ADU Aquascaping love your videos man, but I think you should do one on freshwater Gobys, African dwarf frogs and the different kind of shrimp!

I wish I could. I don't really have much experience with those. Some experience with shrimp and a couple gobies

+Barefoots Child Thanks yo! Glad you liked this vid. just though it would help out some beginners, and others. Some kid kept bugging me, LOL, so I decided to help him out. Everyday- Dude!! Do a video on planted tank fish! Dude, do it! LOL

+Eugenio Vazquez Thanks for watching.

+ThatLaurenGal Thanks!

+Slim Tim Thanks Time! Fired Up!!! In the membrane! LOL

Fish on the brain lol

+Ivory Queen Thanks for watching! Glad you liked the vid. :)

+shizdank Thanks bro!

+AquariumKids.com Thanks for watching.

+Mbuna Marcus - Aquariums, Cichlids and More Thanks dude! I hope it helped out some beginners.

+Xen Master Thanks, I could probably do fish that shouldn't be in a planted tank, but only have experience breeding African Cichlids. I don't really know much about breeding of tropical fish to be honest, and there are other videos out there that will demonstrate how to do it.

dude what?

+Vexom 13 the Firemouths can be really territorial, so I am not sure about that idea. It may even kill an Angelfish. And it depends on how big your tank is and how many Angelfish or bettas you have vs say one firemouth.

+ADU Aquascaping I did some more research and I think I'm going to get a German blue ram, because they're compatible

+AQUADESIGN by aquamaniac That is true, we really just wish we had all kinds of tanks, from delicate and fancy aquascapes, to giant jungle tanks like you see at the local aquarium! Gotta catch 'em all!

Hers Vs His gameplay most water parameters will work. 6.5-8.5 pH. Just want some minerals in the water. non buffered water, such as RO water will need to be reconstituted with minerals

+wcf93 Well my LFS always sells them, but I don't have much experience with them, whether they eat plants or not. I don't think they do.

Oto catfish and Amano shrimp will do well.

+Cuda FX Yeah those do look pretty cool. That would be fun to have in a shrimp tank and watch those plus the shrimp just zip around. Thanks for the added tip. The community will benefit! Thanks for watching.

it's surprising how unknown water slaters still are in the hobby and trade, concidering the trend to nano tanks, and that they can be found in almost any pond in temperate climte (and occasionally as live food). they are incredibly hardy too, and there is quite some variation in color, grey brown being the norm. i have seen completely white pigmented, ebony, translucently unpigmented, reddish, to almost pitch black. so there is some interresting potential for selective breeding. (all in one colony started from ones collected from one garden pond)

+Cuda FX That is interesting. Yeah it would be cool to see different types in the same tank. Maybe you could even do little Amphipods, and maybe even the shrimp may catch some from time to time for a little snack. I also catch a lot of Amphipods and the fish go nuts! Well Rainbows and African Cichlids do.

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+Tropical Fish Guides Gouramis can get a long with Rainbows, but a tank that size you may want to choose one or the other. 5 ranibows + that many Gouramis might be too many fish, and the fish may feel crowded. 5 rainbows with 15 Cardinals, 3 Corys, and a pleco with the catfish would be plenty. Or sub the 4 Gouramis for the 5 rainbows. It just seems like an awful lot of fish for a 30 gallon tank.

Inch per gallon my dude that stocking list would be appropriate for 150g lol

If you have twice the filtration power, you can get away with more fish. Source: MASS Aquariums.

Well this is your experience, but look into their wild habitat. Thanks for watching.

Be that as it may, people will be putting them in their fish tanks, and in fish tanks, Paradise fish are bottom dwellers, just look at some of the youtube videos.

I understand, but that is anecdotal. They may behave that way in one tank and enjoy swimming at the surface in another. Sometimes hobbyists enclosures don't replicate nature, I understand. But with a different type of aquascape your design you can bring out different kinds of behaviors. This has a lot to do with plant density and height. They come from shallow areas with a lot of vegetation, as I am sure you are aware.

+Soma Ghosh Yes, you can get java ferns and Anubias and tie them down to rocks. Those plants are hardy, and can handle the Goldfishes behavior.

Soma Ghosh poo

Pls no, but you can.

+short-gaming-clips they will eat thread algae. A lot of fish will snack on thread and hair algae, they are better alternatives to guppies, such as amano shrimp!

hahaha, yeah I guess it is!

Haha, yeah it may not be the best bet. Maybe just use java fern and Anubias and see if that works.

+HybridHerps Amen, Amen, Amen! I am so glad you said it. To be honest I wasn't even aroused by the ADA results. I mean, yeah they are cool, but they really aren't the Be-All and End-All of planted tanks, or fish keeping. I noticed something really odd about all of those tanks, which used to not be the case. They had no fish!! There are no fish! It used to be you would see fish, now they are just pumping the tank full of CO2 and getting it up and running as fast as they can. It really isn't about planted tanks, or fish keeping. It is about making photographs with plants. I see more photography influence than I do anything else. Ironically I uploaded my video about fish on the same day as the results. I am sure nowadays they are just taking the fish out of the tank for the photo, or at least I hope so. I had one hobbyist telling me that my tank was cool, but I needed just one main type of fish, and that I had too many oddballs and strays. I went and looked at a picture of Amano's giant tank in his house and he only had 3 Rummy-nose in the entire tank, they were total strays. He also had tons of different types of fish in his tank. A home aquarium should be about passion, and fun, not about conforming. On the Facebook group Planted Tanks there is a guy that shares photos of his Arrowana tank, which is heavily planted too. It looks super awesome. I would love to have some giant wild nature tank (like you see at a public aquarium) any day over an overly stuffy, pristine aquascape. Honestly I may be getting bored with trying to progress only in the aquascaping direction. Sure, I can keep the YT name and keep fine aquascaped tanks, but I think I may start venturing out and getting even more oddballs!!! and hopefully someday doing a robust wild nature tank. I did the Geos with plants, and I figured that they would get sand on some of the plants, but if you place the rocks in the right place they tend not to uproot the plants. I didn't even think about how you weren't supposed to do it. Sometimes your prideful ignorance is a blessing. LOL. People were going crazy, and couldn't believe that I did that, or pulled it off. I just thought, well why not. LOL I think do a Tanganyika tank with ferns, anubias, bolbitis, wood, rocks, and Tanganyika Killifish would be awesome. And probably shell dwellers at the bottom. You could still aquascape the tank. Why can't Tanganyika aquascapes be a category? I saw one tank in the IAPLC results that had tons of leaves and litter on the substrate and it looked like a black water biotope. It also received a pretty high ranking. As far as aquascaping goes I really didn't think it fit in with that scene, so I was surprised the judges liked it, and I am glad that they did.

Didn't both Tom Barr and Oliver Knott do live planted nicely scaped african cichlid tanks? But yah, this years ADA results just looked like a lot of red plants and wood....like not even one dutch tank? Like that's still pretty conventional and it wasn't even there. Plus, I find most of these scapes are loosing the spirit of what an aquascape is about, which is replicating nature...making something picture perfect isn't natural at all, its nice and it has its place but I hate how that's becoming not just the predominant style but also close to the only thing. Plus it creates a very large divide between beginners and people with big budgets who are experts and know exactly how to do everything down to the small details. Most people start off with the wrong everything and slowly find a balancing point between what they were doing before and where they want to be. Like no one starts this hobby with the right light, substrate, and plant choices, most get plants that are too difficult, in quiet the wrong substrate, with not the right light, and a really weird assortment of fish. And those guys sure as hell don't have the time or money to be going for all of these super fancy super hardscaped planted tanks that have one or two really hard and small species and that's it. Bah, I think we just need to diversify, because I'm getting tired of seeing the same kinda tanks over and over again with the same fish over and over again. I'll be over here collecting wonky plant species and varieties while keeping an eclectic mix of fish. (I'll also currently be a little sad because I just tried buying 2 male boesmani rainbows like what you had and then realized that they were not large enough to mix with my other fish...I now have 1 and threw the other into an overstocked grow out tank...that might be the one downside to doing oddball fish...figuring out who works with what and who is big enough now and who needs to still grow is always a bit of a gamble). Also, geez, what were those Geo's gunna do? Sift some sand here and there...with proper flow they wouldn't be burying anything and they really only sift lightly...if they were breeding and truly digging deep that'd be another story though. How are those geo's doing (do you still have them, I forget). I definitely want to try them and some other cichlids that I haven't tried once I get a bigger tank. I also need another EBJD in a planted tank because that was just fun haha.

+hybridherps I've been wondering that as well. I have a pair of redheads who are just starting to breed, and boy, do they dig ALOT! I always have to reach in and replant some hygro, nesea or lotus, but the A. barteri and amazon swords are always completely unaffected. if you're gonna keep big cichlids, choosing hardy plants will save you an arm and a leg; not to mention lots and lots of planting.

+Talon C I know, I know, I am pissed as well. I don't know why I forgot. I love Rainbows and have owned many. I see you are a rainbow freak by your thumbnail.

+Christina M That is a great method. Haha, too much red can get a little crazy. I often think people use too many red plants, but that is just my taste. I really want to just get basic neon tetras at the moment. haha. thanks for watching.

+23tonylawrence I know, I know I am mad that I forgot them. I love Rainbow fish and have owned many before. They just slipped my mind. Thanks for watching.

Rainbow usually eat your shrimp

They r not natural species though!!! Get ur facts right it’s interfering with nature

that would be good for a small tank.

+Anders “AnpeX” Persson AHHH!! haha I know, I know. I forgot many! I even forgot Rainbows! But this is a good list for beginners.

I agree. What was up with flashing pictures of fish? I turned it off after 1 minute. Was there any good content?

Hmmm... Say goodbye to your fish because if that Chinese algae eater gets hungry it will eat the gel on the fishes scales and kill them

Sir Ratman Havnt faced this problem till now. But if it happens, i will give them back to the store.

Good luck catching them lol

Wait a year. It will happen.

+Mendy Werner I am not sure, maybe in some states. We are able to order them into Utah.

+ADU Aquascaping oh, thank you.

+Georgi Georgiev That may be true for some plants. Had them and they never touched my plants. This is a community tank type video, and there are many different types and sizes of planted tanks, so we must keep that it mind. Thanks or watching man.

+DeMishMIsh I knew someone would bring this kind of thing up, but you must remember that there are many different types of planted tanks. I didn't say that all these fish can be kept together, or with every type of plant. Gouramis will also pick at HC and mess it up. Just depends on what type of tank you are going to have. This is just a list of fish and pictures that beginners will appreciate. It will make it easier for them to look up and research a fish that they admire. Thanks for watching.

+DeMishMIsh I'm not sure I've heard of festivums being plant eaters but I suppose it is possible. I feel like I've seen them kept in planted tanks...granted maybe not with super rare or soft stems but the plants I think most people keep might be just fine with them. Although I will agree they wouldn't work with the small fish but I don't think the idea of the video was to be a catch all of what can go into a planted tank together, but rather be a thing of "here are some ideas for fish that can work with live plants" for the viewer to then do some research on and bounce around what fish they like and be a starting point for research.

+HybridHerps Well, that is what the internet and my book say. I guess they probably just graze on fuzz like a Tropheus or something.

What book did you use?

+HybridHerps Encyclopedia of aquarium plants, and a bunch of online profiles.

simon sharp you can put a glass top or some kind of cover on your tank.

+Sk2PPer they do eat diatoms when they are adolescents. It isn't like Oto cats actually do a very good job either. Nor do SAEs. Amano shrimp, Florida flagfish- which you decided to ignore that I put that in the list do a way better job at eating algae, but that doesn't nullify that SAEs, and flying foxes do eat algae when they are adolescents. My Oto cats and SAEs do a horrible job now that they are older.

I agree! 💯. I was being odd at this time 😂