- Number five: the Pea Puffer.
Now, it's a little controversial,
but I think you can do at least one per three gallons.
I wouldn't put two in a five-and-a-half,
but three in a 10 could work, one in a five could work.
Yeah, they need frozen food,
so pretty much never convert to dry foods,
but if you want an action-packed
personality fish in your plant-safe tank, a Pea Puffer,
and anyone who sees it will fall in love with it.
You will instantly become cooler
the minute you own a Pea Puffer,
not only to you, but everyone that ever sees you
will be like, "Are you the person
"that owns that Pea Puffer?"
Yes, yes I am.
They don't get too big,
they get to about the size of a pea, hence the name.
They are a hardcore carnivore,
so they wanna eat frozen bloodworms
and they don't have any teeth problems,
so they can eat that their whole life.
It's good to vary it up with maybe
some brine shrimp and some mysis and some snails,
they will eat snails and usually they'll harass shrimp,
even though they're not harassing this one.
I think that one is just the Chuck Norris of shrimp,
he's fightin' him off left and right.
I don't know why, but it works,
so we let him hang out there and he's,
you know, kung fu master,
but Pea Puffers, number five.
I do love 'em, a lotta personality
and everyone will love you for owning one.
Number four: the Exclamation Point Rasbora.
Another Rasbora, micro,
and gets about inch, inch and a half.
They've got a dot on their tail with a line,
hence the exclamation point.
They get a nice little orange hue to them,
real nice, subtle in a small tank
against a backdrop of some live plants.
Keep 'em in a group of six or more, not too expensive,
like, three, two, three bucks a piece
and, you know, really get yourself some.
It's a nice fish and it really sets the scale
and that's what you're trying to do a lot of times
in the nano tank or at least in nano fish.
If it's a big tank, if you want that scaled down,
this is a great group to have a bunch of fish,
even if you only had, like, a 20 long,
you could put, like, 30-40 of these in there
and it'd look amazing.
So, number four, Exclamation Point Rasbora.
So, my number three fish, the Pygmy Corydora,
besides the snail, the best clean up crew you could have
and these guys are so personable,
you could have even just a group of them in your nano tank
and they'll perch on top of your sponge filter
or your plant, that type of thing
and they're just super personable.
I like 'em and they only get about inch-and-a-half or so
and they don't have a mean bone in their body.
They're not colorful, they're not flashy,
but if you're, you could have 'em on a desk
and you're working, you'll fall in love with them.
I love 'em so much.
You can combine them with any of the other nano fish,
if you get a catfish, it's not gonna harm anything
and, you know, keep 'em in a group of six or more.
I don't that's a bit of a stretch
when they're a clean up crew for other fish,
but they really like to be a group,
they're really social and they're just so cute.
Love 'em, love 'em, love 'em.
Number three.
Number two!
The Golden White Cloud.
Now, I know, I know what you're saying,
"That's not super nano."
I do realize that, but it does really well in nano tanks
'cause they're crazy hearty, they have a lot of color
and you can breed them in a relatively small tank,
they don't have a mean bone in their body.
They are plant-safe and they don't have to be heated.
That's the only option I think I put on the table today
that doesn't have to be heated
and so White Clouds and nano tanks,
they're a match made in heaven in my opinion.
I would say, at least five gallons,
but in my opinion,
all aquariums should be at least five gallons.
You go much smaller than that, you really gotta be careful.
But these guys will handle temperature fluctuations,
they'll eat almost anything, they're really cheap.
You can buy 'em even as feeders sometimes.
And I just think they're an unsung hero
in this hobby altogether and I don't know
if I've ever met someone that's honestly,
seriously kept White Clouds for any length of time
that wasn't like, "Yeah, White Clouds are awesome,
"I don't know why more people don't love them."
They're an awesome fish, that's why they're my number two.
So my number one favorite nano fish
is the Brigittae Rasbora, also known as the Chili Rasbora.
They get super bright red.
They only get,
they're one of the smallest fish we've shown today.
They do great in a five gallon, maybe even less,
but really I don't like anything less than a five gallon.
They're super cool.
Keep 'em in groups of six or more.
Schooling fish, relatively cheap.
You know, you might pick 'em between three and four bucks,
but it's a nano tank and so, what's 20 bucks on fish anyway?
And, like, right now they're just kinda schooling around,
you can see one moving.
These aren't even fully colored up yet,
we just got 'em in the store in the display tank,
we got 100 of 'em.
This is the 33 long, but you can still do nano fish
even in tanks that aren't necessarily small.
They look really cool, it just puts scale to everything
and, but yeah, number one, Brigittae Rasbora.
Get yourself some.
You'll love 'em, I promise ya.