Fish You've Kept

[Fishy friend2]

What kind of fish have do you have/kept and what is your favorite fish, I am doing this purely for fun and because I just wanted to know. My self personaly have kept/ have. Serpae tetras, dwarf gouramis, fancy guppies, wild guppies, endlers, guppy/endlers hybrids. Bettas. Pygmy cories, telescope eye goldfish, shubunkin goldfish, zebra danios, glofish, neon tetras, fantail goldfish, common goldfish, platies, and Otocinclus
My favorite fish are probably bettas, but Pygmy cories are in second

 

[fluttermoth]

black moor, comet and fantail goldfish

platies, swordtails, guppies, Endler's + their various hybrids

neon, silvertip, black phantom, green neon, emperor, congo tetras

bronze, peppered, adolfoi, panda, CW021 corydoras

angel, oscar, blue ram, apistogramma cichlids

cherry, tiger (normal, albino, green, blue) barbs

zebra, yoyo, dwarf chain, weather loaches

common, gibbiceps, twig, whiptail, red whiptail, bristlenose, L052, clown plecs

silver and marbled hatchetfish

siamese fighters

dwarf, pearl and opaline gouramis

mystus, synodontis, spotted and striped talking catfish, birchirs

Um...think that's the lot! That is over 25+ years in the hobby though, not all at once; actually the goldies were before I started school, so more like 40

 

[Fishy friend2]

Wow, flatter moth, you've kept a lot of fish, I've only been in the hobby for 9 months. Soooo, that why I barely know anything And havnt had that many fish
Oh yeah and what's your favorite fish

 

[FishFanatic04]

Bettas, Platies, Molly, and snail..if that counts.

Have kept Bettas my whole life in various states of comfort and to my shame...discomfort.

My favorite fish in somewhere in Malawi MaD's tanks. but a close second would be Kuhli loaches. Can't wait to have them.

 

[fluttermoth]

Oh, I don't have a favourite fish; how can you choose between a plec and a hatchetfish? Or a neon tetra and a birchir? Can't be done, IMHO

 

[phocoena]

When I was younger Goldfish.
Also mum and dad had Mollies, Swordfish, Angelfish, SilverShark, Plec, Neons and Glowlight Tetra's.

I now have Guppies.

 

[nehpets81]

Goldfish as a child and now have Sterbai corys, Guppies and Cardinal Tetras. The Sterbai's are my fave at the mo!

For you guys that have had a lot of fish types in their time, how do you rotate? Do you sell off one species and replace it with another, sell off a whole tank and start again, keep the old tank and just keep adding more or wait until one group die off naturally and replace them with something new??

 

[fluttermoth]

I've done all of those, except selling fish off; I've always kept them, although I have had to sell a few complete set ups through house moves/divorce etc.

Now I'm single I can have as many tanks as I like, so I just set up a new tank if I want to keep something different! My next plan is for a nano with either dwarf emerald rasboras or featherfin rainbows, I can't decide between the two

 

[nurglespuss]

Good Question!

I've kept:

Neon tetras, guppies, silver tip tetras, glow lights, serpae, zebra danios, gian danios, pearl danios, pearl/dwarf/honey/opaline/kissing gouramis, Bettas, CAE's, Common Plecs, bristlenoses, bulldog, whiptail, asian & african bumblebee, hoplosternum, banjo, upside down, marblet hatchets, silver hatchets, congo, scissor tails, white clouds, khulies, zebra loaches, pakistani loaches, RTBS, ruby shark, silver shark, tiger barbs, golden barbs, blue acaras, convicts, fire mouths, dwarf puffer, platies, sword tails, mollies, gold fish, weather loaches, stickle backs, minnows....

There are probably more ;p

 

[Liquid skills]

well ive had

goldfish: comet, normal, fan tails X10

platies 50+

guppies 5

neons X7

endlers

white cloud mountain minnows x25

white skirt tetras
tiger barbs
lemons
rosey tetras
male and female bettas X 40
angel fish
platinum tetras
glowlight tetras
eel
bn x4
leopard sailfins X2
hill stream loaches X4
whiptail pleco
danios
congo tetras
yellow sucking loach
there are more but i cant remember lol

this has been over the last year most of these have been sold off to make room lol e.g. platies bred and sold
same with the bettas but havnt been sold yet

 

[Louiseness]

I've been seriously keeping fish maybe a year or two now (so that excludes childhood goldfish!) and have kept:

Zebra danios, platies, endlers, a betta, dwarf gouramis, a bristlenose, a clown plec, neon tetras, silvertip tetras, norman's lampeyes, black sail cories, chilli/mosquito rasboras, bosemani rainbows, cherry shrimp, amano shrimp, bamboo shrimp, assassin snails, a red-clawed crab ( ), a blue lobster, an axolotl (I know, not a fish) and very briefly, a spiny peacock eel.

 

[Liquid skills]

oh do we count shell fish if so ive had

2 red cherries
1 giant shrimp
1 freshwater clam

oh i also remembered
2 khuli loaches
ottos

 

[Fishy friend2]

Wow, that's soooo many fish! I wish I had that much experience, I feel like the only thing I now about is bettas...... And a barely know anything

 

[fluttermoth]

We all started out like that, Fishy friend!

At least you have the internet to research things; when I started I had to rely on library books and the 'man in the shop' for advice

 

[Fishy friend2]

Yeah, I should be glad that I have the internet, instead of just the so called "experts" from the LFS and LPS