Dream Fish

Subject: Dream Fish Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:40 am

It's too quiet in here so I figured I'd start a fun thread. Is there any one fish that you have always wanted to keep and haven't? Or any fish that you have kept in the past and it is your dream to get another one some day?

For me it would have to be clown loaches. I know it's not a huge dream so to speak but I would just love to have a huge tank with a nice group of 30 to 40 clown loaches where they would have plenty of room to growout and eventually get huge. I just think that watching some big loaches roll around and play in a big tank would be pretty cool.

See it's easy...OK now it's your turn let me know what your dream tank or dream fish are!!

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

For fish that I've had before here, and if I had the free tank space, I think I'd like to keep another Channa Micropeltes. The one that was here for a short time had so damn much personality, that it was really hard to not like it.

On the completely opposite end of the spectrum, another fish I'd like at some point is Celestichthys margaritatus. I'm not sure what the appeal is with them for me, but I really like them.

On the turtle end of things, there's Carettochelys insculpta and Geochelone gigantea. It's entirely personality based for both of them. Sweet, friendly outgoing, but both are pretty beefy. Well one is kinda beefy, the other is absolutely massive.

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Wed Apr 21, 2010 5:46 pm

Would love to keep a pair of Feaste (red terrors). Also would like to keep a huge tank full of red belly Piranha.

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Wed Apr 21, 2010 7:17 pm

Wants that I've never kept:

Iranian cichlid (Iranocichla hormuzensis), a breeding colony in a tank.

Altum angelfish (Pterophyllum altum) in a nice planted, Orinoco River biotope tank.

Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), flathead catfish (Pylodictis olivaris), red tail catfish (Phractocephalus hemioliopterus), arapaima (Arapaima gigas) and piraiba (Brachyplatystoma filamentosum), in a nice-sized tank... Wink

Blasts from the past that I want again:

Cupid cichlid (Biotodoma cupido), in a well-planted tank. Never could entice 'em to breed, plan on it this time, everything I've read says it's difficult, that water quality has to be perfect.

White-cheeked moray eel (Echidna rhodochilus) in a brackish tank. Compact size, attractive color and moray charcter in one nice 12" package.

WYite

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:26 pm

If i had a nice size tank i would like to try an aro, some wants would be some betta channoides or macrostmasta

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Thu Apr 22, 2010 11:28 pm

My dream fish is a flowerhorn. I just think they are awesome.

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:13 am

Well let's see, I've done Cichlids both New World and African, They were enjoyable but wouldn't do it again. My very first tank was a FOWLR in about 1962 or 63 started with seahorses bought out of the back of a magazine and later reef tanks so I've been though the whole saltwater thing. I think what I would like to try most would be Killies or maybe a good size Florida native tank

Rick

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

You could always go with one good size native and have a Florida gar. Smile

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:09 am

Some great ideas!! SF, what did you feed the snake head?

I would also love to have a native tank some day with some bass, trout, sunnies, etc...

Anyone else want to share their dream? There is no wrong answer Wink

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

The snakehead was not picky. Kinda unobservant, so if the food sunk to the bottom it have trouble finding it, but would happily eat meaty things off tongs, or live fish. One of it's favorites was boiled chicken giblets. It would go absolutely nuts for them.

Oddly enough the snapping turtle here feels the same way about giblets too. Smile

Tina: You should check out what they're calling Titanium Flowerhorn. They're supposedly not as violent as some of the pearl/dragon whatever combos. They're white almost chrome, with a blue tint, and are the only FH I've almost actually spent money on.

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:22 pm

I would love to have a Snakehead or two

The Turtle Whisperer Posts : 1930

You wouldn't want two. Not in the same tank anyhow. Smile

Oh yea, you can add to my list: At some point I'm going to set up a salt tank and have a porcupine puffer. SW Batfish are pretty nifty too, but I hear they make discus look near indestructible.

Subject: Re: Dream Fish Sun May 02, 2010 12:12 am

I'd like another angelfish as laid back and smart as the one I had. It was an awesome pet.

Honestly I'm into watching behavior, so perhaps a big tank with a group of swordtails with the males sparring across the tank.

or a good size tank with sand and a colony of shell dwellers that like to do their own landscaping.

Or a small cichlid that surface or pit nests and herds their fry around a sizable tank.

I guess I just like small fish in spacious accomodations doing their jiggy thing.