Whats your favorite fish?

Favorite Fish?

  • Livebearers

    Votes: 10 8.4%

  • Plecos

    Votes: 7 5.9%

  • Cories

    Votes: 13 10.9%

  • Angels

    Votes: 8 6.7%

  • S. American Cichlids

    Votes: 21 17.6%

  • African Cichlids

    Votes: 6 5.0%

  • Loaches

    Votes: 8 6.7%

  • Bettas

    Votes: 17 14.3%

  • Gouramis

    Votes: 8 6.7%

  • Goldfish

    Votes: 5 4.2%

  • Koi

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Tetras

    Votes: 6 5.0%

  • Barbs

    Votes: 6 5.0%

  • Rasboras

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Danios

    Votes: 3 2.5%
  • Total voters
    119
Favorite fish i have never owned - Dovii

Favorite fish i have owned - tough call but going to have to say my Oscar right now
 

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yea my favorite fish was a common goldfish his name was spike and he just passed last month and he was 6 years old. he;d eat everything including fingers and dead fish.

my creature is the rusty crayfish there feisty and cute when there little and get big. and i mean bigger than domesticated crayfish.
 
HI everyone! This thread is dedicated to everyone's favorite fishes so can everyone post their favourite fish that they own and say why they like them. My favorite is Oscar a bristlenose catfish, about 10 months old and was the first fish I have ever owned! He is very shy but when I take photos he always shows off. Oscar is a food hogger o.o and claims the best hidey-holes the minute I put them in. He loves driftwood and was heartbroken to see his old piece be removed (but soon it will be replaced with a different one and he will be overjoyed.)

My favorite, Oscar:
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I don’t have a favorite I love all my children equally
 

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Hey! what are your guys favorite fish, fish you despise fish youd like to own someday, fish you will never own, or fish you dont understand the hype around.

happy fish keeping, Anna
 
I love flowerhorns and oscars but my tanks aren't big enough for either.

I don't understand boeseami rainbow fish, I think they are oddly shaped. Same with pearscale goldfish.

My favorite fish that I have? My female bettas, they have a lot of personality.
 
I like my bettas, don't care for my platies-thats the wife's fish-love watching the snails.

Would love an oscar one day, don't think i could ever dedicate that much tank to just 1 fish, though.

Do love tiger barbs and all sorts of plecos. Got a tank in the works that i will be able to put most of the fish i really want in it, at least.
 
Favorite fish I have now, I would say by dwarf cichlids. got them three weeks ago and they are starting to show their personality.
A fish I don't care for, I would say Plecos. I don't understand them. or they hype around them.

A fish that I want, GBR I would set up a tank just for a group of them..... Someday.....
 
bettas are my favourite for sure and my least favourite would be bubble eye goldfish (I love all the other kinds of goldfish though)
discus and flower horns are also one of my favourites but I do not have a big enough tank yet...
 

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My favorite fish are my Caudopunks.

The fish I would really like to own are some fry from a wild caught type of shell dweller my LFS got in, that apparently is still an unidentified species? Not sure on the details, but the fry are beautiful and I’d love to try to breed them.

I just don’t get rainbow fish, and I will never buy dwarf gouramis.
 
Favorite (yeah, I’m predictable):
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Least Favorite (not fish): Axolotl and dwarf frogs. Not much freaks me out, but they do! :confused:
 
Favourite fish that I have - Pearl gourami.

Fish I despise - Giant danio as I have found them to be quite aggressive that I didn't expect. They killed all my zebra danios, one of my favourite fish.

Fish I like to have one day - denison barb. I will get them as soon I get a bigger tank. If I get a 100+ tank someday, then I will surely have a black ghost knifefish.


Fish I will never own - iridescent catfish, common pleco as I am sure I won't have such large tanks ever to house them. Even if I do, I would like to keep other monster fishes instead of them.

Fishes I don't understand the hype around- goldfish and koi. I don't find goldfish cute once they grow. Also I don't understand why they r so popular as I find many other fishes cuter than goldfish even when they are babies.

I just don't get why kois are so expensive because of their special patterns. Regular kois are priced okay but those are overpriced a lot according to me. I don't understand the hype behind these special patterns. Kois are great and beautiful fish but I literally see no difference between a rare expensive pattern than a regular one. It makes no difference to me how their patterns are. They are beautiful to me all the same.
 
Favorite fish that I have: my Otos. They are seriously amazing fish. I think they're highly underrated as they're always used as some kind of cleaner.
Fish that I don't care for: Mollies as they can usually get pretty aggressive and in my opinion look ugly.
Fish I will never own: I will never own a betta fish. There's a slim chance I might do it someday, but I like schooling fish and I like oddball fish. Preferably with an odd shape and big bug eyes. Please don't hurt me.
Fish I'd like to own someday: This would definitely be a brackish frog fish. Frog fish are almost the pinnacle of weird for me.
Favorite fish: Mudskippers, and especially the blue spotted mudskipper.
Fish I don't understand the hype around: Guppies. People love guppies so much, and I can never grasp their appeal. Perhaps the reason I don't see the appeal of guppies is why I don't see the appeal of bettas.
I hope my opinions didn't offend too many people.
 
Forgot to mention, I don't think balloon (or other short bodied) versions of any fish should exist
 

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I really like peacock gudgeons when they get a little bigger, but today i think i fell in love at my LFS, as they had a green phantom pleco and a vampire pleco in the store!!
 
bettas or peacock cichlids I do not own any cichlids though
here is a pic of my betta poisidon he was in quarintine here he lives in a 4 gallon nowIMG_2780.jpg
 
Today my favorite fish is the Dawkinsia Filamentosa Barb.
I have a dozen of them.
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I don't have any pictures handy, but I vote for pearl gouramis.
 
Those are some great ones! I just made this thread for fun, so let’s keep it going for a while. Just for posting your favorite fish (at the moment I know how it goes) or cool fish you saw and fell in love with or your own fish that you really love. Any fish. Let’s just make this post full of all the fish pictures because fish are why we’re all here!
 

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Angelfish are definitely top 5 for me love those guys
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I havent gotten them yet but I plan on it, and they seem so much fun to have!
 
I havent gotten them yet but I plan on it, and they seem so much fun to have!
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They for sure are! Especially if you have a male and a female. Their mating behaviors are crazy cool IMO
 
My top 2 are creatures I don’t own and probably won’t own:

Mantis shrimp
Goby (I’m addicted to watching videos of them spit sand at each other and other fish....)

And then of course, there’s the anabantoids. Gouramis, bettas, archerfish... I know I’m cheating by lumping these into one
 

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My top 2 are creatures I don’t own and probably won’t own:

Mantis shrimp
Goby (I’m addicted to watching videos of them spit sand at each other and other fish....)

And then of course, there’s the anabantoids. Gouramis, bettas, archerfish... I know I’m cheating by lumping these into one
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The Honey Gourami is awesomeee IMO
 
I don't know why, but you bringing up that Snails are in your top 3 has made me appreciate snails more.
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I love them so much with their little teeth.
 
I love them so much with their little teeth.
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They definitely are pretty cool. I just got one Red Racer Netrite Snail to add to my Black Racer yesterday, and the plants that I got yesterday, also came with some little friends that I still have to ID.
 
Emperor tetra
Corydoras- fav might be pygmys or salt and pepper. I love the looks of other ones like orange lasers and stuff but too expenzive when you have to buy a minimum of 6 $15 dollar fish.
Honey Gourami
 
Emperor tetra
Corydoras- fav might be pygmys or salt and pepper. I love the looks of other ones like orange lasers and stuff but too expenzive when you have to buy a minimum of 6 $15 dollar fish.
Honey Gourami
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Those Orange Laser one's are cool but my LFS sells them for like $20 each. Just can't spend $120 lol.
I have two Honey Gourami's and they are so cool and have such a personality.
 
Those Orange Laser one's are cool but my LFS sells them for like $20 each. Just can't spend $120 lol.
I have two Honey Gourami's and they are so cool and have such a personality.
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Agreed! $120 is way too much for me at least. Also I am going to get Honey's for a 20 gallon I'm settting up, at least 2.
 

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