S: Dwarf gourami (mine had a wonderful, inquisitive personality that made me truly appreciate the hobby but sadly passed from DGIV), paradise fish (my female paradise continues my gourami’s centerpiece labyrinth fish legacy in my 20 gal), bristlenose pleco (my most favorite bulletproof bottom feeder that’s still kicking just fine since I got back into this hobby about a year ago), banjo catfish (goofy tank cryptid that buries itself under sand), medaka (literally everything you wish guppies are, no heater needed, hardy, and less prone to overpopulating).
A: Guppies and platys (easy to care for but fragile at times, livebearers are a complete headache once they start breeding and poop even more than plecos)
B: Panda corys (cute but mine from Petco only lasted two weeks and I’ll only keep hardy species like bronze/juliis if I ever decide on trying to keep corydoras again)
C: South American Bumblebee Catfish (the most boring fish I ever kept since it hid more than my banjo catfish)
this is a cool idea, i wanna do this but ive been in the hobby for almost 2 decades 😭
jprcp on
You should try Cichlids (I like the Apistogramma world)
iwanttobelieve3001 on
I love my banjo cat, my favorite fish even though i see him every couple months unless I go digging for him
Mevanski77 on
I wish i knew how dope gauramis were earlier. If only they were more chill with each other so I could have more in my tank.
VdB95 on
If you like both the bristlenose pleco and banjo catfish look into the L010a/red lizard whiptail if you ever get another aquarium. This species is one off my newer additions that absolutely suprised me in how awesome they are. They have the diet of a bristlenose but don’t damage plants, are an odd ball fish, don’t hide and are social.
It’s also funny how personal opinions/experiences can vary.
Personally I don’t like livebearers, too much chaos. As far as livebearers being fragile I have noticed by working Saturdays at a LFS that those are some of the most likely species to come in sick. Once they pass quarantine they tend to be verry solid animals. Guppies don’t really fit in with my other fish. Even my small aquariums have fish that will go after guppy tails or just eat the whole guppy (100% looking at my african butterfly fish that I took in as his previous owner returned him to the LFS because he kept eating guppies). I still have some ancient platies that have been going strong for over 4 years but won’t get new ones. Never had problems with platies breeding out off control since I have had them in with a betta and after that with an apistogramma.
A fish that I thus far have an extremely good exprience with, even though many people tell horor stories, are angelfish. I have a group of 11 rio nanay angelfish and they are verry peacefull. I don’t know if I just am extremely lucky or they are calmer because they are closer to being wild angelfish. Just a few days ago I added 2 festivum cichlids in the aquarium and the angelfish showed zero aggresion, the new ones were immediatly allowed to shoal with them.
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S: Dwarf gourami (mine had a wonderful, inquisitive personality that made me truly appreciate the hobby but sadly passed from DGIV), paradise fish (my female paradise continues my gourami’s centerpiece labyrinth fish legacy in my 20 gal), bristlenose pleco (my most favorite bulletproof bottom feeder that’s still kicking just fine since I got back into this hobby about a year ago), banjo catfish (goofy tank cryptid that buries itself under sand), medaka (literally everything you wish guppies are, no heater needed, hardy, and less prone to overpopulating).
A: Guppies and platys (easy to care for but fragile at times, livebearers are a complete headache once they start breeding and poop even more than plecos)
B: Panda corys (cute but mine from Petco only lasted two weeks and I’ll only keep hardy species like bronze/juliis if I ever decide on trying to keep corydoras again)
C: South American Bumblebee Catfish (the most boring fish I ever kept since it hid more than my banjo catfish)
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this is a cool idea, i wanna do this but ive been in the hobby for almost 2 decades 😭
You should try Cichlids (I like the Apistogramma world)
I love my banjo cat, my favorite fish even though i see him every couple months unless I go digging for him
I wish i knew how dope gauramis were earlier. If only they were more chill with each other so I could have more in my tank.
If you like both the bristlenose pleco and banjo catfish look into the L010a/red lizard whiptail if you ever get another aquarium. This species is one off my newer additions that absolutely suprised me in how awesome they are. They have the diet of a bristlenose but don’t damage plants, are an odd ball fish, don’t hide and are social.
It’s also funny how personal opinions/experiences can vary.
Personally I don’t like livebearers, too much chaos. As far as livebearers being fragile I have noticed by working Saturdays at a LFS that those are some of the most likely species to come in sick. Once they pass quarantine they tend to be verry solid animals. Guppies don’t really fit in with my other fish. Even my small aquariums have fish that will go after guppy tails or just eat the whole guppy (100% looking at my african butterfly fish that I took in as his previous owner returned him to the LFS because he kept eating guppies). I still have some ancient platies that have been going strong for over 4 years but won’t get new ones. Never had problems with platies breeding out off control since I have had them in with a betta and after that with an apistogramma.
A fish that I thus far have an extremely good exprience with, even though many people tell horor stories, are angelfish. I have a group of 11 rio nanay angelfish and they are verry peacefull. I don’t know if I just am extremely lucky or they are calmer because they are closer to being wild angelfish. Just a few days ago I added 2 festivum cichlids in the aquarium and the angelfish showed zero aggresion, the new ones were immediatly allowed to shoal with them.