Experience with various fish?

[Deadeye]

I probably have had around 50 or so species. Of the ones I’ve kept, the only ones I’d say I understand really well are:
Banded leporinus
Red belly piranha
Silver dollars
Occelaris clownfish
Jack dempsey
Convict cichlid
Rainbow cichlid
Krib cichlid
Amazon puffer
Skunk/sun loach
Betta
Buenos Aires tetra
Aussie rainbowfish
Giant danio
Dwarf puffer
Gourami
Aurora goby

 

[duanes]

I've kept over 100 species of cichlids alone over 60 years of fish keeping, (not including all the non-cichlids) and it'd be a waste of space, and probably boring (and a waste of time) to list them all.
By the way, there are almost 1700 species of cichlids world wide, and 500 in the rift lakes of Africa.
But...I don't consider keeping something less than 3 years like a cichlid that live 10 years, as real experience.
A killifish that lives only a season, yes, a long lived fish,.....no.

 

[tlindsey]

I've kept over 50 species but some experience with keeping some were short term because of me and not the fish at all. I got better after a
few years after reading magazines. I would definitely say I was not a true hobbyist at the beginning.

 

[jjohnwm]

...some experience with keeping some were short term because of me and not the fish at all.

We all started out that way...new keepers are usually rough on fish...

 

[esoxlucius]

Currently I am in my 7th year of my second stint in the hobby. I used to keep fish many many years ago but had a lengthy break.

I've kept dozens and dozens of species in all that time, but the fish which I have most experience with, and have kept for many many years between the two stints, I can count on the fingers of one hand.

They'll be Bala Sharks, Red Tailed Giant Gourami, Dennison Barbs and Clown Loach.

If "experience" is measured in fish not dying, then i'm a true expert with these fish. If "experience" is measured by how successful you are breeding the fish, then I am a true novice with these fish. So I'm not sure how this "experience" thing works, lol.

One thing I do know though after all these years. It's the "experience" regarding keeping your water right that counts for everything in this hobby. Learn how to do that properly and the rest looks after itself.

 

[FahakaPapa]

Fahaka
Green spotted puffer
Clownfish (saltwater)
Amphilophus Hogoboomorum (spelt that wrong for sure)
Knife fish
Bichirs
Convicts
Africans (yellows)
upside down catfish
Severum
Guppys
Angels
Tiger barbs

I'm sure there's more but the list gets boring to read

 

[Fishman Dave]

Nice idea but in the 43 years I’ve been keeping fish I have bred over 50 species (which I raised from young) and like some others in the hobby this long must have “experience” of keeping > 200 without thinking about it.

In fact, in the 18 “tanks” I’m running currently I bet I get close to 75 as I think I’ll have almost 40 catfish types.

but I like this…….. you have me thinking now!

“tanks” range from 5ukg to 1200ukg