What’s your “Someday!” Fish?

[Fish Folk]

I’d like to hear what anybody has on their “Someday!” list of future species to keep.

Right now, continuing down my NANF rabbit hole, I’d say mine is Bluenose Shiner (Pteronotropis welaka)

What are you adding to your bucket list??

[OnlyGenusCaps]

For me right now it is the Hawaiian cleaner wrasse (Labroides phthirophagus).  That is, of course, assuming I'll still be able to get a hold of the species when I have the experience under my belt to try to breed them.  I wouldn't get them until I think I might be able to breed them.  There are a few records of folks successfully breeding this species - so I have reason to believe with enough experience I could succeed.  Anyhow, that's the dream right now.

[Solstice_Lacer]

I'd like to try keeping American/Florida flag fish some day.

[TeeJay]

Well when I have the space and tanks available one day I would like to setup a nice tank with cpd's.

[AllFishNoBrakes]

Right now I’m on the hunt for a pair of Sparkling Gourami’s for my 6 gallon Walstad cube. Hoping my LFS gets some in soon and it’s on!

[Patrick_G]

I’ll have koi one day for sure. Right now money and the geography of our current lot are an issue, but someday! 

 

[nabokovfan87]

Black Rice Fish in some sort of an outdoor or indoor pond style setup for me.

There's so many fish I wish I could keep but the ones I really "someday" want are things I fully expect to happen it's just a question of when and how.  The other big one for me is green lasers and some plecos.

[Fish Folk]

On 10/22/2022 at 9:34 AM, Solstice_Lacer said:

I'd like to try keeping American/Florida flag fish some day.

Beautiful fish! Males can be bullies. They’re Pupfish. Feisty when defending areas.

[Beardedbillygoat1975]

The 60 gallon and stocking list is my more immediate “someday,” but I’m not ready to reveal those. 

Agree with @Patrick_Ga koi or goldfish pond is in my future. The Seattle area it just feels like sitting on my covered deck, watching the rain and my pond with a cup of coffee ☕️ this dream must be realized. 

schoutedeni  puffers - every time I watch a @Preston Johnvideo I want to take on the challenge. I don’t think I am there yet presently. Maybe when I do my 125 I could do a Congo setup with different Congo tetras, puffers, rope fish, etc. However, I have one red eye red tail puffer left and I feel like I need to know it my energy into a breeding tank for him. 

[Fishoutawater]

For me the one day fish is a group of pea puffers.might not seem all that exotic to most of you but they are $200+ a piece here in oz.for now i just have to be happy with my saltwater puffers instead which is easy to do.

[OnlyGenusCaps]

On 10/22/2022 at 8:34 AM, Solstice_Lacer said:

I'd like to try keeping American/Florida flag fish some day.

Pupfish are the best!  That's both an attractive and available species.  Nice call! 

[AnotherHumanPerson]

That would either have to be archerfish or a lepomis sunfish. 

[Colu]

For me it would have to be licorice gourami's in a biotope aquarium lots of leaf litter wood natural cave's the colors are stunning 

[Anjum]

Something endangered/threatened. Right now the short list is N-class Endlers, Tequila Splitfins or Somphong Rasboras. 

[OnlyGenusCaps]

On 10/22/2022 at 5:38 PM, Anjum said:

N-class Endlers

I have those, and if you are into live bearers, they are pretty neat!  Just bundles of energy.  I was lucky and was able to get a good lineage where I can trace all the hands they passed through back to collection.  I think knowing that makes them more interesting.  Well, to a nerd like me anyhow.  🤓

[Fish Folk]

On 10/22/2022 at 6:26 PM, Colu said:

For me it would have to be licorice gourami's in a biotope aquarium lots of leaf litter wood natural cave's the colors are stunning 

Stunning fish!!!

[Anjum]

On 10/23/2022 at 6:21 PM, OnlyGenusCaps said:

I have those, and if you are into live bearers, they are pretty neat!  Just bundles of energy.  I was lucky and was able to get a good lineage where I can trace all the hands they passed through back to collection.  I think knowing that makes them more interesting.  Well, to a nerd like me anyhow.  🤓

Y'know, I never cared much about guppies, before I had them. Then I ended up with 3 male "rescue" guppies & found that they're actually pretty fun fish, very active. I had kinda heard of Endler "guppies", so as I came across more info on them & eventually learned about the classes, I was hooked when I learned about N-class. It just intrigues me to keep alive the pure lineage since the hybrids are so prevalent, even being found in the wild. 

[Schuyler]

Eggersi Killifish 

I think they would be cool to have but that short lifespan and the long wait time for eggs to hatch make me want to wait until I'm confident enough to breed them so that I can have new ones ready before the adults die off 

 

[Fish Folk]

On 10/23/2022 at 10:24 PM, Schuyler said:

Eggersi Killifish 

I think they would be cool to have but that short lifespan and the long wait time for eggs to hatch make me want to wait until I'm confident enough to breed them so that I can have new ones ready before the adults die off 

 

I'm working with Nothobranchiu guentheri, and Nothobranchius rachovii biera 98 -- both annuals. Got a journal I keep on the forum here. 

 

[KentFishFanUK]

I have a long list of 'someday' fish but the ones at the top for me would be indostomus crocodilus/crocodile toothpicks (or one of the other almost identical indostomus species), elassoma okefenokee/okefenokee pygmy sunfish to keep in a pond (are these illegal to export from the US? or maybe they are illegal to import to the UK or something because I can't find them anywhere). 

But my main one is biotoecus opercularis (or the very similar biotoecus dicentrarchus) which seem to be difficult to find in the UK and don't even have a common name - hard to say why I love these so much by all accounts they aren't hugely colourful and probably more difficult to keep than anything I'd usually consider but been in love with them since I first discovered them online. I have a couple LFSs on the lookout for me for if they become available from their wholesalers but no joy yet. Pic for prosperity: 

So cute!

[TheSwissAquarist]

Arowana

Threadfin rainbows

Mbu puffer 

Discus

Above all: Electric Eel

(🚨Idealistic youngster ALERT!)

[TheSwissAquarist]

Actually, to be honest, its any fish that catches my eye and make me go:

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[drewzero1]

I've been very lucky that in the past year or so a few of my "someday" fish unexpectedly turned into "soon" fish. (And some even turned into "right now" fish!)

Someday fish: GBR or Bolivian Rams, Geophagus, Nannacara, Licorice gourami, paradise fish, killifish, shiners, gobies. I nearly bought some black paradise fish this summer, but decided to hold out for the more colorful ones (since I already have black mollies). Now I've got a pearl gourami again so those will have to wait!

Soon fish: Variatus, cherry shrimp, sw gobies, clownfish(!). I'm preparing to shuffle my 4 tanks down to 3 again in time for the new year, but hopefully having the pond ready for next spring will allow some more flexibility in stocking.

 

(Not my pic/fish, paradise fish image from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_fish)

Edited October 24, 2022 by drewzero1

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 10/24/2022 at 10:46 AM, drewzero1 said:

Not my pic/fish, paradise fish image from Wikipedia

I was going to say: Nice algified snail on the left !

[drewzero1]

On 10/24/2022 at 3:51 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

I was going to say: Nice algified snail on the left !

I had a snail growing algae like that in my SW tank but it died and the hermit crab finally caught up to it. Clean as a whistle now!