I'm just curious about other people's experience with fish they've really wanted and been thoroughly disappointed, or fish they have kept before and exceeded expectations, or fish they were not expecting much from and were surprised with.
My biggest disappointed since I've got back into fish is definitely the wolf fish.
I once saw one when I was about 10 years old, around a foot long with a mouth full of huge teeth and I thought it was amazing. I've wanted one ever since.
Suffice to say - this was the first fish I bought a few months ago when I setup a tank for the first time in years.
And it's SOOOOOOOOOO boring. It hardly ever moves, usually waits till I go to sleep before it eats a feeder fish or even a piece of prawn or beefheart. it's not active or aggressive. It looks great, nice example of a mal, and it has a cool way of swimming if it does ever move but it's just like a turd with teeth.
it's not even that voracious and hungry.
I put 2 oscars with it to spice the tank up a bit, maybe kick the wolf into action, and there has been the odd scuffle but the wolf is incredibly boring.
in fact I'm going to sell the wolf and keep the oscars, they are much more fun. Really entertaining fish. Active and hungry and funny watching them cram as many whole tigerprawns into their mouth as they can
Which brings me to my pleasant surprise - oscars. I've never owned any before, never been much of a cichlid man. I like pure predators. I always thought oscars seemed cool for cichlids, but was never overly enamoured with them. They are far more fun to keep than I thought they would be, and they've really grown on me.
And the fish that's exceeded my expectations is the little albino snakehead i have. I previously owned a giant snakehead that got over 2 foot, and that was a total killer, but this one is even more so at a young age.
I love snakeheads and owning one again has just made me realize they are the ultimate predator. Active, hungry, vicious, aggressive, fast, relentless - just everything you could want from a predator.
My biggest disappointed since I've got back into fish is definitely the wolf fish.
I once saw one when I was about 10 years old, around a foot long with a mouth full of huge teeth and I thought it was amazing. I've wanted one ever since.
Suffice to say - this was the first fish I bought a few months ago when I setup a tank for the first time in years.
And it's SOOOOOOOOOO boring. It hardly ever moves, usually waits till I go to sleep before it eats a feeder fish or even a piece of prawn or beefheart. it's not active or aggressive. It looks great, nice example of a mal, and it has a cool way of swimming if it does ever move but it's just like a turd with teeth.
it's not even that voracious and hungry.
I put 2 oscars with it to spice the tank up a bit, maybe kick the wolf into action, and there has been the odd scuffle but the wolf is incredibly boring.
in fact I'm going to sell the wolf and keep the oscars, they are much more fun. Really entertaining fish. Active and hungry and funny watching them cram as many whole tigerprawns into their mouth as they can
Which brings me to my pleasant surprise - oscars. I've never owned any before, never been much of a cichlid man. I like pure predators. I always thought oscars seemed cool for cichlids, but was never overly enamoured with them. They are far more fun to keep than I thought they would be, and they've really grown on me.
And the fish that's exceeded my expectations is the little albino snakehead i have. I previously owned a giant snakehead that got over 2 foot, and that was a total killer, but this one is even more so at a young age.
I love snakeheads and owning one again has just made me realize they are the ultimate predator. Active, hungry, vicious, aggressive, fast, relentless - just everything you could want from a predator.
