Hey everyone Cory from Aquarium Co-op Today we're talking about the best fish if you're a beginner, I got 10 of them for you Not in any specific order, but we're gunna give some basic care and hopefully give you some ideas for your new tank
Alright, the first idea I've got for you is rasboras In general. You can get them in any pet store. Rasbora hets are very, very common and super sturdy. You get that orange color on'em and there are some other variants as well. They get about 2 5-3 inches and some stay a little bit smaller.
Some get a little bit bigger Like a scissor tail rasbora, something like that. They handle a wide range of PH and they like to be in schools of six or more and in general, pretty peaceful. So they can go with most of the other suggestions on this list. Next up, I've got the common goldfish Now you might go hey, that's not necessarily a beginner fish. The common goldfish, I do believe, is a beginner fish With a little bit of research, they're very easy to take care of In general, giving them at least 30 gallons of water per fish.
So in a 55 you could have kind of a couple of them They get to about a foot, maybe 14 inches, and one of the good things is. You can usually put them into a pond later. Maybe a family member or something like that, But in general feed'em, a diet with a lot of spirulina and veggies in it and they're pretty easy to take care of Change. A bunch of water and they're really forgiving in terms of PH hardness and all that, and so you don't want to mix them with other community fish. But a tank of just them is super cool.
And that's why they're one of the most popular fish in the world Next up, I've got tetras, for you Now seems common, it is common, but there's hundreds of types of tetras and it's probably the most well represented species at your local fish store. When you walk in you're gunna, be like hey, there's neon tetras cardinal tetras, Congo tetras black neon tetras, you know, there's gunna, be tons and so they're all pretty easy to take care of They like a neutral, PH Kind of 7-7.8. You can go a little bit higher on some of the African tetras. You can go a little bit lower, maybe on wild caught cardinal tetras So do a little bit of research before you're buying them, but keep them in groups of six or more They like to school.
Around Safety in numbers Could go with the rasboras we mentioned earlier and a bunch of others in this list. Next up, we've got corydoras Now think of them like the rasbora or the neon tetra of the bottom dwellers, They like to be in groups, Ideally six or more, but I say bare minimum three and they usually are in every pet store, if not at least albino and bronzes. Some of the more you know common ones, All the way up to very expensive, laser or delphi or some that just have numbers. Sometimes you go corydora cw056. What'S that But in general they're all catfish that get about 2.
-3 inches school around the bottom and they eat off the bottom. Now that doesn't mean they only eat leftovers or they clean your tank. You still have to dedicated feed them, but they swim down low kinda. You can inhabit that area without having to put them up in the middle, with tetras and rasboras, and all that kind of stuff, So they're a great little addition to your community tank Next up, we've got platies. Now, if you know me, you know that I love live bearers and I couldn't leave live bearers off this list, so I had to find one that I thought was really hardy for a beginner and that is the platy Guppies.
A lot of people would suggest that, but they're so bred now that they're pretty weak Platies, on the other hand, tend to be nice and robust can handle a wide range of PH all the way from 6.8 to probably 8 5, they give birth to live young. They like the water to be a little bit hard, but they don't care that much. If it's not super hard They'll eat almost anything They get about 3.5-4 inches and they come in any color.
You can imagine My personal favorites are a slight variant on a platy known as the variatus platy I personally keep them in my fish room and they're one of my favorite fish of all time. Out of everything I own at the store and home they're, still probably in my top five favorite fish ever Next up, I've got bettas. I know there's a lot of controversy on that, but in general I do think they are a good beginner fish for people if they keep them appropriately. So get yourself like a ten gallon aquarium get a filter with slow flow. Maybe a sponge filter or a small hang on back plant it up and then mix it with probably some of those tetras and things we've been talking about earlier and you're.
Finally, like wait, I can keep them in a community. All of our bettas in our store here are kept in community tanks and, I would say 85 % or more of our customers do the same thing. It doesn't always work out, but it is one of the easiest fish to keep because they breathe from the surface. They eat lots of meat, so you can feed them. High quality, pellets, frozen blood worms, things like that and they typically do get along with other stuff.
You actually worry more about other stuff, picking on them in a large aquarium In smaller tanks. They get very, very territorial and sometimes will lash out on other things, but in a big tank. Not so much - and you know just don't forget, don't keep more than one betta by itself. They'Re, very territorial against each other, Next up, we've got barbs, So they can be semi-aggressive. I would say things like tiger barbs, Odessa, barbs, cherry barbs, there's lots of barbs Tinfoil barbs.
They get huge In general, most of them get about 3ish inches, it depends, but the ones that I would sell and we would keep or you see most in your store - are smaller, three in version and they school around. So groups of six or more and usually the more you have the more active they are, but the less they nip and chase other things. So if you have a group of 15 tiger barbs, they usually are kind of laid back. I wouldn't mix barbs with long finned things like a nice big long, finned angel or something like that, but you could mix them with rasboras corydoras neon tetras and a couple other things on the list. Sometimes you just got ta have a cichlid and what's a good beginner cichlid, I like the Bolivian ram So not the German ram, which is kind of delicate, but the Bolivian ram gets about 3.
inches doesn't have quite as much color, but has that cichlid behavior It's gunna, be that show piece in your tank and it will handle a wide variety all the way. From seven to eight PH, you can breed'em, you can keep them with. You know the neons, the rasboras, the barbs, all that kind of stuff and their temps are in the same range that 78 with all that other stuff. So it's really easy to mix into your community tank and they're, really hearty and they'll eat a wide variety of food. So it's a great introductory cichlid species.
If you're a beginner Next up, we've got a bottom dweller kuhli loaches. Now as long as they look. Okay, at the store, typically, you do, okay with them. You don't get to see them a whole lot. They'Re very nocturnal and reclusive.
They live in plant roots and under pieces of wood and decorations. But when you do get to see'em they're super cool, They look like little worms and eels and they're great little scavengers. They eat little leftovers between the rocks and that kind of thing You still got ta feed'em cause they eat leftovers, but you know just because, like we eat leftovers, we still have to cook once in a while to make leftovers Same deal with them, Got ta feed'em, but get a group of three or more of them at least, And they can go in tanks as small as five all the way up, as many as you want to keep Alright, my last fish, an angelfish. So, yes, they do get large. They get the size of you know a small saucer, but keep them in like a 55 gallon or larger they're, pretty darn easy to keep You can keep them with rasboras barbs as long as it's not a long fin variety of the angelfish Barbs and neons er, not neon tetras, but tetras in general, all those community fish.
It'S your big big big, show piece fish. It'S also a cichlid, and you know so you can even keep it with that Bolivian ram. It'S kind of the easiest way. My advice is to keep just one Don'T buy wild caught buy stuff, that's been tank raised. Hopefully, even locally to your water and just put one showpiece in that 55 gallon.
It'S really easy! When you start adding more that's when you can get fighting going on, Then you can get breeding going on and all that stuff and they get a lot more territorial. But one is very, very easy to keep in a tank, that's 55 or larger in your general community tank So hopefully that gave you 10 ideas of what way could I go? I'M new to fish or I want to just add something, and you know you can weigh in Leave a comment down below and let me know what you think is a great beginner fish. I could have come up with another 20 of them, I'm sure, but leave it down below so that someone that's new reading.
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