For easy feeding: a little quality flake into a pestle and motar, add various freeze criteers like worms, daphnia, shrimpe etc, grind and bag it. This ground up mix will actually sink slowly and the chillis will 'hunt' it. There you are, diy micro predator fish food that you don't need to rotate as every bite is different.
Reacting to your care guide - 1) chili rasboras are so fragile in my opinion! - I've gotten two batches before of ten each and always had casualties. Overall I only have ten left overall between both batches which is expensive 😖 not surprised you had to medicate them 2) I've also noticed glass surfing behavior when new in the tank too, that definitely goes away with time but concerned me a lot at first 3) they very much prefer surface feeding from what I've seen! I like doing crushed krill flakes and baby brine too - also low current from a sponge filter means the food floats longer which they definitely prefer. They didn't like the HOB I used to have. Only other thing I have noticed as an issue is that local fish stores sometimes get Phoenix Rasboras or Exclamation Point Rasboras and they're sold as chilis when they're not which really sucks because chilis are so expensive! If you ever need someone to take the chilis off your hands by the way, I love chilis and would just adore having more in my five gallon office tank since there's only 10 in there right now 🤭
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that they can be really fragile! I thought it was just a one-off experience for me. Thanks for sharing all these details with the viewers. :)
Best fish ever for a really small aquarium. They are so tiny you can keep them even in 5 gallons. I added recently few to one of my aquariums. Cheers Irene.
Last week I purchased 20 chili rasboras and added them to a 10 gallon planted tank with 14 bloody Mary neo shrimp. I think they are too cute! Definitely pretty gregarious but so tiny it is hard to see them from far away. I may move them to my desk so they are easier to view! I have kept neo shrimp before both as a species only tank and part of community tanks. I think the Chilis are the perfect combo with the neos. Both are always our in the open, grazing and exploring! I have 5ish pygmy cories in another community tank, their friends have passed away over the past few years. I may add them in as well, I think they would be pretty happy together!
They are one of my favorite nano fish. I keep them with blue neon rasboras, pygmy cory, amano shrimps and cherry shrimps. Anh they are doing great. Chili rasboras are extremely outgoing. They come up to me whenever im nearby waiting to be fed. They are not shy at all. Love them to pieces. Thanks for the great video as always
I got my first chilis when I set up a 6.8 g planted tank a few months ago. They colored up very quickly, and I love their personable personalities. They come racing to the front when they see me moving around. I bought a school of 10 (I immediately had to treat for ich). Only lost 1 over the time since then, and that one jumped through the feeding hole in the cover. Doh! Unfortunately, I didn't find it until it was a fish crispy. 😕 Definitely a very small bio-load, and mine share the tank with ramshorn snails and blue dream and jade neocardina shrimp.
Oh, Irene - How did you know? 😂😊 This video is super well-timed for me 😊 I just picked up a large group of chili rasboras (my first ones) along with a few pygmy cories (also my first ones) from About Fish for my planted 6g cube whose betta just moved to another tank. The adorable-ness factor is out of this world! Hoping to add some yellow neocaridina which I think will do well with these buddies and look great on my black sand. Thank you for the insights into your experience! My chilis have only been with me a week or two, but I also noticed a definite “level up” in color when I started using the Xtreme krill flakes crushed up. Thank for the great videos!
I also have rasbora and pygmis. I would keep them isolated and not with other larger fish as they shy away from competing for food with larger fish. I had this problem with a few guppies.
Try putting them in a bigger tank with atleast 20 of them. Feed em well and then see their colours. It's possible that they aren't finding enough security with just 12 of them.
@@cheesehead4670 I have 2 German blue rams, 10 celestial pearl danios and 2 honey Gouramis right now, bunch of neocardina shrimp. Might be adding some rummy nose tetras as well.
I've kept Chili Rasbora/Dwarf Rasbora and Phoenix Rasbora for years and from my experience they do better in a bigger tank. The Dwarf Rasbora are a little bigger and do not school as much and the Phoenix Rasbora will go all over the tank especially towards the bottom and like the Dwarf Rasbora they are quite independent. These three varieties do school together though.
I just ordered a dozen of Chili Rasbora the other day! They are to complement my Scarlet Badis. Have you ever kept some Ember Tetra? It's my favorite tetra after the Cardinals. My Embers spawned in the main display tank, producing one tiny baby tetra, so adorable, chasing around the main horde! I also kept some of them in my 5G, they can school quite tightly even with just 6 of them. They are tough as nail too.
You do have a point though it took a while for mine to adjust to the aquarium and they were hanging in the corner a lot for a week and now they are very social, schooling with otos and my betta sometimes lol 😂
I love these guys. I have 20 in a 40 breeder. They school half the time as a whole group, and the rest oh the time they roam in smaller groups. Oh, and of course they all swarm at feeding time,
My mother's 2 fav fish are otos and chili rasbora..once they adapt to the tank they are very hardy fish but each tank transfer has cost me about 20 percent of the live fish..
I have a hard time finding them in my area. I bought some online and they are super fragile. The slightest thing will make them go pale and drop to the bottom of the aquarium. Mostly probably due to how tiny the seller shipped them as. It takes time for them to get adjusted.
The first two times I bought them, they never colored up. I think I ended up with a different variety. Mine hide at the top of the water in the corner in a shadow. Sometimes they venture out among the rocks and plants. They like to eat the Co-Ops Easy Fry food.
Lost a LOT of mine when I first got them. I dont think they handle shipping well. Since then mine have been doing well, have them mixed with shrimp and pygmy cory. Mine didnt really color up til my frogbit covered the top of the tank really shading it.
How does degrees of gh and kh relate to other ways of measuring them? The api test strips i use measure them in ppm also we measure nitrogen compounds in ppm as standard in the hobby so ppm makes sense to me but youtubers and care guides sometimes use ppm or degrees or mg and it gets confusing
Hello! I purchased chili’s as tiny little guys still with their black stripes, and very small. How long does it take for them to begin to get their red coloring? I’ve had them for almost 2 months and they’re still small. Also, my first batch have black spots as opposed to the stripe. At the store they were labeled as chili rasboras but now I’m wondering if they might have been miss labeled and might actually be dwarf chili’s?
I bought my chilies about 4 months ago when they were really small. No color and with the black stripe. But they’re still really tiny and haven’t turned red yet. I have them, 10 in a 5 gallon. How long does it take for them to grow out and color up?
I love your videos but I have to say that I totally disagree with your "proactive" way to use antibiotics to quarantine your fish when it is well known that antibiotic abuse or misuse is creating a big problem worldwide with antibiotic resistance. My two cents.
I’m not a fan of any aquarium size less then 10g to keep any kind of aquatic animal in. Did that in the past yrs ago. I have about 15 Chili Rasboras in a 15g with some cpd’s and neocaridina that I enjoy watching.
I think this may have convinced me NOT to try chili rasbora 😂 thank you for the information and presentation of it, as always. Maybe ember tetra would be better for me and my idea 🤔
I also think ember tetras would be really cool. I’m getting them next for my 10 gallon! You may already know this, but the only thing about them is that they don’t tend to school as much like some other types of tetras. I’ve also heard that they’re not too difficult to breed so that’s a project worth checking out.
@@typicallyusual6984 The schooling thing is why I wanted to explore other options, and I really love nano fish. I am looking to start up a planted 29 gal with a honey gourami centerpiece and I was thinking, since the space will be more than adequate, maybe of have two small nano schools like some neon blue rasbora and then something on the warm spectrum for color like the chili rasbora.
@@shelbycombs4320 The more you add the more likely they are to school. You might be able to manage it if you have a 29 gallon and have enough of them. You can even get otocinclus to school with enough of them.
@@typicallyusual6984 yes but this is true of many schooling fishes, it's not the end of the world if they don't school tightly. Im just looking at the options, really. Cherry barbs are another that I liked but they do get a bit bigger. I have a school of green neon tetra in my 40 gallon office tank and at about 15 of them or so they have a great schooling behavior.
Girl Talks Fish; Have you ever addressed how to get rid of detritus worms? I know you did the Planaria worms in an older video, however I don't know if that treatment is applicable to detritus worms also. I understand the probability of you reading this is very low so if anyone reading this has some information on how to get rid of detritus worms, please feel free to respond. I'm at my wits end with these annoying little worms.
They are so tiny and have such low bio load you can probably keep 10 in a 5 gallon and you would be fine. Also they come from low flow streams and aren’t like the usual bigger schooling fish who are very active
Hello sorry to bother you. yesterday i went to the fish store and tried to get a betta fish with my other fish in my aquarium (30 gallon), such as rashboras, neon tetras, panda garra, kuhli locahes, clown pleco and endler. I was very happy at that time thinking i was gonna get a betta fish. i asked them if i could get one with my fish (mostly endlers) and they said that they cant go together. were they right or wrong. i am really curious and i wanna know. learning from all the videos ive seen that guppys and endlers can be together. please tell me. have a good day
First time I bought them they all died apart from one as I quarantined them in a makeshift tank full of plants… the filter was cycled though. Bought some blue axelrodis a couple weeks later and they all survived. Would like to think it was just a bad batch of chilis… but anyone else have a similar experience? Didn’t even see the bodies.
@@Idkwhattoputhete12324 no not flip I don't think I want to say who thay are! Because they both are well known and im sure they do a great job it's just both are over 1000mil. away just ruff trip for that far... But thanks ✔️
*What fish should I try next in my 5-gallon aquarium? Preferably something I've never kept before...*
Pea puffers or a rare shrimp ecosystem
How can I make sure my clown pleco eats? I never ever see him. Will tossing an algae wafer in at night work? I would hate for her to starve
Have you kept African dwarf frogs? 5 gallon ideas are so difficult. Goodluck ❤
or a all micro aquarium like neon green rasboras and tiny corydoras
@@hbregup24 neither of those fish belong in a 5 gallon
For easy feeding: a little quality flake into a pestle and motar, add various freeze criteers like worms, daphnia, shrimpe etc, grind and bag it. This ground up mix will actually sink slowly and the chillis will 'hunt' it. There you are, diy micro predator fish food that you don't need to rotate as every bite is different.
So grind all the different frozen cubes and bag them into one, then refreeze for future feedings?
Just got five; over the moon thrilled. This is an amazing little fish!
My favorite nano fish of all time!! Prettiest, cutest, reddest little things.
Reacting to your care guide -
1) chili rasboras are so fragile in my opinion! - I've gotten two batches before of ten each and always had casualties. Overall I only have ten left overall between both batches which is expensive 😖 not surprised you had to medicate them
2) I've also noticed glass surfing behavior when new in the tank too, that definitely goes away with time but concerned me a lot at first
3) they very much prefer surface feeding from what I've seen! I like doing crushed krill flakes and baby brine too - also low current from a sponge filter means the food floats longer which they definitely prefer. They didn't like the HOB I used to have.
Only other thing I have noticed as an issue is that local fish stores sometimes get Phoenix Rasboras or Exclamation Point Rasboras and they're sold as chilis when they're not which really sucks because chilis are so expensive!
If you ever need someone to take the chilis off your hands by the way, I love chilis and would just adore having more in my five gallon office tank since there's only 10 in there right now 🤭
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that they can be really fragile! I thought it was just a one-off experience for me. Thanks for sharing all these details with the viewers. :)
Best fish ever for a really small aquarium. They are so tiny you can keep them even in 5 gallons. I added recently few to one of my aquariums. Cheers Irene.
Last week I purchased 20 chili rasboras and added them to a 10 gallon planted tank with 14 bloody Mary neo shrimp. I think they are too cute! Definitely pretty gregarious but so tiny it is hard to see them from far away. I may move them to my desk so they are easier to view! I have kept neo shrimp before both as a species only tank and part of community tanks. I think the Chilis are the perfect combo with the neos. Both are always our in the open, grazing and exploring! I have 5ish pygmy cories in another community tank, their friends have passed away over the past few years. I may add them in as well, I think they would be pretty happy together!
They are one of my favorite nano fish. I keep them with blue neon rasboras, pygmy cory, amano shrimps and cherry shrimps. Anh they are doing great. Chili rasboras are extremely outgoing. They come up to me whenever im nearby waiting to be fed. They are not shy at all. Love them to pieces. Thanks for the great video as always
How about Green Kubotai Rasboras, Irene?
what diet u have them on
I got my first chilis when I set up a 6.8 g planted tank a few months ago. They colored up very quickly, and I love their personable personalities. They come racing to the front when they see me moving around. I bought a school of 10 (I immediately had to treat for ich). Only lost 1 over the time since then, and that one jumped through the feeding hole in the cover. Doh! Unfortunately, I didn't find it until it was a fish crispy. 😕 Definitely a very small bio-load, and mine share the tank with ramshorn snails and blue dream and jade neocardina shrimp.
Oh, Irene - How did you know? 😂😊 This video is super well-timed for me 😊 I just picked up a large group of chili rasboras (my first ones) along with a few pygmy cories (also my first ones) from About Fish for my planted 6g cube whose betta just moved to another tank. The adorable-ness factor is out of this world! Hoping to add some yellow neocaridina which I think will do well with these buddies and look great on my black sand. Thank you for the insights into your experience! My chilis have only been with me a week or two, but I also noticed a definite “level up” in color when I started using the Xtreme krill flakes crushed up. Thank for the great videos!
I also have rasbora and pygmis. I would keep them isolated and not with other larger fish as they shy away from competing for food with larger fish. I had this problem with a few guppies.
Try putting them in a bigger tank with atleast 20 of them. Feed em well and then see their colours. It's possible that they aren't finding enough security with just 12 of them.
I have 50 of them in my 125 gallon. My favorite fish.
@@WHlSKYx can I ask what else you have in that tank.
@@cheesehead4670 I have 2 German blue rams, 10 celestial pearl danios and 2 honey Gouramis right now, bunch of neocardina shrimp. Might be adding some rummy nose tetras as well.
I have two
@@WHlSKYx :
I need to set up a quarantine tank...do you leave that running always? Also, do you always add the water from the transport to your tank?
Great guide! Just so you know it's said pea puffers should be kept in small shoals meaning a tank size of 15+ gallons would be needed
I always feel bad when I see these comments, cause I just have 1 :(
She seems happy though.
@@theangleraquarist yeah, this is fairly new info so not too many people know about it
@@lemonlizard1 right. She is just my favorite fish, I don’t even know how I would replace her if I rehomed her
I've kept Chili Rasbora/Dwarf Rasbora and Phoenix Rasbora for years and from my experience they do better in a bigger tank. The Dwarf Rasbora are a little bigger and do not school as much and the Phoenix Rasbora will go all over the tank especially towards the bottom and like the Dwarf Rasbora they are quite independent. These three varieties do school together though.
Hey irene! So glad you back to uploading long videos!
Even though they can be a little picky, they are still my favorite nano fish. Thanks for the tips on how best to keep them.
👍💖👍
I just ordered a dozen of Chili Rasbora the other day! They are to complement my Scarlet Badis. Have you ever kept some Ember Tetra? It's my favorite tetra after the Cardinals. My Embers spawned in the main display tank, producing one tiny baby tetra, so adorable, chasing around the main horde! I also kept some of them in my 5G, they can school quite tightly even with just 6 of them. They are tough as nail too.
I love ember tetras!
Love my ember tetras
They are really *Chill* -(i) fish.
Not a fish for me, but I VERY much appreciate your time in learning and teaching the rest of us about these little guys.
Love my chili rasboras! Great fish with a a ton of color!
Chili rasboras are such beautiful little fish. I wouldn't mind having some one day.
Thank you Irene! I’ve been struggling on choosing my next rasbora. You helped me decide to not keep THE most popular one but try something else!
You do have a point though it took a while for mine to adjust to the aquarium and they were hanging in the corner a lot for a week and now they are very social, schooling with otos and my betta sometimes lol 😂
I love these guys. I have 20 in a 40 breeder. They school half the time as a whole group, and the rest oh the time they roam in smaller groups. Oh, and of course they all swarm at feeding time,
Mine have done very well with my sparkling gouramis and mine’s favorite foods are hikari micro pellets and crushed Xtreme Krill flakes
My mother's 2 fav fish are otos and chili rasbora..once they adapt to the tank they are very hardy fish but each tank transfer has cost me about 20 percent of the live fish..
Great Info & Video. Well Done Irene. Thank you.👍👍👍👍👍👍
I have a hard time finding them in my area. I bought some online and they are super fragile. The slightest thing will make them go pale and drop to the bottom of the aquarium. Mostly probably due to how tiny the seller shipped them as. It takes time for them to get adjusted.
Really nice! I have thought Chili Raboras. ~Gina Hetlage
Would daphinia be a good food for them?
The first two times I bought them, they never colored up. I think I ended up with a different variety. Mine hide at the top of the water in the corner in a shadow. Sometimes they venture out among the rocks and plants. They like to eat the Co-Ops Easy Fry food.
What are the three treatment products?
Do you have a video of how you make your “quarantine tub”? I would love to put one together. Thanks!
Lost a LOT of mine when I first got them. I dont think they handle shipping well. Since then mine have been doing well, have them mixed with shrimp and pygmy cory. Mine didnt really color up til my frogbit covered the top of the tank really shading it.
Do you have any details on how exactly you add the med trio?
Hi Irene! How are you?
Irene can you keep them in a 6 gal with a betta it would be heavily planted
Quick question.. will these eat guppy fry or are they too small to eat guppy babies? Ty
Hey there
PLEASE respond ❗🙂
Say what @ 5:38, easter grass?
What is that, I wanna try it 🙂
Thanks
How does degrees of gh and kh relate to other ways of measuring them? The api test strips i use measure them in ppm also we measure nitrogen compounds in ppm as standard in the hobby so ppm makes sense to me but youtubers and care guides sometimes use ppm or degrees or mg and it gets confusing
Good review
Hello! I purchased chili’s as tiny little guys still with their black stripes, and very small. How long does it take for them to begin to get their red coloring? I’ve had them for almost 2 months and they’re still small. Also, my first batch have black spots as opposed to the stripe. At the store they were labeled as chili rasboras but now I’m wondering if they might have been miss labeled and might actually be dwarf chili’s?
Do you think I could put 3,4 or 5 of them in a 5 gallon with a betta?
they are pretty cool
I bought my chilies about 4 months ago when they were really small. No color and with the black stripe. But they’re still really tiny and haven’t turned red yet. I have them, 10 in a 5 gallon. How long does it take for them to grow out and color up?
Baby brine shrimp, is great for them
I love your videos but I have to say that I totally disagree with your "proactive" way to use antibiotics to quarantine your fish when it is well known that antibiotic abuse or misuse is creating a big problem worldwide with antibiotic resistance. My two cents.
Been a little while since the last video
Thanks
How big would you setup a breeding tank?
Is it possible to house them with a betta?
(In a 10 gallon?)
wow you have a deep voice^^
She is a real woman btw!
I’m not a fan of any aquarium size less then 10g to keep any kind of aquatic animal in. Did that in the past yrs ago. I have about 15 Chili Rasboras in a 15g with some cpd’s and neocaridina that I enjoy watching.
I have 30 in a 20 gallon tank. They school well in high numbers...
Gotta go with guppies!!
It's the best fish for a 65 gallon tank too
Will tropical flakes work just fine instead of krill flakes? I also have freeze dried brine shrimp
I think this may have convinced me NOT to try chili rasbora 😂 thank you for the information and presentation of it, as always. Maybe ember tetra would be better for me and my idea 🤔
I also think ember tetras would be really cool. I’m getting them next for my 10 gallon! You may already know this, but the only thing about them is that they don’t tend to school as much like some other types of tetras. I’ve also heard that they’re not too difficult to breed so that’s a project worth checking out.
@@typicallyusual6984 The schooling thing is why I wanted to explore other options, and I really love nano fish. I am looking to start up a planted 29 gal with a honey gourami centerpiece and I was thinking, since the space will be more than adequate, maybe of have two small nano schools like some neon blue rasbora and then something on the warm spectrum for color like the chili rasbora.
@@shelbycombs4320 The more you add the more likely they are to school. You might be able to manage it if you have a 29 gallon and have enough of them. You can even get otocinclus to school with enough of them.
@@typicallyusual6984 yes but this is true of many schooling fishes, it's not the end of the world if they don't school tightly. Im just looking at the options, really. Cherry barbs are another that I liked but they do get a bit bigger. I have a school of green neon tetra in my 40 gallon office tank and at about 15 of them or so they have a great schooling behavior.
Girl Talks Fish;
Have you ever addressed how to get rid of detritus worms? I know you did the Planaria worms in an older video, however I don't know if that treatment is applicable to detritus worms also.
I understand the probability of you reading this is very low so if anyone reading this has some information on how to get rid of detritus worms, please feel free to respond. I'm at my wits end with these annoying little worms.
WHY? thats food for your fish!
My molly: mmm yummy snek
god bless you irene
finnaly a girl talks fish nano fish tutorial
Hello
What's up guys
3 dollars each? In Vietnam they’re 50 cents per 20
Good luck shipping them from Vietnam then.
Do you consider Chili Rasbora the Boraras brigittae or the maculatus?
In the video, it is clearly wittten as Boraras brigittae.
Snail darter's are off the extinction list...is anyone breeding them??
I think they should be kept in 10 gallons or bigger. 5 gallons aren’t really big enough for any schooling fish IMO
They are so tiny and have such low bio load you can probably keep 10 in a 5 gallon and you would be fine. Also they come from low flow streams and aren’t like the usual bigger schooling fish who are very active
5 gallons is plenty for fish this size.
@@dcsoda1 that’s why I said it was my opinion
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Hello sorry to bother you. yesterday i went to the fish store and tried to get a betta fish with my other fish in my aquarium (30 gallon), such as rashboras, neon tetras, panda garra, kuhli locahes, clown pleco and endler. I was very happy at that time thinking i was gonna get a betta fish. i asked them if i could get one with my fish (mostly endlers) and they said that they cant go together. were they right or wrong. i am really curious and i wanna know. learning from all the videos ive seen that guppys and endlers can be together. please tell me. have a good day
This is not a dm.
@@GenRN i didnt ask you
30 g is a lot if space , just make sure to Have lots of play by a or hiding spots. Don't see why you can't put a betta in there
too late@@TheHenryDuong now i have a 125 LITER aquarium with the same fish
@@grooviercurve8040 aha good to hear , Betta too ?
First time I bought them they all died apart from one as I quarantined them in a makeshift tank full of plants… the filter was cycled though.
Bought some blue axelrodis a couple weeks later and they all survived. Would like to think it was just a bad batch of chilis… but anyone else have a similar experience? Didn’t even see the bodies.
They don't ship well!! Got 10 all dead.. reordered 14 another place all dead.
Guess I'll just stay with guppy's.
Dang it!!!!!
Huh. Maybe it’s that place that is bad
@@Idkwhattoputhete12324 from 2 different places both can't be bad 😞
@@philipellis1865 oh
@@philipellis1865 which ones? I think flip aquatics is good and if you got them from their, then idk
@@Idkwhattoputhete12324 no not flip
I don't think I want to say who thay are! Because they both are well known and im sure they do a great job it's just both are over 1000mil. away just ruff trip for that far...
But thanks ✔️
you know gallons means nothing to most of the world?