hi guys I'm Irene with Girl Talks Fish and I am still here at The Fish Crew because I just
finished up the store tour which hopefully you saw the video for last week but since
we have what 30 minutes before they open let me take you around and I will show you
five fish and invertebrates I would take home today if I had the space let's go
so out of this entire fish rack I love the blue bolt caridina shrimp now I would probably have to
do some mixing around with the parameters but look at this beautiful shrimp they've got this like
bluish kind of head and it's an ombre effect to the white in the back adorable I love dwarf shrimp
to begin with because they stay small they look great in planted tanks but with Caridina shrimp
I definitely have to do some RODI water or some kind of mixing because they definitely prefer
that lower pH softer water not too soft though because I still do have an exoskeleton there are
plenty of foods that you can feed them Specialty Foods for shrimp but they will take you know they're
scavengers so they will eat anything that you give them if you plan on breeding them of course for
the babies you are going to have to feed something more specialized such as powdery foods because the
adults will outcompete them I personally like to add catappa leaves cholla wood anything that
tends to break down quickly and grow biofilm on it because again it's another source of food that
those baby shrimp and adults can constantly feed on and then grow big and healthy again shrimp are
very very popular very trending right now so if you feel like your population is getting too big
no problem most likely your local fish store or your local aquarium society will take them
now if costs were no problem at all I would definitely want to try out threadfin rainbow
fish I love rainbowfish obviously with the name they come in all sorts of varieties and colors I
have never kept this particular one I have kept a lot of Pseudomugil species I believe
this is another genus of rainbowfish and they get slightly bigger than some of the like the
forktail rainbowfish I've kept before but you can see they're absolutely gorgeous it's got this
yellow body some kind of blue iridescence near the eyes and the face and then classic — because
of their common name — really long fins that turn kind of a yellow pink color now there are a lot of
males in here if I want to get the best coloration of the males I definitely will want to take care
take home some of the females as well usually a ratio of one male to a couple females if at all
possible would be really nice because then the males are going to really show off in front of
the girls and then you get the best brightest colors and the best natural behavior as well
I don't know much about there I'd have to do some research about their water parameters but
rainbowfish in general tend to like the slightly higher pH and harder water shouldn't be a problem
to keep them it seems like they're doing well very active fish they do tend to spend more time in the
upper half of the aquarium so I would recommend getting some kind of tight-fitting lid so that
they won't jump out and you won't be missing some very expensive members of your new family [Music]
now you know me I mostly keep nano tanks that are 20 gallons and below which is why I've never had
the chance to keep dojo loaches I love loaches to begin with right kuhli loaches hillstream
loaches I've kept a lot of the smaller dwarf loaches but dojo loaches we're talking about like a one
foot long hot dog size that's just swimming around they've got these little fins and then
a lot of whiskers or barbels near the face which they're going to use to constantly smell and feel
around for food so very mouthy fish according to Emma when we interviewed her last week now dojo
loaches they are a cooler water species which is why a lot of people like to keep them with fancy
goldfish they kind of go together while you've got your goldfish and the dojo loach is going to clean
up any of the particles that the goldfish leaves behind I just love how active they are I have
heard that they will sometimes bury themselves underneath in the substrate so maybe in a goldfish
tank if you're keeping sand substrate you might see some of those unique behaviors there finally
the dojo loach does have a nickname weather loach because apparently when storms are coming they
feel that change in barometric pressure the dojo loaches will go crazy you'll see really
hyperactive uh swimming behavior and they'll be very entertaining to watch again a bucket list fish
for me one day when I get that 40 gallon or larger tank are you ready hello hello that helps okay you
know that's going in now now I know this fish is pretty common and you may be asking yourselves why
am I putting this on my list but German blue rams I've never really like successfully kept them I
had one as a beginner did not realize that they need hot hot temperatures like they really like
that 84 even 86 sometimes degrees Fahrenheit of heat to do really well but this South American
dwarf cichlid I mean there's no wonder why people like them it's so rainbow colored you
have the blacks, the spangling of blue, the red eye, some of them get these pink bellies just gorgeous
fish plus super fun to breed the males tend to be I would say more brightly colored their fins
have kind of sharper edges to them versus the females not so much so sometimes what I like to
do to make sure I get a pair a breeding pair is I will go to the fish store and if you see two
of them are really hanging around especially if they're kind of digging a little ditch into
to the substrate you know that they're already paired up together and that might be a good set
to bring home so that they're more successful in breeding apparently they can be picky there's all
sorts of guides online on how to breed them but I've heard master breeder Dean says he likes using
a 10 gallon aquarium help put things like you know upside down flower pots with a little cave cut out
or even just the dish that goes underneath it he'll put it upside down flat rocks they like to
lay their eggs on there and they do show parental care so that's why a lot of times if you have
them in a community setting they will get pretty aggressive toward the other tank mates especially
during breeding season and if they're trying to protect their fry but yeah I definitely want to
give them a try and try breeding them so I can see them taking care of their little babies [Music] um
final fish on my list would be gold barbs and again the reason why I haven't kept them
before is because they do get larger and I just don't have a big enough tank for them but again
I don't have as many details I haven't done as much research on this fish I do know that
again they get larger as barbs they can be kind of feisty so you want to keep them with other
tank mates that maybe aren't slow moving they don't have long fins something that's just as
feisty and as exciting and fast-moving as they are also like many barbs they can enjoy cooler
water so if you're planting a tank that you don't want it to be heated you know put them with other
zebra danios might be good other barbs the loaches that I talked about before they might be good tank
mates for it because they're just as boisterous and they're able to kind of not get out competed
during meal time I love the kind of yellow orange body this kind of greenish blackish line as well
as a bright red eye as well gold barbs one day I'm definitely gonna keep them if you haven't seen our
video from last week when we did a full-on tour of The Fish Crew make sure to check it out over here
otherwise take time to enjoy your aquariums and I'll see you in the next video [Music]