I’m setting up a dafnia culture just in preparation of getting 1 of these. My other fish will benefit from this, but it is specifically coming together just so I can keep these happily

Looking good! Don't see enough of these being kept in the hobby!

*Pretty Lil' Hate Machines* 👹 _(hilarious)_

I'm drip acclimating my first Scarlet Badis from QT to his well planted/hardscaped 15 gallon cube, shared only with some CPDs and Amanos. Love these guys...

This is a great video. Hits the right balance of informative and entertaining. Beautiful fish!

Finally a good video on these guys. Hard to find info on em.

My oldest grew just under an inch and he was quite a show off. I tried to get a female but I ended up with 3 males. The other 2 died a month apart, and the survivor lived for around 2 yrs. They behave like a sparkling gourami or even like a betta, they eat similar food also.

I’ve heard mixed reviews on putting these guys in with a betta. I’ve kept betta with many things including other semi aggressive fish with no issues, and these guys are tempting for my 5 gal with my betta. Like one, and then some dither fish.

The guy at the petstore mistook them for a young peaceful cichlid species. Took me days to notice that they were attacking my pygmy corys

Just give Bob a few and there will be 1 that will turn out to be female! He has the magic touch!!

Beautiful fish and an awesome video and info! Thanks Dan

One of my Fav Native fish of my country. And staying here still haven't got luck of getting some females. :D

the rockstars of nano world

Gorgeous little nano fish. They would be a lot more popular and more folks would have them and breed them if the females were not so hard to find. 👍💕👍

Just got a group myself! 3 for a 5 gallon bow front. 1 "female" probably will be a male lol. Do you think I can add more? A few other scarlet badis, or a baby betta? I also want to add shrimp

love the title lol , good info mate , thank you very much for sharing. i have a heavy planted 60l bowl with cpds , do you think 2 would be happy in there ?

Wow. This taught me a lot. Two weeks ago I set up a 5 gallon tank complete with a variety of live plants, spider wood, and some aquarium rocks that I have set up to make a little cave. I wasn’t aware of the whole “you only need one or a ton” thing so I got two 😬. So far they seem to be coexisting okay..they “hang out” together occasionally and I don’t see any nipped fins. However, I do notice one eats a lot while the other eats very little (I actually thought it wasn’t eating at all but it’s still somehow alive). I feed frozen brine shrimp and blood worm and the one simply won’t take it, so then I’ll sprinkle a little fish food and it must be living off of that. I can’t upgrade my tank size because of space issues so should I just get rid of my one badis? Edit: OH I also cultured the tank with black worms…so it could be eating those too..

I just saw these little guys at my lfs, and I've always wanted to try them but been hesitant because I like breeding and females are non-existent and I keep shrimp in all my tanks. I came to yt hoping Dan's would have a vid about them for more info and you guys came through, as usual! Thanks for all the great info guys!

Just bought 2 thinking I got a pair. They’re tiny, maybe the size of a pinky nail. Both pretty pale but one looked a tiny bit more orange. I can always separate as adults.

Thank you for this video! I learned a lot and some new facts. I am starting up a 75 gallon planted tank for groups of nano fish, hoping to see more natural behaviors. Do scarlet badis use mostly the bottom of the tank? And do you think they would be ok in this type of set up with lots of rocks, plants and branches. Also I am planning on a decent sized group of dwarf chain loaches and a group of 10 Venezuelan corys. Would they all do well together? There will be schools of green neon tetras, chili rasboras, and probably 1 other fish. What is your opinion?

I have never had good luck keeping these and getting them to eat flake, pellets or anything other than live food. Would love to find someone who has them eating flake. I would love to buy some from you. let me know Dan! Money in hand and ready to buy 5-7 of them.

Awesome intro

#ScarletBadis love these little fish

Could one live with pea puffers?

My "I know why they fight" theory : CHAPTER ONE. ------------------------- If you have a bunch of them who are very young you will always see just ONE growing up to it's full size and displaying it's fins in a flashy way. All of the others will "dig their hole" waiting for the alpha male to die or go away. After he's gone another male will allow itself to take that place (maybe after a fight to establish who is the strongest), and so on. Now if you buy a bunch of them, and they give you more than one "adult", basically what you've just done is to put two or more alphas face to face between 4 walls with no way to escape... Guess what will happen ? Yes. They will fight and to the death if need be. It's all about territory. Only the Betas will be allowed to live under a single Alpha iron fist rule. That is how they are and you can't really change that. CHAPTER TWO ‐----------------------- They say you need 4-6 or more for them to be happy. I don't think it's true at all. Males of this species can't stand each other. They have to disguise as females ijust in order to not to be killed. It would only be true if somehow we could sex them and order 1 male and 5 females. So as long as we can't get females, you're better having just 1 per tank in my humble opinion.

So if I have only one bachelor in a community tank, will it still feel comfortable to be out and about?

These things are so cool. Got mine today.

Could I keep 1 male and female in a 9 gallon tank? My lfs says they have 1 female and several males available.

Will they eat scuds?

Where did you find a 30 gallon tank with that footprint?

What is the fish you referenced at 6:26? You said Nanids?

I really hope I can win these I had a few a year or so ago. Mine ate Tetra tropical granules. I loved these guys, btw I'm first 😎 great content as always thanks for sharing and remember to keep on tankin fish fam 🤜 👍✌️😎

Are those snails in your tank? I'm setting-up a heavily planted (tons of guppy grass) nano tank for just 1 young mystery snail and 1 scarlet badi...do you think the snail will be safe?

How many in a 10 gallon tank?

Hi Dan! Apologies for the essay... I have 2 male Badis in 15 gallons. I was shooting for a male/female pair, but now that the 2nd male has coloured up things are getting aggressive. I am wondering how much aggression is too much? They are both happy to come out, display against each other, then chase each other around the tank for a few seconds. No visible damage, both eating. It's like a seriously overgrown jingle tank, I figured they'd have enough space ... Is this something that's fine, so long as they can escape the fight and hide, if they want to? It almost feels like they're actively trying to figure out who is the alpha, and neither of them know yet... Or is too much display-fighting a big problem no matter what?

Are they African chiclids or south American?

Nice fish. In particular, could you go over the sexing of fish in general in your next livestream? Some say fish can change their own sex like a female betta becoming a male betta. Wouldn't that just have been a juvenile male betta that hadn't developed yet and was mislabelled female? Thanks. 🌿🐟

They seem like they would be a good fish for a heavily planted, deep substrate set-up where they can feed off of naturally occurring organisms that it would create. You could almost get away with hardly ever feeding them.

they don't send females so you have to buy from them.

I want one so bad but I can't find live food any place around me

I'm going to win these tonight! #scarletbadis

Question- my Badis has a new black spot, any thoughts what it maybe

#scarletbadis

U have way too many male fishes in the group. Females are colorless. They are native fishes in Indian rivers. I have kept two groups( each one has one male n 7/8 females). They preferred to eat only live foods. Plenty of hiding space n plants are good. Adding up a shrimp colonies are good from time to time..

That's a Indian fish

Sounds like someone needs help selling them lol