What fish would you like to have but probably would/could never get?

[redtailfool]

You guys have been there... you have this fish that you totally drool over, but cannot have because you either dont have the funds, the space, or just cant plain find the fish.

Or maybe you do have all three but this monster would probably need a really big pond or too poisonous etc..


To me, its the lungfish , i love how they get measured into feet and not mere inches, but i do not have the extra tank and space to accomodate a monster fish like that now. The arapaima, its beautiful and so graceful but i wouldnt have the space for it too.. on the same token : Albino Channel Catfish, grows too fast... nice but i have other fish priorities...


whats yours?!?!?

[cmersits]

whale shark :D

[redtailfool]

whale shark :D

hmm ... ok.

[piranha45]

cobra and red snakeheads

[redtailfool]

cobra and red snakeheads


legality reasons or any other??

[rallysman]

on the same token : Albino Channel Catfish, grows too fast... nice but i have other fish priorities...

Would you like to have mine!
Damn thing eats EVERYTHING and is "forcing"me to build an indoor pond.

On second thought....I'll keep it hahaha I like the forced pond idea

I would like to have a snakehead, but its not worth the risk
Peacock bass......just dont have the tank space (at the moment)
asian Arowana....yummmmmmyy....Would love to be able to stare at one all day
I'll shutup...the list could go on forever

[piranha45]

legality reasons or any other??
size

[sandtiger]

Wow...mighty list for me.

Peacock bass...though if an intermedia came my way I would snatch that up
Albino channel...unless I had a pond
Electric catfish...probably won't ever own one
Northern Pike or Musky
Sharks and rays
Some of the larger saltwater groupers and triggerfish
Siamese Carp

[redtailfool]

Rallysman - yeah size is really the main issue. Theyre so beautiful but they get bigger than a foot almost overnight. Im not closing the doors though, just not right now.

P45- oh. i thought it was because its illegal. Cobras really do get massive.

[piranha45]

from what i understand, fish laws are poorly enforced, thereby making the law a poor deterrent.

[fishnutham]

have to be a northern pike for me always wanted a massive native tank used to catch them off goverment dock great fish smart as hell too, but since i know i'll never have a 4000g plus tank i'll keep going to the zoo..

[Thomascl]

Black Diamond (leopodi sp.)

[jelly]

Channa Barca.

Cost! £2000.

[Stone Like Fish]

any lungfish for me:D

[Stone Like Fish]

gilled african lungfish, protopterus amphibius ;)

[rook45]

rtg or red aro

[guppy]

jellybean jollytails, Galaxias fuscus, highly endangered and protected.

[superkimchiman]

channa barca for SURE!!!

and

archer fish =)

[Gr8KarmaSF]

super red aro and blk diamond ray due to legality and lack of funds!

[joeytoe]

Im with P45 here, an would like to add Asian Aros.

[riskistang]

:headbang2 Zaire Blue Moba and Kapampa Frontosa's! :headbang2

The the Great White! :naughty: :headbang2
(This year I am planning a trip out to CA to fullfill a little dream of mine.....seeing 1 or more face to face in the water!) :naughty: :headbang2

[warren126]

Got to be asian all the way would love to have a red

[Tucc185]

Definitely the lungfishes due to size
Northern Pike--same issue
Sturgeon---size and availability/legality
not a fish but would love to keep the hellbender (giant aquatic slamanders), but impossible due to rarity and size (3 ft. or so)
Atlantic tarpon--size
Atlantic (SW) wolffish--size, availability
Last but not least, the giant squid (Architeuthis sp.) for obvious reasons!

[DiXoN]

a really high end asain aro - reason is the girlfriend she allows me to spend hundreds per fish and not thousands

[redtailfool]

Channa Barca is def a cool candidate for this thread... its a must have but the rarity and price of it is just too much.

The high end asian aros sounds very good too dixon. Actually , folks here in the us wouldnt turn down any asian aros. Theyre not rare, justt illegal.

[michael]

I would love to get a bumble bee grouper from wes! That is one of the coolest freshwater fish to me, but I don't want to have to worry about trying to find a home for it when it gets too big and lost the $1000+ for the fish.

[MarlboroMan]

Fully mature breeding pair of any large snakehead. I dont have the huge tank they need for this, so it will be my dream and goals as a fish keeper.

[casperbgk]

red or silver arrowana
or a tiger shovelnose :drool: ( tho that dream may just come true soon)

[Siemens2]

Chili Red Asian-cost and legality
FO Moba Fronts-lack patience to grow up or money to buy
Red tail cat-size, could built a pond, but wouldn't work in IA

[wma8706]

The high end red asian Arrows , goliath tigerfishes, 17+ inch Rhom or Pygo piranha!

[sandtiger]

Wow...mighty list for me.

Peacock bass...though if an intermedia came my way I would snatch that up
Albino channel...unless I had a pond
Electric catfish...probably won't ever own one
Northern Pike or Musky
Sharks and rays
Some of the larger saltwater groupers and triggerfish
Siamese Carp

I almost forgot one...one that strangly enough has not been mentioned yet.

Channa argus

[RobD23]

I saw and octopus at the chinese "dragon aquarium" fish store. That thing was awesome, it was only about 5 inchs....but it was so cool. Wish i could have that!

[JimmytheCrud]

My current Holy Grail is a large black wolffish (hoplias Macrothalmus)

[RHole]

I've always wanted one of everything. Well, actually I've wanted a pair of everything so I could breed them, but you get the idea.

I probably won't ever have prianha - they tend to be illegal wherever I settle, though I have co-kept them in a research situation. But I like characins a lot.

I'd love an arapima too. I doubt I'll ever get a house-sized aquarium to keep one in though. But that would be my dream fish. Heck, that would be my dream aquarium.

[stotty]

Golden Arowana I would dearly love one in a tank on its own in my living room but my family come before my habit and I think my wife would be just a little upset at the fish costing more than her car! But then again, it not a bad idea, sell the car, get the fish! Get her a push bike sorted. I’m off to the shops

[e!o!z!]

The following in order: Wels catfish; bowfin;a big wolf(will have someday); paddlefish;electric eel; devil catfish; peacock bass; and tiger shovelnose cat.

limited space for tanks and size of tanks needed is the major problems.

[rasdbo]

all of the above are great ideas, but i would love a great white! dream fish :headbang2 . on the real, atf goliath and the blood red aro never seen a golden aro any pics.

for dream sake turn my garage into an aquarium couple of thousand gallons and grow alligator garfish from new orleans along with pacu's and pikes to different full grown sizes

[guppy]

I think it is funny that almost all the "dream" fish listed by everyone are very large except mine, the jellybean jollytail (galaxias fuscus) maxes out at six inches but is usually only around 3 1/2", it is critically endangered due to the introduction of trout into it's home waters, young trout compete with them for food and larger ones eat them. I don't know why I covet them but I really do want some.

[illustrae]

I think it is funny that almost all the "dream" fish listed by everyone are very large except mine, the jellybean jollytail (galaxias fuscus) maxes out at six inches but is usually only around 3 1/2", it is critically endangered due to the introduction of trout into it's home waters, young trout compete with them for food and larger ones eat them. I don't know why I covet them but I really do want some.


Oh.... I actually had a chance to buy half a dozen of these guys from someone who had apparently collected them from the wild and had managed to breed them, and I didn't because I didn't have the spare tank for them. :duh: Really beautiful little fish, though.

In my dream home there is a large indoor pond with a pair of red tailed catfish. My LFS actually has an adult red tail that I like to visit on occasion. He's over 2 feet long and could probably swallow a football without noticing. I also recently seen little 6" redtails for sale there, which worries me a lot, but maybe I'm just jealous that I know better than to bring a behemoth like that home with me. :drool:

[SiestaSkyy]

hard question... i think i would go with a school of barracuda. of corse living off the gulf of mexico i could go fish some up.but then i have the where do i put a school of 6' foot fish... hhhmmm its always something.

[joel]

african lungfish.

[jimk]

Bumble Bee Grouper- Just saw a picture
Peacock Bass
Discus- water around here is liquid rock

[Filthy Sanchez]

Electric eel.

[rust9000]

Ok here it goes:
pbass
motoro stingray (may be getting one wif my 115g hehehe)
electrc eel.
dont want a snakehead they are to common here, lol

[rust9000]

i forgot to add GUPPIES yes guppies, they are always dieing so i have to stick wif platies.

[Loubard]

Polypterus bichir katangae and Polypterus ansorgii

[The TRUST]

Hmmmmm

Albino & Platinum Asian Arowanas - Too damn Pricey
Albino Peacock Bass - Can't find any, and if I did it's probably too damn pricey.

[Big Business]

I've always wanted to try a small Bull shark, say 30lbs, in a fw tank w/ some adult red lines of the same size, just to see what happens

[Mourinho18]

Hmmmmm

Albino & Platinum Asian Arowanas - Too damn Pricey



Yep, same here.

Myersi are my dream fish but seems like nobody has them :(

[DeLgAdO]

south american lungfish

[sandtiger]

I think it is funny that almost all the "dream" fish listed by everyone are very large except mine, the jellybean jollytail (galaxias fuscus) maxes out at six inches but is usually only around 3 1/2", it is critically endangered due to the introduction of trout into it's home waters, young trout compete with them for food and larger ones eat them. I don't know why I covet them but I really do want some.

Aren't you special. :grinno:

[casperbgk]

any type of arrowana or pike.
and some pirahnas ( but theyre illegal in Aus )

[guppy]

Aren't you special. :grinno:
Yep :grinyes:

[SiestaSkyy]

so is the reason you dont have one is you cant get it? i mean if its endangered why not start a breeding project?

[sandtiger]

Yep :grinyes:

Sorry, the jollytail just does not strike my fancy, I don't see the hype your giving it. And it's not that I don't like small fish, I love collecting NA cyprinids, darters and killifish...I just don't see the big deal that would make it more special than any other small endangered fish.

Would you want it if it was not a rare species? Or do you want it because it is rare.

[downset21]

I always wanted a green terror when I was 12, then I got one. Then I always wanted datnoids, then I got some. Then I always wanted a peacock bass, then I got one. (and im saving up for a 300 gal. tank for it.) Now I want an arowana, and that is something that I cant have until I get my 300 gal. tank.

I had one crazy idea once about building a pond for bluefish or striped bass. After 5 minutes of research, it was clear to me that this would never work.

[Vitaliy]

Huge Payara with bunch of different rays on the bottom, just like that picture.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=718/medium/Mfk3.JPG

[guppy]

Sorry, the jollytail just does not strike my fancy, I don't see the hype your giving it. And it's not that I don't like small fish, I love collecting NA cyprinids, darters and killifish...I just don't see the big deal that would make it more special than any other small endangered fish.

Would you want it if it was not a rare species? Or do you want it because it is rare.
I have only seen them in one public aquarium years ago, I fell in love with them. I kept my eyes open for them for years before finding out I would not be finding them. That of course made my silly infatuation even worse ( a case of forbidden fruit being the sweetest I suppose). I don't know why I like them so much, part of it might be just their name. I never claimed to be entirely rational. It is sort of like asking peanut power what makes crenacichla so special. In reality they are just one more neat little fish in a world full of neat little fish, but that does not help me out at all, lol.

[elykyelsna]

goblin shark

[Princley]

fish i want i could never have funds for .............. a SHARK mayb a Bull Shark or tiger

[Princley]

Huge Payara with bunch of different rays on the bottom, just like that picture.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=718/medium/Mfk3.JPG


dayummmmm that payara is HUGE NICE

[Jason_S]

Starry puffer aka Arothron stellatus :woot:

[ewurm]

Megalodon, or a coelacanth.

[redtailfool]

Huge Payara with bunch of different rays on the bottom, just like that picture.
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=718/medium/Mfk3.JPG


Its crazy how they mixed it with the stingray..

[Honda12]

Any of the huge trigger fish goliath, titan, ect. That is a sweet tank with the paraya and stinrays.

[awesum]

Jaws (he doesn't exist)
Nessie (i wouldn't know where to put the ultimate loch ness monster)
Flipper (i think he died)
Willy (i heard he's free)


haha okay seriously:

Any Asian Aro except Gold/Green & RTG

[mudskipper]

:D Thinking of possibly buying fish section someday at the omaha zoo..... :drool: :screwy: :D

[mudskipper]

not too much limits at a zoo tank :woot: