Community Fish Tank vs Species Only Tank: Which One is BETTER?
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- Опубликовано: 10 апр 2022
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In this video we take a closer look at the advantages of both species only tanks and community tanks!
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I recently added two Honey Gourami, one red and one gold, to a heavily planted species only Ember Tetra tank. Only having the Embers in the tank was beautiful, but it lacked a little personality. Not only do the Honey Gouramis have great personalities, but they brought out more personality in the Embers. The Embers seem to really enjoy having them in there. Great video guys, always a pleasure to watch your content!
How fun! And I love the thought of having that similiar color scheme zooming through the tank! I may copy you on that some day!
How many tetras do you have in your tank and what size is it? I was just looking at getting some honey gouramis today but I’m new to the hobby and I’m afraid of overstocking!
@@madisonhanson7244 That would probably be a better question for Jason and Joanna to answer. I know that several of their stocking suggestion per tank size videos feature Honey Gourami or you could hit them up in one of their live streams. Personally, I did 1 Ember Tetra per gallon and one Honey Gourami per 10 gallons in this case because both species stay small and I do heavily planted tanks with fast growing plants that soak up excess nutrients. My tank could be considered overstocked by some, but I think as long as the fish are healthy and happy, you keep up with water changes, have live plants, and stock with fish slowly to let beneficial bacteria keep up...it is okay.
I've been deciding whether I want a species only or community tank and realized it depends on what you're looking for. If you want a tank that focuses on beauty, and has a synchronisation, go for species only. If you want a tank that focuses more on personality and how the fish interact in an environment, go for community
last 25 seconds best part of video. such a relatable situation to be in "i know this word! i swear i can speak!"
I've owned so many types of aquarium fish over the years before taking a break to focus on (and do a proper job) raising kids. I'm glad that I have had those varied fish experiences as I have now returned to the hobby and focusing on species only tanks. For one, I know which fish behaviors I enjoy most based on my personal experience (versus watching a RUclips video - no shade). Secondly, it's a wonderful excuse to get more tanks - I'm grateful that I have the space and means to do so. A community tank is a better choice with limited space and fewer available funds. In the end, whichever you choose (or both), it's a great hobby :)
Community imo. Even if it's only 2 types of fish. More variety and colour and lots of diversity unless the fish need tanks for themselves like shelldwellers and other specialist fish. I tend to slightly overstock my tanks but I do lots of regular water changes and have good filtration
Another great video. My 75 is a community and I am currently setting up a 20L that is for multis only. My first ever species only tank, and I'm so excited. The cycling process is taking longer than anticipated but I think I'll be able to order fish this week after a 3+ week long cycle. Take care.
My favorite part about the species only tank (other than easier to breed) is if I buy all the same fish from one person I don't need to quarantine. Where if I buy either same species from two different places or two different species for 1 tank, i would have to quarantine. Only fish I add to my species only tank is a baby super red bristlenose pleco. But even those I keep an eye on because the will eat other fish eggs.
In my opinion community tanks are way more fun to watch, different fish interacting is so fun to watch
I prefer the "almost species" tank.
Like 90-95% of the fish are of the same species but then theres those few centrepieces.
the 100 tetras schools tighter because they live with a raindow shark and a cichlid who in turn stands out even brighter because they are the only ones not sporting the tank uniform.
How big did that rainbow shark get my guy?
I just started a 20 Long Similis only tank! already starting to see them digging despite how tiny mine are! they've got lots of room to grow!
I've got a video request... how do different types of substrates and hardscapes impact basic water parameters like PH, KH, & GH... so if my tap water not ideal for the fish I want, what natural elements can I add to the tank to help adjust? thanks as always for the great info!
Great topic. I think both are good options for all the same reasons you discussed. Community can offer so much interest. I find that a spend longer viewing time at those tanks. But a species only, especially in a huge school of rummynose or green neons 😉 can be absolutely mesmerizing! As always, happy Monday!!
Shout out to the green neons! 💚💚💚 Woohoo! Yes, good points, Cheryl - Haaaaaappy Monday!
I love the “bloopers”! Keep doing them at the end!
I have both. As ya'll said there's pros and cons to both, but honestly I don't think I could give up my community tanks if push came to shove.
Just watching the various fish doing their fishy thing in a community tank is so cool.
Then again a species only tank you do get to see a lot more natural behavior from that fish.
So yeah, that's why I have both and probably always will.
Have a great week ya'll.
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Both is best! Haha
I personally think a species specific tank is the most beautiful to me to date. That can obviously change with time as I grow. For now I'll try them all 🤟😎💛
Very interesting and informative video thank you.. 🤩
Good topic! Thanks.
Agree 100% that it depends on what you're going for with a particular aquarium. Regarding bettas, I have both of my bettas in with other peaceful fish. I may anthropomorphising, but I think that the bettas are happier and more active being with other fish.
Great content, enjoy that you focus just on the fish. Keep up the good work and all the best to you both. Shout out from Australia
Thank you!
Great conceptual video!!🙂👍🏻😂🤣it’s late here but it’s still Monday…happy Monday guys👍🏻
I have both. A community tank and shrimp species only tank
I have community and species only tanks and I love both.
Your cyprichromis tank looks amazing. I keep them with my Similis. But like the idea of a planted species only now
I was just thinking about this!
Us too - haha
Great video the end is the best.. senior moment...lol..
Thanks For Sharing ✍
I actually have and like both. My 29G is a Community tank with several types of Tetras, Rainbows, and a BN Pleco. I also have a 65G African Cichlid tank that is just Saulosi along with a few Dwarf Petricola for fry control. I love the Saulosi because the single species gives me both blue and yellow in the tank, which are my 2 favorite colors. They are also a Dwarf Mbuna so my tank size works for them.
I also think that a theme works well. For example I intend to convert my 90 gallon to a predominantly catfish tank with 3 medium sized cichlids.
I practically always have kept planted single-species tanks with just a large school of Tetras (Neons, Cardinals, Congos) or Barbs (Six- or Five-banded, Cherry) and always found them stunning to watch. If you choose some colourful, active species it might be almost as varied as a community tank.
I appreciate both. Community for me though. My try other variety one day. My sister did and it was beautiful.
I was planning on a community tank and started with gold white clouds. The used all levels of my 20 gallon long and seemed so relaxed, that I decided to make it a species only tank. They are fascinating to watch
i have only white clouds and shrimp , the whole tank is active , with no hassle
Great choice I have white clouds as well. They dance in the strong stream from the filter, enjoying each other’s company….great little fish….👍🏽
@@pattykake7195 Mine do the exact same thing!
@@tracydas2523 Enjoy ….they are fabulous 😁
Really interesting I definitely like the idea of a single species tank.
I personally like both styles. Right now I have a Bolivian Ram and a bristlenose pleco. I am going to get some harlequin rasboras too, but species only tanks can look great too.
I have both community tanks and species only tanks. My shell dwellers are in species only tanks. My humpback dragon puffer is in his own tank. It depends on the species for me and my goal for the fish.
Bloopers! love it!!!! I have a community tank and I love it, I enjoy sitting on my couch and just watching them zoom about. I also have a species only tank (african cichlids) kind of feels like a community tank since there is such a wide range of colors
Who do you have in your community tank?
@@JacobDaDJ I have 6 rummy nose tetras, 5 cardinal tetras, 3 green neon tetras, 2 guaramis, 5 red eye tetras, 2 corries, 1 bristlenose, 2 ram cichlids, and a siamese algae eater. This is also a planted tank it's fun watching them do their thing
@@Veronica-kz3qt what size tank is it?
@@JacobDaDJ 55 gallon
@@Veronica-kz3qt very cool you sound like a great fish parent
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I did this video a really long time ago. 😀
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Happy Monday, a great concept would be to keep both species only and community tanks ( loved the outtake) 🤣😂
Happy Monday
I will say a neon tetra only tank is pretty cool. Mix in some diamond and gold neon tetras and you have a bit of variety
That would be amazing! 😃
I just love community tanks especially real big communities they are fascinating to watch I can sit there for hours watching a community tank but I cant sit for hours watching a species only tank.
I have a mix 125 - schooling fish - rummy nose, Brilliant Rasporas, danios, silver tip tetras, bronze Cory's, 5 male sail fin Mollys - very active vibrant tank. I wanted a species only Cardinal Tetra (and melini cords, so dual species), but the tetras stayed hidden. Added white cloud minnows for top, cardinals are mid/bottom, The minnows got the tetras to come out - 40 cardinals / 20 minnows in a 40b. I love it. Water temps with the minnows are not 100% compatible, found that out after - but it's working. Have another dual species: Harlequin raspora and X-ray tetra. They are very active - moved the cardinals away from the rasporas - they seemed a little too active in the 32 flex for the cardinals. I think a single species that isn't an "all over tank" can be hard, you can end up with some empty space, especially if its a smaller fish in a larger tank. Love your channel!!
I only have a 10 gallon tank, so a single species tank seemed the most reasonable. I’m focused on some beautifully colored White Clouds, but have 4 tiny rainbow fish, a couple of Cory’s, and a couple of ottos. Not truly a single species setup, but it’s working well.
Go the white clouds….beautiful little fish and so underrated….👍🏽
Community tanks can look chaotic with too many different fish types/behaviour.
Species only tanks looks uniform and calming, especially with the co ordinated movements of the schooling fish…..beautiful…👌🏽
Thank you so much love your videos … I’m setting up a lake tanganyka community tank any advice please thanks again
Dont judge me but I have 100 ember tetras with Sterbai Corydoras and a bunch of different colored shrimps (my skittles box) in my 40 breeder. Sounds like much but they school phenomenally and the bioload isnt as crazy as you think it would be, especially with a bunch of live plants.
I will be giving some embers to my LFS, just gotta get thru the one month quarantine tho.
That’s actually not that bad in that size tank.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics its amazing to see all the fish schooling and begging for food and putting on a show when you walk up to it.
My only regret was that it took so many years to finally do a one type of species tetra tank.
Four of my 6 tanks are community, but I do have two tanks that are mostly one species. One of the others is mostly discus and the other is mostly african butterfly cichlids. I do have some tetra and corys in both tanks.
My community tanks are themed - 110 is a south american cichlid tank, my 45 is a live barer tank, and then the other two are a bit of a mix of things - focused on smaller cichlids.
My 55g is a community tank all is peaceful except the occasional tantrum from my blue gourami lol. For the most part the rest of the tank inhabitants get along just fine. My harlequins are active but pretty chilled but the mollies are so busy all of the time. The plecos I only see after lights out. The Danios are hyper. The frogs are just scouting for food. The gold gouramis just glide around gracefully. The mystery snails are all over the place. It's such a mish mash of activity. I keep bettas mostly males and my species only is my kribensis.
Better to add groups of fish one group at a time so you don’t overload your filtration system with and ammonia spike
Thank you for discussing such a fascinating concept. 😊
Interestingly, here in India, almost all LFSs always tell customers to go for a community tank and never a species only one.
From their point of view…they have to keep all the stock moving not just the current fad species. It’s a business after all.
@@damiangrouse4564 Makes sense
Tank size is also a factor. In a 20-gallon you could comfortably keep 10-15 small tetras with a Bristlenose. In a 55-gallon you might keep 2-3 deferent tetra species in schools of 10-15 each, with a school of Corydoras and a pair of Bristlenose.
I love the idea of a species only tank - I just need 10-20 of them, because there are so many tanks that I would like to do!
Woohoo!
I love this idea! We're definitely going for community tanks for now, but I've seen some gorgeous species-only ones. Our only local fish store is devoted to saltwater, (which is only weird b/c we're in _Northern_ Alabama xD), so I'm hoping y'all can help me. I've googled "(various fish) water parameters", but do y'all know of any good, "go-to fish guy" websites I can use since we don't have a good local freshwater fish store? Thank y'all!! Both of y'all's channels are so helpful to us
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Hey! Thanks as always for a great video. I’ve noticed most of my tanks begin as species-only and quickly become community tanks :).
I just emailed you guys to see if Joanna would like me to send her a few purple and/or magenta mystery snails in case she has some lonely bettas or is interested in doing a small scape with a centerpiece snail. I’m imagining a Godzilla situation scale-wise with that though :).
Anyway, more details in the email but thought I’d reach out here too.
Your 55 lowboy inspired me to do a multy colony. I’m getting tons of them of them now. I have a question. My colony is in a 75 gallon so the top 2/3 of the tank is empty. What would you suggest I could put in the tank to swim on the upper portion that won’t eat the multy fry if there is anything I could put in.
Just about anything you put in there will try to set the fry, but I like Cyprichromis leptosoma. They will eat some fry though.
Always kept a South American themed community tank in the living room. Species only tanks in the fish room, usually for breeding purposes.
Got a 125 Gal Currently with 3 Juvenile Senegal Bichirs with 5 Nerites. Most likely might keep it Bichir only. Love how they look. Would like a fish though to swim around the middle part, not sure what. Pretty Picky on the type of fish. Love the Oddball fish. lmk if you have any ideas!
Filamentosus Barbs?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics oh wow 😮Liking how they look. Shall do my research on them. Thanks!
I have a love for both 💛😎🤟
Me too!
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7:25 Those Black Mollys in that planted Tank are stunning. That aquascape is Mind blowing
Thank you!
Good Morning.
I set my 55 up last August and after the cycle phase I added 8 serpa tetras as my first fish. While these were my only fish in the tank minus a few Cory cats and a clown pleco they would school from side to side up around the driftwood strutting there stuff like almost dancing for me it was beautiful once I added a few swordtails and 3 angel fish they don't do that anymore it kinda breaks my heart. So the moral of the story is adding different species In a tank may change there personalities.
Good illustration!
I have both types of tanks. Very often I find my community tanks are much more busy, fish swimming all over the place, where my species only tanks are more calming to watch (depending on which fish are in it.) I also have my species mixed tanks, like my Gourami tank, all Gourami but different varieties of Gourami. Some fish, like my Polar Blue Cichlids or my Red Jewel Cichlid show so much more color when in a species only tank. Great Video, as always!
Good point!
Im debating if making my flex 15 a planted greenkubatai rasboras or CPD with a group of Pygmy Corydoras and later on put a group of cardina shrimp
All good options
@@PrimeTimeAquatics So need help my substrate it’s black and have some cryps Anubias a Amazon sword want to add some subwassertang would the green kubatai go good or better getting a diffirent color scheme and would adding one honey guarami or sparkling guarami be good or would they attack and try eating them
i have a question about sharks! since you mentioned redtail shark should be the only one of its kind in a tank. Maybe I am getting them confused with bala sharks, but don't they swim in groups? I am so glad you mentioned this. I often notice even the baby red tails at the store sparring, and want to get my info right. Thanks
I like community tanks with a few different species and a large school of something gorgeous, but species only livebearer tanks are almost as great because of all the color in a mutt tank.
Bala sharks are different and you are correct in that they are best in groups!
I have 2 community and 3 betta tanks. I’m dying to get an all white cloud minou tank. I think they are the cutest and like how hardy they are. Just need to find a space for them! I have a 5 gallon ready but I would think they prefer 10?
I mean yeah the bigger the better but 5 gallons is fine.
We love ours!
A _species only_ tank has been a blessing and a curse.
For starters, it is a blessing because my CPD's breed year-round. The curse is that they breed _year-round_ which leads to considerably more work on my end. These tanks were never meant to be "for profit" and yet they net me a healthy sum.
FWIW, my CPD tank only has two other occupants and they are a pair of _Hara jerdoni_ plus a small community of Pink Ramshorn snails. The two "Kitty Sharks" as my wife calls them, have been doing a phenomenal job of keeping the snail population in-check.
For a while I was concerned about feeding the _Hara jerdoni_ being that they are strictly nocturnal. Since I rarely sleep more than four hours at a time, it allows me to spot feed them some thawed brine shrimp in the middle of the night.
Like I said, in the beginning I was deeply worried that they were not getting enough to eat. That was until I found some of their excrement piles with these teeny-tiny snail shells embedded in them. This proved to be a happy accident so to speak.
Although, I do still strive to spot feed them whenever possible. It is, however, nice to know that they can and will sustain themselves if need be.
Nonetheless, I was hoping that the _Hara jerdoni_ would start breeding for me too. But alas, that has yet to happen if it should happen at all.
Stay classy my friends.
Happy Monday I was like number 197 I was late:)
Hi
Could you tell me what the green fish at the 1:38 mark are please?
Are they green rasboras?
They look very nice.
Green Kubotai Rasbora!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics Thank you. They look very eye catching.
Thanks buds 🤜🏻🤛🏻
Concept 😂
Is that aquarium shop in the beginning at 2.50 aquatics unlimited in wisconsin?
Yes!
@@PrimeTimeAquatics I was just there last weekend.... amazing store.
concept.......................................happy Monday
Finally (supply was a problem of course) set the fluval flex 32.5 gallon tank how I like…hatchet fish, otos, white clouds, harlequin rasboras, julii Corys, mystery snails, amano shrimp and the stars of the show Pond Snails (💩). Plants…Yes.
Ps. Forgot the neon tetras and the algae…
That sounds cool!
Excellent perspective (try to pronounce that Jason.....🤣)
Too funny :-)
What's the fish shown at the 5:20 mark. I need to look into them!
Those are Cyprichromis leptosoma.
I dont have issues with keeping multiple rtbs in a tank.
Happy monday?! That's gotta be a US only thing. Anyway good topic :)
No, it's just a Joanna thing. Haha
I have both species only and community, my only pet peeve with community tanks is when some people go to the store and buy two of everything.. This isn't Noah's Ark, some fish need to be kept in schools of six or more, some fish don't do well with two males of the same types.
Can you tell me what the brown and yellow fish at 2:00 is?
There were a bunch of mixed peacocks in that tank? There may have also been some Rainbow Cichlids?
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thanks for the reply! I was off on the timing, the fish appears @ 2:05. Looks like a Triple Tail, but I thought those are a marine species and are known to reach a couple feet in length.
This is how Multi Tank Syndrome gets started! (At least for me lol) Thanks guys great topic!!😁
Ohhhhh yaaaaaa! 🙌🙌🙌
What's the name of the blue fish at 3:55-4:00?
That’s an electric blue Jack Dempsey. I have never had good luck with them.
Bloopers! 👍🏽
When I test my tank I want ammonia, nitrate and nitrite all under 29 ppm ?
You want zero for ammonia and nitrite and less than 20ppm nitrate. That indicates a fully cycled tank.
@@PrimeTimeAquatics thank you
If you want an art piece, go species only. If you want pets, go with a community tank.
sorry i had to say it !!!😇😇😇😇😇
CONCEPT [Kon-SepT]
Too many fish - too little time to take care of them all. I think 4 tanks are my limit...
You say community tanks have fish from different regions of the world with different water parameters. I thought that 95 % of all fish sold to hobbyists are farm raised and have never seen their
natural environment.
Ya, but the farms are all over the world. 😀