TheSwissAquarist Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Hello all, as a “novice” aquarist, I have been keeping fish for a year, and I just thought it would be fun/cool to connect with others. Favourite species to breed, keep, or enjoy. 🙂 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Catfish hands down! 🥰 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Alrighty. I’ll play. To keep… Discus To breed… (1) German Blue Rams To breed… (2) Rainbow Shiners Honorable mentions… (1) Betta Imbellis (2) Emerald Killifish (3) Banded Darter 5 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 to keep, breed, and enjoy... guppies! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PineSong Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I have many years of goldfish and betta experience and a bit of that with Endlers and platies, all years ago, and now about ten months with guppies and mollies as well. For looks, I love the old style veil tail goldfish. Nothing beats them for glamour in my book. But I really enjoy Planted community tanks the most as far as actually enjoying Fishkeeping. If I had to choose just one species it might be Endlers, but really I love mollies and platies too. I love peaceful fish and they are all that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun.singh1991 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 My favorite fish of all time are Pea Puffers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted April 13, 2022 Author Share Posted April 13, 2022 Thank you for so many great replies! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gannon Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Archerfish hands down! They are very needy, skittish, and need to be treated with special care because of these things, but its worth it for these remarkably fascinating and intelligent animals. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannah Parker Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I'm a sucker for my bettas. But my golden zebra loaches are so personable and the synodontis petricola are stunning. My new baby is a fancy goldfish and he's so cute. It's really hard to choose 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jawjagrrl Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I've got 5 nano tanks and working on 3 large setups, so lots of potential to keep many things. Love my grumpy betta, but he really needs to be alone 😞 Endlers are hardy livebearers, smaller than guppies and really fun to watch and breed - just got my first babies last week! Really LOVE our shrimp and crayfish, watch them perhaps the most. Loaches and catfish are also a blast, love watching our kuhli and bristlenose pleco antics every day. Planning a pair of south american tanks that will have small fish on one side - green neon, silvertip, pristella/x-ray, rummynose and possibly diamond tetras, some apisto cichlids - and larger ones on the other side - angels, geophagus, and congo tetras (not SA bt have to have them). Corydoras and more bristlenoses. The bedroom tank I am working on now may have more angels, but who knows? I loved african cichlids but found them a bit limiting over time - the mouthbrooders are so fun to watch though. But my all-time favorite fish? The ones I saw first as a kid. Oscars! They really are water puppies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fish Folk Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 On 4/13/2022 at 11:12 AM, Gannon said: Archerfish hands down! They are very needy, skittish, and need to be treated with special care because of these things, but its worth it for these remarkably fascinating and intelligent animals. Gorgeous aquarium! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odd Duck Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 I’m currently obsessed with my gold nugget pleco, angelfish, hummingbird tetras, and Betta persephone. Have become crazy about bristlenose plecos, too. Kinda over pea puffers (they’re too deliberately bad for me) but mine are living out their best life. And I’m still hoping to find 1-2 female scarlet badis. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HenryC Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 My absolute favorites are American cichlids, they're like puppies, especially the bigger Central American ones. But you need big tanks for them. Favorite fish of all time: Blood parrot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henry the fish keeper Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) This is a hard one. I would say sunset honey gouramis I love their color on them and I would love to get one. Edited April 13, 2022 by Henry the fish keeper 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modified lung Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Celestial pearl danios Rosey loach are really entertaining Licerice gourami The freshwater bumblebee goby Brachygobius xanthomelas Scarlet and black tiger darios (he's hiding) 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Keeping fish for 50 years. My favorite is the next one. 6 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephnoctum Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 On 4/13/2022 at 1:20 PM, Brian said: Keeping fish for 50 years. My favorite is the next one. ^^^^^ There we go, that's the answer I was trying to phrase. I pretty much love them all and when I get a new one into the house that I haven't kept before I'm obsessed with that one until the next comes along. Still love the last one just as much but it's that endless new discovery that keeps me hooked. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 (edited) Corydoras are my favorite to breed. and.... Barbs and loaches are my favorite (in addition to corys) to keep. and.... I've never kept them, but Gobies are super interesting to me. On 4/13/2022 at 11:20 AM, Brian said: Keeping fish for 50 years. My favorite is the next one. Out of your tanks you have, what is the fish you've had the longest? What is the one that if you were down to one tank you'd keep? Edited April 13, 2022 by nabokovfan87 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freemoney Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 #1 Betta #2 Panda Cory #3 Mystery Snail 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrey Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Bucketlist fish... some I have already kept, and others I have only learned about due to the Co-op's YouTube channel: 1. Discus (did that, bred that, it was fun in my 20's too much work now) 2. Betta macrostoma (I need to find a way to get them sufficient humidity, so not any time soon) 3. Four Spot Splash Tetras (want!) 4. killies 5. Gobies 6. NANF 7. Purple fish (most rare color gene in majority fish species, I have had lavender/purple bettas I used to breed) 8. CT guppy 9. Farlowella 10. Moapa Dace 12. Devil's Hole Pupfish (they are so cute and a beautiful blue!!!) 13. Akihita futuna 14. Diamond darter 15. Damba mipentina 16. Pitbull pleco 17. Queen Arabesque pleco 19. Zebra pleco 20. Malaysian Rainbow shrimp #10 though #15 I probably won't ever get to breed. They are critically endangered, and require a special license and enrollment in a rescue breeding program... which is sad, as we used to catch diamond darters as children... Probably won't ever get the plecos, as I no longer keep heated tanks, but this is a bucket list, right? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colu Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 (edited) Got to be catfish something for everyone from a small pygmy Cory's to monster redtail catfish if you have a tank big enough and I have a soft spot for licorice gourami the colours are stunning hoping to get some in the near future Edited April 14, 2022 by Colu 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bev C Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Mine is bristolnose pelco & cories .. But I am thinking of changing my tank … After my current old fish is gone … to a bottom dwellers tank … I really like the look of some catfish like the Pictus Catfish. I have had the same small tetras and cories ever since I started in the hobby.. I am wanting a small change ... Keeping my pelco and cories though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saphbettas Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 Bettas, of course. I'm obsessed 💙 Betta splendens mainly, but I also adore all the other species! I've never kept any of the other species, but I love to look at and learn more about them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSwissAquarist Posted April 14, 2022 Author Share Posted April 14, 2022 To keep: Bichirs Hillstream Loaches Angelfish & Discus To breed: Hillstream loaches Growling gouramis Seasonal Killifish All-round Favourite: Apisto Agassizii Fire red (I'm currently trying to create a strain with more purple) Thanks again for so many great replies! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrey Posted April 14, 2022 Share Posted April 14, 2022 On 4/13/2022 at 7:20 PM, Colu said: Got to be catfish something for everyone from a small pygmy Cory's to monster redtail catfish if you have a tank big enough and I have a soft spot for licorice gourami the colours are stunning hoping to get some in the near future Colu, you are always introducing me to some of the most beautiful fish! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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