Least Favorite fish?

Lol, but come on, you have got to admit that bettas and goldfish are some of the least cared for fish in the world? I mean people keep them in 0.5 gallon bowls! With no heater or filter!!
 

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Ok, let’s not turn this thread into a betta/goldfish keeping thread please & stay on topic.
 

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Well anything bred for severe deformities like those golffish with the big eyes.

A lot of people are saying they don't like dwarf gouramis but my male does quite well in my hospital tank. I don't expect him to live long though as he usually starts to eat anybody who doesn't make it.
But he is good at cleaning up still born baby mollies from the bottom of the breeder tank. He just sucks them through the slots some how. Weirs
 
Shrimp you say? How's this for a shrimp?
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wow! scary photos! I'm not crazy on shrimps, just got a couple to help keep the tank clean. Twice I thought they were dead when I saw what looked like a husk of a body floating around the tank. I was quite startled when I saw them again, thought to myself maybe they had turned into zombie shrimp! lol on learning that they shed their skin I found it quite gross to be honest. No, definitely not a fan I'm afraid.

Dyed or painted, no. But they are genetically modified with jellyfish genes to get the "Glo"
I actually find it quite interesting that they were created to help detect water pollution
Dwarf Gouramis have a bad rap because of how disease prone they are since they're overbred and poorly bred. Hence the name dwarf gourami disease
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why is it I always find these things out after I've purchased the fish? Oh well so far so good. fingers crossed, maybe I'll be lucky.
 

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i'm not a fan of this thread tbh but I just saw a video of a short-bodied arowana on instagram and I am reminded how much I hate it
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Was he bred specifically to be like that or was it a cull that wasn't culled. If it was purposely bred then who actually decides that this would be a good idea?
wow! scary photos! I'm not crazy on shrimps, just got a couple to help keep the tank clean. Twice I thought they were dead when I saw what looked like a husk of a body floating around the tank. I was quite startled when I saw them again, thought to myself maybe they had turned into zombie shrimp! lol on learning that they shed their skin I found it quite gross to be honest. No, definitely not a fan I'm afraid.
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I can definitely see why people don't like him. I'm a big fan though. I'm used to shrimp having clear molts, this guys molt still had all the colour and such. I suspected his first molt was actually a molt as the back was busted open, but he was nowhere to be seen. A huge 5.3 inch shrimp vanished somewhere in my tank and I still don't know where he managed to hide. He was gone for a while so I started to think he actually had died and it wasn't a molt. Then one day I stolled in and he was like this. It's like he's waving at me like "Surprise!! I gotcha good! You should really see the look on your face!!"
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Two words: Tiger. Barbs.
I was a kid when my dad had them in our community tank and they would constantly hog food and harass other fish to death. Within a few weeks, no other fish would be left but those striped a-holes swarming around the tank demanding more food. They aren't even that pretty!! I would literally sit there and wonder when these fish would die (as terrible as that sounds) so we could actually add fish that were bearable. Yeah I've grown and matured so I can give them another chance, but if I ever own these fish again, I'm making it a species only tank with all the color morphs. They should not be sold as community fish in my opinion...
 
I guess I'm just too old-fashioned. The thing I like about aquariums is that they bring a piece of nature into your home; better yet, it's a part of nature that is not normally directly visible, except from above.

So...my list of unliked fish is long, and getting longer every day. Fancy goldfish, fancy guppies...essentially all the fish that some designer decided to "improve" upon. Fish bred for colour, like various colour varieties of swordtails or platies, are bad enough; long-finned varieties are worse; and I always thought that the ultimate affront to nature was the horribly warped and distorted bodies of balloon mollies, fancy goldfish and other misshapen monstrosities like that "short-bodied arowana".

Then, many years ago, they started to paint/dye glassfish, and a new height of cruel vanity was reached. That had to be the worst...right?

Nope! Today we have hybrids like parrot cichlids; stuff that looks like it belongs in a jar of formaldehyde on the shelf behind a mad scientist in a straight-to-video horror movie.

And now...ta daaa!!! GMO Black Skirt Tetras...oops, sorry: "Glofish"! Designed for a legitimate environmental-protection purpose, until some greedy jerk decides there's money to be made selling them to fashion-conscious aquarists. It's incredible: this species was once referred to as the Black Widow Tetra, but that was too harsh-sounding for the delicate sensibilities of the modern world, so it was changed to Black Skirt Tetra. Sticks and stones can still break bones...words can now hurt us too...but we will do anything to a living creature if a salesman can convince us that it is cool. And now, we not only mistreat these critters throughout their lives, but we actually start mistreating them before they are even conceived and born.

The more people I meet...the more I love my dog...
 
I guess I'm just too old-fashioned. The thing I like about aquariums is that they bring a piece of nature into your home; better yet, it's a part of nature that is not normally directly visible, except from above.

So...my list of unliked fish is long, and getting longer every day. Fancy goldfish, fancy guppies...essentially all the fish that some designer decided to "improve" upon. Fish bred for colour, like various colour varieties of swordtails or platies, are bad enough; long-finned varieties are worse; and I always thought that the ultimate affront to nature was the horribly warped and distorted bodies of balloon mollies, fancy goldfish and other misshapen monstrosities like that "short-bodied arowana".

Then, many years ago, they started to paint/dye glassfish, and a new height of cruel vanity was reached. That had to be the worst...right?

Nope! Today we have hybrids like parrot cichlids; stuff that looks like it belongs in a jar of formaldehyde on the shelf behind a mad scientist in a straight-to-video horror movie.

And now...ta daaa!!! GMO Black Skirt Tetras...oops, sorry: "Glofish"! Designed for a legitimate environmental-protection purpose, until some greedy jerk decides there's money to be made selling them to fashion-conscious aquarists. It's incredible: this species was once referred to as the Black Widow Tetra, but that was too harsh-sounding for the delicate sensibilities of the modern world, so it was changed to Black Skirt Tetra. Sticks and stones can still break bones...words can now hurt us too...but we will do anything to a living creature if a salesman can convince us that it is cool. And now, we not only mistreat these critters throughout their lives, but we actually start mistreating them before they are even conceived and born.

The more people I meet...the more I love my dog...
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What environmental purpose were glofish designed for? I’ve never heard that before.
 

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What environmental purpose were glofish designed for? I’ve never heard that before.
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The first glofish...zebra danios, I think?...were developed to detect environmental toxins, which caused them to fluoresce or "glow". They were a modern-day, high-tech version of the original canary-in-the-coal-mine.
 
Was he bred specifically to be like that or was it a cull that wasn't culled. If it was purposely bred then who actually decides that this would be a good idea?
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oh yeah, they're definitely being bred like this, like many other short-bodied fish. this isn't the first one i've seen. i'm already not a fan of arowana, but this is just an abomination lol
 
oh yeah, they're definitely being bred like this, like many other short-bodied fish. this isn't the first one i've seen. i'm already not a fan of arowana, but this is just an abomination lol
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I really don't see how people find fish like that appealing enough to breed, sell and buy. It just seems so crazy to me.
 
wow! scary photos! I'm not crazy on shrimps, just got a couple to help keep the tank clean. Twice I thought they were dead when I saw what looked like a husk of a body floating around the tank. I was quite startled when I saw them again, thought to myself maybe they had turned into zombie shrimp! lol on learning that they shed their skin I found it quite gross to be honest. No, definitely not a fan I'm afraid.
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I used to not like snails, my friend had Saltwater snails and when he tied to move them they'd grab on and stretch their snail bodies, it was so gross. I used to think shrimp looked like little insects. But now I love my nerite snails and shrimp. The only thing that freaks me out is how amano shrimp try to climb right out the acclimation bag. But I love them in my tank because my angels don't hurt them and they've been around for 4 years now. I got them from someone else too, so they can live a long time. I also love my bamboo shrimp with his little net paws. He's 3 inches long now!
 
I’d have to agree with Glofish, cories, mollies, and platies. The first is so unnatural, the second I just personally dislike, and the last two because they are waste and baby machines. Swordtails I don’t really like either, but there might be a color morph out there that makes me not mind the waste so much.
 
Definitely guppies. Never had them, but I definitely don't want to ever. My friend has them, and the females are always gravid. They constantly breed, there's so much inbreeding and it results in deformity, and so many of the fry just end up getting eaten. The ones that don't just perpetuate the cycle.
 
Me either, but I only have one nerite.
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I only have one and she has been moved to the nursery tank. Eggs galore, everywhere. Nothing short of scrubbing the tank with a Brillo pad will do the job. Off the display for her.
 
"Glofish" are merely affectations catering to kids. Polished up, so the helpless parents will purchase them for the kids. Nothing more...nothing less. Sad...
 

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