Must have fish?

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Well it usually starts with your bread and butter easy fish like the fancy goldfish, then when you realize those absolutely lame you move onto stuff like tetras and barbs and other peaceful schooling fish, then you get an African cichlid because its pretty looking, and it was probably recomended by the petsmart employee that its a good community fish. Then it kills all your peaceful fish and you decide you like the cichlid so you get 20 more small ones for your 10 gallon tank. Then they grow too big and you get a bigger tank. Then you go buy a Jack Dempsey or a Jaguar cichlid that's 2 inches long because its cute. Then it grows big 2 times faster than your Africans and kills them. Then your into the new world cichlids. Then fish keeping gets fun! So you get 3 more Jack dempseys because they're cute and some green terrors in your now 29 gallon tank because thepetsmart employee said aggressive fish will get along just find with other aggressive fish as long ad they have a hiding spot. So you buy a hollow log decoration so they can all hide in the one little log. But its okay because the petsmart employee said so. Crap, why are they all swimming from the 2 jacks in the log. Why won't they all hide together like the petsmart employee said? Oops you haves breeding pair of jacks who laid eggs on the inside wall of the log and they kill everything you just bought! Crap, now its messy in the tank from all the killing. I better get a pleco so it will clean the tank for me! Hahaha the typical life of a new fish keeper before researching how to keep fish!

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Betta small easy to care for and personable. Used to have one I would hand feed, over time I held the food higher and higher until it would jump 2-3" out of the water to get his flakes.
 
Buy seriously. Every hobbyist should own: an Oscar, jack Dempsey, jaguar cichlid, red devil, festae, breeding pair of convicts, knife fish of some kind, any kind of shhooling fish, arowana. Granted most of these quite large tanks and should be kept over a period of several years unless you're rich and can afford 5 large tanks hahaha

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once you get past beginner stuff, Bichirs are amazing fish to keep. As are wolf fish (at least hi fin reds, commons aimara and blacks will kill everything). Peacock bass are also awesome, they become very personable with you (so will the hi fins). I'm a big fan of ancients as you can see haha, having a fish that you know has gone through little change in millions of years just has a Jurassic Park like appeal to it.
 
Dr.Gonzo420 said:
once you get past beginner stuff, Bichirs are amazing fish to keep. As are wolf fish (at least hi fin reds, commons aimara and blacks will kill everything). Peacock bass are also awesome, they become very personable with you (so will the hi fins). I'm a big fan of ancients as you can see haha, having a fish that you know has gone through little change in millions of years just has a Jurassic Park like appeal to it.
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Most of the oddballs are really easy to keep. Basically, they're hardy as harder any 'hard' labeled fish there is. You can go as a beginner even with a Bichir. They don't require special requirements just the normal predator care, stable filtration, and the ever debatable sizes of tanks. snakeheads, are in a different field tho.
 
E.C. said:
Most of the oddballs are really easy to keep. Basically, they're hardy as harder any 'hard' labeled fish there is. You can go as a beginner even with a Bichir. They don't require special requirements just the normal predator care, stable filtration, and the ever debatable sizes of tanks. snakeheads, are in a different field tho.
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Oh yeah, I haven't and most likely never will have the enjoyment of keeping a Channa, seeing as they are illegal as heroin in the states now. If I ever live abroad I would love a rainbow snakehead. That was my second fish actually haha was the Senegal bichir in every big box pet store anywhere. Senegal's are a great beginners fish, I wouldn't recommend anything other then that for a beginner though, maybe a palmas

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The ones previousely listed are hearty.. but most oddballs ime are oddballs because they are so hard to keep in captivity so few survive to adulthood and yet even fewer will breed in captivity.

I think every "must have fish" is different for each person/family/ect. That fish being what inspired you to get a fish-tank and start the hobby ( within' reason, lets face it blue marlin and great white sharks are all but impossible to keep in captivity by zoos let alone the average person) Spiney eels inspired me... to this day I keep at least one in my collection because they are one of my favorite fish.
 
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Guess what kind of fish is this? I wanna have one, but somehow it's expensive in our place.

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Cichlids
 
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