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My first aquarium…..I made the mistake of putting small water frogs in with my Oscar” the pet store told me they would be safe with Oscars” I bought 7 at $10 a piece. I put the frogs in, and the Oscar left them alone, and seemed uninterested in them” I watched the tank for almost two hours…..amazed at how cool these water frogs looked” I ended up going to bed, and waking up…..only to see all 7 water frogs gone, and my Oscar swimming……around the tank in a trolling manner. Dang it……outsmarted by the pet store, and the Oscar. Oscar 7 pet store 7 Me -$70 the water frogs -7
Love, love Oscars. Back in my not so smart days of occasionally offering feeders, my Oscar decided he was friends with one. They lived harmoniously and the goldfish grew as large as him. 😅
@@sithminkodikara8054goldfish are carp, they are way more hardy than people realize, and depending on the water they were bred in they can live in a great variety of water conditions
had an opportunity to get 2 baby tropical gar. 10 years, many tank sizes and tankmates later i still wish i would have thought it out a bit more. they are near 3 ft long and extremely aggressive.
My mom set up a marine aquarium, The fish: purple damsel, clown, green spotted puffer and Lionfish. Yep. Lionfish. The damsel went missing, then the clownfish, then the puffer, and Lionfish belly up after eating the GSP.
@@MoniqueBoulangerMSG gotcha. Okay. Ironic that as a teenager my mom let us have a fishtank. It was a hexagon tank and the pet store told her angel fish liked neon tetras. We saw 10 neons go-to One very quick, paranoid tetra. They forgot to tell her Angel fish eat neons. That was before the Internet
Heh, your mention of Oscars eating anything small enough in their tank reminded me of the only time I've seen one in person. Way back when I actually had a car and could go places, I used to visit a pet store near where I worked and look at the various critters. I had multiple cats at home at the time. (I still can't actually have an aquarium because of family issues, so I watch vids...). But, to get back on track, one day while I was there, an employee accidentally dropped a box of feeder crickets while I was looking around the fishtanks and probably distracted by things more brightly colored. Until I heard a little sploosh, and I looked, and there's this huge (I think about 7-8 inches, but this was a good 20 years ago or so, so even with my weird memory for odd little snapshot-like visuals I can't trust that) dark grey fish just looking happy as can be as they snap up every cricket that got in their tank. After the employee caught as many crickets as they could and left the aisle, I happened to find a cricket they missed. And, I have to confess, promptly dropped that bug right in the Oscar tank. I have I have never forgotten that fish. That Oscar was not colorful or flashy, but remains the only fish I have any clear memories of looking at when I used to visit that place.
My jardini was legitimately crazy. Bro would jump a full foot out of the tank you attack your hand if you had food anywhere near the top of his tank. He had good aim, too, i might add.
Happened to me when I was a kid. Had some bug eyed gold fish. I was 7 don't yell at me too much. Got a catfish don't know what. Then my goldfish started to disappear. The pet store person looked at me and my dad like we were dumb when we told them the goldfish vanished and asked what does the catfish eat. Well, we got some feeders and that was that.
Oh boy did you really peg the "angel" fish! I got 5 babies from an aquaintence and new breeder when I was just still pretty new to the hobby (early high school) and those little twerps were awesome until two decided to become a breeding pair. They killed the other 3 one at a time then moved on to my established colony of danios, plattys, etc. and got rid of them. It was cool to see them lay eggs on the rocks and see the newly hatched fry but dang.... Didn't know I was trading a pair of angel fish for my established community tank. Baby angels are beautiful, but nothing remains a baby forever. Lesson learned.
I had a 6 inch Pictus catfish. Eats medium size tetras and all food. Had to find a new home for it. Bought it when it was tiny and never imagined that it would be a monster.
Ha, I had a great laugh at your list...., many years ago I owned a petshop and use to import tropical fish into Australia from Singapore. There was a very intriguing fish on the list (and a good price 🙄), it was called a "" Greenish Panther Angel", 5cm. The description was stunning. A beautiful angelfish with an iridescent green/bronze tint to them whilst covered in black spots...., 5cm (2") overall. Thinking these fish were cool, I ordered 20..., just to check them out. 5cm (2") was their body size...,, these fish were huge..., and STUNNING looking..., but man no fish had been more perfectly named. These guys were vicious with an appetite to match. They attacked and ate everything that was put in with them, needless to say I never ordered them again. (I even told our fisheries inspector (All fish had to be inspected at the airpport) to NOT allow these into Australia...., yes they were THAT nasty).
They are brutal but look great in a tank. I had one in a 180 gallon with 3 Pacus an Orange pike and 2 HUGE angels and no issues, but yea, anything smaller was toast
@@fossilkingdomwhen I was a kid my neighbors dad had a 40ish gal hexagon tank that had a bluegill in it. It was a cool looking tank, setup with gravel, plants, and driftwood to look natural.
@@volvo09 I worked for a company that would maintain large aquariums. We had a client who was a big time hunter that had a 300+ gallon tank that was set up like that, had blue gill and large mouth bass in it. Was definitely cool
Angels will also eat fish small enough to fit in their mouths... this tends to happen with young neon tetras and adult angelfish. Breeding angelfish are fascinating when you get a pair with the full parental instinct. We had a breeding pair at work, in the plant tank. When I had to reach in to clean the glass or grab a plant and they had eggs, they'd attack my hand, never mind that I'm a scary monster many times their size. They were all 'must protect the eggs!' It was a bit inconvenient, but also quite endearing.
I didn't understand how different and gorgeous Bettas could get until this channel. I just hate that they are little killers cuz in a perfect world I would love to have a rainbow betta tank!
It totally depends on the Betta. One of mine had to be moved to a tank by himself because he was being harassed by a violent gang of killer ember tetras. -_- Sarcasm aside, embers are peaceful little fish, but they are on the busy side, and one of them was getting kind of nippy. Some Bettas would have rained down utter carnage on the offending fish, but Boo (yeah, the name is personality-based) was just getting stressed out by them. He's much happier in the company of just a few snails.
If you keep multiple males together, you need plenty of hiding space. Each male will have his own territory. The alpha will get the best territory of course.
Mine wasn't a killer and my sister in law's were fine (she had 2 males in a 30 gallon) but some are really aggressive. The temperament varies hugely in bettas.
I'm not a fish guy, because i tend to move after a year or two and fish owning and moving regularly don't mix. I do have the magpie mind when it comes to my hobbies, so i do understand where you are coming from.
I've kept a pair of leucistic kissing gourami with a male and a female Siamese fighting fish for years with absolutely no fighting or aggression from either of them.
❤had a 220g tank and I had 2 fish in it because anything else was eaten. When they finally passed. My Jardini was 22 in long and my shovel nose cat, I believe it was a planiceps ,gorgeous white/brown modeled appearance was 28in. I either had to feed them pool comets , 3 to 5 in long or 100 feeders. Only 1 a week or so. I got bit by the Jardini every time I took water readings. Great fish but a handful
Great list. I was so obsessed with fish I over loaded my apartment with tanks. One fish I bought that I didn't do research on and paid dearly for was the Marble Goby. One at a time, my other fish began to disappear...
marble gobies are huge with huge mouths and most fish wouldnt even notice it cuz they’re ambush predators that bury themselves and blend in with rocks and sand like how stonefish do. gotta keep them with fish far lager then them or same size
Bought a Chinese algae eater. "Algae eater" is in the name. Dang thing is a carnivore! Killed a giant pearl scale goldfish I brought in for the winter. Would not stop attacking it, and one goldfish couldn't recover. Now it seems he's harassing the other small tankmates.
I worked at a fish store and there were people who wanted a paradise fish to go along with their neons, glowlights, etc! I had to dissuade thrm from buying them.
I had a male betta that liked to attack the aquarium thermometer because it was glass and I think he could see a reflection if he was at exactly the right angle. He also displayed threateningly at small snails. Gorgeous fish, but stupidly over-aggressive. When he got older, though, he developed a large tumor and couldn't swim as quickly. He was then a lot less aggressive and not dangerous, and got along fairly well with glowlight tetras and a pygmy cory (there was only one left at the petstore, and I never managed to find schoolmates for him though I tried) in a somewhat larger tank. He didn't like the honey gourami I introduced near the end of his life, but it could easily outswim him and did just fine. None of the other fish picked on him - it was purely a case of picking tankmates he couldn't bully. I'd never have tried the honey gourami when he was young though - he'd probably have killed it, and would definitely have tried. So a lot depends on your betta. If you're going to try somewhat questionable things like I did with the honey gourami, you need to keep a very close eye on the fish, be able to read fish behavior and tell if they're getting stressed or sick, and have a backup plan for if stuff goes wrong. I don't recommend putting male bettas with other fish for beginners, or if you have a healthy young male betta who's aggressive. And really, a gourami in with a male betta is asking for trouble. I tried to divide the tank, but the divider failed to work properly, and then I realized they were actually okay together given how lumbering the betta now was. So I watched carefully, and lo and behold! they were all right.
My friends who owned them knew that and would see how long their beta fish would last tutoring then by showing their beta mirrors and watching them head but the tank until they died because it saw its reflection.
Awe I have a betta who is kinda scared of my mystery snail. He’s only scared of the antennas and they are in a 10 gallon tank. The mystery snail was with my dwarf gourami but my gourami thought the antennas were snacks so he went with the betta. Also my gourami is scared of Pygmy Corydoras. I think it’s bc he doesn’t like to be touched and the Pygmy’s like to snuggle all fish and plants.
I had this same impulse buy when I was starting, but lucky for me my impulse buy was just a friendly little golden comet platy 😅. (Just so you guys know, it was a cycled tank and soonly after we bought her some friends, and she ended up living 3 more years after we got her!)
Gotta thank the pet shop worker that made it VERY clear that my tank fish cannot handle any form of harps , saved my fishes lives and my wallet ( they cost a lot from where I live )
My spouse is the same way about snakes. We have friends who have snakes and I will always be happy to hold one of theirs for awhile in the far corner, happily, while my spouse is the other corner.interacting with the friends… tell Lisa she has a kindred soul-friend.
Male bettas don't grow more than 3 inches long, and the females are smaller and more docile. Like most territorial fish, bettas don't usually mind distantly related fish, although they are renowned for aggression toward their own kind (among males, anyway), and toward the related gouramis, as the video says. Otherwise, I've found there are plenty of community fish I can keep them with, but there is one interesting exception, which is not even a fish: African dwarf frogs. I have never been able to successfully keep bettas with African dwarf frogs for very long. Sooner or later, the betta kills one or more of the frogs, and I have to separate the survivors. So even though bettas are not uber-aggressive like many cichlids, I can see why they are on this list of "murderers."
I have had a Male Betta (Jim) for about two months and decided to get a bigger tank for him and also maybe some tank mates. I cycled my new 10 gallon tank and put in five neon tetra and two snails before putting in my beta, and my beta took out three of them. The snails are awesome too
This video was very helpful! :) thanks so much for your content. Is there a video about creating a Betta Sorority? I see a lot of it on your channel and finally seen a thriving one in a local petstore. I would like to learn more about the process because it was fasinating to watch them interact.
I've had 3 Flowerhorns. #1 was a vicious murderer. #2 was the friendliest fish you could imagine. He was huge and shared the tank with 4 Cichlids and always hung out by them. #3 shares his tank with 2 other Cichlids. Keeps to himself but no problems. Seems to work if you raise them together. You never know how it will work out until you try. BTW, they grow real fast, so I recommend you go with a juvenile.
On a side note, female bettas are less prone to mood swings compared to their male counterparts and are fine with other female bettas AS LONG AS THE TANK IS BIG ENOUGH. Those tanks are known as "sorority tanks" when they have multiple female bettas
Paid 9 dollars each for my colorful neo shrimp, bought 7 of them.. they were full grown too.. my betta had a very expensive meal. He ate all of them! 😮😢
As a teen I had a small tank with a variety of small colorful freshwater fish. Then I bought two cute black and white Angel fish. One day I was cleaning the tank when they tried to bite me. They turned so aggressive out of no where. Then I realized they had laid eggs! I was not a breeder and was so surprised!
I just started, don’t know if they’re mentioned, but South American Pufferfish. I was impulsive and uneducated, and made the worst decision ever. I had brought home 2 of these puffers and added them to a tank with a male betta. I eventually stopped seeing the betta, and found him with no fins remaining.
When i was 8 i though it would be a good idea to put my beta inside my 120 gallon oscar fish tank temporarily while i clean its tank. I thought that maybe since the betta is so small the oscars wouldn't notice it. Next thing i know the betta was gone and my oscars mouth was full. Dumbest decision of my life
Yes big predatory fish can bite off more then they can chew, I saw a fossil of a giant extinct fish that had died choking on another fish close to its size, also saw on tv a payara that was floating, it was choking on another fish it tried to eat, the payara recovered after its meal was removed and it was placed back in the water,
One time I added an African butterfly fish to my aquarium and that triggered my betta like nothing else, and when the betta attacked the butterfly fish fought back, and I thought it killed the betta until the betta regained consciousness and started swimming again. Was docile ever since.
Oscars are cool. My buddy friend had a big Oscar. Raised It from young. Ate out of his hand. Trained it to jump out of the water to get the food he was holding. They have teeth. One day the food stuck to his thumb and he lost the tip of his thumb. Accident, yes, but he then started using tweezers. They are like puppy dogs.
That's one of the best reasons to remain single with your giant man cave house or apartment. You never have to compromise for anything. As referring to the snake issue.
You can put female bettas together! It’s not recommended if you’re a beginner though. I heard you can’t put blood parrots with other species but I’ve seen them with other fish at the LFS so which is true? And when my twin snails Flotsam and Jetsam were alive Flotsam was with my sorority and Jetsam was with my boy Periwinkle my betta and they were the best of friends! It was so cute seeing Periwinkle sitting on Jetsam when he was on the glass and seeing them sleeping together was too cute ❤ they were best buddies Perry was sad like me when they died my girls loved Flotsam too!
My betta had a ghost shrimp he had for almost a year. When it died he got depressed. Tried adding another one and he stayed depressed until I put him in my community tank. Also he did fine with my honey gourami.
I always found that Beta`s were mostly subjected to fin damage from other fish, they were never a problem to any other fish. I had two 11 inch Oscars and they fought all of the time, I only had the two of them in a large tank, they were great and used to gaze as us when we walked through the room, great personalities but I had to separate them. I used to breed, Egyptian Mouth Brooders and U used the fry to feed the Oscars, it seems a bit cruel but, that is how nature works.
Black Convict cichlids is another very mean fish…….when they mate” these fish become very aggressive, and will even attack your hand” Their bites don’t hurt……but they are fearless. They also lay eggs like crazy.
No it never happened to me in over 40 years.I always did thorough research before I created any of my community tanks.Bettas are great centre fish in community fish.I love them with chilli, dwarf rasbora, Harlequin, caridinia shrimp (they never overtake the tank ;) .)kuhli loaches and Otocinclus and snails.I
I had an Oscar that lived with my place and black ghost knife. I found out that black ghost knife doesn't like other black ghost knives. When they get older they will fight unless the tank is 150 gallons. Even then they had squabbles.
I live in Australia I have a native tank with 4 7 barred archerfish, a few hyrtl catfish, a few tandanus catfish, a northern Saratoga and 2 salmon tail catfish. Anything I put in the tank (mainly rainbows) is food
I love bettas I have a few bettas all in seperate tanks and they all are so pretty 🥰 I honestly have all different kinda of fish and I keep everyone of them seperate except I have neon tetras with glowfish but they are peaceful and I have some ember tetras with shrimp in a planted tank 🥰 super tiny and cute
I got really looking that I had time with my Betta I had it hand trained and it lived happily with my guppies,tetras and rasbora but again I was lucky and I had time
One other to avoid are what comes in as "blue dolphin". Not the cichlid (Cyrtocara moorii) , but the predatory catfish (Cetopsis sp.). They are parasitic and rasp the flesh off anything they can get hold of (including your hand). Very attractive , but definitely needs to be kept alone.
i found this beautiful baby blue/neon pink female beta i fell in love with and had her for a few years! after her i found a few that were metalic pinkish but were eggbound when i bought them and passed within a week :(
For my 13th BD I got a 6" Arawana (sp?). We had Frozen brine shrimp to feed but my older brother had to buy5 small guppies to feed it. He added all 5 guppies at once & 4 were eaten quickly, but my arawana, it's belly distended like he'd swallowed a marble, had no interest in the 5th, so, my brother scooped his 4" long Jack Dempsey cichlid out of its tank and dumped him into my tank with my new BD present. The guppy died quickly and I told my bro to get his fish back in his tank, but he refused & A split second later my arawana's eye was in the cichlid's belly & a split second after that, so was the arawana's belly. I was so bummed that I left the arawana in the aquarium after 4 days it finally stopped swimming & floated! A month later we got home from a weekend camping/fishing trip to find Jack Dempsey on the floor dried up and stuck like glue to the linoleum floor. To our amazement, we noticed his little lips were moving and its gill was flapping. My brother tried to pick it up to no avail, so he got a glass of water, and a spatula and dissolved the fish glue, scraping it up with the spatula. He got it back in the tank for several more years! Talk about a survivor! Eye Of The Tiger!
I had a really dumb moment last year and got a "goldfish" from a carnival and now i wake up to a small blue and yellow ghost carp looking at me like "oh.... Your still alive 😒" or trying to break the glass until i put smt over the tank (i gave her some tetra brand "pond food color flakes" and she turned blue and i love it)
i always found that no matter the type as long as my tank was large enough and i had mutiple areas set up differently from one another i could keep pretty much all african cichlids together. I always have slate caves in some areas, lavarocks in another, plants throughout sand here, gravel there... Took me months to get it just right the first time to avoid too many fights but eventually i got it
many years ago, i picked up 2 buenos aires tetra. before the week had ended, they ate all my other fish. i had a beautiful swordtail with long tenrdils that was just a pile of skin on the floor. the store took them back and ive never had one since.
I once bought this Tandanus Catfish that ate ALL of my guppies during quarantine. He grew so bloated that one day I found him dead with a ruptured stomach.
Luckly for me, the coolest-looking fish I saw in my fish shop and absolutely had to have were... Congo Tetras, which definitely don't count as tank-m*rderers (and just happen to be perfectly suited for my 50 gallons / 190 litres). I anyway have had Bettas and my father have had Angelfish when I was a kid; about the first, male expecially really are unpredictable to the point I'd rather keep them alone (and anyway, in a tank the size of mine, I just have come preferring species like the Pearl Gourami, which I find much easier to manage); while about Angelfish, I remember them having gulped down whole schools of Neons and Rummynose, which for someone like me which has always loved small schooling fish have been sort of a "trauma". I'd like to try some Cichlid once I'll have more time, but I think I'll rather go with Apistos or Kribs, or even directly with Discus than Angelfish; sorry, but I've had sort of a bad "imprinting with them...
I was able to have 3 male bettas in one tank but it was a 75 gallons tank with lots of diffuser fish such as mollies and platies to keep them occupied... they had their own territory... if they do run into one another they had plenty of space to run off to... but the catch was that all males came from the same litter so they already knew one another... it was good for a year... then i had to separate them
I mean that's the reason why when you go to a shop or a competition they always put blinds in between each Flowerhorns or Bettas so they can't see each other even if they're in seperate tanks. Also where I came from Redtail Catfish are only found in dams and reservoirs. They're rarely found in rivers unless they're really deep. I think that should tell you enough about them. By the way they're delicious
I have two female bettas with 7 Glolight tetras, 1 Clown Pleco, 4 Ottos and 5 Nerite snails. I also had hundreds of cherry shrimp in a 20 gallon (which sprung a leak Christmas morning). Now they are in a 37 gallon aquarium minus the Cherry shrimp. I relocated them to other aquariums in the house. I'm going to get blue dwarf shrimp in the near future for the new aquarium. My female Bettas are pretty chill and well fed so I'm lucky I suppose. I may add some Celestial Peral Danios if I can breed the ones I have.
Female bettas arent territorial, only males are. Ypu can have 100 female bettas and they wouldnt do much to each other. Male bettas are territorial so its in thier nature to fight/defend their area.
With their vivid colors, rowdy temperament, and with respect to their alkaline pH preferences, I think African cichlids are the nearest thing to a freshwater “marine” fish. Like, if you wanted a saltwater tank but without the additional requirements of saltwater setups….
I have a Male and Female Dwarf Peacock cichlid in my 95 Gallon Planted Community tank. They are really great and fit in nicely but sometimes the male chases the female.
My father raised Oscars since I was a child. That fish was very beautiful and intelligent. I remember that it helped my father do water changes and allowed itself to be petted.
I love Oscar’s!! My first 2 fish was a paradise fish and an Oscar, I kept them together in a 75gallon, after about 2 years my paradise started to bully my Oscar and biting at him, one week later I got home from work to my Oscar floating upside down with my paradise still biting at him
I’m getting a tank and I plan on having 1 betta, 5 Cory Cats, 4 Kuhli loaches, and a few tetras(trying to figure out if I’m going for black neons or glow lights).
I’ve noticed Oscars do not like fish that swim above them because mine tried killing the arowana but fish that swim with or below them seem fine also mine don’t eat other fish at all
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My first aquarium…..I made the mistake of putting small water frogs in with my Oscar” the pet store told me they would be safe with Oscars” I bought 7 at $10 a piece.
I put the frogs in, and the Oscar left them alone, and seemed uninterested in them” I watched the tank for almost two hours…..amazed at how cool these water frogs looked” I ended up going to bed, and waking up…..only to see all 7 water frogs gone, and my Oscar swimming……around the tank in a trolling manner.
Dang it……outsmarted by the pet store, and the Oscar.
Oscar 7
pet store 7
Me -$70
the water frogs -7
Love, love Oscars. Back in my not so smart days of occasionally offering feeders, my Oscar decided he was friends with one. They lived harmoniously and the goldfish grew as large as him. 😅
LOL, he was like "this one, I will keep as a pet."
I thought Oscars and goldfish have very different water perimeters
@@sithminkodikara8054 They do. But i don't think he was counting on the goldfish to live in the tank as he said it was used for oscar food.
@@MarkoUntitled I was just surprised it survived
@@sithminkodikara8054goldfish are carp, they are way more hardy than people realize, and depending on the water they were bred in they can live in a great variety of water conditions
Every time I see a flowerhorn, I hear in my mind “It’s NOT a Tumah!” ;)
had an opportunity to get 2 baby tropical gar. 10 years, many tank sizes and tankmates later i still wish i would have thought it out a bit more. they are near 3 ft long and extremely aggressive.
My mom set up a marine aquarium, The fish: purple damsel, clown, green spotted puffer and Lionfish. Yep. Lionfish. The damsel went missing, then the clownfish, then the puffer, and Lionfish belly up after eating the GSP.
Hilarious!
Didn't you warn her about that?
@@michellebarnhill5130 I was ten years old at the time. Even if I had known, she wouldn't have listened to me.
@@MoniqueBoulangerMSG gotcha. Okay. Ironic that as a teenager my mom let us have a fishtank. It was a hexagon tank and the pet store told her angel fish liked neon tetras. We saw 10 neons go-to One very quick, paranoid tetra. They forgot to tell her Angel fish eat neons. That was before the Internet
@@michellebarnhill5130 Well, the DID tell you that angels "liked" neons…
Honestly, the worst tank murderers I ever had, all at different times were Zebra Danios, Tiger Barbs, and Cardinal Tetras.
Cardinal tetras?
Insane. With the exception of barbs, the rest are constantly promoted as your go-to fish for a peaceful community aquarium
Heh, your mention of Oscars eating anything small enough in their tank reminded me of the only time I've seen one in person. Way back when I actually had a car and could go places, I used to visit a pet store near where I worked and look at the various critters. I had multiple cats at home at the time. (I still can't actually have an aquarium because of family issues, so I watch vids...). But, to get back on track, one day while I was there, an employee accidentally dropped a box of feeder crickets while I was looking around the fishtanks and probably distracted by things more brightly colored. Until I heard a little sploosh, and I looked, and there's this huge (I think about 7-8 inches, but this was a good 20 years ago or so, so even with my weird memory for odd little snapshot-like visuals I can't trust that) dark grey fish just looking happy as can be as they snap up every cricket that got in their tank. After the employee caught as many crickets as they could and left the aisle, I happened to find a cricket they missed. And, I have to confess, promptly dropped that bug right in the Oscar tank. I have I have never forgotten that fish. That Oscar was not colorful or flashy, but remains the only fish I have any clear memories of looking at when I used to visit that place.
My jardini was legitimately crazy. Bro would jump a full foot out of the tank you attack your hand if you had food anywhere near the top of his tank. He had good aim, too, i might add.
Happened to me when I was a kid. Had some bug eyed gold fish. I was 7 don't yell at me too much. Got a catfish don't know what. Then my goldfish started to disappear. The pet store person looked at me and my dad like we were dumb when we told them the goldfish vanished and asked what does the catfish eat. Well, we got some feeders and that was that.
Oh boy did you really peg the "angel" fish! I got 5 babies from an aquaintence and new breeder when I was just still pretty new to the hobby (early high school) and those little twerps were awesome until two decided to become a breeding pair. They killed the other 3 one at a time then moved on to my established colony of danios, plattys, etc. and got rid of them. It was cool to see them lay eggs on the rocks and see the newly hatched fry but dang.... Didn't know I was trading a pair of angel fish for my established community tank. Baby angels are beautiful, but nothing remains a baby forever. Lesson learned.
I had a 6 inch Pictus catfish. Eats medium size tetras and all food. Had to find a new home for it. Bought it when it was tiny and never imagined that it would be a monster.
Ha, I had a great laugh at your list...., many years ago I owned a petshop and use to import tropical fish into Australia from Singapore. There was a very intriguing fish on the list (and a good price 🙄), it was called a "" Greenish Panther Angel", 5cm. The description was stunning. A beautiful angelfish with an iridescent green/bronze tint to them whilst covered in black spots...., 5cm (2") overall. Thinking these fish were cool, I ordered 20..., just to check them out. 5cm (2") was their body size...,, these fish were huge..., and STUNNING looking..., but man no fish had been more perfectly named. These guys were vicious with an appetite to match. They attacked and ate everything that was put in with them, needless to say I never ordered them again. (I even told our fisheries inspector (All fish had to be inspected at the airpport) to NOT allow these into Australia...., yes they were THAT nasty).
I caught a sunfish, about the same size as the lure. I took it home and put in my tank. A few hours later, there was one fish in there...
They are brutal but look great in a tank. I had one in a 180 gallon with 3 Pacus an Orange pike and 2 HUGE angels and no issues, but yea, anything smaller was toast
@@fossilkingdomwhen I was a kid my neighbors dad had a 40ish gal hexagon tank that had a bluegill in it.
It was a cool looking tank, setup with gravel, plants, and driftwood to look natural.
@@volvo09 I worked for a company that would maintain large aquariums. We had a client who was a big time hunter that had a 300+ gallon tank that was set up like that, had blue gill and large mouth bass in it. Was definitely cool
Angels will also eat fish small enough to fit in their mouths... this tends to happen with young neon tetras and adult angelfish.
Breeding angelfish are fascinating when you get a pair with the full parental instinct. We had a breeding pair at work, in the plant tank. When I had to reach in to clean the glass or grab a plant and they had eggs, they'd attack my hand, never mind that I'm a scary monster many times their size. They were all 'must protect the eggs!'
It was a bit inconvenient, but also quite endearing.
I mean, they ARE a species of cichlid
@@McChimkin123 That they are. It seems to take people by surprise when they don't act angelic though.
Omg that’s adorable!!
As a store owner its up to you to advise the buyer as to how they are. I have refused to sell certian fish to people.
I didn't understand how different and gorgeous Bettas could get until this channel. I just hate that they are little killers cuz in a perfect world I would love to have a rainbow betta tank!
It totally depends on the Betta. One of mine had to be moved to a tank by himself because he was being harassed by a violent gang of killer ember tetras. -_- Sarcasm aside, embers are peaceful little fish, but they are on the busy side, and one of them was getting kind of nippy. Some Bettas would have rained down utter carnage on the offending fish, but Boo (yeah, the name is personality-based) was just getting stressed out by them. He's much happier in the company of just a few snails.
If you keep multiple males together, you need plenty of hiding space. Each male will have his own territory. The alpha will get the best territory of course.
@@azntactical4884 yeah, seems like you need a massive, well planted tank to do it.
Mine wasn't a killer and my sister in law's were fine (she had 2 males in a 30 gallon) but some are really aggressive. The temperament varies hugely in bettas.
i kept mine in a 3 and a half gallon. he lived for 3 years. did weekly full water changes becouse its inpossable to balance a tank that small.
This always happens to new Fish keepers and even Experienced Fish keepers there’s no shame in this mistake
I'm not a fish guy, because i tend to move after a year or two and fish owning and moving regularly don't mix. I do have the magpie mind when it comes to my hobbies, so i do understand where you are coming from.
I've kept a pair of leucistic kissing gourami with a male and a female Siamese fighting fish for years with absolutely no fighting or aggression from either of them.
❤had a 220g tank and I had 2 fish in it because anything else was eaten. When they finally passed. My Jardini was 22 in long and my shovel nose cat, I believe it was a planiceps ,gorgeous white/brown modeled appearance was 28in. I either had to feed them pool comets , 3 to 5 in long or 100 feeders. Only 1 a week or so. I got bit by the Jardini every time I took water readings. Great fish but a handful
Great list. I was so obsessed with fish I over loaded my apartment with tanks. One fish I bought that I didn't do research on and paid dearly for was the Marble Goby. One at a time, my other fish began to disappear...
marble gobies are huge with huge mouths and most fish wouldnt even notice it cuz they’re ambush predators that bury themselves and blend in with rocks and sand like how stonefish do. gotta keep them with fish far lager then them or same size
Bought a Chinese algae eater. "Algae eater" is in the name. Dang thing is a carnivore! Killed a giant pearl scale goldfish I brought in for the winter. Would not stop attacking it, and one goldfish couldn't recover. Now it seems he's harassing the other small tankmates.
Been there, done that...
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I worked at a fish store and there were people who wanted a paradise fish to go along with their neons, glowlights, etc! I had to dissuade thrm from buying them.
I had a male betta that liked to attack the aquarium thermometer because it was glass and I think he could see a reflection if he was at exactly the right angle. He also displayed threateningly at small snails. Gorgeous fish, but stupidly over-aggressive.
When he got older, though, he developed a large tumor and couldn't swim as quickly. He was then a lot less aggressive and not dangerous, and got along fairly well with glowlight tetras and a pygmy cory (there was only one left at the petstore, and I never managed to find schoolmates for him though I tried) in a somewhat larger tank. He didn't like the honey gourami I introduced near the end of his life, but it could easily outswim him and did just fine. None of the other fish picked on him - it was purely a case of picking tankmates he couldn't bully. I'd never have tried the honey gourami when he was young though - he'd probably have killed it, and would definitely have tried.
So a lot depends on your betta. If you're going to try somewhat questionable things like I did with the honey gourami, you need to keep a very close eye on the fish, be able to read fish behavior and tell if they're getting stressed or sick, and have a backup plan for if stuff goes wrong. I don't recommend putting male bettas with other fish for beginners, or if you have a healthy young male betta who's aggressive. And really, a gourami in with a male betta is asking for trouble. I tried to divide the tank, but the divider failed to work properly, and then I realized they were actually okay together given how lumbering the betta now was. So I watched carefully, and lo and behold! they were all right.
My friends who owned them knew that and would see how long their beta fish would last tutoring then by showing their beta mirrors and watching them head but the tank until they died because it saw its reflection.
Awe I have a betta who is kinda scared of my mystery snail. He’s only scared of the antennas and they are in a 10 gallon tank. The mystery snail was with my dwarf gourami but my gourami thought the antennas were snacks so he went with the betta. Also my gourami is scared of Pygmy Corydoras. I think it’s bc he doesn’t like to be touched and the Pygmy’s like to snuggle all fish and plants.
Mine eats the mystery snail feelers. I'm going to end up with a snail tank instead of snails to clean the betta tank. 😅
Arowana's are what got me into aquariums way back in 1983. Still love them to this day.
One of my dream tanks is an Oscar. Need the the room.
You won’t be disappointed once you get them, I love my Oscar’s
@@bojohannesen4352 a bit no job no fish. Plus the house has 4 tanks already. Don’t know where I would put the tank.
I had this same impulse buy when I was starting, but lucky for me my impulse buy was just a friendly little golden comet platy 😅. (Just so you guys know, it was a cycled tank and soonly after we bought her some friends, and she ended up living 3 more years after we got her!)
Gotta thank the pet shop worker that made it VERY clear that my tank fish cannot handle any form of harps , saved my fishes lives and my wallet ( they cost a lot from where I live )
My spouse is the same way about snakes. We have friends who have snakes and I will always be happy to hold one of theirs for awhile in the far corner, happily, while my spouse is the other corner.interacting with the friends… tell Lisa she has a kindred soul-friend.
Loved my python. But I like my dogs better.
Male bettas don't grow more than 3 inches long, and the females are smaller and more docile. Like most territorial fish, bettas don't usually mind distantly related fish, although they are renowned for aggression toward their own kind (among males, anyway), and toward the related gouramis, as the video says. Otherwise, I've found there are plenty of community fish I can keep them with, but there is one interesting exception, which is not even a fish: African dwarf frogs. I have never been able to successfully keep bettas with African dwarf frogs for very long. Sooner or later, the betta kills one or more of the frogs, and I have to separate the survivors. So even though bettas are not uber-aggressive like many cichlids, I can see why they are on this list of "murderers."
I have had a Male Betta (Jim) for about two months and decided to get a bigger tank for him and also maybe some tank mates. I cycled my new 10 gallon tank and put in five neon tetra and two snails before putting in my beta, and my beta took out three of them. The snails are awesome too
Ong my jaguar took out all my fish even a 6 inch gold fish when he was only 3 inches
I have 2 female betas in a community tank and they are doing great. Even get in the feeding frenzy.
Strange brew is a fantastic movie Perfectly Canadian
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Oddly enough I have never had the issue of gourami's and Bettas together they always got along fine with me but I understand it can be a problem
I suppose it's kinda fitting that flowerhorns look like Pennywise
This video was very helpful! :) thanks so much for your content. Is there a video about creating a Betta Sorority? I see a lot of it on your channel and finally seen a thriving one in a local petstore. I would like to learn more about the process because it was fasinating to watch them interact.
U both are amazing... I too is a fish hobbyists..Lots of luv and respect from 🇮🇳 India..Honestly, your channel has quality content..
I've had 3 Flowerhorns. #1 was a vicious murderer. #2 was the friendliest fish you could imagine. He was huge and shared the tank with 4 Cichlids and always hung out by them. #3 shares his tank with 2 other Cichlids. Keeps to himself but no problems. Seems to work if you raise them together. You never know how it will work out until you try. BTW, they grow real fast, so I recommend you go with a juvenile.
On a side note, female bettas are less prone to mood swings compared to their male counterparts and are fine with other female bettas AS LONG AS THE TANK IS BIG ENOUGH. Those tanks are known as "sorority tanks" when they have multiple female bettas
Love Oscars and Bettas my 2 favorites and love your channel Merry Christmas 🤠🦅
Paid 9 dollars each for my colorful neo shrimp, bought 7 of them.. they were full grown too.. my betta had a very expensive meal. He ate all of them! 😮😢
Cool.
As a teen I had a small tank with a variety of small colorful freshwater fish. Then I bought two cute black and white Angel fish. One day I was cleaning the tank when they tried to bite me. They turned so aggressive out of no where. Then I realized they had laid eggs! I was not a breeder and was so surprised!
I have 5 female betta 63 gal sorority my girls never fought and rest near each other without issue no nipped fins and never killed anything
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Snails, African Dwarf Frogs and nano cats like the Asian Stone Catfish are good tankmates for Bettas.
Nonconspecificity is key.
What about the king of all murderers? Snakeheads!
What a great vid guys,i love angels but have not kept them in a few years,flowerhorns just look too out there for me but i know many love them
Never had luck with keeping a group of angels in a community tank. They seem to keep fighting each other
Thank you John and Lisa. Best wishes and Merry Christmas Guys 🎄🎋
I just started, don’t know if they’re mentioned, but South American Pufferfish. I was impulsive and uneducated, and made the worst decision ever. I had brought home 2 of these puffers and added them to a tank with a male betta. I eventually stopped seeing the betta, and found him with no fins remaining.
When i was 8 i though it would be a good idea to put my beta inside my 120 gallon oscar fish tank temporarily while i clean its tank. I thought that maybe since the betta is so small the oscars wouldn't notice it. Next thing i know the betta was gone and my oscars mouth was full. Dumbest decision of my life
I am watching the news, and I see there are horrible storms around your guys' area. I hope that you two are doing well and are safe.
Back in the 90’s snakeheads were the most aggressive fish I have ever had!
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You are my voice of reason. lol. I really want a "wet Pet" type of fish, but I really do NOT want a murderer.
LOL The redtail Cat story Literally got me laughing.
Yes big predatory fish can bite off more then they can chew, I saw a fossil of a giant extinct fish that had died choking on another fish close to its size, also saw on tv a payara that was floating, it was choking on another fish it tried to eat, the payara recovered after its meal was removed and it was placed back in the water,
So glad you guys decided to bring back this background music!!! It brings back memories from the old days😍
One time I added an African butterfly fish to my aquarium and that triggered my betta like nothing else, and when the betta attacked the butterfly fish fought back, and I thought it killed the betta until the betta regained consciousness and started swimming again. Was docile ever since.
4:52 I’m cooked I guess 😭
Oscars are cool. My buddy friend had a big Oscar. Raised It from young. Ate out of his hand. Trained it to jump out of the water to get the food he was holding. They have teeth. One day the food stuck to his thumb and he lost the tip of his thumb. Accident, yes, but he then started using tweezers. They are like puppy dogs.
Thanks for the strange brew reference. Good one
That's one of the best reasons to remain single with your giant man cave house or apartment. You never have to compromise for anything. As referring to the snake issue.
my 1 male cherry barb murdered my other 6 cherry barbs...
I have a bullhead that I caught when he was 1 cm and he’s the sweetest catfish ever my chiclids are friends with him
You can put female bettas together! It’s not recommended if you’re a beginner though. I heard you can’t put blood parrots with other species but I’ve seen them with other fish at the LFS so which is true? And when my twin snails Flotsam and Jetsam were alive Flotsam was with my sorority and Jetsam was with my boy Periwinkle my betta and they were the best of friends! It was so cute seeing Periwinkle sitting on Jetsam when he was on the glass and seeing them sleeping together was too cute ❤ they were best buddies Perry was sad like me when they died my girls loved Flotsam too!
My betta had a ghost shrimp he had for almost a year. When it died he got depressed. Tried adding another one and he stayed depressed until I put him in my community tank. Also he did fine with my honey gourami.
I always found that Beta`s were mostly subjected to fin damage from other fish, they were never a problem to any other fish. I had two 11 inch Oscars and they fought all of the time, I only had the two of them in a large tank, they were great and used to gaze as us when we walked through the room, great personalities but I had to separate them. I used to breed, Egyptian Mouth Brooders and U used the fry to feed the Oscars, it seems a bit cruel but, that is how nature works.
WOW!
Flower horns have a BIG problem on their head!
No wonder they are so aggressive!😳
Black Convict cichlids is another very mean fish…….when they mate” these fish become very aggressive, and will even attack your hand” Their bites don’t hurt……but they are fearless.
They also lay eggs like crazy.
No it never happened to me in over 40 years.I always did thorough research before I created any of my community tanks.Bettas are great centre fish in community fish.I love them with chilli, dwarf rasbora, Harlequin, caridinia shrimp (they never overtake the tank ;) .)kuhli loaches and Otocinclus and snails.I
I had an Oscar that lived with my place and black ghost knife. I found out that black ghost knife doesn't like other black ghost knives. When they get older they will fight unless the tank is 150 gallons. Even then they had squabbles.
I live in Australia I have a native tank with 4 7 barred archerfish, a few hyrtl catfish, a few tandanus catfish, a northern Saratoga and 2 salmon tail catfish. Anything I put in the tank (mainly rainbows) is food
Excellent video,informative and entertaining!!!
I love bettas I have a few bettas all in seperate tanks and they all are so pretty 🥰 I honestly have all different kinda of fish and I keep everyone of them seperate except I have neon tetras with glowfish but they are peaceful and I have some ember tetras with shrimp in a planted tank 🥰 super tiny and cute
I got really looking that I had time with my Betta I had it hand trained and it lived happily with my guppies,tetras and rasbora but again I was lucky and I had time
Also it was heavily planted
One other to avoid are what comes in as "blue dolphin". Not the cichlid (Cyrtocara moorii) , but the predatory catfish (Cetopsis sp.). They are parasitic and rasp the flesh off anything they can get hold of (including your hand). Very attractive , but definitely needs to be kept alone.
i found this beautiful baby blue/neon pink female beta i fell in love with and had her for a few years! after her i found a few that were metalic pinkish but were eggbound when i bought them and passed within a week :(
For my 13th BD I got a 6" Arawana (sp?). We had Frozen brine shrimp to feed but my older brother had to buy5 small guppies to feed it. He added all 5 guppies at once & 4 were eaten quickly, but my arawana, it's belly distended like he'd swallowed a marble, had no interest in the 5th, so, my brother scooped his 4" long Jack Dempsey cichlid out of its tank and dumped him into my tank with my new BD present. The guppy died quickly and I told my bro to get his fish back in his tank, but he refused & A split second later my arawana's eye was in the cichlid's belly & a split second after that, so was the arawana's belly. I was so bummed that I left the arawana in the aquarium after 4 days it finally stopped swimming & floated! A month later we got home from a weekend camping/fishing trip to find Jack Dempsey on the floor dried up and stuck like glue to the linoleum floor. To our amazement, we noticed his little lips were moving and its gill was flapping. My brother tried to pick it up to no avail, so he got a glass of water, and a spatula and dissolved the fish glue, scraping it up with the spatula. He got it back in the tank for several more years! Talk about a survivor! Eye Of The Tiger!
That was supposed to say that Jack lived on for several more years, not just that it was in that tank for several years.
I had a really dumb moment last year and got a "goldfish" from a carnival and now i wake up to a small blue and yellow ghost carp looking at me like "oh.... Your still alive 😒" or trying to break the glass until i put smt over the tank (i gave her some tetra brand "pond food color flakes" and she turned blue and i love it)
i always found that no matter the type as long as my tank was large enough and i had mutiple areas set up differently from one another i could keep pretty much all african cichlids together.
I always have slate caves in some areas, lavarocks in another, plants throughout sand here, gravel there...
Took me months to get it just right the first time to avoid too many fights but eventually i got it
many years ago, i picked up 2 buenos aires tetra. before the week had ended, they ate all my other fish. i had a beautiful swordtail with long tenrdils that was just a pile of skin on the floor. the store took them back and ive never had one since.
That has never happened to me. I used to work for petsmart and part of my job was to know what fish were compatible.
I once bought this Tandanus Catfish that ate ALL of my guppies during quarantine. He grew so bloated that one day I found him dead with a ruptured stomach.
8:15 I feel the same way about my dinosaur eels. ❤
Luckly for me, the coolest-looking fish I saw in my fish shop and absolutely had to have were... Congo Tetras, which definitely don't count as tank-m*rderers (and just happen to be perfectly suited for my 50 gallons / 190 litres).
I anyway have had Bettas and my father have had Angelfish when I was a kid; about the first, male expecially really are unpredictable to the point I'd rather keep them alone (and anyway, in a tank the size of mine, I just have come preferring species like the Pearl Gourami, which I find much easier to manage); while about Angelfish, I remember them having gulped down whole schools of Neons and Rummynose, which for someone like me which has always loved small schooling fish have been sort of a "trauma". I'd like to try some Cichlid once I'll have more time, but I think I'll rather go with Apistos or Kribs, or even directly with Discus than Angelfish; sorry, but I've had sort of a bad "imprinting with them...
I was able to have 3 male bettas in one tank but it was a 75 gallons tank with lots of diffuser fish such as mollies and platies to keep them occupied... they had their own territory... if they do run into one another they had plenty of space to run off to... but the catch was that all males came from the same litter so they already knew one another... it was good for a year... then i had to separate them
I mean that's the reason why when you go to a shop or a competition they always put blinds in between each Flowerhorns or Bettas so they can't see each other even if they're in seperate tanks. Also where I came from Redtail Catfish are only found in dams and reservoirs. They're rarely found in rivers unless they're really deep. I think that should tell you enough about them. By the way they're delicious
I have two female bettas with 7 Glolight tetras, 1 Clown Pleco, 4 Ottos and 5 Nerite snails. I also had hundreds of cherry shrimp in a 20 gallon (which sprung a leak Christmas morning). Now they are in a 37 gallon aquarium minus the Cherry shrimp. I relocated them to other aquariums in the house. I'm going to get blue dwarf shrimp in the near future for the new aquarium. My female Bettas are pretty chill and well fed so I'm lucky I suppose. I may add some Celestial Peral Danios if I can breed the ones I have.
Female bettas arent territorial, only males are. Ypu can have 100 female bettas and they wouldnt do much to each other. Male bettas are territorial so its in thier nature to fight/defend their area.
With their vivid colors, rowdy temperament, and with respect to their alkaline pH preferences, I think African cichlids are the nearest thing to a freshwater “marine” fish. Like, if you wanted a saltwater tank but without the additional requirements of saltwater setups….
I have a Male and Female Dwarf Peacock cichlid in my 95 Gallon Planted Community tank. They are really great and fit in nicely but sometimes the male chases the female.
A strange brew reference! Wow, I love it!
My father raised Oscars since I was a child. That fish was very beautiful and intelligent. I remember that it helped my father do water changes and allowed itself to be petted.
how did it help ur father do water changes
Always look forward to your videos. Happy Holidays.
When I first saw a pea puffer I fell in love. Thank god I did my research 😂
This list is literally my 5 year olds dream aqaurium.
I had a sweet and laid back Jardini.
I love Oscar’s!! My first 2 fish was a paradise fish and an Oscar, I kept them together in a 75gallon, after about 2 years my paradise started to bully my Oscar and biting at him, one week later I got home from work to my Oscar floating upside down with my paradise still biting at him
Whenever I see a tank of Tropheus Moorii and I try to explain to anyone looking at buying them what they are in for.
I’m getting a tank and I plan on having 1 betta, 5 Cory Cats, 4 Kuhli loaches, and a few tetras(trying to figure out if I’m going for black neons or glow lights).
I’ve noticed Oscars do not like fish that swim above them because mine tried killing the arowana but fish that swim with or below them seem fine also mine don’t eat other fish at all
Could you guys do a video highlighting monster fish that don’t need tank heating (cooler water species)?