Top 10 Freshwater Aquarium Fish!

This is my personal top ten list of my favorite freshwater community fish. Rankings are based on my personal experience with these fish. Things such as ease of care, fish personalities, care requirements, and how well they fit into a community environment are taken into consideration. Also, my apologies on not having any footage for the pygmy cory segment. I currently do not own any and I couldn't find any stock footage of them so that picture had to do...
Both stock footage and footage filmed by me were used to create this video.
Chapters:
0:00 -Intro
0:32 -#10
1:14 -#9
1:56 -#8
2:45 -#7
3:43 -#6
4:27 -#5
5:22 -#4
6:06 -#3
6:49 -#2
7:31 -#1
8:20 -Outro

[@Lumpydog]

Nice top 10. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

[@Fishman2114]

Thanks for watching!

[@FishRfun]

I've kept all but 2 of these. Cherry barbs and kuhli loaches. I had 6 peacock gudgeons in my 55g and they are amazing fish. They can be shy but like you said, give them a lot of cover and they'll come out more. They don't like really high flow though. Great video and I'm subbing now

[@Fishman2114]

Awesome glad you enjoyed it! Welcome to the channel!!!

[@markvonwisco7369]

In my experience both neon and cardinal tetras are a very hardy fish, as long as you get good quality, healthy fish to start with. Some of my cardinal are close to 5 years old and still going strong!

[@Fishman2114]

Awesome good for you! I definitely agree, if you’re able to find a good quality neon/cardinal then you’re set. However a lot of time they are not keep in great conditions at pet stores and a lot of them die in your tank a few days later. Once you get past that though they are great

[@chrisrolka1934]

starting my first aquarium ever, but I have been absolutely lost on what to add and this video helped a lot! thanks!

[@Fishman2114]

Of course! What size aquarium are you thinking to get?

[@chrisrolka1934]

@@Fishman2114 I ended up getting a 20 gallon tall for free from a friend of mine who upgraded his tank, and I wanted to do a community tank with nano fish based around shrimp but I think I might just buy a small 10 gallon and do a shrimp tank alone.

[@Fishman2114]

That’s what I did for my cherry shrimp, for the 20 gallon you could also have some phoenix or chili rasbora. If you wanted something more active than the celestial pearl danio would be your best bet. If you wanted some bottom feeders a school of either kuhli loaches, panda or Pygmy cories would do great

[@achilles_heel07]

The Pearl Gourami in my experience is one of the best beginner fish. Compared to their cousin the dwarf gourami they are totally not aggressive! Can live with any small to medium sized community fish without any fear of aggression. I so love Corys!

[@Fishman2114]

Everyone loves the Corys 😂

[@allauricia1985]

I like Cory’s a lot They are just cool especially a group of them

[@Tobi-pp2wz]

yes together with loaches they are so fun to watch

[@mattiavallini488]

Gourami always gave me trouble, they attack each other if they are more than 2 and they also attack every fish that stays where they make nest, they are especialy problematic if you pair them with a betta. But the rest of the list is pretty good, nice job.

[@peadrianlastname]

I have 5 dwarf blue flame gouramis in my community tank right now, they've been no trouble since the first couple days when they were fighting over territories (they all wanted caves and only have 2 :(). I agree about the not keeping them with bettas though, I tried to add a betta and before I even got him out of the cup they were all circling him trying to nip him, so now he's in the platy tank instead.

[@mattiavallini488]

@@peadrianlastname They are usually problematic when there are too much of them or when you introduce fishes that live in the same zone as them or other anabantids. They can be in community tanks, i have them in mine and i love them, but they can be really annoying to keep for these reasons.

[@nicholasharshbarger4454]

@@peadrianlastnameI love my dwarf gourami! He’s the centerpiece of my nano tank, and his behavior is really fun. Especially when he builds bubble nests.

[@RoccosVideos]

Awesome list. Neon tetras are my personal favorite. I'm thinking about getting some cherry barbs.

[@Fishman2114]

You should! I think that their colors really go well with the bright reds and blues on the neons. Be sure to get more females than males though!

[@jefftucker9225]

I keep two honey gourami's in a 20 long, male/female pair, only other fish in the tank are 2 clown plecos, as a pair they get along great until they mate, then I remove the eggs to a grow out tank and separate the female for a few days in to a 5 gallon, before putting her back in

[@Fishman2114]

Yeah a lot of fish can get touchy and aggressive like that when they are getting ready to or pairing. Sounds like you do everything right though with separating them from the tank. What do you do with the eggs?

[@ReversedCentaur]

I must have gotten lucky. My powder blue dwarf gourami seems super cool with tank mates . He only gets a little crazy during feeding.

[@Fishman2114]

They definitely get really crazy durning feeding. Gouramis I’ve always found to hog a lot of the food for themselves. Not a big deal as long as the other fish get access to the food 🤷‍♂️

[@ReversedCentaur]

@@Fishman2114 he’s a very a fun fish. Lots of personality. Right now his only tank mates are Cory cats and they have no issues. I want to add something else eventually. Hoping we won’t get aggressive when he has other fish that hang around the middle/top. Feeding time he is hilarious. My daughter named him Stitch because he goes wild for food.

[@Fishman2114]

@@ReversedCentaur what size tank is it?

[@ReversedCentaur]

@@Fishman2114 not an overly large one. Fluval Flex 15. I thought about doing some chili rasbora in the future. He’s got the whole mid to upper portion of the tank to himself right now.

[@garg4531]

All good choices, but I have to disagree with gouamis as they can be pretty aggressive, even under the best circumstances. I still remember one incident of a dwarf gourami constantly going after some albino cories that were in the tank, which is a very unusual case but shows how unpredictable they can be I'd definitely recommend honey gouramis though, only issues they're likely to have is with each other

[@Fishman2114]

I included the honeys with them. I loved my red honey gouramis when I had them. In my aquarium tier list video I put the standard dwarf gouramis in B and the honey gouramis in S so I definitely agree.

[@ReinhardvonHolst]

Liked and subbed. I would add Otocinclus to my top ten. Peace

[@Fishman2114]

I’ve never owned them, I definitely want to keep them in the future

[@NIGEL-MORGZZ1100]

Cherry barbs are the best in my personal opinion there beautiful

[@Fishman2114]

They are definitely the best barbs out there if you ask me