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@kurtvanzuuk140711 ай бұрын
I have had so many issues with guppies to , they are sick when we buy them so you can't not quarantine them they will die. I even had some spread a disease in my community tank and wiped everything out .
@orangescalefishy125811 ай бұрын
are Kuhli loaches ok in hard water? I have water of around 17 dGH
@Kelly.pagen1239 ай бұрын
Hello @KGTropicals I have been in the fish world now for about 3 years and just started watching your videos. I have a question. I have a planted 36 g bow front aquarium with a Fluval 207 canister and a sponge filter in the tank that is rated for 40 gallon tank. I have a heater keeping the tank at 80F. I do water changes each week and check the water levels with a liquid testing kit a few times a week. I would like to just have one larger fish in it and was thing about a blue jack dempsey. What are your thoughts and if not what is a larger fish that would do well as a single decorative fish. Thanks!
@milkshakemistake623911 ай бұрын
Rainbow sharks are one on this list that I have experienced first hand their hardiness. Like 4-5 years ago I was moving into a new house, the power had been off for a few days and we went in to clean out all the stuff the people who lived there before us had left. There was a half filled, 20 gallon tank with murky water left sitting in the living room, we went to dump it all out and there was a single rainbow shark in there. I’ve had him ever since, his name is Edison and he’s what got me into fish keeping because I started doing reasearch on him so I could take better care of him, got him filter, heater, much bigger tank, plants etc. and years later he’s still thriving.
@robertlewis7810 ай бұрын
That’s actually sick asf
@Tipman2OOO2 ай бұрын
Whaaaaaat that's so cool! You never know what blessings happen from bad situations!
@FierceMamma11 ай бұрын
Kulhi loaches. Twice when I was in high school my Kulhi loach survived two tank crashes where I lost everything else. I did the same that was mentioned drained the tank down to only two inches and left it for a week when I went to clean the last to reset the tank I found them in the gravel alive and well. Plus they have the cutest faces.
@pollynicklas52208 ай бұрын
We had an upside down catfish that was bulletproof!
@raifhourieh60387 ай бұрын
Me on the second hand bought 4 kuhli loaches that were very good looking and found them all dead the second day and every time i want to buy more i feel afraid that they might also die, you guys gave me courage now to buy new ones wish me luck.
@_DROM_11 ай бұрын
My very first fish was a burgundy beta. He lived for 4 years in a 50L aquarium with a couple of guppies and tetras. He left them alone. I let my brother name him. He called Lu, for Lucifer, and ironically, the fish was an angel! 😂
@DahLekKnight11 ай бұрын
I don't get why people say Zebra Danios are lame-looking fish, but to each their own I guess. I think they look cool because the resemble other big fish. The regular zebra danio looks kind of like a striped bass, and the spotted variety of the species kind of reminds me of a trout. You get stripers and trout in your tank! How cool is that?!
@dirtdawgz832611 ай бұрын
There pretty fish for sure.
@sandwichboy251111 ай бұрын
I think they call them lame looking because people nowadays all want crazy colours that look crazy in a tank.
@Dhruv_Dogra11 ай бұрын
True
@elizaalmabuena8 ай бұрын
And interactive. Danios are amongst the most likely fish to come over and investigate if I press my finger against the glass in shops, they also like following it along as I move it. They would probably respond well to marker training and be the kind of fish you can teach tricks to.
@lilialorbey8 ай бұрын
@@elizaalmabuena its bc they typically associate human hands with food!
@PlainsPup10 ай бұрын
I can relate! My Oscar survived jumping out of his tank; my rescued bettas have thrived; my rainbow shark survived for years; and my guppies keep breeding like crazy! Gotta love bulletproof fish! Interesting note about bulletproof fish, though: they still have vulnerabilities. I’ve noticed that, as tough as common plecos are, they are still sensitive to nitrogen waste in the water, which causes their fins to recede. As for goldfish, they’re tough, too. However, I’ve noticed that if their pond is too shallow, the daily fluctuations in temperature can be lethal.
@fantasyskeep8 ай бұрын
Idk where yall get guppies, but here in Tampa, they are one of the most fragile fish and are pretty much guaranteed to come with internal parasites. I'd even suggest that guppies are best when kept by advanced keepers.
@edmorris143711 ай бұрын
I think for many people, getting guppies that are hardy is much more difficult. I’m still trying to find some that are NOT riddled with Camallanus worms or don’t succumb to Columnaris bacteria after a few days. It’s not my tanks or my water parameters. It’s just tough to buy a fish that isn’t already dying.
@Jeswald111 ай бұрын
My best success with guppies (and endlers) have been on Ebay. There are dedicated fish keepers (like us) who don't care about profit, they just want the fry to move out for the cost of shipping. My best guppies/endlers were "unsexed fry." They thrived and were gorgeous. The guppies I bought from Petco/Petsmart were fine for a few months, then started to become listless and eventually died. Who knows how old those fish were when purchased?
@edmorris143711 ай бұрын
@@Jeswald1 Given that, I don’t think guppies deserve to be on the bulletproof list.
@AnimalsVehiclesAndMore11 ай бұрын
I have a few guppies in my fish tank, and they've actually bred and produced babies a few times. A decent number of those babies actually live in the same tank as all my other fish, and they're doing really well.
@wanderingstar325511 ай бұрын
same with bettas...5+ years ago they lived 4-5 years, but massive overbreeding has led to very disease susceptible and short lived fish :(
@shanes-aquatic11 ай бұрын
I love love LOVE Oscars. I've had one jump out of the tank before as well. I was trying to hand feed him, lol. An honorable mention for incredibly durable fish for this list, Convict Cichlids. Probably the most durable fish i've ever experienced.
@CrystalmarieGrz11 ай бұрын
I bought a betta unplanned. I had just removed guppies from my 10 gallon into a 20 gallon. So I put the veil tail male into the 10 gallon until I got a 5 gallon cube. Well guess what he uses the whole tank so now I can’t imagine putting this little guy into a 5 gallon.
@newerafrican6 ай бұрын
I put a beautiful lavender-peach male into a 40 gallon live-bearer tank about 6 months ago. He went from a cup at PetsMart to a lively planted tank and he’s done great. He’s also helped control my guppy and platy population bomb there.
@luiscarlosherreramarroquin206511 ай бұрын
Red devils: though you were dead! Oscar: my dead was extremely....exaggerated
@memydogsandi11 ай бұрын
I can't believe you guys are the Cichlid people and Kribensis didn't make this list! The last time I had a tank I had four of these guys in it. I removed and sold the fish, I turned off the heater and filter. I drained the tank to 2 inches (if that). Then the tank sat there for SIX MONTHS. I FLEA BOMBED the house TWICE in that time - no, the tank was not covered. When I finally got around to selling the tank and my friend and I went to drain and clean it all the way, as we poured out the last of the water a Kribensis swam out. It was a huge mad panic to get a bucket of fresh water and throw the lil one back into water....my friend adopted him and called him "nuclear" (it was a toss up between that and "cockroach"). Apparently, unknown to me they bred in the tank prior to being removed. This guy must have survived initially by eating his siblings. No idea how he survived the flea bombs or lack of water and food for the rest of the time though.
@Apistoleon8 ай бұрын
I had a couple of Kribensis in late 80's. They had great personality. They were not too hardy for me. You were lucky, I guess!!
@Whips_World11 ай бұрын
I had a Rainbow in a South American predator tank for years. They don't have teeth. They barely have a mouth, and yet, that thing basically ruled the tank. That 8" torpedo would chase the oscars, the convicts, the Pike and even the jaguar.
@warpedlotus8508 ай бұрын
It's really cool that a good amount of that resilience comes from these species evolving to "hibernate" through dry seasons by burrowing into the ground until disturbed.
@Uathankicks11 ай бұрын
I dropped my first order with you guys. Feel kinda guilty it’s so big but thank you guys so much 🙏 very excited for Lisa’s snails and Tropica plants 🪴
@KGTropicals11 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for the support!! You wont be disappointed when you see the plants and snails trust me!!
@theresasommers79432 ай бұрын
When I was little, I won one of these gold fish at a carnival. So... I bring home my goldfish. My little brother was learning how to catch and clean fish at the time. The brat actually took my goldfish out of the little glass round globe and cut its tale fin off, as if to clean it and then eat it. Well, mom caught him, put the fish back in his bowl. That fish lived without a tailfin for another 8 months longer. They are resilient.
@pokego197 ай бұрын
Instructions unclear. Shot my danio and it died and is not swimming
@braelynheltne632811 ай бұрын
I had guppies a long time, I was so careful and cleaned regularly, and they just kept getting wiped out by fin rot. I couldn't take it any more after a yr and a lot of treatments and finally gave away my last surviving one (of a final school of 9 😢) and moved on to platies. Yet my bristlenose pleco is still alive and well
@BlackKoiRecords11 ай бұрын
Top fish videos are back!!! In the words of Ice Cube, Today was a good day!
@KCC2221111 ай бұрын
Pleco and convict cichlids are my hardy fish. I was able to bread the convicts with an under gravel filter. 12 months later finally decided to do a full water change. Only to find several cichlids with giant heads and slim bodies.
@Breaking_Beard8 ай бұрын
I had a 5g tank that crashed while i was out of town and i thought everything in it was dead. I unplugged everything and stopped feeding. I added some water with no dechlorinator just so it wouldnt be empty. 4 months later, I decided to clean it out and start over and i see a little pygmy cory swimming around. 4 months in the winter with no heat, food or filtration and the little dude is still swimming around. Promptly did a water change and fed him and he seems super happy
@markmeador11379 ай бұрын
I have a farm in North zTexas. My son won a goldfish at a carnival. He decided it needed more room so he dumped it into our horse water tank. Two years later I saw this foot long goldfish. That tank freezes solid in the winter. We never fed this fish or anything. Amazing
@KrockRockinNocks8 ай бұрын
Goldfish create a type of alcohol that prevents them from freezing to death.
@SlippyMcKnot847211 ай бұрын
I got myself a new tank and moved over an extra filter I had hooked up to my other tank so I could jump start my cycle. I just happened to be looking into the filter while I was filling the tank to make sure the filter started up. All of a sudden I thought I saw a fish in the filter swimming around. Turns out it was one of my Kuhli loaches. I have no clue how long he was in there, and thank God all the water didn't drain out while moving the filter over. Luckily, I was able to save the little guy. So for anyone wanting to keep Kuhli loaches make sure you have a pre-filter sponge on the intake.
@KGTropicals11 ай бұрын
Great story! Thanks for sharing! Just proving my point how resilient those little snake looking things are!
@Mrs.WarmWaffle11 ай бұрын
I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't seem to keep any guppies alive :( I've had fish tanks for over 25 years, but all the guppies I've had dies. My cardinal tetras live and thrive, my ancistrus live an beeds but my guppies dies. I fed up. My parents had fish tank when I grew up in the 80's and they had goldfish with guppies in a 16 gallon tank! The guppies had babies. The tank was full of plants and hiding spots, but They had it for years. And I can't keep my guppies alive in a regular 66 gallon tank!
@Daz-016111 ай бұрын
PLEEEASE start making species profiles for all kinds of freshwater fish 🙏🏻🐠
@johncameron419411 ай бұрын
Hey Lisa for the guppies tru lowering the temp in the tank to make them bred less.
@ccsorn11 ай бұрын
Brother and I each had a 10g with a betta (10&11y.o). After 3 months, his tank was down to 2g and literally pitch black. I went to take his tank & was shocked to find the betta alive 😮. I took it and it lived another year.
@GrumpyGillsFishing11 ай бұрын
Things to consider Pleco - grows to big Danios - everyone I’ve seen local has crooked spines Guppies - every female I’ve brought home died from columnaris Oscars - too aggressive Betta - eh go ahead Loaches - don’t know nothing about them Goldfish - grow too big and produce too much waste Rainbowsharks - same as loaches
@Jeswald111 ай бұрын
YAY! Bettas and guppies, my two favorites. I have a story about my common plecos that is pretty incredible; too long to post here. My local fish rescue (Ken's Fich Rescue in Lynn, MA, TY for your help) has more full-grown plecos than you could imagine. PetcoSmart often has people who don't know about their full size (or don't care) to dissuade people with small tanks from buying them.
@QuinnMallory-od1hw23 күн бұрын
I disagree with guppies, their more sensitive than you have mentioned, unless you have a large canister filter on your cycled aquarium their just going to die
@blip-20244 ай бұрын
Pictus cats. Mine is almost 15. Several years ago, I didn't have an adequate lid on the tank. Our cats must have hooked him out of the tank. We found him (a bit crispy) between the couch cushions. He was still alive so our son put him back in the tank. After a brief rest on the bottom of the tank, he swam off like nothing happened.
@akosmarton833911 ай бұрын
Well I bougth guppies from stores many times, and they just don't last over a month, BUT the fry came out of them seems bulletproof, and the guppies I get from other fishkeepers are definetly bulletproof. Which is weird, but this is my experience so far. Bettas are very far from being bulletproof. Bettas tend to get sick easily even if you treat them the best way possible. Plecos are great, they can survive everything, I don't have exprience with the other mentioned fish.
@ccsorn11 ай бұрын
Many guppies are from farms with brackish water. The fri born in your tank are born into fresh water , so they thrive there. Great news for us guppy lovers.
@pokejuice14958 ай бұрын
Imo cichlids are very hearty. I have had small fish like tetras and guppies die for no apparent reason at all. For kids who want their first fish i would get a feeder goldfish. No big deal if it dies and easy to replace. My first fish ever was from the carnival and that what got me into the hobby.
@spiritualspinster42229 ай бұрын
I vote for Ropefish. I had one for many years that got huge. I found him on the floor one day after coming home from work. He was pretty dried out but after throwing him back in the tank, by the next morning he was fine and lived for several more years. I love these fish!
@missmiller73010 ай бұрын
I JUST found 1 of my gold fish on the side of my 35 gal pond & he's been there for 2 days!! Fred survived on water splash from my waterfall. My husband put him back in the pond & Fred just swam off like nothing happened
@jaxxonfishroom11 ай бұрын
Great video 😊 mine would be Danios, Corydoras, Angelfish and Red Tail Sharks
@wanderingstar325511 ай бұрын
agree with corys! had 3 that lived in an inch of water and no food for 3 months after i 'emptied' a tank and didn't realize they were still there! oops lol
@pontiacw711 ай бұрын
Of all the fish i've had, i can't seem to keep Guppies. They do fine for a while, but one by one will die off. And Khuli Loach will do great for years, then all of a sudden they'll get covered in a white substance and if I don't catch it immediately and medicate them, they'll be dead in like a day or two. I had other fish in the same tank for many years and they get along fine, but I just have bad luck with guppies and loaches
@bjjbrawler111 ай бұрын
I had a Khuli Loach hide in the sand as well for months. There was water in the tank but he only came out as I was draining it and scooping out the sand. I thought he must have jumped out but never found anything on the floor lol.
@David-rx5eo9 ай бұрын
Goldfish for the win. I have almost 40 goldfish in an old spa that my mom turned into a pond. It does get down to freezing here in the winter, and these goldfish have survived just fine for years. Unfortunately this year I lost 4 of them, because the spa/pond starting leaking, got tow low, an too cold. All 4 of those were small ones that I had added this year. I took all the goldfish out, put them in a 50 gallon container, patched up all the holes, jets, etc. on that old spa, so it no longer leaks. I have also added a heater to keep it a little warmer in the winter. That old spa/pond now has 2 waterfalls, a fountain in the middle, a UV light, and an ionizer to keep to keep the algae under control, as well as the heater. It as has a big filter on it. This pond has never looked this good before.
@jennywade86645 ай бұрын
I rescued a couple of goldfish from a friend of my mothers, the tank was green you could barely see the fish in the water. They had been really neglected because they were a gift from a former boyfriend of hers. I took them cleaned the tank and then got a new one shortly after and they lived with me for many years after.
@zanekrempel11 ай бұрын
I did the exact same thing to a Khuli Loach with my first tank, cat played with the heater cord and low temps while I was out of town for the weekend killed the rest of the fish. Drained tank and set it in a back room for the winter till I cleaned it out in the spring, and what do you know, there was a Khuli Loach living in it still. It lived for years after that and survived a couple suicide by jumping attempts before I got a better hood.
@benhopwood53218 ай бұрын
I had 4 khuli loaches in a 55 gallon planted tank with 8 zebra danios. I acclimatised them properly and the tank parameters were as close to spot on as you could get it but the khuli loaches were dead the next day. I was gutted because they are awesome little fish. I have a rainbow shark in a seperate tank and boy do they grow fast and i mean fast!!!!!!!
@valrdjem8 ай бұрын
I had a parrot chilid that took a flying leap onto a hard tile floor from about 5 feet up. He was stunned for a bit but then acted like nothing happened. At one time I had a birshir (sp?) and a jack Dempsey that were buddies and came to the top of the tank for pets. The only fish I have ever had that did that. I think they both were over 10 years old when I had to rehome them due to divorce. Hope they are still going somewhere.
@hsklaven7 ай бұрын
I’m struggling keeping baby mystery snails alive. How to take care of the little baby mystery snails? How often do u feed them? New borns? Month old to two months old? How many days do u leave alga wafer in the water? Is Big wafer ok for tiny baby mystery snails? Or is tiny bits of wafer ok? I tried but they all died within a month or two. Do u do water changes every two weeks? How big of a tank do you need? The water level do they full or half of the water? Do they need a 20 gallon? Help! Also different note do plecos eat other community fishes? Or if one is sick? I can’t find my one tetra glo fish?
@williamkoch997711 ай бұрын
I had a community tank when one of my sons was a toddler. He played with the dial on the heater and the water got HOT. All the fish died but one zebra danio. He lived for several more months although he never looked quite right again.
@Amusementnational11 ай бұрын
THESE KIND OF VIDEOS ARE MY FAV FROM U GUYS! 😊
@muzchan235411 ай бұрын
I'm currently helping an old lady out. found that she has a fishtank and a seemingly pretty old pleco in there, plus a few widow tetras and only the roots and small living sign of some former plants. i did a little bit of research on the pleco and was wondering which plant i could buy for her tank the pleco won't eat. do you have any suggestions? she was embarassed that she only had a few fish left in her tank for her husband died and she was no longer able to go and buy new fish on her own. I got her a school of neon tetras and now she asked for some plants.
@azurehanyo7 ай бұрын
Plecos will eat anything that starts to melt, so try some hardier things like various javas and anubias that you can affix to drift wood. The drift wood will not only anchor the plants, but it will provide biofilm for the pleco to eat.
@hollystop4 ай бұрын
Agree about Bettas! I got one when I was in middle school (without doing research) got home did a bunch of research then a week or two later put him in a 5 gallon then 2 years later upgraded him to a 10 gallon and he lived for 4-5 years! I definitely didn’t clean the tank enough but he lived 😂😢😢😢 (I still have nightmares….)
@farley240811 ай бұрын
Just got a nice red Betta in a 10 gallon cube.Tank is planted and looks like he is digging it.There is also 2 Mystery Snails and a Nerite snail too.
@sophistiq8ted11 ай бұрын
My old store had 8 HUGE common plecos in a 75 gallon.. never did water changes and were basically swimming in their poop. I never saw any die. I tried to give them fresh water when i could.
@LocalGuy8311 ай бұрын
Im a serial killer when it comes to guppy fish. They are some beautiful fish for the short time they live. Pretty sure im done trying because I always feel bad when they die. 😢
@joeprovenzano436211 ай бұрын
I’m praying tomorrow when my betta shows up after being in transit for over a week that he’s bulletproof
@johncameron419411 ай бұрын
Guppies die fast. Once they bred you might be ok but they die off so fast.
@justsomebodyuknow5 ай бұрын
I had 2 bettas where the setup have one tiny tank above the over one so the water would flow into the bottom one of course it had a gap between there. The betta I had was named Star. So we originally thought one of our cats ate Star. A month later we were cleaning out the tanks and saw Star swimming in the bottom where all the dirty water catches and gets filtered back up. But luckily we had an extra tank because we had already gotten another betta.
@DirkDeadeye_7 ай бұрын
When I was like, 8-9 my stepdad had this old 6 foot tank at his parents house, sprayed it down and cleaned it, decided on a lark he wanted to keep fish again when we bought a house. Many fish came and went, but that pleco was always there. When I left to go on my own, it was pretty much his tank, he was a monster. I remember when we got him it was a tiny thing.
@newerafrican6 ай бұрын
Pet stores do these fish such a disservice because they usually get too big for most tanks. I’ve learned to discriminate between a common pleco and the smaller varieties because they can live for 10+ years!
@HTB-sso2 ай бұрын
I grew up with my grandparents having a pond full of koi fish and there was probably like 10 and of them and 2 were probably 1st or more long, but they got rid of them and now they live at a big farm pond
@giftofthewild66659 ай бұрын
I have glowlight danios. They are pretty hardy. They survived columnaris and a weird fungal disease that killed my panda garras. Tough little fish and amazingly coloured (prettier than guppies). The only other fish in the tank is a lone rosy barb (last one left of a bunch of 6 that I bought). Not sure what else to put in the tank now.
@Sneltz2111 ай бұрын
A few months back I heard a banging sound at 2 am. Didn't think anything of it. I came down to my office at 8:30 am to find my 12" oscar lying on the floor. He was very dark in color and felt really slimy. Threw him back in the tank and he was fine in 2 hours.
@williamblansett578610 ай бұрын
I actually outside the fact my blackskirt tetra stories can match the your stories about every other fish, I'm not very fond of the fish. But when I wasvkeeping fish I always wind up keeping blackskirt tetras. Tiger barbs seem to be pretty hardy too. Sometimes I would have tanks with blackskirt tetra, Tiger barbs, Common guppies,, three types of Danio , Khuhki Loachs and Common plecos. I found Covict Cichlids pretty much bulletcproof.
@ShamuAquatics11 ай бұрын
I fortunately haven’t had an ich or epistylis outbreak in YEARS but the few times I’ve had it, the rainbow sharks and redtail sharks would be the only fish in the tank that didn’t have a single white spot on them. Very hardy fish and the only things I had them die from were the health complications that came from old age
@noturbeezwaxbeaulac13839 ай бұрын
I did lose a pleco, it was some 4 years old and not certain what happened, but I lost 70% of the fish in the tank. All had the same problem they started to stop moving kind of a slow paralysis, and at the end, they could only still breathe until hunger got them.
@HeRo-qd6tk11 ай бұрын
I missed those videos. Reminds me of my beginnings watching them all !!! ❤
@JellyAnimated11 ай бұрын
Common plecos are like the superheroes of the fish tank, seemingly indestructible - I once saw one calmly sipping coffee with the goldfish and giving a fin-five to the algae eater!
@hulksmashxbox29098 ай бұрын
My guppies seem happy breed well, but i have been loosing about 75% of my adult guppies about every three to four months. Water tests fine, looks great, the shrimp and bristlenose all dont have the issue. Any suggestions? Symptoms are clamped fins for a day or two then laying at the bottom till dead. Ive tried a few different things but still had about 4 " die-offs" over the last year or so. Oh and all babies and juvenile guppies live through it
@andreashessler83811 ай бұрын
Three words 'medaka rice fish'. Unbelievably hardy and virtually indestructible in a pond. I have them outdoors all year round lower than -5c and, sometimes over 35c . Every year there are more in the pond.
@jamesnguyen_111 ай бұрын
Yep but they have a short life span
@andreashessler83811 ай бұрын
@@jamesnguyen_1 2-3 years is fine. Their lifespan is shortened by keeping them in warm tanks as it increases their metabolism . Same with goldfish.
@shibibi18 ай бұрын
You've convinced me to put an Oscar and Pleco into my bigger tank that's been sitting empty since I bought it. Ive always been a Nano lover 😂 Adore my khuli, Ember tetra and Betta set ups. I've had all three of those survive multiple home moves with things going wrong.
@ILoveKoreanBBQ20235 ай бұрын
Lisa is so pretty without a lot of makeup even❤ Husband you handsome too. Great smart couple.
@bertsbooks25058 ай бұрын
Done well with Kuhlis, also pretty low casualty rate with golden eye acaras (N Anomola).
@thominaduncanson75962 ай бұрын
Had the common (blue stripes) zebra danios, and as long as the light was on, so was the favorite danios game-“I chase you, then you chase me!” (No danios were harmed during their game of tag) And always had to put two separate food “piles” at each end of the tank, otherwise the danio cheetahs would eat most of the pile…even my large, stately pearl gouramis who would prod the zebra danios with their ‘antennas’ did not intimidate them. 😆
@top-hat-roach811611 ай бұрын
Literally, I can keep everything love, but a common pleco. Driftwood, veggies, carnivore pellets and so on. Yet everything else in the tank is absolutely thriving.
@angiebear872711 ай бұрын
Had two for over 15 years. Got them before I knew better. Ended up making them their own 100 gallon indoor pond. I was actually sad when they passed. They do need lots of food, especially when they get big so maybe that’s why you have trouble, but unless you have a really big tank not a fish to consider if that’s not obvious
@angiebear872711 ай бұрын
@@AnaNomas-gu9hi oh my goodness! That sounds horrific. It was probably the pleco hitting the lid n stuff. They are easily spooked sometimes and will move a lot faster than you’d expect. I have two bristle nose plecos in my 50 gal. I feed them algae wafers about twice a week. Have wood and lots of plants n rocks for cover. So far so good. One I’ve had about two years the other about 6 months.
@Psalm1392311 ай бұрын
Agree about the bettas. Love mine. They live for years. I can’t stand their small cups they are forced to live in. Mine is king of his castle in a 55 lol.
@markpurdie760810 ай бұрын
Danios are so hardy zebra ones i got of a friend they were in a 3 gallon tank 5 of them 2 females 3 males she was sold them at pet store! I put them in a 15 gallon planted tank still fine 2 years later
@Dhruv_Dogra11 ай бұрын
Loved the honesty in this video. Lovely couple 😊
@kinglyzard15 күн бұрын
@10:20 I had several Kuhli Loaches breeding under my undergraval filter!
@yankeekev673311 ай бұрын
Guppies are ace I got them for about ten years now an all I can say is they don't stop breeding and there very good for a community tank
@S.Trades11 күн бұрын
Danios are the best! Fast, peaceful, hardy! They do need space to swim though!
@kelvinemmons24488 ай бұрын
Plecos are kind of like sturgeon. They have no teeth, remain mostly on the bottom and basically have more like plates than scales. My parents had 1 that was about 12 inches and lived for literally something like 10 years or so
@jancarloscoimbre9796 ай бұрын
I remember when I was young my mom had a betta in one of those lucky bamboo vases an she had that dam thing in that tiny half gallon vases for a few years
@Evergreenroblox111 ай бұрын
My danios and guppies all died because of a small temperature strike.
@falcolf8 ай бұрын
The Fluval Flex 5 gallon kit plus a heater would be an excellent betta home!
@XBullitt16X10 ай бұрын
I'm running out of space myself for my guppies lol, every time I think I have separated all the males from the females, I find spawn somehow from a stray male I didn't see soon enough .
@sarahtucker81605 ай бұрын
My dumbo beta lives with neon tetras, zebra loaches in a 90ltr tank .
@littlemidwestrebornsdolls11 ай бұрын
I started with goldfish then Bettas. I want a goldfish pond someday. Great fish that are nearly bulletproof. Gina
@lauramilbrath1193 ай бұрын
love guppys have some baby guppys of my own its so cool to see them eat and thrive
@Razeredsaint7 ай бұрын
2:19 some of them are tank size restricted. They will only grow to half the tank size. I have different size tanks and environments. 3:03 danios are awesome until they spawn. You will think you killed them. We had a clutch of like 15000 fry of glodanio. It was cool.
@ronthuomas74288 ай бұрын
I always had good luck with Silver Dollars and Catfish. My Black mollies never made it.Never knew why
@TonyBandana-88 ай бұрын
Goldfish are not only a hearty fish, but they're a hearty meal. 😂
@chrisvallejos611511 ай бұрын
mosquito fish from the tinny tiny stream near most of us next to the park or at the end of the neighborhood, super hardy fish and from experience of “taking a break from the tank” neglecting the tank for a few months, half the water evaporated, no feeding and they all still lived.
@mmscannadinari11 ай бұрын
Impossible to find in UK unfortunately
@celticbarry987711 ай бұрын
Platys I feel are much more hardy than Guppies or Mollies, Guppys or Mollies I feel like don't do well in my water which is pretty soft, i've never bought many but any time I did they all died within like 2 weeks where as Platys don't and platys even breed and the babies survive and grow fine even in very soft water.
@sambothefate34626 ай бұрын
Male guppies are bullet proof but females drop like flys
@DGGuaglianone11 ай бұрын
My guppies ate my juvenile common pleco an then my green terror ate my guppies. Yes it was poor fish keeping practices but I’m working on it.
@jeffereyhopkins75011 ай бұрын
Endlers are pretty bulletproof too.
@denikawebb171211 ай бұрын
Hi their. My 8 year old pleco died tonight. I'm struggling to figure out what was wrong with him. He has a poop that looked bloody hanging out of him. He gave me no signs he was sick. My other fish in my other tank are also dying. I have done water tests after water tests also treated them with so many treatments and nothing has changed. I moved to a new place and we are on well water I'm wondering if their is something in my water that is killing my fish. I'm devastated about my pleco 8 years old and no issues. Please help me save the rest of my fish 😢💔💔💔😭😭😭😭
@jeremymoore45011 ай бұрын
Hmm, I have had terrible experiences with Guppies I don’t know if I agree with this list. I can’t keep guppies alive no matter how good my water conditions are. So I don’t know where you are getting your guppies at. I stopped buying them because the genetics are so bad. They don’t live longer than a few months for me so yeah. I agree with the Danios. I have zebras and leopard danios in a 20 long planted tank and they are all over the place.
@Razeredsaint7 ай бұрын
6:59 convict cichlids are almost bulletproof. I had a pearl big male die due to bad minnows.
@lucashenderson62758 ай бұрын
Oh No. I remember i woke up by my dad screaming at me. He told my my 25 gallon tank had started leaking and 90% of the water was out. I ran towards my neighbor who had a 50 gallon tank. Then we filled it with water and put the fish in it for about a week until we found a new tank. A week later I realized my coly loaches were gone. I forgot them in the sand of the broken tank. That was 3 years ago( they probably ain’t alive)
@icecreamdog9 ай бұрын
kuhli loaches i disagree partly with. there was a time i got some for my 20 gal and it was established and had healthy fish. i got 4. within a day all but one died. so i waited and tried again. then all but 2 died. and so i got one more to even it out to 4 and they lived. i asked every professional i knew and researched why they were dying and found nothing. but the ones that lived lived through some crazy stuff
@mlouism2minotti74818 күн бұрын
Oscars and Texas cichlids are two of my favorites.
@levimah870511 ай бұрын
The thing is plecoses are bullet proof
@Whips_World11 ай бұрын
Not on their list here, but other fish commonly thought of as bulletproof are the Molly, the platty the swordtail and the ram. None of those fish are on Whip's bulletproof list. I'll kill them in months... if not weeks.
@alasdairgibb843310 ай бұрын
I could argue a case that goldfish aren't that hardy when the aquarium is new and hasn't gone through the nitrogen cycle. Personally, I had a terrible time trying to keep them alive when I set up a new tank for them. I got through one a week!