Sabi

What type of fish do dislike most?
Me? Danios. They drove my fish (and me) nuts when i had to keep them for a week!!!
And neons.

darkwolf29a

I'm not a fan of Platies and mollies. Why?? I can't really say, honestly. They just don't strike my fancy.

I tend to like more interesting fish, i.e. fish with lots of color (Bettas or guppies), interesting characteristics (crayfish, oscars, etc.), or an interesting mix.

To be honest, if you look at the amount of tanks my girlfriend and I have, 6, we have very few fish for that amount of water. 2 bettas (seperate tanks- 2.5 and 5 gallon), 1 pleco and 1 oscar (55 gallon), 3 tiger barbs 1 cray and 1 tetra (20 gallon), with a 3 crab 10 gallon tank and a 10 gallon guppy tank...both under construction. That's not a lot of fish per gallon. LOL I guess, we just like oddball fish.

capekate

lol...
well.. I can name a few that I have never had that I dont like. One is the sucker fish that hangs by its mouth on the side of the tank, UGLY! lol.. I dont care for the hatchetfish either.... BUT ya know what they say.. " beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...

Newtankdude

Mine isn't freshwater, but my yellowtail damsel is my worst fish...it picks on everything.
The worst SW fish to have would be a bannerfish! They barely last one week in captivity!

Sabi

well my sis insisted on buying neons yesterday and now they are becoming snacks for the gouramis and angels! huh...

zeddy

my wife got 1 little orange barb and it pics on everything

COBettaCouple

I'd have to say pirahnas.

armadillo

Mmmm. I really don't like neons that much, and if I'm allowed a non-fish vote, then I'll go for African dwarf frogs. They're disgusting.

Am the same as you about guppies (obviously not about mollies!). It's great that your tanks are not overstocked.
Like oddball fish? Sounds like my boyfriend. His latest planned setup is dwarf puffers/ghost shrimp/African dwarf frogs/upside down catfish/zebra otos. Mmmmh.

sick-lid boy

I don't really like common plecos all that much. Probably more of the fault of fish stores for recommending and selling them to anyone who asks for a tank-cleaning fish than the fish itself. But also because there's just not too much for me to like about them..

• kinda ugly and... um.... common.
• They're referred top as 'common plecos, but you need an uncommonly large tank to put them in.
• Most fish stores have dozens and dozens of them, and try and sell them to anyone
• IMO, they don't even clean the tank very well
• there's just nothing about them that makes me look at them and go, "OOO, COOL FISH!!"

Give me a couple corys and/or ottos any day over a common pleco.

armadillo

Oooh, funny. I find cories and otos not that interesting and common plecos fascinating. I have otos now, and I had common plecos. Ah well, tastes will differ.

I totally agree with fish stores overselling their algae eating skills! Most will stop eating algae as adults, and produce stupid amounts of waste.

sick-lid boy

Ottos are kinda personalityless, I must agree, but they are AWESOME tank-cleaners.

But how you can not like corys?!?!? Corys are one of my favorite fish to watch. I love those little guys!!

armadillo

Hey, am the biggest molly lover, so each to their own, uh. Cories just don't do it for me.

Otos are an awesome cleaning crew, totally!

Tom

I would have to say my worst fish was a pair of marble hatchetfish. They were not with me for very long since they need to have all this special care and got them when I started.
Tom

Sabi

hey i like corys too! cut lil chaps!

armadillo

I guess am the only person in the world who isn't that keen on cory's. Am like the chocolate hater of the fishworld!

COBettaCouple

i love the corys too, but i didn't know there was a chocolate one... a chocolate pleco yea, but a chocolate cory?! wow, where'd you find one... :P

armadillo

HO-nes-tly!

Jim

Oh, I have a good one. Back years ago, when I had my Oscar, I caught a small, wild Bluegilll (sunfish) in a net while I fishing. Maybe 4" or so, I decided to see if it would live, so I threw it in the tank with my oscar.
Let me tell you, not only did it do fine, it was just as tough as my oscar, and 3 times as agressive. In no time it had doubled in size, and was starting to really fight with the oscar. I finally took it back to the pond and let it go, for fear it would kill my Oscar before long. What a mean, mean fish! If anyone out there likes really aggressive fish, try it sometime, you'd love a school of these..

chris2

I started my SW FOWLR tank a few months ago and quickly found out that damsels are the worst ever. When I had my freshwater though, it was my oscars. I loved them and had 2 albinos in a 55g. They eventually got to be about a foot long each, and went blind with age. I had to hand feed them and hated every minute of it. It eventually got to be too much after 6 years and I gave them to my LFS.

wolfman21

its not that I hate neons, its just that they die so stinking fast which really annoys me.

timg

Definitely piranhas! I hate them with a passion, especially the sick people who own them and post videos of them pulling creatures apart! BTW, I don't mean all people who own them, some are very sensible and caring people.

Allie

I am not a fan of cories either. We had bronzed & peppered...They were too sketchy and nervous for me.

I don't like dwarf gouramis...I had 3 males. They were mean and no fun...they were always fighting to the point of injury. I realize now that 3 males shouldn't have been together.

COBettaCouple

yea, i'm with you timandkaren.. there are good piranha owners, but for the sick, twisted people who enjoy animal cruelty and posting vids of it, that seems to be the fish of choice.

Barbrella

I like looking at all fish, but personally don't want any livebearers, or as I call them - swimming mouths/fry factories.

Marc

Probably Pictus Cats. Ate my guppies when they were hardly the size of my pinky and were next to impossible to catch. I ended up scooping them up when they swam into flower pots. Took me almost an hour to catch both. I had them for probably 2 months - bought them small for $6 each at Wal-Mart, sold them for $25 to the petshop when they were about pickle sized 2 months later. They ate very, very well.

Wolfgang8810

i got tiger barbs when i frist started and i hate them now they never get along but when wone kicks it my blue crayfish gets lunch. yay darwin.

Allie

They are very boring compared to other fish. I wish my bf didn't like them so much. I feel that the 120g is being wated with the baby reds in it. That is all that can go in the tank...so no plecos = too much algae.

Wolfgang8810

well another one of my tiger barbs wandered too close to pinchesses claws and met her maker i was putting shrimp pellets in for my crayfish and one of the barbs follored it down and whap pinchess isnt eating shrimp pellets tonight. i think i hate my blue crayfish!

TheEssigs

I dont care for fish that hide and only come out in the dark. We bought a raphael catfish, who BTW is stunning to see... if you ever get to see him that is... he was $12 bucks, and unless I drop an algae tab and sit there in the tatal darkness with a flashlight, I never see him.

Jynx

Normally I love Tetra's, but my son got a Blind Cave Tetra... and it's making me say NEVER AGAIN! The thing has no eyes and it seems to nip everyone's fins. I know it's not his/her fault it doesn't have eyes... but it's an all around obnoxious fish. And it bit me yesterday during a tank cleaning. I've had other ones come and nibble, but this sorta hurt.

~Jynx