Colorful Fish Or Pet Fish? Which Would You Rather Have?

[starlitsunrise]

 

I love seeing the little personalities fish have

Who doesn't?

 

lol I'm so strange the first thing I thought when I saw your answer was "Evil people, evil people don't like it" xD. 

 

[Brahmza]

You can always have both! German Blue Rams!

 

[Gruntle]

I had to vote for pretty fish....purely because my favourites are rainbowfish. They're incredibly pretty, but definitely not the smartest or most interactive fish.

I voted the same, but was surprised this morning to see my new Rainbows following my youngest son from one end of the tank to the other in the vain hope that he'd feed them (again, I just fed them an hour before)!

 

[star4]

Personally, I like the colorful fish. I just enjoy watching them.
 
Peacock Gudgeons are a lot of fun to watch. Cories, while not being very colorful are great fun. 
 
The way I see it, even the fish is interactive and swims up to you, you still can't "play" with it or throw it a stick to catch like a puppy.
 
Just my two cents.

 
 
You can teach fish to play fetch. My rescue oscar will, if I drop something in his tank he will pick it up, the only problem is I havnt managed to teach him to leave/drop lol. It started by accident when I dropped one of the suckers that held the brace bar on, he picked it up for me, but now if I drop one he wont let me have it back. He will also pinch the sponge that I clean the glass with given half a chance.
 
This is not my fish, BTW a goldfish playing fetch.
 http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8DN0c-lcP0
 
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JFmrlgWAk

 

[malfunction]

Personally, I like the colorful fish. I just enjoy watching them.
 
Peacock Gudgeons are a lot of fun to watch. Cories, while not being very colorful are great fun. 
 
The way I see it, even the fish is interactive and swims up to you, you still can't "play" with it or throw it a stick to catch like a puppy.
 
Just my two cents.

Not entirely accurate....there used to be a video on YouTube of a guy who taught an oscar to fetch a golf ball.

I had to vote for pretty fish....purely because my favourites are rainbowfish. They're incredibly pretty, but definitely not the smartest or most interactive fish.

I voted the same, but was surprised this morning to see my new Rainbows following my youngest son from one end of the tank to the other in the vain hope that he'd feed them (again, I just fed them an hour before)!

Lol. They're greedy so and sos aren't they? I normally feed mine first thing in the morning when I come down the stairs. Now, whenever they hear someone coming down the stairs they rush to the top right have corner of the tank (that's normally the side I feed them from in the mornings). The other fish have learned to copy their behaviour, so whenever someone's on the stairs all my fish pack into one little corner of the tank.

Personally, I like the colorful fish. I just enjoy watching them.
 
Peacock Gudgeons are a lot of fun to watch. Cories, while not being very colorful are great fun. 
 
The way I see it, even the fish is interactive and swims up to you, you still can't "play" with it or throw it a stick to catch like a puppy.
 
Just my two cents.

 
 
You can teach fish to play fetch. My rescue oscar will, if I drop something in his tank he will pick it up, the only problem is I havnt managed to teach him to leave/drop lol. It started by accident when I dropped one of the suckers that held the brace bar on, he picked it up for me, but now if I drop one he wont let me have it back. He will also pinch the sponge that I clean the glass with given half a chance.
 
This is not my fish, BTW a goldfish playing fetch.
 http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8DN0c-lcP0
 
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JFmrlgWAk

Whoa! That post will be entirely responsible for random objects now being placed in my fish tank, with the hope of my fish doing something amazing.

 

[fluttermoth]

I've been trying to teach my oscar to fetch a ring, but he's not very good at it!

 

[Freedom]

This thread developed quickly -- good topic!
 
I prefer the colorful fish.  I find it soothing to sit and watch them float about in the tank.  I want minimum maintenance.  I get plenty of interaction and training with my 3 dogs and 8 cats (down from 5 dogs and 11 cats just 2 years back). 
 
Fish time is relaxation time!

 

[CoryFever]

I've been trying to teach my oscar to fetch a ring, but he's not very good at it!

Same here. He'll come up to the ring hoping to find food, but once he realizes the ring is a ring, he just passes it by. He isn't much of a thinker, more of a glutton

 

[fluttermoth]

Mine will hold the ring sometimes, but it depends what sort of mood he's in 

 

[star4]

I gave my one oscar a ball once to play with, he loved it for ages until he flipped over and started using his tail to bat it about, then he smashed the light unit hitting it so hard, the ball was then launched out of the tank lifting the lid flap and it got lost behind the tank. (the ball not the oscar).
 
My other oscar will come to the glass if I touch my finger to my lips, he will open his mouth as if giving me kisses. I know really he would just like to bite my nose off lol

 

[DreamertK]

My gudgeons and gourami are pretty and interact with me.

 

[Gruntle]

I voted the same, but was surprised this morning to see my new Rainbows following my youngest son from one end of the tank to the other in the vain hope that he'd feed them (again, I just fed them an hour before)!

And now I now why. Jr jr has been told in no uncertain terms that over feeding fish makes their tummies sore. And I've hidden the fish food, so no more sneaky snacks when dad isn't looking, you can't trust a 4 year old...

 

[Weiro792]

 

Personally, I like the colorful fish. I just enjoy watching them.
 
Peacock Gudgeons are a lot of fun to watch. Cories, while not being very colorful are great fun. 
 
The way I see it, even the fish is interactive and swims up to you, you still can't "play" with it or throw it a stick to catch like a puppy.
 
Just my two cents.

 
 
You can teach fish to play fetch. My rescue oscar will, if I drop something in his tank he will pick it up, the only problem is I havnt managed to teach him to leave/drop lol. It started by accident when I dropped one of the suckers that held the brace bar on, he picked it up for me, but now if I drop one he wont let me have it back. He will also pinch the sponge that I clean the glass with given half a chance.
 
This is not my fish, BTW a goldfish playing fetch.
 http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8DN0c-lcP0
 
http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3JFmrlgWAk
 

 
 
I accept! That is amazing! But I still would go with pretty fish... But I appreciate goldfish a little more now!

 

[Sickbound]

My 7" hoplo catfish often come up to the surface of the water to be hand fed (the majority of the time I chose this or chopsticks) and they let me touch them and they "kiss" my fingers. 

 

[Blobfish]

My favourite type of fish are not necessarily ones that will interact with me but fish that I can discern purpose and thought behind their behaviour.  
 
I have some neon tetras, danios and the like (to keep the OH happy) and I do enjoy them of but I have to admit they are rather boring and just swim around.  I expect there's more to it than that but I can't see a lot of purpose in their actions.
 
My favourite tank of fish which I spend many hours watching has javanese medaka, royal whiptails, red lizard whiptails, corydoras habrosus and a couple of dario dario in it.  I find all of those fish behaviourally fascinating to watch.  The fancy bright colours of many fish have lost much of their appeal these days too but the subtle changing shades of the "duller" keep me enthralled.  The medaka might not look like the most colourful of fish at first glance but they have so many shifting hues they're just gorgeous and their eyes are vivid little gems with irridescent colours that remind me of peacock feathers ... I could go on and on and on ... but I won't

 
Seeing the royal whiptails resting on a piece of bogwood is an awesome sight, the way they blend in with a thousand shades of brown is incredible.  
 
My Oscars also have have wonderful colouring and markings and really they're pretty plain as oscars go.  Plus which, the oscars are so big that I can see fin and scale details at a level I can't with any of my other fish.