what's your favorite saltwater fish?

[bluedempsey]

^ just as the title says

i would have to say larger angels
smart lil whipper snappers :grinno:

[DeLgAdO]

a zebra moray eel, big, most docile of all the eels, and beautiful.

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

Panther Groupers and Emperor angelfsh.

[managuense-fury]

frogfish and flounders.
:hearts:

[bluedempsey]

i would like to keep a monster TUNA!
they f"ing huge!
:headbang2

[CentralMayhem]

id say the undulated trigger. meanest fish on the planet. hands down.

[elena]

Where are those eels found?

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

i would like to keep a monster TUNA!
they f"ing huge!
:headbang2

and then eat it!

[TLTGF]

Black Volitan Lion

[sandtiger]

Sharks!!!! All 400+ species of them:)

Within the realm of fishkeeping though I would have to say triggers and groupers.

[frontosa_man]

long horn cowfish :headbang2 i think they look cool.

[piranha45]

Queen trigger.

[FUB]

Bat rays

[Stella]

Puffers. Lots and lots of puffers. Especially Canthigaster sp. (that's a C. solandri in my avatar). So far, three out of three of the sharp-nosed puffs we have kept would eat pellets!

Laura

[Fish Finder]

my fave is the shortbigeye and they go great with lionfish. Incase you don't know what it is here is a pic
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y253/jpp118187/saltwaterfish5.jpg

[jenBLKAROWANA]

I really like TANGS...any kind....But the Yellow Tang is the one I really like!!!

Jen :naughty:

[bluedempsey]

i like the yellow
but i perfer lot of other tangs
before it!

it's just to common
good starter tang
learn from it!

[guppy]

Feasible, Mandarin gobies and yellowheaded jawfish, Not feasible, napolean wrasse.

[blacktip]

I know this is not feasible, unless maybe I win the megaball lottery, but black-tip reef sharks.

Another favorite is the saddle back grouper.
http://www.themarinecenter.com/groupersaddle.jpg

[fishnthings]

:headbang2 groupers/triggers and the golden puffer without a doubt :headbang2
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[hyphen]

favorite fish, which i hope to own within the next several weeks
http://www.qualitymarineusa.com/fish/photo/wrasses/5955.jpg

i also love my clown. she's my favorite non-predator of all time.

[bluedempsey]

some tusk's will just fade away for no reason
u really have to work with them to get them to eat!
gl

[Just1nK4ng]

lion looks to sexy oh and nemo's ^^ clown fish and tang so cute!

[Fish_are_fishfood]

Sea robins, and toadfish, I am a sucker for those fin fans
http://myspace-451.vo.llnwd.net/00203/15/46/203006451_l.jpg
Plus, when they are out of water they chirp and squek... :WHOA:

[Gr8KarmaSF]

cow fish! they have so much personality. :)

[snargalsius]

I agree with centralmayhem, I have a ten inch undulated and he tries to kill and maim me evey chance he gets. I have to hit him with a piece of pvc pipe to keep him off of me while I clean his tank and that only works for a while

[snargalsius]

Harlequin tusks and dragon wrasse are cool too

[snargalsius]

Chech out guinea fowl puffers Arothron meleagris. They're like underwater dogs and will follow you around trying to get you to feed them

[Gr8KarmaSF]

I agree with centralmayhem, I have a ten inch undulated and he tries to kill and maim me evey chance he gets. I have to hit him with a piece of pvc pipe to keep him off of me while I clean his tank and that only works for a while

Are you serious?!?!?

:hitting: :hitting: :shocked:

[NeonTetraFan]

My favorite saltwater fish is the Megalodon Shark, although they are extinct. LOL.

[darkemotion]

I really like clown triggers..... my second choice would be a blue spotted stingray.....

[Dargath78]

Feasible, Mandarin gobies and yellowheaded jawfish, Not feasible, napolean wrasse.


I agree guppy. Jawfish are awesome! :headbang2 Mandarin's are cool too but aren't they hard to feed?

[Dargath78]

My favorite saltwater fish is the Megalodon Shark, although they are extinct. LOL.

I have a 7 inch, 17 million ( I think ) year old Megalodon tooth. I love them too.

[craig]

The cuttle fish. Triggers have no chance!

[guppy]

They have new products out for feeding corals and fish like mandarins, I have read that they work well but hanen't tried to keep a mandarin yet.

[Nate_N_Nicole]

Bumble bee grouper or blue line grouper

[Serygo]

Dragon Moray Eel

[guppy]

I also love triple tails but they get over 5' long and 150+lbs so I doubt I will ever own one.

[KevinFJB]

Dragon Moray

Polleni Grouper

Titan Trigger

[Fish Finder]

the gem tang is also very high on my list

[waylon]

I like the weird looking fish like the frogfish and the puffer fish.

[FunkSkunk]

Its a toss up for me between the Harlequin Tusk & the Clown Trigger

[Mourinho18]

wow, can't believe this thread died, but I'm gonna go with flame hawkfish. It's tough to beat their personality

[skinnychinaman]

peppermint angel.. always been my favorite, but its damn near impossible to live in home aquariums, and not to mention their price tag, 3" angel ~$4500.00 USD :eek:

[skinnychinaman]

here is my personal pet... hehe Hawaiian Dragon

[eng55]

My favorite are my two little false percs. I love how they come up to the surface and eat out of my hand. I also have a picasso trigger who has a lot of personality and is always first in line at dinner time.

[craig]

Undulated trigger and a saddleback grouper.

[Personifer]

Emperor and personifer :) angel.

[blacktip]

Isn't it ironic that most people get into saltwater fish because they are more colorful, and yet most everyone's "favorite" saltwater fish is chosen because of personality or oddball shape?

[Brent]

emperor angel hands down

[Red_Wulf@yahoo.com]

Magnifecient foxface or the clown trigger, not to mention the moray or the spaghetti eel, all of my favorites

[Hakon]

Different rays and Platax angelfish. It is anyway so much different saltwaterfishes that it is hard to decide.

[paOol]

False Ocelleris , or the Clown Fish. :D

[Personifer]

False Ocelleris , or the Clown Fish. :D
You probably mean false Percula, that is Amphiprion ocellaris.

[NurthinAziz]

I would have to say my favorite sw fish is a Lion Fish

[philliptobin]

The mandarin dragonet

[hauntingurcoma]

that would be my snowflake moray and yellow tang

[screwd]

The mandarin dragonet
Mandarins are cool,especially the males :drool:

[ill_eagle]

hard to say. mandarin goby, blue naso and yellow tangs, clowns are awesome, copperband butterflys, i like them all its just according what type of tank you want. best of luck to the noobs.

[ballsmcgee1234]

definately a panther grouper

[Ferrari]

Polleni Grouper

[mkman]

Here are my favorite saltwater fish. Not giants but they are beautiful, thats why I like them. If I get back into saltwater tanks one day I'd have them in there.

Longnose Filefish <---if you haven't seen one, look on the net for a nice pic. They are awesome looking. Only thing is they feed on sps corals which are the corals I like to keep...... :WHOA:

Moorish Idol

Purple Firefish

Mandarin Fish <---again, if you have not seen this fish, look for a pic. I think it would become your favorite fish!

Psychadelic fish

If I can remember any others, I'lll post it.

[shepoutside]

I love this sea dragon

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b11/shepoutside/leafy_seadragon.jpg


and I have long horn cow fish at home, always a fav :headbang2

[shepoutside]

this was to go above, lol

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b11/shepoutside/cow4.jpg

[Zygaena]

Leafy sea dragons are da bomb!!! :woot:

[mbhw]

Mandarin fish are cool.

To keep them successfully, I highly recommend the following:

Set up your tank with live rock. Many mail order spots have coepopods (sp?) and other live sand kits that you can stock in your tank and they will reproduce on thier own. After around 6-12 months of establishing themselves, you can add a mandarin and he won't pick the tank clean so quickly that they can't keep reproducing. I have several friends who keep them with this method with a lot of success. Also, they don't do well in a tank with many fish, or anything remotely aggressive.

[carcinoma]

I like wrasses. Very colorful and lively.

[screwd]

I like wrasses. Very colorful and lively.


u mean this? :ROFL: :ROFL:

[ChickenTeeth]

id say the undulated trigger. meanest fish on the planet. hands down.
clown

[screwd]

clown trigger?no this guy's better :drool: :drool:

[bmage29]

Any huge triggerfish and lion fish, a few puffers would be awsome too.
And some eels. :headbang2

[starrfish71]

Red or green wolf eel. NO contest! I love eels!

[joeytoe]

Ive always liked the Look of Triggers, groupers an morays. just dont have the Cash flow for it.

[Zoodiver]

Leafy sea dragons are da bomb!!! :woot:


I agree. I used to keep them at the Dallas World Aq. Great fish. Very touchy to mess with though. It's fun to work with fish that not many have the opertunity to see.

[AquaticAggression]

Tessalata Moray by far my favorite & very aggressive

[t3h42]

however n00b like this may sound I love clown fish (and not just because i watched finding nemo), they are the coolest saltwater fish ever but i also love zebra moray eels (although I don't own one) I hope to soon :)

[JDS]

I will have to say my regal angel, followed closely by my Harlequin tusk.

[Stone Like Fish]

you guys are nutz

these are much better and cheaper (and deadly eheehehe)

[Nate_N_Nicole]

If I had to pic a nonpreditor I'd have to say a Hippo Tang!!!

[jgdelgado]

my fav salt fish is the blue arathon puffer, they are awesome!!! also I kinda dig clown triggers and lion fish. wonder if they will go together in a 240???

[cougar579]

Dragon Wrasse

[leviathon13]

some tusk's will just fade away for no reason
u really have to work with them to get them to eat!
gl
yep , mine wouldn't eat for like 2 weeks, unless i held a piece of squid between my fingers at the bottom of the tank and wiggled it. now he eats everything i offer. :headbang2

[craig]

a zebra moray eel, big, most docile of all the eels, and beautiful.
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[craig]

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[craig]

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[eng55]

Here are a few pics of my new blue face angel. He is by far my new favorite fish. He is a pig, I put the sheets of nori in there and he is there waiting for it. Also got a mated pair of maroons that I also love.
Heres a few pics
Later
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Blue face right after I got him
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/eng55/Blue%20Face%20Angel/IMG_0454.jpg
Chillin in his cave before bedtime
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/eng55/Blue%20Face%20Angel/IMG_0496.jpg
Female maroon
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/eng55/Maroons/IMG_0461.jpg
Male maroon
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/eng55/Maroons/IMG_0455.jpg
The pair
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a277/eng55/Maroons/IMG_0466.jpg

[mainy999]

Octopus...hands down. Although its a battle to keep them in the tank, and keep the tank clean, they are hardcore.

[RHO]

Triggers!! All of them!!

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

[QUOTE=eng55]Here are a few pics of my new blue face angel. He is by far my new favorite fish. He is a pig, I put the sheets of nori in there and he is there waiting for it. Also got a mated pair of maroons that I also love.
Heres a few pics
Later
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Beeeeeeeeee :naughty: :thumbsup: autiful angel

[leviathon13]

They have new products out for feeding corals and fish like mandarins, I have read that they work well but hanen't tried to keep a mandarin yet.

Hey i have a mandarin and he has lots of live stuff to eat ,, he's supa fat. I was putting a crushed up peice of jumbo min in my tank the other day and he was attacking it and eating every peace he could find.. That was the weirdest thing i have ever seen :WHOA:

:D *THE WIFE* OHHHH yeah my favorite fish is the engineer goby.... :headbang2

[leviathon13]

here is my personal pet... hehe Hawaiian Dragon


I'm jealous jealous jealous.... ;) IIII WWWant OOOne..... :cry:

[leviathon13]

Mandarin fish are cool.

To keep them successfully, I highly recommend the following:

Set up your tank with live rock. Many mail order spots have coepopods (sp?) and other live sand kits that you can stock in your tank and they will reproduce on thier own. After around 6-12 months of establishing themselves, you can add a mandarin and he won't pick the tank clean so quickly that they can't keep reproducing. I have several friends who keep them with this method with a lot of success. Also, they don't do well in a tank with many fish, or anything remotely aggressive.

My mandarine is in a 75gal with 3 fire fish, 1 tomato clown, 1 true percula clown, 1 orange spot/watchman goby, 1 engineer goby, 1 coral beauty, 1 green chromis, sally light crab, purple/orange lobster, serpant star, sand sifting star, horshoe crab, mexican turbo snails, 1 anemone, 3 med chunks of rock with red mush, green mush, and green stripe hairy mushrooms.and a whole bushel of green/purple star polyps.... He eats great and is out in the open all the time, and like i posted on another thread he did the weirdest thing the other day i took one peice of jumbo min and crushed it up, put it in the tank and my mand.. started eating every peace he could find.. SOOO Weird, he still eats the live stuff and he is super healthy and fat... Very social.... :grinno:

[fishfamily]

blue girdle Angel. I went to the GA aquarium twice last week and only got to see one.

[captain insano]

Clown triggers and eyestripe tangs

[Don4921]

frog fish are the coolest especially when they eat! but ive ben having trouble getin ahold of one that lives because my fish wholesaler brings this fish out of the water when caught in the wild and therefore gives them swim bladder disease so they die after a couple of days.

[-ñ-]

I luuuuuuv clown fish, they look so clean.

[AYard]

eels and puffers

[FishDude121]

Wow... this is a tough one i've always loved the green mandarin even as a lil kid, and still do. I really like the anthiases and lionfish.

btw comment on the undulated trigg--- definitley the 2nd meanest fish in the sea ... and ive kept one too... but if you ever come across a Pseudochromis Steenei ... it is insane... it attacked my undulated and won. I never would have thought. I'm going to try a lionfish or something to go with this crazy fish

[Dragon]

I would have to say the simple percula clown. Sometimes I believe mine thinks he's an eel. They have such a personality.

[concord]

:D :headbang2 Mandarin fishy

[Howesbrother]

Looks wise, I think the Dragon Moray is pretty wicked. Personality, some triggers are like dogs. They'll eat out of your hands and you may even be able to pet them.

[jmcc000]

Lion fish :)

[skinless]

picasso trigger

[simonmr]

I am a big fan of Naso Tangs

[mbb]

long horn cowfish :thumbsup:

[SiestaSkyy]

Looks wise, I think the Dragon Moray is pretty wicked. Personality, some triggers are like dogs. They'll eat out of your hands and you may even be able to pet them.
you obviously have never been bitin by one... i have , by a big dracula it hurt to say the least. and i was missing a chunk out of my hand. anyway... my favsalt would be the barracuda, fish i could keep... my panther grouper.

[wolfeman]

The Blue Tang Paracanthurus hepatus is a magnificant fish.

[theaarons]

Looks-wise, I'd probably have to say some of the fancier wrasses. They are just beautiful. I think one is called a Picasso Wrasse. But my all-around fave would have to be the precious little clowns. I love their faces!

[3_racer]

i would have to say its a throw up against a Tessellated Moray eel (Gymnothorax favagineus) and the Hawaiian Dragon Moray Eel (Enchelycore paradalis) two frickn' awesome eels.

[prm]

Eppaulette shark and clown tang.

[Hitman Memon]

Titan, clown, blueline, Queen or oranglined Triggerfish
triggerfish Are my favorite saltwater fish
Hardy, fearless, mean

[Bigairmxman]

Deff my favorite fish would be the lion fish , its awsome look mean and cuddly at the same time and i would deff not want to mess with one...

[ewurm]

Tie. Ocellaris or lionfish.

[Grammistin]

Grouper and soapfish

[Bigg081]

hands down the fire eel........if your lucky youll find it for $500. and the are mean as all get out.

[stotty]

"Cod "cos i love them with chips :drool:

[monticellomanderin]

hands down the mandarin goby "dragonet" they are beautiful,peaceful and yes challenging! but they are like one of gods little secret moments.

[diesel]

Flame Angel, Emperor Angel, and Triggers

[aggressivefishrule!!!]

clown triggers empoer angels fish like those mean aggressive cool looking

[Atarax]

Anyone that has ever owned one will probably agree with me, the starry blenny...one of the best personalities for a fish possible, plus the "eyebrows" are awesome looking makes me think of em as a old man or something.:ROFL: and i loved my dearly departed sergeant major damsel..go ahead and flame me.

[grmanrocks]

Ratfish dude, the long lost cousins of sharks and rays.......
if i ever get a 200 gallon saltwater tank im hookin up a major chiller and doin a ratfish tank... not to mention they are like the most venemous thing around.......

[Aras118119]

Triggers and large angels

[andywg]

Antennarius striatus

But only because I just got my little fellow:

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i225/andywg/100_4005.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i225/andywg/Froggie10.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i225/andywg/Froggie6.jpg

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

Wow this thread is way old, but I guess I have changed in only a years time. My new favorites are parrots and squirrelfish.

[Dominuslive]

I would have to say it is a tie between Poleni Grouper, and Clarion Angel, and Mystery Wrasse.

[P3R3]

I love the dragon moray eel.

[jsfunk78]

emperor angel
clown trigger

[craig]

My new favorite.

[Arothron]

DOGFACE PUFFERFISH!!!!!!! Followed closely by one of My new favorites:grinyes: ... Regal Tangs:grinyes:

[DeLgAdO]

anyone know what the hell happened to blue dempsey? :confused:

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

anyone know what the hell happened to blue dempsey? :confused:

I have seen the name on other fish forums. But i am pretty sure he got a life finally.:D

[Lionfish992]

Pterois volitans, preferably the black variaty

[TankBuster]

Any trigger. That huge body and small tail with that underbite.

[freeNINETY9]

panther grouper
clown trigger
snowflake moray
porcupine puffer

all amazing fish with amazing personalities. i wish i had room for them as full grown specimens.

[pete620]

Frogfish, especially Antennarius commersonii

[oriolesdt09]

Dogface Puffers and blue face angels are my favorite

[noidea]

Clown trigger fish.....yep clown trigger by far.

[blee358]

gotta love the lionfish! :D

[charjump]

Picasso triggers and harliquin tusks, the australian type!

[Elasmofreak]

Sharks, Rays, and frogfish!

[clekchau]

clown trigger
red sea emperator angelfish

[clekchau]

clown trigger
red sea emperator angelfish

blueface a close 2nd

[Princley]

here is mine

[craig]

My new favorite saltwater fish. My KORAN.

[Mattcomptonassvanhorn]

My new favorite saltwater fish. My KORAN.

You still have that emperor?

[AquaScaper]

My vote would have to be for my Moorish Idols.