How many species of fish have you kept over your lifetime

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
jjohnwm said:
I have no idea how you guys can keep that many species at a time. I currently have about 15 and my number rarely gets much higher than that...hundreds of specimens of some of those species, but just not that many species at any given time. I recently divested myself of my entire breeding populations of a couple of Goodeid livebearers, and am toying with one or two other species I want to experiment with, but the idea of keeping track of 75 or 100+ species is staggering to me. :)
Click to expand...
111 is over a lifetime, don't worry. The number in my house right now is 38, most tanks have 2-4 species, I only have 8 species only tanks out of like 24.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishman Dave and jjohnwm
A lot have been added to the list since my last reply here. I stopped updating a while ago, might update soon though if I remember
 
Checking in, what's everyone at now?
I am now at 123 (pure) species. Only keeping 27 right now though. Looking to go down to 24.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishman Dave
Been keeping tropical fish for more than 50 years, marine in the 70's, and versions of koi / carp / comets intermittently and I have absolutely no clue how many species of fish I've had.

The number and types have been lost to time but I enjoyed most all of them and am still bummed about having lost some these many years later. A red tail cat lost ten years ago comes to mind first. That RTC was like a permanently wet dog. Way too smart of a fish to be kept in a glass box.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishman Dave, jjohnwm and A201
Trouser Bark said:
Been keeping tropical fish for more than 50 years, marine in the 70's, and versions of koi / carp / comets intermittently and I have absolutely no clue how many species of fish I've had.

The number and types have been lost to time but I enjoyed most all of them and am still bummed about having lost some these many years later. A red tail cat lost ten years ago comes to mind first. That RTC was like a permanently wet dog. Way too smart of a fish to be kept in a glass box.
Click to expand...
Damn, you have me beat, I’m on year 36 lol
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishman Dave
It's easy, over 100 species or even 200, I have been keeping fish for 14 years. but now only left
Megalops atlanticus
Neoarius graeffei
cephalosilurus apurensis
Tocantinsia piresi
Perrunichthys perruno
Phractocephalus hemioliopterus
Wertheimeria maculata
Malapterurus eletricus
Synodontis eupterus
Synodontis petricola(maybe)
Puntigrus tetrazona
Barbonymus schwanenfeldii
neolissochilus stracheyi
Tor tambroides
Hypselecara temporalis
parachromis managuesis
Osphronemus goramy
Arapaima gigas
Pangasius sanitwongsei
Piaractus brachypomus
Metynnis argenteus
Channa striatus
 
  • Like
Reactions: Fishman Dave, Joshuakahan, jjohnwm and 1 other person
You must log in or register to reply here.
MonsterFishKeepers.com
Top Bottom