COVETED fish!

[Saterus]

I know various arowanas and RTCs or other big cats are always named.. I'm wondering, what kind of fish do you covet?
If I had say, a 500g tank, for a reading room, what do you think should go in it?
I need a COVETED fish (not illegal in the US) to put in it. The best idea so far has been an electric eel. That could work, and we are looking for a single specimen or something really awesome. We already have an electric cat that could occupy it, but we're hoping to find something more unusual. Also, something that won't need to move into a bigger tank.
Currently, we HAVE the Ecat or fire eels that we could put into it, but hubby is planning on a big natives pond (sunfish), and he wants something cool and, in his words, "bizarre" for our reading room.

So, if possible, I want a "weird" fish, potentially a single specimin fish, for a 300-800 gallon tank.
Something "cool" and unusual, as he said.

We are already planning a few other large tanks for the stuff we have, but he wants something really strange and wants a big tank just to appreciate the weirdness of whatever he puts in it.

Suggestions?
Think crazy. Can be freshwater, brackish, or salt. Looking for ideas

What do you covet most?

 

[knifegill]

Those scomb, vampire, characins are pretty evil looking.

Acanthicus adonis would be the standby, albino version really takes the cake for covet.

41" of pleco.

 

[Saterus]

Oooooh.. Is that L155? For an albino, or even a black, I'm seeing upwards of $200. Are they active? I see they are aggressive, any other fish I can keep with one or is THAT the fish you'd put in there?
Scombs, not so much. I'm not looking for evil looking, I'm looking for AWESOME to HAVE and still cool as a possible single specimin. Just 'cause it's evil or evil looking doesn't make the cut.

*edit seems like just an expensive pleco.. but seems AWESOME..

 

[Cheesetian]

Your location pretty much kills any hopes of Asian arowanas.

 

[Burto]

I think that picking a single big 'cool/awesome/unusual/weird' fish is kind of a bad idea. Unless it's something intelligent and active its novelty is probably going to wear off pretty quickly.

I covet a 500 gallon tank with a school of 1000 neon tetras, a dozen Geophagus and two dozen angelfish.

 

[pi-eyed]

Not very rare but a MBU puffer will get huge and have tons of personality.

----Chris

 

[Andrewtfw]

If I had a 500g tank, I'd make it a semi-aggressive CA/SA tank. I'd have a lot of EBJD, Satanoperca, chocolate cichlids, true parrots, sajica, severum, and many others. That way I could house a ton of fish without a ton of aggression.

 

[Saterus]

Hmm, I like the cichlid idea. I definitely like the puffer idea, puffers are one of my favorites for personality.
Yes I know having an unusual fish the "novelty" can wear off but that's not how I am. I still get excited about new baby guppies, I'm like a big 4 year old, lol.
Would the cichlids possibly be able to live with crayfish? Assume tons and tons of rockwork and hiding places would be available.
Hmm, a giant school of cardinal tetras..

 

[NCStateFisher]

A group of Polypterus Endlichiri Congicus, not a single specimen but if you want somewhat unusual monsters that can reach 30+ inches there you go

 

[Michiba54]

Not very rare but a MBU puffer will get huge and have tons of personality.

----Chris

I'd put a fahaka puffer in there if you wanna go with a puffer, 500g is too small for a MBU.