Your top ten species

[CFC]

Right this should be interesting.

If you could only keep 10 species of freshwater fish for the rest of your life what would they be and why?
You can have as many tanks as you like and they can be any size but you can only choose 10 fish species including regional varients and sub species.

Mine would be

Sorubim lima, my first large predatory catfish, i'd love to captive breed these
Meredontotus tigrinus, the ultimate Pimeloid catfish
Scleropages formosus golden redtail, rarest most sought after Arowana
Cichla ocellaris, the daddy of South American Cichlids
Psuedopimelodus fowleri, the ultimate ambush predator
Potamotrygon motoro, first ray i kept and a species i'll always cherish
Potamotrygon leopoldi, because i'd love one of these but cant afford their £300+ price tag
Hoplias malabaricus, just look at those teeth!
Belonophago tinanti, a species that has always interested me but i've never seen in the flesh
Hepsetus odoe, because just once i'd like to keep one of these alive


edited to add "freshwater" to the question

 

[Ben]

cant i just say common names?

uhhh theres lots,,

ummm, ill get back to you, can think right now

 

[bluefire]

well... unlimited money and tanks

i really don't know many types of fish because i am relatively new to the hobby(only started in feb) but im sure if i had unlimeted recources to research them i could probably pick

so the only one on my list would be the grey nurse shark, a fish that my friends might actually be interested in!

 

[andywg]

First up would have to be Red Tailed Catfish, I love those huge boys! B)
Secondly...Bala Sharks, I've always loved them, and always will.
Then...Pim Pictus, so active and great to watch scrapping for blood worms.
Red Bellied Pirannha, always a great talking point

Hmm, got to think carefully now...

I think there'd definately have to be a stingray, though my knowledge of them isn't great enough to allow me to state which.

5 more... (remember I only have a year or two experience so I'm desperate not to include neons )

Synodontis negrivintris, I never get tired of watching a fish the wrong way up.
An electric eel, just think how cool that would be...
An armoured birchir - they do look nice
Agamyxis pectinifrons (talking catfish) - lovely looking fish
And finally...a Puffer, and probably Dwarf Puffers.

There, the lists done. It ttok a while but I think I'd be happy with those. (thought I fear there'd be some real big tank size issues, especially with the RTC

 

[cometcattle]

1. Parachromis dovii - Mean SOBs, yet beautiful.
2. Parachromis managuensis - see above
3. Bettas - Plakats if I had to choose.
4. Lamprologus occellatus - I love these fish and will always keep them. Aggressive little bulldozers.
5. Lamprologus multifacitus - the next shellie I will keep
6. Altolamprologus calvus (black) - always wanted to keep these
7. Zaire blue fronts - same as above
8. Kribs - favorite "comunnity cichlid"
9. Panda corys - My favorite corys
10. Some type of freshwater ray - I haven't researched, but I see one in my favorite LFS and CFC's pics, and they are incredible.

I know I'm leaving fish out. 10 is hard to pick.

 

[Fawke]

Good question....

Well then...

1. Top of the list is Pim Pictus, active funny and a great fish
2. Synodontis Angelicus, beautiful and wild catfish
3. Arrowana (any kind), wish i had the resources
4. Columbian Shark Catfish, again wish i had the resources
5. Shoal of Red Bellied Pirannha, i could feed my foe's to these amazing fish
6. Symphysodon Discus, breeding pair
7. Jaguar cichlid, breeding pair, one mean looking mutha id like to fit in
8. Breeding colony of Zebra Pleco's, beautiful
9. Sounds sad, but a MASSIVE (100+) shoal of neons or cardinals would look great
Morphic Resinence
10. RTC, without a doubt a very impressive catfish

If i knew more about catfish and large predetory fish id probably have put more in, but as it happens that is my list, as un-impressive as it sounds

 

[Waterloo Kid]

Right, this won't be 10 coz I don't have the experience yet but the start of the list would look like this...

Altum Angels: Always wanted some and now I've seen them I know I'm going to have some in the future.

Keyhole Cichlids: Under-rated fish. Placid yet very strong personalities. I could watch these guys all day.

Heros Severum: Stunning colours

Uaru amphiacanthoides: Check out the colours! Again nice personality.

Archer Fish: Any fish that can shot things down is OK in my book.

Texas Cichlid: Got to include a fair share of Aggro in my choices!

Cichlasoma Nicaraguense: Saw these in the lfs once and really fancy some.

Glowlight Tetra: Go on, everyone should keep at least one shoaling species and these are great fish.



Well, that's it so far. More than I expected really. I'll edit this when inspiration hits.

WK

 

[Hey You]

Hmmmmm...


10.Tiger Fish-Just click the link and you'll know why.
http/www.freshwater-aquarium-fish.com/sp...us_vittatus.htm
9.Umbi-Dig the blue freckles.
8.Peacock bass-Love the colors.
7.RTC-Awsome looking fish.
6.Green Terror-Pretty and mean.
5.Large shoal of silver dollars-I don't know why.
4.Discus-Another good looking fish.
3.Neon Tetras-For the hypnotic affect.
2.Spotted pitcus-Love the big whiskers.

And the number one fish in my book.

Oscars. They rule and all of the other fish are just fish.

 

[Doggfather]

Lets see how this goes...

1. Black Arowana
2. Silver Arowana
3. Red Tail Catfish
4. Discus
5. Chocolate Gourami
6. Zebra Plecs
7. Potamotrygon motoro, just like CFC's
8. Black Lancer Catfish
9. Gold Nugget Plec
10. Asian Arowana (any colour)

Did anybody else sence the amazonia feel of the list?

 

[rvm]

I though this would be easy, then I started to actually make out the list and realised 10 fish isn't that many, so here goes.

1 Clown Loach (so entertaining, you've gotta have these!!)

2 Sorubim Lima (even though mine is a pig, I still think he's great!!)

3 Oscar (I think they've got a great personality)

4 Satanoperca Jurupari (since I got my first one, I have a love for these fish)

5 Red Tailed Cat. (Beautiful fish, and I like big 'uns!!!)

6 Arowana of any kind(see above!!)

7 Potamotrygon Leopoldi or Polka dot ray ( I saw one of these in an LFS for £900, but what a beauty!!)

8 Royal Panaque (I have a loave for this fish as it is one of the first I owned)

9 Sajicas (as above. plus it is the first fish I bred!!)

10 Black Pirahna (I've always been intrigued about keeping pirahna!!)

Thats about the closest I could come to my idea of perfection!!!

 

[aloaring]

Hmmm Decisions, decisions and i don't know the latin names!!
1. CFC's slopehead catfish
2. Giant gourami- Seen a big one in tri mar- what a character!!
3. Lungfish- Kind of scare me!!
4. Red tailed Catfish
5. Oscars
6. Midas cichlid
7. Fahaka Puffer -After seeing martha who wouldn't want one!!
8. Seahorses (if i were to go marine)
9. A tank full of shrimp because they make me laugh so much!!
10. Archer fish and Scats!

 

[juanveldez]

parachromis Dovii
Nandopsis Beani
Amphilious Festae
Astronautous Caprissius
Amphilious Zalious
Nandopsis Grammodes
Nandopsis Hatianiensis
Nandopsis Istlanum
Veja Argentae
Veja Sysnpillium

 

[wrs]

1. goldfish, perferably pearscape
2. neolamologus bricardi- (I think thats how its spelled)
3. Bettas
4. BronzeCroydoras cats
5. Guppies
6. Platties
7. Swordtails
8. Gold Gouramis, or blue, any of those color morphs
9. Danios, LF Zebras would be preffered
10. Texas Cichlids

 

[snowyangel]

1. Sting ray(any) - their unique shape and markings are so beautiful.
2. Demasoni -Gotta love their bold colours
3. Firemouths- Those attitudes combined with a beautiful appearence.
4. Zebra pleco - You always want what you cant afford
5. Tangs(any) - I love their appearence and they always seem so graceful and stand out like a stop sign in any tank.
6. Betta, delta tailed - I love how big those tails get. They're like a curtain, lol.
7. Long finned Tetras(any) - I've always loved the hardyness in tetras, not too mention all the bickering they do amongst themselves. Such a silly fish, so any long finned white skirt, black phantom, or black skirt would rule.
8. Diamond tetras - the most beautiful tetra of them all imo.
9. Gouramis - I love the bright marking and different shape.
10. Columbian shark catfish- The typical look of shark and I love the way they move and swim.

 

[ryan]

Potamotrygon leopoldi - The ray of your dreams!
Meredontotus tigrinus - The Catfish of your dreams!
Osteoglossum ferrerai - My favourite Arowana species.
Symphysodon discus - Very nice species in a well planted display tank.
Platystomatichthys sturio - Nice catfish of the Pimelodidae family.
Cichla ocellaris - The only large South American Cichlid I'd ever look twice at.
Sperata aor - If you can house it a very nice, rare large catfish.
Zebra Pleco L046 - My favourite L-Number.
Enneacanthus chaetodon - A coldwater species of Sunfish.
Vaillantella maassi - A very rare loach.