What Fish Can't You Understand The Appeal Of?

[eschaton]

I think I've seen many threads where people have listed their favorite fish, but very few where people have discussed their "hated" fish. I'm not so much interested in fish like the Chinese Algae Eater, which pretty much everyone understands is a bad fish choice sold to unknowlegeable newbies, but those fish that are massively popular, but you just look at and scratch your head at the appeal of.

As for me, they would have to be:

1. Most fish larger than 4 inches/10 cm - with a few exceptions, like Bichirs, Black Ghost Knives, and Redline Torpedo Barbs
2. Any highly predatory fish you "have to" feed live fish to
3. Cichlids in general - though a few species, like shell-dwellers, Rams, and Apistos, I might try out.
4. Species with laterally compressed bodies, like angels, discus, rainbowfish, and gouramis (also hate marine angelfish and tangs)
5. Species with long, flowing fins like bettas, angels, or any of the long-finned varieties of guppies, danios, corydoras, etc.

 

[Mikaila31]

Hmmmmm. That's a tough question for me. I don't care for common liverbearers or "manmade" fish, with the only exception being my albino and red eye swordtails. I don't like parrot Cichlids, those deformed goldfish, the tankbusters, and most catfish and corys.

 

[Luketendo]

Neon Tetras and Cardinals, you get them home, they go to the bottom, they disappear, they die.

 

[CFC]

Bettas, corys and most small peacefull fish do nothing for me, and a really cannot stand hybrids like flowerhorns and blood parrots.

 

[shroob]

Hybrids especially parrots.
Dyed fish
Peacock bass - I just don't like the look of them and dont get the hype
Fancy gold fish, especially the one with bulging eyes
African rift lake cichlids (not inc. frontosa)

 

[dwarfgourami]

I think I'd have to say bettas too. It's the artificially ornate pet fish that I don't like. Though maybe I could take to female bettas.

Also the very fancy goldfish. Those creepy bubble-eyes...

I also find adult bala sharks quite unattractive.

Finally, if I think about it, Malawi cichlids don't do a lot for me. The kind of fish you see at the perfume counters of department stores.

 

[Azaezl]

Most if not all livebearers, goldfish(I have 2 but they were a gift, never ever have them again!), angels, most tetras, I don't like plecs anymore I think they are pretty/interesting but create far too much mess, rtbs, gouramis & piranhas, that's off the top of my head, I'm sure if I was walking around a fish shop I could add alot more to that list.

 

[merry78]

-barbs, especially tiger barbs, (imo, boring colours, and fin munchers)

-and giant gouramis (boring colours).

-any large cichlid that is not highly/brightly coloured- why go to all the effort of keeping a huge, often aggressive fish (like oscars, bleagh!), if it's not even nice to look at? personality will only get you so far.......


just re-read that and realised how shallow it sounds......oh, well, can't help being mostly keen on pretty fish.

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Hmmm, There are a lot of fish that dont appeal to me enough that I want to keep them but there are many that I truely dislike completely.

I really dont like dyed or grossly hybrid fish (like "fancy" goldfish).

Fish I wouldnt want to keep (mainly for no specific reason):
Most live bearers (guppies, molleys, etc).
Most very large fish (I'm one of these people that mainly prefer a shoal of 20 fish to 1 big one).
Arowana - I REALLY didnt get these fish until I saw the video in CFC's massive tank building journal. After seeing it swimming around in such a big tank I suddenly saw how cool these fish actually are.

Thats about it really and there are exceptions to the above (I love discuss and Angel fish which I class as large fish).

Neon Tetras and Cardinals, you get them home, they go to the bottom, they disappear, they die.

Either there is something very wrong with your tank or your LFS sucks. I have had neon and cardinal tetras that have lived for years.

 

[devon_charm]

Parrot fish. I mean really now i have never seen any thing uglier but each to there own. I pretty much like most other fish there are lots i would never have due to space time ect

 

[TylerFerretLord]

There isn't a fish out there I wouldn't try to to keep(other than dyed fish, but I would keep the undyed versions) if I had the money for all the tanks.

I really wish I could afford the pond to keep iridessent sharks, something most of you are probably bewildered about right now.

 

[PRW1988]

Tetras in general... Why does everybody have them?

 

[Dorkhedeos]

i would say flowerhorns and any other fish with a bump on their head.

 

[SJ2K]

Arowana and other such fish which just swim back and forward all day eating anything in an empty tank.

 

[invader]

Blood parrots... why, why, why?