Remember: a huge tanks with small fish looks way better than a small tank with big fish. Pygmy rainbows in 55g looks awesome (group size>25)

I Literally have never heard of M. vanheurni, I always learn about a new fish here!

I love blue as well❤

After recently discovering your channel Bentley, its reinvigorated my passion for Rainbows. I just got back into fish keeping over the last year or so after a 8 year hiatus. Coming from Melbourne Australia, seeing your photos from Neil Armstrong reminded me of the ANGFA meetings I use to attend. Both Neil and Barry Crockford were great influences for me. The discussion and mentoring from these gentleman was truly amazing. For us aussies they are apart of rainbowfish history now. They are sadly miss! You guys in the States are so fortunate with the varieties you are able to obtain. Seems ironic that here in Australia we seem to be limited as to what can be obtained comercially. Keep up the gr8 content, much appreciated.!!👍🏼

Bentley, I can listen to you talk about rainbow fish all day. Your passion for these fish is amazing and contagious.

Neil Armstrong: legendary astronaut, part time fish photographer.

You have convinced me to try rainbow fish. I picked up a 3 dwarf neon rainbows (all they had) and am going back to my LFS to flush out my school with 6 more. BTW, I would love to see a series on commonly found plant profiles and care tips.

I just scored a job in plants and hydroponics because of people like you with your videos and knowledge!!!

Nice timing posting this video. I'm sure you just saved Dansfish fish alot of emails.

I have the 240g and they do not look tiny in that..the plain boesemani makes it to(so far) about 4 and 3/4 inches..deep body and wide too. In fact when they swim right at you..its like they have human forward set eyes. I do also have a Male hybrid(bought that way) M.trifasciatus and its grown to be the longest of them all at 5+"..yet the male boesemani is numero uno fish,built like a tank. I do have lacustris and New Guinea..I have had losses after over a year of perfection..near two,New fish,non rainbows infected the tank. Why some died when all the rest recovered after treatment is the usual mystery. I'm now holding out for those red boese's..but never seen them for sale and LFT says covid has made it lucky for him to get what he gets. Rainbows in a large tank? Prefer mid to low water areas of the tank...meaning Giant danio's or other surface fish have room to roam too. I doubt Rainbows care if you add plants..they will eat soft leaved plants...but they do like to swim around tree "roots" usually portrayed by branches stuck in the gravel and to the surface. Great fish after 40 years near 50 really,I think they are the best and never had a bit of regret or feeling of "trade them away". Nope, the 240 is home for life.

Thanks Bentley I needed this list.

Thanks for all the great tips 👍

Thanks for the info 👍

great info thanks Bentley always spot on info from a nice guy

Good stuff once again 👌

Great tip video!

Good info !U the man Bentley . Hope to see a fishroom tour soon

Great information! Thank you very much!

Great video 👍

Thank you for sharing your expertise!

Love the info..... thanks so much. The break down of tank size was very helpful!

Great video very informative

great ideas, thanks.

Absolutely great information that is not out there to be found. Thank you!

Awesome video, got me interested in starting. Thanks

I need more tanks so I can get more rainbows 😍

Thanks for the great info. I have been thinking about getting into rainbow fish and now I know what my choices are with regards to the tanks I currently own.

Hi from Singapore! Subbed! Fantastic!

Very interested in eventually going rainbow. This was helpful.

Very great video Bentley hope you’re doing well!

Great suggestions

Another awesome video! Only kept Praycox Rainbows, but they didn't last long for me. I think I might get them and try a little harder to keep them happy.

very interesting

Love it!!!

Great video. Mix of information, entertainment and passion. Surprized Glossolepis dorityi didn't get a mention but totally agree on the wanamensis. Should be getting some M. australis in a couple of months. Just got to figure out where I'm going to put a 7ft tank without anyone noticing 😉

Thanks 😊

Love that you showed us that beautiful rainbow fish for brackish water!!! Wish someone would do a lot of brackish fish tanks. Very under rated fish in my opinion.

Thank you so much! I’ve been looking for a species for our 180G and I’ve been drawing blanks.

Just some Praecox purchased two days ago... awesome

I liked it! So I comment!! Great job Bentley.

I just watched Dan's unboxing some lovely Rainbows, and I just got a 55 so thinking thinking, truly waiting need to set up my new tank.

Perfect timing. I am looking at which rainbow for my 55 gallon as community tank.

C. Alleni...😍🤤my dream rainbow

A few of my favorite rainbowfish I have had are the Goyder River with the dark stripe that really sets them apart and my favorite of all time is the Parkinsoni Rainbow. So fun to let them grow out and watch the color pop.

So many different beautiful varieties dependent on your tank foot print. My favorite fresh water fish hands down 😁

Amazing video I’m just started cycling my 200 for rainbows been thinking about for ages 👌

Awesome vid, just upgrading my rainbows from a 29 gallon to a 75 gallon.

I know I'm a little late. I'm thinking about trying some rainbows, and this video is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I see that heavily planted tank behind you. Are these ballpark number assuming the tanks have plants in them, or do you think I could bump the numbers up a little with the plant coverage in my tanks? Great video btw

great video man though its really hard to find many of those rainbows in India,keep coming more rainbow fish videos

Co-op should have done a 800 gallon RAINBOW tank-huh?..ha. Could really make it look natural,with big river making pump..or creek.

Love bleheri!! Very underrated and gorgeous fish

I got 8 turquoise rainbows for my 75 gallon because of this video there still really small so I will have the joy of watching them griw

Very informative Bentley. I like this format where you go through several species in the same family, along with tank sizes and numbers of fish. Saved to my "Fish Stuff" play list for future reference. Just watched Dan from Dan's Fish's unboxing, some very cool fish.

Great video. I have a 210 waiting for water and I've been pondering what fish to do, now I know.

Yes please more (fill in blank) for each tank size, I need to try rainbows but they some expensive little dudes 🤣😅🤣

Pseudomugil gertrudaes are my personal favorites.

Great stuff! My 40gal breeder with Melanotaenia sp. Tawa are quite the show too 😎

I enjoy your enthusiasm for rainbows. I just got my 180 from Clear Fabrication but I'm doing south America cichlids.

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I love rainbows, I have a 55G I got 3 Australian Rainbows back in February and they have been doing amazing grew pretty quickly, not too much color but if you look closely you'll see it, I just recently added 2 Boesemani Rainbowfish a male and a female and they really stand out and look beautiful, I might get 1 more Boesemani and 2 Turquoise for a total of 8

Thank for info on Dans Fish. Too many to choose from! Been wanting G. Gidomen for ever but had to snag some M.komeng River!

One of the best channels on rainbow fish out there. Are the C. Bleheri and Turquoise Rainbows compatible to run slightly colder at 76°?

I enjoyed ur video am a first time rainbow fish keeper ,bought the cheapest rainbows for my 3 ft tank.But I love my light blue pale yellow fins that have grown to be 3ins long and female with plenty of eggs .I don't know her scientific name though .

Thanks for the tips! You aren’t kidding about jumping. I’m asking for a bigger fish tank for my birthday in a couple of weeks and it’s a good thing because it’s either my juvenile Boesemani or juvenile Turquoise rainbow fish jumping in my tank next to me with no lid…. Lol. “s**t.” It’s a 40 breeder. Not enough. It’s my community tank that only has 10 platies and 4 rainbow fish in it right now because I really want to convert that tank into my much bigger betta sorority bc betta fish. They are in a 20 tall. I think I’m gonna get a 75 gallon and I’m going to move my fish into that because there’s only two of each right now. I agree with the turquoise rainbow fish coloring remarks because my female turquoise rainbow is amazingly colorful right alongside her male counterpart.

Great video and perfect timing for me! Just finished cycling my 75 and added 10 aytinjo boesemani’s I received from Eric Bodrock...love em but can’t decide what to add next...need some yellows/reds I’m thinking, what do you recommend and how many? Can I do just 2-3 sikuensis and millenniums and will the shoal w the bose’s?? I have some peacoex dwarfs in my 38 bowfront I was thinking about adding too just want a real rainbow Of colors flowing in the tank and plan on over stocking a bit (running fx4 and willing to put another filter on as I add) thanks and good work on the video!

This is a timely video! I’m setting up my 90 gallon right now and I’m absolutely getting turquoise rainbows! I’m thinking M. bosemanii Aves creek and Kamaka rainbows, too. And lots of corys for the bottom. 😃

Can you do a video on the scientific names of the common named rainbows? Example: Australian rainbow, turquoise rainbow, red Lazer rainbow ect. Thanks for the great rainbow and plant content. God bless

I was glad to hear you mention the pseudomugil luminatus. I’m looking at keeping a nice school of them when I setup my 75 gallon tank. I was wondering about keeping them with some Hawaiian Blue Moscow Guppies.

So I bought a group of 8 rainbows from marcel on aquabid today I can’t wait to get them

Great info. Can u pls suggest me few names of fish food that u feed ur rainbows

Great info. What size for Goyder River? Thanks

Love your video and how you talk about rainbow fish 👏🏻

Planning a 15g planted tank w rainbows…narrowing down which I want.

I love rainbows. Thanks for the info. I have a 37 gallon tank and love the pseudomugil gertruda aru IV. I want at least 2 males so how many females should I have. Also can I put other rainbows with them like the fork tail thread fin or the honey blue eye. Thank u so much

Bently, can you talk about what you feed your rainbow fish (Boesemani rainbow and others of similar size)? I know you have other videos on fish food discussion. For example, you discussed using frozen bloodworms as a treat for the rainbow. What other foods do you feed them? The rainbow fish I just got are from two sources: larger ones are 3.5" and smaller ones are 2". Each group has 6 to 10 fish.

What about Dwarf Rainbow fish - they're great for a 285L tank like mine - and so beautiful, luminous blue with red fins?!

No dwarf neon rainbows?

Aww no mention of Irian Rainbow for the large tanks and Millenium for the 4ft ones? I think they are probably the prettiest with their absolutely charming red and the females also look good especially millenium females wkth their golden colour

Getting Bent!

Hi Bentley, great video. I have a community tank that is just over 3ft long, its a 200L, UK size, (53 US gallon) tank. I was thinking of adding some rainbow fish in there and I've shortlisted the praecox rainbowfish and Madagascar rainbowfish, however I didn't see them feature on your list, so I wasn't sure if they are suitable for a community setup. I hope you can help. Thanks 👍

@bentletpascoe I'm way behind on KZfaq, but true to catch up. This may be too basic for a video, but I would be interested in your opinions of best tankmates for rainbows, obviously bottom dwellers, but I'm thinking tetra type small fish that color may compliment rainbows.

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I have 6 Boesemani, 6 Dorityi, and 5 Turquoise and wondering if a 55 gallon would work. They are currently in a Aqueon 210 but with my South American Cichlids. I was thinking of getting another tank just for the Rainbows

I recently got some young threadfins and the males are so entertaining. They flutter their fins for the females all the time. Today I saw their backs light up bright silver when they were signaling to the females. It was awesome. If you want some fascinating little fish with lots of activity, check them out. The males have insanely shaped fins unlike anything else. The females are more streamlined with short fins but are pretty, too!

I was thinking about getting dwarf neon rainbow fish. I have a 29 gallon and 20 long that I could use for them. Is this a good first rainbow fish and will these tanks work? Also how warm do they need to be kept? (All of my other tanks are unheated - goldfish, variatus platys and neo shrimp.) Would the rainbows go with any of those or should they go in their own tank which is what I was planning originally.

A sweet dwarf rainbowfish never mentioned is the red laser wapoga

Can I mix lucustris with praecox in a 75? I love blue too. Not meant for breeding. Thanks for tips.

@bentley pascoe so I just got a 60 gallon aqeon 48x18x16. Your thoughts on rainbows for it?

What do you think about keeping Gold Dot Danios with Dwarf Neon Rainbowfish in a 40 gallon breeder?

We just got a 180 gallon tall (60" long x 24" wide x 30" high) We have a community tank, but want to add rainbows. We would preferably like to add a decent amount of different types of rainbows. Any recommendations on types, numbers of each, etc?

Hi Bentley, I have a rainbow breeding question. I have some juvenile rainbows that are 2 months old. I thought they were turquoise rainbows but I recently saw red fins on some and came to realize that all 3 types of rainbows in the main tank were spawning in the mops I pulled! There are MacCullochi, Dwarf Neon Rainbows and Turquoise too. I believe I remember a video of you saying that rainbows will not cross breed if there are opposite sex of their kind in the tank. Is that true to your knowledge? The juveniles do not appear to be hybrids and there are both males and females of each kind in the parents' tank. I just wanted a pretty tank of rainbows. It was not my intention to breed them. I put mops in to hopefully breed the rummy nose tetras that are in with the rainbows. This was sort of an accident but it's been a really interesting adventure! Thanks :-)

What about a good group of Hawaiian blue guppy rainbows lol asking for a friend

I have a question for someone new to rainbow fish. Is it okay to have a mix of different rainbow species. For example: 2 boesmani 2 turquoise 2 dwarf neon 2 Madagascar etc. Male female version of each? Or is it better to buy one full school of each species? Thanks!

*sniff* ive only seen preacox and Boesmani T_T

Would rainbow work with German blue ram?

So was going to get some rainbows from Dan's import. Was gonna put them in a 65 which boesemani should I get?

How many can i put in a 125 g ?

I was thinking about tearing down my 40 breeder and wanted to put puedos and threadfins. Im keeping Africans in there now, so it is over filtered. I want a large school of Corys (15=20) and 15 - 20 of each species oh rainbows, way to much? Also it’s weird, you see photos of threadfins and look amazing, but when I see them the store they look blah. Do you think it’s bad stock or not grown enough, or not happy in their environment. I never kept Rainbows before but with my hard water I think it’s a good option,

What about a 60 gallon cube ???

hi