All time favorite fish?

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esoxlucius said:
Mines easy, the European Perch. I fell in love with these guys the first time I set eyes on one when my brother caught one of about 6" from a local farm pond. The blood red fins, the stripes, THAT dorsal fin, crikey, and their huge cavernous mouth. My goal one day is to grow about half a dozen juveniles out in a large coldwater set up.

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They are super cool fish!
I always think of them as the coldwater peacock bass ?.
 
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Astoria said:
Mine is a toss up between the Vieja Zonatus, and the Guttulatus.

Years ago a LFS owner walked me to a tank with a small silvery looking fish. I had asked for something different and with bright colors. She told me the fish was probably a Zonatus or Guttulatus but she wasn't sure. A guy out of Dallas brought in some unexpected. This was in Austin TX.

I took her home and she quickly grew and into her well deserved nickname "Cyco." I had hoped it would be a male but in the end it didn't matter because I feel in love with that fish!

Looking back im guessing it was a Guttulatus because 2 or 3 years later I made an order through Don Conkel and got a male Zontaus and loved that fish too. The Guttulatus made several trips from state to state because I moved so many times. The Zonatus made a few trips too.

I just loved their personality and colors

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my friend luke has the world record zonatus lol. Caught it in a hotspring in montana.
 
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I have a lot. But my favorite favorites are the chubby yellow pleco, bull and bluehead chub, WILD texas cichlids, vieja argentea, and dolphin barbs
 
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Favorite fish of all time is a white shark, but I don’t see myself keeping one in the near future.
My other favorites are zebra lionfish, red belly piranha (very misunderstood, but beautiful and yes, deadly), festaes (those colors), and oscars.
My favorite current fish (and favorite I’ve ever kept) is my banded leporinus. He’s been through a lot of abuse from other fish, but just keeps swimming (and giving it back). Banded leporinus are one of the most beautiful fish I’ve ever seen, and have a potential for aggression that I’ve never seen in any other fish (mine has killed for sport). They are very skittish but you can tell they are always thinking and highly intelligent. I’d love to try to breed these someday.
 
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Fat Homer said:
T.lineatus (aka Fahaka Puffer) has to be my favourite fish i’ve kept personally followed very close by Gymnothorax Polyuranadon (the only true f/w moray)...

For fish i havent had the chance to keep would probably be the Dragon Moray Eel and F/W Stingrays and more unrealistically, a shark of some sort but i doubt i’ll ever own a tank large enough to keep one myself...
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I remember you having several of those f/w moray eels and among the first on MFK. How large did you grow them out and how long did you have them for?
 
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I had 2 Green and 2 Heckels wild caught Discus once upon a time. Discus and planted tanks are what got me into fish keeping.
 
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