How many species of fish have you kept over your lifetime

[WOLF2013]

Good grief! It would take me close to a week to write down all the species I have had. (probably over exaggerating) but I have been in the aquarium hobby for more than 15 years and have had many different freshwater and saltwater species.
Probably a big portion of the freshwater side all comes from South America and the Amazon River. I love South American fish, they have the best colors and personality.
I've kept everything from piranhas, freshwater stingrays to silver arowanas to monster catfish to oscars, severums to tetras etc.
A few Asian species. Tinfoil barb, bala sharks, sun catfish, id sharks.
Central American species... jack dempsey cichlid, jaguar cichlids, red devils, etc.
Australia... saltwater fish mostly. But I have kept Jardini arowana.
Africa Polypterus, synodontis.
Pretty much fish from around the world.

 

[Daniacat]

Forgot Rasboras (eaten, returned)
Baby rasboras and king bettas are not a good combination.

 

[xenacanth9]

My list, fresh and brackish water

CHARACOIDS

Paracheirodon innesi
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Hemigrammus erythrozonus
Pristella maxillaris
Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
Hyphessobrycon amandae
Paracheirodon simulans
Carnegiella strigata
Gasteropelecus sternicula

CYPRINIFORMES

Danio rerio
Danio tinwini
Puntius titteya
Puntigrus tetrazona
Carassius auratus
Carassius auratus auratus
Tanichthys albonubes

LIVEBEARERS

Poecilia reticulata
Poecilia sphenops
Gambusia mosquitofish, exact species unknown
Xiphophorus maculatus
Xiphophorus hellerii
Dermogenys pusilla
Nomorhamphus liemi
Fundulus heteroclitus

LABYRINTH FISH

Betta splendens
Trichogaster lalius
Trichopsis pumila

CICHLIDS

Apistogramma cacatuoides
Neolamprologus meeli

LOACHES, CATFISH, SPINY EELS

Pangio kuhli
Pangio oblanga
Pangio myersi
Pangio semicinta
Sewellia lineolata

Corydoras pygmaeus
Corydoras panda
Corydoras aeneus
Corydoras paleatus
Corydoras sterbai
Microglanis iheringi
Ariopsis seemanni/Arius jordani
Otocinclus vittatus

Macrognathus circumcinctus
Macrognathus siamensis

GOBIES

Brachygobius xanthozonus
Brachygobius xanthomelas
Gobius bosc
Tateurndina ocellicauda
Gobioides broussonnetii

PUFFERS

Dichotomyctere nigroviridis
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Colomesus asellus

TRUE EELS & POLYPTERIDAE

Gymnothorax tile
Anguilla rostrata

Erpetoichthys calabaricus

WEIRD/MISC FISH

Strongylura marina
Chasmodes bosquianus
Hypsoblennius hentz
Syngnathus fuscus
Pantodon buchholzi
Morone saxatilis
Leiostomus xanthurus
Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus

Will update if I happen to remember any others. Sort of lame list, but I'm kind of held back in terms of options. 60+ species overall. Toxotes jaculatrix is a species that may be on here soon.

Updates:

Carinotetraodon irrubesco (Recent pickup)
Nematobrycon palmeri (Recent pickup)
Gobiesox strumosus (Forgot to add)
Trigonostigma heteromorpha (Forgot to add)
Trinectes maculatus (Forgot to add)

 

[Theos.dad]

In the past year and a half we've had at minimum over 40 different varieties. Moving into a bigger place made it to where we could have a lot more tanks. In that time we've lost 4 fish I think. 2 of those were angels that managed to jump out of an inch wide crack by the filter. I should have covered it after the first one but the spot they came out of was so small that I honestly thought it was a fluke. A one in million kind of thing. Happened back to back nights on top of that. They were a mated pair and i still think about those fish every time I look at that tank. Makes me so mad at myself. First 2 angels we ever bought.

 

[jjohnwm]

I read a lot of these responses and thought "Wow...how do these folks manage to keep so many different species? I've been into aquariums for over 50 years and haven't kept nearly that many!"

Then, just for gits and shiggles, I started a list and added to it for a couple days as I thought of new additions. I was a bit shocked; my list, which is undoubtedly missing a few forgotten names, includes:

20+ native/coldwater species
22+ marines
10+ livebearers (all bred)
12+ assorted characins (bred about 4 or 5)
20-ish assorted cyprinids (bred 4 or 5)
20-ish assorted cichlids, mostly New World species, maybe 15 bred
about a dozen assorted loaches and similar (none bred!)
about 20 catfish, only 3 or 4 bred
about a half dozen labyrinth fish, only bred a couple
about 20 assorted oddballs...poly, various eels, knives, lungfish, aros, gobies, etc...none bred
half dozen assorted freshwater and a dozen marine invertebrates (several bred)

So a bit over 150 fish species, spread out over 7 homes, a bunch of aquariums and a couple of millennia. Very few that I specifically set out to breed but a fair number just did it.

Currently have only 7 permanent indoor tanks + one indoor "overwintering pond" for outdoor fish + one outdoor inground pond + a couple of summer-only outdoor stock tanks + one absolutely final last tank (promised myself and my wife) under construction.

...plus one enclosure for one snake that I am getting for old time's sake, and to ensure that my granddaughters don't grow up to be scared of creepy-crawlies.

 

[Doug B]

Wow, 45 years of fish keeping.
Silver arowana
Black arowana
Gardini arowana
Red bellied piranhas
Wolf fish
Kelberi peacock bass
Oscolaris peacock bass
Tiger oscars
Yellow perch
Apistogrammi ( 3 different types)
German rams
Bolivian rams
Assorted plecos
Assorted algae eaters
Mollies ( all colors)
Guppies ( many colors)
Gold fish
Koi
Orandas
And many smaller fish.
Happy fish keeping to all.

 

[neutrino]

No idea, quite a few, but not the kind of thing I keep track of. I started as a kid in the early 1960s, skipped my late teens and 20s, started up again in my early thirties straight through 30 some years hence until now.

 

[xenacanth9]

My list, fresh and brackish water

CHARACOIDS

Paracheirodon innesi
Paracheirodon axelrodi
Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi
Hemigrammus erythrozonus
Pristella maxillaris
Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae
Hyphessobrycon amandae
Paracheirodon simulans
Carnegiella strigata
Gasteropelecus sternicula

CYPRINIFORMES

Danio rerio
Danio tinwini
Puntius titteya
Puntigrus tetrazona
Carassius auratus
Carassius auratus auratus
Tanichthys albonubes

LIVEBEARERS

Poecilia reticulata
Poecilia sphenops
Gambusia mosquitofish, exact species unknown
Xiphophorus maculatus
Xiphophorus hellerii
Dermogenys pusilla
Nomorhamphus liemi
Fundulus heteroclitus

LABYRINTH FISH

Betta splendens
Trichogaster lalius
Trichopsis pumila

CICHLIDS

Apistogramma cacatuoides
Neolamprologus meeli

LOACHES, CATFISH, SPINY EELS

Pangio kuhli
Pangio oblanga
Pangio myersi
Pangio semicinta
Sewellia lineolata

Corydoras pygmaeus
Corydoras panda
Corydoras aeneus
Corydoras paleatus
Corydoras sterbai
Microglanis iheringi
Ariopsis seemanni/Arius jordani
Otocinclus vittatus

Macrognathus circumcinctus
Macrognathus siamensis

GOBIES

Brachygobius xanthozonus
Brachygobius xanthomelas
Gobius bosc
Tateurndina ocellicauda
Gobioides broussonnetii

PUFFERS

Dichotomyctere nigroviridis
Carinotetraodon travancoricus
Colomesus asellus

TRUE EELS & POLYPTERIDAE

Gymnothorax tile
Anguilla rostrata

Erpetoichthys calabaricus

WEIRD/MISC FISH

Strongylura marina
Chasmodes bosquianus
Hypsoblennius hentz
Syngnathus fuscus
Pantodon buchholzi
Morone saxatilis
Leiostomus xanthurus
Cyprinodon variegatus variegatus

Will update if I happen to remember any others. Sort of lame list, but I'm kind of held back in terms of options. 60+ species overall. Toxotes jaculatrix is a species that may be on here soon.

Updates

Pangio cuneovirgata (Only recently realized!)
I do not believe I've ever actually kept true Pangio kuhlii.
Sphoeroides maculatus (Doesn't really count, I've kept them for like, a week at a time, once or twice, but eventually released them to where they came.)
Dichotomyctere kretamensis (MAYBE, I have no real idea. Could have possibly bought them as GSPs having no idea.)
Dichotomyctere sabahensis (MAYBE, I have no real idea. Could have possibly bought them as GSPs having no idea.)
Colomesus tocantinensis (MAYBE, I have no real idea. Could have possibly bought them as SAPs having no idea.)

 

[Hybridfish7]

I'm at 94 species now I think, add astronotus ocellatus melanotaenia parva to the list

 

[MultipleTankSyndrome]

Bump! Couldn't resist replying here.

Used to:

-Goldfish
-Koi
-Bluegill
-Pumpkinseed
-Yellow perch
-Common pleco
-Rosy reds
-White clouds
-Guppies
-Red tail shark (will have again!)
-Pangasius catfish
-Featherfin catfish
-Squeaker catfish I don't know the species of, that was not a featherfin
-Zebra loach (will have again!)
-Weather loach (will have again!)
-Yoyo loach (will have again!)
-Striped kuhli loach (will have again!)

Currently:

-Clown loach
-Pictus catfish
-Black kuhli loach
-Siamese fighting fish
-Bristlenose pleco (depending on how much mess this pleco makes, it unfortunately might have to be moved to the 'used to' list)
-Neon tetra (hopefully this won't happen, but neon tetra disease may move these to the 'used to' list)
-Green neon tetra

And this does not include 4 species I haven't yet kept that I will next year.

Adding the following to my list.

Used to's that I forgot to put originally (and these are all of them):

-Channel catfish
-Yellow bullhead catfish
-Round goby
-Bowfin
-Some kind of spiny eel which was either a marbled or swamp eel

Currently (bought these between now and when I made that comment):

-Dwarf chain loach
-Cardinal tetra
-Small scale archerfish

I also currently have at least 5 future species to wait for, instead of just 4 like I did when I made that comment.