hi my name is Irene with Girl Talks Fish and i am in the rare, rare position where i actually
have room to get more fish now my favorite color happens to be blue so i figured let's think of
some of the coolest blue fish that would fit in a nano aquarium 20 gallons or less lucky for me
though blue is a very very common color for one of my favorite fish betta fish if you look at
my past bettas – Darth Vader, Soundwave, Sonic – they're mostly all blue if not at least 50% blue
i think i love them for many of the same reasons that beginners like them is because they're just
cool looking it's like a three inch pretty big for a nano fish got that beautiful finish
comes in lots of colors besides blue very pretty easy to take care of and then they have these
very unique personalities too some of them are sassy some of them are real chill and then some
of them hate cameras so you never know what you're gonna get anyways if you have never
tried a betta fish highly recommend I've got a whole series over here on how to take care of them
i just realized I'm doing a video about blue fish and I'm not wearing blue so quick wardrobe change
all right so my second really really blue fish that i kept
was in my second community tank and so i had this dream to keep a red orange center piece fish
surrounded by a cloud of blue-green schooling fish so i got Peyton Manning the flame dwarf gourami
who ended up being a little too aggressive but i did keep the green neon tetras i got
they basically look like neon tetras but a little bit smaller about an inch and very very little red
I'm not sure why green is in their name because at least to my eyes they look a very very brilliant
blue like even when the aquarium lights are off you can see them shining from across the room
they're amazing my only complaint would be like i got 15 of them so it should be a pretty good sized
school but i found them to be fairly shy and their tank mates were albino corydoras and a honey grimy
both very very peaceful but every time i got up to the tank at least they always scattered my thought
is maybe if i had a more densely planted aquarium they would have done better so it's definitely a
fish that i would try again my latest blue fish that i got would be Unicron the powder blue dwarf
gourami and like the green neon tetras he's very very shiny blue i can see him across the room
again when the lights are off he gets to about i don't know three inches maybe i've just always
really liked gouramis i like those two little feeler fins they have on the bottom those uh
modified ventral fins i like their kind of blimp like shape but then their flat pancake you know if
you look them the other way i don't know gouramis are just cool however yes he is pretty feisty just
like Peyton Manning the flame dwarf gourami but i feel like it's not too bad because i paired
him with the right tank mates in this case i put him with the red-orange platies dwarf platies and
they just seem completely clueless and unaware so they don't really care that he tries to boss them
around they're just like whatever dude and then they go right back in and try to steal his food so
it's been very very interesting during meal times feeding him and watching him try to defend
the food pile from all the hordes of lie bears around him just waiting for him to slip up now
we're getting into the territory of blue bucket list fish that i haven't kept before but i really
want to so i have kept German blue rams before but i really like the electric blue variety it's got
that again blue shiny body with a yellow face a really bright red eye and that bold black stripe
in the middle of it so very very striking and then kind of like the betta fish and then the powder
blue dwarf gourami that i mentioned earlier about the same size maybe a little bigger smaller um and
then also has that really feisty personality and a small packages so i don't know i think i have
a lot of little napoleons on this list for some reason um if I've learned one thing though make
sure to keep them in super hot hot hot water like we're talking 82 to maybe 85 degrees Fahrenheit
maybe talk to the breeder that you get it from and then yeah I'm just trying to think what would
be a good complimentary colored tank mate to keep it with they could also stand that hollow
hot water so maybe ember tetras i don't know comment down below to give me some ideas here
my other blue bucket list fish would be neon blue gobies or Stiphodon gobies that are have blue
color in them I've seen i don't have a lot of live footage of them just some pictures i took at fish
stores but they look really cool kind of like a kuhli loach with a skinny miniature eel like body
and from what I've read they require high water flow current and they like to graze off of
surfaces to eat algae biofilm aufwuchs grazer that kind of thing so if you've had experience keeping
with them please let me know down in the comments because i have many questions i want to know
are their care requirements really that difficult or are they more hardy than the internet says and
do they really look that blue most of the time you know i would hate to get a kind of most most
of the time gray fish with a little bit of blue on it and then it only shows that amazing coloration
when they're like in breeding condition and the males are sparring with one another so
let me know i gotta know in the meanwhile if you're looking for really cool colorful fish
like i am right now don't forget to check out my other top five fish of all the other colors
of the rainbow to be honest I'm not gonna be doing indigo sorry guys but purple may be the
last video in this series unless i get a lot of requests for doing like a top five metallics list
or neutral colors or whatnot take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see in the next video