What Are Your Top 10 Tropical Fish

[karigupi]

I need lots of suggestions please guys, I picked up my new tank this morning, its very pretty & bigger than I thought it would be, its all scrubbed & filled & gorgeous now. But I have no idea what I want to put in it!

Whilst it cycles i'd like to decide on my fish so that I can landscape it appropriately

I feel I am so spoilt for choice, every fish I see, I want, everytime I see someones gorgeous piccies I want one of theirs.

I was wondering if people fancy listing their top10 fish for me, so I can look at them all, then possibly sort myself a shortlist.

i'm off to Maidenhead Aq in Peterborough tomorrow for a big window shopping session & it would help if I could get my first draft list together. My water is hard & ph is 7.8, so any pointers for fish happy in those conditions much appreciated.

in my top 10 at the moment would be:

1: Dwarf Puffers cause they are so darned cute & dont need a huge tank.
2: Corydora Catfish, very sweet fish
3: Fancy tailed male guppies
4: South American Puffers
5: Angel Fish- know little about, but they are stunning
6: Dwarf Snakehead, I love these so much, but I dont think the lid on my new tank is escape proof enough
7: Betta, love them, the males are stunning & I plan to have one in his own tank soon & maybe breed once I am clued up.
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[OscarWilde]

1: Oscars - Intelligent
2: Redclaw Crayfish (if that counts) - Constant Entertainment
3: Gold Severum - Best colour of all freswater tropicals IMO
4: Plecs - Love watching them eat.
5: Kribensis - Breeding
6: JD - Cocky as hell.
7: Silver Dollars - Eat like Pacman
8: Platys - Cause they look so stupid plus amazing colours.
9: Green Terrors - Look great.
10: Neons Tetras. - Best Shoal.

 

[england]

hehe shall not say what's my favourite, what type of lid do you have?usually easy to make a tank channa proof

 

[minxfishy]

My top 10 (which may or may not be suitable as I dont know the tank size)

1. Severums
2. Boesemani Rainbowfish
3. Lacustris rainbowfish
4. Oscars
5. T.Aureus
6. Senegal Birchir
7. Texas Cichlid
8. T. Eliotti
9. Black Ghost knife fish
10. Corydoras

 

[markandhisfish]

mine are

the cichlids

1 severums
2 blue acara
3 sajica
4 geophagus surinamensis
5 t elliotti
6 firemouth
7 electric blue jack dempsey
8 green terror
9 kribs
10 texas cichlid

altho i could gve yo a list as long as your arm there are just so many

the non-cichlids

1 pearl gourami
2 galaxy rasbora
3 any rainbow fish
4 corys
5 red tailed black shark
6 tiger barb
7 golden nugget plec
8 cardinal tetras ( look amazing in a massive shoal)
9 odessa barbs
10 blue gourami

 

[england]

1: Oscars
2: channa
3: barb's
4: dollar's
5: south/central american cichlid's all/cichla/
6: arowana's
7: tiger shovenose/redtailed catfish/colombian catfish/ripsaw catfish/Cephalosilurus apurensis....monster catfish
8: birchir's
9: madagascan cichlid's
10: other oddball's

 

[shelaghfishface]

i dont have 10 faves

1. oscars
2.clown loaches
3.angel fish




sorry off topic but did anyone just watch life on earth... mollies living in caves with water that is full of sulphuric acid.... mad

 

[snowflake311]

Bristle nose pleco
Keyhole cichlids
Bettas
Blue acara
Rams
Jack dempsy
Pepper cory cats
Clown pleco
Discus ( never had them but they are so pretty)
Black skirt tetra

 

[azzaknight]

1 german rams
2 discus
3 corys
4 neons
5 angels
6 cardinals
7 plecs
8 african cichilds
9...
10...

 

[AdAndrews]

1) dwarf puffers
2) african cichlids
3)new world cichlids
4) other pufferfish
5) plec's
6) oscars
7) rainbows
8)angels
9)otto's
10)black neon tetras

 

[Liam50]

my top 10 are;
1. syno brichardi - its like a under water lizard!
2. flash pleco - the sand hop he does
3. t ellioti - just an awesome cichlid , looks amazing and pretty good temperament
4. galaxy pleco- the way she eats shrimp
5. blue acara - the hungry dance (the way he shakes his head when i'm about to feed)
6. clown loaches the most social fish
7. pearl catfish the coolest barbs ever
8. red tail shark - a cool customer
9. oscar - the look they give
10. weather loach - captain crazy!!!!!

 

[casper_mit]

1. Bristlenose plecs
2. elephant nose fish (so interesting looking)
3. Guppies (nothing better than fish that breed)
4. clown loach
5. Angelfish
6. Black Widow tetra (very stylish and hardy)
7. Yoyo loach
8. Black ghost knife fish
9. Pearl gourami
10. bettas

Although ive never looked into keeping many cichlid species, and it must be said that they are amoung the most stunning. Let us know what you go with as im trying to make the same decision.

 

[greenscooby]

I haven't got a top ten either, i'm still learning so much, but my faves have got to be

My Glowlites and my BN.

Mark.

 

[pippoodle]

my fav fish some i havent kept some i have

all corys - i got 14 different types at the moment and they are wonderful fish
honey gourami
betta
bn plec
dwarf gourami
Limia - humpback (brilliant live bearer like the shape of the males)
german ram - blue , golden and balloon
bolivian ram
oscars
WCMminnows - and their varietys , long fin golden etc (lovely simple hardy fish)

ALSO always nice to have some dwarf shrimp scurrying around the tank

 

[star4]

My Top 10

Tiger barbs
Common plec
Pictus catfish
red tailed shark (naughty but nice)
Rams
Kribs
Gouramis
Angels
Flying fox
Frontosa