My 5 Favorite MONSTER Fish - Killer Beasts or Giant Wet Pets?

I’ve only kept nano fish before, but these 5 jaw-dropping monster fish from Ray’s Tank are absolute showstoppers so I asked the store manager Eric to tell me what it really takes to care for these giant wet pets.
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0:00 Top 5 monster fish at Ray's Tank
0:21 Monster fish #1
2:35 Monster fish #2
4:54 Monster fish #3
7:39 Monster fish #4
8:54 Monster fish #5

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  • @GirlTalksFish
    @GirlTalksFish Жыл бұрын

    *Which monster fish should I get first? I thought I wanted clown loaches, but Eric really likes his bichirs...*

  • @pencilpauli9442

    @pencilpauli9442

    Жыл бұрын

    Bichers AND clown loaches lol

  • @lisahurst4208

    @lisahurst4208

    Жыл бұрын

    I've never thought about getting a monster fish but after this video a bichir, maybe 3, sounds cute. I wonder if a bichir would snuggle with my 12 inch pleco.

  • @Shellshockd85

    @Shellshockd85

    Жыл бұрын

    They had dino bichirs at petsmart the other day in albuquerque

  • @lisahurst4208

    @lisahurst4208

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Shellshockd85 I do wonder if those bichir sold by the fish stores are common pleco situations waiting to happen. I got mine from some friends who were moving cross country and we thought rehoming would be less traumatic to the fish. My family and I love her but we weren't PLANNING on going from a 20 gallon to a 90 gallon aquarium. But here we are!😅

  • @taylor3950

    @taylor3950

    Жыл бұрын

    The bichir cuddle puddle is pretty cute!

  • @jacekjakimiec9987
    @jacekjakimiec9987 Жыл бұрын

    i love that u put metric units and celsius in all your video's

  • @RenegadeLK
    @RenegadeLK Жыл бұрын

    You should get/build a 1000g tank and get all of them!😊

  • @PutSomeTwazOnIt

    @PutSomeTwazOnIt

    Жыл бұрын

    Such a low budget option!

  • @rembrandtshadows

    @rembrandtshadows

    10 ай бұрын

    @@PutSomeTwazOnIt especially the engineering study for that amount of weight

  • @Birdofthetacklebox
    @Birdofthetacklebox4 ай бұрын

    I know you’ll probably never get a monster tank thanks to the stress issues but one of the coolest monster fish out there is freshwater moray eel. Unlike other “freshwater” eels which are actually brackish, this species are full freshwater!

  • @SequoiaElisabeth
    @SequoiaElisabeth Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing. Monster fish can have good personalities. I loved my Oscar I had a few decades ago. Clown loaches would be my choice, but I hear good things about birchirs too.

  • @Aquafinity
    @Aquafinity Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video Irene! Monster fish can have awesome personalities indeed. That's why I love my German blue rams!

  • @BanthaWorship
    @BanthaWorship Жыл бұрын

    Very informative, also love his Nier tattoo!

  • @garg4531
    @garg4531 Жыл бұрын

    I love it!! I’m not a monster fish fan myself, prefer nano fish like you, but I am curious about what would be considered “beginner” monster fish Bichirs definitely seem pretty interesting to me!

  • @pennypiper5857
    @pennypiper5857 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for sharing:)

  • @galejohnson8086
    @galejohnson80867 ай бұрын

    Cool! Box filters.

  • @crystalgrzelak
    @crystalgrzelak Жыл бұрын

    I like the bichir. However, my favorite wasn’t on the list. My boyfriend has 2 Oscars. They are still young 6 months old and are only 7 inches. They are the absolute best monster fish. He started with 1 a month later added another and they are always together. They have huge personalities. They are emotional. Every week he does a water change and they hide from him the rest of the day.

  • @rembrandtshadows

    @rembrandtshadows

    10 ай бұрын

    oscars are such attention seekers

  • @crystalgrzelak

    @crystalgrzelak

    10 ай бұрын

    @@rembrandtshadowsvery much so 😂

  • @EssiBrownlee
    @EssiBrownlee Жыл бұрын

    Out of true monsters? I adore bichirs. My favorite that I've had at the store I work have have been the Palmas, but ornates are gorgeous too!

  • @Bogrin
    @Bogrin Жыл бұрын

    A Bichir is one of my dream fish someday!

  • @Handygrrl
    @Handygrrl Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting!

  • @littlemidwestrebornsdolls
    @littlemidwestrebornsdolls Жыл бұрын

    You should get Clown loaches. I like the Stingrays and Discus too. 🐟🐠 Gina Hetlage

  • @demonofhellanimestudios5332
    @demonofhellanimestudios5332 Жыл бұрын

    4:59 black ghost knife fish at the corner of the tank 9:43 big bgkf right here

  • @judithjeffers7666
    @judithjeffers7666 Жыл бұрын

    I would like to get black angel fish. I don’t know if they are considered monster fish but I’ve seen some that were pretty big.

  • @asharkhan8175
    @asharkhan8175 Жыл бұрын

    I am so lucky because in my country Asian arowana is legal. So without any doubt Asian arowana is my most favourite monster fish.

  • @santimateo1984
    @santimateo1984 Жыл бұрын

    I love Arowanas and Bichirs (called here as Dragon Fin)❤

  • @steventan7420
    @steventan7420 Жыл бұрын

    I dont recommend discus for beginner. When i started to keep 2 pairs, they stressed me out. Cotton fungus, ich, fin rot until i even put methylene blue everytime i wc. They had lots of requirement, temp, space & agression, def unsuitable for small tanks which is common for beginner.

  • @Thomas.Saunders
    @Thomas.Saunders Жыл бұрын

    @GirlTalksFish - Colorado resident here. Where is this shop? Didn't you say in another video that it was somewhere north of Denver?

  • @jamesmacias6203
    @jamesmacias62032 ай бұрын

    Have you heard of a store called aqua imports,it is my local fish store.

  • @vampgaia
    @vampgaia Жыл бұрын

    I like the bichirs

  • @Matt-du9ez
    @Matt-du9ez Жыл бұрын

    hi!

  • @rembrandtshadows
    @rembrandtshadows10 ай бұрын

    if you want a true monster fish, how about a bowfin? Upside is they can thrive anything more watery than mud. Downside is their vomer plate (roof of the mouth) is studded with teeth and they are fairly ferocious. They are truly a relict species from the Jurassic. I trained a few to prey on invasive blue catfish but that got out of hand when they started attacking boat fishers reeling blue catfish. I rehomed them to the Ukrainian Navy to attack the Kerch Bridge.

  • @onlywei
    @onlywei Жыл бұрын

    I heard they’re pronounced bi-sheers because it’s an Arabic word. That said, I’ve always found their genus (polypterus) to be much more obvious in how to pronounce. I think we should just delete bichir from our collective vocabulary and just call them polypterus.

  • @billyshadoan6881
    @billyshadoan6881 Жыл бұрын

    love you irene

  • @jacekjakimiec9987
    @jacekjakimiec9987 Жыл бұрын

    id love love to own i bicher

  • @FathomAquatics
    @FathomAquatics Жыл бұрын

    Bichir all the way

  • @mohocklockness8390
    @mohocklockness8390 Жыл бұрын

    Get the arowana

  • @Alamo-cz5xc
    @Alamo-cz5xc Жыл бұрын

    I enjoy all of your videos, especially ones about planted tanks. Even better that you are a Texas gal! ❤

  • @technomad9071
    @technomad9071 Жыл бұрын

    You forget metric for volume

  • @user-um5wl2lc5f
    @user-um5wl2lc5f Жыл бұрын

    Where is unicorn?

  • @MickyTubbs1985
    @MickyTubbs1985 Жыл бұрын

    Discus fish are NOT for one who IS NOT " DISCIPLINED & REGIMENTED " in knowledge, ATTITUDE, HABITS,ENTHUSIASM & ENERGY, and can afford their maintenance requirements.