeding time he is hilarious. My daughter named him Stitch because he goes wild for food.
@@ReversedCentaur what size tank is it?
@@Fishman2114 not an overly large one. Fluval Flex 15. I thought about doing some chili rasbora in the future. He’s got the whole mid to upper portion of the tank to himself right now.
Ho from Singapore! I subbed. I find Peacock Gudgen jump and need a lid. Love bettas in a big tank. Apparently red betta tend to be the most aggressive. I jad a psychotic red female. She was insane! Now prefer to breed wild types.
Good to know with the jumping; all of my tanks but the shrimp one has a lid so it’s not an issue for me. Welcome to the channel by the way!
All good choices, but I have to disagree with gouamis as they can be pretty aggressive, even under the best circumstances. I still remember one incident of a dwarf gourami constantly going after some albino cories that were in the tank, which is a very unusual case but shows how unpredictable they can be
I'd definitely recommend honey gouramis though, only issues they're likely to have is with each other
I included the honeys with them. I loved my red honey gouramis when I had them. In my aquarium tier list video I put the standard dwarf gouramis in B and the honey gouramis in S so I definitely agree.
Hey mate, please suggest me something.
In my tank, there are 2 guppy 1 zebra daino, 5 glow tetra, 3 red eye tetra and 1 pleco whenever i put 2 neon tetra in that tank glow tetra and red eye tetra start chasing them, is there any solution to this??
I want them in that tank for around 1 month
@@golumishra33 Well how big is the tank?
@@Fishman2114 2ft long 1ft width 1ft height
@@golumishra33 do you know how many gallons?
@@Fishman2114 15 gallon approx
@@golumishra33 Alright so it seems like they are just establishing a pecking order in the tank. The size of the tank is decent, but what I’d say would help is if you had a large group of one of the schooling fish to meditate aggression. They also just tend to be happier and live longer in larger groups. My suggestion would be to keep the pleco and guppies and choose one of the schools to keep.
I have a 125 gallon tank and about to start over with my tank. Right now I have about 5 tetras, 1 cory catfish, and 1 upsidedown catfish. I had a common pelco in there about 3 years ago but he passed away.
With my size tank I'm sure most people would put bigger fish in but I want community friendly fish. With my tetra's and the fish you mentioned I would think I would need like 70 fish in my tank.
I just hate buying fish and within a week half of them are dead. The fish I have now have been in my tank for at least 8 years. It's frustrating that these guys last so long while fish I get at an aquarium store die so quick.
@@JoyStickJester_ I definitely like your style. Big tanks mean you can keep more little fish in them! I’d definitely recommend getting some more cories for that one guy
I keep two honey gourami's in a 20 long, male/female pair, only other fish in the tank are 2 clown plecos, as a pair they get along great until they mate, then I remove the eggs to a grow out tank and separate the female for a few days in to a 5 gallon, before putting her back in
Yeah a lot of fish can get touchy and aggressive like that when they are getting ready to or pairing. Sounds like you do everything right though with separating them from the tank. What do you do with the eggs?
tyfs! regarding the cories - is there one that doesn’t mess with stem plants?
great video, tgif 🥂
@@mommymarz I’m sorry I have no idea what tyfs or tgif mean 😂
@@Fishman2114 it’s okay. it’s: thank you for sharing & thank God it’s Friday lol.
Neons don't live as long anymore, now that they're bred in Florida. Harlequin Tetras and black skirts I'd say are better
@@XDeminox Not a big fan of black skirts but I do absolutely love my harlequins. They’re doing well too because they are beefy!
Liked and subbed. I would add Otocinclus to my top ten. Peace
I’ve never owned them, I definitely want to keep them in the future
Cherry barbs are the best in my personal opinion there beautiful
They are definitely the best barbs out there if you ask me
Bro you missed the guppies
@@kamalv6186 Kinda left them out of this list because of their tendency to rapidly breed and over populate a tank. I definitely don’t have a problem with guppies, but they aren’t in my top ten community Aquarium Fish List. They are in another one of my lists’ though 👀