Favorite Oddball

[tahneen]

whats your favorite oddball that can fit in a tank of 100g or ess, so that means no aro or rays!
mine would have to be rope fish and sennys!
they're just so darn cute

 

[Marine/Freshwater?]

Freshwater Moray (Gymnothorax tile).

 

[Colin_T]

Dumpling Squid

A small species of cephlapod that is not quite a squid but not quite a cuttlefish. They are small and only grow to about the size of a golfball. They hide in the gravel during the day and come out at night to feed. They eat small shrimp and will catch as many as they can. I would put a stack of shrimp in the tank with my little squid and she would suddenly come up out of the gravel and start swatting shrimp with each arm. She would have 4 or 5 shrimp and start eating them one after the other. Sometimes she would shoot her arms out to catch the shrimp but miss and she would be stuck to the glass. Then you could see her pulling each arm away and imagine hearing her suckers popping off one at a time.

 

[tahneen]

colin Im guessing this is a marine animal and if so whats your fav FW oddball?

 

[Esfa]

I agree on reedfish!

 

[Colin_T]

favourite FW oddball would be the Salamanderfish from the sw of WA.

The only fish in the world that can move its head seperately from its body. It has a bony ridge on each side of its head for burrowing into the mud and it aestivates for 6 months of the year because the water ways that it occurs in dry up during summer.
It's not a very colourful fish, being primarily brown and blotched with darker patches, but it is kind of cool because it is so different. It's also a really old type of fish, been around since the dinosaurs.

 

[tahneen]

have you ever seen one of these salamanderfish in a lfs
they sound cool!

 

[T1KARMANN]

dat pulcher

 

[Colin_T]

no salamanderfish available in shops. You have to go bush and catch your own. And most people don't want to travel hundreds of kms into the middle of nowhere to collect a tiny little fish during the middle of winter. Walking through snake infested bushland with tics, scorpions and spiders and no mobile phone reception so if you get in trouble you are on your own. It's nice down there tho. Peaceful and clean.
Their scientific name is Lepidogalaxias salamandroides. If you google it you will find a bit of info on it.

 

[invader]

any bichir is good enough for me

 

[shroob]

erythrinus erythrinus (rainbow wolffish), they certainly don't require a tank of 100 gallons, I would say minimum would be a 36x12 footprint.

Though if I had a 100 gallon tank, and had to stock it with 1 type of oddball fish, it would probably be my indo dat (got them hand feeding now ).

 

[Straydum]

any bichir is good enough for me

i second that not to mention the spiney eel species as well

 

[simonas]

my reedfish are pretty damn good and fit in a 100g tank

is 100g too small for a fire eel, if not then thats my favourite

 

[Colin_T]

a fire eel will be fine in a 100g

 

[Davo86]

Either Reeds or a BGK