Your least favorite fish

[scalareson]

All the frontosa mentions makes me sad; they are in the top 5 on my "keep before I die" list. ☹

The only fish I don't like are fish that are really inbred to the point of not being able to function like normal fish. Most blood parrots, some fancy goldfish, longfin Bettas, etc. I just feel bad for them because they can't really function right

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

GloFish, and other lab-made fish. It's not the fish's fault, but I would still never get any. Also congo tetras. They kept killing each other off. Beautiful fish, just super aggressive towards each other.

Really? Not my experience...congos are the tetra I did decide on and I have a group of 16 in my 8ft tank. There's no aggression at all. Perhaps you didn't have enough of them?

 

[Hybridfish7]

they are overhyped- due to cost and difficulty of collection. id say the same of tropheus too, lil heartbreakers

I do want tropheus one day, when I have a lot more time and space, only because they're somewhat more entertaining to look at and I can keep them with things. But I don't like how sensitive they are at all. I've heard of people moving a single rock, only for the colony to start killing eachother, because that somehow messed up their territories and pecking order.

The running joke amongst my friends is that you could probably fart at a tropheus tank and the tiny amount of gas exchange in the water would cause enough of a chemistry change for the colony to riot.

 

[eon aquatics]

I dislike old world fish for some reason.
Also salt water fish.

 

[Hybridfish7]

The one fish I would say that I genuinely HATE are freaking blood parrots. Absolutely useless hybrid mutated deformed monstrosities and I have NO CLUE why anyone likes these things.

Really not a fan of piranha or oscars either. I wouldn't say I hate them, but zero appeal factor for me. Ugly fish that don't live up to the hype around them.

Most tetras. Never really kept them much in 30+ years, obviously because there's not much interest for me...but recently actually went digging through tetra species trying to find something to keep a school of for some upper/mid level activity in my largest tank. Quickly discovered that there's maybe 4 or 5 species I'd ever vaguely consider keeping, most I just find ugly as hell.

I'll admit most oscars are kinda ugly with their bug eyes underbites, but just in case you've never seen these:

 

[Friller2009]

GloFish, and other lab-made fish. It's not the fish's fault, but I would still never get any. Also congo tetras. They kept killing each other off. Beautiful fish, just super aggressive towards each other.

Got to have lots of females and males to disperse aggression. Too little and they beat the crap out of each other

 

[neutrino]

All the frontosa mentions makes me sad; they are in the top 5 on my "keep before I die" list. ☹

The only fish I don't like are fish that are really inbred to the point of not being able to function like normal fish. Most blood parrots, some fancy goldfish, longfin Bettas, etc. I just feel bad for them because they can't really function right

Not everyone is successful with them and they're not going to be in constant motion if that's what someone's looking for, but I kept and bred them for over 25 years, C. gibberosa kapampa most of that time, F1 bred from the original kapampa import into the US and eventually F2 progeny from my own breeders. Beautiful fish, smart, curious, fins, size. Yes, a bit of a challenge and something of a niche fish. No they don't absolutely have to be kept in groups and yes you certainly can keep them with other fish compatible in temperament, water, etc.

 

[Sinister-Kisses]

I'll admit most oscars are kinda ugly with their bug eyes underbites, but just in case you've never seen these:

I honestly don't see a difference. Still ugly to me lol.

 

[Hybridfish7]

I honestly don't see a difference. Still ugly to me lol.

Just had to make sure, lol

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Really? Not my experience...congos are the tetra I did decide on and I have a group of 16 in my 8ft tank. There's no aggression at all. Perhaps you didn't have enough of them?

Got to have lots of females and males to disperse aggression. Too little and they beat the crap out of each other

Yeah, the problem was an imbalance of males and females, but even when I did seem to have a atleast equal number, the males would kill females, or the females would die from stress or something along the lines of that