fresh water fish come in so many colors you got your reds blues yellows but certain colors are
super rare so after scouring my local fish stores for months on end i finally put together my top
five list of green fish that stay three inches or smaller hi my name is Irene with girl talks fish
here with practical tips on nano fish and planted aquariums and back when i was a beginner i wanted
to set up a really cool rainbow tank where i had fish of every single color right well i still have
all my original research so i figured i'd share it with you and save you a bunch of time because
looking for green was quite the doozy first up on our list is the neon green rasbora or kubotai
rasbora this is i mean it looks like your typical little rasbora or tetra but it's bright lime green
and like amazing looking and this is amazingly enough it is not dyed or genetically modified
this is a completely natural fish you can find in the wild they come from Thailand and Myanmar
this micro rasbora is less than an inch long so because they're so tiny they're constantly worried
about predators you want to get a larger school of them maybe at least eight to ten of them the more
the merrier because they are such tiny fish they have tiny mouths and they need to eat tiny foods
so i like to feed them crushed up flakes baby brine shrimp um frozen daphnia and cyclops as
well as one of my favorites is this easy fry and small fish food i love the squeeze bottle that
makes it really convenient and fast feed because they are that bright lime green color i probably
wouldn't plant a lot of like bright yellow green plants like this pogostemon stellatus 'octopus'
but instead go with you know a darker substrate black background and then dark green or even red
plants to really make them pop next up on the list is the emerald green corydoras which is a larger
cory catfish i say they get about three inches maybe a little more a little less but very very
popular you'll probably find them in your petco, petsmart, or any kind of big pet store chain
because they have this amazing metallic green body with kind of a bluish tinge to it very unusual
their care requirements are very similar to most quarries they can survive in a wide range
of temperatures ph i would just get a school of at least three to six of them because it can be
a little timid if you just get one this bottom dweller is often used as a cleanup crew member
because they love to scavenge for leftovers on the bottom of the aquarium but make sure you
specifically feed them food too they generally are not picky eaters very beginner friendly they will
eat anything that pretty much sinks to the ground so things like sinking pellets and wafers frozen
blood worms tube effects worms things like that in fact if you feed them really well and keep up
with your water changes they're relatively easy to breed i actually have a whole video over here
on how i bred my cory catfish in the past i think emerald corydoras are about five to ten dollars
each right now but if you've got a lot of money to spend and you're looking for something super rare
check out the green laser corydoras that is i think about 30 to 40 dollars right now and
they have kind of a dark green to black body with a narrow horizontal bright yellow green
stripe on each side of their dorsal fin very cool looking but very rare i think i've only seen them
once in the local fish store number three on the list are endler's livebearers so if
you're not familiar with them they are like the smaller sleeker version of their cousins
the guppies i mean still very colorful and active but i've seen that the wild
like original wild types of endlers livebearers they often have a little patch of green on them
so people ended up library line braiding them so that they could increase that green to most of
the rest of their body and then you get variants like the lime green endler and the green laser in
there which is what i ended up getting this is such a lively and fun fish that you can add to
your community tank they are peaceful they're also not picky eaters really easy to pretty
much give them any kind of small community fish food and then finally they are super
easy to breed like they'll breed like rabbits and so if you're looking for a fun project and you
love seeing those little baby fish pop out this is a great fish to try i would recommend getting like
one male to every two to three females even the females are a little drabber in color
just because it gives the girls a little break from being chased by the guys all the time
they live in your typical tropical temperatures but they do prefer slightly higher pH
as well as harder water with more minerals in it so if you're like me and you have tap water with
really low GH i would highly recommend that you add something like wonder shell or seachem
equilibrium just to make sure that they have all the minerals they need to stay healthy and happy
number four on the list you may or may not have heard of it is the green fire tetra so
basically imagine a tetra with kind of a light green body and then they have a red
bright red region in their lower flanks and tail so kind of like a neon tetra but replace the blue
and silver parts with green very pretty and the males often have white tips to their fins and tail
they get about one and a half inches long so similar to the green neon raspberry they're
gonna want to eat smaller foods not picky at all though so throw you know crushed flakes the
baby brine shrimp daphnia that kind of thing of them like most tetras they're gonna do best in a
school of six to eight individuals of the same species however i did read on some sites that
they mentioned that the green fire tetras can be a little curious and sometimes like to nip at the
long thinned fish like angelfish and bettas so comment down below
if you have ever kept green fire tetras and observe this behavior so i'm kind of curious
number five on the list is the green tiger barb and this is just a selectively bred color variant
of the normal tiger bar but instead of having those black vertical stripes on them they kind
of have this solid emerald green body with black and orange on their fins so gorgeous and then
similar to the emerald corys that green is more of a metallic green with a bluish tint to it
like the emerald corys they get to about three inches or larger so i would recommend getting
them a 30 gallon or larger aquarium for them because they're just such active swimmers and
they need a lot of room to move around they're also kind of the reason why i ended up not being
able to call this my top five green fish for nano tanks because they get a little bit bigger
they are considered a semi-aggressive species and are known to be fin nippers
so i would highly recommend that you get six or much much more of them just because then
they can kind of keep each other busy and they won't bother other fish and there are
many many color variations of tiger barbs so feel free to mix and match to get that school
in fact another warning is they're very very fast eaters so they're not gonna be picky
about what you throw in the tank but i wouldn't recommend maybe pairing them with slow-moving
or a long-finned fish because they're probably gonna outcompete them during meal time in fact if
you're a beginner i would just recommend doing a species-only tank with just tiger barbs in it and
then put lots of kind of fake decorations or live aquarium plants in there they're kind of taller
and can block line of sight so they can run around them and escape from each other if they need to
because they are that darker emerald green color i think they would go really well with
a brighter yellow green plant such as you know these pogostemon stellatus another great one is
bacopa or a red plant like this dwarf aquarium lily in the middle after doing all that research
on green fish i realized that almost all of them are schooling fish and require at least six or
more individuals of the same species and that means i would need a much larger aquarium to house
all of those different colors and right now i can only take care of nano tanks however i think it
would still work if i got maybe a school of green fish and then pick some kind of fish that was a
complimentary color like a bright red flame dwarf gourami or red apistogramma cichlid that would be
so beautiful what's your favorite green fish that says three inches or smaller let me know
down in the comments because i want to help other people that are searching for that perfect green
fish and also if you've missed my previous top five fish lists that are based on color you can
check them out over here take time to enjoy your aquariums and i'll see in the next video
that's a wrap now i'm gonna go see a movie with mr gamer
i've heard pig by nicholas cage is really good so we shall see