so my daughter Gamer Girl wants her first fish tank and I asked you guys
for kid-friendly suggestions she might like and boy you guys came through so I wanted to
go through all your recommendations and rate them based on are they hard to kill are they
attractive to kids like really colorful and you know lots of Personality not shy
and then are they readily available at pet stores and cheap relatively so after I get
my top 10 list then we're gonna show them to her and see what she thinks
so here is my tier list I made so it's slightly different than your usual one where s me is super
awesome a is yeah they're fine they're okay B is these are bigger fish so a lot of new fish Keepers
don't like to get uh tanks so just be aware that yes they're great fish but you're gonna have to
get a bigger tank not just like a 10 gallon C is they're okay but with some caveats and then
f is fail no way jose would I recommend this for my children so let's start off with betta fish
so yes obviously that's gonna be S for super they are super Hardy very colorful they do have to live
alone but a lot of times when kids are starting off with their first tank they just want one fish
anyways dwarf Gourami I'm gonna put that in C for caveats even though it's basically the same as a
betta fish just because most people when they get dwarf gouramis they're expecting to put it
in a community tank versus because they're sold in tanks versus bettas are sold in individual cups so
yes you can get a dwarf Gourami just be aware it might murderize your other fish angel fish I would
love to keep angelfish if you guys saw my top 10 hot water fish they're very Hardy really cool with
those extended fins caveat is they're gonna get big so get a bigger tank especially a taller one
ah the famous guppy I'm gonna put this in caveats now most people would put this in
at least a average or fine because Guppies you know they breathe they do well just I'm putting
actually almost all of these live bearers I'm gonna put in caveats so this is platies this is
mollies because for me personally I have soft water and I took these fish home not expecting
them to do well and they all failed on me until I had to do some more research and found out
oh they need lots and lots of minerals so if you have harder water or at least like
neutral water I think these would be all A's especially Pilates I love them but for me they
are C with caveats just make sure you don't have soft water and if you do add minerals
for sword tails I would put it in C for caveats but I'm gonna put an F for fail because not only
do they need a bigger tank but they're also more aggressive than people expect because
you get them at the pet store they're smaller they kind of look like the mollies and so you
expect them to be peaceful but they definitely do a lot of chasing around so if you're gonna
keep a bigger tank get lots of breaks in line of sight and then maybe more females than males
Neon Tetra classic pick I'm gonna put that in a for average just because you're gonna have to
get a school of them people say like six but I would say the more the merrier because I found
them to be pretty shy Cherry barbs I really like I haven't kept them yet but every time I
seen them I think they're awesome bright red I think any color uh any kid would like that
but same thing schooling fish they're gonna be kind of on the bottom half of the tank Harlequin
rasboras another really bulletproof fish uh can take a lot they get about two inches so you see
them at the store they're like oh they're only an inch long they're pretty impressive when you see
them at full grown size so I like them corydoras so I am definitely putting that an S for Supreme
because they are the best bottom dollars I personally think depending on which species
you get but most of the more common ones that you see at pet stores they are very outgoing and not
that shy they're constantly shuffling around and digging around in the substrate looking
for things to eat good cleanup group I don't know they're just really Derpy they do these
things like all of a sudden go up to the top and take a breath of air they roll their eyes
it looks like they're you know blinking so I love corys in lots of varieties to choose from
zebra Danio I'm gonna say yeah they're fine very very hearty a lot of like scientists actually use
them in Labs they're not the most colorful fish I mean yes they do have those really bold stripes
on them but uh it's a little more monochromatic so but very cool very fast very Lively goldfish love
goldfish I would love to keep them but they're gonna go in B for a bigger take people just
don't realize how large they can get and so yeah definitely be aware of what you're getting into
especially if you get them for like free or for 25 cents at a carnival that thing needs a giant tank
Kuhli loaches has to go in s for Supreme another amazing Bottom dweller but I just love how I mean
this is kind of the Oddball category I love how they look like little miniature eels they've
got the zebra stripes again super super hearty I always mention that story from Master breeder Dean
where he accidentally left one in a tank that he didn't completely tear down and had like an inch
of water in it for almost a year and it totally survived on the gunk that was in there and when
he went to actually finally clean it out it was still alive Africa dwarf frogs are often seen as
a like ice I have a lot of teachers from my kids who want them as pets like the school classroom
pet and I'm always like because they're a little bit harder to feed I don't think they eat like
normal sinking uh pellets or food as easily and they're very messy eaters so they tend to
like leave a lot of the leftover Foods usually people want to feed them live Foods or frozen
foods which is not as easy especially if this is like for a kid to learn how to take care of
so I have a whole category of GloFish because they are rainbow colored and very attractive
to children as you can see the first one is the black skirt tetra I'm gonna put that in
B actually I was watching Prime Time Aquatics care video on black skirt tetras and they he
says they get about three inches and he would really recommend a much larger tank than most
people keep them in even though the internet seems to say like 15 gallons and I'm kind of
in agreement with him as well you need a school of them they're gonna get big you need a bigger tank
same thing with well where do I want tiger barbs I'm also gonna put them in bigger tank
rather than c for caveats just because again they also get about the three inch length
they're very boisterous fast very colorful even the natural colored ones are amazing looking
um and I think they have like a Green version as well I would love to keep them but I just don't
have the space for a bigger tank but if you do your kids are gonna love feeding them because
they're just gonna swarm like miniature piranhas whenever you bring out the food I'm gonna put
the rainbow shark in F for fail just because not only does it need a bigger tank but also
they can be kind of semi-aggressive or basically become the tank bosses so unless you really know
what you're doing I wouldn't suggest necessarily getting this for your child because you might be
looking at getting like a four foot long tank now the pristella X-ray Tetra is new to the
GloFish family and yeah I would just put in a is average you know it's kind of like a neon tetra or
Harlequin Rasbora you're going to want a school of them they stay smaller I think around two inches
so they could go into a smaller aquarium but yeah and they have the normal color ones as well I'm
gonna skip the GloFish versions that I already mentioned in their regular form like the corydoras
and the zebra danios all have Blowfish versions but I already talked about them so let's move on
invertebrates uh as you've probably seen in my previous care video kind of about mystery snails
my review video I love them I think they're amazing for children they're larger for so
it's easier for them to see they come in many many colors and they're very fast moving for
a snail great Cleanup Crew they've got the weird little antennae and everything I think they're a
very good a very pretty Hardy for snail too pet for children now the last one you might be kind
of confused about but this is a brine shrimp and so I'm gonna put this in bail and the reason why
I added it is because same thing um one of my kids teachers was looking for a classroom pet
it was between a turtle and sea monkeys is what she knows them as most people know them as but
they're actually brine shrimp and they do live in salt water and so I'm a freshwater girl having to
make salt water while you may have not have to be as careful with the salinity parameters for brine
shrimp I still think it's just a lot of Hassle and that's probably not something I would get
my child for their first ever fish tank okay I have gamer girl here with you I want you to
choose from the top two rows so S rank and a rank I know there's only nine I promised you
guys ten but oh well which ones do you like I like the betta fish the catfish the mystery snail the
cherry red thingy cherry barb cherry barb and the GloFish if you could choose any fish like
let's look at rank B C and F which of those do you like uh I like all of the B [Music]
the Goldfish the GloFish and the other goldfish the black skirt tetra and the tiger barb yeah and
I also like the lobster crab you like the brine shrimp that one's a saltwater creature that's
why we can't keep it if you want to see what fish gamer girl ends up picking as well as step-by-step
instructions to how we set up her tank you can follow along this future playlist over here
otherwise take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see in the next video bye hahaha that's good