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"They're not trying to kill your fish, just just trying to snack on them" made me LOL 🤣😂

This was very helpful.... my dad was starting his first 55 gal community tank and they recommended a cichlid, a reedfish, zebra danios, mollies, whiptail catfish, and a pleco..... fish kept disappearing and one night I caught the reedfish swallowing a danio... I immediately separated the reedfish from the tank, but the cichlid kept picking on the whiptail. I ended up doing my own research instead of going off what the local fish store said to me and have 4 more tanks now... Everyone is happy. Sadly had to rehome the reedfish because he had a vengeance towards everyone... but i learned my lesson that in this hobby, you should really research, and not let the fish stores sell you into something else.

I like this guy he’s straight up. Too many things too worry about in life then to stress over fish lol

We had an Oscar years ago. Beautiful fish with a big personality, grew to about 12 inches eating frozen brine shrimp or goldfish. Loved to get his head scratched by me or my brother and enjoyed endlessly redecorating his tank, but absolutely hated my father. If my dad made the mistake of sitting at the end of the couch close to the tank, the fish would go nuts attacking the glass and splashing water out of the tank until he moved.

Who ever that guy is, I love his news….. 🤪😂

I'm anti-flowerhorn only because I think it's sad to keep a fish in a glass box with nothing and nobody and calling it "An Ideal Environment" Species that are like that, shouldn't be kept in my opinion.

In my experience, Cichlids are its own category of fish that should only be kept with others in the same category. You can have plenty of cichlid species in the same tank and they will get along, ....in the way Ciclids get along. They will claim parts of the tank for themselves and there will be a constant power struggle to defend them. Compartmentalizing the tank by building caves out of rocks and plants, at different levels is a great way to maximize the number of desirable territories. All you have to consider is, in nature how many fish would thrive in an area the size of your tank? Cichlids thus need LARGE tanks. Then you can have tens of them, and they will fight each other and chase each other, and do things that cichlids do. They will be very active, and the stress on them with be the healthy kind.

Just gonna say that you have 200 tanks dedicated to single fish hahahhaha. Every betta tank. Love the video.

You're right about there being exceptions to every rule. I have a longfin zebra danio who is hyper-aggressive toward all other fish. 😬

Thank You for you! As a teen in the 80s, I had an aquarium. I thought I knew it all and fish dying after a couple months was normal. I even scrubbed my aquarium with fish soap. Funny, not funny, I know. Anywho. Leading to now, 59 yo, I want to start an aquarium. Your videos are the best I found. You word things in ways, normal people can understand. And your humor is a bonus. I've set up a 38 gal aquarium a few weeks ago, even did a half water change as practice, before fish go in. 😆 if all goes as planned, fish go in next week, thanks to you. Again, thank you! I've learned so much from you!!! Happy Summer!!!

Love, love, love the News segment - I had 5 tiger barbs years ago, and yep, they were fin nippers- Really good information. Thanks, John and Lisa💕👍

I'm new to the fish keeping community, and I've started my research for community fish because I want to have a nice fun aquarium. So your videos are SUPER helpful in making sure I'm ready and prepared for my first step

OMG I LOVE the special news report!!! That was so funny 🤣🤣 Great info- thank you!

When I first got into fishkeeping, I had a massive community tank that I decided to add a small school of Tiger Barbs, and they were great for the first few months, than all but one died off. I was going to replenish the school, until I observed the lone barb swimming with my large school of Serpae Tetra. That little school of fish ended up being my most successful, and added an oddball school to a tank of oddballs.

it's all about using the word "mean" when they are actually *aggressive* because hungry, territoial, protecting their offspring etc...

I have tiger barbs with sumo loaches, zebra danios, and pea puffers. They all stick to their areas and groups for me.

Had a goldfish that chose violence everyday, we thought fish were dying randomly until one day we copped 10+ don’t die randomly so we watched the tank for an hour. The then separated goldfish would attack his reflection and was a generally angry fish hahaha

I have found that it helps a lot and can even eliminate problems when the tank is large enough, not overstocked and has plenty of hiding places.The bigger a tank the better.

Dude, i just recently started my own tropical tank. I loove your channel, you and the wife make it nice and funny to watch while giving a lot of usefull info. I build my tropical setup so far using advice i have gotten from you guys. You guys are great!

I totally laughed when you said some fish don't comply with the rules. My first Convict Cichlid was a sweetheart who got along well with all the other fish that shared her tank (yes, definite female). She had angelfish, swordtail, tiger barbs, bronze cories, and a red-tailed shark as part of her 125g community. No issues at all. I didn't realize until I got another Convict YEARS later that she wasn't the "norm" for her species. The male I ended up getting was a serial killer I named Jeffrey. I ended up having to keep him by himself for the rest of his life, once I figured out what was happening to the other fish who were disappearing.

I had a dwarf gourami. I was told they were peaceful and great community fish. Yeah, mine ate/terrorized all of my cardinal tetras and chased my (very peaceful) angelfish until he died. He has since been rehomed and now I have a sweet female pearl gourami and a bunch of black neon tetras

I have a 90 gallon community tank. I have regular and albino tiger barbs. A red tail shark, giant danios, rosy barbs, red serpae, red eyed tetra, two gold gourami and one 3 spot gourami. I have no aggression issues except the red tail gets a little chippy around feeding time but that's it. You have to know when to introduce your fish to the tank and make sure you keep a proper school. Also people need to understand that heavily planted tanks with plenty of hiding spots and caves also help with aggressive behavior and fin nipping. I think the problem is that people don't properly research the fish and behaviors of the fish before just throwing them in a tank. Best advice I can give is, DO YOUR RESEARCH! Understand the size the fish can grow to and understand their behaviors before you throw fish together.

Oh my goodness! I'm gonna need Lisa, to imitate all fish featured, from this point out, like she did the tiger barbs, I actually LOL'd... and more special reports from Jay, are also preferred! That was such a good video!

"Those oscars are gonna be a foot long, and those tetras are gonna be about two inches." Honestly, that's *if* the tetras even live that long!

Clown loaches grow super slow so 55-75 will do for a pretty good time

I couldn't agree more about the Tiger Barbs. But I love them so much that I dedicated my 55 gallon to a school of them! I also have a red tail shark that bullied everything in my 125, so I put him in with the Tiger Barbs. He's a big chicken now! LOL!!!!

I grew up raising convicts. Love those fish. Soon as I get another big tank, that’s what’s going on there. Yes they breed a lot used to have to isolate the mom. Also had Red Devils don’t see them around much anymore.

Glad I found this channel, very entertaining and informative. The lady should do a vid about her houseplants, they're beautiful!

Very clear precise information...Salute!

Thanks for that news report, it made my day!!

Agree on the angels! Mine (3 month old siblings when I got then) became very aggressive and they weren't even quite yet breeding age! They turn sideways right before striking and always went after my smallest rasbora - jerks!

If someone is looking for a good replacement for clown loaches for a smaller aquarium I recommend gold zebra loaches. They're a bit harder to find though. Yoyo loaches are also good but they can chase other fish around. They're not usually super mean though.

Is it weird that I think it makes a nice change to have a list of worst things...?

Like the new reporter dude! Jay is hilarious. Gotta find KGT channel 6 and keep watching.

Absolutely love our flowerhorn! Decorations is few, big heavy ornaments or big decorative rocks. His name is sir munson, and hes the biggest baby ever! Love getting pets and attention. But if I am late feeding him or moving things around, he will throw a temper tantrum. He whips up his sand substrate and bye bye crystal clear water. It is alot of maintenance for one fish, but when we walk into the livingroom he will swim to the one side and greet us. Definitely the best water dog!

This.... this is video every fish keeper needs to watch!

Omg that news segment cutaway was excellent 🤣

Wow. I've been keeping fish for over 60 years and never heard of mbunas. Never too late to learn! BTW, this list is spot pot on.

Your guys are hands down my favorite fish couple in all of KZfaq. I watch your videos every day at this point for new information

Love the video! The new format is super cool, great idea Lisa 😊

The only thing I don't like with your videos, is that they have to end. Asking for a 24/7 live stream 🤣💕

Enlightening..chiclids were ti stressful for me lol..i traded them in at a loss for neons n glie tetra's n i added female betta's n cory cats in my 56 gal..very happy with my tank now..thanks for sharing

I love tiger barbs. So once I bought four tiger barbs, two pairs. One of them died shortly after. I was left with one alfa male and other male and female. Now, this alfa male bullied the other fish to death and when he remained alone in the tank, he commited suicide by jumping from the tank. I still love tiger barbs but this was disturbing experience.

I always thought Convict Cichlids were named that because in the old days, people in jail - aka convicts, were clothed in black and white striped clothes.

Omg lol the news 🤣🤣🤣 . Awesome learning experience 👍 Awesome meeting u guys this weekend 😀

Nice list. Thanks for sharing. Cheers

Love my oscars my largest will even take food from my hand and they have great personalities. I’ve got them in a 125 for now. Some Good footage of your 360 love the new bikers. I’m all ready on the look out for a bigger tank for them. After watching this tank in many videos it was one of the reason I got Oscars they are awesome. That news man was sure funny 😆

Thanks guys. Hope you are having fun in Dallas! Fish are like people in more ways than not some are jerks and some are less jerks! lol

When I was a kid, my parents referred to our jewel cichlids as "Big Hard Headed Fish" because they were so mean to all of the other fish in the tank (except for the pleco)

Preach. I had a bristle nose pleco in a massive tank who was the nastiest little guy I've ever seen. Very understocked tank too... little demon!

"Circling around people and nibbling on their fingernails" that's too funny hahaha LOL love it!

I’ve been extremely lucky with some rather risky community tanks. I didn’t know they were risky at the time. And I guess the fish didn’t either. In a 45, I had a common Pleco, 3 Jack Dempsey, 2 common angelfish, a Kuhli Loach, a fantail goldfish, a Pictus catfish, 4 wild black snails, five fancy guppies and a blue/black male Betta. They all got along perfectly well for years and years. Maybe fish were just more friendly in the 90s? LOL.

So true I thought of a guppy immediately even though my guppies do fight from time to time. They are usually pretty nice, but my biggest mama is very terrorital over food and she will hog a bunch of it especially if it's near the filter/heater. That's her spot 😂 she seems to be the dominant one in the group.

My betta LOVES his Yo-yo Loach buddies & the reason I got loaches was from one of your videos I was so scared he’d be aggressive but turns out he’s a sweet boy 😂

THis is hilarious. I just brought home a school of tiger barbs for my 55 gallon community tank. I love those guys. Like adding a fraternity party to your tank.

Great advice. When I was starting out as a kid with aquariums, I had some little timid fish and I threw in an mbuna African chichild into my 20g tank. No one told me what was going to happen. That fish killed everyone in the tank. I wasn't mad. As a kid, I thought it was cool how aggressive a fish can be. Yes I know, it sounds horrible, but I was just a kid. I bought more mbunas and they even started breathing. Fast forward to present day. Now I still keep mbunas, but just that fish and no one else😂😅 at 47 years old. Salt water clown fish are mean to my hand. But that's another story 😂. I have those in another tank in my house 😅

In case nobody else has pointed this out yet, there's an error in your video when you start talking about angel fish. You labeled them as tiger barbs in the text overlay. Love the video, though!

I've really enjoyed watching. Thank you for accepting my request to join. Both of you I find very educational. There is some amazing humor also. Thank you,

I have a Reticulated Hillstream Loach in my 20 gallon long tank with 7 Black Skirt Tetras. I've heard that this Loach is chill and gets along with almost any other fish, but mine is super territorial. He chases the Tetras around there tank all day long! Just proves the point that you can never tell.

I have 2 angelfish in my tank with other fish and one of them is a bully. He basically picked a corner in the tank as his territory and doesn't let any other fish. The only one allowed is the other angelfish who is actually much more friendly

i wanted to go for tiger barbs, but info about them changed my mind, but went for the more peaceful type five banded false barbs got a group of 14. False Barb is an active fish with a peaceful temperament and stunning colouration. Should be kept in a shoal of 6 or more. If kept in small numbers, their fin nipping behavior can become evident. so far happy with them, but they still 1/3 of the full size and they seem not to bother other fish, i just hope they grow fast as my other fish as might become dinner if grow slower than my nyassa catfish. both full size then they be ok but not if catfish grows at a faster rate to full size but i do have a spare tank if ever need till they have fully grown

My meanest fish I had ever had was my Malawi cichlids. I was pretty new to having fish when I started many years ago, so I made the mistake to mix my Malawi with other fish and lots of beautiful akvarium plants. They eliminate all other fish and all the plants. My akvarium was a war zone. It was a huge tank, so they had lots of room and hiding places. But it was a war zone. I started with 6 malawi cichlids and at the ends I had over 2000 malawi in 7 tanks. The main 6 and 6 other stayed in the main tank. But evey time I had my hand in the tank for cleaning and redecorating, they all swam in my hand so they could be petted. I could take them out of the tank and give them a kiss and let them down in the tank again and they keep swimming in my hands. Cleaning the tank was a nightmare since they wouldn't let me work... but they were my babies. When we had visitors and guests over.... no one could se any fish in those 7 tanks. They all hided behind the rocks. As soon as our guests leave and went home... all the fish were out and act normal again.

Great video and I agree with you about your choice of mean fish.

10 Worst Community Fish: Tiger Barbs Proceeds to talk about angelfish

This list is on point. Great video!!

😘😘😘 5:40 Red jungle Vallisneria Beautiful fresh Water grass.. Nice setup..

Ahh, a KGT video in the morning 🌄! Today's already a good day

140 gallon with a Fluval fx6, Aquatop surface skimmer, fx2 with inline UV and planted. 6 discus, 12 neon tetras, 12 rummynose, 6 rose line sharks 4 panda Corydoras. 50% water change every Friday.

I love my tiger barbs. I have 15 of them.I keep them with roseline sharks, 2 pea puffers, 2 small pleco species, and mystery snails (plus ramshorn and pond snails for the peas to eat). You just have to select their tank mates carefully.

Back in the day you throw fish into the tank and they best get on..🤨🤨..we took in a miss treated Oscar..the guy delivering it put it in the wrong tank and he had a great time eating everything..but over time he grow to love my dad so much he waited for my dad to feed him every evening..we had to put him in our community tank one day..we only had a few guppies mollies etc in there with a lot of plant cover..and he just never came out..we added a few more fish over time no problem..back then we had mostly pond plants in the tank ..it was very much a jungle..when we moved we had trouble keeping him in the tank because of the cat..long story..so my friend took him to the Zoo to live in the fish room there..the kids loved him because he would eat out their hand..

I'm surprised there's no Betta on that list :) I mean there are fish they do well with (eg. small tetras), although some would argue they are most happy alone. The problem is lot of fish would pick on them and I heard Betta would attack Ramirezi cichlids.

Hi @KGTropicals, just would like to ask what kind of fish did you show at 7:05? Is that like a cross between a green tiger barb and a regular one? Looks awesome!

You forgot the biggest drawback to Clown Loaches - they usually carry Ich. which they aren't affected by so you have to start off with them in a tank alone and treat them with Ich. med.s, possibly more than one round, before adding them to your tank- was intending to put 3 in my 55 gal. then trade them in at a local fish store that does that - don't remember if it was cash, store credit, or a mix of both deal. Do places still do deals like that? Or is it only one-to-one private sales these days?

Love your videos guys so enjoyable and helpful

Thanks for the video, informative

Love the special report 🤘😆🤘

I got clown loaches before in my community tank. They could get really aggressive, attacking other fishes in sight. I got them thinking they could help with controlling algae.

Had an Odessa Barb that absolutely terrorized my barb tank, especially the rosy. Very crazy

I have two different tanks with good-sized schools of tiger barbs in each (16 and 18 fish, respectively). I have no problem with them bullying other fish at all and there is minimal infighting. The red tailed shark in one tank chases them around at feeding time though, but that is the extent of it. I believe the trick with tiger barbs is having big schools of them.

“Community” in this context is an ecological term, not a social one. A community tank is one with two or more different species living together, as opposed to a species tank, which houses only one.

Clown Loach is an AMAZING community aquarium fish. I'v got 6 of them in my 1 Meter (3ft) 200L (52GL) tank for 9 YEARS. they grew up to 12cm (4.7inch) and stayed that size for years. they are awesome. if you put them in a 500L tank they can get bigger...

Oh no… literally bought all the worst fish for a 35 gallon community tank 🤦🏻‍♀️ my tank cycled for 3 weeks before I bought my first fish. I knew I wanted a pleco. I know, I know… but I knew I’d have time before he grew big. Next my LFS suggested peppered corys. So I bought four. Then I went to PetSmart to get a middle to top tank swimmer. Out of obsession I got a tiny tiger Oscar, knowing I’d be getting a big tank soon too. While there there were two clown loaches that looked like they were dying and I felt bad so I bought them. (Fun fact: they were sleeping). Then an albino pleco, live plants and a few mystery snails. I know what you’re thinking… that’s a lot of fish, but I have 2, 40g filters with ceramic cylinders, foam and marineland filter. I also test my water every couple days and do 25% water changes every Sunday. My Oscar is a puppy, for now. He does go after my pleco occasionally, but it’s territory. The pleco is bigger and just goes to his hiding places. At any rate… I appreciate your videos so much my next purchase is a 125g which is a HUGE jump, but it’s my fault for not doing my proper research. And I’m excited to find out my loaches will get HUGE. I love cute tiny fish, but I love vibrant beautiful large fish. Im so happy I found your channel because I was feeding my Oscar live fish (guppy) and ghost shrimp because it’s what blogs and LFS suggested. I have learned so much about what good things to feed my fish from these videos and I greatly appreciate all the knowledge

Your vids always help me, Anyways at the angelfish section, you typed tigerbarb

Jewl really surprised me i had one for years in a 55 community! She never bothered any other fish. Guess i hit the jackpot

9:14 says tiger barbs, but shows angel

I have a lyretail molly that is tank boss of a firemouth cichlid tank

I never had ossies with tiger barbs. I always lept at least 6 in a 15G tank with other community fish, such as loaches, gouramis, raspboras, and danios, as well as badis badis.

Semantic and doesn't stray terribly far from the human definition (in the context of aquarium fish), but there is also the ecological community: the interactions between populations of two or more different species occupying the same ecosystem.

I am going to have oscars one day. Just need the space. They (in my opinion) are one of the coolest fish going.

A lot of people don't realize how big Angel fish can get. I have a pair in a 180 gallon tank that I kept with an orange pike, some VERY large Pacu and a few other misc. fish and those Angels were just as mean as the pike. They were a good 5-6" diameter. Great fish

I guess that fish dealers all over the world are more or less the same. Some traders will sell anything to the newbie, just to get an income - as they might do in Denmark too. One of the first things an aquarium owner should learn is to do your homework. Don’t trust anyone unless you’ll really know them. Do your homework - study the fish and avoid impulsive buyings.

Love your videos, Glad I found the channel you and your wife are fantastic.

I've had a school of tiger barbs with a rotating cast as they die and I get new ones for years. I've never had issues with them nipping other fish. I have them in with parrot cichlids, clown loaches, and blue gourami currently, no aggression, the loaches and barbs school together.

That bichir in the background with the Oscar is stunning

I keep a assortment of barbs only in a aquarium and they live peacefully together. They are by far my favorite fish. Love my tigers.

John, I don't know if you have kept convicts in mass, but I have found that they behave similar to African Cichlids. Two is trouble but with 20, there is almost no drama. That was my experience anyway. Small sample size given it only happened the once, but it was over several years.

Is there any good filter to keep the surface of the tank clean or just we need to remove the dirt with the water pipe

Had a tiger barb years ago in hawaii that used to chase...harrass the others in a community tank. Roommate would net it and cut half its tail off. Worked for a while until the tail grew back. Rinse and repeat the cycle...barb would hide any time net in the water. Neon tetras in that tank would jostle each other too.

Loved it, and completly correkt!!!