hi I'm Irene with Girl Talks Fish and I love oddball fish I mean regular fish are cool and
all but who doesn't love something a little rare and unusual now last year I talked about five Nano
Oddball species I've already owned but let's talk about some new species I've never had before and
definitely want to try we saw my previous video you know I love kuhli loaches they're like these
little danger noodles miniature eels swimming around squirming in the substrate but what if
there was a neon blue version of that that eats algae meet the Stiphodon goby I mean there are
many many species in this genus but the neon blue and cobalt blue ones I just particularly
like because my favorite color is blue they come from Asia and Oceania from well some of them are
from fast moving streams While others like the slow flow kind of life but all of them are off
walks grazers so kind of like otocinclus catfish I'm gonna feed them a similar diet of Repashy gel
food specifically these Soilent Green version probably you know Frozen daphnia baby brine
shrimp canned green beans algae Wafers that kind of thing the males can be a little spicy and
territorial toward each other so I'll probably have to create an environment that has lots of
cover and hides and maybe get more girls and boys even though the girls are a little less colorful
African dwarf frogs my brother actually had one when we were younger and I just remember it would
jump to the top and then like slowly float down they are a fully aquatic animal so no need to
have dry land for it they just kind of hang around the bottom and then when they smell food they just
use their two front fin flippers with her hands and shovel it in their mouths I haven't cut them
yet because they're a little bit difficult to feed they're slower eaters so don't pair
them up with your zebra danios and also they're pretty messy eaters as well they'll leave crumbs
and leftovers everywhere so you want some kind of sinking food that's not gonna disintegrate easily
which is most dry to prepared foods think you know Frozen blood worms Frozen brine shrimp even live
white worms and grindal worms that kind of thing the males do sing to attract the females and they
can breed in your aquarium but most of the times the adults do eat eggs unless you rescue them
I've never kept a filter feeding shrimp before but they look super cool I love Crustaceans the
I think the smallest version I could find at least was bamboo shrimp which is still a good
beefy three inch size shrimp which surprisingly is completely peaceful and not predatory because
they're little front hands are feathery fans they wave around and used to catch particles floating
in the water so to keep their food constantly in the water column I'm gonna want decent flow in the
aquarium and to feed lots of powdery foods such as Bacter AE Hikari First Bites is a powdery fry food
even the powder form of Repashy gel food would work as well I don't know how good they are at
getting every single particle like are they messy eaters so just in case I probably would pair them
up with some kind of cleanup crew members like a mono shrimp cherry shrimp or mystery snail I'm a
little unsure about this one but okay hear me out the anchor catfish or the Asian Stone mini
catfish it is a tiny tiny little catfish about an inch an inch and a quarter and they're really
cool looking because they have this wide head and these really elongated pectoral spines that stick
out giving it the anchor catfish kind of name the only problem is they seem to really camouflage
into their background like they're mostly bottom dollars and they're this mottled brown kind of
gray maybe dark olive color and so you know a lot of camouflage like am I gonna see them a
lot I have heard though when it's feeding time they do this really interesting Behavior where
they Circle their food almost like this little mini I don't know orbiting moon or tornado and
it's really interesting to watch so and they look really cute some good sinking Foods would
be like a a small Nano Community pellet maybe Frozen daphnia and cyclops live micro worms
etc and interesting enough they are a cold cool water fish so you can totally keep them in an
unheated aquarium at room temperature with other peaceful Nano species such as cherry shrimp clown
killifish White Cloud Mountain Minnows and so on I've never kept pencilfish before but they are
considered an oddball category just because they do have those tiny little mouths and then some
of the species like to swim at a 45 degree angle I personally like the red Beckford's pencilfish
just because the males are that really cool red color they have that black horizontal stripe going
down their sides apparently they're not very shy and are pretty Hardy so they would make a good
dither fish if you have some more timid creatures in the aquarium that are free to come out because
of their tiny little mouths you want to feed tiny little foods that are mostly floating or
slowly sinking so things like the brine shrimp we talked about you know Frozen daphnia and cyclops
small easy fry and small fish food all those would work plus this particular pencil fish is
one of the easier species to breed so it might be cool to make some DIY spawning mops and give
it a shot one day there are many more species that I did not put on this list because I found
them to be too entire time intensive for me to care for right now in this season of my life but
let me know down in the comments if you have any more Nano Oddball ideas if you're curious
which Oddball fish I've kept previously check out this video and see my honest opinion of
whether they're worth it or not take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see you in the next video