Top Five Beginner Rainbowfish - Excellent Community Fish 

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Rainbows are the most under rated fish. Easy to keep and awesome colours! Keep up the rainbow content!

Great video! I have 8 praecox dwarf rainbows, only two females. I observe, and my females seem to be in charge of things. The males don't seem to bug them that much and the females seem to be in charge of the spawning behavior. I love these fish... i'd love to have 100.

Love the rainbows. Definitely want some!!

I found this video again five years later. Still a good watch. Cheers

Just got into Rainbows…literally just looked up this video to re-watch! Cheers from PR Steen!

My rainbow fish is awesome …very aggressive! And I ❤️ It! 😁

Very beautiful rainbow fish! Agreed that they love plants :) I used to keep Boesemanis.

thanks for finally mentioning the Madagascar rainbows no ever does they are the rainbows that i keep although I have bedotia madagascarensis which stay a bit smaller than maybe 4 to 4 1/2 inches and don't have a spot under their chin like geayi very similar species though get mixed up a lot in the hobby

Can you do a top 5 for harder to keep rainbow fish? Also, there are so many different rainbows out there. Could you do a video quickly comparing them? And a vid showing there juvenile vs adult look would be awesome. Thanks.

The first time I watched one of your videos... I didn't like you. But here I am today wishing I knew you in person. XD Thanks for sharing the info on the rainbowfish; you've officially got my attention. Now if only I had a bigger tank... Some day. :-P

Great video Bob. I have not keep rainbows before so this video helps with what to start with. My bucket list is getting bigger with your rainbow videos. lol.

Love the rainbow fish content! I'd especially enjoy hearing more about some of the rarer rainbows you've got!

Ive owed aussie rainbows in the past. Love em!

I had never kept Rainbowfish before, but thanks to some of your awesome tanks I now have Turturquoise, Boesemani, Red Irian, Threadfin, Parkinsoni and ForkTailed RainbowFish. Great video Bob.

These are my favorite kind of videos: educational and helpful to other hobbyists. I notice you didn't mention threadfin or celebes rainbows. You don't recommend them for beginners?

sweet fish and i have had a lot of fun getting to know this species, sorta cichlid like in their behaviors!

That turquoise rainbow tho

Thank you for the amazing video, I found this video while i am planning how I'll stock my 55 gallon community tank

Amazing video, I started with 3 Australian Rainbowfish back in January they grew nicely, I definitely have a dominant male that has nice fins with the yellow similar to yours, recently I bought 3 Boesemani and 2 Turquoise to add to the school and I love all of them cant wait until they grow up and get more color, they are all kept in a 55 with Platys, Guppies and 1 Betta

I know it’s not the subject, but those are some nice looking pristellas.

thank you for sharing this, I feel there isnt enough rainbow fish content on youtube, so glad to see you posted some quality information!

I love your intro's ... Breaking Bad, Back to the Future (very creative)... And your fish ofcourse :)

Rainbows!!! Best fish in the hobby!!!

I just picked up some kamaka today at my lFS Only 2 because they were 25 bucks a piece but I’m super stoked about them they are the first rainbows I’ve ever kept and they look great with my school or neon rosy barbs. Great video 👍

I lkke the red one with siler pearls reminds me of Christmas time

This is great because I am moving my guppies and endlers out and more rainbows into my community planted tank I currently have neons and bosemani

Thanks Bob. So glad you got me hooked on Rainbows. :)

Bob has the best variety of buetiful fish on you tube

Nice list of unique species. Beautiful additions to any tank or as single species tank. Wow, they are active & big fish.

Bob maybe you have had some pseudomugil-furcatus? Hands down those are my favorite. They are tiny, yes... but so much personality and those fins and blue eyes. Awesome! Scrap plans for that saltwater and do a nano tank of those.

I think its good to let people know that there are two Madagascar rainbowfish ( gaeyi & madagascarensis ) they are different in max size and you may mix them down the road and have trouble breeding. Tip: always get your females with your males and true gaeyi which are actually rare, have a red dot on their bottom lip!

Hey Bob...love the videos. Have 3 pea puffers I was feeding and thought of Little Steen. I put a zuccunni* on a plastic covered metal cloths pin and drop into snail tank .. few hours later just pick up and shake into your hand and re-drop. lol Little Steen Happy.. lol Have a great day

What are you doing to us Bob! I've never kept rainbows but always craved them, this really hasn't helped! Great video as usual dude

The best beginner rainbow fish aka Bob's excuse to show off his rainbows 👍 I still say get you a spotted blue eye for the nano tank by the window 😉

Ty for sharing! Awesome rainbows! What's the little very little red fish some sort of tetra? PS Gary Lang Rocks! 🐠🚨

Great info Bob, thanks!

Beautiful fish! Getting back into a planted tank and going to keep rainbowfish again.

I love rainbow fish.

Awesome list, your rainbows look amazing

iam also a aquarium hobbyist from india , the rainbow fish also called as ,bosemani fish in our country . it requires lot of care ,in feeding and needs water plants , for succesfull breeding . flake foods , blood worms and balachan ,are the best foods for keeping the ,rainbow fish .

It's really funny that one type of rainbows in my area the price difference. The Dwarf Neon Rainbow at Petco sells for $8 dollars each. At Pet Smart they want $16 dollars for the same fish. Both stores are just 7 to 10 miles apart. Guess where I would buy mine. LOL.

Nice job on the video, something I should have done years ago, if I had I don't think it would be as good ! At one time I use to keep and breed 40 + different species of Rainbows ....now retired from breeding bows I keep a small group of the bosesmani (Lake Aytinjo), lacustris, and herbertaxlrodi from the Melanotania Genus plus the bleheri from the Chilatherina Genus and a multisquamata from the Glossolepis Genus. The later two not quite beginner bows.

Love those Lacustris and Parkinsonii, i wantt them in my tank

I'm dumb I know but I just noticed these guys change colors as they turn hence the name rainbow lol Great filming there Bob👍

I have had the Australian, Boesemani, Praecox, and Madagascar when I had a big house and a 125 gallon tank. I live in a little house now and my biggest tank is 75 gallons, I currently have 8 Goyder River Rainbows but I desperately want some Boesemani again.

A video I missed. Thumbs up.

Very vibrant colorful rainbow fishes you have, very envy. Mine are not so colorful, probably the weather here doesn't bring our their color potential. Still your logo is still catching my attention instead. Hahaha!

First time to your channel love the video. Subscribed and looking at more of your videos. Keep it up. I like how you printed out the names so we can look them up.

Thank you for this wonderful video🤗 I am currently doing research on the rainbows I have and you verified that I have a Lake Kamaka rainbow! I do have a variety of rainbows 🌈 and I love them all! I just got the book Rainbowfishes by Gerald R. Allen. So far it has helped me identify some of my rainbows. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos😄

Nice video and great looking fish Bob. You are the reason I have rainbow fish in my 75 gallon. (true story) I'm just curious about the below 80 deg water temperature you mentioned a few times in this video. I currently have my rainbows at 82.5 - 83.0 deg F. When I got them I searched the internet and found the majority of rainbow care sites had 82 deg. listed as optimum. This is purely a question and not a critique. Keep publishing the great videos.

You inspired me to start a rainbow tank, I have 2 species so far the Melanotaenia splendida and Melanotaenia Preacox :) I'm looking into the Kamaka since they are stunning as well! Have a good one

Simply stunning collection Bro!

Rainbow paradise! :)

Good vid I’m thinking of getting some rainbows

Great video Bob.

Great rainbow video

Looking great bob!

Good topic Bob

You get better and better like you video

Great video man.

What is the lawn silver with the black and bright red strike down the middle?

I just bought a group of boesemanis and when the male coloured up and had a dark blue colour and white stripes i thought it was like a common farmed one but then i saw this and it seems its a great quality one 😂😂

What can cause cloudy eye in rainbow fish? My tank test show nothing wrong. Perimeters are good. I test regularly with test strips.

Wow they are soo beautiful

Does anyone know what type of fish that is with the red coming from the nose to halfway down the body and the black stripe all the way to the tail fin with a little yellow on the tail?

Wow. Beautiful

I just went to Walmart and asked for 2 Giant Dianos. When I got the fish home, and acclimated them to my aquarium before releasing them, I shortly discovered afterwards that the 2 fish were Rainbow Fish and not Giant Danios... They were schooling with my other Danios with no problem. Am I mad? No. Turns out that you can't get Rainbow Fish in my area for $2 each. Walmart's error was my gain. I like.

Very nice

Ty

Hello. What Rainbowfish variety can live in cooler water like ongoing 65-75 degrees?

Got an empty 75 gallon. These should work. What about the New Guinea reds Glossolepis incisus?

Going crazy watching this video! What is the slender fish with the red stripe?

Thanx! Your tanks are beautiful, by the way. What do you feed him, how big will he get and will he go after small fish, like tetras?

Are those redbelly dace in with the rainbowfish around the 4:30 mark? The small red schooling fish.

When u move onto the second tank I see a beautiful little fish in amongst the grass. Could you tell me what that is please.

What kind of rainbow is under the turquoise at 7:25 with blue then the black line and a white belly

How big will they grow, I only own a 29 gallon tank since like too small for them

I only learned about Rainbowfish maybe 6-8 years ago, well into my years in the hobby, but once I did I can't get enough of them. I love them, haha! I have Bosemani, Turquoise, Emerald, Yellow, Millennium, and Praecox. I personally recommend and as many colors/species as possible. They look great together and mine are doing great. Nice to see you featured most of the ones I have! Millennium is not the same fish as Red Irian, by the way. Not sure if you were saying it's 2 names for the same fish or 2 different fish, but it's definitely the latter. Also could have picked a better individual to show, especially since you had a really nice one in your tank. Worth noting the Millenniums color up a lot faster than most other Rainbows too. Didn't notice it being more expensive than the others either. Praecox and Turquoise are cheaper though. Latter like 15-20 I think. Yes they are pricey but building up a school slowly is very doable, which is what I did. Very satisfying once you finally amass a good size school of colored up fish. Potential drawbacks - They are prone to bacterial infections if they get injured. Went years without knowing about this or having to deal with it and now over the past year it's been happening off and on. Be mindful with the decor as having too much is what caused by initial issues. Of course they can always bump into the glass. Second, they have a hierarchy and will chase each other and go into rituals and in rare cases can inflict injury to each other, though I can't say I have confirmed observation of the latter. More likely they can run into things while they are chasing each other. More individuals obviously helps here. You're going to need medicate for that Bosemani, but I'm sure you know that already. And yes they definitely need lots of swimming space and 4 foot long tank minimal. They can be very hyper and active like you said. Never seen/had the lower quality ones. My local fish store of choice Aquatek must only buy from the best! :)

Are they compatible as community fish with koi in a large aquarium while the koi grow out? 150 gal.

great video

What will be stocking for 75 Gallon Rainbows. And how fast do bosmani grow from baby to adult

Hello, would these live happily with koi in a 150 gal tank?

first here... Bob loves his rainbows

hey steen do you think that boesemani and turquoise rainbow fish would be okay and not eaten by an black ghost knife fish in an 150 gallon planted tank. The BGK if i can find an hi fin one will be an juvenile when I introduce him to the tank.

Cool stuff. So what are the smaller thin red fish around the 7 minute mark? Are they rainbow shiners I cant tell but their awesome. Thanks

I would like to set up a 4-foot 60 gallon aquarium for rainbow fish. I have the aquarium, can you please tell me what I would need to get it started for my rainbows that I will be ordering also can you tell me where I could get some assortment of rainbow fish through the mail when the tank is ready. thank you love the videos

Could I keep 6 dwarf neon rainbows and 6 forktail rainbows in a 47.5 gallon tank doing 35% weekly water changes

Should get some Trifasciata: Habgood river, Blyth River and green Coen River ones

You're making me want rainbows

I have bought a baby ( only some cm ) dwarf rainbow fish , do you think if he or she will live on its own would suffer ? Also it’s pretty colorless , what age will it get some color ? It lives with 2 platys and some espei rasboras

Which rainbow is at minute marker 6:19? It swims right in front of the turquoise

I got into the hobby just over a year ago and have really tried to educate myself and I've become pretty successful with my 55 gallon tank. I have live plants but i got a little excited and bought a bunch of bleeding heart and rainbow tetras and i have two boesemani rainbow and now that i've had a chance to learn and grow my fish out for a year or so im looking at selling off my tetras and getting more rainbows. My question is how many rainbows do you think i can get for my 55 gallon? I have a 306 fluval canister filter and im going to eventually upgrade to a 75 gallon as im falling in love with the hobby. Thanks!

I have 6 turquoise rainbows fish in a 55 gallon tank, and three pit bull plecos, can I had anything else to the tank?

3:33 what are those with the black, yellow and red strips on the bottom? look like sharks but not sure, they look amazing

You're making me love rainbow fish! How far down the list are the lovely Pseudomugil gertrudae?

Beautiful fish and informative vid. Which rainbow is bigger, the boesmani or the Turqoise rainbowfish? Thanks

What are those beautiful fish with the bright red and black stripe and yellow on tail called? I keeping googling, but can’t figure out what they are and I need those in my life!!

Love your tanks man. Keep up the good work have you a sub

I have a single Red Rainbow left from a group I bought years ago. Would love to buy him some friends but they are stupidly expensive even for small ones.