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Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Cant believe how much attention this video is getting! Thanks a lot guys! Be sure to check out some of my other videos!

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

It is a Gardneri Killifish.

colinbarsby - 7 years ago

Gardneri Killifish. :)

Chicago Papi - 7 years ago

Coastal Carolina Aquatics I honestly believe that a lot of attention that you are garnering is the result of the wonderful photo of the very beautifully colorful two fish that you used as a cover pic for your above youtube video. Unfortunately you never mentioned in your video what type of fish those are. That's what we wanna know, well at least I do.

Cap'n Spicy - 7 years ago

Great vid, Keep it going... I kill guppies

Michigan Cichlid King - 6 years ago

Nice video I subscribed check out my vids and subscribe also please.

ulises olivares - 6 years ago

gupies and any tetras and angels are good aswel.

Heisenberg - 6 years ago

the issue with guppies not salty water as much as inbreeding. Guppies can adapt to very salty water and completely fresh water as well. From a water parameter perspective guppies prefer hard water. But the biggest issue is the inbreeding. heavy inbreeding causes there gene pool to become weaker over generations of inbreeding.

alex leyba - 6 years ago

cool video

Jade Maestas - 7 years ago

I actually have 3 males living peacefully together... They will sleep in the same area. They do well eating in the same area. Not only that but they are also living with 4 females. And I haven't had any problems. Going on 1 month now so far.

Burbing Berries - 7 years ago

Each betta is different. I have one Betta thats flares up and attacks snails. My other betta, you could put another male in there and as long as he don't start nothing, it wont be nothing.

Døg ;-; - 7 years ago

I just have common mosquito fish.

Avramy Steinmetz - 7 years ago

Can all of these fish (mentioned in the video) be put together in one 55 gallon tank?

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

55 Gallons is a big size for a community tank. As long as you have lots of hiding places and for fish if they start to get bullied you could have all of these fish just maybe not the tiger barbs.

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Shabba Ranks - 7 years ago

If you see these at your...

Nil Sikder - 7 years ago

why not cherry shrinp

LATERALeaF - 7 years ago

I have one rainbow fish, three swordtails, six zebra danyeils and one shrimp

Ranganath R - 7 years ago

Good collections

Владимир пушкин - 7 years ago

My amano shrimp are un-die-able

Rick Bell - 7 years ago

Let’s talk about Bettas. A betta, pronounced BED-uh, is a fish. Beta, pronounced BAY-tuh, is the second letter in the Greek alphabet.

Marija Stonkute - 7 years ago

I have my guppies for 2 years now. The point is that you have to have more females than males (1:3). Mollies tend to be more agressive than gouramies ( i have both of them) . I don't recommend starting with white mollies ( they need more care) you can start with black, orange because they're not so sensible to water parametres.
If wanna know more about fishes and shrimps and how to keep them healthy write me ( stonkute0ma@gmail.com ). I had my first aquarium in 2007, and it was 30gallons . Now i have 3 60gallon aquas in my house. It's just my and mine husband hobbie.

Fred Smith - 7 years ago

guppies need a higher PH if you have soft acidic water your guppies will not thrive.

jethropike - 7 years ago

Guppies were the first fish I ever kept, the males can be very similar looking to the females, the best way to tell the difference is the anal fin, the males have a long pointed fin, the females have a normal triangular fin, you can also tell when your females are gravid they develop a dark patch near their anal fin,

hunting caracal - 7 years ago

actually betta is a fish for professionals they are like chickens they actually fight to death fins rip this challenge the care taker to grow back the fins and lot more!

James Hack - 7 years ago

If you have a densely planted tank with enough space they'll leave most other fish alone.

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Spartin11794 - 7 years ago

Agreed on the guppy theory. I got like 5 fancy guppies and $1 worth of baby regular guppies (10), which my local pet store sell as feeder fish, and all of the fancy ones died but now I have like 40 regular ones with decent color variations and are starting to get bigger as well due to natural selection. Also if any die usually I have one have babies soon there after to replace the ones I lost.

Charlie Yang - 7 years ago

Which is more hardy?
Killifish or Betta.

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

I would have to go with Betta fish just from the fact that they are known to be able to survive in small containers without proper filtration.

Fred Smith - 7 years ago

how hard is your water and what's it PH.? Guppies require a higher PH. harder water.

Rune Hoffman - 7 years ago

if you had gubbies alongside your Mollys, that night answer your gubby problem.. the Molly WILL eventually kill off the gubbies, often done through starvation.. Mollys are best at a species specific aquarium ;-)
Also, they Are actually (the Molly) saltwater/brackish fish, not freshwater..
otherwise good video :-)

clarence siason - 7 years ago

guys selling you "breeder" guppies are actually old guppies ... about to die... alot of breeders do that and fancy guppies are selective bred (inside a lab/fishroom) so it means that they are very sensitive to water temperture fluctuations compared to norml guppies that re well adapted to almost any enviroment .. guppies are not ssemi-salty fish (brackish) .. but mollies are lol advise on tiger brbs buy 10 or more cause they die of depression if they get lonely oh all the guppies you have are males you can determine their sex by looking at their "anal" fin

Gurney Harrell - 7 years ago

I have a 40 gallon breeder of just fancy guppy's. Maybe had a dozen deaths in the last year. Out of the 4-5 generations of new guppy's.

callen hall - 7 years ago

its not the breeder fancy guppies are a brackish water fish which means they live in freshwater but there is also some saltwater for example at the mouth of a supposedly fresh water river that empties into a bay or the gulf for some part of that freshwater river turns into brackish water

Predatorboy92 - 7 years ago

Hi I'm thinking of buying juwel rakord 700l tank as a beginner tropical owner how many could I have? I was thinking 18-20? 4 guppies x3corys cats 5neon , what fish would be peaceful with guppies don't want fin nippers. Thanks

Fishman - 7 years ago

Interesting list. The only thing I would disagree with is that rams aren't beginner fish.

Sivaram Rm - 7 years ago

But they will hunt down the red cherry shrimps..

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Mike Kollin - 7 years ago

What was the name of the fish in the thumbnail? That was Awesome!!

Tracy S - 7 years ago

The guppy on the left is a female...not a plain guppy

Michael Graham - 7 years ago

I will say yes golden wonder kilis will not die but word of warning. they are predators. If it fits it will eat. I had a 4 inch male that killed off my glow and neon tetras. and the little 2 inch male killed my rasboras.

Sam Gullion - 7 years ago

I once had a guppy that lasted for 3 and a half years. The reason your guppies don't last long is more st likely poor genetics.

lynni mendelero - 7 years ago

Lol killifish look like mini arowanas

Buttersen Element - 7 years ago

I have a fresh water fish tank and I got three barbs and two the got stuck on a artificial plant and one died is there a problem

Golden Vaporeon - 7 years ago

How big of a tank do u need for a few rainbow fish

2 Square Studios - 7 years ago

at the end of video.
Those fish have to be hardy to survive in that tank. That water is not very clear. Tank film on glass. Just pointing out the obvious.

TrapStar003 - 7 years ago

guy, you should clean your tank a little more often.

MeMiri O - 7 years ago

Your tank looks milky, did you add anything to the water like a clarifier?

MeMiri O - 7 years ago

my guppies all last at least 5 months, some have actually had live fry and they have lasted me a year.

essef one - 7 years ago

MeMiri O 5 months? What are you guys doing wrong? Guppies have lasted years in my tanks! Live food, a well planted tank and a slow water flow may help.

EPA18 - 7 years ago

Sorry, I don't agree with you on Blue Rams. A lot of times they don't eat! I have had them, and they wouldn't touch flake food.

David Carter - 7 years ago

PLEASE RESPOND! As you said, the bristlenose pleco is good, but I want the rubbernose in my tank just by himself, so, how big do they get?

David Carter - 7 years ago

Beta is good for solo, they MIGHT kill other fish, but some are just EVIL LITTLE BUTTS. (Some, not all)

essef one - 7 years ago

David Carter Betta Splendens are not aggressive fish. Some species of Betta are though.

OnIoN4UrTrUbLeS - 7 years ago

Nice fish list sir! I have the golden wonder as well and he jumps for frozen food eating from the tip of the straw.

Europa Man - 7 years ago

Rams and Gouramis , especially dwarfs, are not for beginners and small tanks. They are perceptive and nervous.

J PumpkinKing - 7 years ago

The guppy on the left is a female fancy guppy, just FYI. It's not a regular guppy.

JPs VlogUK - 7 years ago

You have missed a lot out mate

Channidae - 7 years ago

Blue ram? You crazy?! They are tricky as fuck because of inbreeding. Wild caughts are easy but the ones you buy in the store are hard to keep

champ anderson - 7 years ago

my baby female Betta is a Savage....kills EVERYTHING

essef one - 7 years ago

champ anderson Is it a Betta Splendens?

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Brady Lafantaisie - 7 years ago

My guppies last forever

Bossray Twotiimes - 7 years ago

BL's herps about how long have you had them ( the originals ) and do u have videos

Chicago Papi - 7 years ago

What kind of fish are those two on your cover photo of this video? They are most especially beautiful.

freshwater aquatics - 7 years ago

Lordmonfil - 7 years ago

Anyone know the fish from the thumbnail????

Derpalotl Exotics - 7 years ago

Henry Boettlin *killifish

Henry Boettlin - 7 years ago

Lordmonfil killfish

Alexis Wilson - 7 years ago

3:26 my luck i would wake up sleepy and freak out thinking it's dead

David Carter - 7 years ago

Alexis Wilson bwhahahaha yeah!

Nick Levene - 7 years ago

holly hell...my damn guppies will not stop breeding...lol

Nick Levene - 7 years ago

cool...my guppies live in a 250 gallon tank...full set up with a sump filter system...a over kill for sure but they look great and some of them are over a year old.

Alexis Wilson - 7 years ago

Nick Levene that is why my chiropractor had a 50+gallon guppy tank

Hayden Northcott - 7 years ago

your problem with the guppies is that you dont put them together. the guppies without colour are female and the ones with colour are male. not that the colourful ones are "fancy". put the males and females together and they will live longer and breed. think about what its like with no women. us guys would die! lol

iCST - 7 years ago

What about the tetras? Black widow, black phantom, bleeding heart, colombian, rummy nose are all really hardy and long-lived. Cory cats too. For some reason I don't have much luck with killifish. Sometimes you get a male killifish who's an asshole and kills the rest of the males, and they don't live long because they usually die in the dry season in their natural habitat. Just my experience though. Gread vid!

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Thanks for the comment! I've never tried tetras just not my cup of tea I guess. I'm sure they are great fish though! I have a Cory Cat in my Community Tank for about a year now and he is doing great!

david diehl - 7 years ago

When you buy Guppies, buy pregnant females. Guppies are a mass bread fish. Sold for quantity not quality.

Jake Holtz - 7 years ago

ive learned freshwater fish do like a bit of salt

Stephen Curragh - 7 years ago

What are the fish in the picture for this video, the multicoloured ones, they look cool?

RaptorPlayzGames RPG - 7 years ago

Stephen Curragh Provably too late but they're called killifish

david w - 7 years ago

how strange, my experience with guppies is that theyre really hardy, and they breed like crazy

Nev T - 7 years ago

Lovely video, but yehh your right hand guppy pic is of a male and the left a female, and both are 'fancy'. Male may have been less hardy because it is slower moving and susceptible to being picked on by fin nippers like barbs.
Ratio of at least 2 females per male works well and they'll breed away.

Jake Micallef - 7 years ago

Ram cichlids are pretty agressive in my experience

Aryama Chatterjee - 7 years ago

tiger berbs...are very bad..

Rory - 7 years ago

Your problem is the sawed tails thay kill fancy guppys

Pahoua Lee - 7 years ago

If guppy die so fast how it great for beginner.????????

Becki L - 7 years ago

Pahoua Lee For me these fish are pretty hardy. Fancy guppies were my first fish and they are almost a year old now. They also lived through me cycling a tank back before I knew more about fishless cycling. too.

Aaron Rodrigue - 7 years ago

are plecos sensitive because mt clown and my rubber pleco died

David Carter - 7 years ago

Fishie Fisherson what kind of pleco is it and how big? I'm looking to get a small pleco for a 20 gallon (minimum size tank for pleco) At this point I will take any small pleco, if there are lots of options then the one I want most, but please say what kind and how big it is.

Aaron Rodrigue - 7 years ago

ok but i had algae wafers and now my new plecostomus is doing well

Meme Hevi - 7 years ago

they died most likely because of starvation they need enough food to reach the bottom

Dylan Walker - 7 years ago

I'm Surprised that the Great White Shark isn't on this list, only need a 1-2 gallon tank and only nibble you. (Aka maul).

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

+Dylan Walker That would have been my 11th pick.

David diaz - 7 years ago

bettas are aggressive toward slow fish and fish with brighter colors also they will eat the dwarf shrimp species

Videl EF - 7 years ago

yup.. I started with guppies.. and i no longer have any of them...

paguywang - 7 years ago

red alt aquarium

Videl EF - 7 years ago

my guppies didnt die from one day to another, but yes.. after a while got a bit harder to keep them, specially since other fishes would chase them..

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

I agree. My LFS doesn't have guppies for some reason so the only ones I have ever owned are from Petco.

Harsha Gowda - 7 years ago

Videl EF I also started with guppies and you know what they are doing absolutely fantastic it's been nearly 10 months since I have them. I started with 3 pairs but now they have multiplied to 12pairs.

I think it all depends upon the quality of the fish and from where you get them.
I got mine from a local guppy breeder in my town.

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Yes I have had my fair share of guppy fatalities. I think its a mixture of the fact that i didn't have any aquarium salt in my tank and that the pH of my tap water is relatively high. Thank you for watching!

Artoo - 7 years ago

No the problem isn't by the guppy itself because mine lasted for a year

Artoo - 7 years ago

Becki Lynch Hey that's good!! I have 3 females and 3 males and I have almost over 20 fry babies!! There are so many!!

Becki L - 7 years ago

Artoo I have 4 that are almost a year old too.

Sean Ford - 7 years ago

My upside down catfish loves to rest by the heater.

David Carter - 7 years ago

Sean Ford ok thanks, just in case I think I will get 25 Gallon in case it grows larger or something

Sean Ford - 7 years ago

David Carter they get about 6 inches so I would say a 20 gallon give or take.

David Carter - 7 years ago

Sean Ford bristlenose, I want the smallest tank I can have to get one.

Sean Ford - 7 years ago

David Carter which the Otocinclus or the bristle nose pleco.

David Carter - 7 years ago

Sean Ford ok thanks, so I only need a 30 gallon pretty much. Thanks! How big is it though?

Sean Ford - 7 years ago

David Carter my upside down catfish died but soon we will replace him and some good plecos are bristle nose plecos but I have an otocinclus in my 29 gallon and he does pretty well at cleaning the tank.

David Carter - 7 years ago

Coastal Carolina Aquatics mine did too, but we didn't know they grew so big at the time, overnight, yup, OVERNIGHT it grew like 6 inches and it attacked the fish so we had to get rid of him....

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Cool stuff! My pleco likes to hang out around my heater sometimes as well. Thanks for watching!

BusyPetKeeping 101 - 7 years ago

I feel like the killifish looks like a mini arapaima

Jackie Varughese - 7 years ago

Hayden Northcott Yeah, Killifish are serious jumpers, I remember back when I didn't have a lid, I had couple tiger panchax, once woke up in the morning and made my way to find one of em on the floor, I thought it was dead but I picked it up and it started wiggling and I put it back in the tank

Hayden Northcott - 7 years ago

i used to know a guy who had a kilifish almost 3 inches and it would jump out of the water to eat worms, those things are vicious after a couple years hahah

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Of course! I try to always reply to all my comments. If you take the time to write a comment i will take the time to respond. Thanks for watching!

BusyPetKeeping 101 - 7 years ago

Coastal Carolina Aquatics woah you replied

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

I agree! Their upturned mouths and elongated bodies make them look like mini arapaima!

Dounut Trent - 7 years ago

You made a mistake dwarf gourmI the one on the right are agresive 3 spot are not as agresive

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

No mistake, Blue spot Gouramis grow much larger and are more aggressive than dwarf Gouramis, although they are not always aggressive. Like all fish there are exceptions.
link to website stating blue spot are aggressive http://www.fishlore.com/profile-bluegourami.htm
Link to website stating dwarf Gouramis are peaceful http://www.fishlore.com/Profiles-DwarfGourami.htm
And http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+882+974&pcatid=974
Thanks for checking out my video and leaving a comment though!

Sector 001 - 7 years ago

I would not recommend the tiger barbs, as you point, they are aggressive fin nippers. It is a shame because they are so cool looking.

Mortal Wombat - 7 years ago

Have you tried green tiger barbs?
They are less aggressive than the regular kind. And they look cool too.

Alexis Wilson - 7 years ago

Sector 001 just like bettas, it depends. I had a barb along time ago. he was chill. I only had one because that's all the store had and they did not get any for a while.

s - 7 years ago

Sector 001 from what I've heard, cherry barbs are a bit better

BusyPetKeeping 101 - 7 years ago

Sector 001 better to keep a large school in its own tank

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

+Sector 001 Thanks for your input! Sadly aggresion is a problem.

nathan hunt - 7 years ago

my betta chewed my placos head off

Bowser from Sonic - 6 years ago

nathan hunt how?

Sean Parmer - 7 years ago

I've been having trouble with my Tiger Barb. I put them in my Community tank in a school of 6 and by week 2 there were only 2 left. I don't know what I am doing wrong in keeping them. I did research in the fish I am keeping them with and none of the other fish have died except the Barbs.

Duane Vigue - 7 years ago

The problem is, Tiger Barbs are NOT easy to keep.

Coastal Carolina Aquatics - 7 years ago

Sorry for the late reply. The problems I could think of is maybe they were infected with internal parasites or some other illness. Also, make sure to add some aquarium salt to your freshwater tank. Most freshwater fish can handle a small amount of salt and all pet stores add salt to their tanks that can handle it. If your tank did not have salt in it but the one from the pet store did. They may not have been able to adapt to the new conditions. Ask your LFS how much salt they add to their tanks. Thanks for watching

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