So glad to see Discus on the list, they're very underrated in regards to "worst community fish" They aren't really aggressive like most fish you'd find on this sort of list, but discus are a species where you need to have every aspect of their tank tailored to their needs, including tank mates should you even decide to give them any, whereas the whole point of a good community fish is you can basically just dump it in with whatever and they'll do just fine
@@garg4531 That were pretty much my thoughts exactly. They aren’t bad by any means if you do it right, but it’s hard to do it right. Definitely not beginner friendly!
@@Fishman2114 That too! And on that note I’m surprised I haven’t seen them on any “worst beginner fish” lists, seeing as how their whole thing is requiring specialized care and regular maintenance to thrive
Your next video should include Black Skirt Tetra, a PETCO standard.. Bullies to eachother and other fish, feed like piranha making it tougher for other fish to eat. Getting a school doesn't chill them out, either. I see them at a lot of stores.
So the only thing "wrong" about glofish are their very vivid colors which are "unnatural" to so called purists. Even though so many fish we buy these days have been bred to look a certain way like many deformed goldfish or the dwarf/balloon versions of some fish. Personally, I like the vivid hues of glofish and don't care fish that are dull colored like grey or brown or some other forgettable color. If glofish are unethical then so is harvesting fish from the wild and inbreeding fish for desired aesthetic traits.
The only problem I ever had with my Serpae Tetras was that they attacked my Corydoras. By contrast, when I kept Zebra Danios, they were very hard on each other often persistently chasing and attacking one of their own until it eventually died.
This is a great list, and the fish choices make a lot of sense. If you were to make a third list, I would recommend putting black fin tetras on it because, in many pet stores, they are labeled as peaceful, but in reality, they are semi-aggressive. I made this mistake when I had some in the same tank as my bristle-nose pleco. They nipped at my pleco so much that after I moved the tetras to another tank, my pleco didn’t want to swim around the tank for months.
Is that the black widow tetra? Gymnocoryumbus ternetzi. I have 3 of them at this moment and have kept them for many years with no issues. Not sure how many you have there but ive not heard of bad behaviour from these before.
Hey! Very cool list. Just wanted to mention that I have had many Five banded barbs over the years, and I can confidently say that these are the most fearful fish ever :D Not a single one of them has ever shown aggression towards the other fish.
@@Fishman2114 Haha, yeah, probably. Poor guys are afraid of everything,. Even now they are living with some Rummy Nose tetras and 2 Dwarf Gouramis, which don't bother them at all, and still prefer to hide in the plants :D
I totally agree on discus. The larger they grow the more individuality they develop. My largest discus took out all the neon tetras. Haven't kept small schoolers with them since
Nice vid, i got serpae tetras with gymnocorymbus ternetzi (not the glow ones) and they don't bother each other at all. The only thing i don't get is that the first 4 ternetzi that were alone in the tank have often their fins ruined, probably they are bullied by the other 4 i added after, but it doesn't seem so when i look at their behavour and the new ones have perfect fins, so they are not bullied back (as i expected considering that the original 4 were the only fish in the tank for a long time)
What do you think about the red eye tetra? I just got 6 of them and added them in with 5 of my black neon tetras. (160 gallon tank) When I fed them the red eyes kept pushing the black neon tetras out of the way idk if they were just super hungry or if they are too much for them… maybe I should return them and get the white skirt tetras to go with my neons? please help lol
@@KenzieLeigh-e4g I’ll be 100% honest I’ve never had red eye tetras so I know very little about them. Either way are they only being a bit pushy durning feeding? Or are they nipping/attacking at other points durning the day?
Regarding the discus, i had a great death happen because i was moving my 75 gallon. But all my fishes in a plastic tub. Long story short it bursted and killed almost all my fish including my discus.. Anyways we restarted the tank and my wife really wanted an angel fish. I wanted discus again so i was hesitant but i caved in and decided to not buy discus anymore. I caved in months later and got 1 discus to see how our angel would react. He chased him and nipped at him immediately. I turned off the light and went to bed. I woke up and saw them both swimming together. I was like wtf. A week went by and they were still chilling. I got 3 more discus the following week and i must have got lucky because they all swim together and never fight. I think they think the angel is a discus and i think the angel thinks that as well lol. Anyways its been about a year no my tank is just exploded with plants i have a ton of small schooling fish and everything is going great. Fish have personalities and you kind of have to get lucky. Ive had angels before and they are dicks. But not this one
I have been in almost 1 decade for this hobby, bad fish list on this video is actually true, just in case you guys want to have community tank, you need to know are they fast swimming or low swimming fish, both of this fish cannot be combine and leads to fish fight or bullying. Best to accommodate your tank to get community is moly, gourami, swords tail, minows, syndonintas and other friendly fishes. I have mistaken to combine between koi and goldfish then arround 4 weeks after, i found 2 of my goldfish lost their eyes🗿
Great video, I had some Buenos Aires Tetras some years ago because I thought they looked cool and they were sold to me as peaceful. Worst decision I ever made! They were like miniature Bucktooth Tetra, nearly killed everything in my tank!
@@Fishman2114 this was quite a while ago so it’s hard to jog my mind back but I believe I had a Honey Gourami, some Bristlenose Plecos, some Guppies and a Goby of some sort. The only fish they didn’t seem to go for was my Hoplo!
@@Fishman2114 I have a group of 8 buoerno aires tetra in my 65 gallon tank with rummynose tetras, corydoras and twig catfish (farlowella acus). Everything is going fine. They have their aggrasion within their group but they only chase each other for a couple inches and mostly the females are the ones doing it. But I would not say harmfull aggrasion rather just more of a dominanz/picking order establishment. The males are alot more timid. And they do eat freshly planted plants but they ignore it after 2-3 days. Super fun fish when you feed them. They get small plant seed and some plant based flakes for their more herbivores needs from besides regular pellets and frosted artemias/daphnia.
@@jasonprotaszczak8011 Those two species are really easy beginner friendly fish but there are tons of great fish to pick! I made a whole list about them, but some other great community fish id suggest are Harelquin Rasboras, Honey Gouramis, bristlenose plecos, any kind of snails, and of course Cory cats
I have 5 pea puffers ,1 Congo Puffer ,2 Bettas , 7 mollys , 3 plecos, 2 hillstream ,3 glow fish ,1 guppy and 5 amino shrimp and they are live peacefully. Lol
Hate to be one of those guys but from my experience dicus are absolutely fine in a group of 4 in a community tank. They don't pay attention to any other fish whatsoever but do show slight aggression to each other during feeding.
Agree with you about most of the fish especially Glofish. Unethical and unsightly. Thankfully they're not allowed in Sweden where I live, nor within the EU. The biggest problem is people who buys fish for an aquarium that is too small.
Totally agree! So many people put fish in tanks not suited for their needs’. I didn’t know about Glofish not being allowed in the EU. Why is that? Animal cruelty reasons?
@@Fishman2114 We have fairly strict animal regulations in EU countries and more strict in the Nordic countries. This also applies to cat and dog breeds that may be permitted in other countries. It mainly concerns various health problems in the animal that may be suffering like genetic defects.
Would crayfish maybe coexist with larger fish, cichlids etc? Perhaps if the fish were their size or larger it could work. Please let me know if I'm wrong.
Larger fish work pretty well with crayfish. You’ll definitely want to provide a lot of hidy holes for both the crayfish and the fish. You also want to make sure that everyone is getting fed well.
Why are skunk loaches even available, like, at ALL…? 🤔 I don’t believe they’re commonly or easily bred in captivity, or are they? I had assumed that they’re a primarily wild-caught (poached?) species. But… they just have such boring, lackluster colors, something that does NOT make up for their bad attitudes. A double NO! Haha. I tried having a small group in a mixed, but lightly stocked, 75-gal. tank, why i don’t know. I think I had snails at the time and wanted to see if they’d really take care of it. I didn’t know enough about things like assassin snails, or making a plastic water bottle trap for them… but ultimately, I had to move the skunks to their OWN tank. And they’re not even that pretty, as I said! 😂 Imagine, their own little setup, all because of…their attitudes! Not because they’re pretty to look at, as the centerpiece fish in a species-only tank. They have cool behaviors, but so do all botias. There should be less focus and less time wasted on catching skunk botias, and let’s focus on other, more pretty and better behaved species, that might be uncommon in the hobby. Zebra and dwarf chain loaches seem to be the most desirable, but also limited availability...meanwhile skunk loaches are $2.99 and not exactly selling out…
I do, a lot of goldfish are especially bad. But I think the glofish take it a step further and just create unhealthy, unsightly fish for no genuine good reason… but I’ll be explaining my dislike for them in more depth soon 👀
From what i understand glofish start out as normal fish and are injected with fluorescent dye? They dont tend to 'live' very long after this. I think they are banned outside the US. So here in uk we don't see them. To be honest my loval aquatics shop have lovely ppl running it and im not sure they would sell these anyway
@@formula_bob No, you’re thinking of “painted fish”, which are in fact legal in the United Kingdom after laws banning their sale failed to be passed. Glofish are genetically modified with a gene that gives them their neon colors and glow. I myself bought a about half a dozen from someone on Craigslist two years ago after he decided to dismantle his fish tank (which I later found out was a 20 gallon tank with over 20 fish in it). I keep them with a white, black, and a gold skirt tetra, and three coreys in a severely under stocked 55 gallon. They’ve had a good quality of life and are really massive now. But I would never personally buy them from a pet store. Not only are they stupidly expensive for a recolored Black Skirt Tetra. The whole company behind them always skeeved me out.
@@CrabLadiusThey are illegal in most of europe including in germany where I live. Just realy sad that the company sees them more as a profit then living beings/animals.
Well covered. Although a list you'd only need to bring out swipe at the daring and foolhardy, to save the younglin's from their craziness. Have had local yabbies here, the correctly named Cherax Destructor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabbytitle=Cherax_destructor&redirect=no Primarily nocturnal, sure. Detritivore, um, it's detritus if they killed it or uprooted it, right? Sure. You like your plant there? No, it's here. Feel privileged, that it's not floating over there like other one. This fish, shrugs, dead when i got here. Bought a pregnant one by accident once. Babies everywhere. Scattered across 14 tanks to see if they could live with anything else. Pretty much no. Either eaten, or committing daily acts of terror on their poor tank mates. Otherwise, Koi, Discus, any Barb, and the chasey tetras, yeah "all end of the first act" fish. The tank will never be the same.
