All time favorite fish?
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Bichirs or eels. Without a doubt. I like the oddballs or rare fish. Thats why my single tank will have a small eel or bichir from the congo river basin, and african butterfly fish.
Favorite fish we can't have in the US snakeheads, if we could that would be all I kept. But since I cant, it's bichirs for me
My clown loaches are my favorite fish I've had so far.
For me it's a tie between clown loaches and pictus catfish. To me both of those species are nothing short of sacred.
Just barely behind them in the order of my favorites (less than a planck-length percentage, which is why they're also being mentioned) is everything else that is residing in or will reside in my 475 liter tanks.
Just barely behind them in the order of my favorites (less than a planck-length percentage, which is why they're also being mentioned) is everything else that is residing in or will reside in my 475 liter tanks.
maybe this? although i dont think i will ever have a large enough aquarium for one
i really like its shiny silver color with the black dots on its body and the shape of its back
possibly the most unique fish
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i really like its shiny silver color with the black dots on its body and the shape of its back
possibly the most unique fish
Royal Clown Knifefish (Chitala blanci)
An uncommon and beautifully marked species of knifefish, the Royal Clown Knife is found in fast-moving waters of the middle Mekong along the
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Lots of favourites over the years: Electric Cat, Electric Eel, Fire Eel, Polypterus ornatipinnis, Osphronemus, African Lungfish, Redtail Cat, Grass Pickerel, Pterois Lionfish and many others were my favourites, or so I thought while I had them. Tough to choose among them. I'm very infatuated with the Redtailed Goodeids and Gymnogeophagus balzani I have now. I love Heterandria livebearers also.
I also have a few "favourites" I've never owned and may never own: Pearsei cichlids leap immediately to mind here.
But the one species which I loved so much when I kept it years ago that I jumped at the chance to get another one recently is the Jelly Cat, Cephalosilurus apurensis. Owned one for years without even knowing what it was...moved it down the road when I did a long-distance relocate...finally learned the name of the thing here on MFK, thanks to
thebiggerthebetter
...and jumped at the chance to get another one earlier this year. I thought and still think this is the coolest aquarium fish ever.
Not colourful...not active...definitely not community-friendly...but when a small apurensis moves out of its lair to engulf a food item, it moves with a ponderous slowness that makes it seem as though it is already a monster. And when a BIG apurensis looms into view from a dark cave in a dimly lit tank, it's a sight to behold, one that always makes me smile.
To quote one of my neighbours who saw mine (now about 12+ inches) for the first time just a few days ago: "What's in this tank? Whoa...!!!"
I also have a few "favourites" I've never owned and may never own: Pearsei cichlids leap immediately to mind here.
But the one species which I loved so much when I kept it years ago that I jumped at the chance to get another one recently is the Jelly Cat, Cephalosilurus apurensis. Owned one for years without even knowing what it was...moved it down the road when I did a long-distance relocate...finally learned the name of the thing here on MFK, thanks to
thebiggerthebetter
...and jumped at the chance to get another one earlier this year. I thought and still think this is the coolest aquarium fish ever.Not colourful...not active...definitely not community-friendly...but when a small apurensis moves out of its lair to engulf a food item, it moves with a ponderous slowness that makes it seem as though it is already a monster. And when a BIG apurensis looms into view from a dark cave in a dimly lit tank, it's a sight to behold, one that always makes me smile.
To quote one of my neighbours who saw mine (now about 12+ inches) for the first time just a few days ago: "What's in this tank? Whoa...!!!"
