Rare Fish Owners

[groovitudedude]

Let's see those fish that you own that you have never seen sold, that are too big to fit in the 10G, that can sting, bite, or puff, that are a random awesome color, and are impossible to keep unless you are a true expert aquarist!!!! I'm not sure I have any right now, but feel free to share yours!

Examples:
Freshwater Rays
Puffers (Giant, Medium, Small, etc.)
Eels (Moray, Spiny, etc.)
Bichirs
Snakeheads
Aros
Arapaima
Gars
Whatever you like!

 

[Davo86]

Arapaima

LOL, i'd love to see a tank that could hold one of those

 

[england]

Arapaima

LOL, i'd love to see a tank that could hold one of those

go to monster fish keepers and look in articles section at top...they got a tank for these guys

 

[shroob]

Theres a webcam of an Aripima tank on MFK, don't know if I should name the member but just do a search and they should come up. Its an amazing tank, its like HUGE if you couldn't guess already.

 

[adamgreen240]

i own a silver aro below

 

[the_evil_duboisi]

God.....darn.......Foosorochromis rostratus!! The fish I own are all common!!

Oh yeah, also Platydoras costatus. But they are only uncommon here in AKorea, much easier to find where you are! Lucky, envious

 

[TwoTankAmin]

This is what I have that might qualify, but they are not big fish, don't bite or sting:

and these are not rare, just usually found only from hobbyists and not shops:

 

[Mr._Fishy]

Nice pleco! How much did you pay for it and how big was it and how big is it now? Do you have a breeding colony of them?

None of the fish I have are very rare. Strange looking, yes, but unfortunately not rare.

 

[groovitudedude]

Okay, weird looking fish are allowed. Basically, any fish that looks weird or unusual.

 

[GobyMaster]

Uhhhhh, I have 1 Oxyeleotris marmorata (A.K.A., Marbled Sand Goby), and 1 Senegal Bichir (A.K.A., Polypterus senegalus), but that's about it right now. . . .

Cheers,
GobyMaster

 

[T1KARMANN]

hahahaha this is my type of thread

5 x blue base cross back arowana
1 x super red asian arowana
1 x red tail gold asian arowana
1 x 14inch tigrinus cat
1 x 13inch dat pulcher the real siamese tiger fish
1 x 13inch flagtail
1 x 5inch thin bar tiger fish
1 x 3inch dat cambelli
3 x 8inch disk p14 stingrays

all in one tank

thats about it

 

[Tobigara]

does an african butterfly count?

 

[Colin_T]

What have I kept, hmm where do I start.
red tail catfish
black fin pacu & red belly piranha, they came in together
saratoga jardini & leichardti
tiger fish (Datnoides sp)
alligator gars
blue sharks (pangasius)
giant & snakeskin gouramis
synodontis angelicus
unidentified species of botia
corydoras barbatus
african freshwater butterflyfish
acarichthys heckeli
peacock gudgeons
glossolepis maculatus & ramuensis
cairnsichthys rhombosomoides
pseudomugil mellis
edelia vitatta, nanatherina balstoni & bostockia porosa
galaxias occidentalis, maculatus & truttaceous
galaxiella munda & nigrostriata

my piece de resistance, Lepidogalaxias salamandroides. The only fish in the world with a neck

 

[CFC]

Oh we're playing the long list game now are we, ok my turn

2x Liearius pictus
Lithodoras dorsalis
Brachyplatystoma platynemum
Hemisorubim platyrynchos
2x Sorubim lima
Ageneiosus polysticus
Asterophysus batrachus
Micronema bleekeri
2x Hemibagrus punctatus
2x Anaspidoglanis macrostoma
Heteropneustes fossilis
Malapterus microstoma
Cephalosilurus apurensis
Chaca chaca
Salminus brassiliensis
Hydrocynus vittatus
16x Exodon paradoxus
Serrasalmus sanchezi
Cichla monoculus
2x Hoplarchus psittacus
Osteoglossum bicirrhosum
Scleropgaes jardini
2x Potamotrygon motoro
2x Potamotrygon yepezi
Potamotrygon orbygini
Potamotrygon sp "peru"?
2x Channa gachua
Parachanna obscura
Lepidosiren paradoxa
Polypterus delhizi
Polypterus ornatipinnis
Electrophorus electricus
Gymnotus sp "tiger"
Oxyeleotris marmoratus
Couis microlepis
Lates microlepis
Chitala blanci
2x Gymnothorax tile
Gymnothorax polyuranodon
Monopterus albus
3x Allenbatrachus grunniens

That covers all my more unusual fish, although some of them are pretty common by oddball keeper standards

The rarest ones are the Gymnothorax polyuranodon, Gymnotus sp "tiger", Lithodoras dorsalis and Malapterus microstoma all of which are hardly ever seen in the hobby.

 

[Colin_T]

I think CFC and I have just ruined it for the rest of you. Sorry

Hey CFC at least i used common names where possible. Its gonna take people months to work out what you kept