All You Need to Set Up Your First Rainbow Fish Aquarium
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- Опубликовано: 21 июл 2024
- Before setting up your first rainbow fish tank, make sure you follow these key steps! Everything you need to know to have success with some of the most colorful tropical fish in the world.
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Bentley, you should have mentioned that they have a small throat, so the food needs to be very small. And they will hunt and kill shrimp too. As to your last question: I have a 75 with a lot of various rainbows, but I have fallen in love with the latest version of wannamensis, (emeralds), and also C. Fasciata Kali Biru. Next spring I am going to get extra females for my males, and put them in separate biotope tanks. What I REALLY want is C. Fasciata, Alleni (Wapoga). Maybe one day!
Your ability to explain so much information in such a smooth flowing manner is amazing. I think I’m about ready to setup my first non-goldfish tank and this was very helpful.
@@andrewgoldfish happy I can help! Thank you for watching!
Such pretty fish. I’m more of a nano fish guy aiming to become a plant guy🙏 but I like that they are good with lots of plants even though their natural environment is so planted. Of course it makes sense that they are at the top of your list
Good Content. Just bought my first rainbows a couple months ago. Picked up 2 pairs each of Aru ii & Threadfin rainbows. Great little fish that are really active and beautiful when the males are displaying. Currently in a 40 gallon breeder although i have a 75 gallon waiting for them.
Just received my first praecox dwarf rainbow fish. They are so beautiful... thank you for this video, gave me a little more insight on these little guys 🤓
I adore my Dwarf Neons, gorgeous smaller rainbow.. great video Bentley!
So glad I found your video! I'm setting up a new tank right now after a few years away from the hobby. Threadfins have always been on my wishlist to keep, but I've always have had some preconceived notion that rainbows are super hard to keep alive for some reason. I will definitely give them a try once my tank is ready. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thank you Bentley! My stand is up and I'm picking up my 55 tomorrow. Im going to the co op today because they just got in some rainbows. Im in love with the dwarf neons and threadfins they have. Plus i need meds. I have an endler with columnaris unfortunately.
Very good and thorough, thanks Bentley
Thank you for this informative video
A nice Saturday morning video. Very informative and on point. Rainbows are pretty fish for sure.
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I have a group of 9 Maccullochi in my 40 breeder, 4 males 5 females. Not the best ratio i know but they are still amazing! These and a group of luminatus i used to have are the only rainbow's I've kept so far. Thanks for the tips Bentley!
Love your content so much. Ty!
Good Rainbow crash course Bentley. Thanks.
Gotta love Bentley Saturday morning videos!
helpful video, thanks Bentley, I am going to try to buffer my tds after watching this, I have a new school of 6 trifasciata in a planted tank with one lone bristlenose, I love my bows colours all green gold but the have red fins very different from the popular boesemani
would love to keep these in the future! amazing creatures
Some great tips on keeping these beautiful animals healthy & happy. 👍
I've 7 dwarf rainbows in a 30 gal along with some tetras and i love them all
Im looking at bosemani and neon rainbows for my first 55 gallon tank... great content.
Great video
Thank you for talking about how much room these speed demons need. Informative video.
I keep my trifasciatus in my 180g - so much fun to watch them fly around the tank after water changes. Or to watch them steal food from clown loaches bigger than them. Thinking of getting some turquoise rainbows for my 40B shell dweller tank...
When I bought mine, the store sold them only in pairs. When I said I wanted 6 females and 4 males, the "fishmonger" looked at me strangely and went to ask the owner. The owner let me have the extra females for free.
Great topic!!!
I have dwarf neon rainbows. They do love their food! I’ve got a 55 gallon I am planning to put larger rainbows in. I haven’t decided which species yet.
Very informative 👍👍
I started with the albino millennium rainbows. I bought one male and two females and they’re beautiful. I was really worried they weren’t going to get along with my Siamese algae eater or vice versa but the four of them seem to tolerate each other pretty well. It really wasn’t an option to put my Siamese algae eater back in my 29 gallon because he has gotten pretty big. I’m starting to stock a 75 gallon of rainbows and I have seven lemon tetras.
Great video 👍🏼. As for my first rainbow fish. I want dwarf neon rainbows
Nice information. I would select Melanotaenia klasioensis in a 125 gallon biotope aquarium.
Good choice! They are a beautiful fish!
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Hello Bentley. I have a pH of 8 but TDS is over 400. What should I be aware of concerning this and related conductivity? I had water problems a few years back but fixed that with the Big Blue double carbon filter. I did water changed religiously untill local water parameters changed. I had one tank with nano fish and everytime I changed water things would die. After things settled down everytime I added a few new fish at least one would die in a day or two? Once I got filter that all stoped? Had been doing good water changes for several years with no problems then boom! Thanks again for info about new Bows at Dan's Fish. Shored up my M.Kiunga and scored some M Komeng river. Excited again after all my previous nightmares with water and Camallanus. Maybe someday when I grow up I can breed some of these and get them out to LFS's. Think alot of hobbyist are still not familiar with Bows and Lord knows how long they take to reach there full glory! Last but not least you can't judge a rainbow by a picture! Have to keep them and BE sure to get good stock for any newbies!
would like to try them again in the future. much bigger group, lots of types and lots of plants
Great video and all the info to start a rainbow collection. How do rainbows do in a community set up with other species of fish?
Typically very well, but they are very boisterous eaters and can, at times, be so fast and eager to eat that other less energetic eaters might struggle to get food. If you keep that in mind and feed accordingly they do very well with a large variety of fish. I've kept mine with plecos, corydoras, otocinclus, tetras, white clouds, danios, gourami and angelfish.
My next bow tank will be Running river biotope style, I was inspired to obtain M. sp Running river by videos on this channel.
Bentley’s got the info 💪
I have a 60 gallon with 10 rainbows all Bosimoni and one Australian. A friend of mine said his Bosimoni rainbows never got any bigger than 4 inches . Kind of hope mine get no bigger than that but if they do I can always rehome a couple.
Hi , there are so many beautifull species but you can have only so many tanks ( and according Fish in iT) My next species would be a tebera ,also because iTS almost available at a fellow clubmember( rainbowfish specific IRG Netherlands ). This makes a big difference in Color and quality. Same as you speak about a rainbowfish comming from Gary Lange.
Ooo a video about rainbowfish! I used to keep boesemani, lacustris, and praecox together. Very wonderful sight and hardy enough to live 6 years up. I put a clump of java moss and they breed quite frequently :) sadly raising the baby is very hard.
I also don’t know how to cure them from fish tbc, which gives them a rotten body look... its sad
It's sadly not curable and rainbows are not very good at fighting it off unlike other fish in the hobby
Hi Bentley
I have a 75 gal, with Dority's Rainbowfish Melanotaenia boesemani Turquoise Rainbowfish, and i just got 6 Neon Dwarf Rainbowfish (Melanotaenia praecox) but there in a 20 gal, but i'm thinking of getting more of them.
Thank you for the Video's.
I know they are a bit different, but I am really loving pseudomugil. I only have luminatus right now, but want more.
I also have the luminatus now. I absolutely love them! Amazing little fish that have so much personality and look so stunning. Have you managed to breed yours?
My dream fish right now is some praecox rainbows, but I wanna wait until I can get a really nice big tank for them, I'm in the midwest and I have liquid rock water, so I think those will be better for me, still trying to learn more about the zillion different species though
Rainbows love that midwest water, the good news with praecox is they're dwarf rainbows, so they don't need as large a tank. Something like a 40 breeder or 55 is perfect for a 15-20 fish sized colony with weekly water changes, or do 10 for smaller water changes.
I just wanna point out some super easy live foods, maybe a little contentious for some people, but mosquito larvae is the best thing ever. I have a fountain out back, but other people use buckets. My tetras sized up and colored up after just two weeks.
The other one is fruit flies, you can get flightless starters at petco, or I just made a trap and caught some. Running the culture is super easy and cheap, if you catch wild ones with wings, just exploit how temps effect them, 15 mins in the fridge and they can't fly, 15 mins in the freezer and they either die or go into hard torpor, perfect for feeding. Daphnia are awesome, but require so much set up and you have to baby them all the time or they crash on you, which they will anyway unless your setup is huge
A great food for adults with the larva, but for fry, they're a little small so it's a risk. I agree if you can cultivate them without issue, they make wonderful live foods for adults. Daphnia is also amazing for juveniles and adults. Great points!
I'm an experienced S. American fish keeper but have decided to go rainbow in my 4ft tank. Figured they'd be a little easier than a 5ft discus tank. I will have to harden my water but I want to start with M. australis or M. duboulayi if I can find some. Hankering after G. wanamensis next. Does this sound OK? I love green fish.
Sounds fantastic!
Bentley - I don't see anything on your channel re the one that looks like a smaller Boesemani looking one or the Praecox.
It would be interesting to get your thoughts on those. For those who are a bit space constrained and can't roll with massive tanks. :)
If you can find aytinjo, they are usually ok as a small group (up to 6) in a 40B or Uter Boesemani. The rarest right now is the Kromsa which max out about 3", so you can do 10 in a 40B or 6 in 20L or 29g.
@@BentleyPascoe What about Praecox?
I would also love to hear about Praecox Rainbows. I am setting up a 55gal 4ft long tank. I am thinking of doing a dozen of them (4 male, 6 female) with some dwarf gourami, and something else (not sure what yet, doing my research). I will be getting my rainbows 1st, then gourami and after that goes well (hopefully) for a few months I will consider what else. P.S. I am kind of a newbie. I have had tanks in the past but it's been a long time for anything bigger than 20gal.
I like to feed crickets and dubia roaches to my rainbows. They are a mouthful but the rainbows LOVE them. Its good for them too.
I went whole hog on them in my 240. Sure,I have the divver fish..Rams,Tetra's Denison barbs and assorted other small fish...but the main attraction are the Boesemani,New Guinea,and Turquoise Rainbows. What I've learned is that Boesemani DO like some greenery in their diets..and will reluctantly nibble on Vallisneria or the softer Hydrocotyle tripartita. But!..they love cooked Spinach no 1. and broccoli,Cauliflower,Zucchini are enjoyed also.
I also see why New Guinea have long pointy noses..they can get to feed that falls between stones and driftwood better than any other Rainbows. Haven't regretted my choice one iota for that tank. I wish it was 500 gallons...and up.
Stan TheObserver ohh i can agree to the veggie part! I sometimes fed mine with seaweed or nori that has been softened, they gobble it up!
Thanks for the info. For the male to female ratio does it have to be with the same specie? For example, would it be ok to put a mixture of 6 different male rainbows with 6 female praecox dwarf rainbows to satisfy the 1:1 or 1:2 ratio? Or would I need two female say bosmani for 1 bosmani male
It does help to be same species, but not absolutely required.
Thinking about a 33 long with some dwarf rainbow fish and plants! Would that be ok?
Should be, just make sure you have lids
I have in 29 galon over 2 year and its work
Would you reccomend housing larger rsinbow fish with slow fancy goldfish?
Not necessarily. Rainbows can be pigs when it comes to food and their speed makes it so they will get a ton of the food and the goldies might not get enough
@@BentleyPascoe thank you for the insight!
ty for this video--mum is wanting to breed them. too many fish to pick from. whats the most popular rainbows?
I would say either Boesemani and Praecox are the big two, with Turquoise, Yellow (Herbertaxelrodi) or Red (Irians or Millennium) would be the mains, with Boesemani by far being the most widely popular rainbow.
@@BentleyPascoe ty, i will look them up and show her. weve been busy playing with the guppies we got from lr bretz today LOL. Her fishy addiction will be as bad as mine soon.
After hesitating for many years over the needs of larger rainbows, I committed online purchase of eight tiny M. lacustrus, turquoise rainbows, and six survived their shipment and arrival in my 29 gallon. They look fabulous after six months, but I worry it won't remain big enough for them. Going larger involves major hauling and reorganizing and huge hassle. How long do you think I have??
I'm trying to decide between a 55 gallon or a 65 gallon. The 3' tank would fit better in my space, but I could make the 4' work. Would half a dozen boesmanii work in the 65 or should I go for the 55? (ps I don't want to go 75 because I'm worried about the floor supporting it!)
Either will do fine for that many boesemani, especially if you get the Aytinjo (often called red boesemani) or Aves Creek.
I have a full grown rainbow shark and a (soon to be returned to LFS) common pleco in my 55. Would 6 boesemani be safe with the shark? He has a rock cave now, but I could probably find enough plants to make him some other sort of hideouts
My primary concern would be aggressive action from the rainbow shark. If the boesemani are larger it's safer, but they are more community fish, so if the shark begins to bully it would be a problem
Could I keep small rainbowfish such as forktail and threadfin in a 30 gallon
Should be fine!
Bentley does the wild habitat have any influence outside of the parameters you are giving? I remember in the full length video you did on Rainbows and the why's of collecting wild fish etc. You suggested some came from drying up rivers or streams. I have a 150 gallon I would like to feature Rainbows in. I want it right before a fish hits the water. My tap pH is 7.4 to 7.6 my Tap TDS is about 230.
I can't be too optimistic as to the diversity of the Rainbow selection up here, but I want it to be a meaningful population.
Rainbows aren't as deeply bred (by raw generations that is) as some of the other aquacultured fish in the hobby, meaning that many of the fish we get are only 5-6 generations from wild and many cases are 2-3 generations. This being said, rainbows can take a wide variety of parameters, the ranges I gave are just playing it safe.
I keep my Goyder River at 16c to 30c (living room temp) my tap water same as yours but I use calcium carbonate in all my tanks. Murray River 8c to 32c outside in a pond - big flower pots however a few years ago when it got to 48c and didn't cool down much for a couple of weeks I lost a lot and had to bring some inside. Temp not a huge issue with many Australian Rainbows, water is - PNG Rainbows temp is important and even fussier about clean water so I don't keep them anymore -- I don't keep fish that need heaters, I prefer a simpler life :)
10-15 minute vids are much appreciated! Thanks!
I can be long-winded, my apologies. I'm going to try for videos like this to keep them under the 15 minute mark so it easier to digest - thanks for the feedback!
What can be stocking numbers for 75 Gallon, you said start with 6 but didn't say how many can we end up keeping. And how fast do baby bosmani grow. And how much trouble can we expect if we keep all male group
This highly depends on planting (if any), filtration, and water changes. You could easily pull off 15-20 Boesemani in a 75g with very good filtration and weekly 50% water changes. Boesemani are a pretty slow grower, expect them to hit roughly 3" in the first year, then slow down, BUT they will grow faster when they have large swim spaces to grow out in and with a good diet.
I have ada soil ph 6.7 kh 5 gh 7 ,i also put co2 in my tank.. i have 4 different rainbow fishes,..only the problem is that my goyder river rainbow.. after i bought 8 , 2 of them died.. i think they dont like co2.. my preacox,western,boesmani,utcheensis dont have problems
Goyder River rainbows are a river fish, they need heavily oxygenated water, higher levels of CO2 can gas them.
Can I just use sponge filters for rainbow fish. I was thinking of setting up a 180 gallon tank with 4 sponge filters with weekly water changes 50%
Yes you can, I have a 75L with rainbows running with 2 sponges and a Ziss, just make sure you have a lot of air going to those sponges to give you some reasonable water flow through each of those filters.
I have a friend with a bloated female praecox. Her vent also looks pinched closed. She also looks constipated, and schools along with the others during feeding time, but won't eat at all. Any ideas? Thanks!
really tough to say, could be constipation, could be a bacterial issue. I would add a little medicinal dose of salt (1 tablespoon per 10g) and see how that helps
I put my Australian Rainbows in my 36g guppy tank because they were small...I have 4 ..3 males 1 female the other female died...they were too small to sex when I got them....but I think I now have 2 more females in my QT tank.. hopefully???..they can move over to my 65g...but right now they seem more than happy..I have a male and female turquoise in the 65g they are both still smallish..I also have 2 male threadfins..they had really bad ick and were dying in the store..I did lose the females but the males are still in a QT tank all better now.their displays are wonderful....I plan on making the 36g a threadfin tank..I am waiting for my plants to grow a bit more before moving the fish around..all my rainbows seem unstressed and they are really showing great colour...they have become bug bite addicts like my angel fish..I hope to pick up a 75g or 125g tank at some point...I would say that if you have them in a community tank like I do..make sure all the fish are fast eaters..because my Australians hover up the food in a second...love your channel..
Rainbows certainly are not shy about eating and doing it fast!
I have a 65g tall tank..is that not recommended for the Boesmani? As it's only 3ft in length.
Should be ok for a smaller group, say 5-7 fish.
I might be reading too much into it..but watching habitat vids..seems like deep body Rainbows prefer lakes and the more streamlined and usually Australian Rainbows prefer a stream and more flow in an aquarium.
Also..they love cooked vegetables. Almost any..or leafy types. Cooked soft and they have a gusto taking big bites out of boiled soft Zukes and Broccoli,Cauli,Corn even . Fun too. Like a super treat for them.
Hi Bentley. Good day!! A quick question. I'm planning to add some rainbow fishes (mix of different rainbows) in my 75 gallon tank which is stocked with some neon tetras and Amano shrimps. Please confirm whether the rainbow fishes will kill Amano shrimp. The Amano shrimps are 1.5 inch in size
Even very large amanos are likely to get picked off by adult rainbows unfortunately
Know this is old but I am waiting to add Goyder River Rainbows!
Hello again Bentley! I’m upgrading my 120g to a 210g within the next couple months for my clown loaches (I’m a clown loach addict, I have 27)
I’m struggling to find a good tank mate for them as I want the top half of the tank to be used as they’re obviously bottom dwellers. I was strongly considering Bosemani Rainbow fish but my set up will have a few flaws from what you suggested in this video.
It would be a low profile hardscape with just wood and rock, no plants, and the temp would be 80-82°F.. do you foresee this as a reason to look at perhaps another fish? Any input would be appreciated. (I have no plans to breed the rainbows and I have no problems with adding way more females than males ^^)
Tiger barbs do exceptionally well with clown loaches and some of the New Guinea/Papua bows can handle that temperature, but they prefer it a little cooler
@@BentleyPascoe i was going to do tiger barbs but they seem to hang lower than the rainbows do. I’ll look into the rainbows you mentioned ty!
would this tank size be ok for boesemani rainbow fish, 43 inch long. 21.6 inch deep, 24 inch high. which is 90 us gallons, its a big tank but only 3.6 foot long
Should do fine for most Rainbows. There are a few of the "biggest" you might avoid, but realistically speaking good for a group of 8-10 full size adults or upwards of 30 younger ones, if you do a group of 10-12 you'd be set.
How long will it take for rainbow fry to reach adulthood or big enough to sell
6 months if you consistently feed baby brine 2-3 times per day for sellable size, early adult is about a year
Boesemani lake Aytinjo would be next for me
Show me all blue n red bosmani rainbows pls
Pls show photos of all blue n red bosmani rainbows pls
Really good information. My tds is 230 out of the tap with a ph of about 7.2. So basically i need to get the larger rainbows however i do keep dwarf signifiers. .
hello
How do you tell a male from female? Especially younger rainbows? I do have a 40 gallon breeder and only want maybe 1 or 2 types in there. I have 2 Australians right now but looking to get a few more. What do you suggest? 4 more Australians?
I would add more yes, 4 is pretty good. To sex, you have to learn how to look at the dorsal fins. Overlapping dorsals should be male, gap or barely touching is more likely female.
@@BentleyPascoe ok. I think I have 1 of each. The one that appears to be male is bigger, more colorful and the first dorsal kinda flows into the next. The other is smaller, not as colorful and the fins don't touch. It's probably hard to sex them as bebes. Petco sells them but they're small. So stick with Australians only then?
rainbows!
I keep those money, Parkinsonian, emerald, millennium, Australian, and yellow Herbert Axelrod day in my rainbow tank. Along with Congo Tetris, Emperor tetras, Corey cats and clown loaches.🐠🦯🦮
Do Rainbowfish need a well seasoned tank?
It helps, but not required
Where can I get quality rainbows? LFS near me just don’t get many varieties and they’re often low quality/diseased fish.
Two great online retailers would be Imperial Tropicals and Wet Spot Tropical Fish. Dan's Fish also gets great rainbows in from time to time and has the best shipping I've ever seen. You can also try individual breeders through Aquabid or the Rainbowfish Live Facebook group
Bentley Pascoe Thanks for the prompt reply-do you or Dean ship fish? 🤔 (nudge nudge wink wink)
@@MW-ut3dk Dean does not. I very rarely do, mostly because my work schedule makes shipping neigh impossible without taking an entire day off and that usually requires at least a month before said day of scheduling.
Is 20galloon ok for a dwarf neon rainbow fish
You can do a smaller group like 6-8 in there, just don't stock too much else
@@BentleyPascoe i think i am very lucky with the water because here in maldives i think it the same as where rainbow fish is from..easy water change for me
Where can I get Gary Lange rainbows?
There are a few places that have Gary's strains like Wet Spot Tropical Fish gets some and Imperial Tropicals. You can also look at Dan's Fish who sources his rainbows from one of the best breeders in the US who gets many fish from Gary or Dan sources his imports from a collecting partner of Gary's out in Indonesia. Otherwise I would look at sellers on Aquabid, if they got their fish from Gary initially, they will usually say that.
@@BentleyPascoe Thank you
I’ve lost 3 rainbows due to a small gap in my lid. I didn’t find them in time due to tank placement and where they landed. 😢
I'm sorry to hear that, it's unfortunately part of many rainbowfish.
Yes,I have been told by others that they have never had rainbows jump out of tank but not the case for me. I had a 41/2 in. fish jump out and sereral smaller fish jump out at night where I left part of strip off? I had water quality problems at the time and may have led to that. Keep covered!
I'm a simple man who love Bosemani. Maybe a millennium
Help please.
I moved my turquoise rainbows from one tank to another and they lost their beautiful blue color, they are almost white.
What can I do?
Make sure the parameters are good - ammonia, nitrite, pH and temperature. Otherwise this is most likely just some stress and should return within a day or so as they settle in.
What’s your web page to purchase plants
I do have a store on getgills: getgills.com/store.product/Bentley_Pascoe; however I don't update often as I've been working like crazy. I'm trying to make some adjustments to make it so I can more reliably have plants for sale through here very soon!
Bentley Pascoe gracias
Setting one up literally as we speak. I have many tanks and breed GBR’s - so not a first timer, yet SO nervous…….
I’d call you right now if I could. Lol.
I bought 5 turquoise, 2 male 3 female turquoise in a 50 gallon
hello guys =) i have fish too haha
I just got 1 male and 3 female
Bosmani
50% a week that’s insane
Hi lol
I want Parkinsoni.