Whats the rarest fish you have kept
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Yeah, this topic does seem familiar.
Nothing new, my rarest fish is still the
Berdmorei Tiger Loach.
Nothing new, my rarest fish is still the
Berdmorei Tiger Loach.
I had to move to Panama to catch, and get a couple of the fish I wanted, because, at least when I left the U.S., none were available.
Darienheros calobrense above, Isthmoheros tuyrense below
But I think almost more rare, are Iranocichla hormuzensis from southern Iran, and Nandopsis ramsdeni from a small region in Cuba.
These both are geopolitically almost impossible for a U.S. citizen to get
Although I have heard a collector (named Max, a former Russian citizen(?)) has been allowed to go to Cuba to get some N ramsdeni.
I wonder though, what does rare mean?
Not found in LFSs.........only coming from a tiny geographic area, or one tiny lake, or pool?
Like the desert pupfish in the western US, or Alcolapia in lake Natron in Africa, saltier than the ocean?
I must admit I stopped buying from LDSs almost 20 years ago, because they never carried anything I wanted, and I found it was very hard to trust that they even knew the proper names of fish, and tell them apart.
Darienheros calobrense above, Isthmoheros tuyrense below
But I think almost more rare, are Iranocichla hormuzensis from southern Iran, and Nandopsis ramsdeni from a small region in Cuba.
These both are geopolitically almost impossible for a U.S. citizen to get
Although I have heard a collector (named Max, a former Russian citizen(?)) has been allowed to go to Cuba to get some N ramsdeni.
I wonder though, what does rare mean?
Not found in LFSs.........only coming from a tiny geographic area, or one tiny lake, or pool?
Like the desert pupfish in the western US, or Alcolapia in lake Natron in Africa, saltier than the ocean?
I must admit I stopped buying from LDSs almost 20 years ago, because they never carried anything I wanted, and I found it was very hard to trust that they even knew the proper names of fish, and tell them apart.
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I’m not sure about rate in the endangered sense, but the least kept fish I have is my Paracentropogon zonatus, red Pygmy roosterfish. It’s a small marine scorpionfish that doesn’t really show up too often. Most online retailers don’t have them, the most common way to get it is by being lucky at the lfs.
That’s pretty sweet!
Not trying to hijack the thread, but since you keep corals, do you know what this is called?
When asking questions about it, i forgot to ask the name lol
Honestly I’m not sure - all of the brain-like lps look the same to me lol
It seems similar to a closed up Goni
When I first got him not many people kept the sp. at all.
A couple years back when you Googled pictures of Amphilophus Saggitae, anywhere from the 15 to 18 entries where of my guy.
A couple years back when you Googled pictures of Amphilophus Saggitae, anywhere from the 15 to 18 entries where of my guy.