Best Nano Fish & Invertebrates For ANY Fish Tank (This vs. That)

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[@dcphifer4307]

How much Easy Green for a 1.7G and a 6.6G kit tanks that I now use for Quarantine?

[@rebecca.reece84carter23]

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[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

amano shrimp are virtually indestructible. i found one still alive in barely any water inside a used tank i found by a road where it had been for over 3 days. i was so shocked to find it and rushed it to a spare tank where it is alive and well

[@jascemarie33]

😅😅 That's so awesome! But I'm just imagining someone panicking to save the amano and it's in the tank like, "it's cool man, I'm chillin."

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

@@jascemarie33 true. impressed that it survived considering that i live in the uk and the temps were under 6c

[@jascemarie33]

Lol that shrimp really was "chillin!"

[@anthonyamurri9278]

And yet I can't keep them alive lol

[@_VANDAL_-]

​@@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030I like your avatar but the lips aren't big enough

[@mattwest8073]

I really like this Irene and Zenzo duet since they both keep such different fish!

[@ccsorn]

Love the callab format of this video. Having you two respond to each other and ask some questions made this video great.

[@KatieDeGo]

I second this!!!

[@TazawaTanks]

Thank you!😊

[@joshnone6264]

I dropped a narite snail under my stairs whilst moving some wood once and it was there over a month when I found it and I put it in the tank as a joke to see if it would come back to life forgot about it and then saw it later on doing laps around the tank and it's still alive today🤣

[@dcphifer4307]

Hi Irene. Like you, I like the Khulis... I got 2 Black/Chocolate Kuhli to see how they get along with my Betta. Taylor. My Betta lets them accidentally bump into him when they do their Kuhli Happy Dances. I took my tank apart to remove the Fluval Stratum under the gravel because of how it affected my water parameters. Since the Kuhli are soo fast. I ended up putting them in the Quarantine Tank alone and placing Taylor in the 1st Betta kit tank that I got which was only 1.7G until I got the larger tank re-scaped. First the Kuhli in, then put Taylor in. Taylor swam over to the Kuhli who were doing their Happy Dances and the Kuhli danced around him as if they were glad to join him again. He just hung out with them. I tell you Irene, it got me a bit teary seeing old friends be reunited. It was only a few weeks thst they were apart, and they have only been together since December... but, I really like these Black/Chocolate Kuhli. Irene, from 1980 til 2005, I have a big Gourami Tank. I was injured and gavevut away. Now, I am back having fish at 70. Once this 55G Aquarium is up and balanced, I will add a Dwarf Power Blue Gourami and one of the Yellow Gourami to this tank. They were my favorites. And, as far as Nerite Snails, I got them because of Z's recommendation in a prior video. Taylor my Betta, only since 10/27/2022 was my present to myself on my 70th birthday... so, this growing fish family will revolve around him.

[@MsAlison74]

I love both of their picks but im with Irene on the Kuhli Loaches. They are definitely my favorite fish and the whole reason I started in the hobby. A huge Thank You to Irene for introducing them to me a few years ago!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@WastrelWay]

I had a very strange (you might think) tank with a Kuhli loach, a bullfrog tadpole and a fire-belly newt. At one end there was a structure of rocks with a flat rock on top, so the newt could climb out of the water. My homemade undergravel filter poured water out on the rock. It was room temperature and natural light. I fed them worms. It took three years for the tadpole to become a frog. One morning he was sitting on the rock. I let him go in the creek. I had to move, anyway. Arnie, the loach, did not survive the move. 😞 By the way, the Kuhli loaches I see these days are not very much like an eel, like Arnie was. They look more like catfish.

[@jacobpugh592]

Glad they mentioned how the honey gourami can bully each other. I thought they were so peaceful and so i added 3 to a 20 gallon heavily planted tank thinking theyd make a great addition but they fought each other way too often. But a single one in a tank that size with corrydora and ember tetra did great.

[@MIKoenig44]

I really enjoyed the originality of the format of this video

[@joelrichardson11]

Oto cats are my favorite all time. I couldn't tell you why, I just really love those fish.

[@somedude2455]

Horned Nerite Snails, genus Clithon, are a better alternative for a snail. They eat algae at the same amounts as regular Nerites, but HNS lay very few eggs.

[@GirlTalksFish]

Ooo I'll have to try them out.

[@CricketsMa]

So fun to consider the choices of both of you! I have 1 tank, with a very stable population, so don’t expect to be purchasing more inhabitants any time soon. Darn! Think I’ll save this vid for future reference. Thanks Irene and Zenzo! Very helpful video.

[@dawnt6791]

SO agree about the chilis! I've got my first school right now, and I adore them. They're not the least bit flighty/spooky. Very personable and forward little fish, and their colors are gorgeous, especially when they reach maturity. I have a gold honey gourami in one of my nano tanks with a school of ember tetras and a group of cherry and amano shrimp. She hunts shrimplets but otherwise is very peaceful.

[@legionaquatics]

I like the video cause you guys are on a actual live call and it’s good to hear from both of you guys, please make more videos like this.

[@Curtis.StMartin]

I breed Hillstream Loaches and it's somewhat of a misconception about them eating algae. Sure they will eat some off the glass. I have about 75 - 80 in a 20 long and there's pretty much algae everywhere, they rarely eat it off plants.

[@Curtis.StMartin]

@user-su9gp3bu3j I'm replying

[@angiemoore1741]

What a fun video. Hearing Zenzo and Irene share their favorites in each category was so very interesting. Great choices from both!

[@lecompteman5810]

You guys do such a great job. Thank you!

[@Tazalanche]

I've kept chili rasboras & pygmy cories, neocaridina shrimp, CPDs & Emerald Dwarf Rasbora for over 5 years. They're all currently in a heavily planted low tech 55 gallon. My chili rasboras tend to stay in the top third of the tank. The pygmy cories tend to take the bottom two thirds of the tank, regularly resting on plants. My midwater is usually filled out with the CPDs & Emerald Dwarf Rasbora. By the way, the chili rasboras are awesome to watch as they swim around the tank when in a school of over 40!

[@razmiihsan8897]

So much information. Thank you for sharing them.

[@chriscyr4982]

Fun video, couldn't pick who I agree with more, all the choices were phenom ! Love the 'Clown Goby' surprise ! I've never kept them and now the appear on my list .....way to go guys, cool video !!!

[@markfranklin8831]

Great video I love both of y'all's opinions thanks for sharing

[@DeformedDevices]

Really like this back and forth format. Both did a great job not rambling and having a lot of fluff. Great dynamic.

[@micahlovesjesus3437]

Loved this video! I got some great ideas for my aquarium!

[@dcphifer4307]

Great talk. Thanks to both of you.

[@KatieDeGo]

This was a great video!!!

[@juliaheinritz3264]

Great video! Very interesting!

[@nyraven125]

Awesome collaboration video. You should definitely do more🎉

[@jrperez1840]

Great list

[@tonyamoony]

You Guys are a great team! Thank You ❤👃

[@Aceinpolar]

Might not be a popular pick but i really like cherry barbs, especially a fully matured male has some amazing colors. also the color variation is nice between the male and females

[@SkyForce6700]

Why do you say it is not a popular pick? I see plenty of them for sale here in Sweden so here they are popular!

[@HJ-pm2dx]

I've got a tank with emerald barbs and I love them so much! Within days they learned I was the yum bringer, and will flash and dance when I come into the room. Great fish, hope I can get mine to breed.

[@somdov]

Good video format

[@bunnyfishstories]

This was such a fun video to watch, I really enjoyed the more free form, back and forth format. Amano shrimp were my first ever shrimp, itching to keep them again at one point. There are so many fish on this video I'd really like to try though!

[@Turnerfamilyaquatics]

Those bumble bee goby's look sweet!

[@jaxxonfishroom]

Great video and information

[@johncameron4194]

Great list you two

[@oscaryikes9822]

I love nano aquariums, mine are so fun to watch esp because I don't have the space for a big one. Love your channel too it's v helpful

[@jigokutsuushin]

I found myself in between! Some categories agreed with Irene and others I went for Zenzo's choices. My favorite algae eater, though, is the Panda Garra. Very active and has the yellow-black stripes similar to the bumblebee goby.

[@pencilpauli9442]

They're all sweet choices!

[@HJ-pm2dx]

love, love, love all things Goby. I have 3 stiphodon (orange fin) gobies, and I love the heck out of them. They are never bothered by their larger, scary tank mates (I have nothing that would eat them, but most fish their size just hide at that point) They are fearless! They always look so cranky, and yet they always come up to the glass and check me out when I come by, sometimes they show off to beg for food. Great personalities for such a tiny fish.

[@Madmaxx600]

Great video!

[@CarolynnMc01]

I enjoyed this video! I have Chili Rasbora and a couple honey gourami in my 30 gallon along with some CPD's and a few others. The 2 Honeys have always been together. They seem to interact ok together. They will approach each other and use their feelers, one will chase the other then it goes in the opposite direction. That doesn't last long, and they aren't nipping each other. It looks like more of a game than aggression. My chili's and CPD are outgoing.... they area always looking for me to feed them when I approach the tank. I have Nerites and gobs of cherry shrimp in the tank, as well as 9 coreys. . Everyone co-exists peacefully. I love the tank!

[@kurtisstutzman7056]

Good stuff...! Keep it up and go enjoy some nature today...!

[@brianfpv623]

YOU Both are GREAT !

[@Brentor14]

I absolutely love pea puffers hands down in my top five fish

[@stevecox8066]

Thanks to Zenzo for pointing me to this video. I asked for a collaboration between him and Irene as non-resident employees of Aquarium Co-op and viola...it was already done. Great stuff. Especially Hillstream, Khulis, Shrimp, and Honey Gourami!!

[@cosmoplakat9549]

My fav mid-water nano fish is the ember tetra. They're so beautiful, and they're friendly, too! I have two favorite invertebrates - nerite and mystery snails and neocaridina shrimp (all tied). Currently have one of each snail in my 20L and they're doing great! I feed a little extra for them at the bottom, and nerite also loves to scour the wood, while mystery tends more to the plants and glass.

[@Jnssing]

Good vid, I haven't heard of rosy loaches before.

[@lurklingX]

1:11 hahaha!!!!! that's just like me! i found that endlers were the smaller things in guppy tanks and i like them way better. i like the tiny size, form factor, but also the WAY THEY SWIM. the guppies are all waggle-waggle and i kind of don't care for watching it. tho i did just get some of both, and that's part of what i'm learning. the gupps are bright yellow though, so i had to give it a shot.

[@fili91]

I acquired 3 hillstream loaches for my 55 gallon tank a year ago and they are awesome at eating algea. I feed them frozen blood worms every 3 days and that keeps them nice a healthy. I highly recommend them.

[@robweis9]

I'd go with habrosus corys over pygmy corys for any tank over 5 gallons. They don't get much longer than the pygmaeus but they have the build of the larger cories. Nerites are great but one per unless you want eggs all over your hardscape. Nano oddballs a lot of people don't know about - Darters - great personalities and they don't need a heater. The ultimate nano goldfish substitute is the dwarf platy. If you're looking for a nano anabantid not everyone's seen before coccina complex bettas, licorice gouramis, and smaller paternal mouthbrooding bettas like channoides or antuta are a lot of fun.

[@chrisdavidson3180]

Love me some Bumble Bee Gobys. Right on w the Chilies taking time! also make sure they are Chilies, been sold Phoenix Rasboras a couple of times.

[@kristaaustin3803]

Girl you loach crazy!!! It’s cool, I’m glow fish crazed, even if I shouldn’t be … lol Pristella are just so peaceful and I love the green and purple… I love the natural ones too, they are very peaceful, great for a meditation room.

[@GenRN]

I’ve had all these and have most of them now… except for the hatchet fish and green neons. Great picks! My favorite livebearers is variatus platy, they don’t need a heater. I used to look at them as very boring but I’ve revisited them and they have grown on me.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

they also make good control for staghorn algae

[@nickclickz2327]

platinum ricefish are a really cool top dwelling fish !!

[@droeksonfishkeeping]

Nice tag team you got going there. For small tanks, my algae eater of choice would be Otocinclus. Peaceful, small, quietly goes about its business, hard to beat.

[@bennydufresne8994]

My favorite nano bottom dweller is the Asian Stone Mini Catfish!!

[@lynnbonica4342]

Loved the style of this video. What kind of food would you recommend for the Pygmy Corys? I've read that you need to put a piece of cuttle bone in your tank with Nerite snails. They need the calcium for their shells, or they'll get white patches on their shells where it starts to thin and deteriate.

[@skydivertanner]

Love my blue axelrodi rasbora and ruby tetras in my 20 long. The ruby tetras have such a unique personality, while the blue axelrodis just give that nice blue pop with a little red

[@HJ-pm2dx]

You have a rarity tank. You should make a video highlighting it, cause a lot of us fishkeepers will not find these fish to buy-so we can only enjoy them if you share them with us. You'd have my sub if you did.

[@dillonbaker5978]

Zenzo you should do a video with fish tank review next I also love these duet videos I saw girl talks fish on there before but I think that would be a great video as well

[@dillonbaker5978]

@user-su9gp3bu3j Thank you so much ☺️

[@ninakatzman1657]

neon green rasbora , borneo sucker, ember tetra, white wizard snail, black khuli loach , dwarf pencil fish

[@M29WeaselDriver]

I wish I could find a place to buy marble hatchet fish They look so cool!!!

[@tjohnson7950]

Fun-tasic stuff....... So naturally i have to keep them all.

[@qcaquaholic]

I wouldn't say that I agreed or disagreed with either, but I was pretty spot-on on guessing what Zenzo and Irene would choose.

[@mikefisher4834]

I’ve never had green neon tetras as a school but I’ve gotten a few on accident over the years in schools of regular neons

[@WesCrockettCA]

Great video. Sadly, my Honey is currently suffering from dropsy. I have read they have pretty poor genetics. I'm not sure what I'll be replacing him with...

[@MLGodzilla]

Big fan of scarlet badis probably my favorite nano fish

[@omkaringalgi]

What about CPDs?

[@marchean83]

Love my Betta female. She's gorgeous, curious - always in patrol mode, and bold.

[@Cichlid_4_ever]

When it comes to the repashy there’s more than one. And never been to sure which ones to use for which fish. I tried the soilent green is a big one fish love. But that’s all I own. How do they differ on diet preferences?

[@coen591]

Can you keep big Amano shrimp together with dwarf pufferfish? Thanks for a great video 😊😊😊

[@marielaavila9182]

Not for long. In my experience, once the pea puffer one year, they have murdered everything in my tank. They are not called murder beans for nothing! They are also a shoaling fish. They need to be kept in groups of 6 or more. So, minimum a 20 gallon. All of my peas ate my shrimp, even my amanos 😔 But I love them.

[@nickbailey5201]

I prefer the borneo loach rather than the hillstream loach just because they have a bit of blue in their fins

[@bentleytelles7295]

Could I keep red cherry shrimp chili rasboras two nerite snails and one male honey gourami together in my twenty gallon fish tank?

[@Kat-hs2ij]

Thank you! Right on time but I still struggle. I have a fluval chi which isn't the best tank size plus it's vertical but I want something else than a betta or red cherries since I already have both in a 15gal. I really wanted a single honey gourami with some snails in there but I'll feel guilty to put it in such a small tank. Any recommendations..?

[@kbpm2678]

Considering the weird dimensions imo the best thing is probably a betta or make it a shrimp tank.

[@ejcombs]

I missed the type of fish Irene mentioned in the first segment about live bearers. What did she say?

[@user-bo1kj8pt4p]

I want to keep a pea puffer fish on my tank, please suggest me the tank mates could survive since I read they eat many other nano fishes.

[@jackbossick3767]

How many nano fish can I put in a ten gallon? I want to do a planted tank with Pygmy corydoras and possibly some shrimp. I can do both in separate tanks since I traded a 20 for a 10 so now I have two tens. Bu lt I just don’t want to have them super crowded. Also I was thinking of doing some guppies with corrydoras and maybe a few rocket fish

[@gee7295]

ember tetras! in my experience they stay so small, not even an inch. beautiful color against the green in planted tanks

[@BornAgainFarmGirl]

🙋🏽‍♀️ Question- where can I purchase the package of those blood worms 🪱? Thanks

[@jennifermartin506]

Will angle fish eat the shrimp?

[@Elemen56]

Where can I get hillstream loaches? I live near New York City and I can’t find any anywhere

[@peacockfeathers7409]

i love hillstream loaches, but i think they need 30 gallons at minimum

[@ana-bananainca790]

I made the newbie mistake of adding 25 ghost shrimp to my 10 gal betta and (2)dwarf African frog tank. I was excited because a couple of the females were berried and I was looking forward to watching the life cycle of my new friends. I got q quick ghost shrimp explosion & was so happy until I started noticing a decline but not very actual bodies. Initially concerned about the betta - but he’s really docile and old. He’s more interested in the bloodworms & brine shrimp I feed him than live tank mates- I’ve accidentally kept 13:27 guppy fry with him (moved in with floating plants) he seemed sad when I removed them so I added 3 back as grow out tank & they made it out fine. What I didn’t consider was the tiny frogs. I was impressed with their growth spurt- even my husband noticed they doubled in size after I added the ghost shrimp. A month after I added the shrimp they were all gone! Pooof. No bodies.. nothing but two fat happy tiny frogs. I feel awful. So now you know how to fatten your DAF. And kill off ghost shrimp 😢. I’m scared to buy any more because besides the million and one guppies/ endler’s I also have Raphael cat fish in another tank, red tailed lizard cat fish, different types of Cory’s , dwarf Cory’s , khoolie loaches, yoyo loaches, gold Chinese algae suckers (before Purchaes before learning a lot of people don’t like them. I haven’t had a problem but lives them into 40 gal breeder with male guppies and endler’s. I guess I can make one of the ten tanks guppies and ghost shrimp only? ❤Thank you for all you two do- I’ve learned so much from you both this last year.

[@bentleytelles7295]

In my opinion you could do a ghost shrimp and guppy tank because ghost shrimp are pretty large and I think they would be happy

[@gregorycalizaire]

I have 12 chili rasboras and they all hide behind the java moss I have in the tank. Had them about 6 months

[@lostsoulsthc7137]

Paused @4:00 to say I hope something I have is in this video, I have orange/gold and orange/platinum koi guppies, Chilli rasboras, green neons and glowlight neon tetras sparkling gouramis and khuli loaches with breeding populations then 4 young L010a red whiptails that have yet to succeed in breeding and remnants of a few other schools 1 gold and 3 black neon tetras 5 cories 3 gold Lazer 2 sterbai and 2 dwarf ottocinculus had a bully in the tank and didn't realize

[@lostsoulsthc7137]

Have shrimp in a salt setup as we can't get freshwater tropical shrimp in NZ

[@ItsLaurenE]

I've probably watched this video 3 times. And since am quarantining 8 zebra danios, 5 glowfish corydoras (i would pick the expensive ones😂🙄 & finding them isn't as easy) and said if i found a pleco that won't be the size of a football or larger I'd get one, so I did. He'll be adult size 4 inches and go into one of my larger guppy tanks post quarantine. *QUESTION* I know corydora like to be in groups of same type so no mix and match, with the glow ones is it safe to assume if i found them in other colors, mine are all orange, would they still form that cory group bond? - this is me totally over thinking, but then again I wasn't sure. I saw they had a sign for a green one but it must have sold, would love some color in my glow tank despite the bad reputation they are alive and deserve to be homed in a good environment.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

if they are all the same species then glofish cories of different types and regular aeneus cories can all be kept together. all are aeneus cories and communicate the same. regardless of if they are bronze, albino, longfin, albino longfin, glofish etc. if they are separate species like pandas and sterbai then they will socialize but not be as outgoing

[@ItsLaurenE]

@@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030 thank you for your reply. I appreciate it. I went into over annalise mode.

[@vivekvs1992]

I have a Hillstream loach but it's been bullying my borneo sucker... Probably mistaking it for a mate?? Have isolated him now to another tank.. Probably will settle him in with some of his own kind in a pond situation

[@EpicManaphyDude]

sparkling gourami is the definitive peak nano fish

[@naegwut]

Guppies for life

[@SubiKinubi]

I’m so sad shrimp are banned where I live 😢

[@Nick_just_nick]

I every time I click a video like this I think I hit the wrong video…still not used to tazawa tanks doing these

[@DjNotNicesNucka]

Is it just me or does that hatchet at 0:20 look like it has a bad case of velvet

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Can anyone anywhere understand what she is saying at 1:09 ?

[@jojag5]

"Endlers live bearers"

[@pieterpuk7684]

CELESTIAL PEARL DANIO GANG!

[@keeganmory9097]

They are so different in terms of what they keep lol

[@sawyerthestarling]

Indostomus Crocodilus

[@englishtime5327]

Panda garras

[@vanschermerhorn7167]

Would appreciate the names of the fish so I don't miss the name but know how to spell it . Thank you

[@taz6122]

His maths needs work 😂 or he mixed m/f in the statement

[@gardian1701]

Well, don't mix Nerite snails with pea puffers! Lol. I feed large pond snails to my three pea puffers and they'll munch on the large snail till it's dead! 🤷

[@villagersparky]

Word of caution on Pea Puffers, they can be fin nippers, so have a backup plan if you choose to have one in a community tank

[@JERZEEHOTBOY]

Haven't had a peaceful Dwarf/Pea Puffer yet. They were all terrible 😂😂

[@JesDyr]

They are a shoaling fish and should be kept in a group.Most of the aggression is when people keep a solo pea puffer. Mine ignore anything that isnt bitesize or a snail.

[@JERZEEHOTBOY]

@@JesDyr You're lucky. Even in a shoal whoever is not a Pea Puffer in the tank will eventually get nipped until death.