One Fish You Would Love To Keep But Can’t?

[SmallFishGuy]

For me I think it would have to be an Oscar but I don’t have the room to keep one, just interested in what people say

 

[Donnerjay]

Clown loach.

 

[Danjamesdixon]

Discus!

 

[snowballPLECO]

Flowerhorn, not experienced enough yet

 

[Kyleena696]

1. Black Ghost Knifefish
2. Red Tailed Shark
3. Gold Nugget Pleco

I'm slowly building up my "most wanted fish list" haha.

 

[SmallFishGuy]

1. Black Ghost Knifefish
2. Red Tailed Shark
3. Gold Nugget Pleco

I'm slowly building up my "most wanted fish list" haha.

I have a rainbow shark, I wanted a red tail but they’re more aggressive supposedly so I decided on rainbow and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made!

 

[GuppyGuy007]

Discus
Angelfish
Multifasciatus
Similis
Many more.
I wish I could have bigger than a 29 Gallon Tank. And I wish I had put sand in it when I started.

 

[Fashooga]

A mermaid...that would be so cool...

 

[Ms rose]

a flower horn for sure. not expirienced enough and don't have proper tank size....YET... lol. also really like all salt water fish and inverts but again, not expirienced enough, some day

 

[sierrah766]

I really want a blood parrot

 

[Dawn Michele]

Snowflake eel

 

[Fahn]

Longear sunfish. I don't have the space for a large tank but would love a school of them in a tank heavily planted with native water plants.

My second choice would be freshwater stingrays. Again, not a big enough tank...

 

[Mazeus]

One of the big puffer fish like a Fahaka or a Mbu.

 

[goldface]

Magikarp

 

[CloudTheFluffy]

Black ghost knife
Flowerhorn
No money for a big enough tank and equipment for them. Maybe one day.

 

[Ms rose]

A mermaid...that would be so cool...

this is the best answer yet ahahaha iv been laughing for 10 mis about this lol

 

[Little John]

a big fish with lots of personality

 

[Discus-Tang]

Discus
Flowerhorn
MalawI cichlids
Angelfish
1000 rummynose tetras
Black ghost knife
Clownfish
Mandarin goby

 

[Seth15]

For me it would have to be freshwater stingrays, unfortunately they are illegal to own in the state I live in.

 

[DutchAquarium]

differnt species of freshwater pipefish, i've checked the Enneacampus ansorgiI species of the list already.

 

[Crafty Cichlid]

Barreleye

 

[SKYE.__.HIGH]

Clownfish and wild caught blue green discus

 

[Smalltownfishfriend]

Discuss... Not experience enough!!

 

[DutchAquarium]

Discuss... Not experience enough!!

I would give them a shot. They aren't as hard as many make them out to be. I think they got that reputation due to wilds which are much more prone to disease. The domestics aren't bad as long as you keep parameters stable. you can even keep them in hard water as long as you don't have swings.

 

[Fahn]

Just remembered something else I'd like to keep, and I'm going the opposite trend of big.

Metallic purple shrimp. These Caridina shrimp are beautiful... and $500 each. I'll never be able to afford a breeding pair lol

 

[Kyleena696]

Just remembered something else I'd like to keep, and I'm going the opposite trend of big.

Metallic purple shrimp. These Caridina shrimp are beautiful... and $500 each. I'll never be able to afford a breeding pair lol

Uggggh, thanks for showing me another purple invertebrate I won't be able to have I've been trying for a year to find some purple mystery snails. Seriously though, those are some gorgeous shrimp!

 

[seth rodgers]

Arrowana

 

[Neutral-Waterinos]

Peacock cichlids endler guppies gouramis and Mexican dwarf crayfish

 

[Thunder_o_b]

Discus.

 

[Dch48]

Queen Angel or Copper Banded Butterfly

 

[coderedjulia]

The fish from Finding Nemo lol. Yellow and blue tangs are beautiful. And the clownfish. All in a saltwater reef tank. I’m not very experienced. And I know nothing about saltwater tanks. I heard that getting a blue tang is not a good idea. Yellow tangs seem to be very common though so I would probably get one of those if I had more experience. I’ll stick to my tetra glofish and freshwater tank for now.

 

[m.b]

black ghost knife, bichir, and snowflake eels are what I want right now but i'm nowhere near experienced enough for these fish haha

 

[Colt Frost]

Probably, Giant gourami, or Discus.

 

[Wobbegong]

Blue gularis killifish, I can't find any in stock.

 

[Cardeater]

One of the big puffer fish like a Fahaka or a Mbu.

I love the Mbu puffer after watching Cory feed Murphy on his YouTube channel. The Mbu look like they are smiling to me bc of the way the beak is shaped. The way the bite the clamshells is super cool.

I could see myself getting a big enough tank. Cory said in a stream that the Marineland DD 300 is what he considers the minimum tank for one. I just couldn't see myself spending the $10 a day in food. Plus, I'd rather have a large community tank featuring clown Loaches in a 300g , if I got one.

Edit:
I swear I'm not copying Cory, lol, but clown Loaches happen to be my favorite fish. I love mine. Mbu is probably second even though I'll likely never have one.

 

[GuppyGuy007]

Now that I think of it,
I will add Fundulopanchax Gardneri, because none of my fish stores have ever cotton them in.

 

[Kyleena696]

Another fish I'd love to keep but will probably not be able to are the zebra glofish.

 

[Cander]

Flowerhorn

 

[DarkOne]

Silver Arowana.
School of Clown Loaches.

I had a silver arowana 30 yrs ago. I bought it at 3" and grew it out in a 30 gallon community. Moved him to a 55 gallon until he was just over 12" and gave him back to the LFS when I read in a book how big they get. I loved watching him glide back and forth in the 55g.

 

[J.Ho]

Rivulus HartiI or a couple of Gulper Catfish.

The Gulpers look like they are basically Fish Pugs, and watching their happy dance and somersaults when they are hand fed or eat fish pieces is adorable.

 

[FlipFlopFishFlake]

Asian arowana, a gulper catfish (they eat fish that are almost the same size as them) a doviI cichlid, giant gourami.

 

[OscarHoya]

Oscar! Yeah, the norm for many people but my 55 gallon is too small. I'm hoping to build an acrylic 120 gallon tank that would allow me to have one. They just have so much character.

 

[wolfdog01]

Lionfish and/or Nautilus
Maybe a Basking shark...or a Whale shark...

 

[Mazeus]

I love the Mbu puffer after watching Cory feed Murphy on his YouTube channel. The Mbu look like they are smiling to me bc of the way the beak is shaped. The way the bite the clamshells is super cool.

I could see myself getting a big enough tank. Cory said in a stream that the Marineland DD 300 is what he considers the minimum tank for one. I just couldn't see myself spending the $10 a day in food. Plus, I'd rather have a large community tank featuring clown Loaches in a 300g , if I got one.

Edit:
I swear I'm not copying Cory, lol, but clown Loaches happen to be my favorite fish. I love mine. Mbu is probably second even though I'll likely never have one.

Yeah, I love the Murphy cam. They just seem like underwater puppies. So personable.

 

[Kristian Acevedo]

Grade 1 Super Red Arrowana, too bad i’m not a millionaire

 

[SmallFishGuy]

Another thing I would love to have is a huge school of neon tetra, I remember having some as a kid, well my mum did in a tank she had and they were just my favourite fish

 

[Zoomo]

1. Axolotl, not really a fish, but required pretty cold water I do not think I can maintain through the summer.
2. Tiny puffer fish, prefer the saltwater bigger kind but the fresh are cute too. Might some day get tiny puffers if I ever get more room. Have to research their care more too.

 

[Ms rose]

Ok you guys, who here wants but knows how hard it is, to keep..... jelly fish? I just watched a ton of youtube vids on them and I'm fasinated, but its to much work I think. What do you all think about jellys?

 

[CanadianFishFan]

100 female betta sorority or a whale....

 

[Fahn]

Ok you guys, who here wants but knows how hard it is, to keep..... jelly fish? I just watched a ton of youtube vids on them and I'm fasinated, but its to much work I think. What do you all think about jellys?

Pristine water kept in the low 60s, gentle circulation to prevent them from touching tank walls or getting stuck in the filter intake, and a micriscopic diet that you need to stay in the water column for filter feeding without raising nitrates.

They're not an easy invert to keep from my understanding.