What Fishes You Would Never Have?

[Wills]

woah woah woah wheres all this big cichlid hate coming from? haha! Each to their own I guess.

Fish I would never keep.... quite hard to say really for me as there are not many I cant imagine keeping. Most fish appeal to me - I want to be able to raise exclusive strains of livebearers like platies and guppies one day. Yet I also want to get a huge huge tank so I can keep Arrowana, Pacu, Stingrays etc.

Perhaps I wouldnt keep Bettas as I find them restrictive.

I know they are a big problem worldwide but I actually like a lot of Snakeheads.

Ooo actually Red Tailed Catfish. Even if I had the monster tank I would never get them as I dont like them.


Then I probably wouldnt keep most types of loaches or the red tailed sharks not my kind of thing. Barbs Ive never been that keen on though one day I can imagine an Asian tank with them in.....

hmmmm not an easy one haha!!

 

[CezzaXV]

I'm not going to say any fish, as I already keep some types of fish that I'd never thought I'd want. Just because a fish doesn't appeal to me now, doesn't mean it won't appeal to me in the future.

 

[Lufbramatt]

fancy goldfish- black moors etc. big puffy eyes, two tails, bodies so distorted and fins so long and heavy the things can hardly swim. can't bear to even look at them when I see them in shops. Don't get the attraction for them at all.

 

[soybean]

Off the top of my head, purely on appearence and nothing to do with housing them or cost:
Angels, kuhli loaches , CAEs and similar, clown loaches, sailfin mollies, most plecs are hideous when they get massive, discus and any other fish that look like they've been squashed, any 'monster' fish other than oscars.

 

[fluttermoth]

discus and any other fish that look like they've been squashed

Oooh, I forgot about discus; i don't like them either; they look like those big decorative plates, the kind your gran had on the wall

I like angels; mine has me wrapped around his little fins, lol; but my son can't stand them

 

[LucyB]

kuhli loaches

Y U NO LIKE ME SOYBEAN?

Look at that gorgeous face

 

[soybean]

discus and any other fish that look like they've been squashed

Oooh, I forgot about discus; i don't like them either; they look like those big decorative plates, the kind your gran had on the wall

Yep that's exactly it. Gorgeous colours but I just can't look at them for too long.

Angels just look plain evil to me, like given the chance they'd murder you in your sleep. It's that look in their eyes. Actually shuddering!

 

[Lufbramatt]

I like evil fish, I have a brevis cichlid that will even attack me. anything that is 3 inches long and will go at it with something the size of a adult man's hand and arm gets my respect. Needless to say, he's my favourite little fishy buddy

 

[soybean]

kuhli loaches

Y U NO LIKE ME SOYBEAN?

Look at that gorgeous face

I'm sorry, I just don't get the kuhli thing, I never will!

 

[LucyB]

kuhli loaches

Y U NO LIKE ME SOYBEAN?

Look at that gorgeous face

I'm sorry, I just don't get the kuhli thing, I never will!

You wait until Crossfire comes online...

 

[soybean]

Kuhli nuts are more obsessive than the betta nuts each to their own!

 

[FishBlast]

There are a lot of fish I seem to not fancy in a tank.
Shoaling species aren't my thing though so this is mostly the reason for a lot of the "Do not want"s.

Tetras - I have yet to see a tetra that I'd like so much as to get a shoal of them. Neons were somewhat nice... but too fragile and most of their body is transparent.

A lot of gouramis. If they don't have a boring color, they have a strange face. Only exception: I like the sparkling gourami because it has a shiny blue on it. But I doubt I'll ever get to keep any since I'm mostly a swordtail fan.

Bettas (the aggressive variety) - had 4 of these little trouble makers, lost a bunch of zebra danios to them and some guppies ended up wounded. I didn't know much about them back then, but odd that they didn't fight with each other when they got put together but in a different tank. They seemed to know how to do teamwork even when it came to food. Had a grudge on them for killing all those fish though. Exception to bettas: I'd keep betta imbellis as a pair or as many as I could have without trouble in my tank, but again the swordtails seem to win me over.

Pygmy cories - don't get me wrong, they seem kind of cute and all, but waay too small, not colourful, need to be in shoals and are less likely to have a personality. Not much to get out of them except that you can have a lot of them in a smaller tank. They need 10+ mates. Would be hard to keep an eye on all of them.

Endlers - not enough variety, too small, females look boring. Somewhat nice but not my thing.

Puffers - they seem kind of odd and I've heard they are aggressive.

Any gigantic fish (20+ cm) - not willing to get a huge tank yet and even if I had a huge one, I'd probably stock it with Hoplos, swordtails or betta imbellis.

Cichlids - while I like their color, they seem too difficult to raise / keep and most grow big.

Fossilis - had enough of that sting when I was a kid. My hand hurt a lot after getting stung by it (hence the reason I fed it to the cat back then).

Plecos - too odd for me, may be fun to train into coming at the surface to suck your hand though.
Messy - or so I heard.

Fancy Goldfish - too difficult to keep, most die due to swim bladder even if you try to cure it. Messy definitely. I've had a golden variety, silver and black moor, all with 2 tails. Dad loves them but I'm not too fond of the poor critters. I'd much rather have the natural goldfish.

And oh yeah, angelfish. Just not my type of fish. Had tiny ones, couldn't take care of them but they would have needed a bigger tank anyway than the tiny 40L that came with them.

 

[Crossfire]

kuhli loaches

Y U NO LIKE ME SOYBEAN?

Look at that gorgeous face

Such beauty

DOWN WITH KUHLI HATERS!

 

[CezzaXV]

Angels just look plain evil to me, like given the chance they'd murder you in your sleep. It's that look in their eyes. Actually shuddering!

My sister says the same about my dwarf gourami. I love him, but you can be sat there next to the tank looking for him, then all of a sudden he appears from nowhere and he's right in your face. Skills of a ninja.

 

[FishBlast]

Yeah kuhlis look adorable, but they'd be hiding a lot so I wouldn't bother getting them due to not being able to watch them to see if they're healthy.