I know I spend about 16 hours a week just cleaning the tanks and pumps and doing maintenance on whichever pump is giving me problems this week (that's for another thread). Then probably 2-4 hours just watching them. I do have a favorite tank but it's close- there is something I love about each one - usually a particular fish or group of fishes. My favorite tank has 4 Gold Dojo Loaches and they are the comedians of the fish world - shooting themselves off the top of a bubble column, swimming laps (while everybody scrambles to get out of the way) - sleeping in a great big messed up pile. But my next favorite tank has all my Pleco's in it - A Tomasai (used to be three, now there is one big one which makes me nervous) the two yellow bristle nose and my prized Blue Phantom (navy with white polka dots) - cost me a fortune and of course he's the most reclusive fish I have so I don't get to show him off. My 3rd tank is full of all my aggressive and semi-aggressive fish, mostly Gourami but one absolutely adorable Cichlid. No idea what kind she is because the fish store owner lied and said she was a chocolate gourami (he's obviously a big scammer) but she has these HUGE beautiful brown eyes and these big lips - she looks like a fish's idea of a "pinup girl" like they had in the 40's and 50's. 4th tank is my hospital tank with one sick Gourami with Swim bladder issues and now that they are mostly solved, has decided to stop eating due to her constipation. Been feeding her by syringe for a couple of weeks but she mostly just spits it back out. She still amazingly lively so I haven't given up hope yet - all she has to do is poop and eat and she can return to her friends.
My daughter has the guppies - but she keeps them at work so everybody takes care of them - they are a good reason to take a break from work for a few minutes and take a peak at the guppies so there must be a lot of fans. Hers are all male - she didn't want to deal with any babies (she herself is expecting so human babies are OK) .
