What is the most unique fish you have owned?

What is the most unique fish you have owned? Show me some of your unique fish. I really want to see them.

Pink Tailed Chalceus (chalceus Macrolepidotus)
Not especially unique. Photo off internet. Mine looked just like this, and was about 6 inches. That was when I had a 5x2x2 foot tank about 8 or 9 years ago.

What about you?

They're all unique, which is how we get hooked on this hobby.

I like fish that come from weird places - like a livebearer I had that came from a sulphur spring, or fish from really wild rapids. I've had fish that were extinct in nature, and fish that were newly discovered. Ember tetras are common now, but I had some from the first importation before they had that name, and they were pretty unique back then. Now I see them in every store.

You'd be surprised, if you live where there's a good independent store or an aquarium club, at how many fish arrive in the hobby we don't know a lot about. You get to figure them out and hopefully share the info. That's part of the fun if you take the fishbreeding route, and try to share out new species. You can become an explorer in your own house.

I wouldn’t call them unique but they’re very rare. I think I had the only two that have ever been in Britain.
Hampala ampalong, described on the IUCN Red List as “population severely fragmented”, “all individuals in one subpopulation”, “little is known about the population status of this species”, so they’re listed as “Least Concern”. Lol.

Their feeding strategy was unique to me. With the tank looking like a Tetra Prima snow globe, with most fish floating around like Homer Simpson in the space station, gobbling up the granules as they met them, the Hampala would choose a granule, turn to face it, then dart at it. Then they’d choose another, turn to face it and dart at it.

I had a male and a female. The male (below) choked on a whole cockle (totally my fault). The female lived a few more years.