guess what! I’m 13 and I’m proud to say my Betta t is in a 5 gallon with consistent tank changes! I now have ordered a sponge filter and they should be here this week I’m so happy that I value my betas life. No, I do not have a heater but I am working on getting this ASAP, please no hate comments I’m really trying my best and I’m really proud of my work also I hope you see this because you inspired me to change to a sponge filter!😁🐟🐠
I'm a bit late but Bettas are awesome. They love interacting with you, can learn tricks and enjoy appropriate toys! I'm glad you are doing your best for your fishy friends
I have some really good Petco stores nearby too. From what I've heard, the quality of the fish often depends on the quality of the pet store's management.
I wish my petcos were like this. I've only got shrimp from them and they all had white horsehair worms and they all died 😔 only pet store locally to me who keeps their tanks clean is one petsmart in the town over from me
I just got 2 Hillstream today. They are so funny! Those blinking eyes sticking out is so adorable! I always wanted to keep Pea puffers, but the food requirement is a dealbreaker.
Kuli loach..."they've got these black little beady eyes" made me lol. They DO have beady little eyes. 😂 👍💓👍 P/S I want to see a tank with little hillstream loach babies.
I’ve kept multiple pea puffers in community tanks. it overall just depends on their individual personality. when i buy pea puffers for a community tank i look for the ones that tend to go off on their own and dotn pay attention to other fish, which usually gets rid of the fin nipping issue.
This set me off watching your other videos about Hillstream Loaches lol, they're fascinating I've got to get one! I love Khuli Loaches too, I think they're my favourite fish - the ultimate party dude's clubbin' it after dark😎
I've been keeping kuhli loach for the past 40 years and still not tired of them. Another loach that I wish was more common is the P. Shelfordii. I've only seen it once at an LFS. A Kuhli loach with spots instead of stripes!
I discovered peacock gudgeons about a month ago, when I found sparkling gouramis and mistakenly got one thinking it had to be a pink one. I now have 2 since OCD is real and I found one when I was looking for something completely different. Heavily planted 10gal with a lot of tetras (4 types), pearl danios, 4 sparkling gouramis, 2 otocinculus catfish, 2 snails and some ghost shrimp. They engage with the other fish, super social with slower schooling fish (they like the tetras and gouramis, not so much the danios). The first thing they did in the tank was basically ride the current from the filter, which the tetras now do. Big fan myself.
@@demoncroc some fish have died, other were moved to different tanks. I've also been in the hobby for 4 decades, so I do actually know what I'm doing when it comes to stocking numbers
I haven't had the chance to own hillstream loachs yet, but I have enjoyed the rest of this list, so I'm sure I'll love Hsl. Kuhli's are my favorite oddball fish rn. I got a bakers dozen, built them hides, gave them different (soft) substrate, and gave them a heavy planted tank. Their behavior is so different now. Simply the cutest wiggly fish you could hope for.
I only have 1 kuhli loach,my dad caught it when it was flooding(it's very normal for my country)while catching some fish to eat. Im worried that it might not do well in my 10 gallon planted tank,but luckily it seems well and active,i do plant more heavily to provide hiding spots
I absolutely adore my hillstreams! They’re such perfect little fish. I love when they “doot doot” across the tank. Such fascinating and enjoyable fishies :)
I have two reticulated hillstream loaches (Sewellia lineolata) and one borneo sucker (Pseudogastromyson myseri) and 4-6 kuhli loaches (I put in 6, but only ever see 4 at a time... not sure if there are still 6). They're such fun fish, so cute, and I love that they're shrimp safe! I definitely think more people would get hillstream loaches if there wasn't so much misinformation online about them requiring fast flow, but they can also be hard to find. None of my local fish stores keep them in regular stock, I had to order them online from a few cities away.
Will also buy those hillstream loachdz and Kuhliis. Such amazing fishes. Can't wait to start with the hobby as I receive my 240liter aquarium next week!☺️
I love my kuhli loaches. I have six of them in my heavily planted, lots of hardscape 100 gallon tank. You'd think they would disappear and I'd never see them, but they are really active and energetic and I can usually spot at least three or four at all times.
@@Pallidum I've got nine Black Khulis, and I can usually glance at my tank and count off around 5 of them. They were skittish of their Cory tank mates for all of three hours before they realized everyone was peaceful.
I have had most of the fish on this list, though some in larger than nano tanks. Khuli loaches were great until I got some diseased fish and added a treatment. That was my first lesson about scaleless fish and copper. I don't know if they are the same but I had great fun with what were called Malabar puffers all the years ago I had them, so much personality for their size. Best oddball I ever had, in a wide but short tank was a weather loach, they really do just survive about anything, they can even temporarily move on land to get to new waters etc. When a storm or bad weather came he would let you know well in advance 👍
Question: Do you think you're do more experimentations with aquatic amphibians like African dwarph frogs and newts? I've especially heard that adf's make pretty good tankmates with most fish with having around the same amount of success as a betta. :)
I can say from experience that adf WILL go after a betta and vice-versa. IF adf can be kept in community tanks I’d think it would only work if the tank is large, the fish are all bigger than the adf, and the fish be herbivores.
I keep a couple of adf's in a tank together with my guppies so they can eat their offspring and I don't get an overcrowded tank. You shouldn't keep adf's in a big tank because those are probably too deep for them, as they need to go to the surface to breathe.
@@carriephillips6054 Happy early Bday;) I got mine this Monday and they're mesmerizing to watch sliding from the glass to the substrate. They're more fun to watch than my clown plecos which I swear they're pet rocks.
I have two hillstream loaches in my 20 long and I adore them! They are super cute and always active day and night. I think people shy away from them because everyone says they need fast moving water. After seeing a video that Cory had done where he said they do fine in a slow moving tank I went for it and I am very happy that I did.
I had two (2) Kooly Loaches, but each of them died when they propelled themselves out of my tall 55" tank. It was at different times/dates. After flying out of the tank, they fell several feet before hitting the ground. They died within days of what I must assume were massive internal injuries due to the fall. Too bad because they were cool! Great coloring!
thanks for making this video! i saw it back when you posted it and have been thinking about sewellia ever since! i even made a stream tank (not quite "hillstream" since i have some plants, but it's close) and finally found three that were the same species (sewellia albisuera). thanks again for the inspiration :)
I put 5 Clown Loaches in a 29 gallon community tank of several varieties of fish. I was expecting the Clowns to bond to each other. I even put a cave inside so they could hang out. However, they don't seem to be interested in schooling, preferring to swim independently.
I was so excited when I got my hill stream loach. I did so much research and had the perfect tank setup. He lasted every bit of 1 and 1/2 days before my map turtle ate him. My turtle lives with many different types of barbs and has never ever been interested in eating them. I just assumed my hill stream loach would swim away if sippy my turtle went for him but he did not. And it was horrible.
When she says kuhli loaches are harder she means it😭 in my way home after purchasing some I tripped on my skateboard and my bag popped! My loaches were in the ground flopping around😭 i quickly pryed them of the ground with multiple fails cuz of how wormy and slippery they are untill i finally picked all of them up into the little water left in my bag. 4 months later mine are thriving and happy :)
My 2 Hillstream Loaches are always together and never fight. With my 2 Clown Plecos and my 10 Armano Shrimps they’re my little workers. I have soft water with 2 sponge filters in a 30 gal tank. Everyone seems happy too.
I had this really cool dwarf eel. It was kinda dark brown and blue. I don’t remember what it was called and I’ve never found another. I bought a special hide for it, it would just sit in there with its head showing, I swear watching me, and come out for me at feed time or if I put my finger in the tank. It was super easy to look after, it would eat anything, not aggressive and did well in a community tank. Wish I could find another, it was like the rest of the fish were fish, and then this eel had its own distinct personality.
My top favorite small fish That are not necessarily found in every pet store is definitely dwarf puffer. Followed closely by the Pygmy Cory, Norman's lampeye killifish, celestial pearl danios, and Endlers. I think I'm gonna have to go get some hillstream loaches now. I think I didn't get them because I'd hurt they like cool waters and lots of motion and I don't have that but if they're good for not that then I'm getting them.
Love my peacock gudgeons! Bought 7 a few months ago, currently raising about 40 of their fry in a separate tank. Have had 2 batches of eggs since, which daddy ate all of lol
Voltron was a male btw. Female peacock gudgeons have a bright yellow belly, black tip fins, and also a pointed face. Most people say the female gudgeons are the prettier ones.
Pigmy puffers also don't play well with inverts. They'll eat your snails and your shrimps. One thing you can do for them though, is get a tank really green with algae, let snails grow and multiply in it (and they will multiply if there's lots of algae), then throw them in the puffer tank when their numbers start getting up there. Personally, I can't bare to do that, so I don't keep puffers. It's almost limitless free food for people who can though. Also, feeding them live snails will keep their teeth worn down to a desirable level so you don't have to trim them yourself, which risks all manner of problems, including the death of the puffer fish. Personally, I'd rather stick with my hillstream loaches, rocket tails, cardinal tetras, and corys. I'm right with you about hillstream loaches. They are awesome. I'm not quite sure why they qualify as oddballs in the industry because loaches aren't rare in the hobby, and neither are fish which will clean the glass. They are just cool little fish, and every single one of them which I have had has personality by the truck load.
Kuhli loach are great, I had 2 but thought I'd lost one, then found him in the internal power filter, how long he'd been in there I'll never know, or how he got in. Returned to tank with his mate, and they now seem to spend more daylight time active. Definitely a taking point when people see the tank.
I love imagining that there are people out there giving *dishonest* fish reviews 🤣 "Um, I don't like corydoras very much because they tend to move around the tank a lot and I find it very disorienting." *pauses tape to laugh uncontrollably because in fact he loves corydoras. he loves them very much.*
I used to have a kulhi loach, and when he first went into my 6 gallon, I noticed that he had ick, It’s really easy to cure, and if you fish has ick, and has a weak immune system, they will go crazy, and that’s what happend
I have 6 kuhli loaches in a 16g tank with c habrosus. I rarely ever see them. I like the hill stream loach. When I ever get a tank conducive to a stream setup I’ll get a few.
As multiple people in the Hobby have pointed out, that's the O2 levels that causes that. You can get them to spawn (a sign of perfect conditions in the fishes point of view) in a tank with near zero flow, as long as it has a lot of dissolved O2. A high flow is the EASIEST way to do this, however their are other ways including a combination of heavy plants and CO2 injection (which can lead to pearling a sign of complete O2 saturation in the water) or Airstone as long as it has a decent air pump AND defuses the bubbles well decently.
Some of the sewellia in the video do not look like sewellia lineonata to me. I saw them sold seperately in the fish store under another latin name. The lineonata was very calm and didn't mind me looking at them, but the other kind was super shy, bigger and with another pattern on their bodies. Finer dots. Some of your sewellia look more like those ones.
I would love to do some pea puffers, but I'm afraid I wouldn't have good luck with them!! Another fish I would like to get are some micro dragon gobies? I'm not sure what the species name is... Alex from @the secret history living in your aquarium got some, they're really cool although they stay hid in the sand most of the time 🤣 Another fish I really like is a whiptail catfish.. I don't know what it is about them I just love them!! Thanks for sharing Irene.. I just love the oddballs!! Have a wonderful and blessed Memorial Day weekend!!🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
The marbled hatchets are great but I will agree, they are FRAGILE fish! If you can keep them past the 1 or 2 week mark you’re probs safe. And for these guys the group or 6+ is very important
Love your show; however, I have to dissagree with your opinion on Peacock grudgeons. You definately need a school of about nine of these to see their interactions. Also, these fish have the peculiar breeding behavior where the male cares for the eggs inside of clay pots or rocks and sometimes takes care of the fry too..sometimes. The hillstream loach is my favorite and I hope to get some striped khulli loach fish.
I had experience with marbled hatchet fish. They are really cool, awesome fish, but they have a tendency to jump. A LOT. And I mean I had 3 of them and all of them died becuse they found a way to jump out of the tank. Which is something im still bewildered by to this day. My tank has a top, and the only small opening is at the back főt the cables of the equipment to go through. I even put a small plastic piece at one of these openings as a precaution. Didn't stop them. So if anyone plans on keeping them, make sure to have as little to no openings on your lid. Otherwise they will find a way.
I think Kuhli loaches are pretty cool, but I can’t keep them in my tank. I’ve had two already, they both died within a few days of each other. Even before they died I had my water tested by pet store employees, they said the water is perfect. They’re just delicate fish I guess. I do have a Hillstream loach, he’s doing great.
Most of the nano fish I've kept like slower flow, so I just look to see if they're being whipped around the tank too much. Not sure how to judge if the flow is fast enough, but I do try to avoid any dead spots in the tank or oil slicks at the surface.
*What's your favorite oddball nano fish that fits in 20 gallons or less?*
Kuhli loach
Kuhli loachess
I love my betta and White Cloud Mountain minnows
Hi this is kinda unrelated but I’m planning to get my first betta! And I just wanted to say thanks for all the great information and I can’t wait!!
@@funnylaugh.1069 good luck!
“Kuhli coaches are thin” my kuhlis are the thickness of a cigar
Baby ones and young ones are thin. Full blown adults are chubby lol 😆
guess what! I’m 13 and I’m proud to say my Betta t is in a 5 gallon with consistent tank changes! I now have ordered a sponge filter and they should be here this week I’m so happy that I value my betas life. No, I do not have a heater but I am working on getting this ASAP, please no hate comments I’m really trying my best and I’m really proud of my work also I hope you see this because you inspired me to change to a sponge filter!😁🐟🐠
That's so awesome! I'm so glad I could be of some help. Best of luck with upgrading your betta fish's tank. 😊
That's great
@@GirlTalksFish I can’t believe you responded Thank you so much I look up to your amazing fish keeping videos!
I'm a bit late but Bettas are awesome. They love interacting with you, can learn tricks and enjoy appropriate toys! I'm glad you are doing your best for your fishy friends
@@HJ-pm2dx Thank you so much!
My petco has hillstream loaches. They literally take such good care of their animals I have never seen a dead fish. It is pretty much a local petstore
I have some really good Petco stores nearby too. From what I've heard, the quality of the fish often depends on the quality of the pet store's management.
I wish my petcos were like this.
I've only got shrimp from them and they all had white horsehair worms and they all died 😔 only pet store locally to me who keeps their tanks clean is one petsmart in the town over from me
@@kileydavies7223 THat sucks :(
One petco near me is almost like this. They’re lucky to have some knowledgeable people on staff
Aw lucky, I can't find hillstream loaches anywhere where I am
I just got 2 Hillstream today. They are so funny! Those blinking eyes sticking out is so adorable!
I always wanted to keep Pea puffers, but the food requirement is a dealbreaker.
you do know that you can feed them frozen blood worms
They aren't puffers, but gold ring danios have a nice yellow and black color and are about the same size, plus they are friendly.
I give Girl talks fish 5 out of 5 stars 💙
10/5
Awww, shucks 😊
I know want to be friends with her. Lol
Are you kidding me that is insultingly low
simpppppppp
Kuli loach..."they've got these black little beady eyes" made me lol. They DO have beady little eyes. 😂
👍💓👍
P/S I want to see a tank with little hillstream loach babies.
Me tooooo! 👶👶👶
I’ve kept multiple pea puffers in community tanks. it overall just depends on their individual personality. when i buy pea puffers for a community tank i look for the ones that tend to go off on their own and dotn pay attention to other fish, which usually gets rid of the fin nipping issue.
People forget fish have individual personalities
This set me off watching your other videos about Hillstream Loaches lol, they're fascinating I've got to get one! I love Khuli Loaches too, I think they're my favourite fish - the ultimate party dude's clubbin' it after dark😎
Lol, I love the way you put it with them being the late night partiers! 🎶
Got my first hillstream loaches lat week because of your videos. I love them, thank you for giving me the confidence to get them.
I've been keeping kuhli loach for the past 40 years and still not tired of them. Another loach that I wish was more common is the P. Shelfordii. I've only seen it once at an LFS. A Kuhli loach with spots instead of stripes!
I discovered peacock gudgeons about a month ago, when I found sparkling gouramis and mistakenly got one thinking it had to be a pink one. I now have 2 since OCD is real and I found one when I was looking for something completely different. Heavily planted 10gal with a lot of tetras (4 types), pearl danios, 4 sparkling gouramis, 2 otocinculus catfish, 2 snails and some ghost shrimp. They engage with the other fish, super social with slower schooling fish (they like the tetras and gouramis, not so much the danios). The first thing they did in the tank was basically ride the current from the filter, which the tetras now do. Big fan myself.
your tank sounds really overstocked, check aqadvisor to see?
@@demoncroc some fish have died, other were moved to different tanks. I've also been in the hobby for 4 decades, so I do actually know what I'm doing when it comes to stocking numbers
Hillstream loaches are so cute! Glad they got such a good score : D
Love this type of video!
Bumblebee gobies seem like another cool oddball fish although I have never kept them myself
I haven't had the chance to own hillstream loachs yet, but I have enjoyed the rest of this list, so I'm sure I'll love Hsl. Kuhli's are my favorite oddball fish rn. I got a bakers dozen, built them hides, gave them different (soft) substrate, and gave them a heavy planted tank. Their behavior is so different now. Simply the cutest wiggly fish you could hope for.
I only have 1 kuhli loach,my dad caught it when it was flooding(it's very normal for my country)while catching some fish to eat. Im worried that it might not do well in my 10 gallon planted tank,but luckily it seems well and active,i do plant more heavily to provide hiding spots
I absolutely adore my hillstreams! They’re such perfect little fish. I love when they “doot doot” across the tank. Such fascinating and enjoyable fishies :)
Lol, same here!
I have two reticulated hillstream loaches (Sewellia lineolata) and one borneo sucker (Pseudogastromyson myseri) and 4-6 kuhli loaches (I put in 6, but only ever see 4 at a time... not sure if there are still 6). They're such fun fish, so cute, and I love that they're shrimp safe!
I definitely think more people would get hillstream loaches if there wasn't so much misinformation online about them requiring fast flow, but they can also be hard to find. None of my local fish stores keep them in regular stock, I had to order them online from a few cities away.
Will also buy those hillstream loachdz and Kuhliis. Such amazing fishes.
Can't wait to start with the hobby as I receive my 240liter aquarium next week!☺️
Kuhli Loach Supremacy 🌟
I love my kuhli loaches. I have six of them in my heavily planted, lots of hardscape 100 gallon tank. You'd think they would disappear and I'd never see them, but they are really active and energetic and I can usually spot at least three or four at all times.
@@Pallidum I've got nine Black Khulis, and I can usually glance at my tank and count off around 5 of them. They were skittish of their Cory tank mates for all of three hours before they realized everyone was peaceful.
You are getting me thru my first nano tank 🥺❣️
Thanks so much!
My local Petco called the hillstream loaches butterfly loaches. I picked one up for my daughter and we really love him.
I have had most of the fish on this list, though some in larger than nano tanks. Khuli loaches were great until I got some diseased fish and added a treatment. That was my first lesson about scaleless fish and copper. I don't know if they are the same but I had great fun with what were called Malabar puffers all the years ago I had them, so much personality for their size. Best oddball I ever had, in a wide but short tank was a weather loach, they really do just survive about anything, they can even temporarily move on land to get to new waters etc. When a storm or bad weather came he would let you know well in advance 👍
I never realized how cute hill stream loaches are until I saw this video!
I love my hillstream loach, looks like an alien!
Alien from below, Sting Ray from above...win-win!!! 🙂
Mine r happy with my pea puffer colony!
Question: Do you think you're do more experimentations with aquatic amphibians like African dwarph frogs and newts? I've especially heard that adf's make pretty good tankmates with most fish with having around the same amount of success as a betta. :)
I can say from experience that adf WILL go after a betta and vice-versa. IF adf can be kept in community tanks I’d think it would only work if the tank is large, the fish are all bigger than the adf, and the fish be herbivores.
I keep a couple of adf's in a tank together with my guppies so they can eat their offspring and I don't get an overcrowded tank. You shouldn't keep adf's in a big tank because those are probably too deep for them, as they need to go to the surface to breathe.
@@robinfarrar3493 0 fish are purely herbivore
@@himlolo Umm…I didn’t say they were.
I have always wanted a hillstream loach.
Aquahuna sells 2 for $20. Pretty cheap.
@@DLMyth2 I never see them at my LFS. Maybe I will treat myself to Aqua Hana order for my birthday. Thanks for the tip!
@@carriephillips6054 Happy early Bday;) I got mine this Monday and they're mesmerizing to watch sliding from the glass to the substrate. They're more fun to watch than my clown plecos which I swear they're pet rocks.
@@DLMyth2 😆
That kuhil loach would freak the heck out of unsuspecting people! I want one.
They need to be in schools of 5 or more in a 20 gallon or larger.
I have two hillstream loaches in my 20 long and I adore them! They are super cute and always active day and night. I think people shy away from them because everyone says they need fast moving water. After seeing a video that Cory had done where he said they do fine in a slow moving tank I went for it and I am very happy that I did.
Thanks for this! I was eying them for my 30 and thought of putting a current in! Glad to know they can thrive elsewhere.
Do you see them often?
@@midas2252 , Yes! I see mine all of the time. Of course they do disappear from time to time but they are out more than hiding.
I had two (2) Kooly Loaches, but each of them died when they propelled themselves out of my tall 55" tank. It was at different times/dates. After flying out of the tank, they fell several feet before hitting the ground. They died within days of what I must assume were massive internal injuries due to the fall. Too bad because they were cool! Great coloring!
I love kuhli loaches they are so cute
thanks for making this video! i saw it back when you posted it and have been thinking about sewellia ever since! i even made a stream tank (not quite "hillstream" since i have some plants, but it's close) and finally found three that were the same species (sewellia albisuera). thanks again for the inspiration :)
I keep hillstream loaches in a traditional nano tank, too, and they’re doing great! I love them.
I put 5 Clown Loaches in a 29 gallon community tank of several varieties of fish. I was expecting the Clowns to bond to each other. I even put a cave inside so they could hang out. However, they don't seem to be interested in schooling, preferring to swim independently.
I was so excited when I got my hill stream loach. I did so much research and had the perfect tank setup. He lasted every bit of 1 and 1/2 days before my map turtle ate him. My turtle lives with many different types of barbs and has never ever been interested in eating them. I just assumed my hill stream loach would swim away if sippy my turtle went for him but he did not. And it was horrible.
What a great list of suggestions. My addition would be platinum halfbeak as it's like keeping a tiny monster fish.
Wooow, I may have to look more into them.
Well I'm going to have to check that one out too Mike 😁 I hope you're having a great weekend!!🌿🐟🌿💚
i recently learned about the hillstream loaches and i love them, very hardy and fun to have
After 6 weeks of cycling my tank and watching your videos, I got 2 Hillstream loaches yesterday 🥰 I love their little alien faces!!
Nice! Good luck with them!
When she says kuhli loaches are harder she means it😭 in my way home after purchasing some I tripped on my skateboard and my bag popped! My loaches were in the ground flopping around😭 i quickly pryed them of the ground with multiple fails cuz of how wormy and slippery they are untill i finally picked all of them up into the little water left in my bag. 4 months later mine are thriving and happy :)
Love this video! These fish are amazing! I can't wait till I move so I can get back into aquariums again and this is giving me such an itch
I LOVE Khuli loaches!!!! I have 10 in my Asian tank and they' re awesome!
Let’s hope your tanks big
Thanks to watching your videos, I found kuhli and hillstream loaches. They're are so cute!
I just set up my 32 gal hillstream loach breeder tank yesterday. I can't wait to see even more babies.
My 2 Hillstream Loaches are always together and never fight. With my 2 Clown Plecos and my 10 Armano Shrimps they’re my little workers. I have soft water with 2 sponge filters in a 30 gal tank. Everyone seems happy too.
I had this really cool dwarf eel. It was kinda dark brown and blue. I don’t remember what it was called and I’ve never found another. I bought a special hide for it, it would just sit in there with its head showing, I swear watching me, and come out for me at feed time or if I put my finger in the tank. It was super easy to look after, it would eat anything, not aggressive and did well in a community tank. Wish I could find another, it was like the rest of the fish were fish, and then this eel had its own distinct personality.
I think all these fish are odd in a way. They certainly look different than other fish species and are every interesting
Your plants look super healthy nice job, I may be the only person with a Kuhli loach tattoo so solid choice.i also have 3 of your 5 picks
I wish you would have pointed out the blue spark in the hillstream loach eyes. Admittedly I'm a guy but that spark in a fish's eyes
Borneo loach mini loach the best pet ever! So fun and dithery and peaceful with my grouchy betta. They ignore him 100%
Last time I kept Hillstream loaches my heater broke, the water became super hot and they died stuck to the glass 🥺
My top favorite small fish That are not necessarily found in every pet store is definitely dwarf puffer. Followed closely by the Pygmy Cory, Norman's lampeye killifish, celestial pearl danios, and Endlers.
I think I'm gonna have to go get some hillstream loaches now. I think I didn't get them because I'd hurt they like cool waters and lots of motion and I don't have that but if they're good for not that then I'm getting them.
Love my peacock gudgeons! Bought 7 a few months ago, currently raising about 40 of their fry in a separate tank. Have had 2 batches of eggs since, which daddy ate all of lol
I have peapuffers in my 60 gallon along with several other fish (neon tetras, Cory's, and a knife fish) and haven't had any issues.
Voltron was a male btw. Female peacock gudgeons have a bright yellow belly, black tip fins, and also a pointed face. Most people say the female gudgeons are the prettier ones.
Thank you I couldn’t get away with your videos till recently I don’t know why but I love them now thank you for the videos/information xx
Pigmy puffers also don't play well with inverts. They'll eat your snails and your shrimps. One thing you can do for them though, is get a tank really green with algae, let snails grow and multiply in it (and they will multiply if there's lots of algae), then throw them in the puffer tank when their numbers start getting up there. Personally, I can't bare to do that, so I don't keep puffers. It's almost limitless free food for people who can though. Also, feeding them live snails will keep their teeth worn down to a desirable level so you don't have to trim them yourself, which risks all manner of problems, including the death of the puffer fish. Personally, I'd rather stick with my hillstream loaches, rocket tails, cardinal tetras, and corys.
I'm right with you about hillstream loaches. They are awesome. I'm not quite sure why they qualify as oddballs in the industry because loaches aren't rare in the hobby, and neither are fish which will clean the glass. They are just cool little fish, and every single one of them which I have had has personality by the truck load.
Was on the fence about Hillstreams but definitely going to need a few now 😊
Super fun video, Irene! I love your footage of these different oddballs. Thanks!
Kuhli loach are great, I had 2 but thought I'd lost one, then found him in the internal power filter, how long he'd been in there I'll never know, or how he got in. Returned to tank with his mate, and they now seem to spend more daylight time active. Definitely a taking point when people see the tank.
I love imagining that there are people out there giving *dishonest* fish reviews 🤣 "Um, I don't like corydoras very much because they tend to move around the tank a lot and I find it very disorienting." *pauses tape to laugh uncontrollably because in fact he loves corydoras. he loves them very much.*
I got to agree, hillstream loaches rock! I keep mine with a CRS colony 🌿
I used to have a kulhi loach, and when he first went into my 6 gallon, I noticed that he had ick, It’s really easy to cure, and if you fish has ick, and has a weak immune system, they will go crazy, and that’s what happend
The Kuhli Loach reminds me of Slimy Oscar the Grouch’s pet worm💯😂
I like how shes just reviewing an entire species
You listed my top three, hillstream loach, pea puffers and marbled hatchet fish.
I have 6 kuhli loaches in a 16g tank with c habrosus. I rarely ever see them. I like the hill stream loach. When I ever get a tank conducive to a stream setup I’ll get a few.
hillstream loaches still need cold water with lots of flow, i kept the in both situations and they did a LOT better in the tank with lots of flow
As multiple people in the Hobby have pointed out, that's the O2 levels that causes that. You can get them to spawn (a sign of perfect conditions in the fishes point of view) in a tank with near zero flow, as long as it has a lot of dissolved O2.
A high flow is the EASIEST way to do this, however their are other ways including a combination of heavy plants and CO2 injection (which can lead to pearling a sign of complete O2 saturation in the water) or Airstone as long as it has a decent air pump AND defuses the bubbles well decently.
Do I have a fish? No. Am I planning on starting a tank? No. Am I thoroughly enjoying these videos? YES!
Love my Hillstream Loaches. Mine breed in my 55g. They just need lots of rocks.
Some of the sewellia in the video do not look like sewellia lineonata to me. I saw them sold seperately in the fish store under another latin name. The lineonata was very calm and didn't mind me looking at them, but the other kind was super shy, bigger and with another pattern on their bodies. Finer dots. Some of your sewellia look more like those ones.
I would love to do some pea puffers, but I'm afraid I wouldn't have good luck with them!!
Another fish I would like to get are some micro dragon gobies? I'm not sure what the species name is... Alex from @the secret history living in your aquarium got some, they're really cool although they stay hid in the sand most of the time 🤣
Another fish I really like is a whiptail catfish.. I don't know what it is about them I just love them!!
Thanks for sharing Irene.. I just love the oddballs!! Have a wonderful and blessed Memorial Day weekend!!🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
The marbled hatchets are great but I will agree, they are FRAGILE fish!
If you can keep them past the 1 or 2 week mark you’re probs safe. And for these guys the group or 6+ is very important
I have a pea puffer colony, with a couple Reticulated Hillstreams, and they do fine!
That sounds like such an awesome oddball tank!
Love your show; however, I have to dissagree with your opinion on Peacock grudgeons. You definately need a school of about nine of these to see their interactions. Also, these fish have the peculiar breeding behavior where the male cares for the eggs inside of clay pots or rocks and sometimes takes care of the fry too..sometimes. The hillstream loach is my favorite and I hope to get some striped khulli loach fish.
I had no idea hillstream laches were so cute!
There odd ball 3:07 because the peacock gudgen is supposed to be related to a goby but there closer related to the rainbow fish
I had experience with marbled hatchet fish. They are really cool, awesome fish, but they have a tendency to jump. A LOT.
And I mean I had 3 of them and all of them died becuse they found a way to jump out of the tank. Which is something im still bewildered by to this day. My tank has a top, and the only small opening is at the back főt the cables of the equipment to go through. I even put a small plastic piece at one of these openings as a precaution. Didn't stop them.
So if anyone plans on keeping them, make sure to have as little to no openings on your lid. Otherwise they will find a way.
I miss my gudgeons, they are GORGEOUS. Definitely one of my favorites, followed by my halfbeaks
Was gunna grab a hillstream loach the other day!!!!! But convinced myself they looked too much like the leech I plucked off my leg a while back
Love hillstream loach too they have adorable little faces
A good thing to remember is a full coverage lid for Marble Hatchet fish, because they are naturally very good jumpers.
I love your pet names i.e. Soudwave and Voltron.
I've always wanted a Kuli loach. I heard that they weren't very hardy, so I'm surprised to hear they apparently do pretty good?
While they’re not good with community tanks I have 12 pea puffers and they do great together actually a social fish with themselves
Freshwater gobies are seen as oddball fish because most people think they’re only saltwater For most of my life I thought they were only saltwater
Girl forget fishes what's your skincare routine?!!! You are glowing!
Cool I just set up a 29gal. Gonna have to try them hill stream loaches.
I think Kuhli loaches are pretty cool, but I can’t keep them in my tank. I’ve had two already, they both died within a few days of each other. Even before they died I had my water tested by pet store employees, they said the water is perfect. They’re just delicate fish I guess. I do have a Hillstream loach, he’s doing great.
I absolutely love kuhlis, but they have never been very hardy for me. If anything, they seem a bit delicate for a bottom feeder.
Well friend, after watching your video probably like… Six or seven times, I finally went out and scooped a couple hillstream loaches. Thank you!!
I have a couple of fan shrimps in my community tank. If I add a few hill stream loaches, do you think they'll eat the shrimps?
I don't think that hillstream loaches are big enough to eat an adult, but a baby or eggs might be in danger
Pea puffers are just little hate marbles, they are cute but absolutely brutal on anything that isn't bigger and meaner than they are!
I got 4 loaches in a heavily planted high stock tank at 78 degrees and they’ve bred so much there are almost 40
I always wanted a hillstream loach but there's none in my country
I was told at the fish store that peacock gundgeons would co exist with my betta… they did not they killed him only a week after introduction
I want some kuhli loaches at some point, currently have a sumo loach and they are cool little fish aswell
Pea puffers are adorable but they are threatened by aquarium trade so be sure to get captive-bred puffers
Thanks for the video! Do you know if hillstream or kuhli loaches have any issues with red cherry shrimps?
Kuhli loaches definitely dont
Thank you for the useful information and for sharing your experiences! =)
Also straight forward question: How do you know if the water flow is just right in your tank?
Most of the nano fish I've kept like slower flow, so I just look to see if they're being whipped around the tank too much. Not sure how to judge if the flow is fast enough, but I do try to avoid any dead spots in the tank or oil slicks at the surface.
Thank you for this video! Would the Hillstream loach outcompete other bottom dwellers for food? Like Corys or shrimp? Thank you!
I don’t think so, because corys and shrimps are usually very fast. Hillstream loaches are usually the same speed as other bottom dwellers.
I really want 6 peacock gudgeons for my tank... good luck to me finding them.