What are your bucket list fish?

[Flipper]

Have you checked with the co-op on heated pools?

[mynameisnobody]

On 8/24/2023 at 8:08 PM, Flipper said:

Parrotfish- kiss me, you fool!  Just don't bite me.

Now that’s a hell of a bucket list fish. 

[Ninjoma]

-Bala sharks
-Gold nugget pleco
-Killifish (not sure what types yet)
-Longfin white clouds
-Beckford's pencilfish
-Panther crab
-Bamboo shrimp
-Cardinal shrimp
-Cherry barbs
-Checker barbs
-Sterbai corys
-Dojo Loach
-Pictus catfish
-Bluefin notho
-Betta
-Dwarf gourami
-Blue gourami
-Vampire crab
-Thai micro crabs
-German black rams
-Pygmy corys
-Dwarf chain loaches

 

[mynameisnobody]

@Ninjoma seems more like a wish list than a bucket list. 

[Ninjoma]

On 8/25/2023 at 12:52 PM, mynameisnobody said:

@Ninjoma seems more like a wish list than a bucket list. 

I don't have space for any of these right now or I would get them, so I wouldn't really say they are on a wishlist. They are all animals want to try eventually.

[Tazalanche]

Hypancistrus zebra

 

Despite caring for discus, arowana, blue eyed plecos, & many other non-cheap fish over the past 30ish years, I just can't convince myself to pay $200-300 each to get at least a breeding trio of zebra plecos.

Aside from dropping almost a grand on 3 fish, I think it's mostly a mental block because I paid $15 for one in 1994 & was heartbroken when I had to sell all my fish & aquariums before moving across the country in 1995. Now they they're endangered in the wild, so even domestic bred are crazy high.